Merry Christmas!!!!

Kia ora everyone I hope you all had a fantastic christmas and that you are enjoying the beautiful weather we are having! Take care and have a wonderful holiday!! from Miss B

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Golf

Today room 2 had golf lessons with marvellous Melanie from Kiwi Golf. She taught us about the parts of a club, how to hold it correctly and how to swing the club so the ball goes a long way. We practiced by hitting balls of all different sizes. Next Melanie taught us how to chip a ball, that is hitting it so it only goes a short distance. We learnt that this is the shot you play to get your ball on the green. Golf was great!

Synchronised Swimming

 
On Saturday night Miss B was lucky enough to go to the Aqua Gold Synchronised Swimming Club's christmas show, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. She went to watch two of our very talented North East Valley Normal School students, Rika and Sierra, perform. The show was just amazing and the girls were brilliant. What a lot of hard work they have put in to their synchronised swimming.

Cameron's Incredible Homework

For homework this week the children had a range of activities to choose from to do with swimming. One of these activities was to design their dream swimming pool. Take a look at the amazing swimming pool Cameron has made, it has a fence, diving board, beach balls, people relaxing on lilos, and lots of little people swimming. Cameron's work is just amazing and the children were all very excited to see it, especially since it is edible! Well done Cameron, excellent creative thinking.

Armistice Day

Today the whole school went out to the flagpole to mark Armistice Day. Armistice Day is the day the day that we remember the end of the first world war at eleven minutes past eleven. We had a minutes silence and then sang the national anthem. Miss Clarke talked to us about how they celebrate this occasion in Canada too, and then we compared the different ways the days are celebrated in different countries.

Miss Clarke is back!

After a terrible bout of pneumonia the children are thrilled Miss Clarke is back in the classroom to complete her final posting. They had a great time yesterday afternoon practicing their jumping skills while learning about working together and looking after each other, and giving and receiving.

Celebrating the Pacific

On Friday Room 2, and a fabulous group of parent helpers, went to the museum to learn about different celebrations across the Pacific. We all wore a lavalava and a Fijian ai, which is a floral headband, that we made with Kiri at the museum. We participated in a kava ceremony, everybody had a job to do, N'Keyah even got to be a princess. The fire walking was great fun, and it looked quite realistic as you can see from our photos.

Our Classroom Video

Check out the amazing video we made together to show what the children think about being learners in Room 2.

Wonderful wordsmiths

Look at how many wonderful children scored 100% in their spelling test this week, our best result ever! Well done children, you should feel so very proud of yourselves. :)

Learning to Blog

The children are just starting to learn to blog their own news. Today they had to choose a topic, decide who would be photographers, reporters and bloggers and then work to put their story together. Take a look at how they turned out.

Culture day

On monday North East Valley Normal school had a big day were each class made something for the shared lunch for culture day.

Amaryllis

Wow look at the amaryllis now!
Watch out the amaryllis is going to have more flowers soon.
We can't wait.

Jealousy

We are learning a new poem called jealousy. Miss B read us the poem and then we had to find examples of personification in it. We wrote our own poems Sometimes I'm jealous sometimes I'm not but i am right now so i look like a monster.

going swimming

On wednesday the 4th of November room 2 went swimming. First room 2 put on their swimming togs. Then we waited for our swimming group. We went into the pool with our teachers. We practiced swimming freestyle, backstroke and "frogs legs".
By TJ, Amiru, Connor, Patrick and Austin.

North Zone Sports

Yesterday Stella, Tarryn and Meihana went to the Caledonian Ground to compete in sprints and relays. The big girls made it into the finals for the relay. It was really hard to compete because it was hot and most of the children were much older. They did a great job racing against big kids in the 800m.

Awesome Amaryllis

 
Just look at what happened over the weekend!

Terrific Tegan

On Friday we had a special treat, Tegan had chosen a story from home that she really enjoyed and read it to the class. It was a really funny book all about animal bottoms! Miss B loved being able to enjoy the story as part of the audience. Tegan read in a lovely clear voice. Well Done Tegan your reading was terrific.

Printmaking

We have been learning about printmaking and how it is different from other types of artwork. We made cardboard block prints, using koru designs, and used our new school printing press to make amazing white prints on black paper. Here are Soli and Austin hard at work!

Our Amazing Amaryllis

We are so excited! Our first flower on our amaryllis is almost completely open and it has only taken one day. I wonder what it will look like after the weekend?

Amaryllis

Yesterday Dylan, from room 10, and his Mum and Dad came to visit Miss B after school. They asked if she would like an amaryllis to have in the classroom. Miss B was so excited because she had seen one in room 10 and thought it was beautiful. We had a lot of questions about our amaryllis, so we did some investigating and found out that they are a kind of lilly. We are waiting for our amaryllis to flower and thinking of ways to describe what it looks like. We made a wordle out of our descriptive language.

Busy Bees

Last Monday Anna's Grandad came to our classroom to talk about bees.
First he showed us the queen bee inside the glass frame then he told us to pass around the honey comb where the bees lay their eggs. Then we got to look at the bee larvae in some photographs, when the first queen bee grub hatches it goes and kills all the other queen bee grubs so she is the queen of the hive. He gave us some fresh honey and we had a delicious, nutritious honey sandwich.

By Room 2

Sensational Swimmers

 
This term we are lucky enough to have swimming lessons with the fantastic instructors from JC Swim School. We have all been working very hard and showing amzing improvement in our swimming since our lessons at the beginning of the year. Congratulations to Chloe who got an award at this weeks assembly for her focus and concentration at swimming this week.

Star Handwriting

 
Today we are celebrating Meihana's work. He is working hard at making flicks on his letters before he starts learning to link his handwriting. What a beautiful, tidy example of handwriting Meihana. Ka pai to mahi.

Confident Kids

 
Today with Constable Somerfield we have been learning to be confident kids. We have been working on knowing what to say and do if someone is doing something to us we don't like. We are confident kids who can keep ourselves safe.

Spelling Superstars

 

All of these fabulous children have scored 100% in this weeks spelling test. Tino pai to mahi tamariki!

Keeping Ourselves Safe

 
This week we have been working with Constable Somerfield on strategies for keeping ourselves safe in different situations. Today we talked about the parts of our body and learnt that no one touches our bodies without our permission. This made us also think about the way we treat other people.

On Friday afternoon North East Valley Normal School had a puppet show called "The Valley of the Puppets" in the school hall. Kaitrin, Drew and Anna helped us to make puppets and learn music for the show.
We thought the puppet show was exciting, fascinating, fantastic, excellent, awesome, amazing.

The Valley of the Puppets

 

The countdown is on! The children are starting to get very excited about performing in the school puppet show on Friday and having a chance to show off the beautiful foam mouth puppets they have made with our wonderful artists Drew and Kaitrin. We hope to see you Friday afternoon in the school hall for the show!

Poly Fest 09

 

We have just got back from lunch after a fantastic Kapa Haka performance at this years Poly Fest. We were so excited to be on the stage in front of our friends and family. We were proud to perform and represent our school. Mr McKenzie and Mrs Staynes were in the audience and they said we were brilliant!

Creativity with Kaitrin

 
Today we worked with Kaitrin on some drama exercises on showing our emotion with our faces and bodies. Here some children from our class are working cooperatively to show the emotion grumpy, boy they have done a great job!

Goal Setting

We have set some goals for ourselves for running to get ready for the school cross country.

Alyssa said "My goal is to run faster".

Aini said " My goal is to run the whole way".

Patrick said "My goal is to try to pass people quicker when I run the cross country".

Lydia said "My goal is to be faster than Meihana."

Austin said "My goal is to not run so fast at the start so I don't get too puffed".

TJ said "My goal is to run for a longer distance".

We have talked about ways we can achieve these goals and we will be keeping track of our progress

Maths with Miss Clarke

We have been learning about measuring in maths with Miss Clarke. We had to work cooperatively to make our identical twins from crepe paper and balloons. We measured from our neck to our hips, our arms and our legs with crepe paper. Then we measured parts of our bodies with things around the classroom. We had to remember to always measure from the start to the finish. It was quite exciting when the balloons started popping!

Harold

Today we had a fantastic visit to the life education bus to see our friends Jacki and Harold. We went on a fascinating train journey around the cirulatory system and learnt all sorts of things about how our heart works. We put some of our ideas into a wordle. We can't wait until our second visit on Monday!

Making books on the internet

Today at reading time Connor, Austin, Haziq and Amiru used the information they had learnt about worms, leeches and slugs to create their own fact book using bookr. It was a wee bit tricky beause the pages kept flipping if you got too close to the edge, but it was good fun!

Wild Hair Wordle

On Friday we had a wild hair day at NEVNS to help Scott to raise money for the SPCA and Canteen. Miss B showed us how to use a programme called wordle to organise and brainstorm our ideas for writing about Wild Hair Day.

Music with Anna

On Friday Anna came to visit room 2. We listened to two malaysian songs that we are going to sing in our puppet show. One of the songs is about a nana with only two teeth and a cockatoo. We have to perform the songs with our puppets.

By Room 2

Chuck the Chicken

Today we learnt to play a new game with Miss Clarke, called Chuck the Chicken at school, because we are learning to play games where we have to cooperate.

How to play Chuck the Chicken

You will need:

A toy chicken

Two teams

A netball court

1 First make sure you have even teams.

2 One team is throwing the chicken and the other team is chasing it.

3 The throwing team yells "Chuck the chicken" then they chuck the chicken.

4 When they have thrown the chicken they get into a circle and one of their team runs around the circle. They get a point for each time the person gets around the circle.

5 Meanwhile the other team picks up the chicken then their team lines up and they pass the chicken over and under all the people in their team. When they are finished they yell "Chuck the chicken" and they throw the chicken.

6 The game finishes when the teacher says and the team with the most points wins.

By Room 2

Last week we welcomed a new student to Room 2. Kaye is from the Phillipines and she is having fun making new friends at North East Valley Normal. Welcome to our school Kaye, its great to have you here!

Scott Kvick - Super skiker

Today we were very lucky to meet Scott Kvick who plays ice hockey for the Dunedin Thunder. The children had heard about Scott and his skikes in the Otago Daily Times and Mrs Will arranged for him to visit us. Scott is planning on using his skikes, which are kind of a cross between skis and skates, to skike from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise money for Canteen and the SPCA. We loved meeting Scott and hearing about his very interesting challenge. Good Luck Scott!

Hot Shot Word Wizards

Congratulations to our top spellers this week. Our group is getting bigger, Ka pai to mahi!