New Class Pets

Posted on July 3, 2013 by lisasporn

We have been offered some new class pets. Mrs Chick, who teaches next-door, has offered to give us some spiny stick insects.

We have got a shelter that they can live in ( a critter keeper ) and Ben’s Dad is going to make a mesh cage that they can live in. We think it’ll be better than the plastic case they’re in now as they’ll get even more air to breathe.

We’ve found out that they need to eat Eucalyptus leaves to eat. They also need to be kept in a environment (classroom!) that has a temperature of around 18deg C.

Mrs Chick bought lots of insects in today because she’s giving some to the children in her class, as well as having some as class pets too.

We had lots of spiny leaf insects to hold and look at – we could feel the little suckers at the ends of their legs that help them hold onto plants that they live with. Today they held onto our hands, arms and jumpers!!! It was really exciting to hold onto the insects and have a really close look at them.

Here’s what their heads look like up close.

These leaf insects appear to have the head back to front. The mouth parts are between the arms and the base of the antennae.

Here are photos of us handling the insects.

Special Visitors

Posted on May 22, 2013 by lisasporn

Our class is so excited – tomorrow we are having two very special visitors to our school.

Mrs Freebairn’s class and our class are hosting Rebecca Morse and Kate Freebairn at school. It’s a part of the new Weather in Schools program that will be on every Thursday on Channel 10 News. We are the very first school they will be visiting in South Australia.

We are going to have Rebecca Morse visit our class and we are going to do some different reading activities with her from our Daily 5 Reading Cafe. Then she will be doing some Maths activities with Mrs Freebairn’s class. After that our 2 classes will meet and chat with Rebecca about her job as a news reporter and presenter.

Later in the afternoon Kate Freebairn will be giving her weather presentations from our school too. Again, both of our classes will be working with Kate and helping her learn about our fantastic school.

This is how excited we were when we heard the news that Rebecca and Kate were visiting.

Can you suggest some questions that we could use when we speak with Rebecca or Kate?

Exciting news everyone!

Posted on February 13, 2013 by lisasporn

Hi Classmates – I’ve just received a letter to say that we’re going on camp to Arbury Park Outdoor School from the 6th-8th of November. Isn’t that exciting news. I know it’s a long way off but I’m sure it’ll be so much fun.

Here’s a link to the school’s website so you can see what we might be doing when we go on camp.

Have you looked at the website – what activities are you looking forward to ?

Special Visit

Posted on February 7, 2013 by lisasporn

Today Liam Sm organised for his Dad’s dog to visit our class. His Dad, Dan, brought in their dog, called Arabelle. She is a brown labrador. We all loved meeting Arabelle – she was very cute, did lots of licking and loved all of the pats she got from the whole class.

Thanks Liam for organising Arabelle’s visit.

What did you think about meeting Arabelle? Tell us your thoughts about meeting her.

Electives

Posted on November 7, 2012 by lisasporn

Last Friday afternoon the 3 classes in our Unit began a 3 week series of Electives. Parents have volunteered to run a variety of activities for the students. Each session runs for 1 hour and there are 6 people in each group.

This is a wonderful opportunity for our students to experience activities that they many never have done before. It’s also a really good opportunity to learn the rules of games properly and how to play by the rules.

The different activities are:

gardening
making lavender bags and pillows
singing lessons
yoga/ pilates / boxing lessons
basketball
jewellery design and making
board games
card games
playing Chinese Checkers
sewing
cooking pikelets
cooking cupcakes
cooking muffins
learning to play chess

Here are some photos of our first Elective session. Everyone had a great time and can’t wait for the next sessions this Friday.
Electives on PhotoPeach

What did you think of our Electives? What sessions have you signed ups or?

Gala Day

Posted on November 7, 2012 by lisasporn

Last Friday our school held it’s Gala Day. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to run a stall and raise money for our World Vision sponsor student John. The stalls are run by students from Year 3-7. The students work under the direction of our Deputy Principal, Mr Luke and need to run the stall by themselves. Class teachers and parents are also a wonderful support in helping to get stalls ready for trading.

Some of the stalls this year were:

a basketball throw
sponge throwing
nail painting
lolly and cake stalls
balloon art – hats, dogs, swords
drinks – slushies, cool drinks
painting stall
guess how many lollies are in the jar

and SO many more.

The other school students are encouraged to bring along lots of coins to spend on different items or activities. Most stalls charge about 50c – or less! So you can get great value for your money.

We raised over $1600- for our sponsor student John – what an amazing effort by everyone.

Here are some photos of our day.

Gala Day on PhotoPeach

Craigburn’s Got Talent

Posted on October 29, 2012 by lisasporn

Today we held the finals of our Craigburn’s Got Talent performances and WOW the children at Craigburn really DO have a lot of talent!!

CONGRATULATIONS to Ethan for winning the Craigy for 2012.

Ethan performed a song on the saxaphone.

He is a Year 3 in the classroom nextdoor to us.

Here’s a photo of Ethan as he receives the Craigy trophy.

Two weeks ago Mrs Rayner started to hold the try outs for each class. We had lots of students prepare and organise their performances for our try outs on Tuesday. After a long week of performances from all Reception to Year 7 students the finalists were announced.

There was a great variety of acts that made the finals – solo singers, group songs and dances, skipping, dances, hip hop dance, musical instruments being played and so many more.

Our class had four different groups make the final.

Lachlan played his drums and sang Come Together by the Beatles.

Lucy and Sarah sang and danced to a song.

Emma, Jenny and Hannah sang and danced to a One Direction song.

Samuel sang a song.

We’d like to say congratulations to all of the students who were brave enough to organise and prepare an item for Craigburn’s Got Talent. It takes a lot of courage and confidence to perform in front of an audience of around 600 people.

The judges found it really difficult to make a final decision as there can only be one winner of the Craigy trophy. There were lots of ties for the second and third positions – well done to everyone!

Here are all of the members from our class that tried out for Craigburn’s Got Talent!

Here are the class members that made the finals today.

Narnu Farm Camp

Posted on October 24, 2012 by lisasporn

This week our class joined the other Year 3 classes for a camp to Narnu Farm on Hindmarsh Island.

Narnu is a working farm and when you attend camp there you need to help with all of the jobs that usually happen on a farm.

Our classes were split into day groups of 8-9 children and we had sleeping/ night groups – some children slept in cottages and the ret were in the bunkhouse.

Each of our groups:

fed the animals – calves, chickens, goats, deer, rabbits, guinea pigs, roosters, peacocks, pigs, emus and baby lambs
milked Maisie the cow
learned how to ride a horse
learned how they used to plough the paddocks many years ago by hand ploughing
learned how to make butter
watched a blacksmith demonstration
watched a reptile talk
went on a vintage truck tour of the farm, plus we fed the horses as we drove around

We had an AMAZING time away – we loved all of the activities we did plus the extra games, free time and sports games that we could play. Our cottages and bunkhouse accommodation were really comfortable and all of the meals were delicious.

We really enjoyed working with all of the different staff on the farm and they taught us a lot about farm life, looking after the environment and how to care for animals.

Here are just ‘some’ of the photos taken on camp.

Narnu Farm on PhotoPeach

Have you ever been on a camp – tell us about your experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

End of Term Assembly – Official Opening of the Environmental Learning Centre

Posted on September 22, 2012 by lisasporn

On the last day of term we held our end of term assembly out on the steps by the brand new Environmental Learning Centre. A huge amount of time and planning has gone into the development of the Environmental Learning Centre. Over the last 3 years Mr Luke, our Deputy Principal, the parents on the Environment Committee and the student representatives on the Environmental Committee have all worked towards developing this wonderful and exciting learning area. Miss Grant and Miss Humphrey’s have also done an amazing job to help develop this centre.

The Environmental Learning Centre has many different features like: raised garden beds, a creek, planting areas, seed propagating areas, work benches fruit trees, a recycling centre and the composting area.

Every class in the school created items for the Environmental Learning Centre. Some of the items are:

scarecrows
garden pet rocks
flowers that never die (our activity)
God’s eyes – weaving with natural items collected from all over the school yard
a tiled mosaic
wind chimes
a bird bath
a totem pole – which will display the official plaque naming the centre
light reflectors – reused CD’s to scare birds away

just to name a few!!!

We all were encouraged to wear green on the day or environmental/ natural colours

During the day each class and their older buddies went out for a sensory tour of the new garden centre. Students from Miss Grant’s welcomed each class to the centre and explained the activities that we would be doing – planting, photo hunts to identify different areas of the garden, signing the visitor’s book and many other activities.

Everyone was asked to bring at least one recyclable item – cans and bottles – to contribute towards the fundraising efforts of the centre. It also reminded us just how easy it is to recycle materials.

We had a sausage sizzle lunch – this was hosted by the school canteen. YUM!!!

As a part of our assembly presentations were made to celebrate the incredible successes of:

our Pedal Prix team – bike 88 came 3rd and bike 111 came 10th in the 24 hour race at Murray Bridge – congrats to Mr Lemmey and his Year 6/7 teams
our State Champion Netball Knockout netball team – congrats to Mrs Pettman and the team
our State Champion Basketball team – more congrats to Mr Nash (Will’s Dad in our class) and Mrs Pettman

Here are some photos of our FANTASTIC last day of term!
Environmental Learning Centre Opening on PhotoPeach

What did you think of our Environmental Learning Centre – do you have a favourite part of the Centre?

Final Footsteps Session

Posted on September 22, 2012 by lisasporn

On Thursday we had our final Footsteps session with Erin, our instructor.

Through our Footsteps sessions we learnt individual and partner dances. The dances we learned were:

Shake Your Groove Thing – Alvin and the Chipmunk
Arabian Nights – a Bollywood dance
The Barn Dance – a bootscooting dance
Party Rock Anthem – a hip hop dance

Here’s a photo of us with our instructor Erin – we had a fantastic time learning all of our new dances.

What was your favourite part of Footsteps?

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