Frog Life Cycle Dance!!!

Watch this space! Danielle has been busy on Wednesday's working with Room 12 putting together a dance about the frog life cycle. They have spent a lot of time looking at SPACE, LEVELS and TIMING. I was very lucky to have the class perform this dance to me today. I was amazed at what they have done and really impressed with it. We are planning to video it next week so that we can post it on the blog for everyone to view!

The Frog Princess Drama

Last week we did some Drama about a book we read. We focused on Role on the Wall, Hot Seating, Freeze Frame Images, Spoken Thoughts Aloud and looked at the elements of drama. These are some photos of us in role performing our freeze frame images to the class. We will self evaluate our efforts over the next few days.

Click on this link to go to a website explaining these Drama terms:

http://arts.unitec.ac.nz/engageinarts/drama/glossary.php

Take a Look at some of our Save the Frog Posters

Save the Frog Posters and Brochures

We have been busy creating Static Images lately. We decided to make Save the Frog posters. We looked at lots of different posters/advertisements and decided what made them appealing to the audience and what didn't. We felt really passionate about designing Save the Frog posters because we have found out that a lot of frogs are endangered and we need to protect them to ensure no more species become extinct.

We decided on the following criteria for our posters:

Bright, attractive COLOURS

Tidy, sensible LAYOUT

TITLE that stands out

A BORDER that frames our work

Correct SPELLING

Relevant, interesting INFORMATION

Relevant GRAPHICS

MOTTO or SLOGAN to gain attention

LETTERING with good size and shape

Capital Letter Games

Click on the pictures to practice the capital letter games.

What can we do to help the frogs?!

Check out this awesome website about how we can help save the frogs. There are awesome photographs of frogs and facts for you to take a look at:

http://www.savethefrogs.com

Tree Frogs - SAVE the FROGS!!!

Burrowing Rain Frogs

Add/Sub Games

Spot the Frog

I found this picture on the DOC website. Kara Goddard from Hamilton Zoo took this picture on a field trip to the Bay of Plenty. How many frogs can you see in this picture?

There are three Hochstetters frogs in this picture, two green ones and a tiny brown one only 12 mm long. They are amazingly camouflaged and rely on sitting still so that their predators (or humans) cannot see them.

Maud Island Frog - Native NZ Frog

The Maud Island frog is one of only four native frog species in New Zealand and they’re not what you’d expect from frogs. They have no webbing between their toes, don’t croak, and there are no tadpoles. Click on the picture to be taken to a video about this special frog.

Frogs are Environmental Indicators

Click on the frog picture to be taken to an interesting video from TVNZ about NZ native frogs!

James and the Giant Peach

We are reading Roald Dahl's book James and the Giant Peach in class. Click on the picture to go to Roald Dahl's official website.

Croaking Frogs

What do Frogs Eat?