Room 3 2017

Room 3 Swimming has been great!We have been blessed with beautiful weather and everyone is trying hard and making excellent progress.We have been impressed also by the great self -management skills in the changing rooms-well done ! What a great Superstar Elsie was ! One of the superstars jobs is to organise the calendar and lead the class in reading it. Pointing to each word carefully reinforces one to one matching-a skill we are working on in our reading. Our individual crests look fabulous-we are all special and unique.We are learning to work together as a group and to share ideas and respect others -what a great classroom we are creating! 

Welcome to Room 3 - 2017. R oom 3 is underway-welcome to all our new students. We are delighted to have you at Muritai and know that you will strive to be 'the best that you can be'. Routines are being established and every day we are being introduced to something new. Here is a snapshot of some of the things we have been up to.   Fabulous quiet reading in the class library.  First copy of our self portraits.  Great book sharing! Awesome reading from our book boxes after morning tea and lunch - so quiet and focussed!   In Room 3 we use ' kind words, kind hands and kind feet! At circle time we used our kind hands on the friend sitting next to us. We have spent a lot of time talking about how we can make our classroom a happy one. First time at the Writing Table.     And ----working at our wonderful new tables for our guided reading session. Great work on those Word Walls! ...

We have a focus on  'Time' at the moment in Maths. We are learning the Days of the Week and made a caterpillar with all the days to help us remember the right order.   Good work everyone ! C ongratulations to our award winners who received their certificates at full school assembly on Friday.Well deserved!  

Our horse -shoe magnets look great- pop into Room 3 and have a look at them. W e have been exploring the strength of magnetic force and if that force can pass through different kinds of materials. W e had fun with the magnetic sand making different shapes and patterns-the wand magnets were just right for the job. We predicted that the sand would move- experimented - and then came to a conclusion. A t Circle Time we are learning to ; Speak in a loud, clear voice with our heads up Look at the person who is speaking Listen carefully to all the other students in the circle. Sit with our arms and legs folded. D uring our Reading Rotation we are enjoying listening to Letterland. Our sound knowledge is increasing ! Writing letters and words at the writing table with special emphasis on the words from our Word Walls. Lots of great learning going on in Room 3.! ...