Room 8's News paper

Room 8 have started a newspaper and we have called it Great Eight Times @ Myross Bush School, We have to have it printed before lunch time, on it we have a word find, how to keep safe on the internet, an article about room 8, sports results and lots more.

Inquiry

Emotional safety:

What are the dangers:

Name Calling, Peer Pressure, Teasing, Nasty Words, Unfair Play, Hurt Feelings, Ganging Up, Fiscal Bullying, Ruff.

What will you do to take action and keep yourself and others safe?

Walk away, tell a teacher/ parent, your friends help, find humor, make an excuse, plan it for another day but don't show up.

Why we blog

Why We Blog,

Blogs are like a digital writing book but every-body can see it not just you,                                                                                                 your teacher and maybe your parents.

Blogs can be private but some people don't see the                                                                                                                                             point in it because it would just be like writing in your book but on the computer.

Blogs are also a great way to learn how to use technology, and learn how to deal with inappropriate sites.

With blogs you can see your work from anywhere if you have to URL (address) also your parents can comment on your work also they can give you feed-back.

That is why blogs are a great tool for teachers to use, and kids to learn how to use because kids will most likely use blogs later on in their lives, so they might as well learn how to us them now.

By Ruby

Learner Profile

My learner profile is Active listening, I choose this because I need to work on not calling out and thinking harder about what my classmates and teacher are saying.

I think I have almost achieved this goal I just need to work a bit harder on not calling out.

More info to come

Skype party

On Wednesday the 8th June the year 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's from Myross Bush School skyped a school in Adelaide they shared some of there culture with us and we shared some of our culture with them we got to try some damper it tastes just like scone well it basically is but you don't add sugar they were going to try cheese rolls but they ran out of time to make them oh well.

Spellathon

Today we did a Spellaton to raise money for the school there was a set C which was the hardest then it was set B then set A, I was on set C, I think I did pretty good the way that we raise the money is through sponsering the sponsers can choose if they want to sponser us per word or all together.

Young Leaders

On Monday 30th at  6:00 am, the year 6's from Myross Bush School went to Dunedin for a Young Leaders Conference. A lady named Alice, and Charlie off What Now were hosting it. We had five speakers they were Pat Buckley, Alison Shanks, Adam Hall, Dave Axktion and Alison Mooney. My favourite speaker was Dave Axktion. He was very funny, he told us something that happened to him when he was skiing. It was that he was never that good at skiing and his friends were really good. So one day he thought that he would try a jump it was 20 feet long. He did that and it was fine and then he thought oh that was easy so he tried a 40 feet one. He went really high and when he landed he landed on his bottom and he pooed his pants! He was also a very good speaker and his main point was "You make your own descions nobody else does". I also enjoyed all the other speakers.

After the conference we went to the art gallery and we went with an art teacher, he taught us how to make a dye and pastel art piece that represents who we are. We had to choose 5 symbols that suit us best, we had to draw each of them bigger than our hand. After we had drawn them in pencil we had to go over the pencil lines in indian ink, then we got it dried. Then went round the edge of the indian ink with yellow dye. We did the background in a dye of our choice then we coloured in the objects with either dye or pastel. At last we were done!

After that we went to the muesum and we went into Discovery World. That is where we were staying the night. We had pizza hut pizza for tea and after a while we went to bed.

The next morning we had to wake up at 7:00. For breakfast we got to choose out of rice bubbles or cornflakes, I choose rice bubbles. After breakfast we went to the butterflies, they were beautiful. Then we went on a scavenger hunt around the WHOLE muesum. then we went to the Tangata Whenua gallery and learnt about carvings and stuff like that. Then we went to the swimming pool and we had lunch at the pool we got a cool change orange juice, an apple or orange and a roll with either roast beef, chicken or ham I choose roast beef after lunch we headed home.

Now I would like to become a strong leader!

The Mighty Buzzing Jedi

Her wings flow in the strong wind, she uses her cape to fly to her secret cave.  Her pet lives there who helps her out, his name is Fluffy.  Fluffy gives her advice on what to do when she is problem solving.  She also has a strong blue sword that she holds over her shoulder.  That has a computer attached to it so that she can connect with Fluffy when she is in sticky situations. Sometimes she teams up with Sophie W's hero.

Check Out A Bit About Myross Bush School

Well to start off here is the school website click here to go to our school website.
I love going to Myross bush School. I think it has a great learning enviroment and
the teachers and principal are really nice.When Mrs Hughes leaves we will all miss her, but she said that she will be popping back in to see us every now and again.

April Fools

Hi again,
To day is April Fools Day, Rooms 8 & 7 got really pranked we got tricked that there was a helicopter coming and was going to give us rides and I was going to go first with Aisling, Devon, Karen, Ben, Travis and Wilson, so we are getting even with our teachers Mrs Wilcox and Miss Stewart so we are hiding in Room 8 and we locked all the doors and we are not letting them in.

Market Day

Hi again,
With Market Day Karen we made a flyer and this is it:
Do You?

Room 8

This is a wordle that I made based on Room 8

Main Street 4

Hi again,
I would now like to describe a book called Main Street (number 4) by Ann M Martian
Come Join Flora, Ruby, Oliva and Nikki as they become part of a secret book club.
They must finish their first 2 books before they can find out who started the book club,
but will Ruby slow them down?
Read to find out what happens.
The End

Our Wiki

With our Wiki to show our epals around New Zealand Simone http://simoneslifelonglog.blogspot.com/  and I are doing Travel we are thinking of ways to show our epals great travel places like Queenstown, Bluff, Riverton . . .
I am really excited,
what do you think we could do????

Market day

Hi again, now I will tell you about Market day! I am doing it with Karen here is her blog http://karenmyross-karen.blogspot.com/ Check it out!!!
Any way we have such a cool market day stand ready in our heads, on our stand we have crafts and baking and lollies like toffee apples, sherbet, Cake raffles and lots and lots more. . .
Market day is going to be great!!!

17/3/11 Why do we blog?

Hi again I would love to tell you why we blog.
We blog to show what we are learning and have learnt,
Because if we have just written it in a book then what is the use? 
Only you, the teacher, and maybe your parents would be able to read it.
So I think that blogging is a great way to show your learning, and it is something you can keep forever, you can share your learning with people all over the world!!!

Books that I rekon you should read!

Hi again,
I just want to point out a few books that I rekon that you should read:
Main Street series,
Born to Run,
Famous Five series,
Judy Moody series.

16/3/11

Hi again,
Today we had a man from James Hargest, Mr Morland He came to see how we work the lit circles!
We also had school swimming, rooms 7&8 got to have fun today, tomorrow we are having swimming races.  We got our e-mails back from our epals, I loved finding out a bit more about Raquel! We were deciding how we can show our epals a bit more about New Zealand and Invercargill. I really can't wait until tomorrow (-;

Athletics

We had Athletics on Wednesday the 9th of March we had so much fun, our relay teams did really well.

AND I got 1st in Discus!!!

Epals

Hi again, I'm now going to tell you about our epals, My epal is a girl named Raquel. We sent our first email to them, but we are waiting for a reply still. The epals are from America, Wisconsin in Suamico. I can't wait to learn more about where they live and how different it really is. I am really excited  to hear back from her.

Art Kiwiana Characters

For art with Mrs Wilcox we are making paper pulp people with kiwiana icons on them like a pavlova hat or some L&P in their hand or maybe some paua with them. We are in groups of three or four I am with Simone and Kaitlyn. We just need to add his kiwiana icons and skin on to him.