Abdiel did some great research at home about teeth. He made a poster about interesting facts about teeth and shared it with us at Thursday news time "Something I've Made Or Written".
Did you know that a snail can have up to 25,000 teeth in its mouth? I didn't even know snails had teeth!

Here we are showing off our Science boards all about the Life Cycle of the Chicken.

Today we brought something "eggy" in our lunch boxes.
We had some..hard boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, egg and rice, egg and noodles, egg sandwiches and egg on buns- yum.
Someone even brought a special egg slicer to school.

Some fun learning with our student teachers from the University........ language experience time,
Making Volcanoes and Mystery Containers

We love to dance and sing in Room 8.
Here we are having fun with the Bean Bag Dance.
If you have a chance tomorrow Thursday 22/9, pop in at 2:45pm and see our Science Boards, all about the Life Cycle of The Chicken.

Here we are getting into the swing of the Olympic Games.... we made some art work involving the Olympic rings and also did some fabulous writing.
Come in and have a look some time.

We have been lucky enough to have Miss Lucia, a student teacher from Shanghai University, join us for the last few days. We have all enjoyed having her help us with our classroom programmes.
Today, Miss Lucia introduced us to the art of origami. She taught us how to make very cute little McDonalds packets with pretend fries in them.
Here are some photos....

Room 8 had a real treat today.

Abdiel's Mum came in and told us all about Eid, the celebration at the end of Ramadan.

She brought in some very delicious morning tea for us. We really enjoyed learning about Eid and loved sampling the delicious  food that she had made for us.

Thank you to Abdiel and his Mum

This week we are learning about multiplication and equal sharing in Maths. We have had fun working out all sorts of problems like this one.
There is a family of 2 legged caterpillars. All of the caterpillars only have 2 legs. How many legs would there be altogether if there were 2 caterpillars in the family?...What about 3 caterpillars?...What about 4 caterpillars?
Here we are doing some independent activities out of the green Maths box:

Thursday's oral language focus is "Something I Have Made Or Written".
Jacob told us all about this fantastic model of the Sky Tower that he made. Wow! It's great and looks just like the real one!

We made pizzas today because our letter of the week is 'p'. We are also talking about fractions in our Maths learning. We cut the pizzas into 1/2s, then 1/4s, then 1/8ths. We loved making them and we especially loved eating them, yum!

"The Letter P Song" by ABCmouse.com

We have been investigating repeating patterns in our Maths learning.
We made headbands and used repeating shape and colour patterns.
Here we are combining three things we love...Maths, singing and dancing.

Today we went to Hillcrest High School to watch a fantastic performance put on by the drama students. It was all about "mixed up fairytales" and the children loved it. There was lots of audience participation...and things got quite rowdy at times! It was a lot of fun.

The letter of the week 'u'

Today the firefighters came to talk to us about our Get FireWise learning. We know what to do if the smoke alarm goes off.....
Get down!
Get Low! 
Get out-FAST!!
We are trying hard to learn our address in case we need to make an emergency 111 call on the phone. Perhaps you could help us at home?
Here we are listening to the firefighters in Rooms 6/7

Buddy Time!

We love getting to know our Senior Buddies from Room 14. They have been helping us to read and get to know our school better. 

Today after reading together, Phoebe read us all a story about Chester the cat. 

This week we are learning the 'c','k' sound.

We've started Get Firewise learning!
Here we are sorting out tools and toys.

This week's letter sound is "h".
You could..... make a healthy hedgehog cake with toothpicks and cheese and pineapple, climb a hill, make a house out of some boxes...or click on the link below to sing the 'h' songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfxm1I7L07I

ANZAC Poppies

 We completed some poppy artwork as part of our learning about ANZAC Day.  We think they look fantastic.

The letter this week is 'm'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbncOU3qlc

Click on this link to sing the 'm' song.

An International picnic!

Today the whole Junior School got to take part in an international picnic under the canopy. A lot of us dressed up in our culture's national clothing and brought some food to share.

It was amazing to see how many different cultures are at our school... and even just in Room 8!

A big thank you to all our parents and family who contributed to this great day.