World Book Day

This week we had World Book Day. This meant on Monday - Thursday we sat on beanbags, and read books to the Preschoolers and Year 1's, but on Friday, we dressed up as our favourite book characters.

Here are some examples of what girls dressed up as:
Claudia = Ramona from Ramona and Beezus.
Rebecca = Peter Pan from Peter Pan
Charlotte = Mildred from the West Witch
Xanthe M = Annabel from Percy Jackson
Sophie H = Lion from The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe
Mia = Alberta from The awful Auntie

We raised money by giving gold coin donations and old books. The amount of money we raised was over $190 and 75 books.

Here is a photo of our class 5L dressed up:}

By Tegan Austin And Sylvie King 5L 

Performing Arts

About Performing Arts 

In Performing Arts we've been learning a style of dance called folk dance. We are learning the Virginia Reel and Durham Reel from England. They do the dance anywhere. Here is a little video.

Exercises

We have exercises to warm up our body, so we don't hurt ourself. Our exercises are the ending of a word like [ing] for an example [creeping] but we have to have ideas 'out of the box'.

Dancing

When we dance we start by ourself, but after, when we have chosen what we are going to do for the dance, we go into pairs and tell each other our ideas for the dance. Then we go as a pair into a group of four and do the same thing again and again.

Positions

We all have our 'do' and 'do nots' when we stand. We do not stand side by side when we are dancing because it is very hard to see each other in a line.

Written by Sonya Li-McHenry and Zoe Cookeson