Operetta

Our item in the operetta was all about how greed for money can destroy the environment.

Countdown to the operetta

Next week is the operetta! 

It's called Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

Room 13 and Room 16 are practising hard to perfect our item for the operetta.
We are  putting the finishing touches to our costumes and the actions to our songs.
We are learning our words and remembering to make BIG actions.
We are learning  to be dramatic and wow the audience.

Here are the garden nymphs

Some car drivers preparing to start their engines.

Musicians and Property Developers

We wanna be billionaires!

We hope all our families can come and see the operetta.

Cross countryYear Two girls ready to start their run.

Today was the cross country.

We had a wonderful time and the children in our class did really well.

We came first and third in the Year two boys. Congratulations Lukman and Noah.

 We came second and fourth in the Year two girls.
Congratulations Maria and Hinerau.

Year two girls ready to start their run.

Artists

Look at our latest still life drawing ...

A chilly start to Term 3

We have a new teacher in our class this term. 

Her name is Mrs McNaughton. 

The children call her Mrs M.

For the first three weeks of this term she will come in on Thursdays and Fridays. 

After that she will be with us every day for seven weeks.

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It's been frosty in the mornings. We wrote a poem about winter:





We looked at frost and snow particles up close and decided to make some.

Here are close ups of frost crystals

Here are our drawings of them

Next we got some Room 10 children to come and show us how to fold paper to cut out frost shapes.

First you fold a square into a triangle....

Then you fold it again.....

Its important to be accurate in the folding.

Voila!

Author Visit

We had a visit from a children's writer.

Her name is Talia Evered

She is a wonderful story teller. 
Room 16 joined us to listen to her talk about writing.

Here are some photos of her reading us some of her books.

Talia puts a lot of expression into her storytelling. 
She reminded us that we are all writers and that anyone can write exciting stories.
They just need to catch their ideas and write them down quickly before they forget them.

Still life drawing

We are learning to sketch objects using shading. 

We make our sketch pencil whisper, talk and shout to help our drawings look 3 dimensional.