Mothers Day Bunting Flags

Last week for Mother's day our lovely friend Marie, (Paul's Mum) offered to come into Room 8 to show and help us make bunting for our wonderful mothers on their special day. It was a lot of fun and hard work to create these but in the end it was all worth it. On behalf of Room 8 we'd like to give a big thank you and shout out to Marie for helping all of us make all of our mothers head over heels on their day. We owe you heaps ;).
These are some photos of us making our bunting.

Left to right-Shayla, Sara, Sam W.

Busy concentrating!

In the making.

Jordan's bunting.

Katelyn's bunting flag.

Lily, Sorraya (in the background), George

Sophie's piece of art.

To make your own at home you need…

1. Paper (we used dictionary pages).

2. Black ink pad.

3.  Lettered stamps to press into the ink.

4. Glitter

5. PVA glue

6. Scissors   

7. String

8. A pretty tag

9. Hole puncher

10. Coloured paper

11. Shaped hole punchers, love heart 

12. A paper bag

13. Paint brush

14.  Ribbons

15. Enthusiasm!

Steps.. 

1. Decide what you want to say

2. Find the correct letters and then stamp then into the black ink pad

3. Press the lettered stamps onto the paper

4. While you're waiting for it to dry repeat the stamping with love heart stamps (if you want)

5. Decorate your bag and make it look fab

6. When your bunting is dry you could decorate it with glitter

7. Put Sellotape on each top corner of each piece of paper

8. When that is done, use a hole puncher and put one hole over each piece of Sellotape

9. Put string into the holes but do only one piece of paper at a time

10. When all of the string is through the papers, you can make it look nice by putting ribbons around/on it if you like.

By Macy and Brylee.

100 Word Challenge Jordan & Katelyn

Dear Paul,

It was Saturday afternoon, I told Tommy to come and see, but he refused to. I begged him but he just wouldn’t come! 

It was soaring over the hills, closer and closer, lights were beaming everywhere. I was shocked, I didn’t know what it was?

I sat in the living room scared to death and Tommy suddenly walked out to the living room to see what was going on and I shouted, “Look up can you see?”. He stood in shock, he started to rise, I screamed for Mum, “HELP!”

But before I knew it he was gone forever! Please help me!!

Cassie and Paul 100 word challenge

It was a cold lonely night. Bob and Joey were walking through a deserted city, once swarming with people, now a ghost town. No one knew where all the people vanished to. One day they were there and overnight  then they were gone. It was almost as if they were erased from existence never to be seen again.  As Bob and Joey were walking through the city they were giving up hope of finding anyone. They hadn’t seen any trace of human life for miles. 

All of a sudden Joey yelled, “ Look up! Can you see... there’s someone up there, motionless almost as if he’s frozen in time...”.

100 Word Challenge By: Sam B And Heath

100 Word Challenge

By: Sam B And Heath J

Look up! Can you see a plane, bird or cloud in the sky? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see what they see? Well I do. It would be like the sensation of an eagle’s eye view but you are the eagle! How cool would that be! The view of a Seagull, Tui or Kakapo! The chance to fly! Be a cloud or anything that can fly! Learn their language, live their life, hunt like them, fish like them, be them! To do that would take real creativity and imagination. That is something you should wonder. J

Cyclone Lusi Technology Challenge

Mrs Binnie started off by telling us what our challenge was, which was to construct a raincoat that had to protect us from Lusi the storm. Then she told us which things we were allowed to have for the challenge. We needed: 4 plastic bags, 6 paperclips, 1 roll of cello-tape and 1 piece of colored paper. 

We were put into groups of three to five. We started off designing in our heads what/how we were going to make our raincoat and what it was going to look like. We had to include… A hoodie that had to fully cover our head and a pocket that had to hold a phone. There had to be no gaps and had to fully cover our shoulders and torso. 

We chose the smallest person in our group so that the plastic bags could cover most of her body.

We fitted the first plastic bag over her shoulders and also her waist. We cut another plastic bag in half and used that for the sleeves, and last but not least, we put a plastic bag over her head (not covering the face!) to represent the hoodie.

We covered up the gaps with the left over plastic from the bags and paper-clipped the hoodie to the shoulders.

We only had half an hour to complete our raincoat so everyone was in a bit of a mad rush! 

After time was up we packed up all the mess we made and made our way to the floor. 

We left a gap in the middle of the floor to represent the cat-walk

and at the end Mrs Binnie waited with a camera to take the models picture… We had a lot of fun making and designing our very own raincoat! There were a few disagreements but it all worked out to be a great experience.  

By Sara Stephenson & Sam Webber

106 Word Challenge Kane

DEAR DAN CARTER,

I told her that you had sent that

box to me, but when she lifted the lid... she saw a rugby ball and started to cry. I got told off for letting her open it because she was scared of rugby balls. So my Mum sent all the gifts inside the box to the church. Now  I don’t have anything at all because of her. I felt like beating her up but then I would be grouded for life. So if you could, Dan Carter, can you send me another box and could you put a lock on it please.  

106 Word Challenge Macy and Sophie

Sophie & Macy

It all began on that cold, windy, horrific evening when Peter and Margret were cooking chicken noodles in a cup. Margaret was slowly and steadily lifting the lid off of the delicious noodles that she wanted to eat so badly, her temptation was getting to her. But when she lifted the lid she froze and said  “Oh... my... gosh. It's even more yummy than it smells like'. Her heart was beating so fast she couldn’t control it, she got her her metal, giant fork ready for the scrumptious feast, she scooped noodles out of the cup. They turned out disgustingly horrible.