EOTC week - Pedal Ready

Room 8 learned how to be safe on their bikes and how to check them. On Monday afternoon they improved their skills over an obstacle course. It was a lot of fun and involved a lot of concentration.On Tuesday afternoon they will complete their Grade 1 skills

EOTC week - Painting

We started with painting outside.We sketched a view and used the water colour paints.It was so hot !

Celebration Of Learning

After our Viking Day we cleaned up our room ready to share our fantastic learning over the last term.
Student showed their parents and families all their lovely work. They were able to say quite clearly what was the learning in each piece of work. Good job Room 8!

The Great Muritai Book Swap

Last Thursday as part of their Ancient Civilisation studies, the Year 3 and 4 team dressed as a person from their studied country and ate a hearty morning tea based on food eaten in ancient times. We had Greeks, Vikings  and Aztecs roaming the classrooms. Lucky Aztecs having lots of chocolate and food with a Mexican type theme. It was very interesting to see what everyone came up with. We were Vikings.

After morning tea the classes set up their market stall to trade books for the Great Muritai Book Swap. In the spirit of ancient times, students traded tokens for their donated books and went shopping in their buddy classes!  We have been learning about trading, bartering and ancient markets and how a communities long ago met their needs.

Students donated a gold coin to participate and this money will be spent on the World Vision, Smiles catalogue. Each class will decide which gifts to donate to help people in need in other countries.

An Athletics Hero

Arnie  lost his leg in a farm accident when he was 3 years old but that didn't hold him back from achieving his goals.What can we learn from Arnie about bravery, courage and persistence?

Term 4 Already

After a lovely 2 week break we are back and off running. It's a jam packed term with athletics, lots of testing and revision as we get ready to be Year 5s. The class will be stepping up and being the best they can be.
We have 4 athletics sessions a week and then swimming near the end ot the term
This term we are undertaking our own research in topic time.Which Ancient Civilization will we start with ? After a shared class research question everyone will do their own and share back to everyone.
We have Te Reo art, poetry and readers theatre for literacy. 

What a fun and busy term!

Everyone except Mrs Chao remembered it was Onsie or pj day on Friday. Here we are  in our dress ups.

Welcome back everyone!

Highlight of Term 3

Of  course the highlight of the term was our production and we were the Wild Things ! After all those evening performances we were tired !

Friday Lunch Day

Look how many cans we collected for Kids Can on Friday. We made a sculpture from them.The cans go to the Kids Can organisation to feed hungry kids  lunch at school. Good job everyone.

Pyramid Homework

Last week the class had a challenge to make a 3 D pyramid out of anything they could find at home.Everyone was different and we enjoyed sharing them.

More Costumes

Look at these creative costumes ! What are you wearing?

How did you work that Out?

The Room 8 maths class have been working on using different strategies to solve a maths problem.
Sometimes just knowing the answer isn't enough when you need a range of strategies to solve problems with bigger numbers. Have a look at the whiteboard to see how they recorded their thinking for everyone to see.

Prodcution Costumes

 We had a costume parade on Friday to get some inspiration. Lots of students are well on their way with their  Wild Thing costume. Don't they look great ?

Our Calendar Art is all Finished

Our calendar paintings are now ready to be made into our cards, calendars or notebooks. Please support our school and buy one.

Ancient Egyptian Games

Wow, here we are with our little buddies playing our homework games.We love playing them! When we have finished our work we can play our games together.

Ancient Egyptian Games

Over the past few weeks,  students in Room 8 have been designing and making a board game based on Ancient Egypt for homework.
A few of the first ones have come to school for us to play. Good job everyone.