Happy 7th BIrthday Kadin. We know you had a great day!

Today Flinn, Anna and Phoebe represented Room 8 at the 'Tough Kids Challenge'.
I think they will sleep well tonight!
Thank you for the photos Fiona.

Please remember to bring a fun hat for our performance. Thank you to the children who have already scored 500 House points for bringing their hat already!

We are busy preparing for our Junior Team End of Year Celebration.

For the performance your child will need to bring a hat (not their school hat) from home.

 Please name the hat and send it to school by the end of this week. J

We are looking forward to seeing you on the 7th or 8th of December at 2pm.

Thank you for your support

Today we received this cute photo of Oliver. His Mum, Jamie, teaches the class we write to at Woodlawn School in America.
Oliver is wearing the booties we sent.
Jamie said 'Hi' to us and they will write again next year when she is back at school.

A note for Noah - 3625 pageviews.

At Discovery time on Friday Sandra came to help the children finish off their pieces of fabric which can be used as an alternative to glad wrap.
The fabric has been ironed with beeswax. It can be kept clean by wiping with a warm cloth.
We hope you like them.
Thank you Sandra!

Some of the children have been enjoying challenging each other to play draughts - this could be a good game for Christmas....

We have started the 'props' for the Garden Show next year.

The Skip-its' are still very popular!

We've had another busy week ....
Flinn visited a farm and brought some feathers and wool to share.
One of the peacock feathers was taller than...Flinn (and me!)

 Lucia is writing a book.
She has created one of the characters as well.

 Beau brought his love bird to share.
Flash has beautiful mostly green feathers and a peach coloured head.
Flash visited us on Mufti Day.

Karen, our librarian, has asked for all library books to be returned to school please.

At Discovery time this week we had a go at creating an alternative to glad wrap!
We discovered most of the rubbish in the playground was food wrappers or glad wrap so... we did some research and found we could make our own wrappers!
We needed some material, beeswax and an iron.
Anna's Mum, Sandra came to help with the iron.
We found the tricky thing was to grate the beeswax......
So now we need to find a better way to grate it so next week more children can have a 'go'.
Thank you Sandra for your help.

The children enjoyed some other activities too ....

The children have asked for the lemonade recipe to be posted.

Homemade lemonade
500 ml of water
1 lemon
1/2 lime ( we didn't have a lime)
5 tablespoons sugar                                                                    

1.   Squeeze the lemon and lime juice into a jug.
2.   Add the sugar
3.   Boil the water, pour into the jug and stir.
4.   Put in the fridge to cool down.

Remember this is a treat.

Good news
The pool is ready.
Our swimming days are Monday and Wednesday. If enough children bring their togs tomorrow we can have our first swim. :)

Hello Friends and Families
We hope you are all okay. We are. :)
We have 7 children in our class this morning.

Learning Conferences are next week.
Please use the pathway to book your time.

Go to:  https://parentinterviews.co.nz

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This week we have been talking about the importance of drinking water.
We had a 'go' at making our own lemonade on Thursday and we saw how much sugar was used! This is definitely a treat drink.
The children worked in small groups to cut and squeeze the lemon, measure and stir the sugar. Then we had a taste.
Lots of the children said they had lemon trees at home and would be able to make a drink for their families.

Happy 8th Birthday CJ. We know you had a great day yesterday.

Happy 7th Birthday Lincoln (and Blade). Hope you had a great day on Saturday.

Today was the last basketball session for Room 8.
The children have enjoyed Matt coming each week.
Thanks Matt.