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.