Week 3 Term 4 Planting Seeds

This term in Incredible 8 we are learning about different ways we can take care of the environment. Today we had some special helpers come to Room 8 and show us how to plant seeds. It will be our responsibility to take care our own plant and make sure we give it just the right amount of water. 

Here are some instruction our class created on how to plant seeds.

Week 2 Term 4 Discovery Time

Yay, first discovery of the term. We were very excited! 

This week we had a go at:

drawing planes, trucks and submarine.
painting with primary colours
experimenting with magnets
creating ribbon dances
building with wood, nails and hammers (check out Xzav's plane in the last pic)
test our golf skills in the sand pit
crafting rabbits out of paper, cotton buds and rolls

plus some of our old favourite activities like play dough, shops, lego and doll houses.

Week 1 Term 4 Flower Day

What a busy day! We had a very busy morning making our creations! Hope you enjoy our video.

Term 4 Week 1 Pet Day Demonstration/Examples

On Monday, Mrs Cooper came to Bulls School to give our Y0-4's some ideas for Flower Day. We will be making up to 4 of the 6 possible things. We need to bring the things for the creations we want to make. 

Parents: please just bring what is available at home rather than buying things just for the projects. The items you bring in will be used by your child, any left overs maybe shared. All projects are to be made AT school on Thursday and taken home on Friday after school or it will be binned. If you are available to help on Thursday, please let Miss R know.

Sandsaucers

*Saucer/bowl (named underneath if you want it returned)

*Flowers and Leaves

Note: sand will be provided at school.

Vegetable Creation

*Vegetables/Fruit
*Toothpicks

Unusual Arrangement

*Unusual container (not a vase)

*Flowers and Leaves

Decorated Gumboot

Mrs Cooper didn't have a spare gumboot, that is why she used a croc as an example. We have to use our imaginations and pretend it is a gumboot.

*A gumboot (with holes poked in the side already)
*Flowers and leaves

Aqua Jar

*A water tight see-through jar (lid named on top)
*Blue-tac/plasticine.
*flowers/leaves OR water proof toys
*food dye
*glitter/sequins

Cake Tin Scene (A Scene)

*Cake tin/tray (named underneath)

*items to create a scene.

Ideas include a farm as above, a zoo, desert, jungle etc.

Term 4 Week 1 Powhiri

Welcome back to school. We hope you had a relaxing holidays. 

We started our term with a Powhiri to welcome new and returning students to the school.

Week 9 Ronald McDonald Visit

Today, we had a very special visitor and it was Ronald McDonald. He came to Bull’s school to talk to us about road safety. He had a big book and Mrs Hammond had to read the story. The book was nearly as big as him. In the story, he was doing his washing when the sock flew away and he was trying to find it. 

We learnt that in the car we have to MAKE IT CLICK and when we walk on the pavement we have to walk on the house side. 

When we are near a driveway or a crossing, we need to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. 

We helped him find his sock on his back. Joshua helped him pull it off. The sock turned into a puppet who now lives at Bulls School. It was loud, noisy and really, really funny. We enjoyed the show.

Week 9 Cross Country

On Monday, we had our cross country at the Rangitikei Golf Course. Lot of our parents came to watch and it was fun watching the other races. We tried really hard in our races.

Room 8 were troopers. The course was up and down, and felt longer than just running around the field at school even though it was not longer. We did a great job, especially Xzaviah who was 2nd in the year 1 boys; Lillie was 2nd and Meg was 3rd in the year 1 girls.

Many thanks to the Hughes family for being our photographers on the day.

Week 8 Number Goals

In Room 8, we have been practising counting backwards from 20 and writing our numbers correctly.

Here are some examples.

We have also been looking at different ways to show a number, like using our fingers, tens frames, tallies, dice etc.

Here is an example of the different ways we can show how old we are.

Week 7 Discovery Time

This week in discovery we learnt lot of things and had lots of fun

• Practised stitching with Mrs Glassey
• Found things that were magnetic
• Set up a shop and made our own credit card/money
• Dressed up and played pretends
• Created tricky hop scotches that test our balance.
• Constructed a mini golf course
• Created spinning snakes....
• AND MORE!

Week 7 Get Wise

Rooms 8 and 9 had a special visitor come to our class. He came to talk to us about MONEY!!! He talked to us how NOT to be a money muncher and waste money, but how to be a money hero.

We can be money heros when we buy only what we need - such as food, clothes, homes and school stuff. We need to save our money for things we want - such as toys, extra clothes, computers and cool cars. We need to make sure that we have enough money for the things we need before we buy things we want.

We talked about coins and notes, for what we can use them and which is worth more/less.

Week 7 Maui the Superhero Production

This week, we did THREE performances of Maui the Superhero and it was a great success. Everyone in the school did an amazing job and we were super proud of our dance. 

Below are photos and clips of Room 8's performances. If you would like to see our full performance in better quality, a DVD of the performance will be available for purchase at the office next term. Keep an eye out for the newsletter in your child's book bag or on the school website for further details.

Singing Maui the Superhero.

Performing our dance

"Great Balls of Fire"

Singing "Don't Forget Your Roots" 

Week 6 Kindy Visit

We had a great time at kindy and when we got back we wrote about which activity we liked the best.

Week 5 Discovery

Discovery was packed with lots of different activities and skills this week. We build machines using lego, dressed up as superheros, did stitching with Mrs Glassey, designed ties for our dad and Mrs Mullins showed us how to use different musical instruments plus a lot more things. It was incredible!

Week 5 Ki Tai

Room 8 has been enjoying ki tai this term. We have been learning about Maui. Geoff used his super hearing and listen ears to win the game 'this and that'.  Jayden helped Wahine Megs start our sharing.

Week 4/5 T-shirts inspired art.

This week we read a big book called T-shirts. This inspired us to create our own t-shirt. Each t-shirt has our names and some information about us. We also used the portrait drawing skills we learnt last week to help us draw our heads.

We drew our faces with pencil and then coloured them in with skin coloured crayons. Next we went over our details in vivid and used pastels to emphasis our hair, eyes and mouth. We also used vivid for our writing and pastels to colour in our name. We tried very hard to stay inside the line. Lastly, we dyed our t-shirts.

We hope you like our mixed media self portraits.

Click on the pictures for a close up =) and press play to see the rest.

Week 4 Discovery

Discovery Time

Our favourite activity was…
Connor
Bayleigh
Xzaviah
Lazarus		Lillie
Lachlan		Isaac
Geoff	Meg	Jayden	Mason		William	Georigana	Lucas
Hockey	Birds	Gloop	Colouring In	Play dough	Baking	Dolls house	Hop scotch

Hockey was the most popular activity with Room 8. Play dough was the least popular this week.

Discovery Words to help us in our writing..

course                   hitting                  ball              ramps                    corners

playing                   through                 obsticle

making                   paper

hard            water          dribbled                hands           squeezed

colours                  pictures

eating                   biscuit

imagination            people

hopping        over

Week 3/4 Pencil Sketches

Here are our amazing pencil sketches. We hope you like them.

Week 3/4 Earthquake!

On Friday afternoon there was an earthquake. We were in school singing. We had to duck, cover and hold. The kids were amazing. Here is a picture of us showing how we use our hands to protect our necks.

On Monday we wrote some stories about the earthquake. Here are a couple.

I didn’t feel the earthquake. I don’t know why. I must have good balance. My pop’s clock stopped. Why didn’t I feel it? Why didn’t I feel it?

By William

I felt the earthquake and mum came to Bulls School. Mum was scared.

By Connor

I felt the earthquake in the hall. It made me scared. We dropped and covered and held. It made me wobbly.

By Isaac

I was scared because I felt funny. It was like an octopus rolling in the hall.

By Meg

There was an earthquake at Bulls School. We were in the hall. We were in the middle of ‘Don’t forget your roots’ when the earthquake happened. I felt scared.

By Georgiana

I felt the earthquake. I was sad. It felt funny. I thought the building was falling down.

By Lachlan

I thought it was an octopus. “It was… It was scary” said Lucas. It was up in the sky. It had powers. It had laser powers. It went to my house and smashed it. Mum was sad.

By Lucas

Week 3 Self Portraits

We are learning to draw more detailed self portraits. Mrs Wilson had to try and guess who was who based on our drawing. Can you guess who is who?

Week 3 I Wonder....

Come and check out the super cool heroes in Room 8 and see if you can help us answer our interesting wonderings....

Week 3 Discovery Time

We had Discovery Time with Room 7 and 9. We did some baking, played with play dough, built with blocks, make snappers, painted over crayons with dye, danced to jump jam, spun hola hoops, and coloured in pictures.

Week 2 Making Superheros

We made superheros and we had to colour them in.  Miss R took a photo of us and printed them out. Then we drew ourselves as superheros.We went over the pencil with vivid and coloured them in with pastels.

Week 2 Liz comes to Room 8

 Liz read us a story. We listened to the story.

I like it when Liz reads because....

• she reads a lot of book to us - Xzaviah
• she read a book to us - Geoff
• she likes reading to kids - Lucas
• I like her books - Isaac and Jayden
• her stories are exciting - Mason

Week 2 Dancing with Dean

Room 9 and Room 8 are enjoying our dancing lessons with Dean.

We have been doing dancing. We are learning some dance actions. Dean McKerris has been teaching us dance lessons. We love it. There are heaps of moves that we love. 

Week 2 Our class rules

Room 8's class treaty

We drew our hands and coloured them in. Then we cut them out and wrote our names. We did this so we all know the rules and how to follow them. 

Week 2 Number writing about us

Come to Room 8 and see if you can figure out who is who just by looking at our numbers.

We coloured in our pictures. We wrote numbers about us. We did rainbow numbers by tracing over with jovies.

Week 1, Term 3

This has been a very busy and exciting week for Incredible 8.

 On Monday, we started in our new class. We used to be in Room 9 but now we are in Room 8. We also have a new teacher, Miss R. We like Miss R. 

There are 10 boys and 4 girls in Incredible 8. 

Monday is our library day.

On Tuesday, we will be learning some very cute dance moves for Mr Dean McKerras. We did it with Room 8 and it was lots of fun hanging out with our friends from last term.

On Wednesday, we had our inquiry hook in for this term. We are learning about heros. We had Ms Superhero Singh, Miss Doctor R, Ms Firefighter Hammond and Ms Police Officer Hammoud show us that heros aren't just in cartoons.