This Week In History

Anniversary of Dr Seuss' Death

Dr Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel, was born on March 2, 1904, in Massachusetts, USA.

‘The Cat in the Hat’ and ‘Green Eggs and Ham’, are the two biggest sellers. ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ is third on the list of most popular Seuss books in the US.

What is your favourite Dr Seuss book?

Brainteaser of the Week

Coffee or Hot Chocolate?

George, Helen, and Steve are drinking coffee.

Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking hot chocolate.
Is Elizabeth drinking coffee or hot chocolate?

Game of the Week

Bloxorz trains logical problem solving and spatial visualization. Get the block to fall into the square hole at the end of each stage.

Halloween Costumes

Did you know?
It’s that time of year again! What time? It’s time to disguise yourself and flit about your neighborhood, brazenly asking for free candy and treats. What are we talking about? Halloween, of course!
Do you enjoy dressing up for Halloween? What costumes have you worn in the past? Which one was your favorite? What do you want to dress as this year?

Birds found in the Rotoiti Area.

On Tuesday we are heading off to Lake Rotoiti to find out about the Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project. Last week you were given a list of birds that you are likely to see and hear there. Click on the link below to hear what these birds sound like.

Elephant Orchestra

During our reading rotation today we read about Asian Elephants. We discovered that Asian Elephants were number 10 on the endangered animal list. We also found out that the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre formed and elephant orchestra. The elephants can play up to 20 different instruments, they are very intelligent animals. They have made 2 CD's and the money they make goes towards helping other elephants.
Listen to them playing, what do you think?

Game of the Week

Wordshake
 How many words can you get in 3 minutes.

Wonder of the Week

Can you beatbox?


Beatboxing is a big part of modern hip hop culture. In addition to drum sounds, beatboxing can involve singing, imitating a record player and making sounds like a wide variety of different musical instruments.
Are there any of you out there who are budying beatboxers, if so let me know and you can record yourself performing for our blog.

This Week In History

14th of October 1964
Martin Luther King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Martin Luther King is considered one of the most famous people in American history. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this week, 48 years ago, to honour his civil rights work. He made history because at 35 years old, he was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Look at the following photos how do they make you feel?

 

Brain teaser of the week

She is how old?

The day before yesterday, Chris was 7 years old.

Next year, she'll turn 10. How is this possible?

Kids Can Cook

Kids Can Cook visited Waimea Intermediate School on the last week of term.  Room 8 were lucky enough to join Chris Fortune to learn about sustainable cooking.  Taylor and Zak were chosen to act as sous chefs.  They made crepes filled with  creme fresh, apples, silver beet and rosemary (grown in our own school garden).  They were yum!!!

Room 8 perform "Forget You"

This term Room 8 have been learning how to play and perform Forget You by Cee Lo Green.  Didn't they do an awesome job