Week 3 Term 1






This week we have been talking about problem solving in Maths and how we can use it in other parts of our learning.We put lots of different strategies on our learning wall and we are trying to make choices about which strategy works best with each problem.

Mrs Finucane has found out how clever we are and how we can work things out quickly in our heads, so she needs to make the problems more tricky now!





We were also able to finish off our class treaty this week.
Our main idea is that to have a happy day in Room 8 we all need to follow our Stanley Avenue Values. We amde a jigsaw puzzle frame to show how we all fit in Room 8 ,even though we are also all individual and special.

Week 2 Term 2 2015

Touch Rugby with Mr Byers!

We had a lot of fun at lunchtime on Tuesday when 

Mr Byers took us for Touch Rugby.

We hope he can do it again soon!

Week 1 Term 1 2015

Welcome back to 2015!

These are the great Year 2 and 3 students who are in Room 8 this year.
Many of them were  at Stanley Avenue School last year but we do welcome Jaylem and Jazmyn,and we welcome back Summer.

We are all looking forward to this year!

Week 3 Term 3 2014
This week we had cross country on Wednesday. I was really proud of the way all of the students in Room 8 tried their best,even though the day was cold and damp. We had lots of smiles and no tears so all of your hard work when training paid off.Well done.There are a selection of photos,stories,poems and pictures going up in our foyer next week from the students in Rooms 7 and 8. If you can pop in and have a look once the display is up.

Here are some"action shots" from the day...

Week 2 Term 3 2014
This month is also Room 8's turn to do the foyer display in the office.                              We have been learning about "plots" in writing and how a sequence of ideas is recorded, and we have been reading some  maori legends which show this well. We liked the story of Rata and the Canoe so we retold it as a class and then made an illustration of our favourite part.
Her is a photo of our display...

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...