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 ;-) 

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.

100 DAYS!!!!

Team 8 have been counting all the days that we have been in school...and guess what we made it to 100 today!

So to celebrate 100 days of learning and 100 days of being smarter we thought it would be great to have a party. 

Team 8 were so lucky. 

We got to participate, collaborate, make, build, eat and colour in lots of exciting activities based around 100.

 Here is a little clip to show all the fun we had. 

Special thanks to Alex's mum and Mrs Clyde who helped us in our special day.

Well done Team 8 you were all amazing. I had the best day. From Mrs Grant!

Mrs Grant has trialled a new way to add a video.. Fingers crossed it works. If it doesn't then she will try again tomorrow. 

MATARIKI DANCE

We have been learning about the Matariki Stars and how Maori celebrate Matariki.
Matariki is the celebration of the Maori New Year. People celebrate by eating Maori Kai (food)

They also celebrate with dance.

Team 8 made up Maori actions to a Matariki song.

The song was about the seven Matariki stars. Very creative Team 8.

Zoe was so creative and clever at home. She worked with her mum to put together this amazing Matariki piece of art.  Here she is talking about her Art piece.

Tuesday - Arts Week

Can you believe what we got to do on Tuesday of Arts Week.

Drama and Visual Arts... Team 8 could get used to this sort of learning.

Mrs Grant got us to use some great Drama techniques called Freeze Frame, mirroring and role play.

We listened to the story "Funny Bones" by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. It is about 3 skeletons, one is a dog skeleton. They try to find someone to scare at night time.  The skeletons can't find anyone to scare so they end up scaring each other.

Here we are testing out our dramatic skills...what drama kings and queens we are!!!  (Haha)

After all that excitement we went to see Mrs Burge to Learn how to make Aboriginal Dot art. Here we are getting our hands into the paint and creating out masterpieces.

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!