Our BEAUTIFUL Irises...(and last post for the year)

If you've looked at our blog, you will know we have been doing observational drawings. We have finally finished our beautiful purple and yellow irises! They are all stunning and unique. We worked so hard to look at the shape, colours, textures, shades and tones. We are going to give our paintings to someone we love for Christmas. 

 

Literacy through The Arts!

Rooms 3, 19 and 20 have been collaborating together on literacy through the arts. We have been unpacking poetry through dance and drama and what a way to comprehend figurative language, learn new vocabulary, be creative, and have a lot of fun in the process!

In groups, we have been using space, timing, energy, levels and relationships to create a series of moving scenes, with each one ending in a freeze frame, that represent the poem . We have been working on trying to be creative and figurative in our movements rather than literal to represent the poetry we have been studying.

The most recent poem we have been working on is 'If I Were A Storm...' by Katie Boom.

The poem reads:

If I were a storm,

I would range over farms and plains,

houses, cities and seas.

I would beat against the window panes of houses

with warm fires inside.

I would whip the leaves off trees.

I would flood rivers while I could,

for all too soon, the sun will peep out

from behind a cloud

and I must pick up my black billowing skirts and leave

to whine over the oceans and beyond.

Below, you can see photos of us cooperating, creating, discussing and using team work skills to come up with our presentations on a beautiful spring day!

See our performances at our school assembly below....

Four 4s!

We did a rich maths task that was pretty interesting and more challenging that we first thought. It's called Four 4s. The aim was to make each number from 0-20 using only four 4s! We used factorial 4 (4!), the square root of 4, 4 to the power of 2, division, multiplication, addition and subtraction. Some numbers were harder to solve than others but we had an fun time doing so. 

Number Visuals!

We looked at these visuals representing the numbers 1-28.

We looked for interesting patterns. It was incredible what was picked up!

We shared our findings...

Our findings

Our findings

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