Kindy Playdate

Here are some pictures from our Botany Downs Kindergarten and Room 8 playdate. We have loved having the kindy as a special part of Room 8 this year and have enjoyed all the things we get to do together like the Easter egg hunt, elections, Skyping and talking to you all every week. 

Our special terrific people

Congratulations to our special terrific people JC and CB this week. You are both super star learners! Well done LK on being our values person this week for always showing tolerance. 

What a special treat...

We got to see the Kapahaka perform right outside our classroom. We just had to go and look!

We liked the singing. H T-R

When the did the moves to the song. MO

I like when they sing well. LT

I like the actions. CB 

They do it quite loud and we like it. DS

I like when there is one person saying a line and then they follow. DN

Our special terrific people this week

Congratulations to SP, CE, KM and BS for being our special terrific people this week. You all have been working so hard in Room 8 and all deserve to receive these awards this week. 

DS is our values person for always striving to show determination in everything she does. 

Well done. 

Remember: there is no assembly next week (week 5)! 

Today's Maths activities

Today we went over our knowledge about the family of facts within 10 and we got very fast at recalling them. We have put them up on our wall so we can look at them and go over them as much as we want. 

We also looked at our homework from last night which was to find out who was the tallest person in our house. We took a poll and found out the 18 of our Dads are the tallest in our house and 1 Mum. We started to think, why could this be? Here are some of our ideas we came up with:

• Dads are just bigger.
• Dads grow from birthdays. 
• Dad eats healthy food and drinks lots of water. 
• Because he is the oldest. 
• He was born first. 
• He eats lots of food everyday. 
• He sleeps a lot. 
• His birthday is before Mum. 

Then someone said, "But my Dad is taller than my Mum and Mum is older than Dad!" This started a big group discussion about why people are taller than some people and someone finally offered this idea:

"It is because of their Mum and Dad that they are tall". 

As a class, we came to conclusion that is a lot of different things that make some people taller than others. 

Great thinking Room 8!

Maths week this week!

We love Maths in Room 8 and this week EVERYTHING is about Maths! We will be putting up our work this week on our Blog so you can see what we are up too. 

Here are today's photos:

Our special people of the week

Well done to our special people of the week. BY and LT received the special terrific person awards for their outstanding behaviour and learning in Room 8. KMcK is our values person this week for always being determined to learn and do her best. 

Room 8's calendar art.

We made our apple inspired calendar art and we are super proud of it! We thought you might want to have a sneak peek before ordering.

Orders for the calendars are due into Ms Pearce or the office by the 22nd of October. 

Term 4 start date......13th October 2014

Ms Pearce is looking forward to seeing you all on Monday the 13th of October. 

Mrs Nankivell came to talk to us about Egypt...

Thank you Mrs Nankivell for coming to talk to us about your adventures in Egypt. We really liked hearing about when you saw the pyramids and that you even touched a Mummy! How cool is that! 

We also thought it was neat how you still wear a piece of Egypt with you every day on your necklace. We want to visit Egypt too, one day. 

Father's day pictures

We are so lucky in Room 8 to have pretty wonderful Dads! Here are some photos from the Father's day breakfast held at school the other week. 

We hope our Dad's all know just how much we care about them and we hope you liked your tie-inspired card we made you. 

Our special terrific people this week

Congratulations to SP for being our special terrific person this week for learning all her List 3 spelling words! CE is our values person for always being a cooperative girl in Room 8. KMcK received Agent P this week as she used the peer mediation skills at school. 

Well done!

What a wonderful night!

We had such a fantastic time at our Junior Art exhibition last night. We are all very proud of the work we did. We hope you enjoyed it too!

Our Special Terrific people

Congratulations to CF for being our Special Terrific person. She received her award for developing her confidence in her Reading ability and for giving her best in all she does. WS is our Values person for always co-operating with others. 

Well done, you two!!!!!

A special visitor this afternoon...

Look what Mrs Hartnoll brought in to share with us today! 

Yes, it is a little baby Goat or kid called Jeff. Jeff is a girl and also a twin and the Hartnoll's thought Jeff was a boy hence the name. 

We all got to pat Jeff and she is soooooo soft. She didn't make any noise when she was in our room, she only wanted to groom herself. She also didn't like it when we reached to pat her, she wanted to walk over to us to be patted. We asked Mrs Hartnoll some questions and found out that Jeff has to have a bottle of milk, she is only 6 days old and she is already sleeping through the night! 

Thank you Mrs Hartnoll for bringing in Jeff! We think you are lucky for having her at your house.