Descriptive writing

Read Steadfast's piece of descriptive writing.  The task was to choose an image and describe it using the best descriptive vocabulary they could.  I think this writing is amazing!  What do you think?

Congratulations Tui!

A big congratulations and well done to Tui for passing the subtraction level in xtramath this week.  It's a difficult challenge to get 100 questions right so quickly!

Kidsedchatnz - Passions, talents, life long learners

The twitter chat this week was about our passions, interests, and learning.  Before we looked at the questions we watched these two clips:

They were really interesting clips!

Here are the questions that we had, and the answers that we gave.

Kidsedchatnz twitter chat

Wednesday afternoons are Room 8's "tech" time. We work in groups on different technology challenges. Two of the groups participate in the weekly @Kidsedchatnz twitter chat. This week the topic was "10 Random Questions". The questions were very thought-provoking. First we watched a clip (at the bottom of the post), then we answered as many questions as we could. Have a read of our responses. What would you have written?

"The Week that Was" reflection for Term 4 Week 2

Room 8 has been busy this year!

As part of our classroom displays for Art, Craft & Market Day, Miss Bolton has made a slideshow of what we have been doing this year (so far). Enjoy the show!

Tapa Art

Room 8 has begun to look at the art of Tapa cloth.  We have learned that tapa has different names depending on which Pacific nation you are from:
 
   Cook Islands/Tahiti - Tapa
   Samoa - Siapo
   Niue - Hiapo
   Tonga - Ngatu
   Fiji - Masi
   Hawai'i - Kapa

First we talked about what we already knew about tapa.  Then we looked at images of tapa cloths and wrote down what we noticed and what we wondered.  Click here to see what we noticed and wondered.

We also watched this clip about tapa from the programme "Tangata Pasifika"

We will be designing and creating our own digital tapa cloths.

Keep checking back to see photos of our work!

Algebra

This week's maths focus has been Algebra, in particular finding rules for sequential patterns.  It has been quite challenging, but there have been a lot of great discussions happening around the class.

Here are a few shots of the what our board has been looking like at the end of our maths session:

Today (20 August)

Yesterday (19 August)

Here are some clips of our discussions and work:

AVAILLL

Room 8 has begun a new reading programme called AVAILLL.  It stands for Audio Visual Achievement In Literacy, Language, and Learning.

We "ReadWatch" a movie.  This means that while the movie is playing, we have to also read the subtitles.  Throughout the movie there are activities we have to complete, and we also read parts of the book that the movie is based on.  We have to pay a lot of attention to the subtitles to complete the activities correctly!

The first movie we have studied is "Meet the Robinsons", which is based on the book "A Day with Wilbur Robinson".

Below are a few photos and videos of Room 8 during our AVAILLL time.

 ReadWatching "Meet the Robinsons".  You can see that everyone is on task, and if you watch carefully you can see people reading the subtitles!

This activity is called Spellfast.  You can see (and hear!) that every one is on task and engaged in the activity.

The Week that was - week 4

The Week that was - term 3 week 3

Year 5 & 6 Netball

Last Thursday we sent two teams to the Franklin Year 5 & 6 Netball tournament.  Luckily the weather was brilliant and sunny!  Miss Bolton and Mr Thompson went with the teams and umpired the games.  Mrs Shea helped with transport.

Both teams played very well, and had some tough games.  The girls team came second in their pool and the boys team came fourth.

The Week that Was - Term 3 Week 2

It's been a busy start to Term 3!

Blogger Checklist (Just for google ninja)

Writing Challenge

Today Miss Bolton challenged Room 8 to write a story in 15 minutes.  Each person chose a setting from a list on the board, then had 15 minutes to write.  Every one took this challenge very seriously, nothing could be heard apart from fingers tapping on keyboards.

After the time was up, we all shared our writing with another person and we had to make a comment on their writing.  Then we had time to share our writing with the class.

Room 8 were so involved with our writing that they convinced Miss Bolton to let them carry on writing!

Here are the links to our writing:

Destiny's writing     

Kaleb's writing

Steadfast's writing

Lihai's writing

Ofa's writing

Phoenix's writing

Tui's writing

Brier's writing

Ana's writing

Susana's writing

Layton's writing

Robin's writing

Karll's writing

Tapu's writing

Antonio's writing

Kaumea's writing

Tara's writing

Sonny's writing

"The Week that was" reflection for Week 10

Apology from Miss Bolton

Hi Room 8,

 I have to apologise as I accidentally deleted some of our comments from the blog :(

 The layout/settings of page where I go to publish the comments has changed, and I thought I was deleting comments that had been doubled up. They weren't :'(

 Our Quadblogging partners from Hay Park School left some really awesome comments - very well thought out and written. Unfortunately they are gone.

 I have sent some feedback to the Blogger people about this issue, and have asked why they changed it.


**Update = I've found a way to recover the Haypark School comments.  I will get them uploaded by tomorrow.**

Great effort Kaleb!

Well done Kaleb, you have passed the multiplication section of xtramath!

Our first Google Ninja black belt!

Well done Brier, you are the first Room 8 student to achieve a black belt in any of the Google Apps.   I know if I have any questions about using Google Slides, I'll definitely be coming to see you!

Thank you for already sharing your knowledge and helping out the other students in our class.  

Harold's here!

Room 8 was very excited to see the Life Education mobile classroom pull up this afternoon.

Next week every class will have sessions in the classroom with Sally and Harold.

I wonder what we will learn about this year...

Well done Steadfast!

Steadfast has put a lot of effort to gain this certificate.  Awesome work Steadfast!

Finding the area of a shape

Room 8 has been learning how to find the area of a shape.  Here is a video to help you remember how we have been working out area.

**Please remember that we don't write more than 1 equals sign on a line!

Growth Mindset clip of the week

Watch this clip.  It is an interview with the musician John Legend.  How did John Legend show that he had a growth mindset?  How can you show that you have a growth mindset?

Term 2 Week 7 reflections

Well done Kaleb!

Congratulations Kaleb on achieving mastery of the Subtraction facts on xtramath.  You have put a lot of effort and focus into achieving this.  Kaleb is now working on his multiplication tables.

The Week that was - Term 2 Week 6 reflections

Paris 'Love locks' banned.

http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/blog/paris-love-locks-banned/


The authorities in Paris say they'll no longer tolerate people attaching padlocks as a symbol of love to the city's bridges.

Some one that is not scared of bears.By Ana

http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Okay every one here's is something funny do know how people run and scream away from a charging bear but not this man instead he roaed at the bear.

The event took place in the  forest near a lake.By Ana 

Week 5 reflections

Sorry I was a bit late getting our reflections up from last week. I like how many people in Room 8 are able to write two positive thoughts about the week and one thing they'd like to improve. Room 8 had an amazing week! Miss Bolton.

Learning about Asthma

Today Paerata School learned about asthma.  Chris and Sailor the Puffer Fish came to explain to us what asthma is and how we can help people who suffer from asthma.

Room 8 learned a lot, after the show we put together this slideshow.  We hope you learn something about asthma by watching our slideshow.

Well done Tui!

Tui's hard work has paid off!  Tui has achieved mastery of the addition basic facts on xtramath.  Awesome work Tui :)

Ana Work

Today i am writting a post to the world that we have been working on place value and we have a qeutions for you to solve.

624 times 3 =600+15+12
627
Do you think that is right.

Comment to say if you agree or disagree - and why!

Our Growth Mindset clip of the week

Watch the clip below.  What would a person with a growth mindset have done?  Would they have stayed on the escalator?  What message do you think this clip is trying to give us?

Well done Brier!

Brier has mastered her addition basic facts on xtramath.  Great effort Brier, it takes a lot of hard work and focus to achieve this :)

Bullying has to STOP

Take a long hard look at yourselve's people.Are you a bully ?.Are you the kind of person who likes to make people suffer.If you are,then why do you really make people feel horrible.Think about that question.It doesn't matter if it's a kid,a friend,a loved one or even your teachers and principal.It is NOT good.Kids all around are terryfied of bullies.Arguments lead to fights,fights lead to bullying and bullying leads to the ultimate consequence . . . suicidal thought and suicaidal thoughts lead to death,pain and blood . . .And if you had to bare with the fact that someone had killed or hurt themselves because you bullied them,your life would never be the same again.You can't bully if everyone you bully is dead.But you do have a chance to change.You can stop by saying these 5 simple words."I will never bully again".That can change everything.People won't beleive you at first,but you can show them you're different.You can change.think about it.

You don't want to do this to someone.
   -By Tui

Here are some links.
The anti bullying song
www.stopbullying.gov
bullying:Wikepedia

                                                           MUM VS DAD

Mothers this year are getting all they want with brekfast in bed with a nice cold drink but most people or kids like Mum more but who do you think will win?...






    GO DAD             GO MUM        

Leave your votes in the commets      p.s I vote for Mum

Boy smuggled into spain in a suitcase

          

                              The Spanish police made a horrifying discovery when they found an 8

        year old boy that was trying to be smuggled over the border and into spain in a suitcase!.When the

suitcase was put through the scanner,the operator saw something strange.He saw the outline of a young boy 

on the screen.When the suitcase got opened by border patrol,a young boy,from the Ivory coast was found inside.The woman who owned the bag was arrested on the spot and will appear before a judge.The boy's father was also arrested after trying to cross the border to spain a few hours later.Thousands of migrants each year risk there lives trying to enter spanish territories.Here is a link to the original post.The suitcase

                  -By Tui

A Missing Police Dog Found!!!!!!!!

My article about a police dog found



Where: During his second traning

What: a police dog was missing

where lost: taraua

How: from his traying he was dong


Who: Constble Mike Walkfield a dog and 2 kids


By Miracle

Barcelona V Juventus Final

My article-Barcelona V Juventus Final

1.This article is about Barcelona VS Juventus they are versing each other's team's  in the championship

They are going to VS each other  in the 6th of June 2015 at Berlin Germany.

By Karll,Tapu

Boy smuggled into spain in suitcase

boy smuggled into spain into suitcase.

Where?This boy was traveling around in a suitcase and ended up in spain  at the airport.
What?This boy was in a suitcase and they scaned it and it and was not in right shape.
Why?Because a ninty year old women was payed to smuggle him from the dad.And he the son will be renited with his son again.
Who?The main person of this article was the 8 year old boy and the dad.
How? He is very lucky he is a live.
Ana Davis

Tornado hits Tauranga

Tornado hits Tauranga!

A small but big Tornado hits Tauranga in Mount Maunganui last night at 8:45pm there has been a lot of damage happening in Tauranga, like houses roofs have been ripped off like crazy and famlies are terriffied hope my sister and her friends family are okay.

Here is a link to the video from last night

hope all in Tauranga are all in good condition

By Brier

a boy forced into a suit case

My article about a boy getting forced in a suit case

how old: he was only 8 years old.

what: he was hidden in the suit case so he could travel but unforcentley he didnt make it they had checked the suitcase.

where: when the suitcase was released they had found the boy in and aquard shape  in Ivory Coast

whats his name: abou

who had taken: A nineteen year old lady


Tara

The calm after the storm in wellington.

The calm after the storm.

One day at wellington they had a storm or known as a flood.It happened on Wednesday 14 of May.What happened well it doesn't say on the real article I read but it wasn't like a earthquak it was just a little flood that carryed on in Wellington.I don't know why it happenedbut it for me was shocking.I don't know how it happened but it was dramadic.

Ofa

A world record painting sold.

Picasso painting

On Monday 11 May a Picasso painting has been sold for the highest record of money with $230 million to a man/lady that has not been identified, the place they had sold it was at Christies in London

What is Kid President's message?

Watch this clip of Kid President.  What is he trying to tell us?  Do you agree with his message?

Xtramath

We have started using the site xtramath.org to practice our basic facts. On this site you must answer basic facts questions quickly and correctly. It is quite hard to do!

Congratulations to Kaleb and Robin for completing the addition facts section.  They have
answered all of the addition facts questions in under 3 seconds.  Wow, what a great effort!

Reflecting on our week

Each Friday Room 8 is going to reflect on how their week has gone.  They can comment on things that have happened at school or outside of school.

Each student is asked to write about two positive things (two things that they have found interesting/done well at) and one thing that they are going to improve on the following week.

How does these clip relate to having a Growth Mindset?

Watch this clip of the actor/singer/performer Will Smith.  Write a comment saying how you think this clip relates to having a growth mindset.

Ofas anzac biscuit biscuit recipe

ENJOY WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED :)

Anzac Biscuits_Brier

• 85g porridge oats
• 85g desiccated coconut
• 100g plain flour
• 100g caster sugar
• 100g butter, plus extra butter for greasing
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method:

1. Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Put the oats, coconut, flour and sugar in a bowl. Melt the butter in a small pan and stir in the golden syrup. Add the bicarbonate of soda to 2 tbsp boiling water, then stir into the golden syrup and butter mixture.
2. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour in the butter and golden syrup mixture. Stir gently to incorporate the dry ingredients.
3. Put dessert spoonfuls of the mixture on to buttered baking sheets, about 2.5cm/1in apart to allow room for spreading. Bake in batches for 8-10 mins until golden. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Growth mindset - The Power of Yet!

Room 8 has been learning about what a growth mindset is this week.  When Miss Bolton was away at her MST days, she learned a lot about what a growth mindset is, so she has decided to teach us about it too!

A growth mindset is all about how you think about learning - you might say "I don't know how to do that yet"  or you will give something a go and if you fail you will learn from your mistake and try
again.

If you say you can't do something, or you won't give it a go because you might fail - that is a fixed mindset.

Watch this clip - how does it relate to having a growth mindset?

Dawn Parade by Ana Davis

We wear poppys because these flowers grew 

in the flanders fields.

Things, my mother told me about Great-grandad.

That he always wore a brown jumper.

That he  had tufts of hair like white furthers.

That he didnt like the word um.

 

Why do we wear the red poppy by Ofa

why we wear poppies-Brier

We wear a poppy because these flowers were growing in Flanders fields where soldiers fell in other words died.

In Flanders fields-Brier

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago, We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields .

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To  you from failing hands we throw. The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders field.

Author Visit

On Friday 24 April, Paerata School had a visit from Allie Toledo, the author of the book "Wearing the poppy".

She told the seniors about World War 1, particularly about the battles at Gallipoli.  She also told us about how many New Zealand men went to war - and how many men did not come home.

Allie told us about her own family connection to the war and how she has done research to find out the stories of her uncle's time in the war.

Allie also showed us two books by another author.  These books were written to remember the soldiers from Samoa and Tonga who fought in World War 1.

Listening, writing notes.

ANZAC Art

This week Room 8 has been learning about what it means to be an ANZAC.  We have been doing a lot of reading and research about Gallipoli and World War 1.

While Miss Bolton was at her  MST conference, Mrs Pearce was teaching Room 8.  She showed Room 8 how to create some awesome art to commemorate ANZAC Day.

Masterchef Bakers

Our Inquiry topic for term 1 was all about Bread - how to make bread dough, creating different types of bread, and how to work together in a team.

Room 8 joined with Room 7 to form 8 Masterchef teams.

For each type of bread teams were given points for coming first, second and third (10points, 9 points and 8 points respectively).  Teams were given bonus points by Mrs Snook and Miss Bolton for team work.

Types of bread:

Simple white loaf
Wheat loaf
Savoury bread
Sweet bread 1
Sweet bread 2
Shared lunch (pizza dough, pita, coconut buns, Maori (fried) bread)

Thanks to Mrs Snook for organising the equipment and ingredients.  Thanks to Whaea Heni and Mrs Taumoefolau for coming in to help with the groups baking the Maori bread and coconut buns.

Fonua's Award

Fonua's Award



Awesome work Fonua!

Well done Room 8!

Class ROOM_8@2015's Certificate

Well done Karll!

Karll's Award

Room 8's writing

In writing this week, we have been working on making our writing more interesting to read.  We have been discussing WOW words - descriptive words that make our work more interesting.  Words like:
     enormous instead of big    or      icy instead of cold.

Below are some videos of our work using the website telescopictext.org - we started with a very simple sentence, then added WOW words and extra detail to make the sentence more interesting.

What do you think of our work?

2 from mbolton on Vimeo.

1 from mbolton on Vimeo.

Skoolbo Certificate!

Class ROOM_8@2015's Certificate



Well done to all those hard working Room 8 students!

Kid President

"Kid President" is a boy from the United States who makes funny and inspirational clips.  This one is called Pep Talk from Kid President.

How do you feel after watching this clip?

What message will you take away from Kid President?

Maths - Place Value with decimals

Today for maths we were practising converting decimals to whole numbers, such as 3.502 million is the same as 3,502,000. This was quite challenging!

We had to order the populations for cities around the world. We wrote the population onto a post-it, then we ordered the populations from smallest to largest. As a class we checked the order. We had to change some because they were in the wrong order. Oops! 

What did you learn from this activity?

Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day?

Room 8 has researched information about the Treaty of Waitangi.  It is an important document in our country's history, but what do we know about it?

The students in Room 8 were asked to research about the Treaty and present this information using Google Slideshow.

For some students this was the first time they had used Google Slideshow.  I think everyone did an amazing job, especially since they only had just over an hour to research and present their work!

Miss Bolton


Antonio, Phoenix and Fonua: Brier and Ana: Kaleb and Robin: Karll and Tyron: Layton and Tui: Ofa and Luana-Nan: Susana and Destiny: Tara and Miracle:

2015!

Wow, it's another new year at Paerata School!

This year we have an awesome group of Year 5 and 6s in Room 8. We are going to use our class blog to showcase our fantastic learning.

To start the year, I would like all students in Room 8 to complete this Google Form about what they think about maths.

I am so looking forward to having a brilliant year in Room 8! Miss Bolton