Room 5

Room 5  has  been  renovated  in  the  last  few  weeks.  We've  got  new  carpet, double  glased  windows, shades  and  snazzy  new  cupboards  that  turn  into  a  whiteboard  and  better  technology!

Kepler Birdsong Project

For the last few weeks we have been listening to bird calls then trying to identify them here are some of the bird calls we have identified.

Bellbird, Tui, Robin, Tom Tit, Fantail, Wood Pidgeon, Waxeye and Silver Eye.

There is lots of great information at the Kepler Restore website follow the link below too check it out.

http://kidsrestorethekepler.co.nz

Room Five's Visual Art

I decided to do a picture like Rita Angus because I like her form of detail.  And because it looks real.
By Lindsay.

For the last two weeks we have been drawing pictures similar to famous artists like Pablo Picasso, Rita Angus and Tracey Tawhiao because we have been studying art for our Masterpiece Unit.  We hope you enjoy our pictures.

Our New Classroom

Here are some photos of Room Five getting refurbished because it looks kind of shabby, compared to the other classrooms!!  We have moved into the hall and have settled in quite well.

Last Friday all of Te Anau School went to the hall and listened to a jazz band.  First we listened to them sing and play, then Lily, Millie, AJ and Jake got up and played the drums.  It was really fun.  They got a small crunchie....yum,yum.  For a while we listened to lots of cool instrumentts then a man sang us a song he wrote.  It was great!  It was sad to see it end but it was great because we are lwarning about the Masterpiece and it was a masterpiece.

Police dogs

This week on the 20th of June 2012 our school was lucky enough to get a visit from some police dogs.  The police men showed us some really cool tricks that their dogs could do.  There was a man volunteering to be bitten.  He was wearing a big red jacket that was full of padding.  He shot a fake gun and the dogs came running after him and they were biting him on the arm and dragging him on the ground.  We are lucky us kids didn't get bitten , we had a great afternoon with the police dogs.

Dance

For the past weeek we have been learning different types of dance like breakdancing, hip hop, highland, irish, canadian, japanese and many more.  We also came up with our own dances.  Here are some examples of the different types of dance we learnt about: (Click on the links to have a look)
Hip Hop
Canadian
Georgian Dance
Breakdancing
We hope you enjoy :-)