Maths with Room 8

Each morning we work out how many people are at school.  The boys are the red dots and the girls are the yellow dots.  We always try to make a tidy number by filling up one bus first.  This makes it easier for us to solve.

Today Lorisha was very clever because she knew that 10 + 10 was 20 but we had to help her remember to take one away.

Grumpy Bear Room 8

Grumpy Bear was grumpy because all the animals were making too much noise.  He growled at them and asked them to be quiet but they said  "We don't care Grumpy Bear, we don't care, care, care!"
The only way Grumpy Bear could get them to be quiet was to show them his sharp teeth and claws... until he tried to get rid of the bees, they weren't scared of anything!

Making Sets

Mrs Nathan gave each of us a number and we had to make a set to show that many things. 
Have a look at how well we did.

Cross Country

Today we had the school cross country.
We had to run around the field one time.
Lose came second and Anita came third.
William came second. 
Dante fell over twice but he kept on running and he came fourth! 

We all tried our hardest and we had heaps of fun! 
Mrs Nathan is so proud of us!

Polka dot Show

On Thursday we had the Polka dot Show come to visit. 
They were teaching us how to be Travelwise.
They said to Stop, Look, Listen for cars and think before we cross the street.
We learnt some cool songs and we got to dance with them.
It was a cool show!

Room 8 Can Juggle

Room 8 read Max can Juggle, then we watched this video



Then we tried to juggle 10 things like Max.  See how well we did.

Playdough

We made playdough as a class then we made things that were long or short, fat or thin, big or small.

Welcome to Room 8 2012

We have had a fantastic start to 2012!
There are now 20 children in Room 8 and we continue to grow each week.
We can't wait to share our learning with you.

A Picnic at Totara Park

School is over for 2011 and to celebrate all of our hard work we had a school picnic at Totara park.
We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and look forward to sharing our work with you again next year.

To all of Mrs Nathan's amazing star students, good luck and don't forget to come and visit me in Room 10 :)

My Dog

We read Margaret Mahy's story 'My Dog' and then we wrote our own dog stories.  Here are the paintings we did to go with them.  Check out our stories on each of our pages.

My Dog on PhotoPeach

A Russian Dance

Here is a Russian dance that we are hoping to learn in time for prize giving.  Hopefully we will be able to video ourselves for you all to see.

Clever Mathematicians

Mrs Nathan asked us to solve this problem.
I had 8 apples and then I bought 5 more.  How many do I have now?

 Here are 4 different ways we worked it out.

Stage 2- Counting all

Stage 4- Advanced Counting

Stage 5- Part-whole thinking

Well done Room 10! You are great at solving number problems.

Pizza day

Today the whole of Room 10 had pizza for lunch.  It was from Hell Pizza in Manukau because Tyler won a Halloween colouring in competition.
Tyler's mum brought strawberries and juice for us as well.
The pizza was so yum that we ate until we couldn't eat anymore!

Thank you Tyler and Hella Pizza Manukau for our yummy, yummy lunch!

 Congratulations to Tyler, who is a great artist!

Kiwi Can

Today at Kiwi can we talked about Honesty.

I am honest
I am true
If I can do it so can you.

When we tell little lies they grow into big lies and then we get in big trouble. It is always best to tell the truth. We will still be growled at but it won't be as big.

Tyler and Andre were our Super stars today.

Our Shared Writing

Once upon a time a shiny fish was swimming in the ocean when he saw a huge whale. He very carefully swam over to the whale to talk to him.
"Hello Mr Whale." he said.
"Hello yummy little fish." said the whale. "What can I do for you?"
"Can you help me find my fish family?" said the shiny fish.
"I think I saw your family swimming this way." said the whale as he opened his mouth wide.
"Oh thank you Mr Whale." said the little fish and he swam inside.
The whale quickly shut his mouth and swallowed the little fish whole.
"Yummy!" said the whale.

Hamburgers

We made hamburgers with Miss Lendrum! Yummy!!!!!!!

School Athletics Day

On Friday we had our school athletics.
Congratulations to Jabez who was 1st and Zachariah who was 2nd in their race.
Also to Lopa and Clare-Ellen who were both 3rd in their races.

Here are some photos of us from the day.

Kiwi Can

In Kiwi Can this week we continued the topic of Honesty.  We had races and we really needed to be honest about whether we went around the cones the right way.

Mafile'o and Nikura were our superstars this week.  Well done boys!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Isaiah who won a prize in the Faber-castel colouring competition. He was one of 250 entrants to receive a box of goodies.
Great work Isaiah!!

Grumpy Bear

Grumpy bear wanted to sleep but all of the animals were making too much noise.
He growled at them but they didn't care, until he showed them his teeth and his claws!

Term 4 begins

Wow our holidays went fast but we are back and ready to learn, learn, learn!
 
It is the first week of Term 4 and we will be spending a lot of time getting ready for Prizegiving and of course all that last minute learning before we go on holiday over Christmas.

We started our term with Kiwi Can and this week we looked at honesty.  It is important to always tell the truth whereever you go.

 

Our Kiwi Can stars this week were Lilly and Chaise. 

They showed how honest they were during the numbers game. 

 Great job ladies! 

We are very happy that the All Blacks have won the Rugby World Cup! 

Congratulations to the All Blacks, you are fantastic role models and we are very proud of you!

Rippa Rugby Day Photos.

Here are some photos from our awesome Rippa Rugby Games

Duffy Hero

Yesterday Alison Quigan came to our school to talk to us about her job and her love of reading, writing and acting. 

She gave out some Duffy books and Steven was the winner for our class.  He won the book because of all the great work he has been doing in Maths.  Congratulations Steven!

Sports Report- Australia vs Russia

On Saturday Russia played their last game against Australia.  We think it was their best game yet because they scored 22 points against Australia.


Well done Russia.  Even though you had to go home early, we know that you will be back next time and we will be cheering for you!
Dosvidania Russia

Rippa Rugby Day

On Thursday we had an amazing morning! Miss Breen had organised a Rippa Rugby Tournament for the Junior School.

We played as Russia and all dressed in red.

 We won our game against Australia but lost against Canada who were in Pool A with us.

Our try scorers!

   The good news is that Russia won the overall pool and got the title of the best cheer team.


Thank you Miss Breen for organising such a great morning for us :)  We can't wait for our next event!