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.

Calendar Art

Room 8 are making their calendar art based on work by the American artist James Rizzi. We are innovating on his skyscraper series. We hope you like our skyscraper designs.

Lucy's Great Grandfather

George and Lucy along with the  Mirfin Newman family are excited this week to see their great Grandad Melville Mirfin  be commemorated in a series of  stamps that contains images of World War 1. On the 5^th August it will have been 100 years since the beginning of  the war. Bank clerk Melville signed up in the first week and managed survive the action from one end of the war to the other. The series of stamps depict the war through the eyes of normal families.

te kupu o te wiki

Mr Chadwick has developed a new wiki to help us achieve our 50  new Maori words in 50 weeks. Everyone in Room 8 has a new notebook and we are writing  our  new weekly words into it with an illustration and sentence.
Don't be a heihei- have a go too!
http://maoriatmuritai.pbworks.com/w/page/79830935/Te%20Wiki%20o%20te%20Reo%20M%C4%81ori
This link gives you all the information about the 50 word challenge.

http://kupu.maori.nz/kupu-o-te-wiki 

What Do We Know About Ancient Egypt?

On Tuesday of week 1 we had a good think about what we knew about Ancient Egypt our new topic.We wrote our ideas on sticky notes under headings.

We sorted the ideas and looked for gaps in our knowledge as these will be our questions .

Term 3 has Started !!

On our first day back we all helped to clean the dust from our new ceiling off our things. As we all share the environment, it is good to all help our cleaners where we can.
And it was fun to have a chat while we did it.