Salsa Dancing

This month room 9 is learning Salsa dancing. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Donna and Char teach us and we practise in the hall. We have learnt how to do the Casper slide and Cotton Eye Jo at the start as a warm up. A couple of weeks ago we got to pick who we wanted as our partner to dance the merengue. There is a leader and a follower. It was hard work when we started to learn the dance then it got easier and easier as we practised. We have new dance moves each week to add to our routine.

When Char came to teach us she taught us a new warm up. We had to get in a line and walk around. It was so much fun we were all laughing and giggling.

We have a line we have to be in when we go onto the stage and we have practised walking on with our partners. At the end of every session Donna and Mrs Craib get to pick who takes the trophy home. If you want to take the trophy home you have to show the Addington Attitude.

One day Donna brought her parrot to show us because we had worked so hard. It could talk and shake its head.

It is only 3 more weeks until we go to the James Hay Theatre to perform our dance. We have to be at the theatre at quarter past 5 and we start dancing at 6 o’clock. There will be heaps of people there. We will get there by bus. We will have lots of fun while we are dancing.

I am really proud of myself and feel excited about going to perform.

By: Jacob, Serena, Skye and Tyler

Thinking Hats

Thinking hats are one of Room 9’s thinking tools. On Wednesday 12^th May we used our thinking hats to discuss plastic bags. The first hat we used was black hat. Black hat means we need to think about the bad points. Some of the black hat answers were that the bags would suffocate us, they break easily, are not good for the environment and they don’t decompose. Next we used the yellow hat. This is about the good points. Plastic bags are good to recycle and use again when you go shopping. Then we used our white hat to think about the facts. We found out that plastic bags are made from oil. After that we used our green hat thinking, which is to think outside the box. When we are creative we can make kites out of plastic bags, use them as bike seat covers when your seat is wet and a hair-dyeing apron. We also used blue hat thinking, which is thinking about thinking. With this you should pick them up. The final one was the red hat. With the red hat you use your feelings. We don’t like finding the plastic bags blowing around our environment.

We enjoy using our thinking hats to think about topics.

By: Isobel, Sheena, KimiYa

Tactix visit.

On Tuesday 18^th May Victoria Smith from the Tactix netball team came to visit our school with people from ANZ. The ANZ sponsored her to come and host a shoot off with us. There were two hoops for the competition. Only one person would win. Everyone would get two shots and if you got one in you got to enter the final. First we had to get into a line. We had two teams, rooms 8 and 9 and rooms 10 and 11. When we got the ball we tried to throw it through the hoop. If you got the ball in the hoop you got to stand by one of the men so you could go into the next round. If you missed the hoop you had to go to the back of the hall and at the table you got a poster and boomsticks. Lots of us got into the finals. Zania won the mega prize. It was a netball. She was great at netball. All the others got a drink bottle. We were allowed to get the boomsticks, posters and bottles signed by Victoria. Some of us got our arms and hands autographed too. It was a huge competition. It was all about having fun and following Mrs Craib’s dream. We loved playing ANZ netball with Victoria Smith.

By: Claire, KC, Lucas and Sam