Chess

Today I played chess with Violet and did pretty well, but the worst thing was we never finished the game to reveal the winner! 

There are eight pawns which are the smallest players, two Rooks, knights and bishops and last of all one of each Queen and King. 

The pawns can move upwards and take other players on a diagonal. The Rooks can't move on a diagonal, only straight but as many squares as they want. The Knight goes on in an "L" shape, the Bishop however can ONLY go on a diagonal. The King can go all directions, but can only move one square at a time. The Queen is quite powerful because she can go all directions and as MANY squares as she wants.

Guess which player is which!

Bye

 

Life on Mars

Hi, I'm back from the school holidays!

The pressure was on as we learnt a new, hard song.

The song was called "Life on Mars," originally sung by David Bowie. I need to tell you though that it's a HIGH song. 

We always have a warm-up song before we actually start singing just to get our voices warmed up.

Well anyway, BYE!

Oh my!

Today the performance group learnt two more songs, one by Queen and the other by Gin Wigmore. I love being in the performance group!

 The actual songs were Don't Stop Me Now and Oh My. My favorite paragraph in Don't Stop Me Now is the first one were it goes "Tonight I'm gonna have myself a really time - I feel alive and the world, It's turnin inside out Yeah! I'm floating around in ecstasy"

Then the song gets really groovy and that bits when every one joins in with the "Don't stop me now, 'cause i'm having a good time, having a good time!"

Well Bye!

Wow!

Can you believe it? I made it through to the performance group with Nicola.

Today I went to audition for the performance group and I made it. I had butterflies in my tummy at first but Nicola made me feel alright.

It was my turn next and I knew that because I had to act as a dog for another person. You could either do a poem, a dance or a song and I chose the poem. 

I did "The Homework Machine."

Nicola didn't think that that was enough so I showed her I could do a Kart-wheel and then I finally got through so that's how  got through to the performance group!

Talent development tasters

Everybody estimated or should I say guesstamated what number on the dice would most likely be rolled after 50 turns. This is called probability.  We have a girl group for our talent development tasters and here are the names: Violet, Olivia, Tara, Reina, Cassie, Kady and I. 

Guesstamating is when you guess any random number in maths and the last bit of the word is Mating. Mating is the last few letters of the word estamating see, guesst-a-mating. We all got three lollies at the end of the session because we had been extra good!!!

I have got a little activity for YOU and that is to estimate how many lollies are in this jar and then you can count and see if your right.

music

Hola!
This morning Nicola asked the class if we wanted to learn real music. She only took the girls and that was fine with me because we were sort of singing a girly type song. We were singing to one of my favorite singers and that is Kelly Clarkson.

"Guess this means you're sorry, you're standing at my door, guess this means you take back what you said before" and we started to sing. We sounded great apart from a few hiccups but you don't need to know about that, Okay. We had to do some music writing. 

 We had to know how to write music notes which was a little bit hard.

Hoopla

We got tricked so many times by the evil teachers picking on us in our Wilson game. First Nicola would say "jump" and the next thing you know, Darryn claps. 

 The  rules were, you either have to have a group of three or other wise four. The aim of the game was to jump with two feet together while holding your partners sweaty hands and you have to land with your feet all at the same time. We were so close to getting there but.... Big mistake, Gorgie  fell over and we went back to the start. It was okay I guess because Over all we came third Thanks for reading........ Pearl