Week 1 Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3! Our first week went sooooo... fast!
We have started learning about fractions in Maths and we read a great maori legend about "The Battle of the Mountains" which is about the mountains in the Central North Island.             We talked a little about the Commonwealth Games and look forward to watching how the New Zealand team goes throughout the coming weeks.

We also welcomed all of our new students into our class so we needed to put a new photo on our blog...

Week 9 Term 2

The term has gone so quickly!

This week we are finishing off all of the pirate activities and putting the final touches to our "Two Feet" poems that we have on display.

We welcomed Blake to our class and next term we have 5 more students who are coming

from Room 7 to Room 8.

On Friday we had our end of term assembly.  Congratulations to Hayley and Seth who 

were presented with our mid year awards.You are AWESOME role models in Room 8!

Have a good holiday.

Week 8 Term 2

This week we finally got our garden planted!                                                                                      
It looks a little bare and our plants are small but it is much better than before!
We will enjoy looking after it and hope the plants grow quickly.
Here are the before and after shots...

Week 7 Term 2 2014

We have been invaded by Pirates!

This week we have been finishing our learning to read,reading to learn unit on "Pirates".

Here are some of our Visitors...

We have also been writing some great descriptions about our pirates.

Here are some of our maps and Wanted posters, where we have included our descriptions.

Arrrr!

Week 6 Term 2    2014

We have been reading to learn about real pirates and we have found out a lot of things that we didn't know! We also found out that life as a pirate is not always the same as we see in movies!

      

We made a photo story about what we have learned...        

Week 5   Term 2   2014

Ahoy mateys! We have a new cabin boy in Room 8 this week called Phoenix!
We are using him to record nouns about pirates, and all of the sayings we are finding in the stories we read.  We are learning lots about real pirates and what life was like for them, as well as enjoying lots of made-up stories about Pirates.

Week 4 Term 2 2014

This week we had the Scholastic book fair at school and to finish off the week we had a dress up day! The children in                            Room 8 looked awesome! 

Week 3 Term 2 2014

Thank you so much to Mr Bethell and Mr Hale ,who dug our gardens over on Friday.We are a step closer to getting our garden project underway!

We also have started talking about our "Learn to read...read to learn" unit about Pirates!
This week our focus was on starting our wall display and then about precise nouns about pirate ships. We have already learned lots of new words that we can use when describing pirate ships and this will help our future learning. Our display is not quite finished but we are on the way...