Merry Christmas

The end of the 2009 school year is vey close and I want to take this opportunity to thank Room 8 for being such an awesome class. I hope you have a great holiday! I look forward to seeing you all around the school next year. Love Mrs Richards.

Tomorrow Friday we are icing Christmas biscuits. We have made one for ourselves and one to give away. I am sur they will be works of art when we have finished. Monday we are going to Albury School to see their show. Today everyone had fun at Maori Park Swimming Pool.

Wednesday in Room 8

Today we made wombat posters on Printshop 2.

Wombats live in Australia in grassland and eucalyptus forest.

They eat grasses, roots, bark and herbs.

They look furry. They have little ears, little eyes and paws.

They are grey, and brown. They have a pouch. They look like a bear. They can grow as big as 119 cm.

They can live up to 26 years. They are mammals. They are nocturnal.

Week 8 Term 4

The past week was one of huge excitement. We finally had our market day which was a huge success. We achieved our goal of selling all our products. Mrs Richards was very proud of the children. She thinks they made some great products of high quality indeed.

Another huge event happened on the same day as market day. A new interactive white board was installed. It is totally awesome and we are having great fun learning just what we can do on it.

Our future army captains and architects and engineers admire their work.

Sophie's wonderful house painting.

Would you like to buy our amazing masks at the PreP market?

Kia ora. The weeks are flying by so fast. 

Room 8 have been very busy doing end of year testing. This has been encouraging because so many children have made good progress. That's what we all want isn't it? After our Maths Progress and Achievement I asked for feedback on what children found hard. This feedback was great because it helps me to have a clear idea of what the children want to concentrate on in these final weeks.

This will also help me with programme planning for next year.

PreP production is nearing completion as we look forward to the big market next week. We have had a lot of fun and learnt quite a few new skills including cooperating with each other. Its been great how the different groups have met up with production challenges and found ways to overcome these.

Games Sense fun with Julie.

Room 8 enjoy Games sense with Julie. Its a great way to learn new games skills in a fun way.

The term is flying. We have athletics coming up on Tuesday so have been out most days enjoying learning athletic skills. 

We have also been very busy setting up our Prep Enterprises. We are just at the stage of purchasing the materials to make our different market goods. Our Room are making cool toy bats, amazing masks, cute little soft toy bunny heads, wooden planes and aliens. .

Welcome to the new term. We are excitedly making preparations for the School Prep Market in Week 7. We will learn heaps from this study, including, running a business, managing a budget, making a profit and working cooperatively. We have already organised our different companies. We are currently making plans, reflecting on the good points and possible bad points of our products and making up shopping lists to begin production. Abbey's group are thinking of making this cool toy but are trying to problem solve how they can make enough to make a profit. There is a lot of sewing.

What do you think? Would you buy one?

The Evil Trickster

Once upon a time there was an evil clown who lived in the toy shop. He is as evil as Darth Vador. He is so evil that once he tried to take over the world but it didn't work. The evil clown thought he was the boss and intelligent. 

He looked ugly and evil. He wore a stripy top, blue and black pants with gold bells at the bottom and a rainbow wig.

The clown was such a trickster too. He tried to be the boss of all the toys.

By Shevourn Malone.

In reading we are trying to use our green thinking hat to solve the Billy Goat's troll problem.

Flynn Parker has come up with this solution.

The Flying Basket Solution

The billy goats climb up the ladder and jump into the basket. They pull the rope until they are on the other side and climb down the ladder. Thats how they keep safe from the big scary troll.

Character description.

We are learning to write character descriptions using lots of adjectives and a simile.

Our stories are about the show.

Toy Robot

By Quinn Monk

I am a metal white and brown shiny robot. I have a cardboard suit with shiny buttons and cool facepaint. I have a helmet. I am good at laughing and bending. I walk like an old man.

Dancing Soldier

By Matthew Sorenson

Once there was a great toy dancing soldier who came alive in the Toymaker shop on the Bluestone Stage. He was colourful. He wore light brown, dark brown, dark green, grey and black camo clothes. He wore long pants and a camo top with long sleeves. He had black and green striped face paint.

He did great dancing, punching moves and marching.

Dancers ready for the show.

Tonight was our final show night. Room 8 children were amazing. Everyone performed with excellence and made us proud. What a great show. Here are some of our dancers. Aren't they lovely.

Our Techno Spot

Haere mai! We are currently working hard to create a simple Mihi on Kid's Pix Slide Show. Tamiti, Kyle and Taine are so keen, they spent lunch time today perfecting the steps. Ka pai guys!!!

Toymaker's Story

Kia Ora. We have been busy practicing for our upcoming show and  making some cool props. Mrs Richards has become real mad hatter. Hat production has been a big feature in our room. Our forest backdrop will be very cool too....be....leave it.

We are currently spending lots of time preparing for our show "The Toy Maker's Story. In Maths on Fridays we are learning to tell the time. In writing we are just finishing a poetry writing unit. Wow we have some great budding poets using lots of adjectives.

Ice skating 2009

On the fifth of August we had a fantastic day at Lake Tekapo ice skating. We were so proud of ourselves learning and perfecting our skating skills. We were lucky having some great parents helping us.