EOTC Week -Flying high

Today we made our kites from kits.Everyone chose a colour for their kites and a different one for their tail.They were not hard to fly and then we flew them.What fun. Next time we would add another stick to make the middle stronger. 
Jack and William were champion kite flyers!

EOTC Week - Smarts and Wheels

This morning we had our Smarts rotation. Room 8 had Art Smart and students painted with the new watercolour paints. In the afternoon we had our wheels fun.

Miss Savage and Mrs Skilton are very clever at fixing bikes which was very helpful.

EOTC Week - Days Bay

We had a fantastic day at Days Bay on Monday. Although it was raining at school it only rained a little and then it got hot. We made sandcastles, had a swim and played games at the park.

Olivia's ICAS Medal

 Olivia and her proud family flew up to Auckland on Saturday so she could be presented with her writing medal. Room 8 were amazed as it looks like an olympic gold medal. Olivia's name was engraved on the medal!

Congratulations Olivia .You are a fantastic writer !

Celebration of Learning

What a busy time we had in Room 8 while all the students showed their parents all their lovely work. There was lots of talking and laughing. Parents were very impressed with all the effort and creativity showing in the books and wall displays.

Well done Room 8!

Stitching - The Beginning

We started our stitching this morning by learning how to thread a needle, tie a knot and do a simple running stitch. Learning to stitch on mesh is great as you can easily unpick it and start again. I wonder what we will make ?

Summarising Data

We continued our Statistics investigations today with a dice activity and worked with a partner. We are learning to collect data using tally marks and turn our data into a bar or column graph.

Chance Investigation - Likelihood

Today we  undertook an investigation into chance and likelihood.We had a bag of 4 yellow, 4 red and 4 blue counters. Someone secretly removed 2 counters and the other people in the group had to guess which ones were  left in the bag.
One person took a counter out 20 times and the counters were recorded by colour on a tally chart. And then we guessed the combination of colours.

Well it was not easy to guess the combination of colours left in the bag. Some sneaky people took 2 of the same colour out !

It was fun and we repeated it again giving other people a turn to be the leader .

The Coin Trail

On Tuesday the whole school collected coins for a coin trail to help the people in the Philippines. We raised over $1200 to help them.

Watercolour Art

Room 8 got the chance to use our new watercolour paints to make a meadow scene. The painting was done in layers . They look very beautiful. We outlined the flowers with fine black squiggly lines .

Antarctic Visitor

On Friday Joe came to visit us to talk about the Antarctic trip he took when he was at university.He brought  a tent and  protective equipment to wear . We helped put up the tent and go in and dress up in all the gear.

Antarctic Dress Up Day

What fun we had on Thursday with all our brilliant costumes .

We had boy and girl penguins ...

Girl Husky dogs

 Boy husky dogs

An iceberg and snowflake

Brave scientists and explorers 

A Crazy scientist  magician  headed for Brazil but crash landing in the  Antarctic !

Barney came and showed us how to use a survival bag and all the things you could do with it.