Hiwi the Kiwi

Mr Minstrel and Mrs Minstrel came to school on Tuesday and performed in the hall. There was singing and dancing and lots of laughing!!We learnt about safety on boats, wearing life jackets and all about flares. We also heard about things we need to take with us on boats when we are fishing....things like rulers to make sure our fish are the right size and ice to keep them fresh. People were given posters and stickers and magazines. The person who writres the best story about going fishing will win a fishing rod.

Lamb at School

Macauley brought her lamb,Naught, to school. (Naught is short for naughty!!!) Naught behaved really well. We saw him being fed from a bottle and watched him follow Macauley aroung .It was fun to have him at school for the afternoon.

Teaching Each Other

We have been teaching the children in our groups. We all ahd to think of something we wanted to teach others so wehad things like soccer, painting, clay work , hockey making sock puppets and lots of other things. It was good to be the teacher and it was also good being taught new stuff by friends.

Swimming

Our swimming classes are over for another term. We had fun and learnt lots and all improved. One day we got to dive in which was really good.

communication

As part of our study in communication we took photos that showed us communicating our feelings through our faces and bodies .We had fun deciding which emotion to show and how best to do it . Later we made posters with the photos and explained what each one showed and thought about how we could make them even better. Here are some of our photos.

Speeches

For homework we had to prepare 2 minute speeches on something we were interested in . We had to think about speaking clearly and making our speeches interesting!!! We could show pictures or charts . Some people talked about sports and others about their pets or interests . Everyone did really well and we all learned new things .

Keep Dunedin Beautiful

We really enjoyed the visit from the actors who come round schools to talk about recycling. They acted out all about putting rubbish in the right places . They told us not to throw rubbish into streams and bushes because our favourite places would be ruined.

Table tennis

We have been doing gymnastics this term and have got really good at vaulting over the boxes!!! Now we are playing table tennis and padder tennis. Having the Olympics on means we can get some ideas from there to improve our skills.

Art Gallery Trip

We really enjoyed our trip to the Art Gallery .We did lots of fun things with Mr Neumegen. We looked at the ways you can communicate through art and all the things that pictures can tell us . We drew pictures that played with words!!

Recycled Robot

Brent worked really hard to make this robot out of old boxes. It was quite big and its arms moved.

Changes

We made clay pots as part of our study looking at changes.First we rolled snake shapes and twirled them into spirals and pressed all the spirals together to make a bowl shape. They looked really good. Then we mixed up lots of ingredients like citric acid and baking soda and herbs and we made bath bombs. These smelt great. We wrapped them and made gift tags and gave ythem to our parents.

Challenges

We have been looking at inventions and inventors. We invented our own marble tracks and tested them. Some of us had spirals and bridges and jumps. Mr McKenzie came and judged the tracks. We found that they were harder to make than we thought! After that we worked on some technology challenges .We made clothes and stilts and all sorts of things with just newspaper and sellotape. We had to work cooperatively with our group and that wasn't always easy.

Swimming

Room 3 has just finished going swimming at D.N.I pool.We all improved and really enjoyed it. Some of us went with Room 5 and some with Room 10 and we all had fun.

Cross Country

On the last day of term 1 we had our school cross country. It was a lovely day and we sat outside and watched the classes run the course .We all cheered for the others and were excited for our turn.

Mihi Whakatau

On Thursday Rooms 3 and 5 welcomed the Pakiki Kids and thePuanani kids to North East Valley Normal. Meihana spoke and we sang a waiata and Mr McKenzie spoke and we sang again. Then the people from the viisitors side spoke and sang and then the older people had a hongi . After the official part was finished we were able to buddy up with the children from the Pakiki class and show them all over the school and tell them where we were allowed to play and our school rules. It was fun.

New year and a new class

Hello everyone.
We are Room 3 for 2012.There are 28 of us in this class. Some of us are still 6, some of us are ,7 some even older!!! We are part of the senior syndicate at North East Valley Normal School. Our teachers are Mrs Evans-Weir and Mrs Hesson. In our room we have children who have travelled a long way to be with us, John-Paul is from the Phillipinnes, Grace is from America and Jazmin is from Malaysia. Unfortunately Jazmin is going back to Malaysia in March...we will miss her a lot.We are going to be writing our blog to keep you up to date with the things we have done and show you some of the great work that we have produced.