DAYS OF OUR LIVES

Hello and Welcome to another instalment of our blog.

This week we have been doing dance photos. We found dance photos on the internet and printed our favourite one. We then made a border for it and wrote a question about the dance in the picture. They are all displayed around the classroom and they look awesome.

As usual, our noses are being kept to the grindstone with the love-it-or-loathe-it STAGE CHALLENGE. Thankfully, most people seem to be closer to the love it end of the spectrum.

In the dance side of it we have been practising like mad and we have two sections of dance. Pagan comes in once or twice a week to help us.

On the production side of Stage Challenge, we are doing things varying from designing the costumes to stalking the dancers with video cameras. The costumes are baggy white T-shirts with black trackies for the boys and black leggings for the girls.

By Hannah and Asia.

POETRY

This term we have been learning about poetic writing. We have been practising our use of figurative language (personification, simile and metaphor) to make our description more interesting.

This week we wrote some poems that compared being confident with being self-conscious. This helped us to think about how we will need to mentally prepare ourselves for Stage Challenge.

Here are two of the poems:

We were learning about personification, how it gives human abilities to some things that are not human.

‘The tree waved its arms in the wind.’

But trees don’t have arms, they have branches and that’s why we use personification to make our writing more interesting.

We have also learned that similes and metaphors make writing more interesting.

‘Jay’s hair is as curly as the roaring ocean.’

This is a simile for it has an ‘as’ in it but you can also use ‘like’ to compare different things.

Metaphors use ‘is’ to leave a vivid impression on the reader.

‘Her hair is black silk.’

Thank you for taking the time to read what we have been writing about recently.

By Jan and Alex

Back To School

We’ve just done a statistics test this week to see if we have improved since our last statistics test (from the beginning of the year). We have also done our first measurement test, as this will be our focus for this term.

This term our main focus is Stage Challenge. We have been working with Pagen to make a dance about technology.

We went to the Museum of City and Sea. We went to look at a pottery exhibition. It had different types of pots, from big to small, plain to colourful and old to new. Then we went to a work shop to make a sushi plate. It was very fun though some of the pottery was hard to make. Unfortunately, some people were not allowed to come because they hadn’t brung a water proof jacket.

By Jono and Keegan