Kade's Speech

Look at Hunter!

Wow, Hunter! You can walk across the pool by yourself and blow bubbles. What a clever boy you are.

Why you should have a dog? (Persuasive Writing) By Lily

Dogs are the best – you need one!

I think you should have a dog because if you are blind it will help you walk around. Dogs can guard your vegetable garden. If you love your dog it will love you. So, just have a think about that, without a dog you won’t have a real family.

Written by Lily

Caleb's Speech

A Very Dark Day - Christchurch Earthquake

The Very Sad Day

Yesterday there was an earthquake in Christchurch. Lots of buildings crashed down. Lots of people were killed. Some people were alive. Lots of people were covered in blood. Some people lost their lives and cars were crushed. One bus was crushed. People didn’t have time to get under the tables.

Written by Matthew

A Sudden Day in Christchurch

In Christchurch there was a humungous earthquake. Lots of buildings fell down on people. “Help, help, help” called the people. “Ring, ring, ring. Come and rescue us,” they said scared. “What is that?” “It sounds like people,” said one of the rescue men.

Written by Olivia

Earth Upset

The news came in a flash. It was an earthquake. Phones were ringing. Help! People were afraid. People were stuck under the buildings. Power went out of batteries. What will Christchurch do?

Written by Anna

A Very Sad Day

There was a humungous earthquake. The buildings were demolished. Lots and lots of people died. The road in Christchurch cracked. Buildings crumbled into pieces.

Written by Ollie

A Very Dark Day

Humungous, gigantic buildings crushed and crumbled. Everyone was dieing and some people stayed alive. Some had to go to the hospital and some people lost one leg and two legs which Mum told me. Lots of people had blood everywhere. All the builders helped people.

Written by Logan K.

A Sad Day

Yesterday there was a humungous earthquake. It was in Christchurch. Buildings tumbled down and trapped a whole lot of people. “Help, Help” they shouted. It was not so long before there was help from some other people.

Written by Lily.

The Earthquake

Crumble! The houses went down. Some people like my Nana and Grandad were scared. The road cracked and cars went for a tumble. A person got a bleeding head. I cried.

Written by Zara.

A Very Dark Day

I have two aunties up in Christchurch. Their names are Aunty Margaret and Aunty Evelyn. But Aunty Margaret’s home got smashed but I don’t know if Aunty Evelyn’s house survived all of the earthquake. It is just amazing. I still feel very, very sorry for Aunty Margaret and Aunty Evelyn too. It happened because there are two plates under the ground fighting.

Written by Mary

Logan's Speech

Yummy Gingerbread!

We made yummy gingerbread people inspired by a big book we were reading called 'The Gingerbread Man'. We followed the recipe in the book and then decorated our gingerbread people. Many thanks to the parents who helped during reading time.

Oram's Speech

Jaime's Speech

Logan K's Speech

Helicopter at school!

I was reading and heard the loud sound! We jumped up and zoomed to the rugby field to see the helicopter. I was happy. Written by Hunter

Olivia's Speech

Ollie's Speech

Stewart Island -Story by Casey

In the holidays my family is going to Stewart Island and I am going on the ferry. I am going to live in a hotel and Dad has to stay home and fed the hen and chicks. When we get back the chicks will be all grown up.

Written by Casey

Art with Mrs Simpson

Fruit - Lots of yummy fruit! We learned to sketch pieces of fruit before using pastel to colour in. We also dyed our backgrounds and next week we will put them together for the Flower show.

Olivia and Sparkles

Olivia brought along her two precious kittens to school from the SPCA. Her favourite is a black and white kitten called Sparkles. Sparkles loves to sleep on Olivia's bed.

Awesome Story Mary!

My Weekend Story by Mary

We had a BBQ on Sunday. We cooked up some sausages and mushrooms and some potatoes. Pop! Pop! went the vegetables as they were cooking on the BBQ. Then we had some desert and it was devine. Yum! it was yummy! yummy! When we were finished we went to go and play in a tree. "Yipee!" I said. "Whoo! yippy! whish! When I got to the top I found a bird's nest. It had eggs as well. But we left the eggs and then we went home.

Casey's Wasp Nest

Casey brought along a dead wasp nest to show the class. He found it in his garden at home. Mrs Stedman found it very interesting as it still had the baby larvae in the wasp comb. Thank you for sharing this Casey.

Mary's Magic Trick

Mary showed his a magic trick. She could move the coins all around the box lid without touching them or moving the box lid. How did she do that?

Caleb's Transformer

Caleb showed us his awesome transformer. It can change from a hot rod car into a bad man. You should see how quick Caleb can change it.

Edith the Ballerina

Edith's sister traced around Edith and drew a ballerina costume. Sometimes they send the drawing to Grandma so she can see how tall Edith has grown!

Playing Cricket with our Big Buddies

Room 6 are our big buddies. Every Friday we have big buddy time. Today we read with our buddies and then played a game of cricket.

Casey's Ginger and her chicks

Hunter enjoyed holding one of the Ginger's chicks

Casey just loves Ginger the mother hen and her 5 baby chicks. Thank you for bringing them to school Casey! We loved holding the fluffy bundles.

Room 8 2011

What a bunch of cool kids for 2011!

Welcome to Room 8 2011

Coming soon pictures and stories by Room 8