The Sound, by Ella

Hoo zzz. "Rachel come," said a voice.
"Who are you?" asked Rachel.  Rachel tip toes to her bed room window. "Hello?" she calls out. Rachel slips and finds herself going DOWN, DOWn, DOwn, Down, down. "Help!" she screams. "Help, help, help!"  Fog blows everywhere.  Grey darkness clogs up my eyes.

KABOOM! Feet first, the fog clears away. That's strange, I walk across the garden thinking where to go and what to do next.  I strode along the land, not getting anywhere... until I here the same noise.  For a second I thought it was a mysterious dream. "Wake up," I pinch myself. Then I realised a girl named Sally was lost too. "Whats your name?" Rachel said, astonished. "My name's Sally"she exclaimed.
"I'm lost, and scared," she added. "Me too, but with you I'm not that scared."

They both explored the town together.  Rachel gets used to it, and becomes closer friends with Sally.

Sally and Rachel  see a magic door.  "Rachel what are you looking at?" "That door" Rachel says. They both open it.  FLASH! Rachel finds herself back in bed. Was that a dream?  Maybe. "Rachel come," said a voice...



By Ella

Room 8 Rappers - Take a look at the raps we wrote about the milk we've been drinking at school!

Kaylee & Jacob

Daniel & Regan

Irza & Natalia

Owen & Logan

Jessica

Jessika

Faronc'e & Alex

Lelani & Carys

Janke & Hayley

Danika & Callum

Ella & Brooklyn

EOTC Week

A few photos from Clip n Climb and Manukau on the Move's Top Town during EOTC week for the Year 4 students...

Year 5 & 6 Camp Survey

We are interested in feedback from parents regarding the recent Year 5 & 6 Camp at Chosen Valley Christian Camp.  Please take a few minutes to complete the online survey for us.

Stay posted for photos and video from the camp.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/year5and62013

Homefun for weeks 3 and 4

Due to a number of disruptions to the normal programme (Labour Day, Athletics Day, Year 5 & 6 Camp), Room 8 will not be given Homefun to complete during weeks 3 and 4 of this Term.  Students should still continue to read each night and practise the courses on Mathletics.

Mr Blake

MY UNCLE PHILLIP

My Uncle Phillip has hazel eyes.
He wears jandals all the time.
He wears black singlets and brown shorts.

Sometimes when he goes on the treadmill  he goes so fast that he falls off and hits the wall.  He drinks too many beers and falls asleep and me and my Dad have to drag him to the bedroom .

My Uncle Phillip  he likes to play golf. People think he's cool. When he's not around he's usually at his friend's house, or playing golf, or fishing.

He says, "I love you the most in the whole entire world." I say "I do too."  He makes me feel good about myself.



BY HAYLEY

My Mum (Poetic Description) by Ella

My mum wears pretty long dresses and pink cardigan.


Mum loves to cook.  After she cooks she makes a big mess.
Dad says "clean it up."
Mum says "No, I always do it!"


Mum is so funny, she makes me laugh so hard.
Sometimes she says unfunny jokes!
I say "That's not really funny"
And mum says "So?"



BY ELLA

Book Week!

Week 9 is Reremoana's annual book week.  As part of book week, Room 8 will be doing some fun and interesting reading and writing activities that will explore our favourite books and authors.

Two activities will require some preparation / help from home.  On Monday we'll be sharing our favourite books with the class, which means we need to bring in a copy of our favourite book and be ready to describe it to the class.  We'll be using our favourite books to write book reviews that will be come a 'Room 8's Favourite Books File'.  On Friday, we'll be dressing up as a character.  This character will either be a character from our favourite book, or an imaginary character that we have described ourselves as part of character poems we'll be writing.  Start giving some thought now as to what you have, or can find that will make a good character costume.

Sneak Preview - what we are working on for our calendar art

We are busy working on our calendar art designs at the moment.  We are experimenting with larger scale pictures at present (for the classroom) and will be working on our calendar art on Thursday.  Here is Callum's 'cool' (using colours from the cool side of the colour wheel) picture silohuette. We were impressed with his first attempt - we can't wait to see what he comes up with on Thursday!  

Aboriginal Artwork - Dot Technique

Our Australian Aboriginal artworks are finished!  Over a two week period we learnt about various  techniques including:  bark painting, finger painting, ceremonial body decorations and the dot technique.  These pictures took a lot of resilience as the dots took ages!
Please come in and visit our display.....

Ella's Recount

Success Criteria:
 - Full stops and capital letters in the right places.
 - Paragraphs for each idea.

On Saturday, at night, Keelia and I went to an auction.  We sat down and waited for the first auction.  The first 40 items sold.  The next 40 were amazing.  They were wrapped in paper so you couldn’t see what was inside.

There was a weird lion thing that made roaring noises.  It meant you won a bonus prize.  We really wanted to win one.

So we asked some people if they could help us get a bonus prize.  We asked Vince last.  “Vince, can you help us?” we asked.  He replied, “yes.”

The next auction started.  “Roar” went the lion thing.  We won a bonus prize.  “Choose a number,” Emma said.  We chose number nine.  We won a box of chocolate each, and some other stuff.

We said thanks to Vince.  Keelia and I talked for a while, then we went home.

Brooklyn's Recount

Success Criteria:
 - Full stops and capital letters in the right places.
 - Paragraphs for each main idea.

After netball on Saturday, Chloe came over to my place. First of all we had spaghetti on toast and a sausage for lunch. It was yum. 

Then we went to my room and played with some toys. Chloe brought some toys too. 

Finally Pete, Chloe’s dad came and asked if Chloe could stay for a sleep over. My mum said “yes”. 

For dinner we had nachos and for pudding, chocolate mousse.

Aboriginal Art

Today (and Friday last week) we have been engaged in an integrated curriculum programme focussed on Aboriginal Art.  We have been learning how to take notes, and to synthesis (re-write in our own words) the information we have learnt.  This is a really sophisticated skill for our learning and Miss Harland was delighted with the comparison between last Friday's attempt and today's effort!

In the afternoons we have been looking at Aboriginal artwork and the 'dot technique'.  Today we were learning how to draw the simple outline of animals that are found in Australia (lizard, snake, turtle, kangaroo).  We will be finishing our major art work off next week (hopefully) but we would like to show you are practice 'dot' circles in the interim.

Term 2 Science Fair

Photos of Room 8 scientists presenting their findings at the end of Term 2.

Year 5 Trip to Mangere Mountain

Photos from the recent trip the Year 5s took to Mangere Mountain.  We learned that Mangere Mountain has a rich history of Maori Settlement and fierce battles for control of the land.  We got to see and try various traditional Maori tools and learned about their farming and food storage methods.