Harvesting the gardens

Ofa and Miracle began harvesting the rest of the leeks from the gardens near our room. It was a pretty tough job!

Swimming Goals

Before we started our swimming lessons at the Rec Centre, Room 8 wrote down a goal that they wanted to work on.  Here is a recording of some of Room 8's goals.

Stay tuned for our reflections!

Fonterra Milk in Schools

On Friday we had our first carton of milk thanks to the Milk in Schools programme.  It was a huge hit, with everyone in the class trying it!  It was nice to have a cool drink for brain break.

We learned how to fold our cartons correctly so that they can be recycled.

Soon we will upload a video of how to fold the milk cartons correctly.

Feta Cheese

On Friday 15 November Miss Bolton brought some feta cheese to school.

The Fraggle Rock reading group had read a story about a boy who had feta cheese in his sandwiches.  No one in the group could remember trying feta cheese, so Miss Bolton said she would bring some for everyone to try.

Here are some writing we did about trying the feta cheese.

Robin wrote:
Today we tasted a different type of cheese called feta cheese.  It tasted like salty water, but cheese.  It felt slimy.  It looked nice.  The feta cheese was yummy.

Fonua wrote:
Today Room 8 ate feta cheese.  The feta cheese looked like a piece of vanilla cake and it felt smooth.  

Kaleb wrote:
Today we tried feta cheese to see what it tasted like.  The feta cheese looked like a piece of a cake, because it was shaped in a square.  It smelled like ordinary cheese, but tasted different.  The feta cheese felt like melted cheese.  It tasted yuck because it was like salty water.

Swimming lessons

We have been lucky enough to go to swimming lessons at the Rec Centre.  The people at Counties Manukau Sport arranged instruction for our class and Room 6.  We go every Wednesday and Thursday.  There are 6 groups altogether and the groups have 30 minutes in the pool with an instructor.
Write a comment saying what you have learned so far at swimming.

Writing Buddies

This term Room 8 are going to be using writing buddies to try to make our writing even better and achieve higher marks. This week we are practising how to listen carefully to our buddy and what to say to our buddy. 

These are some photos of Room 8 practising being writing buddies:

Calf Club 2013

What a great day! It was a bit wet, but everyone who came had lots of fun. Here are some photos of Room 8's floral and art exhibits.  If you click on the photos you can get a bigger version of it :)

Face time with Elu

Today Room 8 used Facetime for the first time. Facetime is like Skype.

Elu called us using Facetime. Elu has been very sick, so he's been away from school.

We could see Elu and talk to him. Bosston and Cameron showed him the work they did during reading time.  Ofa, Dyce, Manaia, Ana, Zyprus and Susana also talked to Elu and showed him some of our Calf Club art.

Ranfurly Shield Parade

The Counties Steelers team with the Ranfurly Shield.

Yesterday some of the students from Paerata went to the Counties Steelers ranfurly shield parade. There were lots of people there, and the team spent a lot of time signing autographs. Cameron got his atm signed by the Counties team!

Counties won the Ranfurly Shield from Hawkes Bay - it is the first time Counties has won the shield!

Healthy breakfast choices

On Tuesday 3 September, Courtney came to talk to us about healthy breakfast choices. She gave us a lot of information about the different cereals we can buy. Some of them were not as healthy as we thought! Leave a comment with something that you learned from Courtney.

Project Energise lesson - Sugary Drinks

Today Courtney came to Paerata to talk to us about sugary drinks.  First of all, Courtney told us that our bodies are made up of 70% water and our brains are 80% water!  We learnt that it is important to replace the water that our body loses.

Next Courtney brought out some drinks that lots of us have had before - water, Powerade, Mizone, Coke, e2, V, raro, milk, and Mother.


After that, a few people had a go at putting the drinks in order, from the drink with the least sugar to the drink with the most sugar.  We were very close to getting it correct, Courtney put the drinks in the correct order for us.  This photo shows the order - water has the least sugar, e2 has the most!

Last of all we had to separate the drinks into everyday drinks, sometimes drinks and occasionally drinks.

It was a very interesting lesson and we all learned a lot!

Sugary Drinks from mbolton on Vimeo.

Leave a comment saying what you learnt from Courtney's lesson.

NZ Maths Challenge

Last week Room 8 took part in the nation wide New Zealand Maths Challenge, run by Mathletics.

 After a frustrating start (the website crashed!), we were able to get onto the site and challenge the rest of the country.


Here are a few photos of Room 8 taking part in the challenge.

Our new games!

At the end of Term 2, our profits were added together from our Enterprise unit. We worked to earn money by selling soup and we had our Market Day. Below are a few photos and clips of Room 8 enjoying our new games.

Market Day

Today the junior school had their Market Day. Market Day is the culmination of our topic "Enterprise - working for money". Here are a few photos taken by Room 8 students. 

Room 8's fantastic sellers.