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NZmaths website

The teachers have been having a look at some really useful new resources and found this.

Username:  Use your first name and surname initial (all small letters-lower case)

Password:  rainbow
You don't have to create your account- we have already done that

Addition and subtraction challenges  http://www2.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/BF/AdditionBF.htm

Multiplication and division challenges

  http://www2.nzmaths.co.nz/LearningObjects/BF/MultiplicationBF.htm

Who Am I? - Homework help

Find out all about yourself here:    

Birthstone
http://www.bernardine.com/birthstone/modern.htm

Birth flower
http://www.babiesonline.com/flowersbirthmonth/

Star sign:
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/zodiac-sign-dates.html

Chinese year of the animal:
http://www.clickthecookie.co.uk/chinese_new_year_animals.htm

Ukelele lessons

On Friday I had my first ukulele lesson it was great.  I learnt some notes they were g7 f and c. I think I did good for my first lesson.Mr Moriss is a great teacher for ukulele because he knows lots of notes and lots of songs. Mr Moriss shows me were to put my fingers and which way to put my ukulele because I am left handed.  Ruby

Cricket Game!

Today Rosie,Leah and Ruby played against Wairakei School and we won. The score was 67,83 and it was a great but a challenging game. Wairakei was hard to beat but we did it. Some of us played against friends at who attended Wairakei School. We all love cricket but it is very trying to all of us.
From Rosie,Ruby and Leah

Earthquake Memorial Gathering

Today is the Earthquake Memorial . The prime minister John key will be talking about those who died in the earthqauke . There will be two minutes silence for those who died and there will be certificates to give out to the people who helped other people who got injured.

Harewood School  had their own memorial remembrance gathering at 10.15am on Wednesday 22 February 2012. We planted native trees and had 2 minutes silence to remember the people who lost their lives, homes, jobs and pets. We hope our city will be re-built.We put butterflies by the plants.One day our class would want to see it grow bigger and bigger.We sang a song called E tu kahikaitea.The meaning of E tu Kahikaitea is a tall strong tree that growes bigger and bigger.Our tree is a broadleaf
This is a photo of Room 8 beside their tree with the butterfly on the stick beside it.

Fascinating facts about Egypt!!!

Our class is learning about Egypt. We learnt that when a king dies sometimes he might want his pet killed and made into a mummy next to him! The Egyptian people thought that cats were gods and so most Egyptian kings had a cat. The Egyptian kings thought they were gods too and everybody worshipped them and carried them around on little carry seats.
 The Egyptian kings were also a bit sneaky so they thought that when people who were not kings died they would weigh their heart against a FEATHER!!! Isn't that silly? If the heart was heavier than the feather then they would throw it down a hole where they thought a half hippo half alligator lived
We like learning about Egypt and hope we will get to go there one day!
                                                             By Becky !         

Egyptian clothing

 Wow! Room 8 is learning about anicent Egypt. Ashley brought some of her clothing that her grandma brought from Egypt. Logan is wearing a dress that boys wear and Ashley is wearing a  type of wig thatcCleopatra wore  . We thought about Henrys book called Tomb of Treasure that made us think about text to self, text to text and text to world. We would like to see Egypt now, after that book.We now think we need to do a lot of research about Egyptains.       

Connections in our reading

We had a great talk about Henry's book - Tomb of Treasure by Terry Deary ,and the connections we could make with it.
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World
Then we kept wondering about Egypt and mummies.
Here is a great site where you can prepare your own body for mummification.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html

Raining Cats and Dogs

We have been wondering where this saying came from.Do you have any ideas?

Be my Valentine

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!Today is the 14 of February so that means its Valentines day.I hope everyone has  a great Valentines day.In room 8 everyone has a heart to celebrate valentines day .Today I want To give every one in my family a card so they feel happy.I wanted to give my dad breakfast in bed.I hope my family has the best valentines day EVER! and every one else should too.We want to give a shout out to my family because they have looked after me for 9 YEARS!I think they deserve a break.We gave our mums and dads some presents for Valentine day some people are getting flowers or chocolate. A lot of people are making monewy out of Valenrines day. You don't have to spend money to show someone you love them

Go Miss France

On saturday Miss France did the Buller Gorge Marathon Relay. She had to run 10.5 km in a team. And it was a really hot day. Her team number was 065. She was very tired but it was fun and she felt proud that she completed the Buller Gorge Marathon.





Our Student Councillors

Yesterday we voted for the class councillors.The girls are Abby and Ruby and the boys are Oakley and Ramoni

Swimming buddies

 In this photo is Romoni, Cameron and I helping Room 3 do their swimming.



Today Craig ,a civil engineer came to our school to check the earthquake damage. We have been lucky our school did not get damaged much so we still get to go school and learn more .
theres  only  small  cracks  on  the  walls  and  theres  only a  fence around the corner .  Jason

Mrs McKendry heads to Antarctica

Mrs Mckendry is going to Antarctica for 30 days. she goes on a boat today.She told us what gear she needs to wear.It takes 10 days to get to Antarctica. She will have to pass through rough seas.She wants to seeb penguins,seals,and elephant seals

A doctor is going with her.

from Mason

Jamboree

This is My Tui 12 Jamboree uniform. I also had a laniard which had my ID number. I was in purple unit 6.My hat shows that I am in purple.The objects that are on my hat are all different types of swaps that different people either made or bought.This year we went to Rotorua we stayed at Tui Ridge Park.We stayed there from the 14-20.The day out was awsome because we went Jet boating .

Our class treaty

Yesterday we made our own class treaty. We all had to make up some ideas that we all had to agree on.
Our class treaty is to remind us about rules in the class.

We were learning about The Treaty of Waitangi.
Our class learnt that Maori chiefs did not go to school so when  they signed the treaty they put a little criss-cross. We put our names down on the treaty because we knew how to write our names proply. We agreed to be kind and have fun. We agree to all the ideas on Room 8's treaty.

Room 8’s Class Treaty 2012

Try new things

Encourage others

Aim high

Make new friends

Cooperate and work together.

Always be positive.

Be organised and ready to learn.

Use your Harewood School values.

Be proud of yourself and others.

Keep calm and level headed.

Welcome others warmly.

Have fun learning.

The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement between the people from England and Maori to share and look after New Zealand. They agreed to live peacefully together.

Assembly

Today room 8 is doing assembly .We are team 2012 .The T is try new things-it  is Charlottes line. Braydens line is E encourage others. Jacksons line is A aim high. Paiges line is M make new friends. We hold up  signs with our words on it. We love assembly!!!!

Our first week of homework

We are exited because it is our first week of homework! The questions we had to answer were: write down our full name,write our address,write down our phone number, write our parent's names and where they work,write the other people in your family's names,write down your email address,find out what a treaty is,find out when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, and find out who signed it!It was fun finding out about treatys.I like homework.I just hope we get more next week!

By Becky

This is my idea to save money and re-cycle.I put brown paper on my book. Next I decorated it with owl stickers. Then I wrote my name and subject.Finally my mum put plain cover-seal on top. Tada! There is your own homemade cover-seal!                       By Abby!