It was back at the end of term 3, and everyone attending Panmure Bridge School had to dance in front of a huge audience. Why did we do this? We did this as a representation of the 60 years that Panmure Bridge School has been running.
It all started in the beginning of term three when we started to practise a dance each. Nobody knew what we were doing this for, but we all went along with it. We were greeted by a women named Zoey. Zoey was going to teach us the dances, although most of the class was still confused as to what this was all about. All together, there were 6 dance groups. They were in order, Gangnum Style group, Single Ladies group, Party Rock group, Whip Nae Nae group, Dougie Group, and Harlem Shake group. Each group had a separate dance to learn, and they would perform those dances together.
Every week the students would have a lesson, and for every lesson they would learn more and more. This kept on happening until completely knowing the dance became a lot more important. At this point, all students would be using any bit of spare time to go over these dances. Then the costumes needed to be sorted out.
Each group had required costumes, excluding Harlem Shake group. Now student would be practising their dances in their costumes to make sure that what they're wearing would be suitable to dance in (Whether it's the correct size).
Thursday 23 November 2017
Wednesday 8 November 2017
I've got a bad feeling about this...
Learning Space 1 contributes Bad Feeling to the 2017 Manaiakalani Film Festival.
What would you do if you noticed the streets were empty on your way to school? What would you do if you saw one of your friends attacked by another student? Julian and Alex suffer this ordeal.
To make this movie, children in Learning Space 1 that had an idea for a movie wrote and submitted their narratives. The children or groups of children then had to submit a plan of the resources and actors needed. The best prepared group with the most movie-like narrative was selected to make their movie.
The learners in the successful group then took on the roles of actors, camera operator, director, and editor. Other roles that need to be acknowledged are Mr Johnston, Panmure Bridge School's principal, and the other children of Learning Space 1 taking the roles of crazed kids.
What would you do if you noticed the streets were empty on your way to school? What would you do if you saw one of your friends attacked by another student? Julian and Alex suffer this ordeal.
To make this movie, children in Learning Space 1 that had an idea for a movie wrote and submitted their narratives. The children or groups of children then had to submit a plan of the resources and actors needed. The best prepared group with the most movie-like narrative was selected to make their movie.
The learners in the successful group then took on the roles of actors, camera operator, director, and editor. Other roles that need to be acknowledged are Mr Johnston, Panmure Bridge School's principal, and the other children of Learning Space 1 taking the roles of crazed kids.
Friday 3 November 2017
Inquiry topic: Poetry.
In term three one of the topics for inquiry was poetry. For this topic the students had to learn about many different types of poetry such as a limerick, a haiku, a cinquain and a diamante. They were learning how to express emotions and feelings through text.
The students learnt about the differences between the poems, these are the differences between a cinqain and a haiku:
A cinqauin has a noun as the title. A cinqauin also has two adjectives on the first sentence, as well as three words that end with ing, a phrase, a synonym and it must have at least five sentences altogether. The haiku has none of these.
A haiku has to be three sentences long, each sentence has to have a certain amount of syllables. For example the first sentence must have five syllables, no more and no less for it to be an actual haiku. So for the second sentence you have to have seven syllables and for the third you once again have to have five. The haiku also usually has a seasonal reference. The cinqauin doesn't have any of those either.
Whilst learning about these different types of poetry some found that they were quite good at making the poems while others had some trouble, in the end everyone had had a go at making a poem. Many children had written at least one poem so they were tasked with publishing their best one onto their blog.
The students learnt about the differences between the poems, these are the differences between a cinqain and a haiku:
A cinqauin has a noun as the title. A cinqauin also has two adjectives on the first sentence, as well as three words that end with ing, a phrase, a synonym and it must have at least five sentences altogether. The haiku has none of these.
A haiku has to be three sentences long, each sentence has to have a certain amount of syllables. For example the first sentence must have five syllables, no more and no less for it to be an actual haiku. So for the second sentence you have to have seven syllables and for the third you once again have to have five. The haiku also usually has a seasonal reference. The cinqauin doesn't have any of those either.
Whilst learning about these different types of poetry some found that they were quite good at making the poems while others had some trouble, in the end everyone had had a go at making a poem. Many children had written at least one poem so they were tasked with publishing their best one onto their blog.
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