The Grade 4 Assembly

It was Grade 4's turn to be the hosts of the assembly. What would we do? How could we show our learning? Would the performance look "polished"? This is what we were thinking two weeks before the assembly.
We were studying poetry as a means of expression so poetry seemed a logical choice. 4M decided to perform the Tanka Tanka Skunk - a stomping poem. Although we are not sure how it really came about, Hendry found the poem.

Arneta had a special role to introduce the grade and the stomping poem.

Marc was like the team captain. He gave everyone instructions to organise the stomp. Some of his words were funny.

Intan had to try to keep up with all the animal names in the stomp. You can also see the teams of Tanka and Skunk.

I think the class agrees that we did a fine job of keeping together and doing the stomp with attitude.

This is Tanka.

This is Skunk!

Another part of assembly was the angklung performance by both Grade 4 classes. Mr Frederick had made sure that their playing was of a very high standard. Music is a form of The Arts, and another way to express ourselves.

Mr Frederick conducts a last practice.

Shereen and Jo introduce the item.

Getting it right.

Following the notation on the music sheets.

Sit still!

Mis Jacqui addresses the audience.

Our audience is ready.

Poets' Glasses

Miss Susan taught us to look through poet's glasses.

She had prepared a story about her walk back from the Bamboo Court Cafe.

Look closely and write about the things that you see.

Line breaks are an important aspect of poetry writing.

It helps to have a collection of every day objects to stimulate your description skills.

Michael and Keane work on their own ideas.

Angela and Arneta work together.

Ananda and Marc check through what Miss Susan had written.

Cleazza and Shereen give poerty performance a try.

Liam and Hendry work together although they have different ideas.

You can see that Keaton and Marcelo are thinking.

Miss Susan is wearing her poet's glasses.

The class gets a turn with the glasses.

Everyone wants a turn to be photographed with the glasses.

Will this workshop make a difference to our poetry writing?

What is Poetry?

Miss Marion tries to lead by example.

We've begun to use our Arts Journals which is a lot of fun. Today we were posed the question, "What is poetry?" First of all, we looked in some poetry books before starting our own mind maps. It's definitely a work in progress...but here some beginnings.

Keaton begins his mind map with a great heading to inspire.

Marcelo's "What is Poetry?" mind map.

One of the poetry books that we are reading.

We all agree that we love funny poems.