Welcome 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone in Room 2.  Welcome back to Year 8s and an extra warm welcome to all the Year 7s.  It is wonderful to see you all looking sharp in your school uniform.  We are locked into a pathway of fantastic learning in all curriculum areas.  Bring your strengths, talents, skills and expertise as we work together to raise our level of achievement in 2015.

Tabloid Sports EOTC week

Tabloid sports was a lot of fun because the teams competed in fun and interesting games. 

Mika and his team were doing the wet relays games - transferring water from one bucket to another bucket whilst tossing a juggling baton was not easy.  The team who filled their bucket the quickest were the winners. 



Robin and his team thought this game was a lot of fun and challenging at the same time.  It was hard to run with a cup of water in your hand tossing a baton at the same time.

Indoor Sports for EOTC week

At the Indoor Sports Centre at Hutt Park, the whole school were split up into 13 teams and participated in a round robin of different sports such as soccer, hockey, ultimate frisbee, non-stop cricket, netball, dodgeball and pictionary....it was awesome.
Isaiah R's reflection - "My most enjoyable moment was the indoor sports because I really got engaged in all the sports that my team got assigned too.  I really participated in every single sport."

Robin's reflection - "I was in group 7. Our first sport was ultimate frisbee when we had to throw the frisbee to our team mates on the other side of the court.  It was our first win.  We faced a very challenging team at the dodgeball sport.  Unfortunately we got beaten."

EOTC Week News

E O T C (Education Outside The Classroom) was held on 24th - 28th November

At Wellington Zoo, Tluang got the opportunity to have hands on experience touching cheetah's skin.  "It was soft and warm."

        
Lunching in the warm Wellington sunshine after a busy walk around the zoo.

We are learning how to write a quality information report. We know that reports have an introduction. a body of paragraphs and a concluding statement. We know that reports gives the reader factual information about a topic. In Room 2, we are writing information reports on an animal. "From my research, I found out that an octopus has 3 hearts" - Kehu.

How many rectangles can you see in this picture?  Look carefully and count all the small rectangles. Can you see the large rectangles? Count them as well.   In Room 2, we are learning about 2D, 3D shapes, transformation of shapes and symmetry of shapes.  

Gezhane's bookwork is clearly set out with the date, a heading and beautifully written in blue pen and underlined in red pen.  Fantastic work.

Robin has written a reflection is his Learning Journal and showed what he has learned about shapes in geometry. Great work.

Welcome back...Term 4 is going to be a blast in Room 2.  Our topics for this term are: Information Reports,  Geometry, Inquiry topic is Beyond Aotearoa, PE - cricket skills.

  

We are determined to follow the OCRs (Our Classroom Rules more deliberately.  They are...

• HELPING - work cooperatively with others.
• QUIET - Put our hand up instead of calling out.
• PEACEFUL - Work out problems with kind words.
• CLEAN -  Put things away after use.
• RESPECTFUL - Take care of property.
• LEARNING - Get smarter at learning. 

We are learning about how cool geometry is.  Our brainstorm is filled with words we will use to help us understand this topic more.  We have folded up square paper to make rectangles and triangles.