Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Wheels Day
Today we were allowed to bring our wheels to school to ride at morning tea and lunch time. Thanks to the Gore Main student council for organising such a fun lunch time activity!!
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Room 3's Food Scraps!
Ever wondered where all of your food scraps go after Fruit Snack Break? Well usually they go straight into the worm farm to feed the Enviro Group's worms (they turn the left over fruit and veges into worm juice for the gardens), when the worm farm is full the scraps are put into the school's two compost bins...they are overflowing at the moment too!
So with both compost and worm farm chocka full last weekend Miss McKenzie took the food scraps home to feed Tahr the pig her house. He was very thankful for the extra food - thank you Gore Main!
So with both compost and worm farm chocka full last weekend Miss McKenzie took the food scraps home to feed Tahr the pig her house. He was very thankful for the extra food - thank you Gore Main!
He's popping up to say THANKS!!
How To Make A Delicious Sandwich
The children have been writing instructions on how to make a delicious sandwich. On Monday the took turns at reading the instructions they had written to Miss McKenzie as she followed them and made a sandwich.
The children learned about the importance of being really specific when writing instructions and they now know not to miss out any details!
They found out they must say that they want me to "spread the butter on both pieces of bread with a knife" otherwise I might spread the butter with my fingers! Or onto the table instead of their bread!
Details are very important when writing instructions!
All the children managed to carefully write or edit their writing so that they got a perfectly made sandwich!
YUM!
The children learned about the importance of being really specific when writing instructions and they now know not to miss out any details!
They found out they must say that they want me to "spread the butter on both pieces of bread with a knife" otherwise I might spread the butter with my fingers! Or onto the table instead of their bread!
Details are very important when writing instructions!
All the children managed to carefully write or edit their writing so that they got a perfectly made sandwich!
YUM!
Our Maori Learning
Every second Monday Room 3 goes to the hall to learn Maori with Whaea Marie and Whaea Jean. We sing Maori songs with actions, learn Maori myths and legends and yesterday we learned a new dance with rakau (sticks) and the boys learned a haka!
The boys left the class and spent only 5-10 minutes before coming back to present this haka! Didn't they do a fantastic job! We were so impressed!
While the boys were working on their haka the girls practised using the rakau. They learnt a new move which involves 2 taps on the ground, then they toss the rakau and catch both at the same time...tricky!
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!
Friday, 21 November 2014
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 ...
Thursday, 20 November 2014
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)
Friday, 14 November 2014
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 :)
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
Authors Felix and Brianah have written a book called Fearless Unicorns
Author's Makayla and Myia have written a book called A Spooky Tale
Authors Hunter, Tom and Koen have written a book called Work! Work! Work!
Authors Isabelle and George have written a book called Crazy Driving
Authors Charlee and Allie have written a book called The Blossom Tree
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
Click here to read their book
Click here to read their book
Click here to read their book
Click here to read their book
Hannah and Madison have written a book called The Scary Life
Click here to read their book
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.
To can find our 'Class Library' on Storybird once you are signed in...
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| Sign in and click on the 'class' tab |
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| Scroll down the page until you find the 'class library' |
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| 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!!
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