Happy Holidays

Happy holidays to all Room 8 students, Parents, Caregivers and friends.
I wish you a relaxed and restful holiday, a Happy Christmas and a joyous New Year.

Dojo Point Winners for the Year

Well done to all the Dojo Point winners this year.
Below is a list of the highest total of points for the whole year, for people who have scored 200 points or more.

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to this week's Dojo point winners: 
Amy, Jerry and Daniel M!

Samuel Leads the Learning

Samuel had a turn at leading the learning in Room 8 on Friday when he shared a book he had found at the Pakuranga library.
Samuel identified that the book had many interesting adjectives and verbs, and as he read some passages from the book, students in the class told him what they thought the WOW words were.

Caitlin, Sienna & Shavaun

Keeley & Isabelle

Daniel, Reuben & Raymond

Samuel & Max

Ashley, Amy & Jasmine

Nicole & Grace

Drawing 3-D shapes

Today we used some of the ideas we have been learning about to draw 3-D shapes outside.
In groups of 2 or 3, we practised drawing, watched 2 instructional videos, and then created our masterpieces in chalk in the playground. Have a look and see how we got on.


Drawing 3-D shapes on PhotoPeach

Celebration

Keeley received a certificate at the whole-school assembly on Friday. She earned it for her fantastic effort and learning in Maths this year.

Algebra

This week in Maths we looked at some basic algebra.
Sometimes a number is changed with a letter.
We talked about how both sides of the equation need to be balanced.

Celebration

Last Friday, Room 8 won the Assembly Award at our whole-school assembly.
Here we are with the trophy.

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to this week's Dojo point winners: 
Nicole, Jerry and Samuel!

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to last week's Dojo point winners: 
Jerry, Marco, Daniel M and Joseph!

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to this week's Dojo point winners: 
Daniel M, Isabelle, Jerry and Keeley!

Enviro Day 8 - Planting, Feeding & Fun

Today Room 8 were Enviro Warriors! We replanted 160 seedlings, watered with worm tea, learnt about Ruru & created recycled art. It was a super fun saving the Earth day.

Maths

In Maths, we have been learning about measuring and what the perimeter of a shape is.
In groups, we used meter rulers to find the perimeter of Tree Island, Room 11 and the Junior Playground.

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to last week's Dojo point winners: 
Isabelle, Jerry, Joseph and Rebekah!

Basic Facts

This week our Basic Facts class average for the Friday test equalled our previous high of 86.

Celebration

This morning, Room 8 won the Assembly Award for great manners and listening during the syndicate assembly.  Nice job!

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to this week's Dojo point winners: 
Shavaun, Daniel W and Max!

Celebration

Today, Max and Isabelle received certificates at our syndicate assembly today. Well done!

Measured It

This week we have been measuring.  Indoors and outdoors.  Not as easy as we thought it would be.

Measure That on PhotoPeach

Breakout

We solved some tricky puzzles on Tuesday.

Room 8 participated in a Breakout - solving puzzles and using clues to find the combinations to open a series of locks and try and find out what was in the Breakout box.

We had to use many skills including collaboration, creativity, communication, problem-solving, close observation, thinking and perseverance.

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to this week's Dojo point winners: 
Nicole and Joseph!

Animal Adaptations

We had a great trip to the Auckland Zoo.

We are learning about animal adaptations - the way animals are suited to their environments.
Frazier, the zoo teacher told us about alligators and crocodiles, Galapagos Tortoises, lemurs, and how they are suited to the places where they live.

We got to touch a real snake-skin that was nearly three meters long.

Zoo Trip on PhotoPeach

Badminton

We had the first of two introductory badminton lessons this week.
Kevin, from Auckland Badminton, came to school to coach our Middle School classes in the basics of this fun sport.
We even learned some trick shots, like hitting the shuttle from between our legs and behind our backs.

Battleships

Today in maths we played live battleships in our class.
A grid was made on the carpet and we had to name a coordinate to take a shot at the ships.
Each student stood at the coordinates where they shot. They sat down if the shot missed and stood if their shot hit. We ended up sinking all the ships.

Our Enviro Day

Room 8 had a surprising start to Term 4; it was our 7th Enviro Day. In the morning we used our team work, problem solving & perseverance to complete a scavenger hunt through the native bush walk. Well done Ashley, Daniel and Max - the winning team!

Next we learnt te Reo Maori words for common garden insects and wrote garden poetry. Did you know kihikihi is te Reo for cicada?

Lastly, we even got to explore the brand new orchard and taste the sugar snap peas we've been growing in the edible garden. They tasted so sweet, fresh and crunchy. Jasmine said she could eat a bucketful!

Enviro days are exciting & delicious!

Library Roadshow

Today we had a visit from the Auckland Library Roadshow. We were entertained, some people participated and we all learned some new things.

Making Our Trash To Fashion Items

Today our class was a massive workroom with creativity and 'making' happening everywhere.


Making Our Fashion on PhotoPeach

Dojo Point Winners

Congratulations to this week's Dojo point winners: 
Shavaun, Ashley and Joseph!

Teach The Teacher

Today Aayush demonstrated a science experiment to the class. He used water, food colouring, oil and salt to make 'opposite rain'.