Poem Compeitition

I felt nervous before saying my poem to the class because I was not ready yet.

I felt happy after saying my poem to the class because it was fun.

I think I did an awesome job at reciting my poem because I was being loud.

Art

My favourite step of doing this artwork was painting it. I love my artwork because its colour is pink like a cherry blossom tree.   

                                                                              

Persuasive Writing

 

We are learning to write a persuasive piece of write to try and convince the reader our opinion. I can come up with reasons why you should bye this broken toy. It was tricky to come up with reasons because I could not thing of any reasons.

Nga Tae

We are learning to communicate about physical characteristcs in Te Reo Maori. Ican identify some Maori colours. I enjoyed learning about Maori colours because it is fun.

Feelings Art

This term been learning all about emotions. We watch the movie inside Out. We did some artwork about feelings and the characters from the movie. I love my artwork because it fun doing art and using pastal.

Would You Rather Questions

Check out these would you Rather Questions that we Room 17 made up. I like this

oral language activity because it is fun to answer the questions. 

Sea Week Art

I was learning  to blend colours using paint. My favourite part of doing this art work was smudging the Jelly Fish. I love this artwork because it was fun making it. 

Swimming

My favourite part of our swimming lesson is having free time. I find it tricky to walk in the water.
I love swimming because it fun.

Welcome

Welcome to my Year 3 learning blog. I am in Room 17. My teacher is Miss Armiger.

WALT look after our environment.

Room 4 has been thinking about how we can help the environment and animal habitats, especially aquatic animals. We have learned that even if it is far away from the ocean, rubbish can still find its way there. We went out one afternoon and collected as much rubbish as we could find from around our school. We know that if everyone does a little bit to help the environment, we can make a big difference.

WALT create sequential and repeating patterns.

Room 4 have been learning about patterns during maths time. We have found out that there are two different types of patterns, repeating, where the patterns continues the same way, and sequential, where it gets bigger. After learning about these patterns and looking at some examples, we were able to explore patterns through different materials and made our own! It was a lot of fun!

WALT work with a buddy.

Room 4 has been lucky to have been able to work with our Year 4 buddy class, Room 16. They have been working on their inquiry topic, Volcanoes and wanted to share what they had learnt with us. We had fun making a paper volcano and learning some fun facts along the way!

WALT Explore and act on issues and questions that link our science learning to our daily living.

 As a part of our inquiry topic, Under the Sea, Room 4 has been looking at the effects of human activity on aquatic animal habitats. We followed the story of 'Freddy the Fish' who was cut out of sponge and soaked up all of the different pollutants that we added to his home as the story went on. It was interesting for us to see all of the different ways that our actions affected Freddy's habitat. Even though we had fun adding all of the different 'pollutants', it made us feel sad to see how dirty Freddy's water had become.

This led us to think of how we could fix what we had done and decided to try to clean Freddy's water and home. We looked at making a water filter out of sand, gravel and coffee filters. We could definitely see a difference between the polluted and filtered water, but it was nowhere near as crystal clear as it had been before. It showed us that pollution is hard to reverse once it is done.

WALT write a cinquain poem.

Room 4 have been learning how to write cinquain poems. These poems don't rhyme, but have a special number of words per line. We used adjectives, which are describing words and verbs, which are action words.

Success criteria:

- Write the correct number of words per line.

- Use two adjectives.

- Use two verbs.

Winter

Cold, icy

Playing, skating, skiing

I love the cold

Snow

WALT discuss how blubber helps to keep Antarctic sea mammals warm.

LI: For students to extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.

WALT discuss how blubber helps to keep Antarctic sea mammals warm.

Room 4 recently had an 'Antarctica snow day' where we explored, discussed and took part in activities related to the southern most continent and its sea creatures. We set up a science experiment to find out how blubber keeps marine mammals warm in the cold waters of Antarctica.

First, we put our hands into some icy cold water to see what it would feel like.

Next, we used the 'blubber bag', or a double layered bag with vegetable shortening in between, like a glove when we put our hands in the water.

We found that it was much less cold to put our hands in with the 'blubber bag' and we hardly even felt the water at all!

WALT cut shapes into Halves and Quarters.

In Room 4 we have been learning about simple fractions. We now know how to find a half, a quarter and one whole of a shape. To show our knowledge, we decided to make pretend pizza and cut it into different fractions.

Success Criteria:

- Understand what 'equal parts' mean.

- Know how many equal parts are needed to make halves and quarters.

We are learning about halves and quarters. It means that you cut something. When you cut something into two pieces that are the same you make halves. 

Chinese New Year.

Room 4 celebrated Chinese New Year by making drums. First, we learned about the legend of the monster Nian who came out to terrorise villages at New Year. The people of China learned how to scare the monster away with loud noises and the colour red, like our noisy red drums!

Welcome to Year 2.

Welcome to Year 2!

We are very excited to be in Room 4 this year.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

WALT identify the author and the illustrator in the text.

Room 4 has been using all of our reading skills this year, ready for Year 2. Every week we have a new 'test' 
about different parts of the book. We have been searching for full stops, exclamation marks, question marks 
and commas. This week we are focusing on finding the author and the illustrator. We all had a turn to come up 
and point to where the illustrators name is. Miss Donnell tried to trick some of us and changed the pages!

'I know the illustrator is the person who draws the pictures for the story.' 

WALT identify NZ notes and coins

WALT identify NZ notes and coins.

We had Captain Cash from ASB come to visit Room 4.
We learnt lots about saving money, spending money and
sharing money.

Miss Donnell decided to test us and see if we remembered how to sort out the coins and notes from biggest to smallest.

Look at my sorting success!