1970's Disco Mania

Room 8 is starting to learn our dance for the production we are doing the YMCA. We are doing the 1970s

We are learning lots of other songs like Mama Mia and Child of Tomorrow.

On   ANZAC DAY  I   marched on the  streets from  St James Ave   to   Papanui   RSA. When we were  at the RSA  we had a memorial  servise  at the servise Amy,Catlin and  I  were chosen to put the Kimai  Brownies  wreth  down  by the wall.

Making the Anzac wreath

We helped Mrs Garth make the wreath for Anzac Day. We put all the different flowers on the wreath. Leah and Paige did a good job. We helped Mrs Garth clean up after we had a lot of fun. We are going to put the wreath on the cenotoph for Anzac Day tomorrow because we are having to get up at 7:00 o'clock and be at school we are having a special Anzac service we are going to have a special breakfast at St James church. We loved making the wreath with Mrs Garth it was fun!!!!.

By Paige and Leah!!.

                                                                                                          

making anzac biscuits

It was fun making them because we ate them in class and it is Anzac day on Wednesday 25th April.
We like the anzac biscuits.
Mrs Black helped us making the Anzac biscuits. During the war the mums and wives made them and sent them to the soldiers. The ingredients didn't spoil easily.

from Mason Shyan Ryan

ANZAC biscuits

 

100 grams butter

1 table spoon  of golden syrup 

½ cup of sugar

¾ cup of  coconut

¾  cup rolled oats

¾  cup of  flour

1 tea spoon of baking soda

1table spoon of hot water

Melt butter and golden syrup.

Cool.

Mix  sugar, coconut, rolled oats, and flour

Add dry ingredients and stir well

Mix water and baking soda

Add to the mixture

Bake approximately 15 minutes at 180 degrees

Making Easter nests

Easter Nests

Ingredients:

250g Kremelta

4 cups of Kellogg’s Rice bubbles

1cup of icing sugar, sifted

3 tablespoons of Cocoa

1 cup of desiccated Coconut

Instructions:

Mix the rice bubbles, icing sugar, coconut and cocoa in a large bowl.

Melt the kremelta.

Stir in the kremelta.

Press into small patty tins

Put in the refrigerator to set.

Animal Day at Harewood

Today  is are animal day.We all look  wild . I am a rabbit and Miss France is a zebra.    We all came from the zoo . At 10.20 we are going to have a parade.
from Shyan

 cody is a tiger and im a rabbit .

 Ruby is a cat,Luke is a tiger, Brayden is a tiger and Mason is a black panther.

My new Uniform

This is my new uniform in Clearveiw it is a skort a green t-shirt and undershirt with a jumper. My new school has 460 people my Homebase is  Homebase 13 in the blue block
I like my new school!!!!

By Rosie :)

Why We Have Easter!

I think we have Easter because of the moon. The moon is connected to Easter because there is a crater shaped like a bunny and a bunny means life in some country's. The eggs sprang up because in the Bible the rock covering Jesus tomb is shaped like an egg so that's where the eggs came from and he rose on Easter Sunday.

By Rosie

You got me wondering Rosie and this is what I discovered-there is also an Egyptian connection

It is the hare, and not the rabbit, that should be treated as the true symbol of Easter. Though both of them belong to the 'Lagomorpha' family and have a lot of  things in common, there are some differences.

Since the ancient times the hare has been a symbol for the moon. Not the rabbit. And the legend says, the hare never closes its eyes, not even for a single blink!

The reason for this belief may be in the fact that hares, not rabbits, are born with eyes open. Rabbits are born blind.

The ancient Egyptians related hares to the moon. The Egyptian name for hare was 'un', meaning 'open'. And they loved watching the full moon open eyed throughout the night.

Rabbits have shorter legs and therefore move in little hops, while hares have longer rear legs and can jump far distances. Baby rabbits, or bunnies (except maybe the Easter Bunny), are helpless when they are born because their eyes are closed and they have no fur. Baby hares have their eyes open at birth and they are born with full fur; they can hop soon after they are born. Also, most rabbits live underground, but hares live above ground.

Rosies Leaving

On Thursday last day of the term I am leaving. I am going to Clearview in Rollston. Clearview is a very new school and opened last year and most likely has less students then Harewood . I am going to vist Clearview tomorrow. I am exited and sad to leave Harewood but exited to go to Clearview

From Rosie

Maths time

I am doing maths with my group. I am using a number line to skip count.we did start with  the biggest number frist.  after  we  got a worksheet  to do. Mason

Smurfing Cameron!!!!

Today Miss France forgot about the new road rules and had a collision with Cameron and tipped blue dye all over him.He was such a good sort and we all had a laugh about it. He looked like a blue Smurf!! He will need a good long shower tonight. Sorry Cameron- from Miss France!

Sharing Our Learning

I showed my grandad my project I did at school.

On Friday we had some parents and kids come in to our classroom and we showed them our  projects.I learnt that  my Great Grandad was in the war.I enjoyed showing some facts about me and what I was like when I was little,I hope the parents and kids liked itand I also hope that they can come again when we do some more projects. I enjoyed it.

                                                           I have learnt that my Great great uncle was an all black and my star sign is capricorn and my birthstone is turquoise.

We had people coming in to see our family History project and this is a picture of me and mrs Sales

On Friday lots of people came to see our projects. I shared mine with my dad.I learnt that my birthstone was a ruby and my flower was a larkspur. I enjoyed doing my project it was fun. My Mum helped me. I laughed when I heard someone in my family painted a horse like a zebra

On friday we had some parents and kids came to look at our projects people were looking at them people write comments on our paper. I lerant that my grandad used to shear the sheep it was fun i lovedit people had fun too.

I am showing my family treasure chest to Mrs Greenwood the principal. I told  her that I am related to a Maori princess who owned 500 akers of Stewart island and I showed her a pitrure of the 500 akers and of the Maori princess. I told Mrs greenwood that I owned the oldest building in New Zealand and the first biggestfactory in New Zealand. It was in Invercargil. Jack

Our powhiri

Matua Anton

Our haikus

We have been writing haiku poems in room 8. A haiku is a poem that has three syllables in the first and third line and seven in the second. They are often about Nature. They were first written in Japan. This is my one.

Raining cats and dogs
Puddle pandemonium
Nimbus clouds forming

By Kezia

Twinkling rain falls
sunshine is disappearing
jumping in puddles

By Charlotte

It's St Patricks Day
Leprechauns can prance around
An Irish party!

By Abby

Never go out side
lets play inside with i-pods
its not a good day
by Samuel

Raining cats and dog's
Alot of grey crying cloud's.
Lots of soggy shoe's.

By Luke Z

finally rainbows
puddles pandemoneum
cloudy over cast

by Oakley

Skiing is awesome
lets go skiing at mt hutt
time to go skiing

by Henry

Nimbus clouds forming
slingshoting out of the sky
umbrellas are up

by Logan

Raining cats and dogs
Umbrellas are all up
puddles are building
By Aidan


     Rain
  horrible cold rain
umbrellas up soggy puddles
raining cats and dogs
By Luke E

Hats off to you
cool show by room 5 mr fish
all about king tut 
By ramoni


Raing cats and dogs
Inside watching dvds
Snowflakes on our roof
By Elia

cloudy overcast
tornado comes now
babies tears falling
by Ashley

Mother nature cry's
go away you freezing rain
sun's on holiday
By Becky!


Rain rain go away
come again a other day
why Paige wants to play

By Paige


People all inside
restless boring nothing fun
pouring down with rain

By Ruby

windy clonde rain
webs are sparkling with delight
it is cold outside

by leah

Bad weather
Lightning and thunder rolling
Baby tears exploding

By Rosie

No washing today
Playing vedeo games now
No sun in the sky

By Jackson

A gray rainy day.
cloudy overcast and wet.
have to play inside.              BY cameron.

Bad weather report.
Childern getting rally bored.
Can not play outside.     By charlie

raining cats and dogs
playing wii is awsome year
yay it is snowing.    by Brayden


Raining boring wet
Lots of shimering cob webs
Finley rainbows.
 By Annabelle 


cloudy overcast
staying insing at home  now
 playing games inside
by mason

The spider is wet
 the babies are crying
now Mother spider"s home . 
By Shyan   





          

Ryan is back!

My name is Ryan I came to Harewood school when I was 5

years old.  I left and now I am  back.

Football with Mike

Today we learnt new football skills.We learned how to protect the ball from other people and to get the ball off people.We learnt some cool tricks like passing backwards with out people noticing.We played some cool games like dribble king but with a  soccer ball. It was SO MUCH FUN!

Claude Monet

Look what I have discovered Room 8- there is even a rose named after our famous artist.This rose is called Claude Monet.

We looked at Claude Monet's painting "Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge" then painted our own. We used a stencil of the bridge to get the shape right.Once we had painted the lily pond and the trees behind the bridge we removed our bridge stencil.

You can still visit Monet's garden in Giverny in France.The bridge and water lily pond are still there.

have a look here for more photos of his famous garden.

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/france_giverny_water_lilies.htm