Room 3 2017

Wow - this week we had a ride on a double decker bus from school into Wellington and back. When we were in Wellington, we were an audience to three fantastic shows as part of the Capital E Children's Art Festival. On Friday, we had another earthquake practice and we are all very good at the 'turtle' position. We also welcomed Brodie and Amelia to our class.

On Wednesday, we visited Pataka Museum and learnt about what life was like a hundred years ago. We dressed up in old fashioned clothing, did washing by hand and used a wringer, wrote with a nib pen and ink and on a slate, played games with marbles and saw lots of equipment that was used in daily living that we do not use now. We then had lunch and played on a new playground at Aotea Lagoon. On Friday, we welcomed Harrison to our class.

We welcomed four new students to our class this week. We hope Ana, Sophie, Oliver and Ted all had a great first week of learning. On Monday afternoon, we went to the beach as part of Seaweek. We joined our friends from the junior classes and enjoyed making fabulous creations in the sand. On Tuesday, we did a two minute silence with the whole school out on the field beneath our New Zealand flag, which was flying half mast, to remember those people lost or missing in the Christchurch earthquake. On Friday, we dressed in red and black and donated money to the Christchurch relief fund.

We got the laptops out and learnt how to work the 'Kidpix' programme. We loved it and quickly changed backgrounds, used different fonts, created pictures using paints, pencils and stamps and we also wrote our names. We are very clever!

On Monday we read a book together called 'Bubbles.' After that we went outside and blew bubbles around our playground. We then came back into our classroom and wrote fantastic stories about this.

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...