Kapa Haka

We had a wonderful kapa haka concert at assembly last Friday.  They sounded fantastic and looked so professional.  Well done to all Room 5 members, you have worked really hard and it shows!  Tino pai.

Creativity

This term Topic for the Senior Syndicate has been all about creating - dance, music, drama, culture and visual art.  Visual art children studied the modern work of Pablo Picasso, developing their skills in shading, overlapping and design.  Thanks to Gretchen over at gretchenbuwalda.blogspot.co.nz  for her creative ideas and inspirational advice.
Here are some of the visual art works that were created in the first topic rotation by our Yr 4/5/6 children.  Masterpieces I'm sure you will agree!

Creating with Fractions

Shout out to the girls at www.lessonplansos.com for this great fraction creativity task.  The kids had a lot of fun creating an animal out of fraction pieces.  They then had to write a 'recipe' for their creations.  I like the integrated element of this activity.  These pictures will be used for our calendar art too.  We hope you like our animals!

Room 5 Garden

Our garden has started out quite slowly.  Lots of silverbeet but only a few lettuces!
Hope we get some more though.

Artsplash

Room 5 are creating art for Artsplash at the Michael Fowler Centre in September.  We have looked at the art of Brad Novak and come up with 21 icons about 'Creative Arts' - dancing, drama, culture, visual art and music.  This is what we have done so far!

Flat Stanley Math Problems

Over the first two weeks of term, Room 5 have been learning about measurement and time.  We read a story called Flat Stanley and used problems Stanley faced in the book to learn how to solve word problems about measurement and time.  It was lots of fun learning!

Fun Fitness

St Orans students joined us for a fitness session in the last week of school to show us how to play an excellent new game based on dodge ball but it is even better! Protecting the teams Jedi is the aim without being hit yourself. Many thanks for sharing this with us girls. Ka pai.