Mr McLarens Musical Instruments

Mr McLaren came to our school one afternoon to share his woodwind instruments.  He showed us how to make sounds using bottles.  He played notes on the bottles that were high and low.  He played us the song Mary had a little lamb. 
Next he played instruments like the flute,clarinet, recorder,bassoon and our favourite the saxophone.  Caitlin joined in the act with her giving a high five when Mr McLaren blew up a balloon with the bassoon.  It was a great afternoon and we all enjoyed his sharing.

Ruby
Crystal

Spelling Quiz at Tahuna

On Wednesday 26th June,R.V. Phaedra,Tori,Kaci,Caitlin and Lucas competed in the Otago Daily Times Extra Spelling Quiz being held at Tahuna Intermediate. 
There was a series of questions and quizzes such as dictionary work,spelling,guess the word,word jumble,correct the sentences and knowledge.  It was long afternoon finishing at 6.30pm.  Overall we did very well with one of our teams having a score of 92/100.  All of the teams did a really good job.

Phaedra     Tori

Homework R.V.

Friday was Topic Challenge time and I got to share my homework and baking on macaroons.  My homework was also presented on a power point.  I used transitions to go to the next slide and lots of descriptive information about macaroons.
Macaroons are a type of meringue with any desired filling ,like jam or butter cream in between two macaroon.  There are many types of macaroon around the world like Korea,Japan and Germany.  The country that created the macaroons is France.  I baked four French macaroons and twenty-one Filipino macaroons.  They were really yummy.

R.V.

Lucas and homework

My homework was about origami/paper folding.  I taught the class how to make a paper claw.  The insturctions in my book that I had written out were not clear compared with me going around and showing people how to do it.
For some of the children I had to do some of the folding so that they could carry on.  Soon everyone was making the paper claws.  I later found out that a class mate had made over 500 claws.

Lucas

Layla comes to school

On Friday, my dog called Layla came to school.  She was here to met the room 5 children.  She made it easily up the stairs even though it had been raining hard outside. When she arrived in the room the children greeted her with smiles  and pats.  Layla loved the attention and all the treats she was given.
The treats were a mixture of Shmako's amd meaty bites.  Everyone fed her one which made her want to stay longer.  It was time for her to leave so my mum and brother took her back home.

Dylan

Strike

On Thursday 20^th June, the children from N.E.V.S and other primary schools went to D.N.I to watch a performance put on by the musical company called STRIKE.

STRIKE is a drumming band from Wellington that uses different types of instruments that you can hit, bash or strike.  Some of their drums they had built in a different way by hanging them from a scaffolding tower.

The band names that visited Dunedin were Mr T, Mr Sparkle and Cookie Monster. 

Matthew was choosen from the audience to come up and show off his drumming.  He was fantastic.  He even did the moon walk in his act.  .

 

Our favourite was the marimba performance called Tropical Forest.  There was also a fire performance where they lit a stick on fire and they used liquid in a spray bottle to make sounds and beats.

 

R.V.

Caitlin

 

 

Safe Kids St Johns

On Tuesday 18th June, Belinda from St John Normal  came to North East Valley to share and teach us what to do if we ever got hurt or saw others who had been hurt.
We got to have a go at CPR.  CPR is something when you do mouth to mouth and press down on someones heart.  You only do this if there is no signs of life.  Someone breathing and their heart beating-pulse.
Belinda asked us what are some of the dangers that that we could get ourselves into and we came up with a lot.  Keeping safe was the answer. 
Next Belinda asked for a volunteer for to put on some fake blood to see what we would need to do.  Anna was picked and then we watched what we needed to do to a wound that was bleeding.  We all got to practice bandaging each other .  At the end , we thanked Belinda for all the things that she had taught us.  Mrs Kewene - Edwards presented our certificates and medical package that we all recieved after completing this course.