All About Our Buddies

We are learning about our little buddies and filled out a grid to record information about them and compared it with ourselves, the big buddies .We love our buddies visiting.

All About Me

We are finishing our All About Me posters and our portraits.We have completed a great job! Come into class and see them.

Charlotte's Web Novel Study

We have finished our class novel now and have been working on activities that help us understand the characters in the story and spiders. Spiders are very interesting and we have learned a lot over the past week while we have been reading for information.

Go By Bike Day

 We managed to get just over 300 bikes to school on Go by Bike Day. Many students have made the effort to ride their bikes and not go by car today.We saved the planet a little by not consuming petrol  in parent's cars.What a super effort everyone. 

Thank you!

Meeting Our Buddies

This year Room 8 students are big buddies.We met Mrs Mills and her class  when they visited us on Friday. Room 8 are learning to be caring role models to our little buddies. It was fun sharing our holiday news and stories.

Welcome Back to 2015

We've had a great first week back at school. We have been learning  about Waitangi Day, reading Charlotte's Web for our novel study and also been working on our All About Me sheet to introduce ourselves to the rest of the class.
Swimming has also been great as it has been so hot. It's been really busy!

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.