Descriptive writing

Room 8 have launched straight back into writing in Term 2. We are looking at descriptive writing at the moment and have been discussing characters that we are familiar with. We took some time to describe the characteristics of The Gruffalo. Here is a piece of writing by Skylar

The Gruffalo

The Gruffalo is an enormous beast that is freakishly ugly and really scary. He has two orange, shifty eyes and one poisonous wart on the end of his nose. He stomps everywhere looking for a delicious snack with his big creepy eyes and gobbles up whatever he finds. After he has devoured his snack, he goes somewhere else to look for another yummy thing that he likes to eat. 

By Skylar Canovas 

Math adventures

In Miss O'Neill's math class we have been exploring measurement. To start out, we became pirates and tested different ways of measuring distance to find the pirate's buried treasure. 

We used things like...

- Domino's

- Feet

- People

- Counters

- Blocks

We found these all pretty inconsistent so decided to stick to our trusty rulers! 

Opera

We were lucky enough to have the opera come to visit us at Good Shepherd School. The whole school had a great afternoon watching the story of Don Pasquale unfold. Miss O'Neill even got debut as the celebrant!

Can you figure room 8 out?

Room 8 are puzzling!

Room 8 spent some time trying to work themselves out at the beginning of this year. We used different math problems to create posters about us.

Next time you are in room 8, see if you can figure us out!

Swimming

Room's 7, 8 and 9 have had THE BEST two weeks swimming at Dean Greenwood swimming school. We were split into three different groups to work with different instructors on our swimming techniques. The sessions were loads of fun and if we were lucky we got to jump into the deep end of the lap pool!

Picture perfect Picasso art

Check out room 8's art!

We sought inspiration from the famous Pablo Picasso to create our own works of art. We drafted our abstract portraits in pencil, then used crayon and dye to really make them stand out!

Don't they look fantastic?! 

Waiata

Room 8 is getting ready for this weekends powhiri