Learning Mandarin.

We are so lucky here at Sunnyhills.  For a couple of weeks a term we have a lovely lady called Vio to come in and teach us some Mandarin. 

This week we worked hard to say the numbers and write the special characters for the characters. 

Here we are giving it a go.

P.S. Some of us experts in Team 8!

Life Education

We have had such an exciting week at school this week. 

We got to visit Harold the Giraffe as part of Life Education.  Pamela (Harolds helper) talked to us about what makes a good friend.  Team 8 are experts at this and helped Harold to be a good friend.

The Caravan is a pretty cool place to be. The lights make you change colour and we learnt lots about being kind, caring, sharing and helpful friends.

Pamela telling us to sit on our biggest muscle ( our gluteus maximus)

Blueberries

Strawberries

Harold and Pamela

Team 8 are so amazing, Harold can't believe it!

Andy and Gabriella put a puzzle together about what a great friend does.

Our wonderful ast that we did after our visit.

PLEASE COME IN AND SEE OUR AMAZING ART AND SPEECH BUBBLES ABOUT OUR LEARNING!

More Genius Time Pic's

Some excellent work this afternoon Team 8. Here are some photos of our progress...

Thanks again to all the mummy helpers. x

The Amazing Buddhist Temple

What an amazing place to visit. 

 The Buddhist Temple is an amazing, peaceful and colourful Temple..oh and as Alex said...it smells so nice!

Team 8 and the rest of Year 1 and 2 had a great trip there on Tuesday with the help of our amazing parent helpers.  

We made wishes, we made wonderful lotus flowers, we ate cookies, learnt lots about giving and don't for get the '3Gs.'

• Do Good Deeds
• Say Good Words
• Think Good Thoughts

This of course fits perfectly into our Manaakitanga of "Kindness."

Here are some photos of all the exciting things we got to see and do.

Thank You to all the parent helpers that came to help.

Thank you to the fabulous Buddhist Temple for having us.

Thank you to Team 8 for being on your best behaviour.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the Team 8 Mum's!

We hope you've all had a wonderful day.

xo

And without the music... sorry about the long intro!

We have a Frog!

Do you remember how we had tadpoles? 

Well one went missing...

Not to worry though, because Mrs Grant did some detective work and look what she found...

Did you see some 'frog-prints' on the rock?

ta-da! Our tadpole wasn't missing at all! It has FINALLY turned into a frog! 

This is him (or her) having a leisurely swim...

Can you see how the tail is shrinking?

We couldn't leave him (or her) in the classroom because he (or she) might hop away, so Mrs Turner took froggy on a little car ride...

And then, released him (or her) into his (or her) new home...

Bye Bye froggy. 

Thanks for teaching Team 8 to care for a pet and helping us to learn all about life-cycles. You have helped make us smarter and kinder.

xo

Thank-you to Andy and his family who babysat over the holidays!

Genius Time - Day 1

Team 8 2018's FIRST EVER Genius Time started today! Woo-hoo!

It was sooo cool to see everyone working hard to solve problems and being super creative with their designs and resources. Mrs Turner is very proud of the perseverance and patience you showed. 

Mrs Crowhurst and her class from Bucklands Beach Primary did a Google Hangout with us at the end.  It was cool sharing our progress and designs with her class! We can't wait to see how they turn out.

A special THANK YOU to ALL the Mummy's who came in to help us! Mrs Turner definitely couldn't have done it without you!! Hopefully we didn't scare you too much and you'll be back next Thursday!

Here are some pictures of our first day:

Theo thinking about how to make a soccer ball.

Aaminah creating a sheep

Ben's mum is helping Michelle and Leona with their designs

The boys creating a paper mache Volcano (which they wanted to explode today no matter how many times we tried to explain that the glue needs to dry first!)

Zoe and Zoey with their Unicorn patterns

Gabriella thinking about her design

Mrs Harding helping Indi, Paul and Ben to create a survey about different flavoured Ice Creams (Mrs Turner hopes that they make Ice Cream and leave it all for her to eat!)

Synthia is creating a butterfly. She worked super hard and stayed focused the WHOLE hour and has nearly finished!!! It looks great Synthia!

Andy and Sam are painting their Dragons/dinosaurs

I hope Cameron's cat likes pink! (he is making a cat bed)

Dia figuring out how to make a musical instrument.

Keep checking our blog to see our final creations!