Marvellous Artwork

Room 8 have been creating beautiful portraits over the last four weeks and the first few have been completed so we thought we would share them with you. Fingers crossed there will be more to follow next week with an explanation of how they were created. Let us know what you think and for those of you who know us can you work out who is who?

Howzat?!

Room 8 have been doing some more of their Friday writing where they choose what they want to write about. This week Ronak has published his story about a cricket game between New Zealand and Zimbabwe in which he and Brendan McCullum have the task of helping New Zealand to victory. He hopes you enjoy it and would love to hear your feedback. http://www.room8-hns.blogspot.co.nz/p/wonderful-writing.html

Technology Challenge

On Monday we took part in a technology challenge to make a paper plane that could turn as it flew. We got into groups of four and were given four pieces of A4 paper, two drinking straws, 1m of sticky tape and a blob of blu-tak. Each team had 15 minutes to come up with a design that included at least one of the straws and to build it. We then took it in turns to try our planes out. It was lots of fun and we are going to be writing about the experience so keep an eye out for some writing in the near future. For the moment here are some of the pictures from the afternoon.

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Writers Workshop

Room 8 have been writing, creating anything from a whole chapter book through to fun little poems. Every Friday we have Writers Workshop where the children get to choose what they write about, the main rule being that everyone must write but the subject choice is wide and wonderful. We will be sharing some of this writing through our writing page so please hop on over to have a look. Today we have posted a fun little piece of writing by Aspen Davys-Olsen called "Ways to Kill a Pencil", she would love to read your comments on her creation.

Welcome to our International Visitors

Room 8 are very excited to see that we have visitors popping in to have a look at our blog from all over the world. We've had several visitors from America in the last week as well as some from around New Zealand. We'll be popping some of our work up in the next few days, we've been working on some writing and some fantastic portraits. We'd love you to comment on our work so please don't be shy.

The start of a New Year

We are almost a month into 2012 already and Room 8 is getting ready for it's new class of children. Mrs Davies has been busy setting the desks out and starting to put things up on the wall over the last week as the new term starts next Wednesday.

We hope you will continue to follow and comment on our activities and work this year, we have camp to look forward to at the end of the term which should be lots of fun and I know we will be busy writing stories, producing beautiful works of art and doing lots of other amazing things before then. We will do our best to keep adding to the blog on a regular basis just like last year.

Oh No!

Amy shares a piece of her writing about our kayaking at Waimarino.

I wobble in the kayak but don’t topple .the wind has pushed me into the side of the bank. ”Oh no” I think. I carefully force my paddle between the murky brown water speckled with green and the hideous weeds growing thickly in the water. I push using all my strength to get of the bank. Chemae and Maega have already past me. I try hard to keep up but I can’t, my arms aren’t strong enough. I keep getting blown into the bank. I swerve suddenly to avoid running over a mother duck and her ducklings. I carefully look at their soft feathers and wonder how Ocean can be scared of them.

As I slowly paddle specks of sticky mud covers my legs. I carefully turn without getting blown away. I approach the white boat and hurry up so I’m not the last.