Production Practice

Here are some photos from our production practice with Room 1 today.
We are working really hard on making sure all our movements are in time with the music and each other.
Our first dress rehearsal is on Friday.
Thanks Tom S for being a fantastic photographer.

The frog king!

This term we have been doing the Button Box Production.We have the frog king with room 1.This is what it sounds like...
Far far away there was a spring, there was a frog and the frog was king, king of the pond and he would boast that he was ruler from coast to coast. His mighty words spread cross the land until they crossed over the sea salt strand. Into the kingdom blue and deep where whales swam and dolphins leap. There was a turtle brave and free, Said I  will go test this mystery ,he swam through rivers, lakes and fords so he could visit the great frog lord. and when at last he reach the spring there was the frog, there was the king ,"Bow down before me" the frog said. The turtle jumped in and the frog was dead.

In Room 9 we are dancers and also frogs, and a giant frog and turtle.
Our production is in week 9

By Tara and Fletcher

The Golden Bin

Room 9 has been working hard to make sure that we are recycling properly.
The class that recycles the best in each team wins the 'Golden Bin."
We are the best recyclers in our team for this week.

Redcliffs Last Day

Today is the last day that Redcliff's School is at Sumner.  On Tuesday they are starting at Van Asch.
So because they are leaving Room 9 invited Room 9 from Redcliff's to a farewell party. We organised food and we had did jump jam and had a dance off.

Here is a video of us doing jump jam.

Snow Day

For the last two days in Christchurch it has snowed, so we had Monday and Tuesday off school. Today we came back at 10am. There is still snow is Sumner. Miss Dippie let us go out in the snow and make a snowman.
Here are some photos of us playing the snow. Maybe you could suggest a name for our snowman or snow-woman.

Explanation Writing

For writing at the moment we are learning how to write explanations.
An explanation, explains how something is done or works.

Here is an example of an outstanding explanation about how cows make milk, by Ollie.
The words that are underlined are techinical words. You underline them when you are writing an explanation and then they are linked to the glossary.


How do cows turn grass into milk?
 First the cow eats 70kgs of grass a day.  The grass goes into the first two stomachs.
Then it is burped up as cud. The cud is chewed for one minute.
Next the cud  goes through the last two stomachs.  Now it becomes nutrients. It goes into the cows
bloodstream. 
It goes into the udders and becomes milk.

This is how cows make milk.

 

 

Well done Ollie. That was a great example of an explanation!

Tennis Lesson

On Wednesday we had our first tennis lesson with Lynn and Sarah.  We will get to have four lessons with them all together. The rest of the lessons are on Fridays.

We did some forhand shots. We were all pretty good at getting them over the net.
Sometimes we had to bounce the ball then hit it. That's what you do to serve.
Then Lynn and Sarah threw the ball to us and we had to hit it back.