Week 4

STRETCH
At the end of week 3, we had our first session of STRETCH.   The Year 5&6 group split up in to 4 groups to experience a wide range of activities.  They are:
Cooking - One group made lollyslice and the other group learned how to make 'chocolate surprise muffins'.   The surprise was gooey, melted caramel.
Sports - We played soccer.  The teams were evenly matched and we had really great goal keepers.  The final score was 2:2.  Next time we will be playing a different sport - it might be rugby, touch or netball.
Art - we are designing a stained glass window  and we also learned how to make music with our bodies.  We performed 'We will rock you' in front of our 'home' class.
Digital Design - we use Befunky to upgrade our camp photos.  Next time we will be taking photos of students in STRETCH then using Befunky to add detail to them.

ORIENTEERING
This was our ultimate test to see how fast, and accurate, we could complete the four school maps.  We can't wait to see who Mrs Croll will be choosing to represent our class in the inter-school orienteering tournament.

STU DUVAL
The amazing Stu Duval visited our school on Wednesday.  We were entertained with his story called Flax Cross.    It was about a person (Red McCallistar) who was trying to get out of jail, even though he was innocent.  He got out of jail by going on a seven day voyage, from Australia to New Zealand, as a potato boy, on a boat called Moana.   When he went looking for Sarah, Scree's niece (Scree's the evil guy in the story), he found a different Sarah who was 99 years old and was married to seven husbands!  There's a lot more to this story, but we can't fit in all in here.  Stu is a is a humorous story-teller who constantly made us laugh with his many character voices and fabulous illustration, which he drew while he was narrating the story.

Orienteering - Week 3

This week at orienteering, we did the whole school.  It was challenging, but fun.   We had to use 4 different maps - that was 12 controls altogether.    Mrs Croll is looking for the best 12 students to represent Room 19 in the interschool orienteering challenge in week 6.

Disco Dancing

Today we learned to do a 'disco' dance. We had to dance with a partner (girl and boy). Some of us didn't like doing this. Some thought it was okay. We had to do the disco pose - that's one hand on our hip and one in the air. We also had to hold hands with our partner and step around in a clockwise direction. Another move was to do the 'scissors' across our eyes. Also, we had to roll our hands while we stepped around in a circle. After dancing with our partners we all ran into the bathroom to wash our hands - well some of the girls did!
                

Orienteering

It's our second week of orienteering.   We did the second half of the course - around the buildings.  Last week we did the fields.  Next week we will be covering the whole school.   Shane and Jack are the adults who are helping us to learn about orienteering.  We have to read map (finding north first), then where our first control (that's the marker).   After that we get ready to go and sprint to our destination.

So far, Charlotte is our champion.  Who will it be next week?

The Pop Dance

Today we met Kate from the Footstep dance company.   She taught us a dance called 'Pop'.   Some of the moves were 'diving under the waves', 'slicing the watermelon' and 'bouncing the basket ball'.   A few of the moves were really hard to do so we had to keep practising them. Turning the right way around and keeping in time with the music was a challenge.  We are going to be learning eight different dances this term. It will be a lot of fun.... and hard work!