Reading Time

The Mercury reading group read a book about Bats, it showed on a map all the places in the world where you can find bats. According to the book NZ doesn't have bats! Well we do! The Mercury reading group have become experts on NZs own bat species - The NZ Native Bats (Pekapeka).

They researched using the internet and printed out information sheets. Here they are reading the information sheets and highlighting key information/facts they will be including on their NZ Native Bats. This is quite a skill to master - Well done team!

Sunflower Maths

We are watching our real sunflowers grow in class. Some are getting very tall!! Miss McKenzie planted a third seed in some children's pots - cross your fingers the seeds will grow this time! 

Since we aren't having much luck with our real sunflowers we have made some paper ones during maths time today. We randomly chose a piece of ribbon and estimated how long our lengths of ribbon (the stems) were in blocks. We then measures to check our estimation! 

Here are our sunflowers ... 

Move and Improve

Every Wednesday after lunch we go to Move and Improve in the hall. We do fun gymnastics activities that get us moving and improving our skills in balancing, forwards and backwards rolls, using hulla hoops. We use lots of different body parts and we think we are getting stronger and stronger by the minute! 

Here are some photos and videos of us in action yesterday

Here are some videos too (these may only be visible from laptops not iPads unfortunately)

Our Published Authors

Guess what? In Room 3 we have real published authors! You can even BUY the picture books they have written as a hard cover or soft cover book! How exciting!

On Friday four children published the Storybird picture books they have been working on in class with their buddy. Room 3 children can read their classmates published picture books from their student accounts by clicking on the 'class' tab, then scrolling down the page to 'class library'. See photo instructions at the end of this post.

P.S when reading Storybird books make sure you click the full screen button (by hovering your mouse over the bottom right corner of the book cover) this enhances your reading experience as the books are very impressive in full screen mode :)

Our Authors

The below links will work for any user so friends and families from all over the world can read these books too! (You shouldn't need a storybird.com account to view the links).

Authors Sam and Anouk have written a book called All About Jojo the Naughty Hedgehog

Click here to read their book

Authors Felix and Brianah have written a book called Fearless Unicorns

Click here to read their book

 Author's Makayla and Myia have written a book called A Spooky Tale

Click here to read their book

Authors Hunter, Tom and Koen have written a book called Work! Work! Work!

Click here to read their book

Authors Isabelle and George have written a book called Crazy Driving

Click here to read their book

Authors Charlee and Allie have written a book called The Blossom Tree

Click here to read their book

Authors Georgia and Summer have written a book called The Sleepover
Click here to read their book

Authors Kazia and Saydee have written a book called The Princesses
Click here to read their book

Authors Stephanie and Ethan have written a book called A Friend You Need
Click here to read their book

Authors Josh and Jack have written a book called The Sneaky Leopard
Click here to read their book

Hannah and Madison have written a book called The Scary Life
Click here to read their book

Katia and Kaden have written a book called Greedy Mr Fox
Click here to read their book

Some children have also been publishing books in their own time at home. I am so proud of them for continuing to work on their writing and publishing journey at home also! Well done guys! 

Click the links to read their books. 

Brianah - Everyone Can

Charlee - The Friends Who Loved Christmas

Charlee - Isabelle and Erin
Isabelle - Sally the Silly Funny Cat

To can find our 'Class Library' on Storybird once you are signed in...

Sign in and click on the 'class' tab

Scroll down the page until you find the 'class library'

Keep scrolling down to see all of the books published by Room 3 children. 

Please note: Published books will only become visible in the class library after Miss McKenzie has logged into her teacher account and clicked the button to say they are OK to be displayed in our 'class library'.

Happy Reading!!

Reminder to parents

Our artwork calendars/diaries/notepads/cards orders are due back tomorrow (Friday). If you would like to order these items - don't forget to send along the order forms and payment tomorrow!

Don't miss out on getting your copy of these awesome artworks!

Storybird Writing

We have been doing our story writing online last week on a website called Storybird. The children choose an artists artwork to use throughout their picture book and write their own book page by page. Here are some shots of the children working hard with their buddy to create their books. We will be publishing the stories online when they are complete! Very exciting stuff! Thanks Toni for coming in to help us out on our first day using the website! It was great to have an extra adult to help get everyone started.

Calendar Artwork

Here is Room 3's calendar artwork. We enjoyed creating Laurel Birch style cats earlier in the year. They were so bright and eye catching we have created them again (landscape style) for our calendar art. 

These artworks are available for purchase in calendar, diary, notepad, and greeting card form. (See flyer below) 

Working together as a team!

Today was a wet and cold lunch time but the Room 3 team was inside warm and dry working together to create a masterpiece. When I returned to the classroom at 1.30 this is what I found....

This team had worked together to create Mr Wonka's Chocolate Factory! This factory is made completely out of maths materials. The tall structure at the back is the Great Glass Elevator.