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!

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

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!