Making a chrysalis

When we came back to class after lunch one day we sat down for our story as usual.  Some of the children noticed something unusual on our swan plant.  One of our caterpillars was almost finished making its chrysalis!  Miss B quickly got the camera to try to catch some of the wriggling and jiggling as the caterpillar shed its skin and made its chrysalis.

Logan Park High School Sports Day

On Friday some Year 12 students from Logan Park High School came to our school.  They came to teach us sports.  We had a go at indoor and outdoor hockey, soccer, basketball, touch rugby, running and netball.  We played octopus, duck duck goose, fruit salad, candle sticks, ladders and rats and cats.  We loved sports day our favourite things to do were playing outdoor hockey, playing indoor hockey, playing rob the nest, basketball, hot potatoe and a game where we sat in a circle and we ran around and squeezed a cool whistle.  Next year we would love to learn cricket, table tennis, softball and badminton.

Sound Paintings

The music started softly we dipped our paintbrushes in the paint and splashed paint softly on our pages.  The music got louder we made hard, scary looking strokes with the paint.  The music got faster we painted faster.  The music got higher and scarier we tried to use our brushes in different ways to show how the music sounded.  We turned the brushes upside down and used them to draw in the paint.  We made sound paintings.  Today we are going to use our paintings to do some weaving for our calendar art work.

Junior School Musical

Rooms 8, 10, 11 and 13 have been busy practicing our singing for the junior show.  We have been learning to sing a song called "Friends are all you need" because the story is about needing your friends.  We also have been singing "Put a little love in your heart". 
Room 8 have been working on our animal movements for our dance.  We are going to be monkeys in the show.  We have been practicing our dance moves.

Where the wild things are

We read 'Where the wild things are' By Maurice Sendak. We looked at the illustrations to see the way texture was used in the pictures. We also looked at all the different expressions on the wild things faces. We drew our own wild things with different expressions. Then we drew our favourite one and we coloured them with pastel. Yesterday we drew big wild thing faces with different expressions and lots of texture. Today we are going to add crayon to the texture and then paint over them in watercolour paint.

Strike

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Room 8's Space Discoveries

We have been learning about space. We made a rocket ship to read books in at reading time. We have made some cool sun artwork and we have been learning how the earth and moon rotate around the sun. The moon goes around the earth. The sun is a star. We learnt that mecury goes fastest around the sun and has an iron core. We learnt that mars has a red spot that is twice the size of earth, it has sandstorms and giant volcanoes. We learnt that venus is the only planet that turns clockwise. We learnt that pluto is a dwarf planet. Earth is the only planet that you could live on. We learnt that saturn is the second largest planet.