drama

This week we were doing drama - my play was Cinderella

I was the evil step mother Will was the prince- check hiom out doing his hair.

Sonnie was Cinderella,Tuesday and Katrina were the "not so good looking step sisters"

It was a lot of fun

By Teresa

star of the week

Congratulations to this terrific wailearner, this person is extremely motivated, gets on with their work and always shows a positive attitude towards all schoolwork.
This person has fantastic manners, helps others and shows a lot of initiative
Well Done Nicola.

Our reflection on Peel Forest

This week we have completed lots of post camp activities.
Check out our first wordle and compare it to todays one.
We also wrote recounts on our camp and had fun working on the cows (computers on wheels) making thank you cards for everyone who helped us.
The camp was a lot of fun.

peel forest camp

at camp we played lots of sports and games like

cricket, soccer and rugby dont worry it was touch.

we slept in tents and we had to set our own up

Rain and I had our cover around the wrong way

our wordle on Peel Forest

maths wordle

Camp

cycling poem

Baobab Tree Poem

buddies

Safe Cycling

Remember to bring your

• Bike
• Helmet
• Homelearning books

Mrs Hocking came to our class and talked about road rules. She showed us some really ugly photos of people who had had accidents. We learnt that we must always wear a correctly fitted helmet and to use our back brakes

Today some of us had our bikes checked by Mrs Hocking to see if they were safe enough.

Some of us need to get some repairs done before we go on our trip to the scenic reserve.

We are having fun completeing a safe cycling think sheet, our favourite activity is constructing awesome skate parks.

environmental goals

classiest class

Announcing classist class

Room Eight celebrate their win - Photo by Brooke HB

We won classiest class we had 46 points.

Sally presented the award to us after Jump Jam and told us that we "had a good discussion in fact the best in the whole school and we participated well in all of the activities."


We got a nice suprise it was a good way to start a month.- Nicola

A fun maths site to play on

In maths we have been learning about digital time.
We found this site which helps us to practice.
There are lots of other fun games to help with maths.
From the Room Eight Maths class

http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm

The Olympics

We have been watching the olympics at home (Miss Wilson will not let us watch at school!)
The Chinese have won 31 golds and New Zealand are 19th on the medal tally.
We are reading journals about the olympics. One of the stories was called Rowing to the olympics it was about aman who practiced a lot and then he won a medal. It was a fiction story but based on real life.

celebrations this week

prep

Congratulations to Room Eight's Star of the Week

Teresa

Well done you are a happy and motivated Wai Learner.

Keep up the great work.

The Term so far...

It has been a good start to the term.
We have started PrEP - this is where we have a business, we make goods which we sell at Market day to earn money. Our money is called TaiTai's we designed it ourselves.
We are going to learn about advertising which will be fun especially if we get to watch ads on TV!

We are looking forward to

• Skiing at Roundhill
• The talent quest
• Getting to know the new teacher Miss McCallum welcome.

Hello Room Eight

Hi everyone,
How are your holidays? It is great that the sun is shining.
I have been busy in the garden and getting ready for Term Three.
Hope you are enjoying the holidays and look forward to hearing about your adventures - post a comment.
From Miss Wilson.

Toy Fair

We read a story called Anna's Coat. She bartered some things and she ended up with a warm red coat.

Our class bought an assortment of toys to barter with. We bartered for five minutes, some of us traded a few times.

There was lots of things to trade Gali traded a race car for 2 of Tom's rugby cards and one of Dylans toys.

It was exciting when we got "new" things to take home.

With our toy trading we are saving money, we are recycling and we are happy with our trading.

Star of the week

This weeks star of the week is a real team player, they get on with everyone and I am impressed with their motivated attitude towards all aspects of school life. They are curious and ask a lot of questions.
This weeks Star of the Week is (drum roll please) ........

Brooke

I think Brooke is really awesome at soccer and a good team player from Brad

I think Brooke is real cool and a good friend from Tom

Brooke is great at speed stacks and is happy and good at poker!!-From Aidan

Brooke is a curious Wai Learner- from Alisi

Brooke is a happy and fun Wai learner- From Faith

Brooke is very sporty and a true Wai learner From Prea

Well done Brooke.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

From Miss Wilson

Today in Room Eight

Today Aidan, Shaun, Faith, Sonnie and Amber went to Waihi School for the interschool cross country they had to verse people from other schools. We have heard there are some challenges like going through rivers we look forward to hearing how well they did.

We started painting our canvas today we sketched an olden day desk and have put lots of layers on our canvas. We are trying out all the techniques we have learnt.

In Reading we read a story called To spray or not to spray about the Apple moths in Auckland we talked about whether we should spray to keep pests away from our native trees.

Written by Brooke

Celebrations

My celebration for this week is...

• Playing sport with Mr Anderson, we played soccer and seaweed - Tim
• Knowing I am going to the interschool cross country- Aidan
• Making an elephant mask with Mr Anderson - Rain
• Being star of the week and having Mr Anderson teach us on Thursday- Shaun
• Drawing my Term Two page for my portfolio- Gali
• Going to Te Reo and learning some more Maori and being part of the CHAT team and teaching the little kids to make wraps - Amber
• Doing our Inquiry booklets and finding out information -Sonnie
• Being introduced to Speed Stacks and getting to take them home- Faith
• Playing bum shuffle at KiwiCan- Brooke, Shinia and Alisi
• That the band are having a BBQ tonight-Bailey

Speed Stacks

Yesterday I got to take the speed stacks home.
They are really fun to play with I learnt how to do the cycle really fast.
I bet the people on the dvd - they are really fast.
I watched the people on the dvd, the world champs are super fast.
My Mum and Dad timed me at the speed stacks.

Cross country

Congratulations to....

Shaun

Aidan

Sonnie

Amber

and Faith

You are going to the Interschool Cross Country on Tuesday 24th June.

Celebrations

Each Friday we write a celebration for the week. The person who is Star of the Week gets to take the celebrations folder home.
These are some of our celebrations for this week.

My celebration is...

• Maths because we did problem solving and it was easy - Dylan
• Finishing my cross country report writing very quickly - Rain
• Playing SeaWeed because we had finished all of our work- Tom
• Wearing mufti to school we raised $405.60 for Ronald McDonald House in Christchurch- Bradley
• Painting, I liked trying out different techniques - Nicola
• Painting we are learning about Vincent Van Gogh and I liked the splatter technique!- Erika
• Going to KiwiCan and earning 47 points out of 50- Lucky Room Four won Classiest Class- Alisi
• Coming third in the Year Five Cross Country- Sonnie
• Going to Cross Country and coming second for Year Five - Amber
• Questioning we learnt about the seven levels of questioning. We are trying to ask questions that have key words and 5 w's and H- Prea

We hope you have a great weekend.

From Room Eight

speed stacks

On Thursday the 12 of June I got to take home the speed stacks.

practically they are plastic cups.

My fastest time was 3 minutes.I built all the speed stacks up to as high as they would go.I watched the DVD,I tried to beat the people on the DVD and I finally did.Nicola.

Wednesday

Today was a great day especially when Cathy was here. Miss Wilson was impressed at how much we have learnt the last term in Te Reo. Xavier
Today we went to Kiwican, we were so close to getting full points and Brooke won eyes up eyes down.- Brooke and Gali
Some people came up our stairs to measure up for our new classrooms. I wonder when the building will begin?

Snow

Hi Room Eight.

Wow look at all the snow on my lawn!

I had fun making a snowman with my sister.

Can you guess what we used for eyes?

Looking forward to hearing about your weekend snow stories tommorow.

From Miss Wilson

World Environmental Day

Tom putting his leaf on our tree

Our environmental tree filled with goals isn't is great?

This morning after Bible and Schools we drafted a class environmental goal in our draft books. We published them on a leaf template , then we cut them out and coloured them.
Because some of our class were away with the chat team Miss Wilsonlet us put our leaves on the tree in the office foyer.
We got some ideas from the tree people website which we joined last week.
Here is the link if you want to have a look at it. (our tree is called Room Eight)
http://www.treepeople.co.nz/Home.mvc/

From Teresa

handwritng

Yesterday we did handwriting and listened to some music. It was Baroque music and it was slow and it helped me write neater. I would like to listen to it again.
From Tuesday

Jono and his life

Today we went into the hall to go and see a man called Jono.
He told us about his life in a wheelchair and his career.
We learnt that it does not matter if you are disabled or you can walk what we heard that Jono went through was a lot

By Sonnie,Thomas and Will

Poetry on Friday

Today Room 8 read a poem called Mrs Midge's fridge.We learnt about personification.eg This is when the post makes a thing into a human, here are some examples from the poem.

"The pizza grew white whiskers."

"The chicken legs got up and walked."

"The cheese put on a furry coat." wow who knew cheese wore a coat??

We found the poem really funny.

By Nicola and Zach

Our big day in

The big day in was really cool because we had some people from different company's to talk to us about our topic "Where will our food come from when we are grandparents?"

We had someone from Sanfords, Barkers, DenHeath Desserts, The Timaru District Council and Pgg Wrightsons.We also did some mapping skills using atlas and we found out where different parts of meat come.
We had some samples to try I tried the Barkers juice it was very nice and some of us even got a jar of jam to take home.
From Prea and Dylan

Assembly

handwriting to music

Last term we learnt about switch on and switch offs. Music can be a switch on.
Today Aidan bought along one of his cd's.
We played it whilst we were doing our handwriting.
The music was fast heavymetal/rock and quite loud.
We all had different opinions some of them are.

• "It was hard to work with and I thought handwriting was suppossed to be quiet"
• "It was ok but some people got distracted by the music"
• "It wasn't good because it was hard to work with loud music"
• "I would like to hear rock music again but others were silly"
• "I love the rock music and it helped me"

We voted here are the results

Rock music 10

A different type of music 9

No music during handwriting 5

We are going to try some different types of music and different volumes and will have to figure out what to do with people who do not like music whilst they work.

Post a comment if you have an idea

Wonderful Wednesday

HOCKEY

Today we went to the big field after lunch. Wendy from SC hockey was there,she taught us some skills.

Wendy showed us how to dribble and push the ball. First we had to get the correct sized hockey stick.It had to come to our bellybutton

It was fun to learn new skills

Some of us were at Kapa Haka and missed so of it.

SHAKESPARE

It was interesting to learn some history BUT we got a bit frustrated with the websites

We talked about our research skills and have some goals for next time we research.

We liked working in groups, it was fun.

Typed by Sonnie

Comments from Room Eight

"Cool" cross country

A crispy crunchy cold start to the morning, Miss Wilson had a nice suprise in store for us.
We were being timed as we ran around the school. We are training for the school cross country.
We were puffed as we did our warm down stretches.
After the run we recorded our time, goals and how we are going to achieve our goals.
We are going to

• Drink water regularly
• Try our hardest at learning team fitness activities
• Be active at home and school
• Remember to bring our running shoes.

We are all looking forward to getting fitter.

Helping our buddies make Mothers days cards

On Friday we went to Room 17 and helped our buddies make Mothers days cards.

Miss Chartris read the instructions from a school journal.

We made flowers from coloured paper. Everyone enjoyed helping and we were pleased with the cards.

We hope the Mothers liked them too.

Welcome to the world of Blogging

Yay Room Eight is up and blogging!

Hi Room Eight

Remember this Friday is chicken noodle soup day. Bring your cup along for steaming hot soup.

Monday is a family litterless lunch day. Ask your parents to come to school and enjoy lunch and some fun activities with the rest of your house.

Miss Wilson