Astronaut Helmets: The Finished Product

Room 3 have been working incredibly hard on their space helmets. They took extra care and thought hard about the placement of their decorations on their helmets in order for them to be balanced and pleasing on the eye!

I think they have done an outstanding job. 

You should all be very proud of your finished designs Room 3!

As a few children were sick today and some are still working on their helmets this post will be updated when the remaining helmets are completed :)

Writing Instructions

We are learning to write instructions this term. Before we could write instructions we looked closely at how instructions are written and what instructions need to include. We noticed that each step in instructions starts with a verb (doing word).

We followed instructions to make a pirate hat:

We loved it when we put our hats on our head and shouted "ARRRRRR!" in step 6

Astronaut Helmets

This term we are continuing to work on our inquiry into Space. The children are designing their paper mache astronaut helmets they created last term. This is the first step in the process...keep your eyes on our blog for an update on our finished product!

Look at all the designers and artists hard at work! What do you think of our funky designs?

What to ask children about their day...

Hi Room 3 Mums and Dads

I thought this was quite an interesting article. I know often when children are asked about their day they don't say a lot! Click the link to read 25 ways to ask children how their day was at school without asking them "So how was school today?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/liz-evans/25-ways-to-ask-your-kids-so-how-was-school-today-without-asking-them-so-how-was-school-today_b_5738338.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

Silly Sentences

The room 3 children are really enjoying the new silly sentences game at reading time. The aim is to join up a noun (naming word), verb (doing word), adjective (describing word), and conjunction (joining word) to make a crazy, silly sentence. 

Here are today's sentences

Hunter's favourite sentence says:

Cuddly wobbly snails wiggle and bounce

Felix's favourite sentence says:

Crabs kiss and sad sticky camels munch

Makayla's favourite sentence says:

Owls kiss and sticky rabbits dance

Hannah's favourite sentence says:

Crabs sing and wild, bumpy, cuddly frogs  kiss

Bri's favourite sentence says:

Kind snails and penguins snore

Allie's favourite sentence says:

Lizards and camels wriggle 

Koen's favourite sentence says:

Curly owls hide and race

Josh's favourite sentence says:

Sneaky, sticky dragons splash and munch 

Ethan's favourite sentence says:

Strong bees munch bugs and race

WANTED: Ice Cream Container Lids

Does anyone have any spare 2L ice cream container lids??? 

Miss McKenzie cuts the inside out and we use the rings during maths time to show our sets. 

Please send any spare lids along to room 3! 

Many thanks!

Room 3 Mathematicians 

Creative Talent Quest Winners

Congratulations to our incredibly talented and creative award winners! These children have won first, second or third places in our creative talent quest in various areas including photography, scrap booking, art pieces, baking and floristry and Lego.

Huge amounts of time had been put into creating their award winning entries. Congratulations guys - you totally deserve your awards!

Prepared for Lift Off!

Room 3 is prepared for lift off! Come on into the school hall at 2.15 on Thursday for a performance by room 3 at our Junior Sharing Time. See you there!!

Book Character Dress Up Day

We had some fantastic costumes in Room 3 today for our book character dress up day! 

A squawking parrot and a Monster High girl

Constable Abernethy 

Constable Abernethy and Captain Copland 

Mr Willy Wonka and Snow White 

Hermione 

Room 3 and our special guest Jenny Mitchell who read to us today AND we sung a song with her...Bad Hair Day which she could remember singing at school! 

Persuasive Writing

We have been busy this term writing persuasive arguments. One of the first pieces of persuasive writing we created was a response to Miss McKenzie's letter to us saying that lollies are banned in Room 3. She had one bag of lollies left so we wrote letters back to Miss McK to persuade her to share her bag of lollies and to not ban lollies in our class. 

Here are our completed letters 

Come in and check them out!

This was the letter Miss McK wrote us 

Guess what?

We persuaded her to share!!

We are really enjoying our bag of Clinker lollies!!