How many children does it take to make 100?

We had a question in Room 8. We knew that we could make 10 with our hands but when Ms P asked, "Show me 100," the children laughed! "We can't do that," they said. 

So we came up with the question, "How many children would it take to make 100?"

We found out that it takes 10 children, each holding up their 10 fingers. Great skip counting in tens, Room 8!

There's a crocodile in Room 8!!!!!!

Today, we were lucky enough to have Lois (EW's Mum) come in to read us a story from their home, South Africa. 

It is a story about how the crocodile got his skin. Lois brought us all pictures of the animals faces we had to glue onto plates so we all be could be a part of the story. 

Who was the crocodile in our story? None other than Ms Pearce herself! The shiny gold colour is to represent the crocodile's beautiful skin before she became vain and got her scaly, bumpy skin. 

We had a fantastic time being a part of a play and listening to Lois read to us. We also had fun dancing to our new favourite tune - Imvubu the happy hippo. You can see the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yPBt7gSLj0

The Sign Language we are learning this week...

We are learning how to say, "How are you?" in Sign Language and Maori. 



In Maori, we say, "Kei te pehea koe?" which means how are you? 

Remember to practice both at home with your family. Maybe you could teach both to them too?

If you would like to know more about New Zealand Sign Language, this is a really good website!

http://nzsl.vuw.ac.nz/

Welcome back to Term 3!

What a fantastic start to Term 3, which saw Room 8 creating a costume out of newspaper to begin our Wearable Art Inquiry unit this term. 

It is going to be an exciting term for Room 8 with lots of creating, inventing, painting, modelling and designing happening. 

Welcome to our new class members and their whanau. You have both settled in so well to school!

Homework
This Term we will have spelling and maths homework which will be going home, along with the Jolly Phonics and reading homework. Homework is important to complete each night as it reinforces the learning that is happening in the classroom.

Happy Holidays!

What a fantastic Term 2! We learnt a lot this Term: changes in the kitchen, slow and fast beats in Music, expanded our basic word knowledge, skip counted to 20 in 2's, 5's and 10's, learnt new Jolly Phonics sounds and learnt how we can be awesome friends, and much more. 

We hope you all have a fantastic holiday. We cannot wait to hear all your wonderful stories from your time with your whanau. 

See you on the 29th of July, all ready for Term 3!

P.S: We hope that Cheeky Monkey behaves for LG who has him this holidays. Well done, LG!

Maori Language Week

Kia ora whanau, 

It is Maori Language week, Te wiki o te reo Maori, this week so we will be learning even more Maori words to help us describe the world around us. 

Please ask us what word we have learnt today and what it means, then we can all learn this wonderful New Zealand language together and celebrate it. 

Ka pai. 

Look who has Agent P this week!!!!

AK received Agent P this week for playing nicely and responsibly in the playground. Well done, AK! We are all super proud of you in Room 8.