Nuriootpa Primary School and Clay Lamberton Elementary School - 2001

NEW! See the Christmas Decorations, Mrs. Jamieson's class want to share with Mrs. Coates' class: An Adorable Angel A Beautiful Bell A 'Snazzy' Santa A Super Stocking A Terrific Tree		Is that you Buddy? - See Buddy dressed up for Christmas! Oh Oh! Buddy is searching for Christmas presents in the Christmas Tree!! Who found the presents for an early Christmas??		Read the letters from Australia to the children in Mrs. Coates' class. WOW! Did you know it is very hot at Christmas time in Australia? Do you know what the Magic Cave is? Read the letters to see how Australian kids celebrate Christmas.
NEW! Oh The Places You'll Go Mrs. Coates and her 2nd graders have written the important things about their own city. As a class, they decided that they liked the idea of a peaceful little city as being the most important thing about Berlin. "We chose the other sentences from a list of ideas that had been brainstormed. Then they each wrote an acrostic poem about Berlin. Students also drew pictures of their city. This project integrated reading, writing and social studies standards." Read about Berlin! Hi Mrs. Jamieson and Class,  In our country we have a holiday called Halloween. It is celebrated on October 31st. The kids all dress up in costumes and then go door to door collecting candy from their neighbors. When the people come to the door, the children say "Trick or Treat". We also carve funny and scary faces into hollowed out pumpkins. They are called jack-o-lanterns.  Here is a picture of a roadside stand that is selling pumpkins right now.  We also have a Halloween party at school. The kids bring their costumes to school and then at the end of the day they put them on and we have treats and games. Sometimes we have a costume parade in our gym. It is one of the best classroom parties. We thought you might enjoy some of the Halloween sites that we have gathered on our web site. We like the Halloween tic tac toe, the riddles and jokes, and Black Cat. We have just started the Bat Web Quest. Maybe some of you would like to try the web quests. We couldn't believe that you wrote already! Didn't you just get back from a two week holiday? You are really awesome pen pals! Your friends, Mrs. Coats' Second Graders Buzz over for a visit to Mrs. Coats' Corner: QUESTIONS AND PHOTOS Have a look at Clay Lamberton Elementary School. We have prekindergarten through fifth grade in this building. There are five classes of each grade. We have over 700 students! This is a photo of Riverside Park. Berlin is located along the banks of the Fox River. The river provides opportunities for boating, fishing and other water activities.   Hi Debbie, The class discussed our connection and thought we should send a toy koala and call it Koala Lou which is a really beautiful story written by a local writer called Mem Fox. She has written lots of wonderful books for young readers. Regards Sheryl See a special page for Koala Lou You can hear Mem Fox read the story of Koala Lou here.   Name of Teacher : Debbie Coats Country : Wisconsin, USA Grade : 2nd Grade Name of School : Clay Lamberton Elementary. .See the great web site Debbie has made about her class. Dear Mrs Coats and class,  Buddy has only been with us for 3 days and already he is off interstate with Matthew. He is going to a big football match in Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. He will be going with Matthew and his parents to 2 matches. Matthew and Mrs. Jamieson both barrack( you would say root) for a team called PortPower. They are a team from South Australia. Their colours are teal, silver and black. I have cut some pictures from the papers of football players during the games. I think you will be suprised to see how different the clothing is from your football and how tough our game is compared to your football. Matthew has promised to take some photos so we will send them to you if we can.  Cheers from Mrs. Jamieson		USA  NEW! Hi Mrs. Jamieson and Class,  We had such a wonderful surprise yesterday. A large package arrived from Australia in the morning. We want to thank you and your students so much for sending it. We were very excited, so we went over to the reading corner to open it together. The children were so thrilled to find wrapped presents for each of them in the big envelope. Everyone had to wait until each child had their present and then they all opened them together. They absolutely loved the Australian pens and kangaroo stickers. They were so excited about trying out the new pens, that they asked if they could write letters to their pen pals using them. Of course, I let them. They worked very hard on Christmas cards for all of your students. They are beautiful. We found a surprise to send to each of your students, too. However, the present will not get in the mail until tomorrow which will be December 6th. I am afraid it will not arrive before Christmas. Will there be someone there to distribute our cards and gifts to our pen pals after your Christmas break? We know that Mrs. Jamieson will be changing schools, so we are hoping that she will be able to arrange for someone to pass out the "goodies" when you get back from your summer vacation.   Our class is busy preparing for Christmas. We just put up a live pine tree in our class for Christmas. Do you use pine trees as Christmas trees, too? Do you have a tree in your classroom? Do you put on a concert for your parents for Christmas? What songs do you sing if you do? We are looking forward to talking with you about the ways you celebrate Christmas. We are having unseasonably warm weather in Wisconsin this week. Yesterday the temperature was 60 degrees. It felt like spring. We noticed that Australia had some temperatures in the 90s! We are guessing that you get to wear shorts in December. Are we right? Well, have a great week! Sincerely, Debbie Coats Buzz over for a visit to Mrs. Coats' Corner Hi Everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that I am having a fabulous time in Wisconsin. The weather is getting colder but the leaves are changing colors and it is a beautiful sight everywhere you look. Look at Koala Lou sitting in the trees See Koala Lou in the school forest Watch Koala Lou help make leaf rubbings Today I went on a field trip with Mrs. Coats' class to the school forest. We spent half of the day there and had lots of fun. We hiked, went on a scavenger hunt, looked for signs of animal life, did leaf rubbings and a camouflage activity. It was great. I miss you all, but Wisconsin is a great place to visit. They tell me that I will be seeing snow pretty soon. I am not so sure that I am going to like that! I will write again.  Your friend, Koala Lou Koala Lou is having lots of fun in Wisconsin! NEW! Having fun on the Monkey bars NEW! Watch me on the slide! Look at the Postcards sent by the Aussie class: Adelaide Barossa Valley Nuriootpa Wine growing DIstrict		Australia NEW See our Class Web site made by Mrs. Jamieson NEW Dear Mrs. Coats and class, Guess what. I went on another great weekend adventure with Mrs. Jamieson. I went right down near the bottom of South Australia to a coastal place called Beachport. See me at the beach. It is a small fishing village and right now it is the crayfishing season. The southern ocean sweeps onto the coast. Can you imagine being able to see the southern ocean. I went for a drive along the coast. Look at me playing in the sand and playing hide and seek. I could see where the waves have eroded the rocks. Mrs. Jamieson told me that the waves get very high and rough during the winter months and during big storms.I hope you all like the pictures of me on my trip. Love from Buddy Where is Buddy? Click on the links to see his wonderful photos! I am now back from holidays and settled into my last term of school. I travelled with Peter and his family to Queensland for my holiday. We drove there taking many hours to arrive. I stayed in an apartment that was very close to the beach. Peter took me to the beach but he made sure I had sunblock on each day to prevent my skin from burning. I managed to do some quiet reading at the beach. I only sat by the spa as my fur would take too long to dry. At night Peter sat with me as we relaxed in front of the television. Thank you all for sending me to this class as I am having so much fun learning about different parts of Australia Love from your old friend Buddy Buddy has joined our class and is already out and about. His first weekend here, saw him on a Qantas flight, (see him on the plane) with his pal Matthew, to Melbourne to the headquarters of Aussie rules football to watch his adopted team PortPower play. BUDDY ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA!! Read the letter, we received from our Class buddies in the US. Check out our school photo Name of Teacher : Sheryl Jamieson Country : South Australia, Australia Grade : Year 2/3 Name of School : Nuriootpa Primary School See our School Web site