Supporting the mighty ALL BLACKS

The day was clear and bright as we gathered on the grassy field, with the rest of the school, in the heart of the mighty Waikato to support the ALL BLACKS for the opening game of the World Cup.  The crowd roared, the earth shook, sweat poured down faces and we raised the roof for them.GO TEAM !! The heartbeat of the school is with you!!

Waiomou Stream Planting Term 2

The long awaited digital storyboard that has been evasive at being loaded to the blog!!! Always relentless with ICT challenges I have figured out a way to get it up on the blog!!! Success at last and boy doesn't taste great. This had the ICT facilitator stumped too but with a little bit of moving between programmes and files it is here.

Topic Term 3

Room 3 has identifed how we can make our school a " Better Place". First we removed rubbish from along the stream bank, built up the existing gardens and are planning to create a new look garden area for the school along the eastern boundary. The children have been busy investigating the plants that would best suit the area given, what we use the area for and keeping in mind the sustainability of the project for the school. The needs and ease of management for the caretaker also needed to be thought through.Plans have been made and when these are finalised they will be presented to the board by our Enviro Group members for Room 3 Well done team!!

Mighty Maths

This term we are investigating Geometry and have been exploring 2-D and 3-D shapes, sorting them by sides and corners for 2-D shapes then faces, edges, curved surfaces and vertices for 3-D shapes. We used tri-venn diagrams to help us sort these.  It was challenging but fun!!

Winter Sports

Thanks to all those great parents who supported our sports teams over the winter. We have enjoyed some great victories and had a fabulous time. Thank you from all the children in Room 3.

Visitors in Room 3

Yesterday we welcomed some fluffy friends to Room 3 .... Katija brought her favourite friends to school. We have  heard stories of Mary who had a lamb that followed her to school but we were surprised when Katija arrived with some pet ducks following along behind her.
The Peking ducklings are 3 weeks old and cute and cuddly. Katija tells us they haven't flown in 800 years and originate from China. She has trained them to follow her , cuddle her and they have been known to sleep on her back when she lays on the floor. Well done Katija... but she has a lamb for Ag day. You love your animals Katija.
She feeds them duck pellets and treats of spinach, mung beans and tasty stuff!. They are three weeks old now and Mum has promised to let them visit when they get their feathers in about another three weeks.

WALT: Identify and use texture in our artworks.

We have explored how artists use texture in art to make artworks come alive!!! As a class we learned how to suggest texture in art and how to apply it to our artwork. First we experimented the use of techniques with pencil and paint to suggest texture then we explored how we could apply it in our own. You will be impressed!!!