Speeches

This term we are writing and presenting a speech. Lynda from PowerTalk international came to talk with us about what makes an effective speech and she gave us some things to work towards. Lynda said it was important to focus on Pitch, Pace, Pause and Projection.

Maui and matau!

Catriana taught us a new game and it invloves a huge amount of concerntration and team work. You have to hold onto a rakau with two hands and when you are given a direction you have to move to the left or right and take your partners stick without it dropping. It is an awesome game.

Invention and design.

This term we are focusing on invention and design. Today we had to look at a range of inventions between 1280-1891 and try to place the inventions on the timeline. It was actually quite challenging and we got a few surprises!

Teamwork!

This term during our sessions with Jane, we will be working on teamwork. We were awesome at this today and we worked well together to do lots of challenges with the parachute.

Gesture drawing

This term for visual art we are looking at sculpture and construction. We are going to be creating tin foil sculptures based on our gesture drawings. We have started to look at gesture drawing this week.