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