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Sunday, 14 October 2012

Scarecrows for Rose Week

 Room 10, 11 and 9 were making scarcrows for the Rose Week Competition. Each person in their group brought their things from home to make our scarcrows. We got to pick our own groups of a maximum number of 4 people. Some people finished and some people didn"t. If they didn't bring their things on the day they had to do work while everyone else made their scacrows. We had to make them in one and a half hours. They will be on view from Saturday 20th October by the Lion on the banks of the River Murray, Renmark.

Ned Kelly


Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Peer Support



The first day we went to the Renmark High School for peer support was the 29th August 2012 and it was when we found out what groups we were in, then we went with our peer support leaders and did activities with them. One of the activities was like another game was Chinese Whispers. On the first day we had a tour of the high school, we looked at the gym, the canteen, tech room, princal's office and some of the class rooms. We also got to meet some of the teaches and students. We saw some of the ex students from Renmark Primary School, we also got to meet the princpal. They plant seeds and have sheep, lambs and goats in the ag.block. Peer support went for 5 weeks on a Wednesday for 50 minutes.  At the end of  our peer support time we said good bye to our leaders and went back to the Renmark PrimarySschool.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

BOOKWEEK 2012

From the 21st of August to 24th of August it was Bookweek. Bookweek is when the Children's Book Council of Australia chooses the best Ausralian books. This year the best novel was "Crow Country", in second place was"Nanberry Black Brother White" and third was "Verity Sparks."
 
Picture book winners were "A bus Named Heaven," second was "The Dream Of the Thylacine" and in third place was "Flood."
 
The Early Childhood winners were "The Runaway Hug," in second position was "Come Down Cat." In third position was "That's Not a Daffodil!"
 
The Older Readers Book of the Year was "The Dead I Know,"next was " Straight Line To My Heart," and "When We Were Two."
 

 




The award for New Illustrator went to Sarah Acton, the book was "Ben and Duck". We also wrote poems based on the one of the picture books called "For All Creatures".

For hunting and hooting.                                                  
For beauty and bliss,
swooping and speed.
And for night time we are thankful.

For cute and craziness.
for digging and diving,
playful and pouncing.
And for cuddling we are thankful.

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Lascaux Cave Paintings






In 1940 in south western France in Lascuax some teenagers stumbled across cave paintings from 17,300 years ago. In 1955 the carbon dioxide was corroding the walls from 1200 people visiting every day so they made a replica of the exibition and sealed the real one away to the public. 




This term we studied the walls and made some of our own cave paintings. First we drew our cave paintings on brown paper then went over in oil pastel and paint. Then we scrunched the paper up to make it look rocky.

Sunday, 5 August 2012

RAZZ Performance

2 weeks ago, a musical group, called Razz, came to Renmark Primary School. They wer epolite and friendly as well as funny. The people that went to the performance were the people in choir and who were learning instruments. They played songs such as 'We Are Young', 'I'm a Believer' and 'Fireflies'. The instruments played there were electric bass, flute, saxophone, trumpet, keyboard, acoustic guitar, tambourines and maracas. The girls made everyone get up and dance. They had two beach balls one was small and the other was really big. There were  students from the Renmark West and Renmark Saint Joseph schools. It was entertaining with lots of participation from the audience. We all enjoyed it.



Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Jump Off





 Some students in Renmark Primary School are in an elective called Jump Rope For Heart also known as the Renmark Rippers. Last week we had a Jump Off and everyone at Renmark Primary School had a go at skipping with the professionals. We also performed for the Renmark Junior Primary School. On Friday the 22nd and Thursday the 28th June, the Renmark Rippers will be going on an excursion to perform at some different schools in the Riverland.

Bluearth Student Leader Forum at Monash Primary

On the 20th of June, four students (Cody, Brock, Josie and Holly) were selected to travel to Monash Primary School with Mrs. Bretag (Principal) to attend the Bluearth Student Leader Forum.

While we were at Monash, we met a lady named Jean Blaydes. She was from Dallas, Texas. You could tell she was from Texas because she had an American accent. She taught us a lot about how our brain works and how exercise is really important and crucial.

After the event finished we thought about the whole thing. This is what we think about it.

"It was a great experience for all of us, and hope to do it again next year, but I can't because I go to high school next year." Cody.

"Jean Blaydes was quite interesting and while we were at Monash, we did three dances. They were called the Soul Man, the Cupid Shuffle and the Wobble." Brock.

"It was an awesome day for me and I wish to do it again. I hope everyone can experience this someday." Josie.