Nature Diary 2015

          

   

At Selwyn House School we do Nature Diary which is where we draw still live, like flowers and veggies but 3D shapes. From Year 3 to Year 6 we draw what we see on our subject. We have observed nature like apple, daffodils and kiwi fruit.

In a special assembly they give out prizes for Nature Diary. At the moment Year 4 have a teacher called Mrs Dann.

We always do nature and it is pretty obvious because it is in the title Nature Diary. The diary part means we draw the observation in a book. 

In Nature Diary we draw what we see on our subject and then we write an observational piece of writing. Our first nature diary was the apple. Our second one was the Kumara. Our third one was the kiwi fruit. The fourth one was the shell and we got to choose a shell and I choose the Tonna shell.

We will now show you some of our pictures.

Yr 3 and 4 Netball

  Netball is AWESOME :)!!!

Elysse: “We played three games but we lost the first 2 games.we won the last game. It was very fun. We got

given a lollipop before the second game then at the end we. Got lots of fruit bursts and more lollipops” :)

Caya: “I thought it was very fun, the best part was that we got to vs three teams. The first 2 teams were very hard but we still made it through those games. The last one was quite easy for us to win because they where a younger class then us” :)

Nicole: “I was so nervous I was also sad because it was the game. I had so much fun.The fun part was playing the game. There was one annoying thing and that was getting cold.I was off the last quarters of the last  game.I was very sad” :)

Zoe: “I found it very fun and a little bit hard to focus during the last two games.It was hard  to work out the netball skills and play them in the game. Sometimes we win but sometimes we don’t win.At the end we found out that we won the all the games so we celebrated with sweets.We had lots of fun” :)

Sarah: “I found it very fun but a little bit hard to focus on shooting with the ball above my head. It was a tie for the - 2nd game we won the last game but sadly we lost the last game.”

Xanthe: “I enjoyed playing netball although we have to focus lots it is really fun. I hope to play next Winter.”

Peter Pan

          

LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION!!!!!!

Peter Pan Jr was just on with the Year 7&8 students of Selwyn House! It was on 14 and 15 of August at the Aurora Centre.

Some of the highlights of the characters were good to hear. Here is some of them:

Zelle Logan - Chief Tiger Bamboo said, “I thought it was funny when I started singing behind someone, I liked seeing the costumes for the for the first time and at the end free dancing.”

Ella Hodgson - fairy Iridessa said “I really liked singing my solo and the finale.”

Chloe Hannah - Lost boy said “It was fun being someone you're not for a change.”

Grace Jenkins - Tinkerbell said “The costumes and makeup were so cool”.

Lilli Scully - Pirate Mean Murphy said “The characters were chosen very well and I liked the dances”.

Abi Worthington - Mermaid Amber said “I thought the costumes were good  characters for the main and minor characters”.

Georgina Scott - Peter Pan said “I loved playing the pan flute I had so much fun”

Isabella Read - Wendy Darling said “I loved walking through the dry ice it was fun

The show was a big success. Lots of people came. But the Aurora centre is so big that it didn’t sell out. Even so they got through the show smiling and being happy. As you can see from the comments they all loved it.

 

U.O.I

For our Unit of Inquiry we have been looking at the elements of art. We have been looking at Van Gogh's sunflowers and describing how he has used all different elements of art.

The different lines are curved, straight, horizontal and more. - Sylvie and Xanthe M

In the background There are lots of dabs of green - Evelyn and Lotte

In the background there is lot's of space and were the flowers are. - Tegan

Circles big and small, triangles as petals, the vase looks 3D, Lots of different shapes - Aria and Sarah

There's a lot of contrast, shading, orange and yellow are most commonly used. - Leilah and Skye

   

Julia Lambie

• In our class, we are having an Honors Student from U.C. She is called Julia Lambie.  She is a teacher and is trying to figure out if ipads help to teach maths.
• She is trying to be a better teacher.
• The girls that is taking part in her investigations are Xanthe M, Xanthe P, Sylvie, Aria, Evelyn and Lotte.
• We are experiencing different apps and maths games to help us with our maths.
• She has been interviewing us at the start, to see about what apps that are useful that we know of, and have used.
• So far, we have had an interview and have learnt a strategy on the app “Explain Everything” to answer questions like 36x10 and 36x100.
• Soon we will improve on our maths, and she will progress into a better teacher. Julia is coming 3 times a week to see us. We all hope that sometime soon Julia will be a great teacher after finishing with us!!!:)

This is the app "Explain Everything" we are using.

Scratch

Scratch

On Wednesdays in period 4 we have been going up to the media room with Miss Fairhall and we have been completing tasks on scratch. Scratch is a animating programme. On it we can animate sprites to dance, communicate and much, much more. Once we completed our own tasks we got a badge with the scratch cat on it.

I think it is fun to programme things! - Aria

I really liked it because we can have lot's of fun learning and helping other people! - Xanthe P