Today the students all managed to do some programming and changed their opening message for their virtual world to Crossmaglen Public School. The students also focussed on their avatars and changing the clothing to emulate early Australian attire which was much more modest and sombre than today’s fashion. Students made stockings, vests, shirts, jackets, socks, shoes and… Read more Being Australian virtual project: Week 2
Today Mrs Booth was shown the dragonfly art work that the students are working on with Mrs Peart. The cells in their wings reminded her of the an amazing maths video connected to a sequence of numerals called Fibonacci numbers (pronounced fib-o-na-chee)named after the Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. When Mrs Booth’s son was in grade… Read more Dragonfly wings and Leonardo Fibonacci
Hello, my name is Cooper. I am one of ten students at Crossmaglen Public School and the only student in year 4. Everyone loves holidays but this one was really awesome. It’s about the time my family went to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland. I was four years old and my brother, Hunter, was seven. We also went… Read more Currumbin Wildlife Park
In the holidays my family and I went on a trip to Shepparton, Victoria for the Australian International Dairy Week (IDW). IDW is all about cows and heifers (a young cow before she has had a calf) of all breeds and showing. We went there to see how the people present their cattle. The farmers have to… Read more Australian International Dairy Week
Students today were introduced to their 10 week virtual learning project connected to the COGs G multi-stage unit ‘Our Australian Heritage’ Connection focus for each stage: ES1/S1: understanding that cultural activities, objects, songs, dances and stories express beliefs, values and a connection to place and people. S2: exploring the impact of British colonisation and how… Read more Our Australian Heritage Virtual Learning Project
Suzy, with her children Josh and Jessica, has been caring for our school veggie garden during the holiday break… “The kids have three Davidson Plum trees there, they have been there for years – I only saw them when on the first day of the school holidays I went with Jessica and Josh to water… Read more Davidson Plum Jam