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!