Winning Letter in "The Press"

It is so exciting, we "won" the winning letter in "The  Press". We are sad though that we "won" through the sadness of others. Our teacher put it in a week ago.  She looked every day and then thought "Oh, well, they are not going to print it." Then on Friday, there it was.  She is so proud of us all.  She wanted to text all her friends at 5am in the morning, when she read it but had to wait until they were out of bed.

It was so nice to have it printed the day after the very sad day when the service was held for the miners.  We all had two minutes silence to remember them.  This is the page it was on and you can see the cartoon on one of our other Pike River Coal Mine blogs. 

We have been thinking of what we look like when we and others express themselves.  Here are some ideas.

Sculpture

Our teacher went to Sydney and saw how people can express themselves through sculpture. There was a huge exhibition at Bondi Beach of sculpture in the sand. 400,000 people had seen it. There were all different kinds, made out of wood, metal, platinum, rock, stones, rope and glass.  Here are some pictures.

Expressing Ourselves.

We have been learning about how to express ourselves and we have been doing some art work to show how we can do this.

Our Poems

We have been expressing ourselves by writing poems. We have displayed them on our wall.

Poetry

We have been expressing ourselves through writing poetry.  We intended to learn about the structure of poems, starting each sentence with an upper case letter, publishing our work neatly and expressing our own special thoughts and ideas.  We have done this.

Inquiry Express Yourself

We have been working on ways and thinking about how we express ourselves.  We added to our Hyerles Thinking Map.  The black writing are some of our ideas at the beginning and our red writing is at the end of the inquiry.

Symphony Orchestra

When we heard the Orchestra, we listened to this music. I liked at the end when there were the streamers.  I liked the Typewriter music and the last music about the bear.

Expressing Ourselves.

Yesterday we went to see the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, at the Town Hall, it was all about Time. We listened to music that had "time" in it.

Expressing Ourselves

More strange people, how and why are they expressing themselves????

Express Yourself

Who is this person and what are they doing?????

Inquiry Express Yourself

We have been thinking about how people express themselves. In Circle Time we thought of good ways and bad ways to do this.

Skool stars

We have been expressing ourselves through music and dance as part of our Inquiry Learning of Expressing Ourselves.  We have been doing skool stars and we will be able to see ourselves on a DVD at our Learning Celebration.

Expressing Ourselves

We have been Expressing Ourselves through our art work. We made pictures of some feelings and thoughts that we sometimes have.

Our Poems

We have been learning how to write poems.

We will know we have done this when we have done the following:

Followed the structure
Started each sentence on a new line
Used puncuation correctly
Expressed thoughts and ideas that are special to me

Here are some of our poems.

Courtney
It means great and pretty
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It is like a beautiful flower
We went roller blading
My gran
My gran showed me how to knit
2 weeks ago when I stayed the night
Courtney
I will never give up

Sophie
It means honest speedy and bright
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It is like a river
It is going to Hamner
It is the memory of my pet puppy
When we bought her
Sophie
It means I believe in doing my best and never giving up

Milly
It means delightful playful and glad
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It is like luscious ripe grapes
It is going to Australia
It is a memory off my step brother
Mum and Dad taught me to walk
9 years ago
Milly
It means all my lovely family

Dathan
It means joyful, brave honest
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It is a river with crocodiles sand snakes
It is going camping
Its a memory of my Nana
Who taught me to be honest
When she was alive
Dathan
It means to never quit

Express Yourself

As part of our Inquiry, on Express Yourself,  we have been learning how to express how we feel.  We had to close our eyes and then think of something that made us feel angry, feel happy and feel disappointed.  You can tell from our faces how we were feeling.

Name Poems

We have been expressing ourselves through writing poetry. We have been writing name poems about ourselves or other people. We had to remember to follow the structure, use adjectives, put upper case letters at the start of the line and make it neat so people could read it.  It also had to make sense. 

Rhythm Interactive

Here is some more of the Rhythm Interactive.  We really loved doing this.

Kapa Haka

This is Robyn taking Kapa Haka. 

Calendars.

We have been expressing ourselves by making calendars.  We had a choice of  how we could do this.  We will have these calendars on display for you to come and see them. You can get a calendar made from our pictures.