The Dinosaur Tooth

We are so lucky to have Mrs Clyde in our class.  She often brings in exciting objects for us to look at.
Last week she brought in a Dinosaur tooth...interesting!!!!

We had a chat about what sort of dinosaur the tooth might of belonged to. Where might it have lived, what might it have eaten?
Here we have two fabulous writers sharing their stories.

Great descriptions Tom and Ashton.

Stu Duval Cartoon Drawing

On Tuesday during Literacy week Stu Duval came back to teach all the Juniors to be Cartoon illustrators.

Team 8 loved being part of this exciting interactive performance. 

Chinese Folk Dancing

Today we had special visitors from China who taught us traditional Chinese dance. We were very focused and did awesome listening. 

Check us out...

Arts Week

As Mrs Turner's blog post said...Sunnyhills took part in Arts Week last week. 

Here are some photos to show us making our Dream-catchers and also blending from dark blue to light blue.

We were clever Artists!

Days of the Week

For Maths, Team 8 are learning about Time. We have been practising the days of the week. It is important we know these and can put them in order. On Friday we made chains that had the days of the week in order. Here we are showing them off and singing "The Days of the Week" song.

Please help us to practise them at home too. :-)

Arts Week Fun

Team 8 had a ball during Arts week. 

• We finished our Dream Catchers - Thank you soooo much to those lovely Mummy's who came in to help and to everyone who sent in ribbon, feathers and beads- they look absolutely amazing and we are super proud of how hard the kids worked on them.
• We learned to blend colours with Mrs Grant - start with one colour and just keep adding white.
• We did magic crayon pictures with Mrs Turner - see us shaving crayons and melting them with the iron.
• We learned to draw a person - Thanks Mrs Grant for the instructions!

Take a look at the pictures...

New Wall Displays

If you haven't already, come in and have a look around at our walls to see products of our learning!

In Maths we have been learning about "positional language".  All of us can now use words like up, down, beside, on, under etc. Some of us can even tell the difference between left and right! Test our knowledge out at home.

In this display we have drawn a picture of our bedrooms. Then we put Hairy Maclary in there somewhere. Can you tell what position Hairy Maclary is?

In this display we rounded up our learning about "How our actions effect the environment". Team 8 came up with many different ways we can help our Earth to stay healthy for many more years to come. 

Our door is always open to friends and family so if you're in the area please feel free to come in and check out what we are doing and creating.

Make and Do!

Mrs Turner has created an amazing center in Team 8, where she leaves instructions and the bits that we need to make some craft or art.  It is called 'Make and Do.'

I caught Anastasia and Ella following the instructions and making the perfect hand crab!!!

Wow Girls! and Wow Mrs Turner too!

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mother's day to all you wonderful mummies. We appreciate everything that you do, and hope you have a fantastic day.

If you haven't already, please check our book-bags, we have made something special to share with you. xx

Kapa Haka

Team 8 had their first Kapa Haka lesson on Friday. We learned a new song learning about how we can say 'Hello' in Maori. Have a listen and see if you can sing it at home :-)

Team 8's First Assembly

If you couldn't make it today, here we are looking super cool in our Mufti clothes and smashing out an awesome performance.  Ka pai to mahi Roopu Waru!

Kaimoana Song

Here is a sneak peak at the song we will be performing in Assembly tomorrow... Come and Join us at 2:15pm if you are around!

Yipee! Our Self Portraits are Finished!

Guess what... we finished our Self portraits!

 Can you guess who is behind the portraits?

 We worked so hard and they look amazing.

Well done Team 8!

W.A.L.T: Draw our faces.

Self Portraits

Team 8 have been looking at the features and shapes of our faces.  We have been looking at mirrors to see where and what shape our features of our face are.  

We discovered that some of our faces are more round than others.  Our eyes are an oval shape.  

These are a few photos of us looking at the mirrors.  Then there are a few photos of the beginning of our Self Portraits.

We are still working on our masterpieces!

Drama with Team 8 - 'The Life Cycle of a Frog'.

Tuesday 14th February

There are two tadpoles in Team 8.  Mrs Turner brought them in for us to watch change into frogs.

On Tuesday we noticed one of them had changed quite a lot.  We all looked carefully and saw that one of them is looking almost like a frog.  It has its front and back legs and its eyes are changing,

The other one is getting fatter and starting to grow its legs.

Here are some pictures of what they look like

Our Froglet

This one is hiding

 Mrs Grant read some books to Team 8 about the life cycle of a frog.  We then did some Drama to show the different stages of the life cycle.

The egg

The egg

Swimming tadpoles

Being tadpoles

Our frog arms and legs are starting to grow

Froglets

Our tails are shrinking

Jumping everywhere

Watch out we are jumping frogs.

Team 8 then cut and paste their life cycle together.

We had a great time jumping around like crazy frogs.

Make sure you watch our blog for further frog drama!