AllStars

That’s it for 2009.

We will see you back here early in February 2010.

Have a great holiday – rest, read and take it easy!

Keep a look out for us bigger and better in 2010.

Here are our finished instrument sculptures.

We hope you like them 

Hmmmm not much has been happening here for the past month or so

but

that’s because we have been working over at our wiki!

Please take a detour to see what we’ve been doing over at our 09 AllStars wiki.

Image: ‘Make up your mind‘ 
www.flickr.com/photos/41894176980@N01/460131948

Here are the photos from our recent Book Week Parade. Everyone had to dress up as a character from a book.

We had evil villains, vampire friends, a couple of tradesmen, sporting people, robbers, a fairy and friends from fairy tales and many visitors from Hogwarts School.

Thanks AllStars for participating in the fun – all those who came and dressed up made it a fun  day – smiles all around  

Over the past week we have been playing the wiiMusic in small groups so that we can practise the activities and get better at the games.

We have been playing lots of different instruments and hearing and accompanying many different tunes. Its quite hard at times to play tunes that you haven’t heard before. We have found that you get better – and it becomes easier – the more you practice and the more familiar you are with both the instrument and the tune.

We have found out about “pitch” by playing the “Pitch Perfect” game – you have to listen carefully to match the notes that are the same, or put the notes in ascending order by listening to them. Sometimes this is hard, and the timer is counting down so you have to hurry!

wiiMusic – Perfect Pitch from KimPericles on Vimeo.

We have had a couple of “Jellybeans” music lessons so far this term and are really excited to be learning to play the recorder.

Recently we used charcoal pencils to sketch some aspects of our recorders. We tried to experiment by pressing softly and more firmly, using the side of the pencil and the tip of the pencil as well.

Here are our finished sketches …..

wii”ve Got The Music – Recorder Sketchings on PhotoPeach

We are studying music for the next few weeks, and we will be using the wii to help us explore and experience a huge range of instruments.

We used our Golden Time today for the intial taste of what the wii can do – everyone had a quick turn at playing an instrument and we all had a bit of a laugh as well.

Stay tuned for more posts on what else we are doing with the wii Music.

On your marks …..

Get set ….

BANG!!!!!!

The school sports carnival had started.

Hearts thumping, muscles straining, legs pumping.

Eyes straining for the finish line.

There it is, almost there…..

Finished.

Who else loves the carnival?

Running, jumping, stretching, gliding, playing, cheering, chanting.

Lots to do.

A great day.

(And here are the pictures to prove it   )

We had a visitor from the USA visit our school recently – his name was NED.

NED:

N= Never give up

E= Encourage others

D= Do your best

NED taught us about being a good person, getting along with others and respecting yourself and everyone else too.
To help make the visit even better, NED told his story using a yo-yo and performing really good tricks.
Now lots of people have yo-yos and are learning to do tricks too!