Sunday 12 November 2017

Willowbank!
In Week 4, Room 3 were lucky enough to go for a trip to Willowbank as part of our learning about houses and shelters for different living things. It was jampacked, and a super exciting experience. We saw kiwi, kea, turtles, monkeys, horses, pigs, goats, cows, ducks, peacocks.. the list goes on and on! 



Monday 23 October 2017

Welcome to Roman!
On Friday in Week 1 we welcomed a new student to Room 3. Roman joins us from Parkview School and we are very excited to get to know him! Welcome to Belfast School, Roman.


Wednesday 27 September 2017

People who help in our community!
This term for Inquiry we have been learning about our "hood", Belfast. As part of our learning, we had two fabulous Inquiry days where we learnt about the places we might need to know in our community and also the people who help in our community!  

We were lucky enough to be visited by some fire fighters and police officers, and were even allowed to go inside their firetruck and police car! 

Emma and Henry's Dads also came to visit and told us about their jobs. Emma's Dad, Dean, is a pilot and told us all about what it takes to fly a plane! He even let some of us try on his pilot's uniform. Henry's Dad, Steven, is a Senior programmer and software engineer at the University of Canterbury and we learnt all about computers and things you can build with programming!

We have had lots of fun with our Inquiry topic this term.











Monday 25 September 2017

Pirate Dress Up Day!
We had a wonderful pirate themed week in the Junior Syndicate last week! We wrote about being a pirate, did some pirate themed Maths activities, designed our own treasure maps, had a pirate-themed Discovery Time and we finished the week off with a pirate and mermaid dress up day...









Saturday 12 August 2017

Book Week!
Room 3 loved Book Week and all of the fun activities it brought. We studied Dr Seuss for the week and read many of his wonderful books! We made Horton ears from Horton Hears a Who, we made hot air balloons from Oh the Places You'll Go! We had a book character dress up day, bedtime stories evening, visits to the 'Happy Campers' Book Fair, Senior students reading to our class, a grandparents afternoon, we made a book for Kindy that we took over and presented, we read 19 books for the reading chain competition, the list goes on... it was a super fun week enjoyed by all.


















Wednesday 2 August 2017

Our Bread Making!
In Room 3 we have been learning about the Little Red Hen, so this week we decided to make some bread. 
We all worked really hard together as a team and have learned a lot about the fact that "many hands make light work". Ka rawe Room 3!

 








Thursday 15 June 2017

Life Education
During week 7 we visited the Life Education truck to learn some more about one of our Term 2 topics, 'Healthy Eating'! This helped to reinforce our learning from the classroom about the importance of a balanced diet. 

We loved turning into blueberries, doing our 'Go Bananas' dance, making the food pyramid and ofcourse, meeting Harold!! Harold even helped us to sing Happy Birthday to Megan on her special day! Check out our cool pictures...







Monday 8 May 2017

Science Alive!
Today we had a visit from Science Alive, where we did some science experiments and investigations all about water. This is our new topic for the first part of Term 2! 

During the session we learned about floating and sinking, the water cycle, states of water (solid, liquid, gas) and materials that absorb and repel water. We had SO much fun! Here are a few snaps... 








Miss Maxwell
From Week 2 to Week 8 Room 3 are going to be hosting a lovely student teacher, Miss Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is coming to us from the University of Canterbury where she is studying her GradDip in Teaching and Learning Primary. We are looking forward to her working with us! 


Monday 3 April 2017

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!
In Room 3 we have welcomed our final 3 students to our class, Henry, Tahlia and Billie-Rose. We are really happy that you have joined us and we hope you enjoy your year in Room 3!





Tuesday 21 March 2017

Room 3 Makes Porridge
We made porridge, like in the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It was delicious and warmed our tummies, on a rainy cold day at school! 
While we waited for it to cool, so it wasn't too hot like Father Bear's, we wrote a story about it. Come and read these in our Writing books. 





Ka Pai Ilijana
This week Ilijana got our class certificate for being a sensible role model in Room 3. You are a star Ilijana!


Wednesday 15 March 2017

Welcome to Room 3, Ashton!
A big welcome to our 14th member of Room 3, Ashton, who has started school this week.