Hiroto's Post on Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Yesterday Room 3 went to the hall to do 'Tread Lightly.' We learnt that when rubbish gets into the ocean, the fish can't swim! We also learned about the landfill and that the rubbish gets older. I got to plant my seeds and look at worms and lots of bugs.

Hannah's Post on Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Yesterday Room 3 went to the hall for 'Tread Lightly.' I liked putting the seeds in the newspaper pots. We put them in soil. We looked at the insects. There were bees and worms. In the hall we learned how to put rubbish in the right place.

Esther's Video on Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Dominic's Post on Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Yesterday in the hall, we went to 'Tread Lightly.' I liked looking at the rubbish, planting our seeds and putting stuff into the drain.

Cruze's Post on Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Ria's mum came in to teach us about Diwali. We listened to cool music and learned how to dance. I had fun.

Noah's Video on Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Andy's Garden - Lochlin

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"Flying because I got to dance while I was flying."
"Our song, 'fly, fly, fly the butterfly' was my favourite."
"I liked Andy because he was saying 'I don't want to put that ball down.' I thought that was funny."

Andy's Garden - Dawei

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?
"Being a butterfly because butterflies can fly. My favourite song was 'Snail's Pace'."

Andy's Garden - Charlotte

Interview with Charlotte:

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"Doing my dance 'fly, fly, fly the butterfly'."
"Butterflies are my favourite insect because they are really pretty."
"I liked pretending to fly with my pink wings."

Andy's Garden - Sammy

Interview with Sammy: 

What did you like about being in Andy's Garden?

"I liked practising because we got to learn new songs. My favourite song was the butterfly song." 

Andy's Garden - Anne

Interview with Anne:

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"Dancing because I liked the moves."
"My favourite dance was 'fly, fly, fly the butterfly.' I liked this one because I WAS a butterfly."
"I liked being a butterfly because they can fly. I liked that on our antennae there were shiny circles." 

Andy's Garden - Ria

Interview with Ria:

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"Singing. My favourite song was 'The ants go marching in' because it is a long song."

Andy's Garden - Claire

Interview with Claire

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"There were lots of people that came to watch the show. I liked dancing in front them."
"My favourite song to sing was 'Wake up, Daisy'."

Andy's Garden - Sarah

Interview with Sarah

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"To be a butterfly. We got to dance and wear wings and antennae for our costume."
"My wings were orange and black. I also liked singing."
"I liked the flowers and their song 'Wake up, Daisy.'"

Andy's garden - Mika

Interview with Mika

What was your favourite part about being in Andy's Garden?

"All the songs and singing because I love to sing"
"My favourite song was 'Silly Billy Andy.' I also liked the dances."

Arya's Published Writing - The Food festival

Issac's Published Writing

All about spiders!

My favourite piece of writing:

 A spider is an arachnid. It has an abdomen. It has a head. It has a thorax. It lives in houses. It lives in bush walks. It catches flies. A moth is an insect. It has dull wings. It's antennae look like feathers. Moths wake up in the night and moths go to sleep in the day. Moths have triangle wings. A moth starts as a cocoon. A millipede has more than 14 legs. It crawls really fast along the ground. It has a hard shell - Ria

Only 3 days to go...

Waiting to go on

In our places ready to start

Some of the characters in Andy's garden

"Wake up! Daisy!"

 

We hope you can make it. It's going to be fanstastic!

Welcome to Room 3 Alvin!

Alvin is a new student in our class. 

He has just moved here from China. 

We are happy to have you in our class Alvin. 

We look forward to learning about you and with you.

Information report on Tarantula's

Dawei's Narrative "The girl and the apple tree"

My senses poem about Winter

Noah's narrative "The girl and the apple tree"

Meet Gisella from Pippins

My news On Tuesday, I got this special doll called Gisella at Pippins. Every week they choose someone who has been good to take Gisella home. I showed her to room 3 at news time and she got to sit on Mrs Sands chair all day and watch us do work. I have to give her back tomorrow but I love having Gisella with me. I wish I could have her every day. Sammy

Practising for Production

Ready in our lines to practise the songs.

Some of the actors practising their parts.

The teachers putting the final touches on the sets and props.

Only 2 weeks to go!

Getwise Financial Literacy Lesson

As a part of Mathsweek, we had a special visit from Serena the Superhero from ASB who is a Super saver. She helped all the students to know the value of different coins and notes.

She also taught the children the difference between needs (things we need to survive like water food and electricity); and wants (things we do not need to survive like games and toys and fancy clothes). Sarah got to play a special acting role and decide which money she saved, and which money she spent.

We learnt a valuable rhyme to help us remember:

Speed to your needs

and

Wait for your wants.

Now all the students in Room 3 have the power to be Super savers too. 

Thanks Serena.

Hannah's Published Goldilocks story

Esther's Narrative "The two mice"

Claire's Thank you letter to Life Education

Anne's Narrative "The lost mice"

Lochlin 'Working it out' for Mathsweek.

Lochlin was showing off his clever addition skills as he played "Square bricks" during Mathsweek.

All week we have been doing special math challenges, and exploring with the games and activities on the temporary site at mathsweek.org.nz.

If you get a chance, check it out and have a go at some of the fun numeracy programmes.

Sammy's Narrative "The two mice"

Sammy used some wonderful descriptions in her narrative story about two little mice who go missing from their cage. 

Mika's Thank you letter to the Life Education Caravan

Issac's Story sequence of the Three Little Pigs

"We put the pictures in the right places so the story was right. 
I coloured in the pictures.
The story is the Three Little Pigs" - Issac

Charlotte's retell of Goldilocks and the Three Bears

We have been learning all about Fairytales, and Charlotte retold the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. She used some lovely actions and descriptive words in her writing.

The next Dan Carter!

Dominic was on fire during our Ripper Rugby taster class last week. 

No one could touch him during an adapted bullrush game warmup.

Sarah's Information report on butterflies

Sarah shared lots of interesting information about butterflies in her information report. An information report includes a classification, and information about what something looks like, where it lives, what it eats, and other facts. Great work Sarah.

Thank you letters to the Life Education Caravan

We were lucky enough to have Corrine and Harold visit Sunnybrae for the last 2 weeks. We had two sessions in the Life Education caravan where we learnt about being a part of a team, how to know how someone is feeling, and what to do if we have problems. 

The students really enjoyed the lessons and wrote thank you letters for Corrine or Harold. 

Please come in and read our thank you letters in each child's Published Writing folder.

Our Hockey Skills in Term 2

We have been learning lots of Hockey skills this term. 

Here is what we can do:

We can hold the stick with our Left hand on top, thumb pointing down, and our Right hand down near the end of the grip - Esther

We can hit the ball with the flat side of the stick - Cruze

We can 'travel' with the ball by pushing it with our stick carefully - Lochlin and Ria.

We can 'trap' or stop the ball by turning our stick and putting it in front of the ball - Mika.

We can pass the ball to a partner by standing side on to the ball, looking where we want the ball to go, then pushing it with our stick - Hannah and Charlotte.

Claire's flower maths activity

"I was playing flower maths" - Claire

Ria's Bonds to 5 activity

Ria recorded all the different ways that we can put 2 numbers together to make 5.

Our Trip to the Botanical Gardens - Thursday 19th May

Our Soccer Taster - Week 1

A Stingray!

Ria found a stingray when she went to the beach last weekend.

It was in the shallow water. When the tide went out - it got stuck on the sand and died.

"It felt squishy. It had a bleeding tail" - Ria.

Swimming Carnival Week 6

Flutterboard Race - Lochlin

The Running Race - Cruze and Julio

Room 3 did an amazing job at the Swimming Carnival in Wk 6.

Skytower (floating) Race - Mika and Ria

Pushing the Ball Race - Sarah

What is it?

We have been learning how to create senses poems in our writing. Last week we made poems about our favourite food. We discussed what it sounded, looked, smelled, felt and tasted like.

I can hear water boiling.

I can smell rice cooking.

I can see some small things

I can feel something soft and hot.

I can taste something yummy.

What could it be? 

Rice and chicken - Hiroto

I can hear chewing.

I can smell something sweet.

I can see the blue icing.

I can feel something soft.

I can taste something yum.

What could it be?

A cupcake - Cruze

Come and see all of our sense poems displayed in our classroom.

Happy International Food Festival day!

"I like this photo because I was happy" - Petelo

"Happy Friday" - Noah

"I liked holding my flag" - Dawei

"I had the England flag" - Sammy

"I had the Indian flag" - Ria

"I had the Chinese flag and I had the New Zealand flag" - Dominic

"I liked holding my flags up" - Issac

"I like that everyone comes from different countries" - Charlotte

"I like the Chinese flag and the Taiwanese flag" - Julio

"I liked all the flags" - Claire

"I like the New Zealand flag and I also can't wait for the new flag to come along if it gets chosen" - Mika

"I liked my flag. It is India" - Sarah.

"I love the Japan flag because it has only a dot" - Anne.

E hia nga? How many?

The students have been learning about numbers in Te Reo. We wanted to show off our knowledge by modelling asking each other how many? and answering in Te Reo.

Dominic "E hia nga?" (How many?)
Lochlin "toru" (3)
Lochlin "E hia nga dinosaurs?" (How many dinosaurs?)
Dominic "Rua" (2)

Tūmeke boys!

Hannah's happy kicking

Watch out - there's a fast-kicking shark in our midst! Oh wait, it's Hannah practising her straight legs and floppy feet kicking in the pool today. Hannah was confidently lowering herself into the water, holding onto the bar, and even putting her face in the water at times. We have been having regular lessons with the Swim Bus instructors - it is so much fun!

This was Hannah during our 2nd lesson. 

Look how far you have come in such a short amount of time!