ICT Conference

This week Room 3 participated in our very first Kilbirnie school ICT conference. It was such good fun. The senior children planned and led the workshops that we attended. We learnt about all sorts of topics - how to make our own comics on comic life, how to get better at kicking or throwing, using a video camera, how to use the internet safety website - super clubs plus. Along side many, many other things. At lunch time we had fun playing with some new technology - some ipads and our new x-box kinect!

A great big thank you to all the staff and students at Lyall bay and Normandale schools who lent us their equipment to support our big day.

MATHLETICS!

This week we are taking part in a free trial for the site Mathletics. So far, we are loving it!!
IF we like it enough, we are able to subscribe to it (through school) for a reduced price. It is certainly testing our maths skills. These are some of the statements from the children about Mathletics:

"Mathletics is like two things in one - it's fun and it's learning!"
"I like playing against people from all over the world"
"I have got perfect scores on some of my levels already!"
"I can't wait to have another turn on mathletics"

Follow this link to get onto the site:

www.mathletics.com

Sprinkling stars

Go the Amazing All Blacks!!

On wednesday  me and my sister and my mum and greg  went to the parade and we took a few pictures of the All Blacks.
By Zico and George.

Diwali

Room 3 have been learning about Diwali this week.  We have found out that it is a Hindu and Sikh festival and is celebrated on 26th October 2011.  We listened to the story of Rama and Sita and tried to understand whether this story would fit into our topic of 'Myths & Legends'.  We decided that it might be a legend.
We made our own Rangoli patterns to welcome people to our homes.
Have a look at this website to find out more about how people celebrate Diwali all over the world:
Diwali website

Letter writing

This week we have been learning how to write a 'friendly' letter.  We have written letters to our families to ask them if they know any myths or legends.  We found out that lots of children in our class have families from all over the world and we thought that it would be interesting to hear some myths & legends from other countries.  We wrote our letters, put them in envelopes, and wrote our addresses on the front.  Finally, we walked to the postbox in Hataitai village and posted them.  Has your letter arrived at your house yet?

Hello Room 3!

Hello room 3!
Here is your homework for the next week....You don't have to do all of the things, they are just suggestions.

1) Check out Oscar & Andrea's cool animation that they made last week! Download the 'styx' programme onto your computer and see if you can make your own stick man animation. http://www.stykz.net/ Mum and Dad might have to help you to do this...
2) Play 'go fish' with your family...if you need to know the rules, have a look at this website - http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/
3) Practise your tongue twister using the links below.  Can you make up your own alliteration tongue twisters?

Tongue twisters - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?

Tongue twisters - Sally sells seashells

Tongue twisters - Peter Piper

Wicked - Hooked on Te Reo Maori

Rachel has shared some fantastic things with our class this week in Te Reo Maori.  She showed us an animation about a little boy who kept on loosing things! It was very funny! This website has lots of fun things on it too

WickEd

tens frame maths

Hey Room 3,
I've added a new maths game to our websites to try section.  Have a go at practising your tens frames and number recognition.
Have a good weekend :0) 

hooking in day

We had such a great day on Wednesday the junior syndicate got 'hooked - in' to our new topic.  Each teacher chose a story from Maori myth & legend.  Mrs Moses read the story of how the kiwi lost it's wings, Mrs Brown read the story of how Maui slowed the sun, Miss Rhodes read the Battle of the Mountains and Mrs Mudge read the story of Maui and the finger of fire.

Making our waka paddles last week

All the children split into four groups and then visited each class in our Wakas! (We made waka paddles last week)  We collected things along the way to remind us of each story that we heard. At the end of the morning, we reflected up all that we had heard and tried to think about why the stories exist.

Our paddles at the end of the morning

Welcome to Term 3

Welcome back Room 3! It is so great to be back at school. Today we have had our spell-a-thon. I am so impressed by your super spelling and what a lot of money we have raised for school. Don't forget, now you need to collect your sponsor money and bring it back to school.
Congratulations!

Sing-a-long!!

Artemis was singing 'Abba' today at school - she couldn't remember the words, so we googled it! Once we had finished our sing-a-long, Artemis was keen to share it on our blog, so we could all sing and dance a-long!
Enjoy!

Space ships

Happy Birthday Zico!

Happy Birthday Zico, thank you for the lollies that you bought to school today - what a kind thing to share on your birthday. 

Room 3 get arty!

We have begun our sprinkling stars pictures today.  Room 3 looked carefully at Ira's picture to see how she used her paintbrush  - which direction did she move her brush and what patterns did she make.  We also looked carefully at her colours.  We started off by painting a dark blue background.  Next we painted the sea.  In the afternoon we painted the stars.  We watched Ira's video again to remind us of how she painted a star.  

A message from Ira...

Hi Room 3,
Ira emailed me this evening and said that we could share two of her paintings on our blog.  So, here is the matariki painting, and also, she was really proud to show you the cat & the mouse painting that she was doing when we skyped her! Imagine, you will be some of the first people to see her finished painting!

Sprinkling Stars

Pussycat, Pussycat

Skype!

We have been looking forward to today all week! At the beginning of the week, we found a Matariki painting by Ira Mitchell-Kirk.  Ira is an artist who lives in Christchurch.  She offered to answer some of our questions on skype.  We emailed our questions to her and then today, she skyped us and talked to us about her paintings and how we can be great artists ourselves.  It was so exciting to see Ira and hear her talking about our questions.  We have begun our own 'sprinkling stars' paintings - Ira can't wait to see how they turn out!

Here are Ira's website and blog if you want to have a look at her paintings:

http://www.iramitchell-kirk.com/

http://www.iramitchell-kirk.com/blog.html

We all sat beautifully whilst we listened carefully to Ira.

Ira showed us how to paint stars.  This is her current painting of a cat visiting London.....we can't wait to see how it turns out! 

Matariki

All week, we have been learning about the Matariki festival.  We have been weaving, setting goals and making lots of Matariki crafts.  Here is a picture of us holding some of our beautiful Matariki stars.

Happy Birthday Artemis!

Congratulations, you are 6 years old now!
Thank you for the yummy baklava that you brought to school for the teachers to share. It was so scrummy! Perhaps you could teach us how to make it one day?

Headlice!

Today we have been looking at the new headlice comb that Miss Rhodes bought.  Lots of us have different coloured combs and we check our hair regularly for headlice.  Do you know what a headlice looks like?  Could you find a picture of one and stick it  or draw it in your homework book. What facts do you know about headlice?  Perhaps you could add a comment to the blog about headlice?

Happy Birthday Eddie and Hannah!

We are really excited to have two members of Room 3 turn 6! Eddie had his birthday on Saturday and Hannah has her birthday today.
Do you enjoy the ninja cakes that Eddie's Mummy bought in? Perhaps you could leave a comment to tell her what you enjoyed the best?  

Publishing our work!

Today Room 3 shared their Alien book in assembly. 

Alien Invasion

The Gizmo!!

We were really luck today as Eddie's Mum bought in the apple peeling gizmo! It was so much fun to peel, core and cut our apples into spirals.  Everyone enjoyed looking at it and loved practising our 'juicy words' to describe the apples. 

Music

This Tuesday, Bella-Luna's Daddy Vincent, came to visit us.  He bought his guitjo .  He plays bluegrass music.  This was a little piece of one of our favourite songs that Vincent played, it is a song by Bob Dylan called Wagon Wheel.  A huge thank you to Vincent, we really enjoyed his visit.

Letter of the week - May 20th

This week our letter is 'c'.  We have been looking at the planet Mercury, we found out that it has lots of moon craters.  We used our curly letter c's to make lots of moon craters. Here are some pictures that we took.

Skip Counting

Welcome to Piper

Today George brought his new puppy Piper to visit us.  She is only 6 weeks old.  She was sound asleep in the back of the push-chair!  Perhaps one day when she is awake, she could come and visit our whole class and we can find out about how to look after a puppy.

Healthy and fun food!!

Eddie had fun at home with apples and some great gizmos!  Thank you to Eddie and his family for sending in the photographs to share with us.

You can use the juicer to make your own fresh apple juice! Yum! 

Put the apple on the gizmo...

Turn the handle to peel the apple and create....

An apple slinky!! 

Kia Kaha

This week Constable Aaron came to talk to us about being kind to each other at school.  We read a story about a little girl called Cherry who had a brand new crocodile back pack.  On her way to school two girls took her back pack and threw it away.  Poor Cherry was frightened and upset.  When she got to school, she told her friend Liam, who told the teacher and the teacher was able to sort the problem out.

What did you learn from this story?

We decided that we learned that if someone hurts you or uses bullying behaviour, you should always tell someone.
Thank you Constable Aaron for helping us in our classroom.

Welcome to Term 2

Welcome back to Term 2! We are really excited to be back at school. For the first two weeks of Term 2 we are undertaking our 'Kia Kaha' project. If you would like to look at some more information about it, you can look at this website:

http://www.police.govt.nz/service/yes/nobully/index.html

Kilbirnie Jumping Fleas

Our Kilbirnie Ukulele orchestra (The Kilbirnie Jumping Fleas), made this video to enter into the Hitachi Heat Pump competition.  Room 1 and 3 were their audience to help them produce their best ever performance! Make sure you visit you tube and view their song to help them to get as many votes as possible in the competition. 

Letter of the week

This week we have been thinking about the letter 'h'.  We have made this wordle picture today in class.  We all thought of as many 'h' words that we could.  Miss Rhodes put the words into the wordle website and this is what we got! The words that are the biggest are the most commonly thought of words.

Letter of the week

A Monarch Butterfly

On the way to school this morning, Artemis and her Mummy found a monarch butterfly drying her wings.  We took a picture to remember it, then we set it free.

Grass seed head

Hannah made a grass seed head.  He is called 'Grassy'!
She has written down the instructions for us in case  you want to make one at home too:

First you have to do this. Find some old fabric and put some soil in the fabric then

leave it for one day after one day decorate it. After you decorate it then you put some water in a cup so you can put the grass seed in it.  Wait for it to grow! You can give it a hair cut. 

shape song

We have been learning about shapes at school.  This song will help you to practise your shape facts.

Letter of the week

This week we have been learning about the letter 'n'.  We took the video camera out to the school field and we were noisy, nasty aeroplanes!

Swimming

What a fantastic afternoon we had in the school pool on Friday afternoon.  Lots of our senior children came along to help as well as some sensible helpers from Room 6.  Barbara is a life-guard, so she came along too. We had 4 different activities in the pool and 2 things to do to warm up in the sun! 

With Mrs Mudge we had a dressing up race and an egg and spoon race in the water. With Miss Rhodes we used our noses to push the balloons across the water and we had a treasure hunt!  Out of the pool Mrs Moses and Mrs Brown helped us to hook a duck out of the pond and create some pavement chalk drawings.  

Letter of the week

This week our letter of the week is the letter 'p'.  We used the school cameras to take pictures of as many things beginning with p that we could find.  How many can you see on the slide show? 

Letter of the week

New PE Equipment

We are really excited this week, because Mrs Inns and Miss Lologa have given us some new PE equipment to use in the playground.  In our box we have:


4 x large balls
4 tennis bats
2 tennis balls
10 skipping ropes
2 hoops


We are going to try really hard to look after our new equipment.

Surf Life Saving

Last week, we were really excited to receive a visit from Maranui Surf Life Saving club.  We have been learning about keeping ourselves safe at school, so this was really helpful to us. 

Letter of the week

This week, Room 1 and 3 have been learning about the letter 'i'.  We have also been learning how to use the computer to draw pictures.  Check out our picture trail below - can you see your picture?