Busy! Busy! Busy!

In Room 3 this week we have been doing a dance. We have made up some actions for it and it looks cool. We have been doing lots of stuff for the sharing of In the Beginning. We have been printmaking room5 images of the land. We are hoping lots of people are coming to the production.
By Aidan and Kaila!

Look At What We`ve Been Doing This Week!!!!

This week we have been learning some songs with Room 5 they are called Haere Mai Ra, I Stand Amongst Ferns, Just One Earth and Purea Nei, we`re having lots of fun singing them. We are learning them for our school production. We finished the book Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian and we just finished watching the movie today too. The school is going to have a opening for the new turf on Sunday the 30th 2008. We hope to see you there.
By Kesi

Week 6 with the R3LT

Gala Saturday was on the 15 November 2008 and we rode Pony around the field. There was a dunking machine at the Gala Day and we got all wet. There was toys, books and puzzles for sale. There was Flick the Fire Engine giving rides and a bouncy castle. You could also get your face painted. Some people also ate yummy toffee apples.
Hope is away in Samoa on Holiday for two weeks.
In PE we were learning to hit tennis balls with tennis rackets.
Janinta, our new fish, is happily swimming around our tank.
This week for topic we asked a question about space that we wanted to find out, then researched and presented our findings. It was hard learning how to do research but we did a good job.
By Naquoia, Danya & Miss S.

Week 5 with the R3LT

This week has been fun with Miss Power. We have learnt lots of new stuff.
Gala day is on the 15th of November (this Saturday) and it will be a lots of fun.
It was sad this week this week because Bumble bee died so Miss Power bought her fish Janita today.
On wednesday we played soccer and Jacob was in the middle.
Also Rory came back to us from a school in Nelson which we were very happy about.
We wrote legends and it was hard work. The story was called Hinepau.
The end by Hope and Jack.

In Week 4

Wow week 4 was busy.
We had Family fun night for Home School Partnership.
We have got Miss Power with the Room 3 Learning Team for two week's. Today was the Room 3 Learning Team's Assembly and it is wacky hair day.
Mrs Cane came back to see us and she taught us on the 5/11/08.
By Taungapeau finau and joseph Dewhirst .

In Week 3

Wow Week 3 flew by!!
We had the Kids for Kids concert that the students in Room 3 and 5 had been practicing hard for. There was an adults verse soccer team game, which the was draw. We got to us our brand new goals. Sadly our goldfish Goldie died and we miss our fish a lot.
By The R3LT

A Fun Week

Hi everybody,
We have go a new student named Gabby. This week we have practiced lots for the Kids for kids concert, which is next week on Tuesday the 28th of October at the Town Hall.
We started our P.E last week, this week we played a hockey game. It was a nice game.
On Wednesday the year 0-3 went to the Observatory it was fun! The year 4 students went on Thursday night. In Maths we have been learning about weight volume and capacity. We have been measuring with scales and water. We have had a good week.
From Sujata and Katelyn

room3 learning team's week 1 blog

In the 1 week of term 4 we started emailing our email buddies. We got a letter from Amber and she is enjoying her new house an hour away. We have started P.E, it is hockey and we learnt how pass the ball to each other and hit the ball. S ome of the room 3 and room 5 people are practicing for kids for kids concert in two weeks. The people who do kids for kids practice at 2:30 with Mrs Jewiss and the people that don't do kids for kids play hockey with Miss Sutherland room3's teacher on the brand new turf.

By Mirai and Taungapeau

This is what we are up to!

This week in maths we have been learning about money and how to make the same sort of money different ways. WAL Walrus is back from Outram School with a new bag and in it was letters with lollipops and balloons and little cards from Room 9 Outram School kids. Some kids in Room 3 Learning Team have two email buddies. We are gonna email them soon. Kesi's email buddy is Lauryn and Aidan's is Tessa. In art we have been doing observational drawing it's been fun. We have been doing Swimming and learning Roly-Polys backward and forwards and how to backfloat. This week is the last week of term.
By Kesi And Aidan

The best Room 3 blog ever by Taungapeau and Jacob!

Yesterday we learnt how to count money and give change in Maths.
We had swimming. we have learnt how to swim and do rollipolys in the pool.
Today we had assembly.
This week Larry is visiting room 3 while Wal is visiting room9 at Outram school.
We have been doing art and we have been drawing obsrvaional drawing.
We have had a really good week.
By Taungapeau and Jacob.

R3LT' s bloggings of Week 8

In our topic we have been learning about space and we are wondering what happened to pluto?
In language we have been doing persuasive writing. Our goal was to persuade Miss S to agree with us about whether or not we thought Wal Walrus should go to Room 9 at Outram school for a week. We decided that he should go and he is going there next week with a camera to record his adventure for us. We had a great milo cricket session at 11:30am.
And we are looking forward to swimming next week and keeping pinehill beautitul after lunch by picking up rubbish.


by Mirai and Jack

The busy week 7 .

Room3 Learning Team are doing fact files on ourselves and today we posted them to Room 9 at Outram School. We hope they get them on Monday.

We had home school partnership at 5:45pm last night. It was a good night.
It was Room 3's assembly today. It was fun and we spoke clearly so everyone could hear us. The song is leave the light on. The star of the week is......... sujata. The cup went to Mirai .
The cross country is today at 1:30pm. We are hoping to see lots of families at the cross country. We hope we do well at the cross country.
The week has been really busy.
by Tamara and Naquoia.

Room 3`s Blog for Week 6

It has been awesome, crazy week in Room 3 because we were so busy.
In maths we played cross the swamp to practice our addition and subtraction.
We have had 6 weeks of practice for PHS cross country that is on Friday 5th of September.
In the life Education bus we learned about the circulatory system. We learned about the heart and other parts of body.
The Room 3 Learning Team likes the screen holder we got from Mrs Jewiss.
On Wednesday Jacob went with room5 to a Cross Country at Balmacewn Intermediate school. Jacob came 28th and Dione came 6th. She is in the top ten and is going to the otago race.
Bumblebee room3s fish got taken out from our fish tank to Miss Sutherland's house till he feels better.

By Jacob and Mirai

The Room 3 Learning Team in Week 5

Yesterday we had soccer with Malcom and Mike. We learned how to bounce the ball on head and our knees. It was a lot of fun.
We are learning how to tell the time too.
Some people are leaning how run fast like Jacob, Joseph and Rory.
Today we went to the library with Miss Barnett.
Yesterday we finished our class sticker chart.
This Monday Harold the giraffe is coming to Pine Hill School. We can not wait untill he comes .
On Tuesday we wrote a letter to Mrs Jewiss to persuade her to buy us a holder for our class screen. Today Mrs Jewiss wrote back to us and gave us a holder for our screen.
Thank you Mrs Jewiss.


by Taungapeau and Hope.

Week 4 in Room 3

This week we have been making instruments and we wrote instructions to find out how to make each others instruments. We had our sound celebration on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

On the 14th we were in the hall and we were having a music performance by Midleton Grange School. Today we are going to the Keep NZ Beautiful performance.

We were doing gymnastics, this week we were learning how to land and use the box.

We started the book Prince Caspian.

By Sujata and Jayden.

What We Are Up To In Room 3

In Room 3 we have been learning to make a puzzle together. It was Joseph`s puzzle and we just finished it today. We had fun making it and we might be making another puzzle since we finished this one.

We are starting gymnastics it is fun and we are getting fitter every time we do it.

We haven`t had much people in our class this week cause a bug has been going around people in our class are coughing a lot .

We have been keeping our selves safe and we had a police officer come to our class, we had alot of fun learning to keep ourselves safe.

We are now making our instruments it is fun Kaila is making a guitar and Kesi is making a drum with a handle.

By Kesi And Kaila

Week 2 Learning in Room 3

Today it was the Room 3 Learning Team's Assembly. Lost of people used BIG voices. It is the first day of August today. Pine Hill School has had lost of visitors. On Monday we had 5 Japanese students come and teach us how to make origami planes and Pichachu's. On Tuesday and on Thursday there were teachers from other schools who came to Pine Hill School to see our work and to talk to us about our learning. Room 3 went into Room 1 and Room 1 went into Room 3, we did lots of work together. On Wednesday we had current events. On Thursday we had book news. Room 3 designed instruments that we want to make next week. Constable Greer came on Wednesday for our Keeping Ourselves Safe work.

I had a fun week in Room 3!
By Katelyn.

Maori Language Week

The first week of Term 3 was also Maori Language Week. In Room 3 we made a chart of what we wanted to learn to say in maori. We listened to the Maori legend, Maui and the Sun, then we retold the story as a class. The whole school went into three groups of kids who did some maori activities. We did stick games with Miss Barnett, printmaking koru patters with Miss S and singing with Mrs Jewiss and Ms Taylor.

This week we also made a marca in the art room as part of our Sound Inquiry we are finishing from last term.

We had a great Maori Language Week!

By Danya and Aidan.

Highlights of our year so far

The Room 3 Learning Team have had many exciting learning experiences so far in 2008.

Some of your highlights from Term 1 were...

• Meeting WAL Walrus our class learning buddy for the year.
  
• EOTC (Education outside of the Classroom) Week. During that week we went to the Gourmet Ice Cream and Chocolate Factory, created our own ice cream art, had a sleepover at school then walked to Woodhaugh Gardens for games and lunch. We even feed the ducks! It is certainly a highlight of the year. The year 4 students went to stay the night at the museum with Room 5 instead of sleeping over at school.
  
• Learning and playing rippa rugby.
• Jump Rope for Heart.
• Reading the BFG as a class.
• Whole School Buddy Reading and Writing.
• Visit from Dog Control.
• Visit from Kaila's puppies.
• Easter and making our own easter wrappers to wrap yummy easter eggs
  
• Visit from Ronald McDonald who was talking about road safety.
• Making ice cream to see how cooling changes the state of milk.

It was a great term!!!!!

Some of our highlights from Term 2 were...

• Performing 3 maori songs at the Dunedin North Hui Ako.
• Hearing stories by Paul Jennings.
• Jump Jam.
  
• A visit from 2 Otago Nuggets players and learning some basketball skills.
  
• Having 2 student teachers working with us.
• Starting our sound inquiry.
• A performance by Bob Bickerton.
• Making musical instruments like drums, pan pipes, bottle orchestras and musical cake tins.
• Making our own aerobic DVD to help keep us fit and sharing this with our parents.
  
• Achieving our writing goals during author time.
• Making our own Maracas.
  
• We got new games from the Friends of the School. We got Junior scrabble, Monopoly, Connect Four and Guess Who.
• We found out that next term Sujata and Jayden would be coming to join the Room 3 Learning Team.

It was a very busy, fun and awesome term.

Please come back and read about Term 3. We are going to write a blog entry each week to share our learning with you.