Autumn leaves are falling

 This week during buddy time with Room 3, a year 2/3 class our senior students paired up and studied the Autumn leaves poem. They then went hunting for some beautiful leaves. Tasked to create, they had the opportunity to create digital Autumn leaves with their buddies on the ipads as well as Paint with their Autumn leaves. The results are stunning. And the Tuakana-teina relationships become strong as they support and help eachother along the way. 

 

 

Life, what do plants need

 Our inquiry this term is to look at life on mars... Is there life? can we sustain life there? We have been adding to our knowledge by looking at what seeds need to germinate and grow and then we will investigate what that would look like if we wanted to take plants to Mars.

We have successfully germinated Broad bean seeds and have started our garden outside our class space. Where we water it and make sure it gets lots of sunlight to continue to grow

Dance, dance, dance

 The school has been focusing on the Dance curriculum this term and we have a lovely team from Footsteps to come in and show us how its done. So far the students have learnt about the following dance elements: Shape, Body awareness and relationships. It is lots of fun, and for some it is coming out of our comfort zones.

Making our school work for us

 Room 8 has had an interesting time lately, we are in the process of putting together a classroom furniture proposal for Mrs Hamilton as it is time to upgrade the furniture for the intermediates and we get to have our say on the matter. I have been enjoying the conversations we are having about budgets and feasibility. This is very sensible when asking for things we want. We have also had a chance to do some work outdoors. With our old playground being torn down we have had some good and fertile soil unearthed which we have gathered to be repurposed. We love being out and getting our hands dirty.

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Challenge accepted: BIOPOEM

 For our writing task we did a "Get to know you" activity in the form of a Biopoem. Come to our class to have a look at the student's display. Well, anyway some students have asked me to join the challenge and make one about me. So here it is, now you know. 

Online learning 2021

 Whanaungatanga is the theme for the year at our school and during this lockdown we have definitely shown this. Room 8 have been having our Google meets twice a day everyday and its lovely to see everyone and connect with eachother. We are keeping spirits high with sharing what we are doing and the students have taken to playing games with eachother. We can't wait to get back to school but for now we will see eachother online, and it seems space is where most of the students are finding themselves.

2021

Room 8 is awesome!

We have been at school for 2 weeks now and we have settled in quite nicely. We have revisited our School values and looked at how we can show these in all the things we do and say. We have high expectations of ourselves and each other and will support one another to achieve our goals.

We will post more of the exciting things we get up to so stay tuned!