Photography and Picasa

Our topic this term is 'Express Yourself'. To immerse ourselves in this topic we have had four days during which we purely did arts-based activities! Room 21 had the opportunity to experience drama, dance, visual art and photography. On our photography day we took photos that expressed what we like and we manipulated our images using a variety of special effects in Picasa (a free photo editing programme). We then tiled our effective images using Publisher. Enjoy the media clip of our finished collages.

Metaphor

We are learning to write metaphors. We need to use metaphor and other language features in our recount and cameo writing to make it more interesting.

Here are some metaphors we have written today about life and feelings.

Happiness is soft, sweet ice-cream. Yummy and cooling on a hot day. - Lightning Bolt

Sadness is a lonely rain drop falling from the dark gloomy sky. - Thunder5000

Relaxation is sunbathing on the hot golden sand. - Pearlgirl

Happiness is a bunch of flowers smelling rosy and refreshing. - Mathsboy

Anger is a grizzly bear trying to find something to eat. - Boo

Life is a maze. You never know how to get out. - Bluebell

Sadness is depressed rain crying softly. - Spotim

Sadness is thick grey fog that blocks your path. - Hootingowl

Relaxation is a lazy deck chair soaking up the sun. - Electron5000

Life is a twirling tornado, you never know when it will strike. - Bob2222

Friendliness is a delicious cake. You have a sprinkle of sweetness, kind icing and a candle of love. - Tecnolg123

Relaxation is a comforting journey to your dreams. - Star1234 and Speedy Gonzalez

Relaxation is a refreshing drink of juice, calm and peaceful. - Peppermint

Anger is a steaming, boiling volcano, ready to burst. - Godzilla and Electron5000

Happiness is a soothing cupcake, sweet, tender, calming and soft. - Crazykid

Love is snuggly cuddles from my caring, cuddly teddy bear. - Minty

Life is a book. You never know what could happen so you have to read on. - Cupcake

Frustration is being in a box and you never know how you will get out. - Archa5000

Buddy Blogs

We now have a list of blogs on our sidebar that belong to other classes and syndicates at ROPS. It's great to read these as well as our own class blog to see what other students at ROPS are doing, find different website links and get ideas for our own blog.
Year 5 will find the Sport at ROPS blog particularly useful as it is regularly updated with information regarding organisation of things like our winter sport programme.
The Junior, Middle and Senior ROPS blogs cover a team-wide perspective, and the individual class blogs all the fun things we do in our own little bubbles!
Please use our blog network to share and learn with others.