Speed Stacks

We were lucky enough to have a go with the speed stacks.
We worked well together to make large stacks!

Questions

We are asking questions about the books we are reading.

Happy Holidays

Hope everyone has a wonderful break from school.
Have a rest and come back ready to learn.
Hope you all do some great things over the holidays that you can share with us all the first day back.
Have fun.

Right Choices

Today because it was the last day of term we got to have Right Choices. In Room 3 everyone has shown awesome behaviour all term so we all got to go.
The Junior Jets all had a disco for Right Choices. Everyone seemed to be having fun.

Big Green Rig

Today we enjoyed another session at the Big Green Rig.
We learnt about flooding and what we might need to take with us if there was a flood. We thought it was a very good time to think about it as we have had so much rain in the last week.
We then got to look at some of the interactive activities.

Leiticia is playing on the bird song game

Trying to make sure the fish survive all the different things in their lives such as floods and rats

Writing about what we have learnt at the Big Green Rig

Fishing for Whitebaite

Using the microscope

Choosing things that would be useful in a flood to help.

Computer games to help with our learning

Coulton

Waituhi and Stephanie

Adam

Charlotte

Zak and Joshua

Big Green Rig

Today was our first day on the BIG GREEN RIG.
We learnt about different animals and how we can save water.

Here are some photos:


Big Green Rig on PhotoPeach

Discovery - Week 10

Learning new Jump Jam Routines

Giant Marble Run

Car Garaging System

High Marlbe Run

Charlotte's Comic Touch

Movie of our classroom.

Tonight after everyone had gone home, I took a movie of what our classroom looks like. So people all over the world can see what we have been doing.
Tomorrow we will take another one with Room 3 learning.

I pod touch

Check out this crazy programme I found on the Ipod.
We will all be learning to use it over the next few weeks. It is called Comic Touch and is similar to Comic Life that we have used on the computer.

Sand Pit sentences

We are learning to use pages on the Mac to put photos and write sentences about the photo.

Lions Information Reports

We have been doing some amazing writing about Lions during writing time.
We have made these into an information report.
They are all up in the classroom.

Website

I found this cool website today.

http://speakaboos.com/story/

Have a look- it has lots of stories and fairy tales on it.

Jump Jam

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Sand Pit

We got to play in the sandpit for the first time today.

Sand pit on PhotoPeach

Netball

Netball on PhotoPeach

Maori Language Week

This week is Maori Language Week.
During the week we will be learning some new phrases and things to say in Maori.
Check out some of the links down the side of the page that you can play or have a look at.

Try this out:

Kei te pēhea koe?

This means how are you? 

Volcano

After writing all about volcanoes a few weeks ago we decided to have our own volcano.
Here are the pctures of our volcano erupting. Even though our volcano was a very strange colour. The lava looked good.

Sand Pit

We were all very excited to be able to use the sand pit for the first time.
Here are nearly all the Junior Jets playing together.
The playground was empty.

Haere Mai

We are learning the words and actions to Haere Mai.
Check out the video below:

Haere Mai

We are going to learn the words and actions to the Maori Waiata  Haere Mai.
Check out the video below:



Words:

Haere mai, haere mai
E ngā iwi e haere mai
Ki runga o te marae
Hui mai tātou katoa
E hine mā, e tama mā
Hapainga to mana Māori e
Kia rewa runga rawa
I a ha hā
E ngā iwi e
Haere mai, haere mai.
Tahi miti toru e
Tae te marumaru
Whare tapu teitei
Te ao korowhiti
Tenei au e te tū hawerewere
Te ao wahine
Rū rū tāwhai tāwhai

Jump Jammers

Wow!
Didn't our Jump Jammers do a wonderful job today in assembly.
Check out the photos below:

Sand Pit

We have been watching the sand pit being made over the last month. It is nearly ready. We went to check out the progress today and used our new ipod touch to take the photos.

Here is what it looks like so far.

Charlotte Mihi

Taking Risks

This afternoon we thought about all the different things we do that involves taking a sensible risk.
These are some of the ideas that we came up with.

Handwriting

We have been working really hard with our handwriting.
We spend time concentrating on how to form our letters properly and making it as neat as possible.

Take Risks

This topic we are learning to take risks.
We are learning to take responsible and safe risks in our everyday life.

So think about what you can do to take responsible risks.

Jump Rope for Heart

Yesterday morning we all completed Jump Rope for Heart. We tried to do as many skips as possible to raise money for the Heart Foundation.

Here we all are having a go:

Jump Rope for Heart

Unfortunately due to the rain we had to cancel Jump Rope for Heart today.
Though this does give us some more time to practice our skipping.
We will hopefully be able to do it next Friday instead.

Feijoa Baking

Today was our Feijoa baking day.
We worked well in our groups to make our different recipes.
We really liked some of the recipes and we didn't really like other ones, but we all had fun making and tasting them.
The favourite one at the end of the day was Feijoa and Chocolate Cake and 2nd was the Feijoa Ice Cream. Everyone tried a little bit of everything.

Here we are making some of our dishes.

Making Feijoa and Chocolate Cake

Making White chocolate and Feijoa muffins

Acacia, Stephanie, Morgan and Michael made this beautiful pie

Pie, Cake and Ice Cream ready to eat