Fencing lessons

The girls showing the correct stance for 'recover'!

The lunge.

"En garde!"

Finally blogging again

We have had a great time learning how to fence today. Everyone enjoyed parrying and going 'en garde!'.

Football tournament

Over the last 2 weeks we have been playing in a school indoor football tournament we have played against rooms 12, 11 and room 6. Today Room 8 won the final against Room 5. The boys played first and drew 0-0 but then the girls won 2-0. Thanks to Tayla and Maddy for scoring our 2 goals. After the game we had a little after-party by having sausage rolls and fizzy drinks. Thanks to all the Huia teachers for organising the tournament. By Cam R and Ruby.

Hi Im Montana

I made a cake in the shape of a shark

By Montana

On Monday I made a polar bear cake.

I used sponge cake and coloured icing to make the shape of a polar bear.

by Jay

Achievements in rm8

Lately rm8 has had a lot of achievements such as Cam R made the under 13 junior provincials for indoor cricket, Georgia made it into the Kapi-mana regional training squad for netball, Jordan got into the Japanese exchange so he gets to go to Japan and we made the quarter finals of the the indoor football tournament and our class came 2nd in cross country.

By Cam R

maricela's whale cake

My delicious whale cake was very yummy and tasty. Everyone in my class really liked it. It was a banana chocolate chip cake I gave some cake to Mr O.C the teachers in the syndicate and some to Mrs Stuart. Mr O.C rated it 10/10.

Cam's whale cake

Last week I made a delicous cake in the shape of a whale it had liquorice and pebbles on top it was a fantastic cake and everyone enjoyed it :)

Antonia's Whale Cake

I made wonderful banana small whale cake with blue icing. I made the cake on sunday. It took 40min to bake and half an hour to ice. It took 2o minutes to cut the cake in the shape of a whale.

Ruby's Spider Cake:)

On Wednesday the 8th I brought in a chocolate spider cake with liquorice legs as part of one of our unit tasks. It had chocolate buttons on it too. By Ruby:)

Thomas' Whale Cake

Today Thomas made an exquisite cake in the shape of a whale. It was a chocolate cake with blue icing, licorice and M&Ms on top. Everyone enjoyed it and it was a big success.

By Cam and Thomas

Tara's last day

Tara has been visiting us to watch how we use ICT in the classroom. She has observed us and interviewed us. We have really enjoyed having her. On her last day she gave us all chocolate treats as a thank you for helping her with her research.

Cam's whale cake

Yesterday I made a cake for our homework. It was in the shape of a whale. It also had 3 penguins made out of icing on the side along with jaffas and buttons. It had blue icing on the top of the whale.

Renee's perfect penguin!

Yesterday I made a penguin cake. It took me an hour to bake the cake and another hour to do the icing. I chose a penguin because they are endangered and cute!

Ella's oil spilt ocean

"I made a chocolate cake of an ocean polluted by an oil spill. I have tried to show that drilling for oil can bring death and extinction to animals and Antarctica. I chose the mammoth as one of the animals just to prove how dangerous and deadly it can be.

Maddys Penguin Cake

Today I brought in my penguin cake for one of our unit tasks. I had fun making it but it took a long time to ice! I hope everyone enjoys it! Fingers crossed!

Ben's Ice Floe

I found an eggless cake recipe (chocolate) so then Conner could have some.
It had 3 layers with icing all over it and icing for icebergs
I used moulding icing to make a whale, seal and 5 penguins.
by Ben.

Becky's Antarctica Cake

I baked a cake, making sure it was eggless(for Connor), so everyone could enjoy it. It was a semicircle cake in the shape of Antarctica. I used moulding icing to make a polarbear, two penguins and two seals. I used more icing to make waves and write 'Antarctica'!
By Becky

Georgia's cake

Today Georgia brought in a really cute panda face chocolate cake
with white and black icing and it tasted awesome!


by Georgia and Aimee

Kainoa's Cake

kainoa made a chocolate cake shaped like a whale with blue icing, black licorice and butter cream
By Jay and Kainoa

Ethan's Penguin Cake

For one of our home learning tasks we had to make a cake out of something to do with Antarctica or whatever we want. Yesterday Ethan made a chocolate sponge cake with black and white icing on top and he cut it into a shape of a penguin. Cam R and Cam P

Brigitte's whale cake

I made a cake in the shape of a whale. We had to make a cake on Antarctica or something to do with the environment.
By Brigitte

Nevada's Chocolate Biscuit Fudge

I made chocolate biscuit fudge at home and brought them to school for the whole class to try. I did it for my homework learning task which was to make food that was from a French, Italian or Japanese culture and I chose French and It was very yummy.
By Nevada

Connor's Cheese Scones

Yesterday Connor made some cheese scones. Today he brought them to school. Here is a picture of Connor making them and another picture of some students with Connor and his scones.

By Isaac and Nevada

Mrs Paver's birthday cake

Mrs Paver enjoyed her birthday with a scrumptious chocolate cake that she made and decorated herself, it was delicious and fluffy and it was made without eggs so that Connor could eat it. He helped by finding the recipe.

By Caitlin

Isaac with his croissants

Here is Mrs Christie and Isaac with his croissants.

By Caitlin

yummy croissonts

Today Isaac brought in some yummy croissants for Mrs Christie and the class to try, he showed us a video on how he made them and we got a little bit of it

yay :):)

video : Isaac

text : Georgia

Room 8 Mathletics

Room 8 has a few people involved in Mathletics. They are working at home and at school. All of us have been enjoying it so far. In Mathletics there are challenges that test our knowledge on maths of all kinds and you can challenge different people from all over the world. At times it can be fun and at other times it can be a very big challenge which can bring your brain to another level of understanding in maths. But over all it's a very fun thing to do! By Ella :)

Yummy coconut fudge slice

Yesterday I made a yummy coconut fudge slice!

It had coconut and chocolate in it and I brought it to my classroom to have for afternoon tea. Everybody thought it was delicious!

Mrs Christie was very impressed and hopes that I do another one soon!

By: Tayla

Show not tell

Click here to check out our 'show not tell'.

On the 1st of March we had our Athletics day!

Everyone in our class was feeling excited and energised and ready to go. Bandanas tied, face paint and suncreen on and everyone had a big smile on their face.

Now were ready to start our big day!

We all went off to our first events and I was feeling really pumped but a bit down because I had Discus. I went through a lot of fun events and as it's starting to get close to the end of the day I as getting really exhausted!

All though It was an exhausting day I had a really great time!

By Nevada

Show not tell

In room 8 we are looking at show not tell for writing e.g a telling sentence would be-The house needed repairs.
For a show don't tell sentence I wrote-
The house creaked and moaned like a grumpy old man,it had broken and cracked glasses. It looked dead and deserted.The paint was peeling off the walls like how skin peels off from a sunburn.
This is an example of an extended simile.
By Mia :) .

Brigitte's French meal

character building

On Thursday we lost KO but we showed really good character by not whinging or complaining to the ref we all tried our hardest in the game but we were beaten by a better team.
Well done room 16 good luck for the tournament.

Our class

The big reveal!

We finished our week with finding out the answers to our anonymous quiz. We held 'The big reveal!' and some of us got prizes as a reward for working out who we all were.

Our Learning statement

We discussed what theme we would use for our Learning Statement and we decided to think of our Learning Journey being as though we were in an Amusement Park. Now we need to think of what we are going to say in our statement.

First day back 2011

On the 1st of Feburary, Room 8 had its first day of school.