Our Ultimate T-shirt design

This is our ultimate t-shirt invention that we created for kidsedchatnz today.

By Asher and Lachie

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day Room 8. I hope you all have a special day with your family. I'm sure this cute Valentine's Day video will make you smile.

From Miss Gentil 

A Surprise for Room 8!

This morning we discovered our chubby caterpillar had climbed up to the top of our butterfly net and turned into a chrysalis. We couldn't find our chubby caterpillar this week and thought it had escaped or died. We were pretty surprised that he had climbed up there! We wondered how he had got up so high. Ava thinks he probably wanted to do some exercise. Then he must have got tired and wanted a sleep in his chrysalis. 

This is our chubby caterpillar in his chrysalis. 

Our butterfly garden. 

By Room 8

Swim For Life

 Yesterday we went out to the pool to have our first Swim for Life lesson. We got split into two groups. One group went off with a Swim for Life teacher. We practised a huddle, a chain and a line on land in our groups. Then one group went down to the swimming pool to do some water safety activities, while the other group stayed dry and practised how to save someone if they are in danger in the water. We got to have a turn at both activities.

This is a photo of us practising a huddle before we got in the pool. 

Before we hopped into the pool we learned how to put on a life jacket. Life jackets are important because they can save your life and stop you from drowning. They also have a whistle that you can blow to get attention if you fall out of a boat or get into trouble. 

A huddle is used to keep everyone together so you don't lose anyone and to keep everyone warm. 

This is another huddle in our swimming pool. 

This is a called a chain. A chain is used so you can kick back to shore quickly, with everyone helping. 

We think this looks like a conga line! When you're in a line you have to lean back and then kick. You hold onto the person's waist in front of you. 

This is us practising how to rescue someone who is it the water. We practised using an overgrown two minute noodle, but if you were on a boat you could use a rope, an oar or a tree branch. We can't wait for our next Swim for Life lesson! 

By Lachie and Jacob

Our Class Butterfly Garden

This morning when we came into class we saw that one of the caterpillars was hanging upside down in a 'J' shape. He looked like he was ready to turn into a chrysalis. When the bell went we sat down on the mat to do the roll and notices. Soon after that someone realised that the caterpillar was changing. He was making a chrysalis around himself. Everyone went over to the butterfly garden to have a look. There were lots of gasps! I wonder how long it will take him to turn into a butterfly? 

Our butterfly garden has lots of swan plants, one chubby caterpillar, a smaller caterpillar and a chrysalis. Lots of the leaves have been chomped by the hungry caterpillars. The swan plants are planted in a large pot. Hanging over the table is a pink, bed net. When the butterflies come out of their chrysalis and are strong enough to fly we will let them go. 

By Hanna and Kyle

Only One You

Today we watched a YouTube clip called Only One You. It's a story that teaches you that everyone is special in a different way. There is only one you in the world. You only have one life so you should make the most of the time that you have in your life. After we read the story we created a fish each with patterns on it. All of our fish are special in different ways, just like us!

By Room 8

Our Class Tree-ty

Room 8 have planted a Pohutukawa tree for our class tree-ty. Our class tree-ty is an agreement about the rules in our classroom. We created our tree-ty so everyone can be happy and have a great year in Room 8.

To create our tree-ty we split up into groups and we wrote ideas on paper. Then we shared our ideas with the rest of our class on the mat. We grouped our ideas that were the same, together. Then we wrote sentences for our tree-ty that included all our ideas. Everyone signed our tree-ty to say that they agree on it.

After we did our class tree-ty we went outside and planted our little Pohutukawa tree. We all had to have a squeeze of the red, plastic pot that the Pohutukawa tree was in. We were squeezing the pot because we were trying to get the Pohutukawa tree out because it was stuck. Miss Gentil helped us pull it out. We dug a hole in the big, brown pot and then we placed the tree in the hole. Then we covered the tree roots with soil. We had a group photo with our Pohutukawa tree. Now we are going to take care of our tree, until the end of the year when we will plant it outside.

Here is our class tree-ty.

In Room 8 we...

• Be kind to everyone. 
• Always use our manners. 
• Work together as a team and help others. 
• Always aim for excellence with our learning. 
• Look after class and school equipment. 
• Be good role models by making sensible choices. 
• Have fun when we are learning! 

By Ava and Esther

Charlee holding our class Pohutukawa tree. 

Esther, the birthday girl helping to plant our Pohutukawa.

Our class photo with our Pohutukawa!