The end of the year

Room 8 has worked incredibly hard this year.  They have been Miss Bolton's guinea pigs:  starting our class blog, using the wiki page, using our new iPad, using Miss Bolton's iPhone, trying different apps, using cameras on lots of devices, trying out different timetable ideas, using different websites (like Mathletics!). The list goes on.
Miss Bolton is very proud of the way everyone in Room 8 has given all the new things a go - no-one said that they didn't want to try anything, Room 8 are definitely risk-takers when it comes to their learning!
To finish off the year, Miss Bolton asked Room 8 to reflect on 2012 and use the netbooks to video themselves talking about what they enjoyed the most in 2012.  Miss Bolton then edited the videos and put them all together to make one movie.

A dancing cop helps traffic

this just in a cop helps the traffic flow. a cop has been helping the traffic that is very amazing i wounder how he does it . The seccret is dance! thankyou for saving the road. By Kevin

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Snakes

Snakes Some snakes can be very, very poisonous so you should watch out, they could come any time, I suggest you should watch out good. By Tyler From Paerata school room8

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Be careful this week.

On friday 7th december, 3 people died because of a storm and tornado and others injured. Two died because of construcion sites,one died because of a tree. there reports of another tornado coming in routua this afternoon. 150 homes are destroyed and 300 residents being evevacuated. so be carful this month. this is not a game.

A little bit of rain?

Today (6 December) it rained. And rained. And rained! Miss Bolton took a photo and video of the rain just after lunch today when she was sheltering under the canopy with Mrs Tate. The rain was so loud that Miss Bolton couldn't hear Mrs Tate talking to her!
On the video can you see the water overflowing? The noise in the video is the rain hitting the canopy.

Emotion Poems

In Room 8 we have been learning about similes.  Similes are when we compared two things using the words like or as.

Miss Bolton showed us some blogs where other students had written emotion poems.  Here are the links:

Year 3 class from Australia

Belmont Primary School from Auckland

Here are some of our emotion poems:

                           SHYNESS
                           Harmony

Shyness is like going to a new school for the first time ever.
I see people laughing at me about how I dress!
I hear whispers in others ears about me!
I smell gross school lunches.
It tastes yuck and really fatty.
Shyness feels afraid and nervous! 

                          FEAR
                          Ants

            Fear is like being trapped.
            I see shadows lurking,waiting.
            I hear creaks and knives clanging.
            I smell blood and fire.
            It tastes rusty and curved.
            Fear feels insane and painful.

           pain 
           pain feels like getting punch in the face you fall down  and you know that you will  
            lose the fight.
            It feels painful like falling down and hitting your head on a rock.
             I taste my blood dripping  down my nose.
             In your head you hear noises saying get up get up. by Aloysius


Happy.
 Happy is when you hear giggles like laughs.
It's when you smell delicious chocolate cake with icing on top of it.
Happy is when you see people having fun like playing the game tiggy .
It's when you had a slice of chocolate cake.
Happiness is when you have fun.
By Kevin

             

Peas

Outside in Room 8's pots we have peas growing in everyones groups. They are growing really well! They look really delicious already. We had to re-plant our peas because they wern't growing properly in our little plastic cups. Room 8's peas in our pots outside have growin so fast we just planted them last term.