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!