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.