Friday Puppet Show

Our puppet show was in the hall on Friday. Christine ran the show with 20 puppets and she did different voices for all of them. The children said it was really funny. Christine has a surprise for family night. She is selling a DVD of a puppet performance at a special price!

Have you heard of a caiman?

A Caiman is a reptile that we learned about in class. It  lives in Brazil. A Caiman is a smaller type of crocodile. It is related to alligators but alligators only live in China and the United States.

The caiman is a large aquatic reptile found in the swamps and tropical rivers that cover Central and South America. Although the caimans have much narrower bodies, they are most closely related to alligators and crocodiles.

Caimans are found in a variety of habitats throughout Central and South America from marshes and swamps to mangrove rivers and lakes. As with other reptiles, caimans have scaly skin and live a fairly nocturnal existence.

Caimans range in size from the dwarf caiman which measures just over a meter in length, to the black caiman which can to grow to be nearly 5 meters long. The black caiman is the largest caiman species in the world and is found in the slow-moving rivers and lakes that surround the Amazon basin.

Look what Teresa brought in to class. It came from Australia. The children loved seeing the crocodile skull.

SWIMMING STARTS ON THURSDAY

Room 12 swimming starts on Thursday in a half hour slot before lunch.  Please send your child to school with named togs, a towel and a plastic bag or swimming bag for wet things. Goggles are optional.

We are learning to write information reports.

We have been learning to write information reports. Check out the information reports we have written about our families. The children wrote, proofread and filmed themselves. Because the children are at different stages of the writing process, some children may be on to the publishing stage and others may be planning, writing, editing and proofreading.

We Are Who We Are - Puppets

We are all part of communities and during the fair we saw our school community come together to put on a successful fair.

We have been learning that we are part of a family/whanau with its own culture and traditions. We have been making puppets to represent ourselves and our family members. We have LOVED making them.

About the Fair

What a wonderful fair it was! Thank you to parents, supporters AND Room 12 for making it such a success. This is what our stand looked like as we were packing away. Our big sellers were the necklaces, cupcakes and sand game. We sold out of chupachups and lollipops were popular too - lucky we had heaps!!!We had about 10 cupcakes left from all that baking and we could have sold the rest I reckon if we hadn't been closed down. Such fun!!!

Puppets

Next week we are learning about puppets with a view to making puppets that represent our family/whanau members and performing little shows for our peers. We are planning to make puppet theatres and your child may wish to bring items to school to create with. Shoe boxes or other similar sized boxes are suitable to experiment making puppet theatres with. I am encouraging them to bring items to school to decorate their theatres with if they would like to personalise them with items other than what we have at school.

If your child wishes to make a puppet with photos for the faces of their puppets, they may ask for a photo/photos that they can cut up and glue on to sticks to represent all the members of your family. It will be great fun!