Our Favourite Performers

This week, week 4, we presented our Home Learning Tasks to the class. We had to research a favourite performer. Our work was amazing and we all learned a lot about different performers. Some of us were even brave enough to sing a little bit too! Our favourite performers are.........

Bruno Mars

Katy Perry

The Wiggles

Ed Sheeran

John Legend

Jamie McDell

Tim Berling from Avicii

Justin Bieber

Selina Gomez

Michael Jackson

Kesha

Mr Bean

Parris Goebel

Austin Moon

Margot Robbie

I am a Performer

In our Inquiry we are discovering what it is like to perform with a recorder, a ukelele and our voices!

Keeping our recorders warm so they sound good!

Put your thumb on the thumb hole at the back and your fist finger on the first hole at the front.
remember to use your left hand.

Squeeze tightly so you cover the holes!

Right hands at the bottom. Breathe gently into the mouthpiece and there we are a beautiful note!

What do you know about the recorder?

It has a hole in the back called a thumb hole- Kowhai

It has a mouth piece - Frankie

Holes at the front- Augustine

It makes music- Aliana

The bottom of the recorder makes a sound- James

The bottom is called the foot- Kowhai

There”s a head - James

You use your pincer fingers on the foot- Raymond

What we know now:

The recorder is a really old instrument- Frankie

They used to be made out of bones- Isaac

Recognised instrument around the world- Ryan

There are many different types of recorder- Raymond

Henry the 8th had a huge collection of recorders- Frankie

Children learn the recorder- Aliana

Recorders are popular- Leilani

Recorders have been around since cavemen- Keryn

Recorder makes lots of different music- Aliana

Recorders can make noises- Augustine

Right hand to strum, left hand to make the note.

Have a try!

Beautiful!

Sunflowers!

This week we used a text about a sunflower in shared reading. (Shared Reading is when we all read the same story, sometimes together, sometimes in groups. This helps us develop our reading fluency and helps us support each other to read.)

At the end of the week we planted sunflowers.

First we made a name tag for our sunflower so we know who each one belongs to.

We chose a seed and popped it into the dirt.

Then we got some potting mix into a plant pot.

We made a little hole for the seed,  about
12 mm deep.

Time to put the name tag in our pot.

All done, time for the sunflowers to have a sit in the sun and start to grow.
Check back in about 2 weeks time, our sunflowers should be starting to grow.

Week 2 Learning

This week we started the Run, Jump,Throw programme, which teaches athletic skills. We started off learning skills for running.

Practising what we have learned.

Getting our arms ready.

Playing a game to practise our running skills.

Then there was our Inquiry
I am a performer!
This time we had a go at playing a stringed instrument. This instrument is a viola. 

We think it might take a bit of practice before we are ready to perform!

Run, Run, as Fast as You Can!

Beat and rhythm and gingerbread men finished off our first week of the term.!