Monday 27 July 2015

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Class Photo this Friday!

A reminder that our class photo will be taken this Friday 31st July. Sibling photos are at this stage being taken on Thursday. Please however make sure your child is 'photo ready' both days just in case the schedule changes.

Sports Rotations - Golf and Soccer

Here are some photos of Room 18 learning some soccer and golf skills during our Term 2 sports rotations.

Friday 3 July 2015

Expression Unit

As part of our expression unit in Term 2 we looked at different ways that stories can be expressed. We then looked at the story 'The Ugly Duckling' and decided to express this story through art.  Long ago, before there were pens, paint and paper, people drew on caves as a way to share their stories. So we used this as inspiration to create our own cave art about this story. 



First we came up with four main events in the story and symbols for each character we would need to represent in our art.








To make our background look like a cave, we scrunched a large piece of paper into a little ball then carefully unfolded it again. We did this twice then went over it with a crayon on its side.












We also had to plan how we would layout the four events on our final background. Planning was very important for this piece of art! 











 Dye or paint was used to create the cave wall background and then our story was added.















Then finally we added a pattern border using black and white paint. Our completed cave art will be hanging in our refurbished classroom for you to see when we get back into it. 



Thursday 2 July 2015

Digital Photography


In Term 2 we spent two sessions with senior classes Room 6 and 7 learning how to take digital photographs. They had all sorts of tricks and tips to share with us. One of our CS Kid attributes is learning with others so we were delighted that Room 6 & 7 invited us to be part of their learning process and to teach us what they know. Watch this space to see our favourite pictures.