Arts Alive Performance

On Monday the 20th of September, Syndicate 2 did an Arts Alive performance.

First Room 6 did an interesting dance all about magic playdough. When the kids were not looking it would jump off the big table.

Then room 5 went and did a cool play about The Three Little Pigs.

Last was our class, Room 4, we did two ribbon dances. Our first dance was not that good. Our next dance was really good, it looked amazing. We did lots of circles and moving with our ribbons and bodies.

By Waima and Laura

The Christchurch Earthquake

We have been learning about the BIG earthquake that happened in Christchurch over the weekend.

Christchurch is in the South Island of New Zealand. Rachel comes from Nelson in the South Island and she lived in Christchurch while she learned to be a teacher about 10 years ago.

We used this page from Kiwi Kids News to learn more about it. It has videos from the TV news and information about Earthquakes in it.

We pretended we were Newspaper Reporters and wrote some quick reports about the earthquake. Have a read...

The Christchurch Earthquake

On Saturday in Christchurch before 4:30am there was an earthquake. There was no water or power. Everything in their houses was falling down. After the earthquake there was cracks in the ground. There were heaps of workers fixing the road.

By Jack B

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The Christchurch Earthquake

On Saturday 4th of September just before 4:30am there was an earthquake in Christchurch. There was no water and no power. Some of the buildings fell down. On the news some kids were playing in the big cracks in the roads.

By Aidan

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The Christchurch Earthquake

On the 4th of September on Saturday there was a big warthquake. It was in Christchurch. The time was 4:30 in the morning. There was a flood too. There was no power and no water. Some cars got crashed by some buildings and metal. The road got wrecked by the earthquake A whole lot of people's homes got destroyed. The police helped to get people out of their houses. The fire brigade also helped get everyone out safely.

By Waima

CLICK HERE FOR A GREAT VIDEO ABOUT EARTHQUAKES

See the video below for what it was like in Noel Leemings in Christchurch during the earthquake:

Ka Kite Winter

Ka Kite (Goodbye) Winter!

Ka Kite warm hot chocolate (Laura)
Ka Kite cold weather (Jaidyn)
Ka Kite bad storms (Caleb)
And freezing dangerous wind (Waima)

Haere Ra fun playing inside (Ryan)
Haere Ra mud all around (Cory)
Haere ra hot fires (Natasha)
And fun cool games (Tauryn)

Kia Ora tweeting, singing birds (Emily)
Kia Ora beautiful butterflies (Campbell)
Kia Ora baby lambs and bugs (Selena)
And buzzing bees (Jack B)

Haere Mai bright leaves (Shardia)
Haere Mai extraordinary, happy flowers (Aidan)
Haere Mai growing grass (James)
And blossom trees starting to grow (Emily)

WALT use adjectives in our poetry to make it interesting.


We decided upon the following success criteria as a class. If we do these things it will make sure our poems are interesting.

• use one adjective to describe the 'thing' per line of poem
• don't use the same adjective twice.
  
  

Check out this video to learn more about adjectives:

• An adjective can make our poems interesting - Jack B.
• An adjective is a describing word - Ryan
• An adjective describes a thing "noun" - Laura & Tauryn
• Using adjectives adds more detail - Cory

Arts Alive Inquiry: The Musician

On Monday a musician named Steve came to our school. He came because we are learning about The Arts and he knows lots about music.

Steve played a song for us on his guitar and harmonica. He came after lunch for us to interview him. We wanted to learn about music and why he likes music. We wrote some questions to ask him. Here are some of them:

• What is it like being a musician?
• How many times a week do you practice your music?
• Who writes the lyrics to your songs?
• What is fun that you like about music?
• What type of music do you like the best?
• When did you start playing music?

Steve said he like the blues the best. The blues are songs that people wrote saying how they felt - Campbell & Lexie

Steve also said he practiced on the guitar every day - Laura

Steve thought it was fun being a musician. The hard part about being a musician was when he missed home - Ryan & Aidan

Sometimes his friends write some lyrics and sometimes Steve writes them by himself - Tauryn

Sometimes Steve gets music off the computer to practise with - Cory

It was fun when he played the guitar - James


I liked when he played the guitar because I want to get a guitar - Jack B.


Listen in the below video to Steve singing one of Room 4's favourite songs - Shadow Dance