Medals and Podiums

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Olympic Flags

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We have been working on some descriptive writing using personal experience as a starting point for our ideas.

The main intention behind this work was to create writing that would make a strong image in the mind of the reader.

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Our Thinking About this Project

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Winter Sports Fun

Developing Leadership Skills


For the Winter Sports Fun Day a number of people from Room 4 organised and ran an introduction to a winter sport for all the juniors, middle school and seniors.

Well Done

Yea Rin, Luke, Josh, Annabel, Aria, Kate 

plus afternoon helpers Ellie and Gracie.

Josh and Ethan organising rugby gear

Annabel, Aria and Kate leading a hockey warmup activity

Yea Rin and Luke demonstrating soccer skills

Annabel and Aria packing up at the end of the day

Activity leaders having lunch together

Group Thinking

• What did you learn from doing this?
• What went well?
• What was hard?
• What would you do differently next time?

Olympic Dance

Learning Through Dance

Whole Class Thinking

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• We are dancing with Room 20 telling the story of the Olympics.
• We are showing the ancient and modern Olympics
• The Greek battle, opening ceremony, different sports, winning on the podium and the rings at the end.
• We are dancing on stage and keeping to the beat.
• The birth of the modern Olympics.
• A dance about the Greeks inventing the Olympics.

By doing this dance we learnt about...

• The elements of dance and the ancient and modern Olympics.
• The Greeks invented the Olympics.
• We learnt about timing, using space and relationships to other things.
• We learnt about the elements of drama to help us with our dance.  FARTS is Focus, Action, Role, Time, Space
• The elements of dance are BARTS-E = Body Awareness, Relationships, Timing, Space and Energy.
• We learnt about using power and expression.
• We learnt to work together to get the perfect timing.
• We learnt to listen to the beat of the music and keep in time with it.
• Using the idea of sports movement to make a dance.

Some things we did well include...

• The battle at the beginning
• I did a really good jump and turn.
• We did the punching in the air well together.
• We showed good expression on our faces.
• The rings looked good the way the different colours came together at the end.
• We did the slow motion movement well.
• Cooperating together, listening to the music and being in time.
• In the Eye of the Tiger part we had really good timing.

Some things we can improve on include...

• Being in time with the music better when we are jogging and boxing.
• The final Olympic rings and stopping at the same time.
• We could use the space better.
• Being all in perfect time together.
• We need to be more focused and working better together.
• Better freeze fames at the beginning.
• Sometime we went too fast – slow down and be on time at the end.
• Doing a shocked face at the end of the battle.
• Better freeze frames – really really still like a statue.
• I can improve on doing the circle with my friends.
• No sword noises in the battle please boys!

Nonsense Poem by Jessica

Five Star Restaurant!!!!

A nonsense poem by Jessica

Slimy slippery slugs

for my lunch

so silly

so crazy

Oh I wish I wasn’t at this

Five Star

Super Star Café and Restaurant

insects

inside-out insects

for my snack

so silly

so crazy

Oh I wish I wasn’t at this

Five Star

Super Star Café and Restaurant

windows

window wipers

crushed together for my dinner

so silly

so crazy

Oh I wish I wasn’t at this

Five Star

Super Star Café and Restaurant

soap

soap in a can

and bogie soup all put in a bowl

and stirred together

for my dessert

so silly

so crazy

Oh I wish I wasn’t at this

Five Star

Super Star Café and Restaurant

I wonder what’s for breakfast…?

• This sample shows... that I know how to write poems.
• I have been learning to...try and get the end of the lines in the right places so that the poem reads well.
• One thing I think that I did well was... thinking up the crazy food.
• One thing I think I can improve on is...making my work longer and trying to use more juicy words to   describe my ideas well.

Water Cycle Diagram by Kate

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Postcard Home From Gallipoli by Fraser

• This sample shows...the ANZACs fighting in the war.
• I have been learning to...use a picture to help me with my ideas for my writing and as I wrote I was thinking about actually being in the war myself.
• One thing I think that I did well was...I did a good picture. I like the way I did the parachutes and in the writing I tried to spell hard words that I needed for the story.
• One thing I think I can improve on is...using the COPS to do more editing and fixing up by myself.

Thinking About camp by Buster

The activity I enjoyed the most at camp was the mountain biking and the abseiling.

I enjoyed these things because the mountain biking made me feel really good and fast and both these things were like something I've never experienced before.

Something that was a challenge for me was the mountain biking.

This was hard because it was really hard for my legs and they hurt a bit sometimes.

Cross Country by Charles

• This picture shows...me at cross country after my race.
• I have been learning to...show sportsmanship.
• One thing I think that I did well was...keeping a good rhythm of my breathing so that I didn't get exhausted half way through the race.
• One thing I think I can improve on is...I don't know because I really tried my best.

School Cross Country by Kate

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School Cross Country by Preston

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Cross Country by Cormac

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Triathlon by Fraser

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Newspaper Construction by Angus

• This sample shows...that I know how to construct strong buildings.  We were building an emergency shelter for the bear


• I am proud because this was the strongest emergency shelter and everyone voted my shelter the best.

Thinking About camp by Samson

The activity I enjoyed the most at camp was… the flying fox and I enjoyed the abseiling.

I enjoyed these activities because they were fun. I liked the flying fox because it went really fast and the wind was blowing through my hair.  I liked the the abseiling because I enjoyed bouncing down the cliff on my feet.  it was a long way down.

Something that was a challenge for me was…doing the river crossing.

This was hard because…the water was freezing and my shoes and socks were wet and it was hard to balance holding on to Colin, Ali and Johnny.

Illustrate a Word by

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Word Webs by

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Illustrate a Word by

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Sentence Writing by

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Maths Homework by

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ANZAC Homework by Cormac

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Postcard From the War by Preston

A letter home from Gallipoli

This sample shows...how much I can concentrate when I'm writing.


I have been learning to...circle the words that I'm not sure of. The words that I think are wrong and that I need to check the spelling.


One thing I think that I did well was...that I designed a really good authentic looking stamp.


One thing I think I can improve on is...circling the words that I need to check later as I am write.

Thinking About camp by Abdullah

The activity I enjoyed the most at camp was… the flying fox.

I enjoyed this because...I felt the butterflies in my stomach as I went down the wire and I felt the wind rushing into my face.

Something that was a challenge for me was…racing Cormac down the hill to tag Yea Rin.  We were doing a rescue race.  Yea Rin had to piggy back Sarah T. We won!

This was hard because…Cormac was very fast. 

Thinking About camp by Ali

The activity I enjoyed the most at camp was… riding the bikes.

I enjoyed this because I learnt how to ride a bike.  Before I went to camp I could not ride a bike. It was a bit scary learning to ride because when I went down the hill I thought I would crash!

Something that was a challenge for me was…crossing the river.

This was hard because…the water was moving fast over my legs and feet.  The water went inside my shoes and got my pants wet too.

Thinking About camp by Sarah T

The activity I enjoyed the most at camp was… the water slide 

I enjoyed this because it was so much fun going really fast
 down the water slide with BUBBLES.

Something that was a challenge for me was…doing the low ropes.

This was hard because…we had to get to the other
 side with out touching the ground and falling off the platform.

Thinking About camp by Kate

The activity I enjoyed the most at camp was…the water slide, going biking and abseiling were the best things about camp.

I enjoyed these because...if was fun going down the water slide really fast and I liked it when I jumped going down the rope when I was abseiling.

Something that was a challenge for me was…the archery

This was hard because…it was hard to get the arrow right on target and to pull the string back because it was so tight.