Maths Furniture

In maths we have been designing furniture to build for outside our room.  Students had to research ideas based on a design brief.  They then had to draw scale drawings and build models.  We are in the last phase now as the groups put together presentations to convince everyone else their design is the best idea.  We are hoping to build one of the designs for real.

Fun Run

Last Wednesday was the Tawa Intermediate Fun Run.  Room 4 chose  "Multiple Births" as our dress up theme for the day.  There was an interesting mix of twins, triplets and quadruplets.  We had great fun but now starts the hard work of collecting the sponsorship we have been promised.

Cricket Skills

For PE we have been working on our cricket skills.  While we have started well we do have a bit more work to do.  Below is a video of us in action.

Drama and Writing

For our writing we are looking at expanding on our ideas by developing moments in time in a story.  Today for drama we did something to build on this by creating freeze frames based on a nursery rhyme.  See if you can guess what nursery rhyme each picture represents.

Group 1 Freeze 1

Group 1 Freeze 2

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Drama People Piles

Once a week we go and do some drama in the TIS studio.  At this stage we are just doing simple drama games like wink murder (get your child to explain what the game involves).

People started getting more dramatic when they were killed and even started collapsing on their neighbour.  This gave us the idea of seeing how many people could collapse on top of the each other at the end of the session.  Below are a couple of our better attempts.