Room 3 2017

This week we welcomed Jack to school and he is enjoying being in room 3. We are all getting better at our swimming and we really enjoyed visiting Sue in our library. We have also been watching a chrysalis and it changed into a beautiful monarch butterfly. This week we also met Merlinde's new baby sister.

This week we started our unit on Statistics in mathematics. We counted how many different colours there were in a box of lollies and them plotted our data onto a graph. We then discussed our findings. Every day we have been to the pool for aquatics education. We have a trained swimming instructor in the pool with us and this week we learnt how to blow bubbles and float on our front and back. On Tuesday we visited Heather in our local library. She showed us how to be safe in the library in the unlikely event of an earthquake. We practiced being turtles. We explored the library to find exit signs and she then read us a fantastic story before we chose our own book to bring back to read at school. This week we were also introduced to Jumpjam and joined all of our friends in the Junior school for this. Two of us were very brave and even went up on stage. On Wednesday, we explored our Junior playground and discussed how to play safely at school. We are enjoying school and are looking forward...

We warmly welcome our new children who have started school for the first time this week. They have already made a great start with their learning!

On Thursday, we dressed up in the colours of green or red and in the afternoon we went to the hall to perform some of our Christmas songs. Maz was the announcer and the very big audience really enjoyed our concert. We then had a yummy Christmas party outside under the sunshade with everyone.

Joshua is now living in France and his mum sent us a slideshow of what he is doing there. We loved seeing him at his new home and school on our big classroom screen. We discussed each of the pictures and even practiced some French.

Room 3 have had a lot of fun doing E.O.T.C. activities. On Monday, they were captivated by Zebong who told wonderful stories. He asked some children and teachers in the audience to act out different parts as he told the story. On Tuesday, we went into Wellington by bus and had a fantastic time at Capital E. First, we posted our wish lists into the Wishing tree and then walked through beautifully decorated Christmas trees and scenes. We then worked with Santa's elves to create a decoration for our tree, visit the Gingerbread house and do some fun activities while inside it. We also climbed the wall and visited Santa in his house while listening to stories. On Wednesday, we got out the parachute on the far field and had fun diving under it, running from side to side under it as our names were called and tried very hard to keep the balls on top of it as we shook it. On Thursday, we went to Avalon Park as part of our inquiry. We sketched and played on the equipment as well as had our ...

Every week we have been learning new skills in athletics. We had our Athletics sports to show our friends and families how clever we were.