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. 

Why do we live on planet Earth?

On Monday we thought carefully about why we live on planet Earth. Why don't we live on Mars or Venus?

We thought about everything we had learned last term and so far this term about space during our inquiry and what we had learned in the life education bus with Harold. 

We thought together as class and came up with lots of reasons for why we couldn't live on each planet. Some were full of poisonous gases, some too hot, some too cold, some were made of gas! We have decided Earth is the just right planet.

We are the right distance from the sun to be able to grow plants! Plants need light, heat and water. We know from Harold that trees (plants) give us oxygen! So because trees can live on Earth we can too!! 

Thanks trees!!! We planted our own sunflower seeds and will be watching them grow in the sun. Miss Mckenzie put her seed in the cold, dark art cupboard (Neptune) do you think the seeds in the dark will grow into plants that give us oxygen?

These pots break down in the soil so you plant them in your garden pot and all. 

We know we only have one planet that we can live on so we MUST take care of it!! 

Space Writing

Check out our space writing from last week! We researched why astronauts needed to wear space suits when they are out on their space walks. We found out some really interesting facts. 

Did you know that space dust is reeeeeeeally dangerous because it moves faster than a bullet?

Scary stuff! 

Check out what we've found out about space suits:

Mufti Day this Friday!

Just a reminder that this Friday is MUFTI DAY! As it also happens to be halloween on Friday don't forget to dress up in a spooky halloween theme. Please support this mufti day and bring along your gold coin as the money raised will go directly back into our own school and YOU (the children) can get cool new things to help with your learning! Woohoo!

2000 Pageviews!

Woohoo! Today we reached 2000 pageviews on our class blog! 

Thank you to all of the lovely people who view our class blog regularly to keep up to date with our classroom happenings. We hope you enjoy seeing what we have been up to in Room 3 at Gore Main School!

Onwards and upwards to our next milestone!

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 :)