The value of the week was courage and we shared times in our lives when we have shown courage:
Darcy: I showed courage when I first started school. I felt a bit shy.
Blair: I showed courage to make good choices with my brother.
Aby: I showed courage when the dentist pulled my tooth out.
Sam: At the beginning I felt really scared to go into the native bush. It looked like a big black hole. But the I did it. I liked it and I felt really proud of myself.
Lily: Dad wanted me to go on the chairlift at Cadrona. I felt really scared because it looked so high. But I did it and I had a really great time.
Aroha: I always show courage to tell the truth.
Kaida: I showed courage on my first assembly when I had to talk.
Gabe: I showed courage when Niki and I went on a bush walk with my Dad. It was really dark in there.
Olive: I went on a moving chairlift in Rotorua. I was really scared to hop on while it was moving. Someone helped me and I did it and it was fun at the top.
Saxon: I showed courage when I went to see the ducklings.
Niki: I showed courage to go into the alpaca’s cage at Gabe’s.
Cameron: I showed courage when it was my first time trying a new food – spanakopita –
and I did it and it was really yummy. I also showed courage when I had my blood test.
Our inquiry this term is the question ‘How can we express ourselves through the arts?’
We made a series of self portraits showing our different emotions. Can you guess how we are feeling?
We sang and played “Blue is the Sea’. The sea has many moods which we tried to express in this song.
We had so much fun at Boat Day so we made paintings of the day. We tried to paint like the impressionist Claude Monet. He thought about light and dark and reflection. His paintings often looked better when we stood back from them because he used little brush strokes. We also wrote cinquain poems. This is where you count the syllables in each line and the pattern is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.
Boat Day
Black shiny tube
Bouncing on the water
I feel excited in my tube
Awesome!
By Blair
Boat Day
Small blue kayak
Riding the little wave
Happy and strong and really proud
Best day!
By Sam
Fun tubes
Black round circle
Spinning in the water
Fantastic fun in my fun tube
Big splash!
By Saxon
Big Boat
Yellow fast kayak
Paddling on the calm sea
Taking control of my yellow kayak
Waahooo!
By Aby
My boat
Small optimist
Sailing, turning in the breeze
I am the captain of my boat
Ahoy!
By Olive
Kayaks
Big fun kayak
Adventure on the sea
Nervous, excited, happy, proud
Magic!
By Lily
Boat Day
Fast red kayak
Paddling from side to side
So much fun circling and turning
Fun day!
By Kaida
Boat day
My boat is red
Floating, slicing through the sea
Having fun in my red kayak
Happy!
By Cameron
Fishing
Silver scales
Swimming in the water
I caught a fish on my fishing line
The best!
By Darcy
Boat Day
On the jetty
Fishing with my Daddy
First time fishing, my favourite
Love it!
By Aroha
Yellow Yacht
Sails flapping
Swishing, turning, blasting
I feel so great in the salty breeze
Fantastic!
By Nikora
Blue Boat
Fast kayak, bright blue
Floating, paddling, speeding
Happy, smiling in the kayak
Boat day
By Gabe
We had lots of fun experimenting with the rhythms in ‘Cockroach Sandwich in my lunch’.
What a great term of learning we’ve had!