Maths Extra

A group of us were the representative team for our school at the Extra Maths Quiz.  Bonnie,Steen,Dominic and Eva answered many different and difficult math questions. Even thought it was hard Dominic said that he really enjoyed. 
They did not win but thought it was a good experience as some had never been apart of this competition.

Dominic

St Johns

Our class was able to practice differents skills to help people who have become hurt or injured.  We practice on each other and learnt the correct way of doing things.
We thought these skills would be helpful when we are on duty as a peer mediator or when we have E.O.T.C week, 

Brodie
Tamahori

Soccer

This term, we have been taking part in inter school soccer.  We get together, having  fun playing the game at each others school.  We haven't had many games due to the poor weather and muddy fields.  Finally we might be able to have our final game on Tuesday , here at school.


Brodie and Tamahori

Kahurangi Dance Group

We were lucky to watch the performance present by the Kahurangi Dance Group.  They shared waiata,haka,poi,rakau and stories with us.

Using the environment

We were lucky to have a crab apple tree that sits outside of the school.  We noticed that the fruit was ripe and that it was being left to rot.  As  a class, we thought it would be wasteful to leave the fruit so we came up with ideas on how we could use this fruit.
Finally we came up with making jam from it and lovely it was.  It took many cooking sessions and glass jar finding but we came out with a sweet reward. 

Art Gallery Visit

Having a chance to go to the Art Gallery was a great opportunity to learning new skills .  Using the knowlege that the children had learnt on their trip to Warrington Beach, they used this in designing their pictures.  Everyone loved the visit and asked when they would be able to go again.

Mussel Time

To help us with understanding how a mussel works we looked carefully at their parts.  It was interesting to learn how it moves and feeds.

Warrington Beach Visit

Working together

Team work and the skills that you need have been some of the learning that we have been finding out about.  This was important too when we were choosing people who were going to be a peer mediator.

Portraits

We have found different ways to practice drawing ourselves.  It has been fun using different styles and materials to show this .  Others have also enjoyed looking at the different ways we have presented ourselves on our classroom walls.

2015 a new year

It's the start of a new school year at North East Valley Normal.  We have all returned with busy minds, ready to discover new things.  There has been a few changes in the school with two new teachers and the re-naming of classes.  We are now Room S4.  We are busy finding out about each other and we are beginning our learning about the beach environment here in Otago.     Keep an eye out on our posts to see what we have been up too.

Art Exhibition

My dog Sika

I was lucky to bring my dog, Sika to school.  She is a special dog that my family and I have taught new tricks.  Even at home she has begun to teach herself tricks and we will often get home to doors that have been opened. 

Macauley

Satine's truck comes to school

As part of my homework my dad brought his truck to school.  We looked at all the things that he had done to his truck.  I shared all the things I knnew about the truck and dad helped me.  It was fun explaining the different parts and then being able to see how many children we could get on the back.  I enjoyed this topic challenge.

Satine

Tayla and her friends PAVLOVA

For Tayla's homework she got her own choice, She thought for a while and an idea popped into her head. "Lets do a pavlova",she thought. She got her grandad to help her make a pavlova. He loves to make pavlova. So on Wednesday she got all of her ingredients and she started to make the pavlova. She made the pavlova mix and spreed it on a baking tray and cooked it for one hour. On Thursday she brought it to school and her reading group (the purple group) whipped the cream,cut up some fruit, place the fruit onto the Pavlova and finally add lots of sprinkles. Before they finished they took more photos.

Plastic plates and spoons were ready and Tayla cut her magnificent Pavlova. Time for sharing.  Lots of smiles and thank you were heard as Tayla shared out her Pavlova. Everyone loved the pavlova!

Tayla
Tui

Sportsman

We have been privileged with having  many children in Room 5 who have achieved in their sports.  Brodie and Andre were part of the successful soccer team that won the Seven aside tournament and gold was struck.  Charlotte achieved trials for netball and has gone on to use these skills in the school netball team.  Some children have had success in Taekwondo, Gymnastics and Swimming.  Keep up the amazing skills .

A Musican at school.

On Monday 19th  of May, the whole school went to see and listen to the musician, Bob Bikerton.  He showed us his many musical instruments and he played them for us.
We listened to the different types of music being played by each of the instruments.  He was very clever and shared what he liked about music and his instruments.

Dominic and Brodie.

Kids can cook

  

What a great visit we had from Chef Chris from Kids Can Cook.
On May 13th  the whole school went to take part in Kids Can Cook in the hall.  Byron was chosen to be the Sues Chef (The assistant chef) and had to call Chris MASTER.
Byron helped Chris make french crapes with apple and silver beet .   Chris named it green snotty vegetable.    Everyone got to have a crepe and some people got more.  Some people really liked them but some people didn't. We talked about all the special new Zealand food especially  marmite and kiwi fruit.  It was fun finding out and cooking the food that we can find in our garden.

Macauley  Timothy.

Soccer for term 2

We had a great game of soccer against George St.  Sam was a great goal keeper in the first half.  Emma scored a great goal making the team take the lead.   Andre,Tim and Charlotte were great at defence in the second half.
Ben D and Annashae were great at controlling the ball.  Brodie was awesome at goalie.  Ben M and Jessica were fantastic at mid field.  Finally Sam scored two amazing goals which made the final score 3 to nil.  Everyone played amazing but there could only be one player of the day and that was Sam.

Dominic

Term 2 swimming

The school has been taking part in swimming for the last two weeks.  We have learnt new strokes like frog kick.   We have improved in our freestyle.  Here are some of the people doing their best.

Dominic and Brodie.