Aotearoa Christmas

WOW! What a year! 

Thank you so much for choosing us to teach your children this year. We are so proud of how far they have come and what wonderful people they are!

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope to see you all in the New Year.

Lots of Love

Mrs Grant and Mrs Turner

Fun Day

Here is a short video with highlights from Fun Day

Mad Scientists!

Team 8 have been learning about reversible and irreversible change.

Here is a snapshot of some of the experiments we did in class this Term.

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Mrs Turner made us a frozen hand-man. He was pretty cool. We learned that the heat from our hands was causing the frozen water inside him to melt. This was a reversible change because we can keep changing water into any of it's states (Liquid, Solid and Gas) by heating it or cooling it.

Then we made gloop (just for fun) this was REALLY hard to determine if it was a solid or liquid... It would fall through your hands like liquid but when you pressed it with your finger it felt like a solid!

We also had a go at turning Chocolate into a liquid. I guess we could have changed this back into a solid, but it was WAY more fun to eat it!!!! he he

Throughout the Term we have also made a rocket canister, tested Jelly AND exploded some glad bags. Science is sooooo much fun! Why don't you try some experiences over the holidays and leave us a comment about how it went.

Love lots,

Team 8, 2018

Mathematics in Action

You might be inclined to think that we are are on the 'wind-down' till the end of Term, in-fact here in Team 8 it is quite the opposite! We are trying to cram in as much learning as we possibly can before we say goodbye.

In Mathematics we have been learning about Mass. We have been using words like 'heavier than' and 'lighter than'.

Here is a picture of one of the balance scales we made. 

It was really fun to see what sorts of things we could pile on to make the scales balance.

We had a go at making playdough shapes too. We learned that even if we changed the shape of the playdough, its mass (or weight) stayed the same.

Maybe you could try to make a balance scale at home over the holidays. We'd love to see what things balance from your house!

Diwali Festivities with Team 8 and Room 11

Scooter Safety

Today, Team 8 learned how to scooter safely with Andy. We learned that there are 2 very important things we need to wear when we are riding a scooter.

1. A helmet (that fits)

2. Shoes

You know your helmet is put on correctly when you remember the rule 2, 4, 1.

2 - you have to have only a 2 finger space between your eyebrows and the start of your helmet

4 - there should be 4 straps around your ears

1 - only 1 finger should fit between your chin and the strap of your helmet

Parents - there were some Team 8 members who were still to grow into their helmets (and some who had already grown out), perhaps you could let Santa know?

Here is a video of us learning about an emergency stop.

Team 8, were very good listeners and we learned so much. 

Team 8, here is a challenge....

Tell you parents some of the things you learned today and get them to post a comment. You might even like to show them on your scooter your new skills and tricks.

Ambury Farm Fun!

What a great day we had at Ambury Farm on Tuesday.

We saw so many animals and learnt so much about each of the animals that.

At the moment we are making fact pages in our class to share all the amazing pieces of information that we learnt. Did you see them in our Publishing Books?

Best trip ever!

Here are the photos to show you all the exciting things that we did there.

Clean Teeth

On Thursday morning, Mrs Turner found a whole box of toothbrushes in the cupboard. She thought long and hard about what to do with them, and then came up with the brilliant plan of teaching Team 8 how to brush their teeth properly! 

Did you know that adults should be helping us to brush until we are 8 or 9 years old? and that it should take about 2minutes to do it properly?

We watched this video to get us warmed up:

And then it was our turn to give our new toothbrushes a go...

Parents, if you want some tips, you can watch this video from Colgate ;-) 

Shake-Out

Here is a photo of Team 8 children participating in the New Zealand Shakeout - a national earthquake drill.  We practised two safety strategies - one to curl up like a turtle with our hands protecting our heads for if we are outside and there is no immediate cover. Secondly, to find a close by table to drop, cover and hold.  Our children did a fantastic job. It might also be a good opportunity to talk at home with your children what they should do at home in the unfortunate event of a fire or earthquake.

Here is a short video with Taika Waititi explaining the 'shake-out'.

If you would like any more information please visit https://www.shakeout.govt.nz/ 

Fractions

For the last few weeks of Term 3, Team 8 were learning about fractions.

We learned that fractions are part of a whole. We also learned that all parts MUST be equal.

Here is a video of some of the fantastic learning we did. Check out all the awesome mathematical language our kids are using! Super duper proud!!!

Can you find/make any fractions at home Team 8? - Post what you find/do in the comments!

Tu Meke Team 8!!!

THE DROP!

So you really want to know if our eggimals survived 'the drop' huh?

Did our safe case...

• Fit our eggimal inside it?
• Allow our eggimal to get in and out easily?
• Stop our eggimal from breaking when it was dropped?
• Suit the character of our eggimal?

Well, here is the S.L.O.W. motion video of how it all panned out!

Do you think our eggimal safe cases met the brief?

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped us from the planning, revising, refining, creating stages to the 'big drop'. We really couldn't have done it without you! xx

Eggimal Safe Cases Ready to go.

Writing a Different Way

This week some of us tried writing a story on the i pad. It was fun because we had to find the letters on the keyboard. For some of us, it was the first time we had ever used the space bar!  We tried really hard with our spelling. We read our stories over the top so you can hear what we wrote. 

We will get better and better at this the more we practice.

Here is Alex's soccer story:

Here is Leona's story about the class baby:

Here is Jeremy's story about the playground:

Tu Meke!

Things you may have Missed! (Assembly and Fathers Day)

First of all - we did an awesome job at assembly a few weeks ago.  Mrs driver posted a cute video to the school Facebook page. Click here to see it.

This another video (of the same thing) that someone else took for us. 

We are working hard here in Team 8 to save our Earth for future generations!

Also, a (very belated) HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all the father figures out there. Team 8 love you very much. Mrs Turner is sorry she didn't post this on Fathers Day, she wasn't feeling too good and forgot. We hope you got spoilt on your special day. xx

You Rock Team 8!

Science in van and the Spikey Mat

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have Science in a Van come and share their amazing science knowledge with us.

Team 8 learnt about FRICTION and also about PUSH and PULL FORCE. Ask team 8 about it and we can tell you what we learnt.

Push!

Pull

Push the Troll!

Here are some of the photos to show the fun we had.

As you can see Miss Fullard had to sit on a chair of NAILS!!!!!  Ouch!!!  Miss Fullard did not want to sit on it, but was very brave and decided to give it a go. 

Team 8 wanted to know what it felt like. Lucky Mrs Clyde had a spiky mat that we could use to try it out.

We talked a lot and did lots of discussion about what it might feel like. Then a few of us decided to give it a go. Aamniah got to try it out first because it was her birthday!!!

Come in and read all the amazing words that we came up with for Oral Language!

More awesome Maths

We LOVE Maths in Team 8, so every week is like Maths Week in Team 8!

On Fridays at the moment we are learning how to measure length.

The first thing we did was make wiggly worms out of playdough... Check out this video where we use measurement language such as "longer than, shorter than" to describe our worms.

We got even more tricky the week after, measuring how 'tall' or 'wide' objects were by counting blocks. It was pretty cool comparing objects in the classroom!

The week after that, we measured using our very own feet! (Have you been in our classroom lately? -you can see the display on our wall).

THEN... because we are measurement SUPER STARS, we got to teach Room 11! We made some miss-matched skeletons by measuring parts of our body with paper. We used standard (cm's) and non-standard (blocks) units of measure. 

We truely are amazing at learning here in Team 8!

Come in soon and see what we are doing!