Monday, August 30, 2010

Dance



In Room 5 we begin every school day with some singing and action songs. The children are very enthusiastic and keen to participate. During the songs which involved sitting down, doing actions the children were almost busting out of their seams to get up and dance with their whole bodies. At the end of our session on Thursday I put a piece of modern indian music on and told the children that they could freestyle dance and every child in the room became fully involved in moving around the room in a variety of different ways. At different times in the session I would spotlight the way one person was dancing and ask everyone to dance that way. It was amazing watching the children move from around the room to that one person and copy their actions. The other thing that amazed me was that every single child was fully engaged in the activity, no one removed themselves from the action or stood and watched. At the end of the song I asked the children the question 'What is dancing?' and these were their replies...


Soft, drums, jumping, music, lip syncing, dance sitting, break dancing, singing, hip hop, crawling, jungle music, beautiful, funny body movements, floating, guitars/violins, ballerinas, ballet, cymbals, ribbons, dinosaurs, Kapa Haka, thumping, stomping, spinning, fast, patting, scarves, Jump Jam.


We then talked about what types of dancing would they like to learn and 5 areas were mentioned, Irish, ballet, ribbon, Hip hop and Rock and roll.


Beacause of their enthusiasm and interest we are going to embark on a journey of dance, if you know of any local experts who could come and share a dance or teach some dance to us please let me know.

Classroom Creatures

In Room 5 we have been making a variety of creatures to hang around our room, to brighten the place up. We have dinosaurs, parrots and piranhas lurking amongst our art work.




Tony-Ryan


Taylor


Quinn


Caitlin


Alex


Sunday, August 29, 2010

Monday, August 2, 2010

Hailey


Dylan

I am a transformer.

Alex


Tasman


Zoe


Lily


Quinn


Jessica

I went to Sabrinas and I had dinner. Sabrina played tag with me. We watched TV.

Taylor

I biked to school the other day. Mrs Fee was working at school. Mum and Dad and Lauren biked with me. There were other people coming to school too.

Finn

I have an electronic house. It is a robot. I control the house with a remote.

Sabrina

I like my balloon and it can float. Taylor and Jessica played with me.

Keira

I saw lots of balloons. The balloons looked like a rainbow.

Jeherson

I see a transformer bumble bee. I made it and painted it yellow. It can turn into a racing car.

Shawn

I made a Gomus at Dads work and it can roll. Gomus is a pretend steam engine made of wood. He has black wheels. Gomus has two friends, a tractor and a car.

Billy


Tony-Ryan


Jonty


Kody


Caitlin


Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Tasman

I am going on a unicorn to the North Pole.

Taylor

We are in jail because we were being mean. We can write on the walls.

Shawn

I see caterpillars on the swan plants.

Sabrina

I like monsters. They have big arms.

Jessica

I have a monster. It has claws and it is sad.

Jeherson

I have a monster toy and it has hair. It has feet and hands.