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ARTS WEEK

Last week, it was week 7 and…. ARTS WEEK! In week 7 we did multiple

things that got to do with art. This included, Dance, Drama, Music and

Visual Arts. We had an art rotation where the year 6 teachers covered an

area of art and each class would do fun activities with that specific teacher.

Mrs Swan and Mrs Cometti did Dance whilst Mr Mac and Mrs Lewis

covered Drama. Each teacher did different activities with us, children.

Mrs Swan did Sport related 8 beat dances, by making sport actions into

dance movements.

Mrs Cometti taught how to make a verb/noun into a dance movement.

She also taught us not to touch other people whilst dancing. We learned

this by playing a fun game called ‘City Square.’

With Mr Mac we played Family Portraits and made short plays to share

with the class.

Mrs Lewis’s activities included, how to act like an object, A fun short

little red riding hood play and making funny advertisements and

performing them in front of the class.

And to make it even better, on Friday we had mufti day. We could dress up

as anyone who had something to do with art. People dressed up as the

Mona Lisa, Painters, Mimes, Dancers, Fashion Designers and more!

Mrs Swan dressed up as her favourite singer named Madonna.

Overall, Room 7 absolutely enjoyed arts week. We can’t wait for the

art exhibition coming up! We will be presenting…. Wonderful Wired Critters………………

From the best class in the school ! :)

BY: Karthiga + Jasmine

Buddhist Temple

Room 7 went off with the

year 5’s and 6’s to

the Buddhist temple,

here’s what happened:

Firstly we  were placed into four separate

groups, 1, 2, 3 and 4. We were introduced to

the temple’s people and staff, then we went to

the wishing bell and learnt how to make a wish

with it. There was a long line to have your wish,

but it wasn’t too long of a wait.

                                                      

Secondly we huddled inside a small room.

Then the staff taught us how to hold an ink brush

and gave us a piece of paper with chinese

characters to trace over. It was a really hard grip.

Most children struggled, some of us just gave up.

After we were finished we picked up our papers

and headed to our next activity.

We walked over to another part of the temple,

before we entered we had each been each given

a flower to put in a little area with all the other flowers.

We scurried into the room and watched a video about

a prince riding on a white horse. We then wrote a wish

on a  piece of paper which was shaped as a leaf,

cloud or flower. We then each got a pin and stuck it

onto the wall.

After we were all outside in a group we learnt how to

bath the buddha. Firstly we poured water over the

right shoulder, then the left. Finally the back,

whilst doing so we were saying the 3gs and 4gs.

After we walked up a few steps and had a small break.

We each got biscuits and small cup of water to

wash it down. While we were enjoying our food

we got a tattoo which said one of the 3gs  4gs in

action

Once we had finished we scrambled inside

a few policemen came to talk to us. We got to

ask questions about what they carried around with

them on the job. One of the kids asked if they could

get handcuffed and the police replied with, “alright.”

After he got handcuffed we had to exit. It was sad to

leave but we all had a great time, we each got a horse

charm to remember the special moments we had there.

By Shreyas, Shayden, Zoe and Tony.

Adventures of Room 7

Welcome to the wonderful Room 7, where everything is fun and exciting! Oh, don’t worry parents we still do lots of learning! So for the past 6 weeks we have done lots of action packed activities. There’s been Yr 6 camp and the Year 5’s have been to EOTC. The Yr 6’s have had so much fun at Lakewood Lodge which was down at Huntly. We did some horse games, archery, Survival, the flying fox, climbing wall, kayaking, an intense game of tug of war, the mud run, there was literally tadpoles swimming in the murky water and much more! Some of us face our fears but we all had such a great time… and so did the Year 5’s! The Year 5’s had a great time at Eastern Beach. They did some kayaking and there was a lot of crashing waves! They made bubbling pikelets, fun paddling games, awesome raft building, tent pitching and…..(drum roll please) a scavenger hunt!  Tree adventures, they had lots of courses where they each had to wear harnesses and helmets. The obstacles were made out of wood, metals and rope. They had ziplines and other fun stuff too! They had to also had played Frisbee Golf which is kind of like mini golf but we use a frisbee instead. But most importantly, we all survived…. Well most of them…

But we had just as fun at school we have created some awesome Picasso Paintings we used pastel and paint and they turned out amazing! We are reading the book, ‘Wonder’ and are learning about how each of us are unique. We have also created this artwork which shows our personality. We have sooo much more adventures to tell but we don’t have enough time. Until next time!

Adios!

By: Karthiga and Zoe