Thursday, April 18, 2013

Having fun with music

For discussion group, Rv brought his violin to school. It looked very delicate. He showed us the rosin and how to put it on the bow. . The rosin is a wheel that you rub it against the bow and it makes it more smooth when you play it.   Rv showed us the first 4 notes of the violin. It was a little out of tune but it was okay.   The violin case was a blue velvet with two bow holders. It was really cool !

R.V.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A Dragon comes to school

On Tuesday the 16th of April,Jordan brought his Australian bearded dragon called Puff to school. Every one enjoyed him but Olivia got a bit of a fright when Puff ran over to her while we were sitting on the mat..
Rory said that he really enjoyed seeing Jordan's bearded dragon Puff.  He had seen it a couple of times at his house but this time it was really the best .   Rory liked watching Puff charge at him while he was sitting on the mat.  It was a bit scary but not to much .

Jazmin really enjoyed having Jordan's bearded dragon at school. It was very exciting seeing it in real life instead of a picture as she had never seen one before.

Jordan

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Art Gallery

Last Tuesday, Rm 5 went to the Art gallery. Mr Neumegan, talked to the children about insects. They looked at arrange of paintings ,watched  some films  and got to sing a song.   After that, they went into the art classroom ready with lots of ideas. In there they started to draw an insect. There was a whole range of insects to chose from to help with our sketching. There were spiders ,wasps and lots of other things.   We started to draw the heads, the body's all falling off the page.   When we were finshed drawing we  coloured them in with bright crayon. We covered it up with blue pastel then with something sharp we scraped away some of the crayon, shading the insect.   Dye was used was used for the background along with a range of coloured stickers..
 
 
By Olivia and Lucy

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Whole school Cross Country.

Last week,the whole school had the anual Cross Country run.  All of the classes particapated in the run and did very well.  The clasess went by their age group 5 to 11.  There was amazing runners like Shay, Jack and R.V. in year 6 boys .  Phadra, Caitlen and Olivia in year 6 girls.  It was an amazing event not to be missed.  Well done to all those children who particapated in this event.

Oliver
Lucas

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Golf with Melanie

In March, Room 5 had Melanie who came to our school to teach golf.  She came around 12:00 and taught the basics .  Room 5 started off with small rubber balls then moved onto tennis balls. Some people hit the tennis balls to their partners that were  standing on the other side of the field.  Finally, they moved on to rubber golf balls.  Some hit them far and some not so far,but everyone went very well.  Well done to everyone who participated.


By Oliver and Cameron.