Robot Line Drawings

In art we did line drawings where we were thinking about adding detail only using lines because our artwork was black and white.  You can see our artwork in our individual learning blogs.

Home Learning E

There is a new home learning challenge.  Look on the Home Learning page at the top of the blog.

Owl Art

 We used pastels to create our owl pictures.  You can see them in our individual learning blogs.

Luke's owl

Emma's owl

Sarah's owl

 

 

 

 

Charlie's owl

Home Learning D Challenge

Click on the 'Home Learning' page at the top of the blog next to 'Home'.

Book Posters

 

We made posters of books we liked.  You can see them in our individual learning blogs.

Brooklyn T's Rainbow Skinks

Brooklyn T brought some photos and his skinks to school to share for news.

Brooklyn fed the skinks some worms.

Home Learning 'C' Challenge

Counting - Can you complete these sequences

2,4,6,-,-,-,-,-,-,20

25,30,-,-,-,-,55,-,-,-,-,-,-,90

10,20,30,-,-,-,-,-,-,100,110,120,-,-,-,-,-,-190,-,-,220

12,15,-,-,-,-,30,-,-,-,42

Christmas

How many months until next Christmas?
Now work out how many weeks until next Christmas.
Now can you work out how many days there will be until next Christmas?

Code

Write a coded message to a friend using the code.

1=a, 2=b, 3=c, 4=d ........ 26=z

First can you read my message?
23,8,5,18,5   4,15,5,19   19,16,1,7,8,5,20,20,9   7,15   20,15   4,1,14,3,5?

20,15   20,8,5   13,5,1,20   2,1,12,12.

Chocolate

Name 5 different types of chocolate or chocolate bars?
What is chocolate made out of?
Why should chocolate be a sometimes treat food?

Cartoons

Write a story about your favourite cartoon.  Draw a picture of the main character.

Home Learning

Hope you are enjoying your holiday!  If you want to start thinking about your learning you could make sure you know your doubles, e.g. 6+6=, 4+4= and if you know them you could work on your timetables.   Start with your x2 which are the same as your doubles, them move on to x5 and then x10  and then x3 working your way up.  We are continuing to learn about multiplication and division at the start of the term.

A fun thing to do in the holidays is to make a hut.  This could be inside using chairs and blankets or sheets or a space in your garden.  Don't forget to ask an adult first!  You could then turn this into a club by coming up with a name and write some rules for your clubhouse.  You also create something for your members to wear like badges or make a tie out of paper and stickers.  Take some photos and email them to me and I can share them on our blog next week.

Super 15 Trophy

We were very lucky today because Mrs Baguley brought the Super 15 Rugby trophy to school and we all got a chance to touch it.  It has three colours on it - black for New Zealand, green for South Africa and yellow for Australia.  The boys certainly look like they know how to pose for a rugby photo!

Home Learning

Sarah has created a menu for her Home Learning this week which sounds rather delicious -

'A tall stack of chocolate chip pancakes with chocolate syrup and biscuits and berries decorated with jellybeans and strawberry ice cream with a lemonade drink.'

 Emma has also created a yummy breakfast, with lots of choices!

Fantastic Mr Fox Art

We read the story 'Fantastic Mr Fox' by Roald Dahl and we did some fantastic paintings of Mr Fox.  Brooklyn and Lauren used Pic Collage to share some of our paintings.  You can see all our paintings in our individual learning blogs.

Speech Finals

Congratulations to Lauren and Breanna for making it to the Year 3 School Speech Finals.  Breanna came third overall.  Well done to both of you.  If you want to hear their speeches have a look at their blogs.

New Classroom Blessing

This morning we had the blessing for our new and refurbished classrooms.  Hone, our Kaumatua came and did the blessing and the Kapahaka group sang a song.  We were lucky because we got to walk through the new rooms as we are moving into the new classroom.  This is us in our new room. 

Letter B Challenge

 

Beach  What things might you find at the beach?  What things would you take to the beach?

 

Breakfast Design the most delicious, fantastic breakfast you would like to eat.  You could do it as a menu or by drawing a picture.

 

Brontosaurus  How many words can you make out of the letters in Brontosaurus?  

 

Birds Name as many NZ native birds as you can.

 

Basic Facts  Choose basic fact you need to practise.  It could be:

• Addition or subtraction facts to 10 or 20, e.g. 4+7=    9-6=
• Doubles and halves, e.g. 4+4=  Half of 16=
• Times tables - start with 2's, 10's and 5's

Working Together to Build an Island

Hairy Maclary Story

Hairy Maclary Joshua from Room Sixteen on Vimeo.

We read lots of stories about Hairy Maclary and then used Puppet Pals and Lynley Dodd's artwork to share our stories.

Chameleon Art

Javae and Shabrin  and Daniel and Nidhi used Pic Collage to share some of our chameleon pictures.

Pigeon Impossible

We watched the short movie clip from 'The Literacy Shed' website, 'Pigeon Impossible'.  After lots of talking about what had happened and watching a clip from the news we wrote news reports.  We are recording these using the Educreations app on the ipad.  If you look in Our Blogs on the right hand side you can hear our reports.  Javae, Breanna, Shabrin, JP, Bella-Rose, Jared and Sarah's are published and the rest will be done next week.

7 Year Olds Fun Run

We had a lovely sunny afternoon for the Junior School Fun Run/Cross County.  The children all ran really hard.  Well done Javae for getting second place and Lauren for getting 4th.  The children all enjoyed their juicies afterwards.

8 Year Olds Fun Run

In between the rain we managed to hold some of the races for our Fun Run/Cross country.  Our 8 year olds (pictured above) managed to compete in their races.  Brooklyn did really well coming first!  A great effort by all of them running around the block.

Writer of the Week

After reading lots of Hairy Maclary books by Lynley Dodd we had a go at retelling creatively in our own words or creating our own Hairy Maclary story.

One sunny day Slinky Malinky jumbled out of bed and scrambled through the door.  He raced round the garden, zoomed through the blackberry bushes, got covered in juice then ran up the tree.  Up, up, up then he got stuck!  He howled at the ground and all around that sound echoed around.  Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy was off for a walk then suddenly he heard that sound that echoed around.
"Roof, roof, roof," said Hairy Maclary as he rushed to the tree.  
Hercules Morse as big as a horse was lying under a big green tree when suddenly he heard that sound that echoed around.  
"Woof, woof, woof," said Hercules Morse as he ran to the tree.  Bottomly Potts was rolling around with his feet in the air and his tongue hanging out, when suddenly came the sound that echoed around.
"Ro, ro, ro," said Bottomly Potts as he went to the tree.
Muffin McLay was in the tub by the path when suddenly came the sound that echoed around.  Muffin Mclay was out of the tub and at the tree.
Bitzer Maloney all skinny and bony was having his lunch, his tastiest meal of all, when suddenly came the sound that echoed around.
"Wo, wo, wo," said Bitzer Maloney and then he ran to the tree.
Schnitzel von Krumm was jumping about with his tail sticking up.  He was trying to leap to the top of the fence but he kept failing when suddenly came the sound that echoed around.  He got such a fright he flew to the top of the fence, then jumped down and ran to the tree.
Soon all the dogs were barking under the tree that Slinky Maliny was in.  
Along came a girl who owned Slinky Malinky.  She ran to get her mum.  Her mum got the ladder from the rusty, dusty, shed they were going to bust.  Then Slinky Malinky burst down the ladder straight to his bed where he's safe and sound.
By Breanna

Daffodil Day

Emma and Aeryn made a daffodil because it is Daffodil Day on Friday.  Don't forget we are having a mufti day and you need to bring a gold coin donation.

Home Learning

We are learning about Geometry in Maths.  For Homework have a look and see if you can find some of the following shapes at your house:

2D shapes - circle, triangle, rectangle, square, pentagon, hexagon and octagon.

3D shapes - sphere, rectangular prism, box/cube, cone and cylinder.

See if you can find any tessellations at your house.

EXTRA FOR EXPERTS - Can you draw a map showing how you get to school or write directions using left/right or North, South, East and West?

or you could use 3D shapes to make something or draw a picture using 2D shapes.

Milk in Schools

Today was the first day we had 'Milk in Schools' so it was very exciting.  JP showed the class how to fold the milk cartons as he used to have milk at his old school.  Brooklyn W and Luke made a Pic Collage to show you how we fold the cartons for recycling.

Making Maps in Maths

We used Pic Collage to create this wonderful picture.  

Breanna, Javae and Mrs W

Created with Padlet

Created with Padlet

Sharing can solve a problem

When you watch this video, you might like to think about how you feel about the fact that not everyone has the same things in life.

Writer of the Week - Week 2

We read the story 'I Will Not Never Ever eat a Tomato' by Lauren Child and then we wrote stories about things we don't like to eat.

One night my mum called me to the table for dinner.  My eyes burst into blue flames because I saw pumpkin on my plate.  I tried to say it in my head but it was to yukky.  I put it in my mouth but it was too soft and it squiggled down my throat.  Then my mum said, 
"You can't have the ice cream until you eat some pumpkin."
When she looked away I put it in the bin, then she brought some bowls over and she said,
"Here is some ice cream."
Then I said, "I will never eat pumpkin again." 

Maths Reflection Art

First we drew a picture of our alien in our sketching book and then copied it on to paper.  We had to make sure that our pictures were the same on both sides; that they had reflection.

Next, we went over the pencil outline in 

black vivid.

We then coloured our pictures using pastels.

You can see our finished pictures in our individual learning blogs.

Math slide app

   

We played math slide.  I like to play math games because they are fun  It is hard to beat people because other people are really smart.  It is hard because people put their fingers all over the screen.   Turei, Brooklyn W and I were having fun. Turei won 1 and Brooklyn W won 5 times.
By Charlie



  

iwritewords app

This morning I played on the ipad. We were  playing iwritewords app!  We were learning to write letters.  I like it because it has a crab. 
By Jayden

Writers of the Week

We wrote letters to Greenpeace, like Emily did in the story 'Dear Greenpeace, about imaginary animals we found at our house.

31 July 2013

Dear Greenpeace

You will not believe what I found in my backyard.  I found a deer.  I love it when birds land on his antlers and when he pushes the swing and every once in a while he will do a trick.  I will call him Singer because when he walks he makes a rhythm.  I was really happy when he put water in his mouth and squirted water up and the water fell on me. 

One month later, I saw him snuggling with the dog and it was really cute.  The other days I was without him and he was gone forever.

Can you send me some information on deer?

From Daniel


31 July 2013

Dear Greenpeace

Today I found a brown bear sleeping in my bed.  The brown bear has brown fur and sharp teeth.  It also has sharp paws.  His name is Growly because he growls a lot.  I secretly went to the kitchen and got some sausages to share with the bear. 

After that we played hide and seek.  When Growly hid he made lots of noise so I could find him easily.

Greenpeace, I would like to know where the brown bear lives. 

From Shabrin

Dear Emily

We read the big book 'Dear Greenpeace' by Simon James.  In the story Emily believes a whale lives in her pond so she writes letters to Greenpeace.  After reading the story, we found out lots of information about whales and wrote letters to Emily to share our knowledge.

We hope you enjoy reading some of our letters.

Dear Emily

If you want facts about whales I will give you some.

Did you know that a blue whale is equal to the weight of 25 elephants? Did you know that a group of whales is called a pod? Did you know that a baby whale is called a calf? Did you know that a whale can hold its breath for 90 minutes and that blue whales live in cold water?

I hope you find these facts interesting. Sorry about Arthur going back to the sea.

From Luke


Dear Emily

Here are some interesting facts about whales.

• Whales don't sleep as we do, even though rest is important.
• Whales can swim as fast as 30 miles per hour. WOW!
• The blue whale is the biggest mammal in the world.
• Your whale might be able to stay underwater for 90 minutes!
• A group of whales is called a pod.

From Lauren

P.S. Tell your pet, aka Arthur, that I said hi and bye.


Dear Emily

Here are some facts about whales you might want to know.  Blue whales ...

• Have to have a much bigger space than the space in your pond.
• The weight of a blue whale equals 25 elephants.
• They have to come to the surface to breathe.
• Migatory means the whales travel long distances.
• When whales dive they lift their tails up out of the water.
• Baby whales are called calves.

From Aeryn

Playing Together and Sharing

 

The boys worked together by sharing the blocks to build this amazing tower.

 

Welcome to Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3!  We are now officially Room 16.  This is a short term of only 9 weeks, but it will be another busy term with lots of things happening.  Most exciting will be moving into our new classroom, hopefully before the end of term.  As well as lots of learning in reading, writing and maths, we have cross country training, topic and the arts.  We also have our new class blog and ipad, so that will be fun experimenting with them.