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Term 2

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Term 2 is about to start!!
I hope that everyone has had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday. We’ve  got a busy term ahead with lots of different activities planned.
We have a few students overseas at the moment and I hope they are having a wonderful time away visiting family and friends.

Chopper, our US Travel Buddy, is with Libby in England at the moment – I bet he’s having a great time.

We have 2 Pupil Free Days to start the term and ANZAC Day is on Wednesday the 25th April.

So I’ll see all of our students on Thursday the 26th April – I’m really looking forward to our holiday catch ups!

Some upcoming events for the term are:

  1. Sports Day on Friday of Week 2.
  2. NAPLAN – Literacy and Numeracy assessments.
  3. Year 3 swimming lessons at Noarlunga swimming centre
  4. Craigburn Primary’s 30th Birthday celebrations.

Easter Egg Rolling Championships

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One of our Easter activities was the “Egg Rolling Championships” with our Year 6/7 Buddy Class.
Our task was:

  • Design a ramp that will roll your boiled egg as far as possible.
  • You can only use the materials provided – newspaper, cardboard, paper, cardboard cylinders, plastic rods and low melt hot glue guns.
  • Each group needed to provide a design of their ramp and had 45 minutes to finish their ramp.
We held the rolling event on the court outside the Year 6/7 building – we thought a basketball was a great surface to roll eggs on!

Here are the 2012 Egg Rolling Champs – Will and his buddy. Congratulations boys on a HUGE ramp!!! A great team effort!

Here are lots of photos of our creating and making session and then the rolling event.

Egg Rolling Championships on PhotoPeach

What do you think of our ramp designs?
There were a lot of points to consider as we made our ramps – the higher the further the egg would roll!

Easter Craft

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At the end of last term we did lots of different Craft activities to celebrate Easter.
Here are the eggs we created – with little chicks inside.

Easter Craft on PhotoPeach

What activities did you do to celebrate Easter?
What did you and your family do to celebrate Easter?

Assembly Hosts!

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On Tuesday our class hosted the Year 2  – Year 5  assembly.

To prepare for our assembly we needed to go to different classes to see who had work to share. Then we typed up our assembly agenda and worked out which students would present items or introduce classes or speakers.

As the time got nearer to starting the assembly we had people who were excited and very nervous. It’s a big challenge for Year 2/3 students to host an assembly.

This week’s assembly had a combination of items – percussion items, whole class poems, body facts, story maps, certificate presentations and a whole lot more!

Congratulations to our whole class – they presented and introduced each item very confidently and made sure the audience were engaged the whole time! Well done team!
At the end of these assembly photos you’ll see our 4 certificate awards recipients. Congratulations to Ned, Chloe, Lachlan and Charlotte! Great work guys!!

 
Hosting Assembly on PhotoPeach

 

Did you attend our assembly? If you did, what did you think?

 

 

Oscar’s Visitors

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This week is free choice of topic for sharing time. We can bring any item that we’d like to share with the class.

Oscar bought his new guinea pigs along to show us. There were 3 guinea pigs – each of Oscar’s brothers got a guinea pig, as well as Oscar.

Oscar showed us each of the guinea pigs and gave a detailed explanation of what they eat and how they need to be looked after.

                                

 

 

 

 

 

               

Easter Craft

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Today we started our Easter Craft activities. Easter is on Friday this week and it’s the start of our school holidays.

Today we made plastic eggs into rabbits or ducklings with decorations. The eggs cracked open and so we put baby chicks into the eggs. Baby chicks represent signs of new life.

Here are photos of our craft session today.
Easter Craft on PhotoPeach

 

Have you made any Easter craft decorations?
What is something you plan to do over the Easter holidays?

Swimming for Year 2 Students

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This week our 7 Year 2 students have been swimming at the South Australian Aquatic Centre near Marion. Charlotte, Libby, Sienna, Tamika, Jamie and Cooper are in different groups to develop their swimming skills and learn about water safety. Nathan has been sick all week and so he hasn’t been to any lessons.

Here are some photos of their week so far – they’re having so much fun and learning so many new skills.

 
Swimming Year 2!! on PhotoPeach

What do you think of our swimming lessons?
Did you come along to our lessons – how do you think our swimming skills developed?
 

 

 

Student Led Conferences

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This week we began our student led conferences. This is a special time when we share our learning with the families in our class. Each student has prepared a recording sheet that reflects their learning using the You Can Do It – Program Achieve titles of:

  • Confidence
  • Persistence
  • Getting Along and
  • Organisation.
We used our books to show examples of our learning in these areas. We needed to choose our work samples very  carefully to make sure they match what we’ve been talking about.
The children have had to be very brave and work hard to complete this task. It is a big task to run a meeting with parents and teachers there and talk about your learning, achievements and set goals for the future.
So far the students who have presented have done an amazing job – congratualtions!!!
We’re sure the rest of the student led conferences will go really well too.
Here are some photos of us planning our work to share.
                            

Harmony Day

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Today we celebrated Harmony Day at school and all around Australia. The message for Harmony Day in 2012 is that Everyone Belongs, which means all Australians are a welcome part of our country, regardless of their background. It’s a time to reflect on where Australia has come from, recognising the traditional owners of this land. It’s also about community participation, inclusiveness and respect – celebrating the different cultures that make Australia a great place to live.

We celebrate the cultural diversity of our nation.

Orange is the colour that we wear to show our support for Harmony Day.

OUR SLEG students held a Harmony Day assembly to show what each class had done to celebrate the day and to discuss what Harmony Day means for all of us.

Here are the photos from our day:
Harmony Day on PhotoPeach


Here is the link to the Harmony Day website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Guest – Lorin Nicholson

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On Wednesday Craigburn Primary was very lucky to have a special visitor.
It was Lorin Nicholson. Lorin is a motivational speaker and one of Australia’s leading guitarists. Lorin has been legally blind since birth but hasn’t let that stop him from achieving some amazing things. In 2009 he was nominated for Young Australian of the Year for his work in the community, he has ridden a bicycle from Perth to Sydney – over 4000km and he loves to work in schools and talk with students about his hopes and aspirations.

As a part of Lorin’s See Sharp presentation he delivers a messages about:

  • Choice & Attitude
  • Overcoming negativity & Peer Pressure
  • Teasing/Bullying
  • Respect & Inclusion
  • Resilience & Perseverance
  • Confidence & Self Esteem
  • Setting & Achieving Goals
  • Building Future Leaders & Striving for Excellence
The class has talked so positively about Lorin’s visit – they loved the entire performance. He certainly got his message across to the entire audience.
Here are some photos of the presentation.