Ganesha Assembly

Today was Room 8's Assembly item. We shared some facts about India.

Hayley played the Goddess Parvadi and Tyler was Ganesha; the son she made from clay.

Bobby played Lord Shiva and came home to find Ganesha guarding the gate of his home. He chopped off Ganesha's head.

Jeremy played Ganesha brought back to life with the head of an elephant.

Speech Day Super Stars

What an amazing job you did today at Speech Day Will and Makayla. You really did Room 8 proud. You tackled the gritty and terrible problem of homelessness in New Zealand Will and gave us all something to think about. Makayla - I think you gave all us teachers something to think about with your topic of Stopping the Homework Cycle! Great job, you two!

A Busy Day in Room 8

Today started off with a visit from Halo, Molly's pet pup. Halo loved meeting all the children in Room 8 and we learnt some interesting facts about Halo and how she arrived in Dunedin on an aeroplane, from the North Island, with her brother who also lives in Dunedin.

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Will went the extra mile with his research on Germany. He brought in an amazing poster full of facts about this interesting country. He had also baked some Liebkuchen: delicious iced german spice biscuits. We had a lovely shared morning tea whilst listening to Will talk us through his terrific poster which is now on display in the classroom. Awesome work Will. Here is the recipe if you want to try them at home.

Here is Will at Morning Tea Time finishing off one of the delicious Liebkuchens.

Room 8 gave a good send off to our cross country competitors Hayley, Kyle, Bobby, Ethan and Henry. We crossed our fingers and toes - as we wished them luck for their races.

Cross Country Day

 Yay! Cross Country Day has finally arrived and we can put all that practice to good use on the track...Here we are on the bus.

 All quite excited and raring to go!

 We drop off our bags and enjoy the beautiful sunshine; feels like spring is almost here.

Laureen and Sebastian with Xavier who is raring to go!

 Year 5 girls get ready...get set...

Go!!!!

 Xavier sets off with his amazing high school helpers and Sebastian and Harrison too! Enjoy the run Xavier...

 Year 5 boys on the starting line...

 The Year 6's are waiting their turn.

 In comes Hayley...not far to go Hayley.

 Xavier and his helpers cross the finishing line awesome job boys.

 Ethan is strides ahead - terrific work - all that training has paid off.

 Year 6 Girls line up for their turn.

 Finally the Year 6 Boys get to race.

Off they go. What a wonderful day it has been - lots of sunshine, lots of running and lots of fun.

Xavier is working hard

Xavier has been working hard on his letters and phonics this week - here he is working on the letter 'd'......with a little help from his friends! Thanks Sebastian, Harrison and Sophie; learning can be fun.

Jamie's Birthday

Jamie celebrated his birthday this week. Here he is with Xavier who came over to give him a birthday hug! We all wish you Happy Birthday Jamie!

Celebrating School Values!

We are having a big focus on our School Value, Respect, this week. Room 8er's Sebastian and Harrison know what this looks like in the playground. Thanks boys you are amazing and you have earned one of the first Values tickets to put in the draw for a Subway Voucher - good luck in the draw!

Week 3 already!

Starting our new maths topic: time.

We are learning about seasons and how many days in the months of the year.  

We are also looking at digital and analogue time.

Our time unit ties in quite nicely with what Amy is teaching us in Mandarin (seasons).

Rose practicing netball at lunch time.

Ethan and Ranui are enjoying their first lunch time practice.

So good to see the Room 8ers getting out there and enjoying netball.

Xavier loves being out amongst the action...

On the field some of the boys have an impromptu game of rugby...

Here we are back in class working on our theme: tackling the issue of rubbish in the playground...

One of our ideas for a poster reminder children to put their rubbish in the bin. Caption: If you are a binner you are a winner!

Using our Map Skills

 Rose giving her partner co-ordinates to find a location on their map.

 Matthew and Harrison are busy working out where somewhere is on the North Island.

Ahurei and Jamie work together finding out locations.

 Gemma and Elliot are quick to work out the location co-ordinates...

 So are Ben and Henry...

 Here Jahqeil follows Jamie's directions for a 5km bike ride around Dunedin using a scale map.

 Sophie and Will give directions to Hayley and Molly for their 5km bike ride.

 Xavier has been focusing on directional language; here he is watching a car ride through Dunedin.