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.