Circle Weaving

We have been weaving in circles and on plastic cups. We learnt all about warps, wefts and looms. What a lot of fun we had!

Reduce Reuse Recycle

Hugo has completed his poster for visual language. What a great job Hugo.

Brochures

Here are the first of our published brochures. What a lot of information about earthquake safety for the reader to learn about. Keep up the great thinking Room Ten.

Play - The Great Bank Robbery

The Ice Cream's reading group did a play from a Part 2 journal. It had a lot of puns in it and it was very funny.

Drawing Diagrams

WALT... draw and label a diagram to help people understand a science idea

A few weeks ago we developed success criteria after looking at lots of diagrams. We discussed the importance of a diagram in visual communication. Drawing scientific diagrams and drawings has helped our observation and drawing skills. We drew examples of faults and S & P waves. We labelled the parts to give more meaning to the diagram. We also included a title. We plan to use some of our skills and knowledge of diagrams in our explanations. They will help explain what we writing visually.

Here are some examples of diagrams we viewed and analysed.

Earthquake Safety Posters

Over the past week we have made posters to promote Earthquake safety. We have developed criteria for our posters. Some children used the computer and others pen and paper. The key messages were 'Drop, Cover, Hold' , 'Get Ready, Get Thru' and 'Fix, Fasten and Forget'. We will share some with you when they are finished.

Rona and the Moon Dance

Today we used Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons' violin concerto to dance to. We got into groups to prepare a dance about Rona and the Moon. This is what we explored...
PK: Explore mirroring in pairs and moving through different environments, making different pathways and shapes. We explored the changing shape of the moon: the full round moon shrinking to a thin arc moon; make the shape of a star; the shape of a water gourd empty, then full of water; make the crouched shape of Rona's reflection in the pond: a mirror image, then Rona's curled-up shape captured inside Marama, the moon; use mirroring and magnetism to show the moon's gravitational pulling and pushing powers – its magnetic field.
DI: Develop direct and indirect pathways in the air and on the floor, creating a non-locomotive and locomotive sequence.
CI: Perform our dances. We identified the shapes and pathways of the moon and the stars and gave lots of feed-back and feed-forward using the elements of dance.
Here are two of our presentations. I would love to have included them all as they were all of such a high standard. It was especially satisfying to see the enjoyment, creativity and the total involvment of both boys and girls.