Life is not like a box of chocolates ......

IT'S LIKE A GAME OF CHESS!

You have to know how you and your pieces can move. And you have to make plans and strategise. You often don't see immediate results but the fruits of your labour can be seen later down the track. (Yes, a game of chess can be quite a long game.)

Some Room 8 students have been studying the game of chess and are getting better with each session.

Here are some of the fabulous chess players:

Athletics Day Timetable

Tuesday 15th November 2011

Stitching!

Room 8 has really got into the swing of stitching. They have been practising on plastic canvas with great dedication. They have been learning how to do four different kinds of stitches.

1. Running stitch

2. Half cross stitch

3. Full cross stitch

4. Back stitch

We have also learned a really cool trick for threading needles. This trick came from Georgina's grandmother and it works every time! You don't even have to lick your thread! Ask someone from Room 8 to show you how to thread a needle the easy way.

Before we started learning about the kind of work that children involved in Child Labour do, we had a good think about all the jobs that Room 8 students do everyday.

Here are some of the Room 8 jobs:

- Cleaning the whiteboard

- Taking the roll

- Opening the windows and blinds

- Giving out CARE certificates

- Paper recycling

- Picking up rubbish from the floor

- Looking words up in the dictionary

- Returning the class books to the library

- Monitoring electricity usage

- Putting chairs up

- Putting things away

- Turning the lights on and off

- Pushing chairs in

- Handing out paper

- Buddy conferences to edit work

- Looking for examples of Standing Tall habits

Room 8 is full of very helpful people! I'm sure they are great workers around the home too.