Wednesday September 2nd

Art

For art we have been doing drawing. After looking into observational drawing we then moved onto cartoon drawings. First we practised doing several drawings using step by step tutorials where we added in a little piece of the picture at a time. We then had to choose a cartoon character and draw our own characters using our step by step guides. Check out our finished products!

Georgia, George and Cooper with their drawings.

Taylor, Esther and James with their cartoon characters.

Courtney, Maddie and Chloe with their finished pictures.

Julienne, Iara and Savannah with their pictures.

Bree, Nic and Tayden with their drawings.

Thursday August 27th

Busy Middle Room!

We have had a busy few days in the Middle Room. We have been working really hard on our speeches that we will be presenting next Thursday. Morning Programme this term has helped us a lot with our preparation for our speeches. Having a good pace, loud clear voices and eye contact are a few things we have been focusing on. In the Middle Room we are really great at giving feedback to our classmates about what we have done well and also things we can improve on. Today we had two visitors from the Rotary club who came to present the Year 4 and 5's with dictionaries. They have already proven to be very useful and we are looking forward to improving our dictionary skills.
We have also been busy with the Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme. Constable Rochelle Gordon has visited us several times to help us learn some important lessons. We have talked about different situations we may find ourselves in and how to say no if we are feeling uncomfortable. To help us with this we learnt 3 special rules:

Squawk- Say No! Stop that, I don't like that! Use a strong voice
Walk- Walk away from the situation quickly and staunchly.
Talk- Find an adult you trust to tell them what has happened.

For art we have been focusing on drawing. We first looked at observational drawing and now we have started looking into cartoon drawings. We found that the easiest way to draw our cartoons was to use step by step instructions. That means that we are only adding a small section of our drawings at a time. They are starting to come together nicely.

Check out some photos of a few things we have been up to in the Middle Room this week.

Julienne presenting her Morning Programme.

Taylor sharing her speech to the class.

Courtney sharing her Morning Programme.

Nic sharing his speech to the class.

Looking great in mufti raising money for Daffodil Day!

Working hard on our cartoon drawings.

Iara and George working through step by step with their drawings.

Nic getting ideas from the laptop for his cartoon character.

The Year 4's with their new dictionaries from Rotary.

George learning Mandarin with Ella.

Taylor, Chloe and Courtney helping Ella with a Mandarin song.