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Learning About Tapa Cloth

As part of our Inquiry learning we have been looking at how traditional Tapa cloth is made. We watched a video showing the process, from stripping the bark from the mulberry tree through to the final pattern making and painting.  We thought it looked quite complicated. 
We practiced drawing some traditional patterns and then had a go at creating our own cultural patterns.  Our final task was to create our own class Tapa. We all worked very hard on it and we are both pleased and proud of how it has turned out.

The Mini Golf Challenge!

Some end of term fun! Mrs Jackson set a challenge for us - to create a mini golf course using 8 cardboard tubes, a couple of boxes and general classroom items. Groups got to work quickly and it was great to see how well everyone worked together.  Groups were listening to each other, contributing ideas and making sure every group member had a role to play - well done Room 7!

Testing the courses was great fun and we even had a couple of special players who tried their luck with the tricky 'greens' - Carolyn and Mr Marshall! We think they did pretty well!

What! It's Term 4 Already?!

Where has the year gone! I can't believe it is already Term 4. We have a busy term ahead of us. Week 1 ends with a Rm 7 & 8 joint assembly. We will be presenting something pretty special that we have been working really hard on - we can't wait!
Then we have Pet Day to look forward to as well as the upcoming athletics competition.
Swimming at the Mosgiel Pool starts in week 7, a notice will be sent home closer to the time.
So much to do and only one term to do it!
Here's to another amazing term! Yay Room 7!

Room 7's Hip Hop Dance

Room 7 Rocks Ukulele Jam!

Wow! What an amazing day we have had today! Room 7 had a blast at 'Ukulele Jam', our hard work and careful practice really paid off. Mrs Jackson was so proud of all Room 7 students - our behaviour, enthusiasm and self managing skills were fantastic! It was great to see Outram students keen to try new things today too - Emilee on the African drums and Shelby on the Samoan drums. It was also great to see Jakob and Mitchell have the confidence to share their skills in front of the whole jam - their picking skills were fabulous!
When we got back to school today we created a great recount together as a class, which will feature in this weeks newsletter along with some photos. We have more photos and videos below to share with you.

Jakob and Mitchell 'picking' for 'Proud Mary'

Shelby playing the Samoan drums

Look at that focus Room 7!

So many students, so many ukuleles!

Our Amazing Ukulele Art

As part of our Ukulele Jam experience we have been working on our own decorated ukuleles. We were able to send 2 designs from our class into the competition, to be judged at the jam on Wednesday. Mrs Jackson asked students from Room 6 (who attended the jam last year) to be the judges. Travis and Kayne were selected. Good luck!
Mrs Jackson loves how all the ukulele designs are so unique - they look amazing in our class!