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.

End of Term

It's the end of term and we are rushing to finish our last few pieces of work. It's been a busy term and we are looking forward to the holidays.

See you next term!

The Parents are Here !

Celebration of Learning

This afternoon we tidied up our room and role played sharing our work with our parents. It is important to know the learning that  went on and to be able to share that with our parents. 
 It was fun to do and we know our parents will love to hear about what we are learning.

 

Room 8 Has Talent

At the end of gymnastics sessions we have had a Room 8 has Talent Competition.This week, as it was our last, everyone was able to choose their own talent.
Lucy was the winner with a score of 9, closely followed by Myles and Greta with a score of 8.7.
The winners wrote about their routine .
Greta...
I jumped on the horse, landed in a star jump and did some  cartwheels.Then I went whoolah! And I got 2nd equal with Myles and I won a jelly bean.
Myles said...
I ran up and did a flip and landed on my feet. I got 8.7! Yahoo !
Lucy said...
I ran and did a cartwheel flip thing and then I did a rollypolly, followed by a normal cartwheel. I then did a handstand into a bridge and I ended up standing up FOR THE FIRST TIME! I did a normal bridge, stood up and I came first. Greta  and Myles tied for second place. I won two jellybeans.Yah !