Junior School Musical

Rooms 8, 10, 11 and 13 have been busy practicing our singing for the junior show.  We have been learning to sing a song called "Friends are all you need" because the story is about needing your friends.  We also have been singing "Put a little love in your heart". 
Room 8 have been working on our animal movements for our dance.  We are going to be monkeys in the show.  We have been practicing our dance moves.

Dancing

The junior school musical is this term and Room 8 have been hard at work dancing.  Here we are moving around our class like elephants.  We are trying to use our bodies in different ways and at different levels.

Bangers

Today Room 8 experimented with making sounds with paper.  We made origami paper bangers, they were a little bit tricky and we had to try really hard to concentrate on the instructions.  Here are Finn, Jack and Troy to show us how they work.

Where the wild things are

We read 'Where the wild things are' By Maurice Sendak. We looked at the illustrations to see the way texture was used in the pictures. We also looked at all the different expressions on the wild things faces. We drew our own wild things with different expressions. Then we drew our favourite one and we coloured them with pastel. Yesterday we drew big wild thing faces with different expressions and lots of texture. Today we are going to add crayon to the texture and then paint over them in watercolour paint.

Keep Dunedin Beautiful

We went to a show in our school hall yesterday called Keep Dunedin Beautiful. The show was about 3 girls who had a homework challenge to do and they decided to do their homework about looking after the environment. They found out that their parents were superheroes who were helping to keep the earth clean. There was Eco girl, the reducer and recycle man. Eco girl liked to pick up rubbish. The reducer liked to reduce waste. Recycle man was good at recycling. We learnt that we can help look after the planet..... By recycling By reducing our packaging By not littering Always be right turn off the light Don't just use something once use it twice They taught us rhymes and songs to remember to keep dunedin beuatiful We also learnt that the energy used to produce one plastic throw away drink bottle could power a lightbulb for 6 hours.

Changes in Room 8

When we came back to school some things had changed around in our classroom so we had more room to work together. We can now all fit easily around the computers and there is more room to move in our library corner. We also have a new reward system in Room 8. We are collecting points for our whole group working together on things like, being respectful, getting on with our tasks, following instructions and being good friends. We also have a cool new classmate Xavier. Xavier has come to NEVN from Port Chalmers School. He has already made friends with Lochy and they have been having a great time together playing with a basketball and rugby ball in the playground. We also have a great new College Teacher, Miss Pretorius. She is going to be in Room 8 for the rest of the year! We can't wait to get to know her and to have her teach us some new things.

Toys and Games

We have been learning about toys and games. We learnt that lots of the toys we like today have been around a very long time. We went Toitu to learn about toys and games with Danny. We played a gmae of marbles and learnt how to flick them. Danny took us to an olden days hut where a long time ago four children lived, on rainy days they could only stay inside, they played marbles and with a yoyo. At the end we had some free time to play with dominoes, jack straws, puppets, skipping ropes, yoyo's, dolls house, washing line, ironing board, tiddlywinks and bingo. Ben's favourite part of the whole trip was the hut, Ryan and Jack liked the marbles, Lola liked dressing up, Harriet liked playing puppets, Nanaia liked bingo, and Troy like the dominoes!