Week 5 Term 2 2015

Since visiting the Wetlands we have been using the experience to write some wonderful descriptions about what we saw. This week we looked carefully at chestnuts. 
These wonderful items from the Wetlands are quite a contrast...spiky on the outside, with a furry warm inside, and then a hard smooth nut in the middle.

Here is some of our writing that we published. We hope you enjoy reading it...

Week 4 Term 2 2015

This week we have been doing lots of activities around our Wetlands walk.

One of the activities was a mini Geometry focus around Shape. 
We learned what rotation, reflection,translation and orientation is in Geometry and how to use these effectively when looking at and making patterns.
We had to look carefully at a leaf and accurately draw its shape. We then made several copies of our leaf and used what we had learned to create these fantastic patterns! 
They are on display in the windows of our classroom at the moment.

We are very proud of them,and Mrs Finucane thinks we are very clever!

Week 3 Term 2 2015

This week the weather was kind and we got to do our Autumn Walk around our beautiful wetlands.It gives our students the opportunity to visit a very special part of Te Aroha that is right on our doorstep and appreciate the changes that the change of seasons brings.
We got to run through leaves,see all the wildlife and get some great photos, like this one of us all up on the rail bridge walkway!

Room 8 have been looking at different parts of the Wetlands and we co-constructed a piece about Willow Trees which we are very proud of...

The Willow Tree by Room 8  

The willow tree, its bendy branches dangling down, leaves like fingers, trying to tickle the people below.

Its long slim branches, hanging like a waterfall, soaking us with leaves.

The tiny green leaves gripping tightly in the autumn breeze, and clinging desperately in the wild winter winds.

The roots are like wavy snakes emerging from the dirt tracks, waiting to trip and grab us.

After we are gone, the tree is still again, resting in its wetland home…

We also took some photos to remind us of this wonderful place.We hope you like them.

This is Mrs Finucane's favourite photo...

Week 2 Term 2 2015



It was really awesome to hear that so many of the students in Room 8 were able to attend one of the services held on ANZAC Day.  The children certainly know more about this important date in our year than they did 2 weeks ago.


It was Room 8's turn to display some of their learning at assembly this week.
Here is what we said...

Last week we were talking about ANZAC day. Mrs Finucane read us a lot of different books about ANZAC day and we talked about why we have poppies .

Poppies grew all over the battle fields  and they were red, like the colour of blood.

People wear them to remember all of the men and women who died in wars .

The RSA sell poppies to get money to help soldiers who did survive and need things .

Here are 2 short poems we found about poppies...

We wanted to make something to remind us of the all the things we had talked about.

Mrs Finucane found an idea that she thought we could try. We hope you like our Poppy Art.