Week 8 Term 1

This week we had a second session with Shelly and Harold from Life Education.
We were looking at the things that we all have to survive, like our organs, and the things that make us different, like our personality.  
We made some reversible people to demonstrate the important parts of our "insides" and our fantastic "outsides" which make us special and unique!

Harold taught us a song about  "Personality" and the chorus goes:

PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY
That's what makes you, you
And that's what makes me, me
PERSONALITY, we're as different as can be
And the thing that makes you special

Is your PERSONALITY.

Week 7 Term 1

This week we had our first visit with Shelley and Harold from Life Education.
Our theme is "I am different", and we are looking at how all of us are special and unique. 
We wrote a poem together about what we have found out so far, and we made zig zag people to show how we are all different.

I am different.
I am special,I am unique,
There is nobody else like me!
I have my own tongue patterns, DNA,eyes and fingerprints.
There is only one of me.
I am a superstar!
By Room 8

Week 6 Term 1

Mrs Finucane has been reading chapter books to us and at the end of this week we had finished 2!

We really liked the Great Bamboozle,by Joy Cowley. We wrote about our favourite parts of the story and made illustrations to go with our writing.





The story is about Grizelda, who is a pirate that nobody likes, and how the Mayor and the pirates of the town try to trick her into missing out on the Great Bamboozle.
She finds out and declares war on the town!

The book had lots of funny parts and a great twist at the end!

Week 5 Term 1

We started the week with 15 of us going to the Soccer fun day at Boyd Park on Monday.We were put into lots of different teams and we played 4 games each.
At the end of the day we got a prize and a ribbon and a certificate.
We had a good day and the others who stayed at school had a great day with Mrs Hunt and Room 7.

We have also been using our thinking wall to help us when we are doing our learning 

tasks in the classroom and when we are playing with our friends in the playground.                       We are trying to use our thinking and our words to help us solve problems 

Week 4 Term 1 2014


This week has been busy as we have been putting our ideas about "what makes me tick?" into action. This week we have been talking about thinking, and making good choices in our playing and learning.








We have also been practising some soccer skills so that we are ready for the soccer fun day next week. Mrs Finucane thinks that there could be some future NZ soccer stars in our class!
This is us doing our warm up, playing 4 corners.

We said goodbye to Caedyn who has gone to a new school,so we wish him well.




We were also lucky enough to have a Spanish lesson on Thursday. We were learning by looking,listening and doing. Now we can count a bit, and say ola! to our friends in Spanish!

Week 3 Term 1 2014

This week we started to talk about our theme for the term..."What makes me tick?"
In Room 8 our focus is around how we learn and grow and the tools we can use to help us focus on our learning.
Mrs Finucane read us a story about Tane and the 3 Kete of Knowledge, and from this story we have decided on some of the important things we need to do to help us learn and grow.
We made learning posters about ourselves and we will keep adding things to our posters  to show our learning.






We have a big display on the wall so that we can be reminded of the things we are trying to do as we learn and grow. 

Week 2 Term 1 2014


This week we were finding out lots of things about each other and enjoying being inside our newly refurbished classroom.
The walls are very soft and clean and woolly but they are also very bare so we made some jiffy people pictures of ourselves to brighten up our entry space!




We wrote quick-writes about ourselves and made them into a poster with a portrait drawing of our faces.They look awesome inside our classroom.