Technology Challenge

For our school wide technology challenge we decided to make a pulley that would raise a flag up a flag pole. We discussed what our brief was and what specifications were needed before embarking on our design process.  I am very impressed with the designs that Room 8 has come up with. We have some very inventive students!!

Investigating forces

As part of our topic 'May the Force be with you' we are conducting experiments to see what kind of force you need to move everyday objects.

Musical Monday

We have music every Monday morning. The children were making some greats sounds today

Memories of year one.

I liked year one because Mrs Louw taught me a lot.I'm also very good at hand writing thanks to all of the teachers I have ever had in cockle bay school.In year 1 I have learned hand writing and now I'm good at it.

Art Expo

We are busy creating our masterpieces for the upcoming Art Expo.  Watch this space!!

Generation's morning

What an amazing morning! A huge thank you to all parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and family friends who were involved in making today such a brilliant success.  Room 8 learnt so many things about the past, so wonderful of you all to share your stories with us.

Postcard Predictions

Today we were looking at the reading strategy 'predicting'. The children went around the tables predicting where all of the 'postcards' were from. They had to work as a group and talk about what languages might be spoken in that country, what foods might be eaten, what types of clothing might be worn and what kinds of activities might they do in a place like this. Predicting is an important strategy for readers as it helps them to anticipate what they are reading. It encourages them to become active readers.

Footprints on the Future

We are starting our new topic 'Footprints on the Future' so we worked in our table groups discussing what we think this could be about. We will look at these sheets at the end of our topic to see if our predictions were correct

Room 8's assembly

Our two announcers, ready to start our kotuku team assembly

Our spooky stories

Sharing our self portraits

Sharing our T Rex Troy story writing

Finally sharing friendship posters

Well done Room 8, what a great assembly!

The Room 8 animals

The children were all given an animal name, they had to find their animal partner using only the sound the animal makes. Lots of fun.