Northern Mystics

Northern Mystics came to teach us some netball We had to do some drills But is was fun Nitika hardly missed a goal

Santa came to Room 8!

Room 8 students at TPS wrote a letter each to Santa this year. We waited patiently. 

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Chocolate Fountain!

Room 8 had a shared lunch to celebrate our year together. The food was amazing! Thank you so much whanau for making this happen. Before we ate we prayed, Maori, English, Samoan and Tongan.

I am so proud of my students.
Here are some photos of the kai.

Gingerbread House

Joshua made a Gingerbread House for Room 8 shared morning tea.

Team work

                                      The Chair Game
This is a game that Room 8 plays. How does this game work? How this game works is that there are two teams and one of those teams are in the middle of the court standing on the yellow line.   One person from that team is the chaser standing in one circle on the other side of the runners. The other team are the runners but there is only one runner at a time. The runners have to stand in the circle then they can run away from the chaser . While we are playing the game Miss Bracey was timing us on how fast we were. 

Temper like an erupting volcano

Alyssa wrote a story board from the inquiry in Term 3 on Natural Disasters. The WALT was to create a short narrative on a natural disaster. Aiesha and Hope helped film. They wanted to create a video similar to Room 9's on 'What causes an earthquake. The girls filmed short frames and I had to work out how to make it into a movie. I think we all did really well!

Transformations

I learnt about Symmetry and its Rotation,Reflection and Translation.
I learnt about shapes.

Marble Run

Milan and Rawiri showing how technology can change to suit demand

Technology uses finger prints

Tamaki Haka

On Monday, Room 8 had Te Reo with the Kapa haka leaders. Their names are Andre and Chanel. They taught us a Tamaki haka that they have been teaching to the kapa haka students. we had to get into  two lines and then we had to face to each other other and do the haka. we didn't have much time so we did the haka one more time and then the bell went. 

I enjoyed doing the haka because its fun and it inspired me.

Christmas Finger Art

Aeisha

Earlier this week my class and I,
made some finger art. We had to plan what we were going to do first. secondly we had to go to the blue table and use the stamp pads to colour in our planing. And then we had to write our name on it and give it to our teacher.
I had lots of fun doing this activity our topic on our finger art was christmas.
For my finger art I did some snowflakes a penguin and snow.

I spy!

WALT - Improve technology spy gadgets.

If I were a spy...

WALT: Improve technology spy gadget.
This is a spy gadget I have designed using different types of systems that could really help while you are spying on a suspect.

It's cool to be kind.

This game is called Kind Kingdom  the game is based in being kind online .
my record  is 380 points . You block trouble makers and make people feel better .

Chairs

There is two team one team be the chaser so if your the chaser your team get in a line in the middle and. You are the far side of the line and if your the runner you are also going to make a line to the first one go and run. If you are the runner you can go through the people but the chaser can touch the people in the line then they become chaser. The chaser has to get all the runners and Ms Bracey timed who was the quicker team.  I really like this game, I laugh a lot

I am in charge!

Flag Football

On Monday Room 8  went to kiwisport we were learning Flag Football it like Rippa Rugby but mixed with football  it was sooooo much fun. We had to put our pointing finger on the white line of the ball we had to leave a gap between our palm then we had to point at our buddy.

Niuean

We wanted to present something special during Niuean Language Week, because we have students from Niue in Room 8. We read a play and then Milan’s family translated it into a song for us to sing as a class at assembly. We practised with Mr Caleb and we hope you enjoy our song.

Partner Yoga

Room 8 learnt how to work together in an activity called ‘Partner Yoga’. Partner yoga is like doing normal yoga but with someone else. It was really awesome and fun.

Did you know that Room 8 was struggling a lot because some of these yoga poses were very hard to do?  Like what Dane and Kahukura are doing.

Dane and Kahukura

Heart pose

Written By: Alyssa Webster and Hope Leuta

Kumara Vine

Room 8 just did not know what to do for the Manaiakilani Film Festival 2018! 

Milan grows ideas with young leaders

Milan had another one of his great ideas. He said he would like to make a film about the Kumara Vine.

What’s that you ask? 

Kumara Vine is all about giving, student voice, student ideas, students of every year group, ideas for the school...to make TPS better than it is already.

Not so long ago Milan was thinking, (he does this a lot). He came up with this idea about leadership...about how from Year 0-6 the students don't get to voice their ideas until Year 7 or 8. Once he had this concept, (idea)  he went about thinking more on how it could work at TPS. While he was thinking (see, he does this all the time) a song was playing on the radio by Marvin Gaye 'I heard it through the Grapevine'. More thinking happened and Milan exclaimed, "I know, I will call it the Kumara Vine!" And so the tuber (seed) was planted.

We all sat in a circle with an oversized piece of paper and a vivid to record our memories on how the Kumara Vine came to be, (this is called a brainstorm). Next we sorted the ideas into a sequence, (sorting our brainstorm ideas) Then we started to discuss orientation, characters, problem, (it started to sound like a narrative?) We wondered, “Hey, are we writing or making a movie?”

Next minute Ms Bracey said “Auckland, Milan!”

Well, the two of us and Jarrod were extremely busy, sorting out the narrative, scenery, sound, cinematography and editing. If that wasn’t enough we had issues with everything...narrative had to be altered, scenery changed and we had to go on a school wide hunt for props that had been put in storage and forgotten where they had been put! It was not all easy going either with, actors acting up, reshooting for sound quality, reshooting for film angles and wobbles, we wasted an entire day on editing because we didn’t have the latest version of iMovie! There was so much to do!

On reflection...

We learnt a lot, we laughed and had fun, we had to cooperate and listen to each other, make so many changes, but it was worth it.
We hope you think it is worth watching too.

"Talofa lava, my name is Auckland." "Fakalofa and kia ora,my name is Milan,  Room 8 made a film about the Kumara Vine." "Hey Auckland, what’s the Kumara Vine?""Kumara Vine is a way of creating young leaders in the making."  "Sit back, relax and enjoy the movie" (click on the play button).