The Abacus

Our friend, Joyce, brought in her husband's old abacus. 

His parents gave it to him when he was 5 years old. 

We got to count with it, touch it, 

look at it and write a description of it. 

This is an abacus. This abacus looks like a box. It is old and is brown and blue and made of wood.

By Api

Look at the abacus. It is old and brown and blue. It is from Chris’ parents. 
By David

This is an abacus. The abacus looks like an old box. 
By Daviniah 

Here is an abacus and it has some blue counters for tens and brown counters and it is noisy. 
By Ellakaye

This is an abacus and it is made of circles and it is very old. It is square and Chris got it from his parents. 
By Ema

Look at the abacus. It is wooden and it is square. It is clicking. 

By Hamiora

This is an abacus and it is very old and Chris used it for counting on. It makes noises and it is brown. It is a circle. 
By Hotili

This is an abacus and it is brown and it is a shape of circles. 
By Jackwalin 

This is an abacus. It looks like a big abacus and it is brown.  

By Jada-Rae  

This is an abacus and it is very old and it is made of wood. It is used for counting. 
By Joshua 

Look at the abacus. It is big and it is brown and it is wooden and old. 
By Kane 

This is an abacus and it is very old and it is made of wood.
By Kaya

This is an abacus and it has a square and it is a brown abacus.
By Resiana

This is an abacus and it is square and it has counters of 10. 
By Ruqa

Look at the abacus. It is very old. It is like a calculator.
By Victoria

Keri's Champion Kids

 Last week these children were Keri's Champion Kids.

Congratulations.

 Ema wrote an awesome 5 senses Holiday recount.

 Ruqa wrote a sentence about the rain looking for words around the room.

Hotili was chosen because he was able to share his learning with Moira and Trish during our Feedback session.

Dates

We are learning to write a description this term.

 On Monday, Kowhai reading group read a story about shapes.

One of the shapes was an oval - a date.

We hadn't eaten a date before, so we looked, we smelled, we listened, we touched and we tasted.

 We wrote a shared story to describe the date.

Dates are a food we eat.

A date is an oval shape.

Dates are brown and black.

A date is sticky and it tastes like sugar.

We use dates when we make scones. 

  

Rain, Rain Go Away - Come Again Another Day!

On Tuesday afternoon it got dark, so we went outside to have a look. Suddenly we started to get wet... with huge drops of rain! 

We wrote some stories about what we saw and heard.

 

Hotili

I saw the big clouds and the rain falling down. The sky was black.

Ellakaye

It was cold and there were big puddles. I saw leaves falling off the trees.

David

I can feel the rain.

Ema

It was cold outside. I saw the rain and I heard the thunder.

Kaya

I can see the rain on the windows.

Troy

I can see the black clouds in the sky.

Victoria

I can see the leaves falling down off the trees.

Resiana

I saw the rain and I heard the thunder. I saw the wind.

Ruqa

I can hear the thunder and see the leaves falling off the tree.

Charles

I can see the lightning and I can see the rain. 

Introducing Keri's Champion Kids

This term our BIG IDEA is CHAMPIONS.

Keri had a SuperHero cape made for our class.

Someone who does great work gets to be 

Keri's Champion Kid 

for the day.

Today Keri's Champion Kid

was

Resiana

because she made a clear picture plan, sounded out words and wrote about one part of her holidays using her 5 senses.

Look at what happened in the holidays!

In the holidays a new canopy was made outside our classroom.

We are so lucky because now we will be able to work out here and not get wet if it is raining.

Welcome Back for Term 3

Some things have changed over the holidays.

A group of our children are moving to Room 6 on Monday and will have Sheona as their teacher.

We will miss you 

Reece, Joshua, Skylah, Api, Jada-Rae, Jackwalin, and Daviniah. 

We welcome

Hotili, Kane, David, Resiana, Ema, Ellakaye, Iziah and Victoria

to Room 3.

We are so happy you are joining our class.  

Alphabet Champions

One of the goals in Room 3 and 4 is to know all the letter names, letter sounds and a word for each letter of our Quick 60 Alphabet.

These children are our Term 2 - SUPERSTARS! 

 Jackwalin

 Daviniah

 Joshua

 Jada-Rae

 Skylah

 Hotili

 Ema

Resiana 

Way to go team.

Room 3 ALL STARS for Week 4 - Term 2

Today these awesome children were awarded certificates for their amazing work in our class.

 Api is the first child in Room 3 to know all the letter names, letter sounds and words for a letter for our Quick 60 Alphabet.

 

Jackwalin is a master OH NO game player

 

 Joshua has great listening and sharing strategies

Ka mau te wehi tamariki ataahua

Room 3 ALL STARS for Week 3 - Term 2

Today these awesome children were awarded certificates for their amazing work in our class.

 Reece has very good half fractions knowledge

 Kowhai has settled well into Room 3 and EHS

 

Ruqa is able to write 3 sentences on her own. She was also able to read them to Carol and Angela.

Ka mau te wehi tamariki ataahua

Room 3 ALL STARS for Week 1 - Term 2

Today these awesome children were awarded certificates for their amazing work in our class.

Jada-Rae, Hamiora and Daviniah

Ka mau te wehi tamariki ataahua

Sorry, Keri didn't have her camera at school today 

Room 3 ALL STARS for Week 8

Today these awesome children were awarded certificates for their amazing work in our class.

Joshua, Troy and Taliz 

 Ka mau te wehi tamariki ataahua   

ANZAC DAY

We read the DAWN PARADE Big Book.

Here's what we wrote about what ANZAC Day means 

 Our giant Poppy up in the Hall

with our ANZAC statements and poppies

We made our giant Poppy out of recycled bottle tops

ANZAC DAY is... poppies growing where the soldiers died.

By Joshua

ANZAC DAY is... saying a karakia for the soldiers.

By Skylah

ANZAC DAY is... remembering the people that died.

By Troy

ANZAC DAY is... playing the Last Post on a bugle.

By Kaya

ANZAC DAY is... the old soldiers marching on the parade.

By Hamiora

ANZAC DAY is... wearing poppies to remember the people that died.

By Jackwalin

ANZAC DAY is... people wearing poppies for the soldiers.

By Ruqa

ANZAC DAY is...saying the ode to the dead soldiers

By Api

ANZAC DAY is... going to the Dawn Parade in the morning.

By Daviniah

Room 3's Partnership for Learning

In Room 3 we do: