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Assembly Item

On the last Friday of Term our class preformed their assembly item.  We did such a great job and Mrs Hinde was really proud.  Check out the video of our performance.

Assembly Item

This Friday Room 8 are performing an assembly item at 9.00am in the hall.  It will be a giggle and a chance for you to see what a day in Room 8 looks like.  All children will be on the stage and some will be sharing their work.  We would love for you to come and watch us on the big stage.

An Email from an All Black!!

Mrs Hinde was very excited when she opened her emails on Friday night because there was an email from Aaron Smith the All Black.  We wrote letters to him and he replied with a great message.

Here is his email:

Hello Nicole

Thank you and your lovely students for your kind letters.  I really enjoyed them and felt that I got to know them!! It was special to learn about their lives and their goals.  It was awesome to see how clever the students are at using the computer and software at such a young age. 

Thank you for your kind words, follow your dreams and don't let anyone hold you back.  Dream BIG!! Dreams come true, look at me!

Kind Regards
Aaron Smith

PS  I do like some veggies!

More Poems

Here are some more of our poems.

James Burns and Manasseh

Erin, Ashleigh and Tiaana

Tessa, Rezin and Aniela

Rosie and Kyra

JT, Cassius and James Brown.

Performing our Poems

One of our challenges this term was to present a poem to the class.  We had to learn them off by heart and speak nice and clearly.  Check out our poems below!

Hugh and Nasa

Liam, Jayden, Curtis, Josh and Georgia

Zach, Maia and Riordan

Josiah, Malena and Jazymn

Special Visitor

Today in Room 8 we had a special visitor come and see us.  It was Miss Taotahi and she brought her daughter Sofia with her.  Sofia is only 7 weeks old and sooo cute with lots of hair.  We can't wait to see them again.  

 

IPAD Fun

Today a group of six children and Mrs Hinde went and had some fun on the Ipads.  Mrs Mcfadyen taught us how to use a new programme called Popplet.  We will be teaching the other children in Room 8 how to use Popplet as well.  Check out what we made below.

Olympic Poems

We have been looking at an Acrostic Poems about the Olympics and decided we would try to write our own ones.  Check them out:


 O n the edge, ready to dive
 L eaping high as high as the sky
Y  ay I'm first out of eight
M y heart is pounding really fast
P  lease oh please I want gold
I  don't want to come last
C ome on legs not far to go.
S oon it will be over and I can get out.

By Kyra


O ver, over, over jumping the hurdles.
L istening to the crowd cheering me on.
Y ay I might get bronze.
M y legs weave me in and out.
P anting, panting, panting
I'm running hard out.
C oming first
S uper, I've won an Olympic gold.

By Malena


O h yeah! The Olympics have just begun.
L iving the good life, having fun.
Y ay! The starters gun went Kaboom.
M y race for gold has taken off.
P icking up speed very fast.
I'm New Zealand and we are winning.
C heering for me is my parents.  I can't believe I have won.
S o I am number one!

By Maia


O h my goodness I'm ready to run.
L eaping over the hurdles.
Y ay I won gold.
M y legs are getting so sore.  Come on legs not far to go now.
P lease I don't want to come 2nd or 3rd.
I want to come first.
C an I please get gold legs.
S ame as always, I got gold.

By Rosie

The Opening Ceremony

We have been talking a lot about the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics and we watched some of it today. Here is one of our favourite parts! Click on the link below.

Mr Bean at the Olympics

The Olympics

Today in the Computer Suite we went on to Wallwisher and wrote what we would like to learn about and any questions we had about the Olympics.  You can add some more to our wall if you like just click on it below.  Don't forget to write your name!!

Team 3 Champs

Over the past term we have been having a soccer competition against Room 9 and 10 run by the Sports Pals at lunchtime.  We have really enjoyed the challenge and almost all of our class has had a turn playing it.  At the end of all the games Room 8 was the winning team.  We got awarded this cool trophy in Assembly and get to keep it to the next challenge!

Planting Day

This afternoon Team 3 went out to the back of the field to plant some more plants in the garden.  For our unit this term we have been learning about respecting and caring for the environment and we thought what better place to start than at school.  Check out our photos below.

Speech Champs

Today we have the Team 3 speech finalists.  All the contestants did really well Mr Gifkins and Mrs Liley were very impressed.  A big congratulations to Rosie who came third and to Georgia who came FIRST!!!!

Well done girls you should be proud.

Challenging Maths Problem

On Tuesday Mrs Hinde gave us a challenging problem.  We had to create our first name with all 50 sticks and it had to be 60cm long.  We found it a real challenge.

Our speech finalists

Well done to all the children in Room 8 for successfully completing there speeches! A big congratulations to our four finalists Hugh, Georgia, Rosie and Maia who will compete in the Team 4 speech finals on Thursday morning.

More of our Photostory Procedures

Here are the rest of our photostory procedures.

Aniela, Tessa and Jazmyn  

Erin and Samontae's

Hugh and Cassius

James Brown and Liam

Maia and Ashleigh

Photostory Procedures

We have been learning to write procedures in Room 8 so we combined this knowledge with our growing ICT skills and created our photostories.  Check out the two finished ones below by Georgia and Rosie and Kyra and Malena.

Duathlon Champs!

On Friday Rosie, Georgia, Cassius and Hugh went down to Frimley Park to compete against other schools in a duathlon.  They competed in the team events.  Georgia and Rosie were in a team with Sophia and they came 5th.  Cassius and Hugh were in a team with Dylan and they came 1ST!!!!  Well done guys we are very proud of you!!!

Plant dances

Today Miss Taotahi taught us a dance.  We had to dance out the life cycle of a plant.  We think we did pretty well.  Check them out!

Ormie The Pig

We had a great writing session today Mrs Hinde played us the video of Ormie the Pig trying to get a cookie but she stopped it just as Ormie was jumping out of the plane.  We had to then write the ending of the story.  Check out some of our great writing.

Ormie gets out of the plane and gets his parachute out of his backpack.  But his backpack falls off so Ormie falls down.  He doesn't get the cookies.  Next he gets some bouncing shoes but is is know use he doesn't get the cookies.  He gets a ball and knocks the cookies down.  He bites the juicy cookies but OH NO! Someone had tricked him, they are pretend cookies.
BY TESSA

Ormie jumps out of the plane and but misses the freezer.  So he gets a car and drags the freezer and the cookie jar falls off and smashes.  But all the cookies smash too.  Ormie picks up all the little crumbs and eats them.
BY JT

Ormie was falling out of the plane.  He was trying to get the cookies from the fridge but he fell into his pool.  He trudged back home.  He piled a load of wet sponges and climbed up, but as he reached for the cookies he slipped and fell flat on his face.  Then he had an idea, I will drive the car into the fridge he thought.  So he did! And what do you think happened?? The cookies came down.  But alas! Another problem.  He could not open the jar. So he smashed the jar and gobbled the cookies all up!
By Malena.

Ormie jumped out of the plane and landed on a seagull.  The seagull rolled and rolled until ... he fell onto his roof.  Ormie slid  off and landed in his pool.  He went inside and ordered a kangaroo.  Ormie got it and hoped in the kangaroo's pouch.  The kangroo started jumping and jumping.  Ormie nearly got the biscuits but instead he fell out of the pouch.  It didn't work.  Ormie ordered a caveman to whack the fridge down.  Ormie got the caveman and he whacked the fridge and the cookie jar fell down.  Ormie was happy and ate some cookies.  The caveman whacked Ormie in the head and then ate the cookies.
BY GEORGIA

Ormie fell and pulled the cord for the parachute.  He fell onto the cookies.  The glass broke and the cookies fell onto the ground.  Ormie decided that he didn't want to eat the cookies because somebody might of picked their noes and threw it onto the ground where the cookies had landed.
BY JAMES BURNS

Ormie glided out of the white aeroplane.  He reached out on his back to get his parachute but ... oh no.  His parachute flew away then he was going down.  Then he went flying threw the roof of the house with the yummy cookies.  He reached out to grab them but ...he went flying threw the floor.  Ormie was sick and tried of that happening.  Next he tried being a secret spy but that wasn't much help AT ALL!  So he decided he would have a little nap.  Who is this coming along?  It is Ormie's girlfriend who is a pig too.  All she did was got a ladder and got the cookies.  She got them because girls are better than boys.  Ormie woke up and was shocked because the cookies were gone!!
BY MAIA

Music Videos

Finally!! Mrs Hinde has finished editing our two music videos.  You all look great.  A big THANK-YOU goes out to the Room 19 children who were our directors and recorders.  Check out our two music videos 'Hey Soul Sister' and 'Marry You'.

 

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Book Character Day

We love dressing up as our favourite book character.  The Room 8 children did a great job we had pirates, Sleeping Beauty, a rich kid, All Black, wolf, Cinderella, Zac Power, Hermine and Mrs Hinde was Willbee the Bumblebee!

Our puppet plays

While we have been learning about Lynley Dodd and all her great stories we chose our favourite one and turned it into a little puppet play.  Check out Georgia's and Maia's below.

Hairy MacClary

We have been learning about Lynley Dodd and all her books. We love the Hairy MacClary stories.  Here is one for you to watch and enjoy.

Hairy MacClary Scattercat.

Blog Buddies

The Visualisation  Cube. 

We are learning to visulise pictures in our heads using the words from books.  We had visulise what the picture would be from a story Mrs Hinde read to us.  We drew the pictures to match the words and we made a 3D cube.  First we drew the pictures then we coloured them in.  When we had finished we cut the cubes out and folded the corners and glued them together.  We have got 7 finished cubes hanging on the wire in our room.  It was good fun making them. 

By Ashleigh and Aniela 

Soccer Skills

Over the past few weeks we have been learning different soccer skills with Bill and Ben.  Here are some videos of today's session.

My Secret Object

We are learning to describe in Room 8 and as an introduction to it Mrs Hinde told us that we had to find an object in the classroom and describe it (without saying what it was) then the children had to guess it.  Can you guess what these secret objects are??

My secret object is really colourful.  It comes in blue, yellow, orange and green.  We sometimes use them for maths.  We also use them to play with.  They are really awesome to use.  They are in a big, white bucket and they are shaped like a 'C'.  It is a really funny sort of thing.  You can make all sorts of things with them like houses and some shapes.  When you tip them out they scadattle everywhere.  They are pretty cool.  Can you guess what my secret object is??
BY REZIN

My secret object is something that you open.  It is white and shaped like a square.  We use them on a hot day if we don't have an air conditioner.  My object is beside the wall.  You can see through it.  What is my object? By JT

My secret object is black and white.  It has got numbers.  When an hour has gone one arm moves.  It sits on the wall above the door. The door that is it under has got a list of our birthdays on. You look at it to see if it is time to go to school.   One arm on it keeps going around.  My secret object is hard.  What is my secret object?
BY KYRA

My secret object you can throw.  It is used for counting.  It is also used for maths.  The colour is dark blue.  My object is big and hard.
BY JAMES BURNS

My secret object is on a shelf.  It has pages in it and it is colourful.  It has a picture in it.  It is where we put important stuff in it.  What is it?
BY TESSA

Well, my secret object is something that goes kplonk when it shuts.  This item has our name tag on it.  The colour of it is grey and it can turn out pretty handy for holding stuff in.  My secret object is ...
BY MAIA

The Triathlon

Zoom. The bikes had just sped off the starting line, wow Cassius is in the lead. Some of the team 3 boys were underway . Now Hugh is in the lead. Now Hugh is off his bike and onto the swim. He swims real fast and Cassius is close behind  now Hugh and Cassius are on the run Hugh is fast and comes First and Cassius comes second!!!

Written By Hugh and Cassius     

  

Maths Fun

Today we  have been learning about reflection (mirror lines) and lines of symmetry.  This afternoon Mrs Hinde let us create our own patterns that showed reflection and many of them had more than one line of symmetry.  Check out our creations below.

Weet-Bix Tryathlon

This week for blog buddies Curtis and Riordan are going tell us about the Weet-Bix Tryathlon.

Rosemary and Hugh did the tryathlon on Wednesday the 15th of February.  They did swimming, biking and running. They ran to the bikes from the swimming pool so it was like they had  to run twice.  We took a photo of them with their medals.

Weet-Bix TRYathlon - By Hugh

On Wednesday 15th of February I did a big tryathlon for the first time.  My big brother Jono also did it but my younger brother George had to go to school.  First we swam 50m then 4km on the bike and ran 1.5km.

Blog Buddies

Every week there will be two different Room 8 children that will post something on the blog (with Mrs Hinde's help).  This week it is Georgia and Tiaana's turn.  They have chosen to write about our trip yesterday.

Yesterday Team 3 went to the beach and we had a fabulous day.  Once we got there we could hear the waves crashing.  First we watched a funny DVD then we had morning tea.  Then we went and had a look at all the IRB, knee boards, the big red tube, and the flags.  We played a game of seaweed on the sand and then we had lunch.  We got into our togs and ran out to the sea.  We played running relays into the sea and then we went on the paddle boards and caught some waves.  Some of the boys went out and caught the BIG waves with the lifeguards.  We both fell off our paddle boards. We had a great day yesterday.

By Georgia and Tiaana

2D and 3D shapes

Can you find any 2D or 3D shapes in your home?? Put a comment below and tell me what they are.

Learning About Our Blog

We are learning about our classroom blog.  We are so excited! See if you can go home and write a comment!!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to another full on year.  I hope you are all rested and have had a great break.  I am looking forward to meeting you all on the first day back.  Make sure you bring your togs and hat as it looks like it will be a hot day!!  See you all on Tuesday.
Mrs Hinde