quiz night

On the 10th of September the year fives went to Bathgate Park School in Dunedin. The hardest questions were the decades and the Hector Dolphin which was a what am I question. It was really fun and we enjoyed it, we hope we can come back next year.

Descriptive Writing

What do you think of our descriptive writing film? We were inspired by Charlie Chaplin videos like "The Lion's Cage" and learned a little about silent movies. We took the paragraphs that we had written from the point of view of some objects like rulers, scissors and books and used an app called ChatterKid to make them "speak their thoughts." We added some descriptions of a day in a boring classroom and then turned our videos into a film in the style of Charlie Chaplin's, using effects like black and white, aging the film and piano music. Did it make you laugh?! Did you like our acting?!

Speeches

Room 1 have been practising their speeches using Tellagami. Here's Jor'jah's introduction for her speech.

Lighting Up The Dark - Descriptive Writing

Watch this video of the highlights of the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival - can you see any similarities to your reading book "Lighting Up The Dark"?



Write a short descriptive piece on this video, using the writing in the book as a guide. Brainstorm descriptive words and similes before you begin.

Art

Over Term 2 and 3 we have been looking at the work of Dick Frizzell, a famous New Zealand artist. Last term we did teatowel screenprints with fabric paint and this term we are using spraypaint and canvas to make our artworks. We watched a video of Dick and his son Otis Frizzell creating their "Fishbombs" series which have become iconic NZ artworks and discussed their techniques and ideas. We liked the idea of using a word that would represent part of our identity. We are using a technique called masking to create our artworks and this morning Shannon completed her masking so was able to start spraypainting...she had a lot of fun! Can you tell what her identity word will be when she pulls of the word mask?