Well well well! One month until Christmas - who would believe it has come around again so quickly! The year has been busy and we are all ready for a big summer holiday!
This week we have been flat out with finishing off our inquiry presentations - we have created posters explaining some similarities and differences between life in NZ and another country; we are now each making a shoebox diorama model to show one aspect of life in that other country and these look really effective! We have ‘travelled’ to all manner of countries including Italy, Spain, England, Tonga, Mexico, Mozambique and more! We have learnt about clothing, food, sports, houses and celebrations.
Mrs Shepherd was with us for a couple of days this week and we ‘travelled’ to Australia to check out Aboriginal art and create some Dreamtime snakes and artwork – next week we hope to travel to Asia to do some batik and also to Poland to do some paper-cutting.
We will be busy also with practising for our super-fun item for the concert – we know you will all be highly entertained!
We are all excited about having our parents come in next week to review our goals with us and to see the progress we have been making. It will be nice to show off the work we are proud of!
This week we will reflect on something we have learnt about the country we were researching...
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I learnt about England and one fact about England is that the Queen lives there and Prince William got married there.
This week I learnt that in Ireland that at the wedding the bride and the bridesmaid do a Irsh dannce called the Irish jig.
this week i learnt that in China they wear alot of silk and alot of dragon/flower patterns.
I learnt about Russia and in Russia usally only the men drive because its usally icy.
This week I learnt that Mozambique has an Independece Day that goes for a week.
i learnt about Tonga and their tables are made of coconut fronds and banana-leaves:>).
In Mexico a birthday party usually has a paper mache called a pinatta.
The child is blindfolded and try to hit the lolies out with a stick.
I really enjoyed researching about Mexico!
Hola!
I leart that in Russia instead of having birthday cake you have birthday pie.Also you would have to cut down a goody bag to take home.
My diorama is on India.
It has a child touching his parents feet as a sign of respect and a stew on the stove called "dal".
It looks AWESOME!!!!
I Ireland the Groom gets the key to the Wife's house he can go there when ever he wants and he can stay up as long as he likes.
I learnt about England and my diorama is England playing football aka soccor.
My country is Italy. I found that our diner is their lunch and their diner is our lunch and have a sandwich before heading off to bed.
I learnt that Englands soccer team called manchester united is really good.
In India,a child that has turned one has his hair shaven to cleanse the evil in his/her life.
I learnt about Japan. On a girl's 3rd and 7th brithday, and a boy's 5th birthday, they get dressed up all fancy and go to a specail ceramony and they get prayed for.
This week I learnt that Italy has swapted their dinner and their lunch so at midday they go hame and have a huge feast.
Sounds like a cool week I would love to learn about China and some of those other contries
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