Happy New Year

Can you believe it is almost 2011? I hope you are all enjoying your holidays and are being kind to your families. I have been doing lots of walking with my dogs, today we walked the pineapple track, it was a really long way! Poor Gus is snoring now he is so tired. Take care :) Miss B

Kat Anna Fiddle

We were so excited to see out friends Kaitrin and Anna at school. They came to share some wonderful Christmas stories with us, music and fun! We loved joining in on the Kiwi twelve days of Christmas song, the pig was hilarious. We love having Kat Anna Fiddle to perform for us, Merry Christmas Kaitrin and Anna.

Logan Park high School Junior Show 2010

Wow! What a fantastic show the year 9 and 10 students from LPHS put on at their school last week. Congratulations guys, we loved it! Miss B's favourite was seeing one of her former students, Brittany, dressed up as a fairy.

Maps and Directions

Busy, busy, busy

Room 2 have been so busy over the last few weeks that we have not had time to blog! We have been having so much fun we will have to catch up on our blogging so we can share it with you :)

Congratulations Crystal

Crystal is this weeks superstar assembly award winner for the amazing work she has been doing in writing. Tino pai to mahi Crystal!

So long Show off, we will miss you!

Miss B made a sad discovery yesterday morning. When she went to check on our pet frog, Show off, he had died. We will miss his jumping about trying to distract us from our work. He has been an interesting pet and we are lucky to have had him from a tadpole and watch him grow up into a frog.

Brilliant Britney

Britney was this weeks assembly award winner. Miss Pauley chose Britney for her fantastic story writing, especially her Commonwealth games imaginative recount. Well Done Brits!

Room 2 commonwealth games

For the last two weeks Room 2 have been working on Commonwealth Games stories. We wrote stories about all kinds of sports like swimming, diving, sprinting, hockey, cycling, shotput, weightlifting and javelin. Liam's story was about rugby. He was in the All Blacks, Shay's story was about diving. Crytal's story was about gymnastics, Kane's story was about weightlifting and Kaci's was about shotput.
Here is the best bit from Rory's story: "The queen said ALL BLACKS WIN ALL BLACKS WIN and her crown fell right off because she was excited."

Here is the best bit from Elisha's story "When It my turn I did a double twist flip on the 10m bar and I won a gold medal."

By Elisha and Rory.

J and J

Our amazing assembly award winners this week are Jazz and Jasmine! Jazz has passed ALL of her basic facts levels, the only person ever to do this so quickly, genius!
Jasmine got her award from Miss Pauley for the fantastic way she follows instructions and is always so happy and helpful. Well done ladies.

How to freak out your mother!

Shay, Kane and Cameron read a story called "How to freak your mother out with a dinosaur". It was an unusual story because it was made into a flow chart. You had to read the boxes in the chart and make decisions by following the arrows. The boys made a flow chart themselves in publisher by using the story as a model. Here is Shay's amazing work!

Assembly Award Winners

I can't believe I forgot to tell you about these amazing children! Jazz and Oliver have both got assembly awards for amazing progress in swimming, they were such hard workeres in the pool!
Lucy's award was for her amazing action drawings. Lucy works so very carefully in art thinking about her picture composition. Well Done!

PUPPETS

 

Guess what? Room 2 have a small zoo in our classroom! Our lovely PTA gave us some money to spend on some new things for our class because the children did such a great job of raising money in our mathathon. Room 2 decided we would like some puppets to use at reading time and they have arrived. Some of the girls were enjoying playing with the puppets this morning, take a look

Jump Day!

Check out the fantastic day we had yesterday at our Jump Day to help raise some money for the heart foundation. Thanks Lucy for taking such amazing shots!

Lift your Lip!

 

Today we had a visit from Sam and Tina our wonderful dental therapists. It is a special oral health week at NEVNS so they came to talk to us about caring for our teeth. We learnt we should brush our teeth twice a day and that we should not rinse out the toothpaste as it has flouride in it and leaving a little on the outside of our teeth will help to protect them. We also learnt about caring for our teeth by eating a healthy diet and drinking plenty of water. Here we are with our treats for our teeth from Sam and Tina, new toothbrushes and toothpaste. Ka rawe!

Super Spellers

Check out these superstar spellers, all those magnificent spelling brains and good looks too!

Welcome Back Rory!

We are so excited, Rory has come back to North East Valley Normal School! Rory has spent one term at his old school, Palmerston Primary, while he was spending time with his Mum. We are so pleased he is back with us, we really missed his smiley face.

Welcome Back!

Welcome back everyone for the last term of 2010. It's been a long time between blog posts, my work computer has been full of nasty viruses and is now hopefully completely fixed. I have a number of videos and photos from the end of last term to post that have been waiting since the computer got sick, hopefully I can post them now! Stay tuned :)

Instructions

This week we have been learning about instructions. We have been writing instructions for our instruments and marshmellow sandwiches, hide and go seek and playing octopus.by olivia

Instructions

We have been learning about writing instructions. We wrote about how to make our favourite sandwich, how to be clown, marshmellow sandwiches, how to make our musical instruments and how to play hide and seek and octopus.

Garden Guru's

 

It's spring! Time to plant our garden. Yesterday Miss B and her garden guru friends went out to work in the garden while there was a spot of fine weather. They cleared the weeds, dug over the garden and planted new things. We now have strawberries, spinach, silverbeet, beans, lettuce, broccoli, spring onions, carrots and beetroot planted. We hope they all grow big, strong and healthy so we can have tasty things to eat next term.

Welcome!!!

It is with pleasure we welcome Amelia van de Klundert to our class whanau. Amelia is 8 years old and she is in year 4. She lives with her Mum and Dad and her brother Thomas, who is in Room 11. Amelia comes to us from Opoho School. Welcome Amelia.

Amelia was the winner of our assembly award this week for the amazing work she has been doing in technology, planning and constructing a rain stick. Tino pai to mahi Amelia.

Lucas - Kapa haka star!

Lucas is our assembly award winner this week for his outstanding effort in Kapa haka. Lucas was so enthusiastic that it made the audience smile! Top job Lucas you should be proud of your performance.

Kapa haka at the Polynesian Festival

 

Congatulations senior school children on your amazing performance yesterday at the Polynesian festival, we were all so proud of you and the way you represented our school! Ka rawe!!!

Take a look at some of the thoughts Lucy, Amelia, Elisha, Lucas and Sara had about our day. They are learning to blog our news themselves.

Kapa haka

On Thursday the senior school went to the Poly fest. When we got there we had to put our bags beside the wall and we put our shoes and socks there as well. Then we moved up to the front of the court. When it was our turn the girls had to line up first then the boys. When we finished we went home.

Kapa haka

At Kapa haka I took photos of the performance. They were cool and funny. Miss Pauley made a video. By Amelia

Kapa haka

We went to kapa haka. We enjoyed it. We hung up our bags. We were a bit embarrassed but we had a great time. All the teachers thought I was good at kapa haka. We went home.

Kapa haka

The senior block went to the Poly fest to do our kapa haka peformance. There was a lot of people. We went on the stage some of us looked to see where our mum and dad were. Lots of people smiled. Some of the audience copied us. By Sara

Kapahaka at the polyfest

We went on the double decker bus to get to the Poly fest. When we got there we had to put our bags in the basketball court. The senior school went up on the stage to do kapa haka. The senior school was great! One of the younger kids from our school named Andre performed in a different group of kids. by Lucy

Kiaora

Kiaora children! I hope you have a wonderful day with Mr Bond and Miss Pauley on Monday. I will be away at a computer course with our friend Disa the computer expert. I hope I learn some great new things to share with you when I see you again on Tuesday.

Super star

This week our assembly award goes to Silva for the fantastic work she has been doing in handwriting. Well done Silva, keep up the great work!

Fantastic slope Silva!

 

Look at the wonderful effort Silva has put into sloping her handwriting, she has got it just right and it is very neat too! Excellent work Silva.

Cupcake Day for the SPCA

Wow look at all the amazing cupcakes we created to raise money for our local SPCA. We had a fantastic, fun morning with our helpers Jesseme and Ashleigh creating tasty treats to sell at lunchtime. We have been talking about the work the SPCA does for animals who haven't found loving homes and the sorts of things the money we raise could help to pay for. Our SPCA really needs the money to keep helping awesome pets to find new homes, just like Miss B's dog Murphy. We are so glad we could help them out with the $90 we raised by selling our cupcakes. Top effort Room 2!

Murphy says thanks for helping my friends out!

Trying new things

We have been reading and writing lots of fantastic poetry about food. We tried a new food, dried cranberries. Some people loved them, some didn't but everyone agreed they were strange and wrinkly! We used our five senses to think of describing words for the cranberries and then we used them to write our poems. We also used similes in our work, can you spot them?

Dried Cranberry
It looks slimy and wrinkly.
It feels oily and bumpy.
It smells sweet and sour.
It looks wrinkly like old people.
By Sara

Dried Cranberry
It looks tiny and wrinkly.
It feels squishy and bumpy.
It smells juicy and sweet.
It tastes silky and juicy.
It looks like a red scribble.
By Silva

Brilliant work Britney

Britney was the winner of our assembly award on Friday for her fantastic work at soccer. She worked very hard to follow James and Dave's instructions and to concentrate on using both her feet to move the ball. Brilliant Brits!

Superstar Spellers

Tino pai to mahi children. Excellent work in your spelling this week! 100%

Finding out about photography

We are learning about photography for art. We are learning about how to take good photographs. We have talked about how to use objects to frame our pictures. We had a look around our school and classroom for things that would make good frames and then tried out some of our ideas with a buddy. We looked at all our pictures and talked about which ones were most effective and why. You can see some for yourself here, which ones do you think are best?

Soccer Skills

Photo Stories - Sound

Have a look at some of the amazing work the children have done using photo story to present what they have learnt about sound!

Cool computing Cameron

Cameron is the assembly award winner for being such a whizz kid on the computer. He was able to make his sound book on photostory in super quick time, including the tricky bits like adding music and talking. Cameron was also a great ICT leader, helping other children to know where to go next with their photo stories. Well done Cameron

Our new room!!

Here it is our newly finished room, we just love it!

Our new room

Finally, after a longer than predicted wait, Room 2 are back in the new and improved Room 2! We are so excited about our lovely new room, it is looking very flash. Stay tuned for photos!

WE'RE MOVING!

Yes that's right Room 2 is moving back into their lovely "new" classroom in the senior block. We hope to be all shifted in by Friday, fingers crossed. :)

Congratulations Crystal

Crystal is our assembly award winner this week. She has been working really hard in writing to add excellent details to her recount to make her writing more interesting. She has also been concentrating very hard on her work. Keep it up Crystal.

Fractions

The children have been learning about reading, writing, making and recognising fractions. We have learnt that fractions are about dividing or sharing out objects or groups of things and even numbers too!

Marshmallow Sammies

Look at the amazing learning we have been doing about writing instructions.



Try making them yourself using Lucy's instructions.

1 You need a plate.
2 You need a packet of biscuits and marshmallows.
3 A microwave oven to cook them in.
4 Put the biscuits in the microwave.
5 Get a marshmalow and put it on one biscuit and put another biscuit on the top.
6 Now cook for 20 seconds.
7 When you take it out let it cool off for 25 seconds.
8 Now stuff your face!

Let us know how well these instructions work!

Sounds Amazing

We have been learning about sound and how it travels in science. We have had a lot of fun experimenting with making sound, working out how it is made and how it travels to our ears. We have also found about the inner ear and how it works. We are now working out ways to share our knowledge with the junior school so we can help them to learn about sound too. We are planning presentations using photostory which we hope to also share on our blog and wiki. Look at these great pictures of us experimenting with string telephones.

Clever Cameron

This week Cameron won our class award at assembly. Cameron has been working really hard on his handwriting, shaping his letters neatly and sloping his work carefully. Cameron has been working hard to be able to move onto linking, well done Cameron!

Army Training

Stunning Spellers

Congratulations children on your excellent spelling.

Celebrating Jasmine

This week our assembly award went to Jasmine Zepter. Jasmine has been working really hard, using her initiative, asking questions and thinking carefully in all areas of her work. Well done Jasmine!