Operetta Fever has hit Hamilton East School!!

How did we feel before the show?

"I felt excited when I was getting ready and then nervous when it came to performing!"

"Before the dance I thought I would muck up and my braces would come loose but they didn't so I was amazed!"

"When I got on stage I was chilled!"

"I had butterflies in my stomach before the show!"

"I was nervousxcited!!" (Nervous + excited)

"Before the show I felt hypo and nervous. I giggled a lot and squeeled. "

"I felt nervous and excited and I had lots of energy!"

What did we think about our make up?

"I was so excited I kept wiggling around while they were applying my makeup."

"When I was getting my face painted it tickled and it was cold."

"When they put the mascara on my eyes were watering."

"I was feeling excited that I was getting my makeup on, there was glitter and it's sparkly under the lights."

"It was scary getting the lip gloss on because it might go in your mouth, yuck!!!"

"I felt scared when someone put glitter on my eyelids, it might go in my eye, ouch!!"

"The dollar signs on my cheeks were making me itch!"

"When I got the makeup on it felt really funny and all the girls looked really pretty and some of the boys got makeup on too."

After the show we felt.....

"I was happy because I didn't forget my lines."

"I was proud of myself becaue I sang loud in front of lots of people."

"I like the stage because I like to sing and I wanted to stay on the stage."

"I felt proud because I performed well as the giant clothing."

"I felt really proud of myself when I was doing the Operetta and I couldn't wait to do it again!"

"When the show finished I felt free because all the butterflies in my stomach went out."

"After the Operetta I felt really proud to get all my nerves out of my body."

"I felt proud and happy because I got the actions right so I can get it right next time."

Are you ready to vote?

Room 10 have been talking about the different political parties our parents/whanau/caregivers 

can vote for in the 2014 Election. 

Everyone can vote for who they like 

and the party with the most votes wins the election. This party is the Government and the Leader becomes the Prime Minister.

We think every vote is important and you can't moan about things if you don't vote!

You can vote this Saturday the 20th September.

Check out the website link 

Election website to get enrolled and find out about the Election

We have also been thinking about our own parties we would have.....

It's show time!!

Room 10 are writing reviews of our Operetta - "Money Doesn't Grow on Trees" here is a taste of what they had to say about the full dress rehearsal today.......

Bright lights red, orange and blue. The dancers walk on stage (really fast) the blue light shien at hte dancers to make it look like they are glowing. The music starts suddensly, their heads snap up in unison.

I rate the Operetta * * * * * (5 stars) a 5/5. 

The spot light grows bigger and brighter as the dancers grooved around the stage. I liked Elizabeth, Pengshen and Tylah- Dawn because they had beautiful expression in their voices and also they had really good body movement.

Now who was my favourite actor? Well that's a hard decision because everyone was very good, no they were great, not great ..perfect. So I'm going to have to say Pengshen because he stood out wherever he was, he has good expressions and he somehow always had just the right tone for the scene. Now my favourite act, this is even harder, wait no it's not (for me) it's easy Room 12 because it was really thought through and just a groovey song and all the acting was great. It had a good message which was there's many ways to earn money. It was just the perfect act for the Operetta.

Room 9 did an awesome thing, they pretended to sell loom bands but they have no money. Their song is S.A.V.E I think that's cool.

Come and see the show for youself! 
Buy tickets at the office - don't miss out.

Show times are -
Tuesday, 16 October @  9.45am and 7pm
Wednesday 17 October @ 1pm and 7pm
Thursday 18 October @ 7pm

Posting Quality Comments

Dear Parents/Whanau from Miss Suze and Room 10 children

Thank you very much for those wonderful parents who have been commenting on Room 10's blog and sharing and talking about our learning at home. We love reading your comments in the morning and publishing them on our blog. The winner of this weeks parent blog post iTunes voucher is Nathan - congratulations!!!

Things to think about before posting quality comments:

• Correct punctuation is used for example the comment starts with a capital letter, names have capital letters and the sentence ends with a full stop.
• Re-read the comment out loud to yourself and check it sounds right & makes sense.
• Is your comment is positive, thoughtful, helpful and Room 10 have added a new idea - ENCOURAGING?
• It could be a thoughtful comment by asking a question or giving advice.
• It could be a helpful comment by sharing an idea or something from your own experience/life.
• Be cybersafe and don't identify people in photos or videos or give out personal details like your age, phone number or address.

How to choose a best-fit book???

We have been learning how to choose a best-fit book. We looked at the library books we got out yesterday in a small group to check if our books fitted the purpose for reading. The purpose this time was for enjoyment and when they get Read For Fun time in class. 

• Did the book interest us? Was it something that we like to read? 
• Did we understand what the book was about? Did it make sense? 
• Did they know the words they were reading, if there were 5 hard words we didn't know then the book was too hard to read for fun because we wouldn't enjoy stopping and figuring out the words all the time.

P- purpose. What is the purpose of the book for learning or fun?
I- interest. Are you interested in the book? Does the book fit your interests?
C- comprehend (understand what the book is about)
K - know. Do you know the words you are reading, are they the best-fit words for you?

Blog comments competition

Today's writing by Nathan

There's a competition in Room 10 and that is an iTunes gift card with $5 or $10 but every prize has a competition and that competition is to have a quality comment on our blog (at home), but this is for your parents to type their opinion about our blog posts.

You must tell your Mum/Dad/Whanau that their blog post must be positive, helpful and thoughtful not nasty and have swear words in it. 

First you need to teach your Mum/Dad/Whanau how to do it (unless they already know how to do it and they have already done it before). 

You click on the box that says:Anonymous (Google). Once they have checked the blog and have seen what learning we are doing in class then you can do homework and go ahead and do what you are supposed to do for next week. You can talk about our learning and share our photos, videos, movies, writing They can type up about the stuff that they did at our age e.g.cross country and tell us about what it was like for you. They can also ask questions we can answer during Orchard time.

After you have typed up your blog comment you have to do this thing to check that you are not a robot and it changes every time you type a comment.

Miss Suze will check all the comments before publishing them up on the blog.