Our Shared Poetry Writing

This dance
 the
   always
      movement
exploding from the dancers bodies.
Twirling,
twisting,
tip toeing
tap,
tap,
tap.
Leaping,
   skipping,
       moving all around.
Pointed toes,
bent legs, straight legs,
pirouettes.
Jumping up and
going into a
spiral, swirly,
koru.

By Room 16

Is Good For You Good For Me?

Welcome to Term 3!
This term we are looking at the question: Is Good For You Good For Me? We are going to use the Arts-dance, visual art, drama and music to inform children of their rights. We will also be exploring questions around fair/unfair, citizenship and social justice.
To start us off, we looked at Picasso's Guernica and discovered a whole story we thought he wanted to tell about the horror of war, and that he told without any words. We examined the United Nations Rights of the Child, and decided we wanted to represent each Right in a picture form and put the together to make a mural, like Guernica, across our classroom.
Here are our fantastic results:

Every child should have water by Eloise and Jackson

Every child should have food by Dom and Anton

Every child should have a home by Abbey and Emily

Every child deserves a happy life by Madison and Letiara

Every child has the right to an education by Serena and Coco

Every child has the right to play by Caitlin and Dryden

Every child needs love and care by Johnson and Georgia

No child should be exploited through work by Phoebe and Michelle

No child should fight in a war by Isla and Timothy

No child should be held back by a disability by Richie and Aurora

Every child has the right to an identity by Finn and Lilith

Every child has the right to free expression by Adam

The rights are all summed up in the final one: Every child deserves a happy life.
The pictures all join up along our classroom wall to make a colourful mural. We would love you to come and see them.

Do you agree with all these Rights? Do you think all children in the world know about them? Do you think all adults in the world know about them?

The Poi Dance

Here is the poi dance that the dance group showed at the Exposition. See if you can spot: steam rising from Rotorua, beaches, the Sky Tower, planes bringing visitors to New Zealand and Eden Park. Great choreography dance group!

Room 15's Amazing Stop Motion Movie

We loved this!

Exposition of Welcomes

Here we are waiting patiently for our exposition to start. The hall looked fabulous.

Caitlin and Finn did a wonderful job welcoming everyone with our speech about what we had been learning. They spoke very clearly and with lots of expression.

David Shearer, our local MP, came to see all the fantastic work.

The brochures looked great and were full of very useful information. Well done brochure group.

The baking was very popular! Well done bakers.

The mural group did a wonderful job explaining their ideas to our guests, and their art was beautiful. Well done artists.

The dance group did very well too, even coping with some tangled poi!The video of their dance was watched by lots of people.
Well done everyone, I am very proud of your hard work and how much you have learnt about belonging and welcoming.

Still Getting Ready....

We have been making poi ready for the dance group to perform on Friday. Rosie managed to plait her cord by using her toe as a holder!

Luckily we had Jennie to help because the plaiting was actually quite hard. The poi look amazing though.

Today has been a baking day, ANZAC biscuits and dulce de leche biscuits. More baking tomorrow when we make the lamingtons and cupcakes. We have had fun making them and are very grateful to Janine, Jill, Jennie and Sophie for coming and helping us. You will be able to taste all our delicious treats on Friday when you come to the Exposition of Welcomes. See you there.

Getting ready for the Exposition

We are very nearly ready to share our amazing ideas for how to welcome visitors to New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup. It would be fantastic to see you all in the Hall on Friday at 9.30am. We hope you can make it!