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!

Thinking About camp by Sarah D

Something that I enjoyed at camp was the water slide and the archery, the abseiling and the flying fox!
The reason I enjoyed these things is because they were challenging activities and when I did them I felt proud of myself.

Something that was hard at camp was the bike ride because I was worried about falling off going down the hill going too fast because the brakes were stiff on my bike.

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Island Story by Sarah D

I was on myway to meet my family on a ship.  It washuge.  It had a ballroom and a pool atennis court, fancy places to eat and much more.  That night a dangerous storm struck and thecaptain woke me up.” It is no longer safe on this ship, he said.  “Hop into a lifeboat.  You can take ten belongings.  Quickly I gathered a torch, a new set ofclothes, a cell phone, a pad of paper and some pens, a sleeping bag, twobottles of water, a first aid kit, a map, some food a pocket knife and put themin a big bag.  

Then I ran tothe life boat.  I was the first oneon.  A few other people were about to getin as well when the men accidently dropped the life boat!  I was on my own in the middle of the sea inthe middle of the night!  Next morning Iwoke up very early to find the boat had gently stopped because it had bumpedinto something.  I got out and in frontof me was a small island.

I exploredit.  I slept in an empty cave Ifound.  And built a dam in a river,   

to collect drinkingwater, so I could drink from one side and wash in the other.  Next to the river were berries to eat andthere were also fish I caught and coconuts. I made tools with flax, shell and stone for cooking and diggingwith.  I survived   and lived on this island (which I called Nature Island)for half a year before a man called Harris tuned up and tried to take over theisland.

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