Room 3 2017

This week Room 3 were the hosts of the Junior School assembly. Theo and Georgina were wonderful presenters. During the assembly six of us read out our fantastic recounts about Jack and Jill to everyone. We have finished our calendar art and it is on display in our classroom. Some of us made butterflies using crayon and dye while others made sea creatures using pastels.

We are loving Kapahaka. This week we learnt some new waiata and also how to use poi and ti rakau. We were shown what to do and then we practiced in our classroom.

Wow! What a fabulous first week back we have had. Everyone has had a lovely holiday and have now returned to school eager to do lots more fantastic learning. On Monday we sang 'Happy Birthday' and ate delicious chocolate cake with cream on top because Theo and Chevron have now turned six. On Tuesday Sam had his first turn at horse riding and loved it. He was very clever to do all of the obstacle course especially on such a big horse! On Wednesday we did Kapahaka with Mr Chadwick in the hall. He taught us some new waiata and we loved doing the actions that went with them. Tino Pai Rawa Ruma Toru! On Thursday we began our new Inquiry. This term we are learning about our body and we are going into different classes each week to find out about the different parts of our body. On Friday we are going to start some new activities in Enrichment.

Chevron is very good at Kapahaka so he did Kapahaka sessions with the students in years 3 and 4. We were very impressed when he showed us the haka he had learnt. We are all looking forward to doing more Kapahaka each Wednesday next term. Amy got a new kitten and bought it to school to show us. We all took turns to pat it and it's fur was so soft. We asked her lots of questions about her special pet and then as a class we discussed how to care for animals. We also thought of lots of 'wow' words to describe her kitten. Oscar has just started to learn the violin. He told us what he had to do to care for the instrument. As a class, we discussed what is involved in being a performer and also what being a member of an audience involves. Oscar then demonstrated how the violin is played by both plucking the strings and using the bow. We really loved his performance and look forward to watching him perform again for us soon.

We love Letterland! We have worked really hard with our learning so we had a Letterland Party! Can you guess which favourite Letterland character we are dressed as?

In Physical Education lessons we have been learning a whole lot of fun gymnastic skills and using the equipment in a variety of ways. In fitness we have been learning a lot of fun skills using a skipping rope. We had an amazing 'Jump Off' to show everyone how clever we have got.

We had an Art Extravaganza. Before this we read lots of books including 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak and 'The Magic Hat' by Mem Fox. We then created some fantastic art works using mixed media of our favourite Wild Thing and our own Magic hat.

Room 3 are all fantastic readers. Ethan, Cameron, Hugo, Daniel, Shannyn, Yasmin, Sabine and Oscar have all achieved the twenty nine levels of the Reading Rocket. Each week a lovely kind grandma comes into our classroom and reads special books aloud to us. We also do a whole range of fun literacy activities during our rotation time. Have a look at some of the fun learning activities we do.

As part of our Inquiry we have been going into other classes around our Junior School to learn about some Myths and Legends from Japan, Australia, France, Holland, China and New Zealand. We have students in our Junior School who have English as their second language and have joined us from these other countries.