STOP MOTION

In year 5/6 we had to create a stop motion video to show our understanding on a world issue. It was important for us to identify the connection between finite resources and global problems.

In year 5/6 we had to write a newspaper article about our chosen world issue. We had to include the relationship between our world issue, linking it to resources and a way to fix or help the problem.

Dance 

This term we have been fortunate to have Mrs Jan Simpson as our dance teacher. During her sessions we explored the movement concept of contraction using verbal and visual stimuli – open and close as well as slow and sustained contraction as well as combining fundamental movements such as jumps, bends, turns, with the manipulation of elastics as our props.  We rehearsed a teacher choreographed dance with elastics and added our own choreography to complete the dance.

Dance Reflection

In dance groups today we discussed our culture through dance. We danced Italian and Aussie because that’s my groups heritage. Sam was Aussie and I was Italian and we had lots of fun and experience speaking through dance.

In our dance group we discussed our heritage, which is African, Samoan and Irish. We tried to use different levels of dance, like in the African dance we use body percussion and went down low. In the Samoan move we used our hand to make waves, in Irish we used our feet to do Irish dancing.

In this group with Gabby, Mia and myself Emily we discussed our heritage and created a short motif using Australian, Irish and American. We tried to reflect Australian greetings with a handshake, Irish with Irish dancing and American with a spinning arm reflecting a lasso.

In dance to today we discussed our heritage of and created a short motif of 3 movements reflecting our heritage. You will see Mexican, English and Dutch movements. We tried to reflect Mexican dance by swinging our arms and skipping as if we were holding the long traditional skirts. We tried to reflect English movements by pretending we were on a double decker bus. We tried to reflect Dutch dances by linking our arms and skipping.

ART 

My 3D artwork represents the idea that we all need to work together to stop pollution or it will continue. Sophie Roche
	This represents the idea that factories are polluting our world. I used acrylic paints which I blended to give affect. Amelie McKellar
I tried to express that we need to share the planet and we are all equal. I used plaster to make the hands. Jarvis Christie
	My painting shows two perspectives. One side shows a girl who only has access to dirty water and the other side shows a tap for clean running water. This would mean she can stay healthy. Emily Roger

Positive and Negative Space

Students utilised the use of patterns and their knowledge of negative and positive space to produce these black and white artworks to highlight an important concept our Unit of Inquiry.