Today some of our Year 3 girls sang in the Junior Choir. Here they are singing Super Chicken!
It sounds great girls – well done!
IMG 4582 from Lisa Sporn on Vimeo.
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Assembly Awards
Today we attended the Year 2-4 assembly. There were five people from our class that received Assembly Awards. Today Ben, Laurie, Tamika, Cooper and Sienna. Congratulations to these class members.
6 Word Stories
Last week we tried a different type of writing activity. We wrote 6 word stories. We had lots of different pictures spread out on the floor and needed to choose one that appealed to us for some reason. Then we looked carefully at all of the detail in the pictures and started to write 6 word stories. It’s not as easy as it sounds – we had to really make each word count. There are lots of adjectives in our stories to describe what we can see or think may help tell a story.
6 Word Stories on PhotoPeach
Tell us what you think of our stories.
Can you suggest some new 6 word stories for our pictures. We’d love to hear from you.
30th Birthday Posters
As a part of our school’s 30th birthday celebrations each class was asked to create a poster that celebrated some part of our life at Craigburn Primary School.
These posters were hung today along the hallways of our main building. There are wonderful, colourful and interesting creations.
Please come in and look at these posters – tell us what you think of them.
The Oldest Person I Know
Our class read a picture book called Night Noises by Mem Fox.
In the story the main character, an old lady, is asleep in her chair, dreaming about her youth.
She wakes when visitors arrive to give her a surprise 90th birthday.
We loved the words Mem Fox used when describing the main character:
For example:
‘Her hair was as wispy as cobwebs in ceilings.’
‘Her bones were as creaky as floorboards at midnight.’
We think those are sentences that add impact to the writing.
The Oldest Person I Know on PhotoPeach
Then we thought about the oldest people we know and we wrote about them.
Who is the oldest person you know?
Tell us about them.
Buddy Class Activity
Over the last two weeks our class has worked with our older buddies on a Design and Technology project. Our task was to design and make a chair for a teddy bear. The structure needed to be stable and to be able to hold the bears from our class.
We had lots of great ideas and a huge amount of fun working with our buddies to create many different chairs – most were very successful at holding a teddy bear.
Here are the finished chairs. Thanks to our buddies for their support and guidance – we love working with you.
Buddy class activity – Make a Chair for a Teddy Bear on PhotoPeach
Wow – Real Olympic Pictures
This week we received some photos from London the home of the 2012 Olympics.
They are from Libby’s Grandad and family friends over in London.
A Question for our Parents and Families
The 2012 London Olympic Games began in London on Friday the 27th of July.
We have been watching the Olympic Games with great interest. It’s been very exciting to see how the Australian athletes are performing at the Games. Each morning we’ve been checking the leader board to how Australia is going with their results.
Some of our students are also interested in watching other countries athletes. We have 5 students from England, 1 who has family in New Zealand, 1 who has family from Ireland.
We would like to ask the families of our class to post some comments about the Olympic Games.
Here are some questions we have:
- Do you have a favourite sport or sports at the Olympic Games?
- Do you have a favourite athlete at the Games?
- Do you know any fun or interesting facts about the Olympic Games – please share your stories with us!
- Have you ever been to an Olympic Games (especially in Australia in 2000)?
We’d love to hear from some families in the United Kingdom – they may have some great information to tell us as that’s where the games are being held.
You might also have some questions for us that we could find the answers for.
We look forward to your replies!
Student Initiative!!!
On Wednesday Libby, Tamika and Charlotte, some our Year 2 students, asked if they could run an ‘Art Club‘ for our class. I thought “Why not?” So the girls explained that they would like to offer ‘Art lessons’ for students who might be interested. We negotiated when and where the lessons would happen and what activity and resources the girls felt they would need.
So Libby, Tamika and Charlotte discussed what they would need and have to offer.
Here is the list they came up with:
- They would need- Art paper, Craypas textas, craypas, pencils, desks and a teacher to help supervise (me!).
- A flyer to advertise.
They wanted to create a flyer to advertise their Art Club so people could take time to think about what they had to offer.
Here is flyer the girls presented to the class during lunch eating time.
Then they explained what they wanted to offer the class. The students had some great questions like:
- What will we be making?
- What days is it on and what time?
- What if I’m away – will I have to leave the Art club?
- Do I need to bring anything?
- What if I can only make 1 day because I’m doing another activity on the other day?
They created a word document for interested students to sign up on and later printed it to use as their roll sheet. 15 students signed up immediately!
Then the girls spent a lunch break looking through my Art books for ideas that they use. They bookmarked lots of different ideas – for future reference! They decided on the materials they would need. They also worked out the roles each would be responsible for – Libby and Tamika are the teachers and Charlotte is responsible for resources (and teaching if needed).
Today (Friday) Libby, Tamika and Charlotte held their first Art Club during lunch – they were so excited!!!
They organised the tables and resources and got started on their very first Art work.
Here are some pictures to give you an idea of how things went.
It was just amazing and inspiring to see these 3 girls take on such an adventure and really thinking the whole process through.
They’ve been resourceful, thoughtful, creative, artistic, inspiring, had fun and lots of laughs…. I could go on and on!
I felt very proud of the initiative they showed to create a club for others. I wonder what they’ll do next???? I wonder what their future holds? Remember they are just 7 years old!
Regards – Lisa S (Very Proud class teacher)
What do you think of Libby, Tamika and Charlotte’s idea? They’d love to hear from you!
What’s that up in the tree?
This morning our class went our for fitness with Mrs Chick’s class. We played “Mega Red Rover” – using the whole school oval to play the game. On our way back to class we saw a sleepy little koala in a Eucalyptus tree. The koala was actually sitting down quite low in the tree and sleeping – koalas like to sleep up to 19 hours a day – what a life!!!
We all thought it was great to see the koala up so close – he even woke up (we thought 55 children would be too noisy!)
Here’s some photos we got!