Ms Courtney's Class

Students used their knowledge of the elements of music from their last unit and applied them to movement.  They chose a song and style of dance that they liked and tried to show a variety of movements that fit the music.

Student explored the elements of music, such as tempo, pitch, dynamics and duration, to create a piece of music that would allow the audience to have an idea, feeling or story.  They started to work on this individually and later some students chose to work collaboratively.  Here is their final composition.

Art- G2-Unit 2- Nature and Architecture We observed shapes in architecture and shapes in nature.  We investigated the functions (purposes) of nature and architecture.  We used our imaginations and feedback from friends or family to draw and build architecture inspired by nature.  Here is my artwork: Art- G2- Unit 3- Finding and Making Meaning in Abstract Art We found shapes, colors and lines in abstract artworks.  We discussed our experiences and emotions connected to the colors, lines and shapes.  We used this to guess the meaning of abstract artworks.  We sorted abstract artworks to explore how some are “a little abstract, very abstract or not abstract”.  We also made abstract artworks about ourselves for others to interpret.

Reader's Theatre by Eliza, Alex, Taylor, Alicia, Maly

Today students spent time using craft sticks to create groups of numbers. This is part of developing their understanding of the concept of multiplication. 3 groups of 10 is 30 15 groups of 2 is 30 5 groups of 5 is 25 5 groups of 5 is 25 9 groups of 3 is 27 5 groups of 6 is 30 6 groups of 4 is 24 10 groups of 5 is 50 7 groups of 4 is 28 5 groups of 10 is 50 2 groups of 6 is 12 5 groups of 3 is 15 4 groups of 8 is 32 24 groups of 4 is 96 3 groups of 9 is 27 16 groups of 2 is 32 4 groups of 11 is 44 20 groups of 4 is 80 4 groups of 100 is 400 100 groups of 1 is 100 15 groups of 2 is 30

Last Friday afternoon we were very lucky. Tara, Ben's Mum, came to play the cello to us. She spoke to us about the cello, the different sounds it can make and what inspired her learn to play the it. What we learnt: " I learnt that bow is made out of horse hair ". George "  I listened to her and she said that 800 years ago there wasn't any cars. There were horses so that is why the bow is made from horse hair ". Alex " I learnt that the cello is made out of wood ". Nicole " I remember she said that you use rosin to help make the sound louder, the wax sticks to the strings ". Taylor " I learnt that the cello is very old ". Joshua " I learnt that on a aeroplane a cello must have its own seat "! Eliza " She said she started with a violin but she moved on to a cello, she changed because she liked the sound of a cello when she was playing in an orchestra" . Jodie Today James, Ms Anita's husband, ...