PHOTOS / WALHT (WE ARE LEARNING HOW TO)

Well what a week we are having-yesterday we had several girls from the Amjazz Dance Studio, teaching the children some fabulous dance moves. Such fun. Then today we had a very special visitor at our Year 2 Picnic.

We have a visit from an ambulance this morning, with relation to our Symbols study for this term.

This morning we had some musicians from some schools in Brisbane, they entertained us with lots of fabulous music and singing, they also had a couple of 'guest conductors' from St Mary's helping out.

We had a wonderful turnout for  for the Student Led Conferences on Monday afternoon, thanks to the parents who came and shared their children's successes.

We have had a wonderful trip to the Rotorua Museum this morning, here is a selection of the photos that were taken.

Today we had a visitor come to show us how to create!

Ms Hiroko Shigeta came and spent some time teaching us the craft of origami. 

We had to use the skills of:

Thinking, participating, contributing and manage our selves to produce a neat hat and a dog. 

We had such fun and it was a challenge for some of us!

Thank you Hiroko. 

Tomorrow for writing time we will write a letter of thanks .

More photos of yesterday's experiment.

Room 8 did an experiment with Mrs Wibley yesterday- ask your children to explain what and how they did the experiment.

Grandparents Day in Room 8

Room 8 are working really hard on their writing this morning about their fun times with their grandparents.

We celebrated China Day on Friday. We got to try a lot of new activities with our MLA. We had a great time!

Well done to Elvincent who got the Principal's award in Assembly on Friday.

The Juniors led the Rosary this morning, some of our children helped with the readings

Black Out Day in Room 8

Week 2

We have been looking at narrative this week. We looked at "The Three Little Pigs".

 The class has had to describe the wolf, record the setting and change the story ending.

Today we had to perform in front of an audience-our class.

We all had a turn and had to use big voices and remember our words. What great actors we have in Room 8!

Joshua and Soorya were excellent as the 'Wolf''. 

Laris shared his book about his holiday with us today! Wow... what a great time you he had with his mum and dad and brother! Thanks for sharing that with us Laris!

The Pentagons Maths group are learning to create groups of ten in Maths this week.

Jack is back with us this term! YEY!

he is teaching us about Kung -Fu and the practice of self defence.

Jack said he was very happy to receive our cards of thanks last term!

Kung -Fu is good for health.

We counted in Chinese from 1-10 to warm up. 

We got in a circle and practiced our stance.

Room 8 have settled straight back into work, and we are looking forward to fantastic term of learning.

Maths time this morning in Room 8 -discussing how to solve a problem.

Thanks for all the wonderful healthy food for our shared lunch on the last day of the term.

We have been learning Chinese with Jack all this term.

Today was our last day with Jack for this term.

A couple of photos of the children running in the part of the race where I was stationed

Room 8 got first, second and third in the 6 and a half year old girls cross country today, and we got third place in the boys six and a half year old race.

This morning Ronald McDonald came to visit St Mary's to teach us about road safety- remember to ask your children what he talked about.

Discussing strategies to solve Maths Problems

This morning we had two visitors from the Royal New Zealand Ballet- they talked about .

their favourite books

On Tuesday the whole school took part in a tug-o-war!! 

The juniors did really well! The children all participated with enthusiasm and the seniors really looked after our juniors well too!

Here is the finished shadow work- please ask your children what a shadow is and how it works.

Today we were looking at making shadow art.

We want to see how different our shadows look at different times of the day. We are learning about shadows in our concept this term. We had to work out how to stabilise the tin foil and keep it standing up. We needed a lot of communication to help each find the easiest and quickest way to make a cross for our shadow. 

We are growing seeds in room 8 Soon we will be able to plant them because it will be spring. We have been making sure our plants have been getting lots of sun and water! Thanks to the garden club for getting us some seeds! Watch them grow in the big garden soon!

Today in our Chinese lesson the children have learnt about colours and they have made masks.

This morning our Oral Language time was spend talking about our favourite things and favourite foods- we are remembering to ask question and we are making sure we are listening to our partner so we can repeat what they say.

Smart Words time in Room 8

We have been using the ipads in our Maths this week.

We are learning to go back and check our work and make sure it makes sense.

We have been using define map to talk about day and night. The children have found out words to use to describe day and night.

This is our DEFINE map using SOLO. We are looking at the sun and finding out what we already know.

We used DESCRIBE prompts to talk/write  about the sun. What we want to find out about it.

Room 8 created a fantastic mural all about reading! We donated this one to the library but we start our new one this week all about the cycles, the sun and the earth and the moon! Watch the space in our Room 8 foyer!

We are learning about day and night, and what the differences are. Today we have talked bout the things we do at night time and the things we do during the day.

Today we listened and sang along to some Maori songs from you tube- everyone everyone enjoyed singing and dancing with the music.

We had a guest speaker today who came to talk to the children about having goals and never to give up!

NED helped her tell the stories and she worked some great YoYo tricks too! YoYo's can be purchased, just take payment and order form to the office before school. 

See the handout given out recently for details. you have until the end of the week to purchase your YoYo.

PS... ask your child what NED stands for..

Learning about place value and making tens in Maths..

Golden Time watching a movie and using electronics.

Soorya shared some of his "Despicable Me 'art and so we thought we would share it with the rest of the class.

It was fantastic to have Bishop Steve in Room 8 this morning, and to hear him explain all about what his job is and all about the special clothes that he wears.

Bishop Steve has visited St Mary's this morning..

Dear Parents, Caregivers and Extended Whanau,

It would be great to see some of you commenting on class blogs each week! 

This is an opportunity for you to get involved in your child's learning and comment on their success and next steps. Our blogs provide an opportunity for room 8 to share what they are doing and learning to a wider audience. Our posts are a snippet of some of what your child has been learning. This is a great way to share what learning, initiatives and experiences your child has been involved in. 

Ask them questions and get them to explain to your what they are doing.

As Teachers, Heather and Bernie will make regular updates to class posts about what they are learning and would love your feedback

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On Wednesday Tony and Kris came to talk to Room 8 about being FIREWISE!

 The class knew that we must.....

get down, get low and get out and stay out of a building if it is on fire. 

We practiced running through 'smoke' to get out out of a building if it is on fire.

I was impressed how quickly the class got out and lined up outside. Room 8 had some great questions also and we learnt how quickly a fire could spread. 

We also know to dial 111 and ask for the fire department and state our name, address and city if we need to call in a fire emergency.

Today the Room 8 children had their Hangi, thanks to the Senior School for giving us the opportunity to taste the Hangi.

Here are some photos of the Room 8 children getting ready for tomorrow's Hangi.

Here are some samples of the art work and poems that Room 8 did with Mrs Kusabs last week.

Learning games on an iPad.

Smart words time in Room 8

Learning how to add and subtract using imaging with numbers up to 20

This morning Mrs Kusabs was in Room 8 and the children were doing some really exciting looking painting..They are going to write some poems on Wednesday to go with the poems.

Here we are at 'Move It', learning how to balance, hop, spin, roll, jump, land, turn and bounce, climb and hold.

Room 8 have the skills to do many of these things. The children have to use their gross motor skills to lift and hold their body in different positions. This requires strength, timing and communication to keep it all happening! Well done Room 8!

Here are a couple more photos of the children enjoying our Library time yesterday.

Room 8 enjoying a story this morning in the Library-look at the expressions on their faces!!

Prayer time in Room 8 this morning..

Here are some examples of the great artwork we have been doing recently.

Here we are again learning how to make sets up to 10.

Dear Parents, Caregivers and Extended Whanau,

It would be great to see some of you commenting on class blogs each week! 

This is an opportunity for you to get involved in your child's learning and comment on their success and next steps. Our blogs provide an opportunity for room 8 to share what they are doing and learning to a wider audience. Our posts are a snippet of some of what your child has been learning. This is a great way to share what learning, initiatives and experiences your child has been involved in. 

Ask them questions and get them to explain to your what they are doing.

As Teachers, Heather and Bernie will make regular updates to class posts about what they are learning and would love your feedback

:-)

Room 8 Assembly last Friday.

Well done,  you all read your stories so clearly and so loudly in front of the school.

This afternoon we have made paper houses with Jack.

Mufti Day in Room 8.

We have been learning how to make up 10 and other numbers in different ways.

The Circles Maths group have been learning how to use tens when they are adding and subtracting.

Here is Room 8 and room 6 from St Michael's listening to a story after a lovely Pentecost Mass this morning.

Dear Parents, Caregivers and Extended Whanau,

It would be great to see some of you commenting on class blogs each week! 

This is an opportunity for you to get involved in your child's learning and comment on their success and next steps. Our blogs provide an opportunity for room 8 to share what they are doing and learning to a wider audience. Our posts are a snippet of some of what your child has been learning. This is a great way to share what learning, initiatives and experiences your child has been involved in. 

Ask them questions and get them to explain to your what they are doing.

As Teachers, Heather and Bernie will make regular updates to class posts about what they are learning and would love your feedback.

  :-)

This week room 8 have been looking at brainstorming to help us plan our stories. We have found that we have more to write about when we do brainstorming well.  Te Ariki and Laris have done some great writing about Autumn.

We are learning about the Ascension-when Jesus went to join his Father in heaven. It is six weeks since Easter.

We are learning about Place Value in Maths- how many tens and ones there are in numbers.



Each week we will post some learning of room 8.

Check out this page frequently!

This week we are talking about how we can reduce the amount of rubbish we make- we thought about what we can do with packets from our lunchboxes..

The Pentagons are learning to add and subtract with numbers to 20 in their heads and then checking their answers using equipment.

Ezraela has been doing some lovely handwriting- well done.

We are learning about God in R.E. at the moment. This week we have talked about things that God has made and things that people make

Some photos of Room 8 children enjoying Move-it today. The children are learning about spatial awareness, co-ordination, balance and risk taking.

Any photos we take during the year of the class and/or activities the children are doing, we will upload on this page. 

Soorya enjoyed making art pieces in his holidays! Well done Soorya you are a clever little artist!

Soorya made a robot from items he found around the home. I really like the detail in your pictures.!

Caoimhe works hard on excellent presentation of her stories!

Joshua is working quicker to get his ideas down.

The class looked at some war photos too.

Thornton's Dad showed us some of his grand fathers medals. The class was fascinated1 Thank you!

St Mary's.... getting ready to walk in the parade.

We celebrated the reenactment of Palm Sunday today. 

We had a donkey arrive at school and walk around the field. The children sang and waved their palms as the people did when Jesus entered in his town long ago.

The children also enjoyed a rice lunch to acknowledge all those less fortunate than us who only have a bowl of rice a day to sustain them.

The donkey has arrived!

Jesus followers, follow the donkey.

The donkey was very well behaved!

Isabella's granddad came to share his swimming knowledge with a group of children.
THANK YOU.

Julius is gaining his water confidence at a rapid pace!

It is so good to see our children in the class eating a healthy lunch.
This really keeps little minds going during the afternoon!

SMILE!

All gone!

Adam working with Room 8 on Leg It skills

Room 8 working hard to finish some art works

Love your smile Thornton!

The Warriors visited us on Friday! How exciting, some of us even won prizes!!
Go the Warriors!

"Hands Up ..all those who know how to keep healthy!'