Halloween Art/Writing

This week we have been writing Halloween stories. We got to roll a dice to tell us what our story would be about. We rolled the dice 4 times and each roll told us our character, time, place and problem that we had to integrate into our writing. We had some very spooky stories with some great scary language.

The art work was done in two parts: the first being the painting of the sky. We started with a white circle for the moon and then added either purple or blue paint each ring around the moon, making it darker each time. For the second stage of the artwork we cut out a house silhouette and stuck them onto our painted sky background. Some students added some birds, trees and tombstones to add to the effect of the Haunted House!

I think they look very effective and am very proud of the work the students put in.

Feel free to come in and see them!

Friday 20th October

Friday was a very busy day for Room 7. We had sports activator with Mitch and a group challenge to complete in the afternoon.

In our Sports Activator session Mitch was teaching us lots of cricket skills. It was a fun session on a beautiful Lawrence day. We did a lot of activities and we were able to practice our bowling, catching, throwing, running between the wickets and fielding.



In the afternoon we were put into teams of 3 and given 20 sheets of newspaper and 1 metre of masking tape. Our challenge was to build a structure that was 1 metre high and could stand on its own (without anyone holding or touching it). This was a great team building activity and made each group communicate and problem solve.

Once groups completed that activity they had to make a shelter that all team members could fit under. This was a more challenging task and pushed a lot of people to the edge, BUT...they all persevered and worked well as a team.