Little WHAM!

On Tuesday of week 9 we performed at Little Wham. In the morning we danced...

In the afternoon we performed our dramas, cultural dance, sound art and showed our visual art. Our audience told us that our message was clear and they really enjoyed our performances!

Week 8

Amazing Home Learning

Our Home Learning Task was to make an artwork using geometrical shapes. What a great variety of artworks came to school in week 8. Our artwork also had to have a message. Our messages were amazingly varied too!

Some of us made 3D artworks

Some were 2D

They were all fantastic!

Week 7

This week we have practised our dance for Little Wham. That's when we will perform our dances and dramas and sound art and show our visual art.

We have one more week to practise! We are also trying to win the class prize for selling the most WHAM tickets for Big Wham on Sept 20th-that's next Friday.

We are busy problem solving in Maths using our fractions skills and have been recrafting a piece of writing for our portfolios.  In Reading we have been using the ipads to scan QR codes which take us straight to the website we need to use. Very clever!

Week 6

Another exciting week in Room 14. First of all Lyn Kriegler, a real life author, illustrator and puppeteer visited our school and spent time talking with us, answering our questions and sharing her stories with us. As one of us said "We had an awesome time with her."

Lyn told us a story with her puppets about a baby dinosaur and one of the punga people.

Then on Friday Rhythm Interactive performed in the Hall. There were 233 Juniors and Middles in the Hall and each of us had a drum!  John and Lucie from Rhythm Interactive taught us rhythms to play, they showed different kinds of instruments and we played and played those drums. Even the people not in the Hall must have heard us. It was great!

WHAM is coming

Tickets available at School Office ..... going fast!

Week 5

Week 5 already! We were a bit sad this week that our netball coaching sessions have ended. We have had some great coaching and on the last day we were able to play a game of netball using the skills we had learned. Here we are in action.

                                                                             

We also had our last dance lesson for a couple of weeks while our dance teachers are on university holidays. As well as all this we have all presented our Home Learning Task AND carried on with our learning in reading,(inferring) writing (implying) and maths (fractions and geometry). Our second Arts rotation started this week too. This time we were able to choose which Arts discipline we would do.

Week 4

On Friday we visited Te Tuhi Centre for Creative Arts. We performed our version of the Rainbow Fish, learned about the way that stories are told and reasons for story telling, made posters about the story, and viewed some amazing art work.

Earlier in the week we had another dance session with our teachers from the University of Auckland, finished our prints after the style of Jo Ogier, a New Zealand printmaker who has been our model artist, continued our work on inferring in Reading, implying in Writing and fractions and geometry in Maths! We also found time for some more netball coaching. All in a week's learning.