Year 2 and 2/3 Art Galleries

I had the pleasure of viewing the wonderful artwork on display in the Year 2/3J, 2M and 2N Art Galleries yesterday. Over the course of the term, students have learnt about various painting styles and the artists associated with them - from Matisse to Picasso. The children then created their own art in the style of the artists they had studied. The slideshow below shows some of the wonderful art on display. Well done, Year 2 and 3!

Year 2 Art Gallery on PhotoPeach

Year 4 Novel Study

Year 4 students have been reading the novel The Burnt Stick by Anthony Hill and have completed a number of activities based on the novel. Students were asked to complete a task of their own choice to present to the class. Adam and Evie in 4M both created dioramas of scenes from the novel - Adam reconstructed Dryborough Station and Evie reconstructed Pearl Bay Mission. Other children did oral presentations. What great work! Below are just a couple of examples of the wonderful reading response activities completed by the children - well done, all!

Friday ICT Class

Take a look at this interesting art created by Talia this afternoon using Bonomo.

Friday Afternoon ICT Activity

Take a look at the art created by students using ArtPad and Idee during ICT classes this afternoon. Some budding artists!

Friday ICT Group

Take a look and a listen to the Vokis made by the ICT group for this Friday afternoon's activities.

Year 6 Camp

Much fun was had by all at the year 6 camp held at Midginbil Hill last week. The students behaved beautifully and the activities were fun and challenging. School and camp staff were impressed by the high levels of participation of the children. Thanks to Mr Lange and Mrs Bridge who prepared the children so well for this camp. Take a look at the slide show below of some of the camp highlights.

Year 5 Poetry

The following two videos were filmed by the students of Year 5M and capture the poetry composed and performed by two of their classmates - Gianluca and Francesca. Great work!

Year 5 Poetry Unit

Take a look at just a few samples of the poetry written and presented by year 5M students during term 3. The children worked very hard and the results are very pleasing. Well done, kids!

Book Trailer by 3J

Take a look at this great book trailer on The BFG made by 3J. The children had read the novel by Roald Dahl during library lessons and decided to convince other children to read this wonderful story by creating a book trailer. Watch it here!

Book Trailer by Year 6

Take a look at the book trailer 6J made on the book A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French. Well done, kids!

Book Trailer by Year 7

Have a look at this great book trailer for the novel Goodnight, Mr Tom created by the year 7 students during library this morning. Well done, girls and boys!

Book Trailer by 4J

Take a look at this book trailer about The Forests of Silence - the first book of the Deltora Quest series by Emily Rodda that Year 4J made today. It looks and sounds great. Well done, kids!

ANZAC Day Poem by 3M

Take a look at this great cinquain written by 3m as part of their unit of work on Australian celebrations. Well done, kids!

ANZAC Day Poem

Look at this great cinquain by Harrison in 3J. The children are writing poems about significant Australian celebrations and publishing them in powerpoint.

Horrid Henry Book Trailer

Take a look at this great book trailer created by 2/3J. Earlier in the year the children wrote Mrs Sorbello a very persuasive letter asking that more Horrid Henry books be purchased for the library. The children really enjoy this series and created this book trailer to convince other children to read the Horrid Henry books. Well done, girls and boys!

Animal Reports Using Blabberize

Take a look at these fantastic and very unusual animal reports created by 2/3 J! The children used the program Blabberize to publish their work, adding great scripts to make their presentations interesting. Well done, kids!

Year 5 Poetry

Take a look at this great poem written by Luke in 5N. The year 5 students have been looking at poetic devices and Luke has used imagery very well in his poem The Firefighter.
Firefighter
His face is fire
His smile is flowing water
His hands are rubber
His arms are hoses
His legs are spaghetti
His fingers are wood
His heart is steel
His stare is a dark wind
His voice is a massive echo
His laugh is a bee.

Year 2 Poetry Lessons

Take a look at these Animoto of poems At The Beach, written by 2N and At The Fiesta written by 2M during library lessons. The children have been writing their own picture books in class, using literary devices such as rhyme, rhythm, onomapotoeia, alliteration and simile. They are about to start a poetry unit and we combined their prior knowledge with poetry styles to create these poems. Well done, 2N and 2M!

Year 3 Poetry

Have a read of these cinquains that Marika in Year 3 wrote during their poetry lessons. Year 3 are examining various styles of poetry and having a go at writing some themselves. Well done, Marika!

Cinquain Poetry

by Marika

Books

Big, small

Opening, closing, reading

Read them any where

Novels

People

Nice, mean

Walking, breathing, blinking

Have education at school

Humans

Colours

Bright, dark

Painting, colouring, shading

On your favourite clothes

shades

Year 5 Camp

Take a look at this Animoto presentation made by Emily in Year 5M of their camp to Underwater World, Caboolture Historical Village and Australia Zoo. Well done, Emily! Looks like you all had fun!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Book Week Class Work

Take a look at this slide show of work on display in the library during Book Week. Lots of good stuff happening in classrooms!

Year One Space Story

Read this cute and funny story written by Dexter in year 1. The children have been travelling the solar system, learning a lot about Earth and Beyond. This is just one example of the great work being produced by our Year 1 students. (just click on each picture to increase the size to read)

Creating Vokis

Take a look at these Vokis created by kids in the ICT class this afternoon.

Year 3 Poetry about Australian Celebrations

Year 3 have been learning all about different poetic devices and locating them in various poems. They have then used this knowledge to write their own poems. These poems are ones that 3J and 3M created with Mrs Sorbello in the library. We have published them using Animoto.

Book Trailers

Our students in Year 5N and Year 6J have been creating book trailers about the class novels they have been reading. The following trailers were created as a class effort with Mrs Sorbello in the library, so that the children could see the techniques used in the process.

Haiku

Here's a Voki reciting a haiku poem written by Francesca in 5M. The year 5 students are writing poetry using a variety of poetic devices.

Friday Afternoon ICT Fun

Have a go at these jigsaw puzzles that Elyssa (Yr 4) and Rani (Yr 6) created this afternoon during our ICT class! Just click on the picture and then click on scatter and start puzzling!

35 Cool-pony

36 Cutie

Poetry Analysis

Read this very well written analysis of a poem by Charmaine in Yr 7. The students have been studying a variety of poems and focussing on several poetic forms. They have been identifying the forms and poetic devices used by a range of poets.

Poetry Analysis by Charmaine Year 7

The Shark

E.J.Pratt

The poem "The Shark" by E.J. Pratt, is free-verse and written in third person. This poem has no rhyme pattern. This poem is about a shark. The shark is not thrashing around awaiting a kill, it is mysterious, patient, stream-lined and graceful, planning its every move carefully. The main poetic device in the poem is imagery. When the author says 'shearing without a bubble the water', it appeals to our vision. It gives us an image of its stream-lined, tapered body cutting through the water like a knife through soft butter. The shark moves with great ease through the water, making it deadly fast.

Also, when the author says 'part vulture, part wolf, part neither – for his blood was cold', this adds to the poem by telling us that the shark is the most deadly predator. The vulture lies in wait for the perfect moment to strike, but there is no room for fault. And like the shark, a lone wolf hunts alone in silence, with deadly speed and never gets exhausted. Also, the shark's blood is cold - cold blood usually means evil, lonely, unhappy. Warm blood means happiness. The shark is a cold-blooded killer.

Another poetic device used was simile as in 'his fin, like a piece of sheet iron'. This tells the reader that his fin can cut through anything that crosses his path. In the poem, certain phrases are repeated, like 'three cornered fin' – repeated in stanzas 1 and 2. Also repeated is the phrase 'tubular, tapered, smoke-blue'. This adds effect to the poem by making the author remember it because it's written several times to show that it's important. Another poetic device used is alliteration. When the author writes 'lithely, leisurely', it tells us in detail how the shark swam which adds a lot of effect to the poem.

So, this poem has a mysterious, dark theme telling us that sharks are cunning, smart, fast and always alert. All the poetic devices did help create the image the author wanted.

The Shark

E. J. Pratt

He seemed to know the harbour,

So leisurely he swam;

His fin,

Like a piece of sheet-iron,

Three-cornered,

And with knife-edge,

Stirred not a bubble

As it moved

With its base-line on the water.

His body was tubular

And tapered

And smoke-blue,

And as he passed the wharf

He turned,

And snapped at a flat-fish

That was dead and floating.

And I saw the flash of a white throat,

And a double row of white teeth,

And eyes of metallic grey,

Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbour,

With that three-cornered fin

Shearing without a bubble the water

Lithely,

Leisurely,

He swam--

That strange fish,

Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,

Part vulture, part wolf,

Part neither-- for his blood was cold.