A Drama about Wisdom

We have been learning about what wisdom looks like. One group in our class performed a play from a story out of the bible. Check it out!

Our Second Bake Sale

On Friday the 17th of October we will have our bake sale. We will sell cakes, cookies, muffins and brownies. They will be homemade and delicious. It will be held where the BBQ lunches are cooked and the fundraising for it will go to our blue tongued lizard (Bluey). We need money for his food, equipment and the rest of the money will go to the S.P.C.A :)

A Video for our Buddy Class in Nelson

Dear Room 8

Here is a video we have put together so you can see what we have been up to in the last 2 Terms.

Can you put one like this on your blog so we can get to know you and what you have been up to?

How Do We Measure the Height of a Mountain?

It all started off when Ben and Eli shared their news about climbing Mt Ruapehu. At the end of their news someone in the class asked "How high is Mt Ruapehu?"

We did some research as the boys didn't know. We used Google, classroom maps and the class atlas to try and find the best answer. Mr Lietze challenged us with the following scripture:
2 Corthians 13:1 "The facts of every case must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses."
This means we always need to have two or more witnesses so we know which answer is correct.

So we found out that Mount Ruapehu is 2,797m high and the three sources of information that proved this were:
- The Reed Map
- The Readers Digest Map
- The Whitcoulls Atlas


Now we became interested in other mountains and tried to find out how high Mt Everest was. However we have three witnesses that say Mt Everest is 8,848m and three more witnesses that say Mt Everest is 8,850m. There is 2 metres difference here!

Why is this?

We would like your opinion on how high you think Mt Everest is and why it is recorded differently.

Pictures from:
http://www.rockomaha.com/kidzontherock.htm
http://www.skiexpress.com.au/newzealand/images/ScenicMtRuapehu_000.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest

Karl's Birthday

Today it is Monday of Week 8 and it is Karl's birthday. This morning we sang happy birthday to him. Karl's Mum made muffin's and we shared them out at morning tea. They were very nice and they had chocolate chips with choclate icing and dolphin sprinkle's. We really enjoyed Karl's birthday and we had lots of fun.
Thank you Karl's Mum.