Our School Production Dive In - Featuring Oliver Twist from Rooms 4 & 5

The time had finally arrived - last Wednesday and Thursday we had our school production called Dive In.  

A big thank you to all the children for their hard work, and to the families who supported our part in the production.  

Thank you to parents who organised their child's costume, and spent time trawling the op shops to find something appropriate for their child to wear, or to parents who provided props for us to use.  The whole experience was so valuable for the children.

Enjoy a few photos from our 10 minute snapshot from Oliver Twist - set in Victorian times.  Thanks to Mrs Jackson who took some photos while Mrs Smith was busy backstage.

Louis Gaffaney as a very convincing Oliver Twist, and Elizabeth Crawford as the workhouse cook.

 The cast sing Food, Glorious Food.

Thinking about some delicious food they could eat.
Pease pudding and saveloys, a great big steak, custard and jelly …

Paige F as the Artful Dodger, Ruby as Charlie Bates, and Faustina, Paige G, William, Kobe, Ella and Isabelle as the Pick-Pockets.

The cast sing Consider Yourself.

The whole cast sings.

The workhouse cook.

Oliver with a group of workhouse children.

Hungry tummies.
A group of workhouse children talk about going to the workhouse cook to ask for more delicious, mouth-watering GRUEL!

Production Practice

Time is drawing close to our school production called Dive In.  Classes are busy rehearsing.  It has been challenging practising in classrooms but the children are trying hard.  We are excited to be getting a new hall for our school - it will be perfect for times like this.  We look forward to seeing you at our production.

Researching and Summarising

We are learning about summarising in reading.  We have to find keywords (the most important words) in a text to do this.  Then we practise putting these keywords into sentences of our own.  We used the website dogonews to help us practise this strategy.

This is a great site for kids to research current events.

Our task.

Sammy, Jacob and Lily research together to find keywords.

Flynn, Libby and Kahu work together.

Brooke, Isabelle and Keelan research too.

Joshua, Diego and Dylan.

Now it's time to present our research.  We have to use the keywords to summarise what we have discovered.  This group  researched how children in rural India are using portable school cases that can be turned into a table for them to use at school.  They are made out of cardboard.  The children had to work on the floor at school and were bent over to work before they had the cardboard desks.

We are lucky to have chairs to sit on and desks to work at in New Zealand.

Samuel, Vaisiliva and Lochy share information about the tallest lego tower built in the world.  This story really appealed with the boys!

Paige and Ella talk about Donut Day in America - If I had known it was donut day on June 6, I would have brought some in!  We learnt about the Salvation Army giving soldiers donuts and coffee during the war.

A great list of keywords.

Key ideas about the donut story.

Drama Workshop Take 5 - The Finale!

Today was Room 4's last drama workshop with Juliet and Peter.  We have had a fantastic time learning lots of new skills over the past 5 weeks.  We are sad it has come to an end.  The skills we have learnt will help us in our up and coming school production.

Enjoy our photos and captions ...

A fun warm-up called Bunny.

We all had a turn at this warm-up.

Our role play freeze frame.

Role play freeze frame.

Freeze frame in action …

Exploring old items in preparation for our drama using script.

Exploring items form the 19th century for drama.

Talking in our groups about what we saw in the box.

Recording our thoughts, ideas and responses to a story about early settlers in New Zealand (Digging up the Past) - a situation that was read to us.  We are exploring character and setting.

Practising with a buddy using a script for the scene Sissy and Burt.  We want to make sure our lines do not sound like they are being read, so we use our voices to express how the character is feeling.  Now we are in character.

In-role using a script.  Keelan and Leanne perform in the background while we listen and read our script.