We have had a go at writing Haiku Poetry. These are a Japanese style of poems about nature. They consist of three lines and seventeen syllables. We had lots of fun checking that we had the right beat for each line.

Our dot paintings are up on display and look fabulous. Come in and have a look if you have time.

Today we heard a dreaming story from Nepabunna, north of the Flinders Ranges, about the magpie, crow and eagle. Urrakurli,  Wakarla and  Wildu. After hearing the story we had a go at painting one of the characters from the story using dots and lines. This was quite tricky and took us a lot longer than colouring our picture in. We used natural colours like the Aboriginal people traditionally used when they made their paints from rocks, berries, charcoal and dirt. We used cotton buds and matchsticks to paint with. The Aboriginal people traditionally used twigs, grass, their fingers and mouths. Today Aboriginal people buy paints and brushes to do their paintings. Sometimes they still use the old ways. We painted on brown paper. Aboriginal people painted on bark, rocks and in caves. Today they often paint on canvases.

Here are some of our efforts from today. They aren’t finished yet……

This afternoon we experimented with coding. We had free play with the Beebots. We also spent some time on lightbot.com on our brand new laptops! This is great program for your child to use at home to engage with coding.it teaches programming logic which will help when we come to writing programs for our beebots.

Can OW program that Beebot to get all the way down the corridor to AR?

We have started our history topic this week. We are talking about the past. Firstly, we all came up with an inquiry question about the past. Have a look on our Wonder Wall to see some interesting questions. Many of us want to find out what our school was like in the past.

Next, we heard a couple of different versions of the Aboriginal Dreaming story about the Rainbow Serpent and how it created the mountains and rivers.

Finally, we got to draw our own Rainbow Serpents using oil pastels. We had a partner from room 11 and tried carefully to represent the snake from the story.

Hopefully they will get finished next week and will be hanging up soon.

These will be displayed at the launch of Children’s Week assembly too! Thaanks Mr Pluck, they look awesome!!

 We worked really hard on these pictures. They will be on display at our special assembly tomorrow to launch Children’s Week!