Andrew wins 3rd Prize at Pet Day

Logan receives a Super Effort Certificate

Congratulations Logan. A super improvement with your basic facts. Awarded by Mrs P.

Musical Talent - Lily plays the recorder

Photo taken by Bradley.

Lily played 'The lion sleeps tonight' and 'Old MacDonald had a farm' on her recorder. Room 8 really enjoyed listening to you Lily. Well Done!

Jaime draws the Welsh Flag

Wow, Jaime what a fantastic artist you are! You have drawn a super sketch of the Welsh flag!

Our Poem Finalists

Congratulations to Logan K, Jaime, Logan H, Lily, Ollie and Olivia who made Room 8 and Mrs Bellamy very proud at the Senior Speech Finals last night. You all recited your poems with confidence and expression! Well Done!

World Cup Rugby Dress Up Day!

Junior Winners - Olivia and Emily.

Senior Winners Lily and Trey

Dress up Finalists!

All Black Supporter - Hunter

Outram School support the World Rugby Cup

Cross Country Photos

Reg Humphries visits Room 8 at Outram School

What a surprise! Logan's Great Uncle visits us.

Logan H's Great Uncle Reg came to visit us all the way from Canada. Do you remember him? We skyped Uncle Reg last term when we were learning about different ways we communicate with family members. It was lovely to see him in person.

Let the light shine!

We can problem solve! In pairs we were given a bulb, bulb fixture, battery, battery case, and 3 wires with alligator clips and asked to make a circuit so the bulb would light up. It took a while but we persevered and finally some of us succeeded. Yay!

Junior Syndicate Singing

A Dancing Beetle

Mary brought along a solar powered beetle which dances in the bright light.

We've got the Power!

We were given some wires, a battery and a light bulb and with our partner we had to try and make the light bulb shine. We had to persevere and show teamwork to be successful. Kade and Matthew were the first!

Lilly showing us how to ski!

Cardrona Ski Trip

Welcome back for Term 3

We welcome to our class 5 new children from Room 1.

Lily

Ted

Andrew

Sam

Rylan

We are so glad to have you in room 8.

Family Fiesta Concert

Wow, what a wonderful turnout of family members including aunties, uncles, grandmas, granddads and parents who came along to the Junior Syndicate Family Fiesta. We wanted to end our 'Family Connections' study by entertaining and having a shared afternoon tea with our family members. We hope you all enjoyed the concert!

Our Precious Printing Stars

Congratulations to Edith and Kade who have achieved 5 printing stars in a row. They each receive a 'Mrs Bellamy's special sticker' award. When they get two of these they get to see Mr Carroll for a principal's award. Well Done you two!

Rock Concert

The rock band from Taieri College visited our school on Tuesday after performing in Middlemarch. They performed a number of songs written by themselves and a few covers as well. There were some very talented singers and musicians as well.

Hunter has new casts!

Today at school we drew a big 8 and each of us coloured in a piece to represent Room 8. Hunter thought it was pretty cool. He also has a silver fern on his other leg which his clever mum drew.

More letters have arrived!

Kerah, Syardhana and Zara each received a letter from a family member this week.

Ollie is awarded Player of the Day!

Congratulations Ollie. You must be a super rugby player. I hope you enjoy your Lone Star voucher!

Logan H becomes a 5x in a row Printing Star!

Congratulations Logan, Well done for becoming the first boy to be a printing star 5x in a row. You are SENSATIONAL!

Olivia's cat catches a Tui!

Olivia brought along a dead tui that her cat 'Sparkles' had caught. She put it in the freezer and waited until Mrs Stedman would be at school to show her. The tui has white feathers under its chin and beautiful greeny blue feathers. We also noticed little fine feathers coming out of its mouth. We wondered why? Hopefully Mrs Stedman will help us to find out.

More Mail!

It is so exciting getting mail each day. What a super way to communicate with family members!

Our Delightful Logans

Both our wonderful Logans have achieved 100/100 in the Early Additive Basic Facts Test in 8 minutes. Mrs Paterson presented them both with certificates today at the Junior Syndicate Singing Assembly. We are so proud of you both.

Some of our letters have arrived!

It was very exciting today when there was mail in the Room 8 mailbox. Several letters had arrived from our families. It was terribly exciting opening them. Letters are just another way we can communicate with our families.

Look at all our Sensational Printing Stars!

This is a record! WOW! Ten printing stars. These SENSATIONAL children all get to use pen for the day. They must have: letters and numbers formed correctly, finger spaces, a sharp pencil, have started at the margin, letters close together in words, capitals and a full stop, sentence written correctly, tidy rub-outs and no loops in letters. Oh, so much to focus on but we did it!!

Shrek, the run away sheep - by Olivia

Once upon a time there was a merino lamb. He liked playing with his friends. He loved his mother’s milk. It was warm.

One day a farmer came to cut off his special tail. “I am scared, Mum. Help Mum, I have been grabbed” said the lamb. But his mum could not hear him. “My special tail is gone!”

The farmer came more and more to round up the sheep. “I don’t like it. I know what to do next time,” said the lamb.

Next time they came, he ran up into the mountains. He stayed there for 6 years. His coat was getting very heavy. It was dangerous!

One day he heard people coming. He tried to hide between the rocks but he fell. Luckily he landed safely because his coat protected him but he could not move. He was stuck.

A musterer discovered the sheep, picked him up and took him to a man. His name was John, the owner of Bendigo Station. He took care of him and gave him the name ‘Shrek’.

Shrek got shorn with scissors and got a new coat made especially for him. He became a celebrity. He got to visit the prime minister at the beehive, he helped raise money for kids that have cancer and he visited old people.

But 10 days ago Shrek died of old age. The people are going to put him in a museum in Wellington, they hope! I hope they do too so I can visit him one day.

Syardhana retells a story

Ethan retells a story

Lily tells us why she loves school!

Kerah retells a story

Bradley retells a story

Hunter reads a story

Ollie's Powerful Catapult

Ollie made a very powerful catapult with an ammunition bag with the help of his big brother Josh and his sister Bella. We look forward to seeing how far your catapult will go on Siege Day.

Well Done Ollie.

A Big Welcome to Syardhana and Kerah

Welcome to room 8 Kerah. Kerah comes to us from Weston.

Welcome to room 8 Syardhana. Syardhana comes to us from Balour.

Zara retells a story

Olivia playing 'You are my sunshine'

Hunter - doing the worm dance!

More Disco Pics

Disco Fever

I felt pretty amazing dancing with Mrs Buschl up on the stage. I can do the boggy dance, the worm dance and the snake dance. I had my church hat on my head and I looked so cool. Aunty Cindy and Paton picked me up. The disco was fun. I got to have a chocolate bar too.

Written by Hunter

At the Disco

When I first got to the disco I was little shy but near the end I went CRAZY! My friend Sapphire was dressed as the Mad Hatter. Jaime and Cierra won the limbo. I was proud of them. We a did boys vs girls dance off and the girls won! I was sweating hot at the disco. I bought myself one glow stick. I danced that night away. Written by Lily

Anna retells a story

Lily retells a story

Matthew retells a story

Edith retells a story

Mary retells a story

More Family Trees

Casey's Last Day

Goodbye Casey!

We will miss you. You have been a wonderful class friend and we will miss your enthusiasm in class.

You have a great interest in caring for animals and we hope you achieve your goal of being a farmer.

We wish you all the best at your new school in Mosgiel.

Noah retells a story

Big Buddy Time

We played hopscotch with our big buddies -room 6 on Friday. It was lots of fun playing old school games.

Kade retells a story

Casey retells a story

Concert with Martin Curtis

On Wednesday Martin Curtis visited our school. The whole school was entertained by a talented NZ singer and song writer. Together we sang songs about New Zealand while learning about NZ's history and the early settlers.

Caleb retells a story

Logan H retells a story

Connie retells a story

Logan K retells a story

Some of our Family Trees

Jaime retells a story

Olivia retells a story

Ollie retells a story!

Barney - I Love You

The Family Song

Happy Mother's Day

Some of our Special Families

Casey as a Beautiful Bride

Casey came to school dressed as Kate Middleton after the royal wedding on Friday night between Prince William and Kate. You look beautiful Casey!

Term 2 Notice

Monday 2^nd May

Dear parent/caregivers

Welcome back for Term 2!

I trust you all had a lovely and relaxing holiday break. I hope you are all keen to get back into normal school routines again for another 11 week term.

Our timetable has slightly changed this term. We will begin the day with:

9am Phonics –cross grouped

Printing

Storywriting

10.30am Interval

Maths – cross grouped

Fitness – whole junior school

Theme/PE

12.30pm Lunch

Reading – cross grouped

Theme/PE

Class Programme

Classroom Blog: Please check out our Room 8 class blog regularly:

http://outram-room8isgreat.blogspot.com/

Our blog contains photos, stories, information, any class news etc. We love comments from parents, friends, and relatives as well.

Maths: This term the focus is on Number Knowledge/Basic Facts and Algebra.

Oral Language: This term we are focusing on ‘reading and retelling a text to an audience’ while speaking clearly and fluently using expression. Your child will choose an instructional text from their daily reading group to practise at home and then bring to school on their presentation day. Your child will first read their story to the class and then retell the story without the use of the book. Pictures will be shown if children require help remembering the events in the story. Please refer below for your child’s presentation day.

Theme: We continue our ‘Connections’ focus for the year. This term we are looking at ‘Family Connections’. Could your child please bring along a family photo for Wednesday that will be used in a wall display? Your photo will be returned at the end of the term.

Thank you

Tania Bellamy

Please highlight your child’s name/date and put on the fridge or a noticeboard. Don’t forget to practice reading and retelling your book.

Date	Oral Language-Read and retell an instructional text to an audience
Tuesday 10th May	Ollie
Wednesday 11th May	Olivia
Thursday 12th May	Jaime
Friday 13th May	Logan
Tuesday 17th May	Connie
Wednesday 18th May	Logan
Thursday 19th May	Caleb
Friday 20th May	Kade
Tuesday 24th May	Noah
Wednesday 25th May	Mary
Thursday 26th May	Edith
Friday 27th May	Matthew
Tuesday 31st May	Anna
Wednesday 1st June	Lily
Thursday 2nd June	Zara
Friday 3rd June	Casey
Tuesday 7th June	Bradley
Wednesday 8th June	Hunter
Thursday 9th June	Ethan
Friday 10th June

Who am I? Written by Logan H.

My mystery person plays rugby and he has two big brothers. He likes to play on his wii and he has brown hair and light blue eyes. His best friend is Logan K. He has been a super syndicate super star. He is my best friend. Can you guess who it is?

Who am I? Written by Anna

My mystery person has freckles all over her face. She has short hair. She has brown eyes and blonde hair. She is an excellent role model. Can you guess who it is?

Who am I? Written by Connie

My mystery person has brown hair and blue eyes. They play with Hunter and they push Hunter on the walker. Can you guess who it is?

Who am I? Written by Olivia

My mystery person has blonde hair. Her birthday is in August. She writes fantastic stories. Today she is wearing a pink top. She is super and fast at running. She has a raspberry bush at her house. Her eyes are blue. She is six. Can you guess who it is?

Who am I? Written by Ollie

My mystery person plays tee-ball. He has black hair, brown eyes and is pretty fast. His name starts with a L. His mum teaches at our school. He plays with me all the time. He is very sensible. He has a favourite thing. Do you know who it is?

Who am I? Written by Ethan

My mystery person has blonde hair and blue eyes. He has a red top and brown trousaurs. He has chickens. He plays with me. Can you guess who it is?

Who am I? Written by Edith

My mystery person has blonde hair. She has a dog. She is very responsible. She can sit up nicely. She has short hair. I have been to her house. She has two big sisters. She has got lots of littlest pet shop dolls. This person sucks her thumb. Can you guess who it is?

Who am I? Written by Matthew

My mystery person has glasses and a butterfly on her t-shirt. She has a hair clip in her hair. She is a very good maths persons and good at writing. She has bluey, greeny eyes. Can you guess who it is?

Discovery World

The Anatomy Museum

The Bus Trip

Logan H's fund raising effort for Christchurch!

Well Done Logan! What a lovely idea to help raise money for the people in the Chch Earthquake.

Here Logan raised $20 and is taking the money to the post office.

Logan baked yummy goodies at home and sold them at school.

Tasting our Lip Licken Ice Cream

Brave Father Mouse - read by Ethan

Delightful Teddy Bears and Other Favourites

After reading a book about a Teddy Bear called 'Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear' we decided to write a character description about Dougal.

Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear. Dougal the Garbage Dump Bear was a shy, little bear. He was old and dirty and not quite perfect. He wished he could be like the other toys and be clean and new. Dougal got very frightened at the dump because he was scared of the dragon machine. Sometimes he liked to be alone but he loved making new friends and helping others. He had a heart of gold and was kind to everyone. He realized that sometimes bad things happen so that good things can happen. Dougal learnt you just have to make the best of things no matter what happens in your life. Written by Room 8

Today we brought along our own Teddies and wrote teddy descriptions.

Making Lip Licken Ice Cream

After reading a book called 'Rupert's Ice Cream Machine' we decided to invent our own delicious ice cream favour and write a recipe for it. Some favours included Ollie's Ocean Oscar Ice Cream, Lily's Lovely Ice Cream, Jaime's Jumping Jelly Ice Cream, Logan K's Lime, Lollypop, Little Ice Cream, Matthew's M & M, Milky Ice Cream, Olivia's Olly, Octopus Ice Cream.

Today we made yummy Lip-Licken Ice Cream. After a second attempt it worked! Yay! Many thanks to Lily's mum who came to the rescue and made a second batch for us. After freezing overnight we will add our favourite toppings and ENJOY!