Thursday 26 November 2015

Differentiation

There are many ways that we like to learn and many ways we like to show what we have been learning.

Over the last few weeks we have had opportunities to work on our figurative language through poetry. In truth we don't all yet understand what the term figurative language means yet, but we do know that it makes our writing sound better and there have been some beautiful examples of this published on student blogs lately.

We then got to choose how we wanted to present our work. We have to think about what works for us? How do we like to share? Here are some of the choices we've made:


Sophie is using code to programme her own animation!

There's a team who are creating models.

Lorenzo is has shared his skills in model building with the team

Hamish has written and produced an argument about who the best surfer is.

Ella has illustrated her poem using Storybird.

Asha is turning her poem into a piece of art work.
Joel has produced a video featuring his poem.

Monday 23 November 2015

Who knew poetry would be so popular!


Lorenzo is working hard publishing his poem using a Zentangle pattern
People are made of places. They carry with thembones, blood, anger and happiness. The sound of Lego Simpsons blocks clicking together.
How buildings are built by people that built them; like the smell of hot chocolates nice warm enjoyed by the people who built the buildings, or the almost-not-smell of houses in rows and concrete in lines, nature on grass and hills on farms and houses on farms; or the smell of factories that make lego, and the hot offices; or the smell of a cold lemon drink on a hot day, when I jump in a cold pool and cool down .
Where I come from, people carry places in their minds, acres of farm land on hills and grass; I drive places in the car on a hot day wanting a ice cream; an old and broken house, in need of paint, with cows going into the stockyards where cows circle about, mooing aimlessly; battered car in the field, behind which grass and daffodils grow.
by Lorenzo
Sharing ideas helped these boys develop some great pieces of poetry

People are made of places. They carry with them blood, bones and anger or the atmosphere of anger, sadness, joy and fear and how people run from them, like the smell of car gas, rubber, pant and smoke or the almost-not-smell of apples in the tree. Nature, the sheep eat green juicy grass. The trees swinging in the wide and the leaves blew off the tree and slowly fell down to ground. Like a Rock slips off a cliff and tumble to the ground; or the smell of chocolate factories maybe, small, lonely offices; or the smell of meat when we eat Barney’s ribs in town.
Where I come from, people carry places in their minds, acres of food; the smell of delicious cake cooking in the oven; the cottage, old, in need of paint, with a pen where hens and chickens circle about, clucking aimlessly; battered old utes behind which weeds grow.
by Conall

Monday 16 November 2015

Matinee

We have all been practising hard and now the show is about to happen! Tomorrow's Matinee (Tuesday 1pm) still has a few tickets left if you get in quick first thing tomorrow morning.

The evening shows, 7pm both Wednesday and Thursday, have sold out. All children who are playing a main part are to be at school by 6pm. Other students please arrive by 6.30pm and go straight to your classrooms (seniors to Library).
The show is scheduled to finish around 8.15pm and all students must have been collected by 8.30pm on these nights.

Thanks again and see you all at the show!

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Athletics

Well done to all the students who participated so well in yesterday's CCC Athletics. We are proud of everyone!

Thanks again to all the parents who came along and helped with supervision. The whole day ran smoothly because of your support.

Asha G nailing her quoits throw

Sophie flying over the long jump pit

Phoebe launching herself into the pit

Anika propelling herself through the air

"Look at my face! I bet her in that one." - Asha

Thank you to Andrew Stewart for the amazing photos!!

Sunday 1 November 2015

Black Out

Today we are all about the All Black's!!


Charlie has created a bar graph (for Statistics) showing who scored the most conversions at the RWC
Asha, Ella and Rachel are creating All Black's art works.
Foster and Joel are using their measurement skills to create art works depicting game play.

Conall and Winky have written a persuasive arguments in favour of this quote from Richie McCaw:

I agree with Richie Mccaw because he works really hard at rugby. If you don’t train really hard you will lose games. If you don’t practice passing you will drop the ball in a game and lose possession in rugby.
by Conall

I agree with Richie Mccaw because the amount of practice he does is not magic. He has been going to training with the All Blacks for 14 years so he wins turnovers and tackles +everything else.
by Winky