Happy Father’s Day

Posted on September 3, 2016 by lisasporn

We’d like to wish all of our Dads and Granddads a very happy Father’s Day. We’ve had a busy week making special presents and cards – we hope you love them. We loved making them for you.

All of the children in our class love to spend time with our Dads – after our shopping trip at school it was lovely to hear all of the reasons for their shopping choices.

Here are just a few snaps of our shopping trip at school- all bought with lots of love.

What did you do to celebrate Father’s Day?

Footsteps Dance

Posted on September 1, 2016 by lisasporn

Today we started our Footsteps dance lessons. It was a great first lesson – boy was it LOUD!! We learnt a single dance to the song called Everybody Dance Now.

We will be learning a mixture of dances by ourselves or a partner dance. Our instructor was called Sarah and she was a great teacher.

What did you enjoy about today’s lesson?

Bookweek Celebrations

Posted on August 26, 2016 by lisasporn

This week was Bookweek. This is a special week in schools as we read all of the books that have been shortlisted for the 2016 Bookweek celebrations and do lots of classroom activities that relate to these books.

Today, we had a special assembly to see which books were the winners for Bookweek 2016 and to see that different costumes from every class in our school.

Here are all of the people from our class who dressed up in different costumes – we had a very wide variety of costumes! Some of the costumes were: Harry Potter, Darth Vader, Matilda, Peter Pan, Elsa from Frozen, Horton, Mr Wonka, Catwoman, The Mad Hatter….the list goes on. We’d like to say a huge thank-you to our families for helping with our costumes – we love your support!

Fair Dinkum!

Posted on August 16, 2016 by lisasporn

Today all of the Craigburn students attended the Bookweek performance called Fair Dinkum! It was a fun Aussie story that included lots of the Bookweek books that we’ve read.

What was your favourite part of the Fair Dinkum performance?

Daily 5 – Listen to Reading

Posted on August 16, 2016 by lisasporn

Every Tuesday we use our laptops, desktop computers and iPads to listen to different books online. Our school has subscribed to Sunshine online and Ziptales and we LOVE them! There are lots of different books to choose from and there’s lots of different levels that suit everyone’s different reading levels and interests. We also do listen to reading on other days – depending on how many devices we can use.

Here’s some photos from today’s listen to reading session:

Tell us about some of your favourite stories.

Genius Hour

Posted on August 16, 2016 by lisasporn

Every Friday our class has a Genius Hour session. It one of our favourite learning times of the week because we can explore our own passions. During Genius Hour we focus on making a creation of some kind…..we let our imaginations run free!

We use lots of different skills during Genius Hour – here are just some of the skills we develop:

co-operating
collaborating
creativity
problem solving
planning
reflecting
predicting
time management
thinking ahead
co-ordinating ideas with others and planning with them
time management
cutting
gluing
mixing
painting…..and so so so many more.

During this term we have had a cardboard challenge – items had to be based on using cardboard and 2 of our own choices. This week (week 4) we are doing an iMovie challenge – this is something completely new and we’re looking forward to telling a story using this app on our iPads. Stay tuned for our final results.

What do you love about Genius Hour? What would you like to create in the future?

For more Genius Hour ideas from around the world use the #geniushour on Twitter.

SRC Reps for Terms 2 & 3

Posted on August 7, 2016 by lisasporn

We’d like to congratulate the following people on being elected as our new SRC Reps for the next 2 terms.

Heidi D and Lucas

Our ‘back ups’ are:

Heidi B and Angus

Congratulations!

Using iPads to Help our Learning

Posted on July 27, 2016 by lisasporn

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Our current unit of Inquiry is investigating how items are changed from raw/ unprocessed items to processed items, for example grapes can be changed to sultanas.

We challenged students in our class to try and create a presentation at home using the camera/photo app and Pic Collage to show the difference between raw/ unprocessed items and processed items.

Evie, Heidi and Charlotte loved sharing their presentations from their iPads onto the IWB via Airplay. They received lots of positive and constructive feedback from their classmates and did a great job presenting their understandings so confidently.

Evie sharing her presentation – this also showed her understanding of natural vs man made items.