Clean Teeth

On Thursday morning, Mrs Turner found a whole box of toothbrushes in the cupboard. She thought long and hard about what to do with them, and then came up with the brilliant plan of teaching Team 8 how to brush their teeth properly! 

Did you know that adults should be helping us to brush until we are 8 or 9 years old? and that it should take about 2minutes to do it properly?

We watched this video to get us warmed up:

And then it was our turn to give our new toothbrushes a go...

Parents, if you want some tips, you can watch this video from Colgate ;-) 

Shake-Out

Here is a photo of Team 8 children participating in the New Zealand Shakeout - a national earthquake drill.  We practised two safety strategies - one to curl up like a turtle with our hands protecting our heads for if we are outside and there is no immediate cover. Secondly, to find a close by table to drop, cover and hold.  Our children did a fantastic job. It might also be a good opportunity to talk at home with your children what they should do at home in the unfortunate event of a fire or earthquake.

Here is a short video with Taika Waititi explaining the 'shake-out'.

If you would like any more information please visit https://www.shakeout.govt.nz/ 

Fractions

For the last few weeks of Term 3, Team 8 were learning about fractions.

We learned that fractions are part of a whole. We also learned that all parts MUST be equal.

Here is a video of some of the fantastic learning we did. Check out all the awesome mathematical language our kids are using! Super duper proud!!!

Can you find/make any fractions at home Team 8? - Post what you find/do in the comments!

Tu Meke Team 8!!!

THE DROP!

So you really want to know if our eggimals survived 'the drop' huh?

Did our safe case...

• Fit our eggimal inside it?
• Allow our eggimal to get in and out easily?
• Stop our eggimal from breaking when it was dropped?
• Suit the character of our eggimal?

Well, here is the S.L.O.W. motion video of how it all panned out!

Do you think our eggimal safe cases met the brief?

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped us from the planning, revising, refining, creating stages to the 'big drop'. We really couldn't have done it without you! xx

Eggimal Safe Cases Ready to go.

Writing a Different Way

This week some of us tried writing a story on the i pad. It was fun because we had to find the letters on the keyboard. For some of us, it was the first time we had ever used the space bar!  We tried really hard with our spelling. We read our stories over the top so you can hear what we wrote. 

We will get better and better at this the more we practice.

Here is Alex's soccer story:

Here is Leona's story about the class baby:

Here is Jeremy's story about the playground:

Tu Meke!

Things you may have Missed! (Assembly and Fathers Day)

First of all - we did an awesome job at assembly a few weeks ago.  Mrs driver posted a cute video to the school Facebook page. Click here to see it.

This another video (of the same thing) that someone else took for us. 

We are working hard here in Team 8 to save our Earth for future generations!

Also, a (very belated) HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all the father figures out there. Team 8 love you very much. Mrs Turner is sorry she didn't post this on Fathers Day, she wasn't feeling too good and forgot. We hope you got spoilt on your special day. xx

You Rock Team 8!