On Tuesday night we held Open Night at Craigburn Primary School. This means we open up our classrooms for the families and friends of our school. Our families could visit from 6pm – 7.30pm and tour around the whole school. As a part of our tours we made bangles for our wrists and collected coloured dots from each area of the school. Then families names were entered into a raffle to win a prize.
Here are some of our visitors to our classroom.
Open Night on PhotoPeach
Sarah – On Father’s Day we celebrated at the Belair National Park and had lunch there. After lunch we played games and then we went home.
Emma – In the morning we ate pancakes piled in a stack with ice-cream , maple syrup and strawberries.
Paul – My mum, my sister Joanie and I woke up early and then I told my mum we need to give Dad his Father’s Day presents. We surprised Dad with his presents. For breakfast we had pancakes.
Katie – On Father’s Day we went bowling and we had 2 games. I won one game. We took my Dad out for dinner.
Hannah – On Father’s Day we went out for dinner in the afternoon. We went with our friends Nat, Graham, Georgina and Kath. After we had dinner we went to the beach for a long long walk. After the walk we bought an ice-cream each.
Harry- On Father’s Day Dad woke up really late because he had a sleep in. It was also my brother, Will’s birthday – he turned 5. We gave Dad a Crows t-shirt, a Crows jacket and a barbecue cleaner.
Ella – On Sunday we made bacon and eggs for Dad. After we went out the front of our house we planted some new plants by the letterbox. Then we went inside and cleaned up . Dad was sitting on the couch watching TV. We went to see our Poppa and our cousins were there too. We had a barbecue for tea with mashed potato.
Amelia – On Father’s Day I snuck into Dad’s room while he was asleep and we shouted SURPRISE!!! Dad got a big fright and my brother did his present first ( a block of chocolate ) and then I gave mine ( an itunes voucher). Later on we went to school and played on the playground. For breakfast we had eggs and bacon. Then we all watched a movie together.
Thomas – On Father’s Day I woke up early and when Dad woke up we went into his room and shouted Happy Father’s Day. He got a Superman t-shirt, an itunes card and a kit-kat packet and a recipe book. We went to our Grandpas to see our family.
Jayde – On Father’s Day we went camping with Katie’s family. In the morning our family made a fire and we gave Dad his presents. Then we packed up our equipment and then we went home.
Layla – On Father’s Day we had dinner with my Grandpa. At the end we played card games.
Jordan – On Father’s Day we went out for lunch with Dad and had the lunch special. Then we went home and gave Dad his presents – he liked the tattoo I gave him.
Cooper – On Father’s Day my Dad was up really early and I had a sleep in. Then when I got up we gave him our presents. We watched a movie that night called Hercules.
Louis– My Dad works away in Moomba so we celebrated with my mum’s Dad. We had lasagne with garlic bread. At the end my Grandpa had a coffee.
Amy – On Father’s Day mum, Kasey and I woke up early so we went upstairs and gave Dad our presents.
Kasey – On Father’s Day my mum woke Dad up. Then my mum cooked Dad some breakfast and we went upstairs. Dad like the tape measure that I got him. I made him a card at home and he liked that as well.
Mitchell – On Father’s Day I woke up a bit early and didn’t notice. I went into my Dad’s room and said Happy Fathers’s Day but it was a bit early. We celebrated with our Grandad too. When they first came we made a pavlova and then we had dinner. I did funny pictures of everyone. Then we did the dishes and we watched some of the footy, then Nanna and Grandad went home.
Matthew – On Father’s Day we didn’t do a lot. Dad downloaded lots of apps for his iPhone and we used them.
Sam – On Father’s Day I woke up and woke Dad up. Mum reminded me that it was Father’s Day so I snuck back downstairs and got his presents. I gave a necklace which had beads and leather on it and a card. I helped him build a wall around the pool for the decking and I helped my Dad mix mortar and cement.
Aiden – On Father’s Day I woke up at 6 o’clock and Dad was dropping Nikita at gym. He came back at 6.30am. Then my Jordan woke up and at 6.45am Dad opened his presents. I got him a necklace with keys on it and Dad said, “These keys are the keys to my fortune.” We went to the park for lunch and we had chips, chicken and fish.
Will – On Father’s Day I woke up at the right time. When Dad woke up and I gave him his card and Ollie did a big card with a chocolate and Hugh gave him a car picture frame, Daniel also gave him a car model.
On Sunday it is Father’s Day.
All of the children in our class would like to say
to all of our wonderful Dads.
What are you doing to celebrate Father’s Day?
Tell us why you love your Dad so much.
Check our blog on Monday and see what we’ve written about our Fathers’ Day celebrations.
Today we started our dance programme with the Footsteps instructor Erin. Footsteps is a fun way to learn different dances. We started with an individual dance and by the end of the 5 week programme we will learn a partner dance. We learnt how to ask partners to dance in a polite way.
Check out the Tumblr link to see us!!
It was great fun.
This week all of the Year 2 students in our Unit started learning about procedure writing.
Procedure writing tells us how to do or make something, eg a recipe.
It can include a picture or a diagram.
We are using the Writing Fun website by Jenny Eather to guide us with our learning. There are excellent examples of procedure writing for us to look at and give us ideas.
We started our procedure writing experience by making popcorn and then writing how we made it.
Here is the procedure writing text that we wrote.
POPCORN
Goal – You will make plain and yummy popcorn.
Materials – popping corn
popcorn maker
a big bowl (to catch the popcorn)
small bowls ( to share the popcorn)
Steps –
1. Pour the popping corn into the measuring cup.
2. Pour the popping corn into the popcorn maker. Turn the popcorn maker on.
3. Put the cup onto the top of the popcorn maker (so the popcorn can’t fly out). Put the big bowl next to the popcorn making machine.
4. Wait – wait – wait – wait…. for the popping corn to heat up and start popping out of the popcorn making maching.
5. When the all of the popping corn has popped turn the machine off. Share the popcorn with everyone in small bowls.
Delicious!!
Here is what happens to the popping corn as it turns into popcorn ready to eat!
Here are some great websites that will help you to practise telling the time.
Click on the sites below to practise.
On the last day of Bookweek the Reception- Year 2 children had a dress up day. We chose to dress up in any kind of costume that we had. There were a variety of costumes and the children all looked great. We held a parade outside so that we could see children from other classes in their costumes.
As a part of Bookweek we invited our parents to come in and read a picture book with us.
Here is Mia – Amelia’s mum – sharing her books with us!
As a part of our Bookweek celebrations we brought in a book from home to share with our classmates. It was a part of our Sharing Time topics. We introduced the book, it’s author, told the class a bit about the story and why it was our favourite book.
It was really interesting to see all of the different books that we brought in – there was a really big variety and it gave us all new ideas of books we might like to read.
Bookweek – Books we Love to Read!! on PhotoPeach
What are your favourite books to read? Let us know so we can check them out!
We’ve started using a new programme called Tumblr. Exciting!!
Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog.
We have a link in our blog roll to Tumblr and will start to upload videos, photos, etc soon.
So we’ll be adding to our blog instantly and keeping you up to date about what we’re doing.
Keep checking the link to see what the children have posted!!