Reindeer Masks with Room 21and Room 22

Room 21 was our buddy class for Swim Fortnight, so we decided it would be nice to make reindeer masks with them.  There are way too many of us so we also invited Room 22.  Here are the creative masks...

Electronics Day

X Factor - Look Out!!!!

Water Polo Day

New photos are up of Water Polo day, but no video unfortunately.  These are on the Swim Fortnight tab at the top.

Swim Fortnight

Have a look at the 'Swim Fortnight' page for photos of our lessons.
Wednesday 4th December is our polo day.  I will try to upload some video of this day too.

Floating and Sinking

We have been looking at Floating and Sinking this term for our science topic.  Have a look at the science page to see the experiments we have done.

Venetian Masks

We started this term by researching, designing and creating our own Venetian masks, inspired by masks Mrs Robinson saw in Venice on her trip.  Have a look at our masks on the 'Venetian Masks' page.

Dance lessons

Today we learnt how to Merengue and Jive.  I'll let the video do the speaking...

Time Lapse videos

We tried out a new application called Time Lapse which takes photos every few seconds and replays them quickly to create a short 'movie'.  Have a look at our attempts below:

Thomas' singing cow:




Zak's castle and dragon:




Thomas' dragon and castle:





More to come...

Gymnastics Tuesday 20 August

We are in our final week of gymnastics at school and we have had a lot of fun.  Enjoy some more photos below and stay tuned for our reflections.

2013 08 20 Gymnastics - slideshows

Coat of Arms

This week we looked at the meanings behind the colours, animals and symbols found on a coat of arms.  Some children even looked up their family coat of arms.  We discovered that there can be more than one coat of arms for a family.  Here are some photos when Mrs Robinson visited Marksberg Castle on a hill in Braubach located on the Rhine River in Germany.  You can see more about this castle here: Marksberg Castle.

Braubach, Germany.  Marksberg Castle in the background

 Marksberg Castle

Knight's armour

 Family shields

Can you find out what the yellow and red colours and the lion symbolise?

Coat of Arms meanings

The meanings of the colours and symbols on a coat of arms

You can create a coat of arms at one of the following websites:
http://www.imaginon.org/fun/whippingboy/createacoatofarms.asp
http://www.parkfieldict.co.uk/infant/castles/coat_of_arms.swf

How much do you know about how to describe a coat of arms?
Try this game http://www.yourchildlearns.com/heraldrygame/

Gymnastics at school

This term we are taking three weeks to learn a range of gymnastics skills; springing, landing, rotation, locomotion and statics.  Here's a peek at week one.

 

Juila on the vault

  

Luka and Thomas testing out their upper body strength

A few headstands

Emily on the vault

Trying out the skipping ropes

Jemima and Lydia practising a cartwheel for Jump Jam

Aiysha gets rolling along

Melissa is flying - or is that her hair?

Tobi bounces onto the vault

Coordination is required to bounce and catch at the same time

Alison's just hanging around

Ben works out a headstand

Shravan on the vault

Perhaps some rhythmic gymnastics?

Lydia flies over the vault

'Lean on Me'

Hmmm - not sure who this is...

Kate on the vault

Working as a team

Over the vault

The girls show how it's done

Arirang - A Korean folksong

Today Shaun, a visiting Korean teacher, taught us a Korean folksong.  We tried hard to learn the words and the tune, but for some of us the words took over and we forgot there was a melody (maybe that was just me?) Enjoy our song :)

Gymnastics Day at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics

Arriving at the Christchurch School of Gymnastics, some of us were in disbelief at the sight ahead of us.  All that remained were memories of the pool complex that many had visited and enjoyed in the past.  All completely gone...

Luckily for us the School of Gymastics is still up and running and we had a FANTASTIC day.  All except Mrs Robinson who rolled her ankle three steps onto the springy mat because she was being careless.  Safety first children, safety first!

Not all the photos are on here yet, but you will get an idea of the fun we had!

2013 Gymnastics Day - slideshows

Reflections to come.

Paint It ALL BLACK

Here is the photo we submitted to the Paint It All Black competition:

Fingers crossed!

School Newspaper

On Friday 17th May Rooms 6 & 19 got together again to begin brainstorming the things we could put into our newspaper in groups.  Each child chose an aspect they were interested in and formed groups to brainstorm what could feature. 

We have groupos for:
Editors
General Journalists
Sports Journalists
Bloggers
Photography and Videography
Puzzles and Entertainment
Cartoons
Advertising and Marketing
Submissions

Here are some of our first ideas.