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Monday 24 July 2017

Life Education with Corrin

On Tuesday Room 8 went to see Harold and Corrin in the Life Education caravan. Students learned about showing empathy towards others.




Harold has a little talk with Room 8.



Can you explain to your Mum or Dad what empathy is?

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Science in a Van - small force compared with big force

 The mass was the same (that is the weight in the bags) but the forces were different. Sarah was a small force and Mr Horne was a big force. How was the result different?

Science in a Van














Watch what happens when the force and the volume are changed in this experiment. How does the movement of the chicken change?
Can you say why this happens?

Monday 22 May 2017

Brayden's gold medal

Brayden had a busy weekend down at New Plymouth. Here he is on the podium after winning his gold medal in a judo tournament north of Wellington.





Brayden won a gold medal in judo and first he versed someone that was in the same grade as him and then someone that was in a higher grade them him.
by
Cohen

Viliami's Information Report on Foxes



Non fiction books are very popular with Room 8 students. Animals in particular are a favourite. Viliami has made his own information report. Read it and leave a comment for him.


Sunday 21 May 2017

Literacy Week - Lisa Damm Visits with the Middles







Michael shares a joke from one of the books that were shared during out library visit.

My Thoughts  by Sam

it was awesome talk. I love buying Diary of a Minecraft Zombie or Captain Underpants. I want to buy the book that has the app that makes the bug come to life.

Thursday 18 May 2017

Character Description by Jayden

Character Description by Jayden

Jack is fat so he has big red t-shirt. He has a black eye and a yellow hair. He has an oval face and  black eyelashes. He has 2 big ears and a big head. He likes DacDonalds. Actually he is fat because he likes MacDonalds. Jack likes school time because he likes school but Jack likes his house too. In school it is fun and in the house he can see his mum so he like his house too. He dislikes vegetables like carrots. He is 10 years old so he is in a primary school.

Character Description by Cohen

Character Description  
Monday 15th May                             
Max wears sunglasses because he has blue eyes which makes his eyes very sensitive. He has brown hair and wears a blue shirt and his blue eyes go with his blue shirt. He has tan skin and he has swift long hair which is brown. He likes playing basketball and guitar. He likes skateboarding, biking and snowboarding. Max likes to eat chocolate and ice-cream in fact chocolate ice-cream. Max does not like playing soccer, hockey, skiing and rugby. He does not like eating green yuck brussel sprouts and really yuck not cooked rotten eggs. His hobbies are playing basketball, guitar and surfing. His other hobbies are snowboarding and playing flippa ball. He is friendly, kind and sometimes shouty. Max is also annoying and he is a basketball fan because he really likes basketball. He is friendly to other people but not his enemies. Max is a basketball fan because he likes basketball so much that he loves it to bits. He is shouty when he is talking because he has a talking problem so that's why he shouts. He is usually kind to the people he loves but when someone  is mean to him he gets angry and when he gets angry he gets annoying so sometimes he is annoying. He does not like soccer because he has to kick a ball and he doesn’t like kicking a ball. He doesn’t like hockey because  he isn’t that good at it and he thinks he might get hurt.


By Cohen

Thursday 2 March 2017

Room 8 with their Buddy Class


On International Book Day Room 8 students read to their buddies in Room 5. We had lots of fun visiting our new buddies for the year.

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Soccer Promo at Sunnybrae

On our first week back at school we were lucky enough to be involved in a special soccer lesson. 
This was a trial of the type of lesson that these professional coaches will be offering to our students.
Your child should have received a notice about this last Friday.