Room 3 2017

  Moon Phases  We are really enjoying our Inquiry on The Solar System.We  have been learning about the Phases of the Moon.  Here are Charlotte and India with their full and new moons made by layering beautiful gold shiny paper. We also constructed   half,crescent and three quarter moons.  They are all up on our classroom wall next to our paintings of all the planets so come and have a look. We have also been learning about Star Constellations and why Stars twinkle.  We made our own stars and thought of some lovely words to describe them.  Glowing , glittering ,twinkling, shining, sparkling and glistening were some of our words. They look beautiful.      Congratulations to our Award winners this week.Well done!!     Room 3 was awarded The Assembly Bear  for being the best class at assembly on Friday.Well done everyone !Keep up the good work.

On Wednesday we started learning some new routines in Jumpjam with our friends around the Junior School. This got our brains thinking and our bodies moving ready for our day's learning.                                                  Room 3 love using the Ipads.                                   Hannah and Sarah explored an app about the brain.  Charlotte practiced her handwriting and wrote some fantastic 'd's. Ori and Bruno made music together on the piano keyboard.                           Our friends from Room 1 and our buddy class Room 11 joined us.                           We designed and made fabulous fish out of tissue paper together.               We all went to the hall to see if we could move our fish quickly to the finishing line.                                                       It was such a lot of fun!               Room 3 have been learning about Wassily Kandinsky and some of his art works.    We tried to recreate painti

This week we are learning all about the brain and are doing all sorts of activities that use different parts of our brains.  On Monday , Mr Saker came to school to talk to us and then we touched a model of a brain and then looked inside. Room 3 used the dough to create their favourite animal. They made all sorts including crocodiles, cats, dogs, peacocks, snakes and bears. They then wrote stories to describe their animal using exciting adjectives. On Tuesday, Room 3 used 'Happy Sticks' to do different movements and demonstrate a range of rhythms to music. They also did some Brain gym too.  Room 3 searched the newspapers and had lots of fun using the highlighters to find the word 'the' among the articles. Some children found over forty. We then went outside to write as many words as we could spell on the concrete using different coloured chalk. We are very clever to be able to spell