Merry Xmas Everyone

After a long and busy term we finished yesterday with our very popular carol concert. Room 8 performed "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to the entire audience. They were brilliant !
Thank you everyone for all your help and support over the last year.

Have a Merry Xmas and Restful New Year.

Room 8 Fishing Champion 2012

Luca was only person in Year 4 to catch a fish. It was not very big but it wiggled a lot.  We threw it back into the sea to get a lot bigger! He is our fishing champion of 2012.

Congratulations Luca!

 

EOTC Week

We started with a Days Bay day on Monday with sandcastles, games and swimming and then on Tuesday a something different morning followed by a wheels afternoon.

Wednesday was the driftwood fort building on the beach and water games in the afternoon.

On Thursday we made our fishing rods and went fishing at the Rona Bay wharf.  Luca was our Year 4 fishing champion as he caught our only fish of the day.

Friday is our games day at Bishops park with as swim at the pool.

What a busy but fun week everyone and many thanks  to the parents who have given up their time to help us with our activities. We really appreciate your help.

Our Beautiful Tree

Our homework challenge this week was to design and make a Xmas decoration for our class tree using recycled materials. Look how beautiful our tree looks !

How Many People can fit in a Square Metre?

What a challenge in Maths today! Students had to make a square metre of newspaper and see how many people could fit on it. 
Probably the right answer is 8 sitting and 15 standing but squashed up. There were lots of different answers and it was fun to try out.

Movie Making

On Tuesday student wrote a script for their puppet play. Their questions and answer should reflect the knowledge they have gained over the term. The sock puppet will talk to Mr Raindrop.

We learned a lot about making a movie.

•  It is hard to film in a classroom.
• You need another pair of hands and a director
• You have to work quickly to get finished

Next week we will work on the play again to get things sorted.

Sock Puppets

Here are our first sock puppets. They are going to be actors in a play about water on our i pads next week. We think they are cool !

The Water Carrier Challenge

This week our challenge was to design a creative carrier that could carry 1 litre across the playground without spilling or getting tired. See what we came up with!

What information Do I Need?

Today with our little maths class we did some problem solving. Mrs Chao wrote a problem on the board and the class, working in groups had to decide what information they needed to solve the problem.

 Groups had to think of their questions for information and could only ask one at a time. Then they tried to solve the problem.

 Look at the information we needed to have!

We learned some things:

• You need to work as a team 
• You need to add the numbers very carefully to get the right answer.
• You need to have checkers checking the answer .

Santa's Workshop

On Tuesday a group of Room 8 elves gathered to make special reindeer food for the Eastbourne Carnival. There were lots of jobs like twisty tying, hole punching, tag tying, stirring and  measuring to make sure every person got the same amount in their bag.

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More Animations

Today we worked on making a jointed figure and using i motion to record a small movie. Along the way we learned about keeping the ipad still, not having fingers in the way and explored how to change the joints for more movement.