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Fabulous Dance Festival Writing!

The Dance Night

Wow, I felt nervous when we did our dance at Karamu.  I was smiling at my mum and brother and my mum took some videos.  I was dressed up with a white top with some big dots on it. They were black.  My favourite dance was the Hokey Tokey because we had to turn around. I like Mrs Riley's costume.  It was a bear and Mrs Mueller was a colourful parrot.  I loved watching all of the dances.  It was a fun night.
By Erin

We marched into Karamu High School hall.  I was feeling excited and I dressed up as a Spring lady because I had my Spring dress and jacket.  My favourite dances were the Troika and the Locomotion because as the end of The Locomotion we sang, "Let's make a chain now, c'mon baby," and then we froze.  It was a great night!
By Sienna



For a few weeks Room 1 and Room 3 have been practicing our 4 dances for the dance festival.  We have been practicing The Locomotion and the Troika, the Hokey Tokey and So Long Farewell.  My favourite was the Locomotion because the lady who sings it has a nice voice.  I like the part where it goes like this, "I think you got the knack, oh, oh."
By Marcus

Wow!  I was nervous when we marched inside Karamu School hall.  I was dressed up like the Queen.  My dress was pink and my tiara was silver.  My favourite dance was So Long Farewell because I like that song and I could see my mum.
By Ashanti 




Last exciting night I was excited because I could not wait!  When we walked in we did the Grand March.  We did 4 fantastic dances.  My favourite dance was The Locomotion because we did the triangle.  Mrs Mueller was a very colourful parrot.  Mrs McFadyen was a crocodile.  I was Aladdin.  It was great!
By Benji





When I was getting ready for the dance festival I was nervous because there was going to be 400 people there.  When we got to the hall at Karamu School we marched around the hall and waved.  My favourite dance was...The Locomotion.  We did a little bit of Jump jam moves, like the scissors.  I was dressed as a ballerina.  Everyone looked fantastic.  Mrs Blakesley was an Indian - Pocahontas.  Mrs McFadyen was a crocodile, snap, snap!  For The Locomotion, I was one of the leaders.  So was Niamh and Raiha and Tyler too.  I had so so so much fun because I love dancing all the time.  We danced to the Hokey Tokey.  Mrs Riley was a brown bear and Mr Wright was a black bear.  Mrs Mueller was a colourful parrot.  I had a great night!
By Maia

Vroom, Vroom went the car on the way to the Dance Festival.  In the car I was nervous because there was over 400 mums and dads at Karamu school.  My favouite dance was the Troika.  I liked Mrs Blakesley's costume and I wore my best clothes.
By Isaac

Our Dance Festival was last night.  I really liked The Locomotion because I like pretending to be a train.  My Nanny and Mum watched me.  It was so fun!
By Terrell










Wow.  I felt nervous when I marched inside Karamu school hall.  My sister said to me, "Do your best."  I said, "Of course I will because I know how to do it off by heart."  We did four dances.  My favourite dance was The Locomotion because we grabbed onto each other's shoulders and we counted in our head, "one, two three, kick," and at the end we said, "Come on, Come on, do the locomotion with me!  And then we froze.  Then we waved our arms in the air.  I was pretending to be a movie star!  
By Niamh







Last night there were over 400 people 
watching the dance festival. I was so nervous.  I saw my mum taking photos of the dances.  I loved the Troika and The Locomotion but we did 4 dances. I got a dance programme.  It showed the songs and dances for all the classes.  I loved the book.  It was an awesome night!
By Coby 

Ashanti's Pride Award

Ashanti received this weeks Pride award for being such a fabulous model of Parkvale Pride.  She has such a beautiful personality and is a hardworking, self managing learner.  Well Done Ashanti!

Our Magic Faraway Tree Adventures

We have been reading The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton.  We love creating pictures in our head while we listen to the story of the children's adventures up the magic Faraway Tree.  

We imagined our own lands that could be at the top of the Faraway Tree and wrote about them, using wow words to help create a picture in the reader's head.

The Land of Movies
Wow!  I tiptoed up the ladder.  I crept up into the land of movies.  Movie land was covered in movies. Trees were full of movies.  I climbed up a tree with a movie.  I went inside the house. When I got inside the house a spider chased me.  I got an axe and chopped the spider.  I ran out of the house...I climbed up a tree and a t.v hung from the moon.  The movie I watched was the Lego movie.  My couch changed into a bed.  I went to sleep.

Written by Benji

The Land of Fish
Tip top..I crept up the ladder and I spotted a fish land.  Water was all over the sand.  I saw a crab on the wiggly stones.  There were lots of fish swimming around the place.  I saw a shark, "arghhhh!"  There were lots of pine cones on the trees.  I love my land of fish because all the lovely fish are colourful.  

I put my togs on and jumped in with a big splash and I swam with the lovely fish.

I saw a dark cave and, "arghhhh," I said.
"A shark.  Amazing, but it's going to eat me." The shark had long sharp teeth and the shark was humongous.  I was shivering.  I hid behind the rocks.  A colouful fish quickly swam to me and said, "Come with me."  
"Okay," I said.  He took me to the big long hole at the top of the tree.  Finally I was home.  

Written by Maia

Yummy Land
Wow!!! I peeked up through the clouds.  I got a shock!  The land was called...Yummy land.  There was a blue lake of...tutti fruiti vitafresh.  The houses were made out of colourful lollies.  The grass was made out of chocolate. Everything was edible.  The trees were made of broccoli and you could bite them whenever you wanted some broccoli!

One day I went in my chocolate kayak to go for a swim in the vitafresh lake and a sleep on my kayak.  When I went for a dive at the bottom of the vitafresh lake I saw a chocolate shark and it said to me, "I'm going to eat you up!"
No!" I said.  "I will eat you up."  So I swam after it and ate it all up.  "Yum, yum." I said.  
I love this land.  I will never go home!

Written by Tyler

Lego Land
I climbed up the ladder and peeped through the big hole in the clouds.  I can see Lego houses all around me.  There are Lego cars driving on the Lego roads.  The cars have to stop at the traffic lights.  The boss is Broad Business and I have to get him because he is bad.

Written by Finley


Ice Crystal Land
Wow.  Suddenly I appeared in ice crystal land. I saw ice on the trees.  It was amazing.  I loved it. 
"Arggggh."  The snowman was getting closer.  I was scared. I ran away but he still chased me. I tried to get down the ladder but he grabbed me and took me home.  
We went to the lake.  I spotted some gorgeous golden fish.  I went to put on my togs and I jumped off the grass and I landed on a shark. I screamed.  He bit my leg.  "Ouch." I said. I started to cry.  The snowman laughed.  
I found the hole and ran home as fast as I could.

Written by Nimah


Wonderland
Wonderland has lollipops and snow too with a castle.  I like the land of Wonder.  I went to find the castle in the land.  I climbed a tree to find the bridge to the castle.  
I went inside to find the Queen in the castle and I looked for the stairs.  I climbed up the stairs but the stairs were high.  I flew up to climb the steps and I found the Queen.

Written by Ashanti


Easter Land
Wow!  I am in Easter land.  There are chocolate Easter bunnies.  They are holding baskets full of scrumptious Easter eggs and when I am hungry I eat the Easter bunnies. When there are rainbows, there is chocolate at the end.  
One night I woke up...I saw a really bad Easter bunny... (to be continued).

Written by Riley

Reading with our Buddy Class

Room 12 is our buddy class.  Today they visited us after lunch and we had an enjoyable time on the grass listening to each other read.

Thank you Room 12 - we look forward to seeing you again next week.

Reading Time in Room 1

Today we talked about the importance of staying on task at Reading time by making sure we are doing lots of reading and writing so we can become better readers.  

Here are the Super Duper Room 1 Readers - 'reading to self' and 'reading to someone'.

Our First week in Room 1, 2014

Wow!  Room 1 has had an amazing first week of school!  We have been busy getting to know each other and settling into our new classroom routines.  
Well Done Room 1!  You all had a fabulous week.  

Our big focus this term is Parkvale PRIDE - Personal Best, Respect, Integrity, Determination and Enjoyment.

During week one we focused on Respect and what it looks like in Room 1.  We also gave our Personal Best and showed Determination in the work that we did.