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Diala’s Wakakirri Diary continues . . . feedback improves performance.
This morning The Wakakirri Dance Group had feedback from Ms Papadis. The feedback came from some of the other teachers when we had the sneak peak preview of our dance. Ms Papadis told us that we had to build up our confidence which is very true so each time we come to dance we are a new person , a , completely new person, new name , new confidence, new everything!
We also changed some moves because we just thought that it would be easier. Thank you Ms Papadis for the great moves! I thought we did a lot better with our moves and we focused mainly on the parts we changed so that we could remember it. I think it’s a great idea because if you move on so quickly we’ll forget it and think it’s still our old moves.
Our performance is coming sooner and sooner every week and I hope we do well , I think we will no matter what because we have the support of our teachers and we have the best moves! What better can you have? I am glad that I participated in this dance because I love to dance. I found it so fun to learn the new dance moves because I was doing FANTASTIC! YAY! I can tell you that if we build up our confidence, stop looking at each other’s feet or looking around we can nail this ! Every time I come to Dance rehearsals there’s just something about it that makes me think ” I am proud that we have Ms Papadis” . From the start of this dance I knew this was going to be awesome, superb , fantastically, GREAT!
I can’t wait until I see how the costumes look like. It’s just so exciting. At times it may be a little hard and frustrating but when you know everything perfectly then you’ll be happy to do this dance on stage but if you don’t know anything it will show on your face.It’s been such a great time dancing and I am more than happy to have Ms Papadis as our dance teacher because she doesn’t JUST teach us the dance moves, she teaches us seriously but fun seriously so it’s not too serious it’s a way that we can learn so much better. If we don’t get the moves correct and we keep on making mistakes Ms Papadis helps us until we get it all correct and there’s no error, spot on which is so good .
Thank you to Ms Papadis again
Diala writes . . . Wakakirri practices getting really serious
Morning:
Firstly I’d like to say, welcome to our first day of term! This morning The Wakakarri dance group got back from a wonderful and exciting holiday, unfortunately most of us forgot a certain part of the dance. 
But as usual we got back on our feet and learnt the moves. Another thing that we NEED to improve on is , put heaps of effort in to this dance,energy and a no chatting.The reason we are joining is because this would be a great experience for our school to participate in the Wakakirri Dance.It shows if you are keen to dance and really want to be in this dance or if you just decide that “Oh my friend’s doing this so I’ll do it to” No it’s not what your friends want to do it is what YOU want to do because there’s not point in coming at all. 😆 Also this isn’t JUST a competition, it’s a dance that we do to show-off our dancing skills, so 😀 it would be a waste of time just joining only to muck around and talk all the time. (I’m sorry for getting so off track )
But as usual we got back on our feet and learnt the moves. Another thing that we NEED to improve on is , put heaps of effort in to this dance,energy and a no chatting.The reason we are joining is because this would be a great experience for our school to participate in the Wakakirri Dance.It shows if you are keen to dance and really want to be in this dance or if you just decide that “Oh my friend’s doing this so I’ll do it to” No it’s not what your friends want to do it is what YOU want to do because there’s not point in coming at all. 😆 Also this isn’t JUST a competition, it’s a dance that we do to show-off our dancing skills, so 😀 it would be a waste of time just joining only to muck around and talk all the time. (I’m sorry for getting so off track )Afternoon:
This afternoon we focused mostly on multi-cultural part. We have four cultures 1 is The African Group,Another one is The Arabic Group ( I’m in the Arabic Group 😀 ), An Islander Group and last but never the least The Indian Group. We make a square and group at a time we move into the square and dance! Apart from the cultural bit, we got told where we our spots would be and we had to stay there 🙂 because some of us got mixed up for where they needed to be. So we started all the way from the beginning till the end, personally it was a fun time! Thanks tom Mrs Fifita for helping the Islander group with the moves you did a great job . We also have very enjoyable dance moves to show you on 🙄 education day. However, we will not be showing you the whole dance only a sneak preview .
. We also have very enjoyable dance moves to show you on 🙄 education day. However, we will not be showing you the whole dance only a sneak preview .Thank you for reading , Thank you Ms Papadis.
Morning:
Firstly I’d like to say, welcome to our first day of term! This morning The Wakakarri dance group got back from a wonderful and exciting holiday, unfortunately most of us forgot a certain part of the dance.
But as usual we got back on our feet and learnt the moves. Another thing that we NEED to improve on is , put heaps of effort in to this dance,energy and a no chatting.The reason we are joining is because this would be a great experience for our school to participate in the Wakakirri Dance.It shows if you are keen to dance and really want to be in this dance or if you just decide that “Oh my friend’s doing this so I’ll do it to” No it’s not what your friends want to do it is what YOU want to do because there’s not point in coming at all. Also this isn’t JUST a competition, it’s a dance that we do to show-off our dancing skills, so it would be a waste of time just joining only to muck around and talk all the time. (I’m sorry for getting so off track )
Afternoon:
This afternoon we focused mostly on the multi-cultural part. We have four cultures 1 is The African Group, another one is The Arabic Group ( I’m in the Arabic Group ), an Islander Group and last but never the least the Indian Group. We make a square and as a group at a time we move into the square and dance! Apart from the cultural bit, we got told where our spots would be and we had to stay there because some of us got mixed up about where we needed to be. So we started all the way from the beginning till the end, personally it was a fun time!
Thanks to Mrs Fifita for helping the Islander group with the moves you did a great job . We also have very enjoyable dance moves to show everyone on education day. However, we will not be showing you the whole dance only a sneak preview .
Thank you for reading , Thank you Ms Papadis.
Stage 2 Tableau
Stage 2 took part in an activity called ‘Tableau’.
In Tableau students pretend to be a character in a story, picture, play, anything!
Tableau helps students understand why characters behave the way the do. It is like being in someone else’s shoes and understanding how they might be feeling.
Stage 2 students pretended to be characters in a painting about a picnic.
What else could stage 2 do a tableau with? Do you have any ideas of stories or paintings they could use?
Drama helps us understand more.
In our Stage 3 reading group, we have been acting out different events in the text to help us get a better understanding of what happened and how the different chararacters felt.
After we read a very funny book called The Dags Meet The Bad Beasts we acted out what happened to each member of a gang of bullies.
Then we froze and made a tableau or group picture. Can you guess what happened to some of the characters?
A Wolf at the Door presented by 2 Preston.
What an amazing story, brilliantly presented and such fun.
First Performance Assembly
Every 2nd week one of our stage class’s will be responsible for leading our performance assembly.
The performance assembly will consist of: a performance, sharing and showing off special things that have happened in the class that is being showcased.
The first performance assembly today was used to show what our Special Interest Drama Group had been working during their group times.
There were several small cameos and then to finish the whole group choral verse speaking.
The audience thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment.