Marsha's music concert

Our lovely music teacher Marsha did a concert with us today.The children were wonderful.Here are some videos of them doing their favourite songs!

Drumming

Today 30th May our Italian drummer friend Alan came in to show us how to drum. We all had a different kind of drum which made a different sound. It was SO cool......

Drumming with Alan

We had a wonderful drumming session with Alan.  We love drumming, it is a lot of fun.

We began with warm up hand exercises, then played games of Chinese Whispers and find the bean bag.

We practised lots of different drumming rhythms too.

Thank you Alan for such a great class!

Making and flying kites

Making and flying kites

Billy's bucket drama

 We had some great drama sessions based on the wonderful story of Billy's bucket.

At first teacher pretended that she was Billy.  We were Billy's parents and we tried to persuade Billy not to choose a bucket for his birthday.

Next  teacher pretended to be Billy and he was choosing a bucket from the bucket shop.  We were the buckets and we had to persuade Billy that each of us was the bucket for him.

Once we had bought the bucket, we each looked into the bucket and told teacher of the sea creatures we could see in it.

Today we dove into the magic bucket and swam to the bottom of the sea. We had to use our own sign language to communicate with our friends while we were diving.

 Here you can see us showing each other what we collected from the bottom of the sea.

Then Dad (teacher) tried to persuade us to lend him the bucket.  We were able to give him lots of reasons why he couldn't.

 Unfortunately Dad did borrow the bucket, and look what happened.  When he went to wash the car, all the sea creatures got splashed onto the land.  Look at us, we really looked like sea creatures.

In the end we all had to dive back into the bucket to get back to the sea.

We really loved this story and all the drama sessions that went with it.

Completed mural Amazing!!

Our mural is completed!!! We are so so thrilled with our mural. Lol (our artist) with the help of the children from Ms Ferguson and Ms Cronins classes spent 4 days working on the project. We all had different jobs to do. Some painted flowers, some painted trees etc The main thing is that we all loved it. We really hope that Lol (with complete funding from MEDTRONIC) will come back next year and do some more work with us!
Thanks Medtronic and Lol!!

Our school mural

Day 3 of mural

Day 2 of mural

Today Lol arrived at our school to start working on the mural in the corridor. He is a very talented artist who will guide us in design and painting. We'll keep the plan a secret at the moment but check out this blog each evening to see our progess!!!

Tom the birdman

We had a real treat last Friday when Tom the Birdman spent a morning with us.He showed us paper birds he made himself, told us lots of interesting things about birds (who is the fastest,who is the smallest,who has the largest wingspan),let us listen to their sounds and then taught us how to draw birds.The pictures came out fantastically well!
He even showed us a stuffed owl!
It was a fabulous morning.