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.

We went to Moo Moo Farms to learn how cows get milked. There was a tour guide named Mr Kenneth. - Jasmene  First, we went on the bus and the bus driver drove the bus to Moo Moo Farms. When we arrived there we had to listen to the man and we were not allowed to touch anything. - Vathanak Next, Mr Kenny told us things about the farm. Then he led us into the farm. - Josiah The guide took us to see the female cows that were eating corn, grains and wheat. After that we went to the baby cows, they were eating grains. There was nine of them eight of the baby cows were male and one of them was a girl. - Tashi After we went to see how they milk the dairy cows. - Eliza There were these tubes they put on the cows teats and the tubes suck the milk. Mr Kenny said that when the cow have their calf they could produce milk. he even told us that cows love grains. - Nicole The milk is from the mum because the mum has mil for her baby. The calves love milk like babies ...

We are lucky enough to eat every day so we had a hunger lunch to help us think about what it might mean to be in a group of people who don’t get enough nutritious food. Through random selection (choosing coloured blocks) students were put in groups to represent three different income groups of the world’s population. High Income – 9 students ate pizza, crisps and chocolates. Middle Income – 15 students had chicken fried rice and had water from their own bottles. Low Income – 26 students had plain rice and had to travel for their water. The student reflections were powerful and provoked some excellent discussion. Below are some comments and behaviours we witnessed during the provocation; High Income Group – comments "Best day ever" "I can't eat this but I'll take it home" "Ha ha...we have pizza and you don't" "No you can't have any...its ours, we got the red cards!" "Do you want...

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.

G2 Art-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: G2 Art- 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 Josiah, Giulia and Jasmene

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

The Hobbit Today I was Bilbo Baggins from the Hobbit. At first it was pretty hard. I made a Sword out of cardboard with Tinfoil on top. The Sword broke. I FINALLY found good  clothes and a Sword.

We started looking at our next unit of inquiry this afternoon. Six teachers brought three artefacts that represent something about them to school and the students had to guess which artefacts belonged to each teacher and why. The students demonstrated some excellent thinking and reasoning skills trying to guess which table belonged to each teacher. Can you guess which teacher the artefacts belong to?  The teachers are Ms Anita, Ms Karyn, Ms Tatiana, Ms Leigh, Ms Dana and Ms Courtney.  Table 1 Student guesses:  Ms Anita - she always dresses up - Yi Lei Ms Leigh - because she is the music teacher and the ear muffs are headphones - Nicole Teacher 2 Student guesses:  Ms Courtney- I think the sweater fits her son. - Eliza Ms Anita - because I know that Ms Anita has a son - Xander Table 3 Student guesses:  Ms Tatiana - She's wearing the same clothes - Josiah Ms Courtney - because she wears skirts everyday - Jasmene ...