Last Day of the Year

Thank you all for a fantastic end of year liturgy. I was so busy I forgot to take photographs. So if anyone has a photo of the performance please can you send it to me at school.

Merry Christmas to all the children and families of Room 3. May you all have a peaceful, happy Christmas and I will see you all next year.

Mrs Grant,

A and P Show

All of the junior classes went to the A and P show on Thursday. We walked around and saw lots of animals, some vintage machinery and even a man very high up on a pole. He fell off but was really tied up with a rope. This was a special day for us all.

Asa, Kian and Tony got to pat a shetland pony.

Railynnetta got to drive a digger. What a great job that would be........

Mary Jane got up close to a lamb......which was sooo cute.

What a great day.

Tai Tapu school pet show

Our whole school went to Tai Tapu school so we could look at their amazing pet show.
We had a fantastic day in the country.
.THANKS TAI TAPU SCHOOL- you are awesome.

 Madeline has found her new "best friend".

" Look- the wool is this thick" said Harley

YUM YUM YUM.....we all thought the lunch was sooooooo yummy.

John Paul, Letone, Joel and Mary Jane were really impressed with the great Lego models.

Aren't these fruit and vege models crazy!!!!

Mission Centre

Our new mission centre opened on Thursday. We can't wait to use it.

To celebrate the opening each student in the whole school got to enjoy a yummy iceblock

Mission Fair

Thank you to all of the marvellous children in Room 3 who helped to spread out the clothes and shoes in our classroom for the mission fair. Your help made selling them soooooo   much easier.

Instructions to get dressed

We are writing instructions in class. Faith  and Finn got the boy dressed and Evie and Jamal dressed the girl. 

collages

Our class has turned colourful magazine pages in to beautiful collages.

Thanks Mrs Bell for helping us with these amazing collages.

First Holy Communion

Two of our class members made their first holy communion on Sunday

Faith said"I was a little scared but I got used to it. I loved my special clothes- I have never worn a veil before."

Finn said" I was very happy because I got to eat the body of Christ and drink the blood of Christ."

Kids In the Kitchen

Room 3 are in the kitchen mixing up a cake
 they make a din with everything and here's the noise they make

Our Assembly

Room 3 had a fabulous assembly about being sad on Friday 9 September. We sang...

Railynetta read Psalm 137 and then  .

Madeline and Taurean told us about our bible reading

And then we danced to the song "  the Rivers of Babylon"....... IT WAS AWESOME.

Thanks Gordon Trigg for the photos.

Instrument Making

We are making music this term.

On Friday we made shakers, played them then later on we painted them. Letone was our conductor.

Instructions

We are learning about Instructions. We are writing instructions and have been following instructions to make things. Roan and Irvin made up a police car and want to share the instructions we wrote in class.

Geometry

Last Thursday, we made nets in to 3D shapes for maths. We are learning to identify and describe 3 D shapes.

Fantastic Friday

On our awesome Friday our huge school had iceblocks.I had lemonade flavour and it tasted like frozen, fresh lemonade.Other kids had juicy traffic lights and lime, raspberry and orange. They were fantastic iceblocks.
We had them to celebrate St Anne's feast day. St Anne was Mary's mother.

By Ethan

Ronald McDonald comes to school.

On Friday we went to the hall to practice singing. Surprise, surprise. "Ronald McDonald's here!" I screamed.

I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought my eyes were playing tricks. He opened up a bag and got something out.Then he got out a black sheet and hung it on the thing he got out. He took a tiny glance at us, and he squeaked like a mouse. He was a little bit shy. He was hillarious. He told a story about himself losing a red and white stripey sock and about road safety, but he found out it(the sock) was on his back. Miss French read the story so she got the stripey sock. It felt great being there.

Room 3 Term 3 newsletter

Room 3 Newsletter: Term 3 2011  Blogspot  Google  103stannes

Dear Parents/ caregivers

Welcome back to school for term 3. I hope you enjoyed your holiday break with the children and were able to have some fun in the snow and some quality time together.

This term our key competency is THINKING- a skill that is vital in all areas of school and home life. We will be looking at some thinking tools together this term.

As well as celebrating our feast day on 5 August with a liturgy in the church at 1.30pm which you are welcome to attend, we will be finishing off the Church Strand for the first two weeks of RE. Then after a week looking at prayer, we will start on the Saints   strand. Once we start on this, a note will be sent home. I encourage you to talk about church –related  ideas when RE homework comes home. This is a great time for you to help children to understand the teachings of the church.

For written language we will be writing instructions for how to do things. Also Term 3 is the traditional time when we have poetry and speech competitions throughout the school. These will happen later in the term and your child will require your help at this time.

After three weeks looking at Geometry and shapes, we will return to number for maths to keep children developing their addition, subtraction and multiplication skills.

Cathy Baker from Kiwisport will continue to take lessons every fortnight to encourage children to keep active. In other PE lessons we will be looking at games that encourage and reinforce fair play and invasion skills. Swim week will start on 5 September and all children are expected to take part in this.

Our Arts focus is music and we will be trying some music making this term.

I look forward to seeing you all with your child at interviews next week. These three way discussions are a great time to revisit children’s goals, set new ones if necessary and discuss your child’s report. Interviews are on Tuesday and Wednesday. Contact the office if you need to make a time.

Pam Grant

Matariki

Portraits

PiPs workshop

MATARIKI -making poi on Friday 15 July

We had a great time making poi in room 3. Mrs Ackers, Rob and Mrs Conner helped up to weave a four strand plait. 

Jamal helped his brother Leroy to get it right.

Indi and her room 1 friend worked hard with Rob

Railynnetta's Great Story

We were writing stories about What's the chance. Have a listen to this great story.