Making & creating to inspire Literacy!

As part of our reading and writing, Room 3 children have been making and creating!

The Pearls made Hokey Pokey biscuits...

The Emeralds made Edible Stained Glass Biscuits...

The Diamonds made Dream Catchers...

"I'm A Knight" Song - Horrible Histories

Fly Me Up To Where You Are

The day we (Room 3 children) made flags for a mass art installation for Christchurch...

"NZ artist Tiffany Singh, assisted by volunteers, will work in schools to develop a huge cluster of flags created by the children, expressing their hopes and dreams - one flag for themselves and one for the city of Christchurch. The flags will be stitched into strings in the manner of Tibetan prayer flags, with designs by the students interspersed with designs by the artist. The flags will then form a mass installation of colour and hope in the central city - close to the festival venue on the edge of the Arts Centre. 

What are the hopes and dreams of our children? What are their concerns for the future? Art has long been a vehicle across cultures for expressing people's dreams and prayers.  Tiffany Singh has developed a work that will extend its reach out into the communities of Christchurch, to collect and share these hopes and dreams in this large-scale public artwork. 

Help us bring fresh heart and soul to Christchurch. 

Festival director Philip Tremewan. says "You will love this large-scale community art-work which involves 2,000 Christchurch kids.  You will get huge satisfaction from seeing what it means to the students as they each make a flag to express their hopes and dreams for the future."

Room 3 children took part in a workshop on the last Friday of Term 2 and created flags based on their own hopes and dreams. Their flags will become part of the mass installation in Christchurch!

Please look at the photos of them creating these flags below.

Senior School Arts Soiree

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

Who:
All year 5/6 students.


Where:
Ilam School Hall.


When: 
Wednesday and Thursday night of Week 10 this term.

Time:  
Students come to Room 3 at 6.25. Parents can view exhibited art from 6.25 until 7pm. Dance performances begin at 7pm.

Wear:  
Sharks to wear black jeans/trousers/shorts/leggings/skirt and black t shirts. Jellyfish to wear black  jeans/trousers/shorts/leggings/skirt and white t shirts. Whales/Dolphins to wear black jeans/trousers/shorts/leggings/skirt and blue t shirts.

Oh My Godwit!

Today Annabelle from the NZ Department of Conservation visited us.

She talked to us about the adaptations of sea birds and showed us 2 taxidermied 

Little Blue penguins.

A bird Annabelle was particularly passionate about was the amazing Godwit. She told us about the incredible journeys these birds make each year.

Godwits spend the summer in New Zealand, fattening up on Pipis, worms and other delicacies in preparation for their 11,000km journey from New Zealand to Alaska (Alaska is where the Godwits breed) with one stopover on the way. Before they leave, these birds have doubled their body weight so that they are strong enough to last them through their long, arduous journey. 

Very sadly, the numbers of Godwits are decreasing so we as human beings, need to look after the tidal areas where Godwits feed. We can do this by:

1. Keeping dogs on leashes.

2. Allowing the Godwits to be safe by not frightening them and keeping our distance.

3. Thinking about pollution and what we are doing to protect our planet such as reusing and recycling.

Watch this interesting video...

Week 10 Performance

We have an arts exhibition/performance in Week 10. We are working on creating our own special interpretive dance to a medley of interesting music! 

We are learning about the elements of dance and how to use them.

So far, we have focused on using different levels and space.

Look at these amazing dance groups below. 

How do they use levels, space, their body and their energy?

How do they work together?

Adaptations

Since there are over 250,000 species of marine animals, we decided to focus on fish when finding out about adaptations. Each species has unique features which enable it  to survive in a particular environment.

We began with doing a variety of activities to help us discover the interesting adaptations of Midnight Zone fish and Sunlit Zone fish as they live in contrasting environments.

This is what we've discovered so far...