We grew kumara!

At the end of last year the children in Room 8 planted kumara plants which we had sprouted from an actual kumara.

You can see that post here http://room8bmps.blogspot.co.nz/2016/09/growing-kumara.html

The plants grew well and at the beginning of  the term we had a dig around to see if there was anything under the ground. It was like digging for treasure!

Look what we found....  😊

 

Welcome to 2017!

Today was the first school day for 2017! It was lovely to be greeted by so many smiling  faces and to hear about the adventures Room 8 students had during the holidays.

A highlight today was our team building challenge. We were learning to show respect to our team mates, to ensure everyone was participating/having their ideas heard and to encourage each other.
It was fantastic to see the concentration, teamwork and hear the cheers as groups successfully completed their challenges.

Fruit Salad with Room 13

On Thursday we had our very last buddy session with the cool kids in room 13. We decided to celebrate a great year by having a shared meal of delicious fruit salad. We also did some singing, some drawing and snacked on popcorn as we watched Christmas themed video clips. What a great morning it was! It was so lovely to watch the senior children and the junior children talking and working together. 

Here are a few photos of us!

Thank you so much Miss Baird and room 13! 

We have loved getting to know you all this year.

We grew cabbages!

Last term Room 8 decided to learn more around planting and grew cabbage seedlings in our very own school garden. Yesterday it was time... we finally got the chance to see our perfectly grown cabbages!

While we were taking out our cabbages, the boys also pulled out the bok choy, that happened to be over grown in the garden.

LJ and Jerald had a challenge to try and eat parsley from the garden and said it tasted like rotten orange!

By Savannah ans Melanie

MISS ROOT'S SPECIAL SWEETIE'S

Miss Root is a bad dentist  that loves to pretend to be a normal dentist but her true identity is she is the demon dentist and she take's out all of the kid's teeth. Do you know what she does? She gives lollies to the kid's to make their teeth rot and she tricks them by saying they are sugar free. 

That's why the whole class decided to make are very own special sweeties.

We are also learning about how persuasive writing is used in advertising, so we made some ads about our special sweeties. 
Take a look!

By Ellen

Yay! New plants!

 Room 8 finally updated our indoor classroom garden thanks to Tarita and Adam who did a great job planting these flower seedlings. It's always exciting to have plants growing in our classroom and to notice how they grow and change. We hope to have lots of flowers before the school holidays!

Beginning our bokashi bin!

Last term Mrs Mcaree asked  Room 8 for some help. She had started a homemade bokashi bin and had filled it up with food scraps but wasn't quite sure if she had done it right. She wanted us to give it a go and see what success we had so she gifted our class with our very own bokshi bin.

If you aren't sure what a bokashi bin is and how it works, this video clip explains it nicely:

After lots of research and discussion, this week we finally got the bokashi bin up and running!

 Augustina is going to monitor the bin. She will need to squash the food down occasionally, empty out the liquid and sprinkle on more bran. It is already filling up quite nicely with scraps from our lunches. We look forward to updating you (and Mrs Mcaree!) on our progress.

The bokashi bin is going to decrease the amount of rubbish going to landfill and the great thing is the compost will be great for our garden! It also makes a nice addition to the recycling system we have up and running in Room 8. Pop in and visit us so we can show you what we have been doing!