http://vjenkins.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:33:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photographs by Jonathan, Ridwan, Mariam & Saja On the 21 August we went to our Athletics Carnival. It was at Campbell Oval. We travelled by bus. When we got to Campbell Oval we had to race. First it was the junior boys' 100m race. Daniel came 1st and Bobi came 2nd. ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/08/24/athletics-carnival-2/ On the 11th August scientist Gwen from the CSIRO visited the Bright Sparks to teach us a little about the human body. We got to do lots of experiments. We looked for germs on our skin under a microscope and tested our lung capacity and pulse rate. We looked at ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/08/15/csiro/ Photographs by Jonathan Today we had a cricket clinic at our school. The cricket player’s name was Michael Stickman who was originally from New Zealand but now he plays cricket for the NSW Blues. He showed us how to bowl, bat, and field (catch ). He also gave us cricket show ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/08/14/cricket-clinic/         Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday our class have fitness with the other Stage 2 classes. We do skipping , ballgames and athletics. Each day we rotate to a new activity. Mrs F. does athletics, Mr H. does ballgames and Mrs J. does skipping. All the games are fun. The best ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/08/07/fitness-2/ Congratulations to all those students who collected sponsership money for the school cross-country run last term. A special effort was made by one Bright Spark, Missy, who raised over $200. All students were awarded a certificate and prize for their effort                                                 http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/08/01/fund-raising/ Bright Sparks will represent the country of New Zealand at our school Mini Olympics. Over the next few weeks we will be researching information about New Zealand culture and customs. If you are able to assist us with our research, please leave a comment. We would love to hear from ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/07/31/mini-olympics-update/ Today Bright Sparks had to choose a country for our class to be in the school mini Olympics. Our top 3 choices were Australia, China and New Zealand. Then we had to choose which sport our class would like to do. William chose running and Cain chose  cricket. The most ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/07/26/mini-olympics/ This week Bright Sparks tried a new Visible Thinking routine called "I See, I Think, I Wonder" using the Olympic Flag as a stimulus to introduce one the topics we will be studying this term. The great thing about this routine is that every Bright Spark had a chance to ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/07/24/i-see-i-think-i-wonder/ On Tuesday 1st July the Stage 2 classes had a spelling competition to select two students to represent our school in the Premier's Spelling Bee later on this year. Each class had their own competition and selected the two best spellers. Then the best two spellers from each class competed ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/07/04/spelling-bee/ This week we have been very busy witing our storyboards to go with the movies we created using Movie Maker.  We made a checklist with our teacher to make sure that our storyboards had all the necessary parts and were written neatly with correct spelling and punctuation. Now the storyboards are finished we are ... http://vjenkins.edublogs.org/2008/07/04/storyboards/