Ms Courtney's Class

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 Mollymoon and Lily

I made my dress by using chickens feathers and a dress and some earrings. We put the earring in my hair. I got my jewellery and put it on my foot and my neck.

Here are a few photos with our buddies from this morning. The students are learning valuable teaching skills and becoming excellent role models for the younger students.

Supporting the EY - Grade 1 Sports Day

Our Not a box designs Today we invited EY2 to visit Grade 2 to look at our Not a box. They had also been reading the book Not a Box by Antoinette Portis and created a giant pirate ship , they could fit most of their class into. All the students did an amazing job demonstrating the Learner Profile attributes of Communicators, Knowledgeable and Risk-Takers. The students were excellent role models for the younger students and can be very proud of their work.

Last Friday we concluded our first unit of the year with a healthy snack party. For homework students were asked to prepare a healthy snack to share with the class. The excitement surrounding the party was high and students enjoyed talking in front of the class what snack they made and why they had chose to make the different snack. After we had heard what all the snacks were, we enjoyed eating them together.