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.