Dance shapes in sport

We learned a new game today: using a concept of dance to complete a race!  One of the concepts of dance is 'level' - whether your body is high, middle or low level in a movement. So for the race, each member of the team has to link to the previous member with a pose on a different level. We had fun!

Check out some of our poses:

WaterWise tomorrow!

WaterWise is hopefully going to be one of  the best two days of the year, we're going to have S.U.P (stand up paddling), Kayaking, Wind surfing and Sailing.The class has split into groups of four :A,B,C and D
each group has at least one teacher or parent. Heaps of classes have already done it so we're hoping for a fun filled water adventure day!!!

Athletics

Its a hot sunny day in Mt Smart stadium we're all sitting in the stand in our houses and we cheer for our house groups as they run along the track.It's boiling so everyone has to put on sunblock every 2 hours to prevent sunburn but we all tried our best for our house groups.There was shotput, discus, sprints, long jump and high jump.There were 100, 200 and 400 metre sprints and you had to do one. Some people even got into central zone but it all depended on time to get into the finals.You also could get into central zone for any of the other sports.We were all sorted into groups: Junior Girls 1 & 2(11 yrs old), Junior boys 1 & 2, Intermediate Girls 1 & 2 (12 yrs), Intermediate boys 1 & 2 , Senior Girls 1 & 2 (12 yrs and nine months) and Senior boys 1 & 2 as you can see, the groups depend on age.Everyone had fun on this day I wonder what will happen next year!?

Crystals

One of our classmates, Alex, brought in some of his crystal and stone collection this week. They were so cool!  One is a section of a meteorite!!  Thanks Alex.

A fresh start!

Term three has now ended and Term four has come to replace it! This Term, there is swimming and it's going to be summer soon.We are still doing the ultimate alphabet (B) and we can't wait wait to do athletics at Mt Smart! Waterwise is going to be great when we learn more about the water and start doing fun activities in the water! Here's this week's ultimate alphabet; There are 542 words in here that start with the letter 'B'

Marionettes alive!

Wow, the end results of the marionette project in Room 5 this Arts Festival are amazing!  Check the photos below for the final line up.

Art Fest Days 2 & 3: Paint, Lash and String

We've all worked hard to paint and dress our marionettes, lash together a cross to string them from, and then string the different body parts to that cross so we can make them move.  It's hard to do without getting the strings tangled!  Quite a few of us got the legs or arms back to front or the wrong way round.  We certainly improved our skills with fiddly knots and left vs right...