Dancing at the CBS

 Our Big Night at the CBS Arena

 

Swali

Hasini

Swali, Hasini, Seeya and Vianca

On the 26^th of October our Christchurch Indian population celebrated Diwali at the CBS Arena. This was a chance for Christchurch people to learn more about music, dance, yoga, fashion and food synonymous with Indian culture.  A number of girls from our school danced in front of a large crowd at the arena. Swali writes of their experience.

Seeya

 “It’s the evening!” I said. Now it’s night and we have to go to the CBS Arena. Our dance remember. “ “ Oh my goodness!” I said, “5000 people are here.

Our dance was called  Deepawali Airay and that’s a long name for Dwaliaray.  Seeya  was dancing with me along with Hasini, Vianca and Seeya’s friend who is my piano teacher’s son. His name is Adash.  Hasini danced with her shoes on and slipped a couple of times.  We usually dance bare feet and that gives us a good hold of the floor.  We wore our beautiful saris and mum did the makeup for us. I thought that we were all pretty.

Dwaliary is a dance that is supposed to make people happy.  Do watch my video. I have been dancing forever, well since I can remember. My mother taught me how to dance. This is the third time that I have danced in front of a lot of people. I always feel nervous, but it’s fun.

Written by Swali

A group of children have been learning to write about a shared experience.

There were two aims:

a) To teach the children to listen to instructions carefully and follow a process. 

b) To reflect on the process, discuss their findings and write a well sequenced recount. 

This recount demonstrates how ESOL children begin to develop simple sentence structure. An understanding of English plurals, pronouns, prepositions and past tense can take a long time for ESOL students to acquire. 

Growing Sweet Peas

Yesterday when we went to ESOL we planted sweet peas. First we got a pot and then we put the soil in the pot. Next we patted the soil. It was a lot of work to do. After that we made holes in the soil. Then we counted the seed. Then we dropped the seed into the hole. Then we covered the seed. Last we found a place to put the pot. 

Written by Vianca