Assembly Presenters and Awards

This week it was Room 18's turn to run assembly. Holly and Jack did a great job.



Our Heart of Achievement Award this week went to Jack for his wonderful attitude to all curriculum work. The other two recipients of awards were Holly for her work ethic and Jordyn who works so hard on her reading. Congratulations for all of your hard work.

Learning About Cubist Artworks

Integrating artwork into our geometry unit gave the concepts of rotation, translation, refection, open and closed spaces an all together new meaning. Having discussed and shared some of Pablo Picasso's cubist work, the children viewed video footage to learn more about the concept of cubism and how this form of artwork is created.

We based our artwork on a selected container within the classroom and proceeded to visually manipulate it. Once the object was drawn onto the paper, shading was taught, as was the importance of enhancing specific lines on the artwork.

Here are some of the completed artworks and children sharing them at assembly.

The first piece of art is Ella's creation.



The second artwork belongs to Jack.



Daniel had not quite completed his work at this stage.

Sharing at assembly:

Room 18 Awards

Assembly Awards;

The recipients of our awards in Week 2 were as follows:

Heart of Achievement: Lydia Mercer Beumelberg

Values Certificate: Daniel Bensley

Achievement Certificate: Blake Sayers

We offer these children our congratulations.

A Message for Room 18 Children and Parents

An opportunity to be really creative:

It seems that we are in the grip of yet another disruption to home and school life. I have decided to post some spelling words onto the Blog and ask the children to use them creatively in a snow poem or short story.
To enhance the writing use a simile if possible (e.g. as slippery as an eel, silent like my thoughts ) or alliteration ( a string of words that start with the same letter or sound).
Don't forget to illustrate your work and bring it into school on Friday morning.

If you have time to access the IXL site on the blog, select Year 3 or Year 4 depending on how confident you feel. This site is closely linked to our math curriculum and will help to develop math concepts. It is interactive and very user friendly.

Words for your writing exercise:

silent shivering still shimmering soaking sudden surprised slippery surface

'Our Wheelie Day'

On Tuesday, one of the requests submitted by the students through their school councillors came into fruition - a 'Wheelie Day.' What a perfect Tuesday it was. The sun shone and the air was warm. The children enjoyed the 45 minutes to show off their skill. What a wonderful way to get some exercise. We include a short slideshow of the event.

The children would like to share some of their narrative stories with you. Having studied the process of bread making, they have written a story about what could happen if the bread making process went horribly wrong. It is difficult to publish all of their work but we hope you enjoy reading a sample.

The Bread Monster
Written by Neve

Early one morning a scientist was doing a bread experiment on how to make bread. He wrote the write things into his book but he had one thing that he had not labelled properly. It would be the potion that would make the bread come alive. He fixed the problem and wrote that down in his book too. He thought that the potion was a bottle of yeast so he put the yeast in with the other ingredients. The scientist stirred it up. The bread was ready.

The bread turned into a bread monster. It chased the scientist all around the laboratory. He ran out of the laboratory and ran into a bread shop. The bread monster had followed him. The scientist was heading straight for the oven. The scientist saw some rope that was dangling off the roof. He got to the oven and quickly climbed up the rope. The bread monster could not stop so it ran right into the oven. The scientist jumped down off the rope and shut the oven door and turned the oven up to 200 degrees Celsius. The bread monster was cooked alive. When he came out of the oven he was as solid as a rock.





Monster on the Rampage

Written by Blake
A monster was on a rampage and every time he stomped his feet, he created an earthquake. He had one eye and a bagel for a shield. He had a bread tail and bread wings. He was quite smelly, really quite rotten.

There was a totally wicked Wednesday when everytime the monster saw the sun, he grew bigger and bigger. He grew so big that he floated off into space, suffocated and died. That made the sky rain loaves of bread.




The Bread Monster

Early one morning the bakers were making a new type of bread. Suddenly the oven started to rumble. It was like a 6.9 earthquake, except in the oven. This tiny bread man jumped out of the oven and slipped out of the bakery.

The sun came out and then the little bread man started to grow. No more than a few minutes later, the bread man was a giant!

He went into the city and went on a rampage. The bakers screamed, “Oh no! That’s not good. That’s where the professor lives.” The bakers ran after him and into the professor’s laboratory. They said,” professor there’s a bread monster on the loose.”
“Oh no!” the professor said. Robert, Jake and James ran in.

“We have a solution,” they yelled. They brought a giant toaster into the room. “Meet the giant toaster 2000,” they said. They all took it outside and lured the bread monster closer. Once he was inside of it, they pushed the lever down and then popped him off into space. No-one knew what might happen next but the professor was delighted with the result.

Written by Robert

Shapes

We have been studying Geometry this past week. We have been learning about the difference between polygons (2D shapes) and polyhedra (3D shapes). We have been learning their names, how many faces, edges and vertices they have and how to use them in artwork and construction. We used translation, reflection and rotation in some of our artwork.

This movie was taken during a team activity. Each group was asked to create a number of different shapes and to colour them. After that was completed we were provided with glue and newspaper and asked to sit in a circle. The goal of the activity was to cooperatively create a picture using the shapes we had individually made without talking to each other, but to use all the shapes we had made. We had to take turns and encourage each other using positive body language. Here is the result.







This is another activity that we completed as a group. We had to construct a polyhedra based on the shapes that we had been shown. To keep the structure together was quite difficult. We found out that triangular shapes were definitely the strongest. We wondered whether maybe we should consider that when we rebuild our new city. Here are some of the photos taken during the construction phase.

End of Term Two Poetry Competition

While the poetry competition results are known, we thought that it would be great to share this movie with you. We are sure that you will agree that Jackson, Lydia, Robert and Bukhosi were very convincing during their poetry recital.