Term 4 Week 8

We had our Year 3 camp!

There was a bit of rain...

but that's why we took jackets and it didn't stop us having HEAPS of fun!!!

Thanks SO much to all of our wonderful parent helpers, 

you were fantastic!

Term 4 Week 7

 Our tiny tadpoles have become frogs!

Term 4 Week 6

 The Sharks reading group used Venn Diagrams to

summarise information about 'uninvited guests' that

live in our houses.

 

 

One of our Cacti grew an amazing flower!



Term 4 week 5

We use interactive websites as part of our 'superfoods' topic

Term 4 Week 4

We collected rubbish that we found lying around the school

We only did it for four days and found 100 pieces of rubbish!

So each day about 25 people decided just to leave their rubbish on the ground instead of taking a short walk to 

a rubbish bin....very disappointing. 

Term 4 Week 3

 We put our thinking hats on and solve more problems in algebra.

 As part of our unit on healthy eating we take 

a look at the school garden 

and browse through supermarket brochures to see 

what's on offer locally.

Munch, munch, munch....food fresh from the school garden is SOOO good for you!

Term 4 Week 2

 We study algebra with hands-on puzzles that all have a secret code to be found.

We discovered that to build 3 step, 4 step and 5 step staircases you needed 9 blocks, 16 blocks and 25 blocks...so the code to find the number of blocks we needed was: 

the number of steps multiplied by itself, so a 10 step staircase would need 100 blocks!

 Finding the answers needed a LOT of trial and error, 

persistence was the key!

 The students make sure the tadpoles get breakfast each day 

so they keep growing!

Term 4 Week 1

The masked parade is this Friday.

We will gather in Montgomery square at 4.30

(parade begins at 5.30).

Postponement day is Saturday at the same time.

Look for the sign for row B2 and the Tahunanui School banner.

You need to bring your mask and be wearing a t-shirt the same colour as your mask (blue for Room 11)

Remember to see the teacher to be marked off the register when you arrive AND before you leave.

 

 We learned many things about staying safe in the water.

For example the importance of ALWAYS wearing lifejackets in boats.

 We have new arrivals in class...

some tiny tadpoles that will grow into frogs over the next month.

Term 3 - Week 10

SCHOOL WILL CLOSE AT 2.00 ON MONDAY (only) 24TH OF OCTOBER (WEEK 11) FOR PARENT-TEACHER INTERVIEWS.  WE WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD ARRANGE ALTERNATIVE CHILDCARE FROM 2.00 OR NOTIFY THE TEACHER IF YOUR CHILD IS REMAINING AT SCHOOL.

 

A CRECHE WILL OPERATE IN THE LIBRARY FROM 3.OO - 6.30 ON MONDAY AND 3.00 - 6.00 ON TUESDAY

 

All our wonderful Pukeko masks ready for the 'myths and legends' masked parade.  Ours are based on a legend we read called "How the Kiwi lost its wings"

Term 3 Week 9

 We start practising techniques such as curling and fringing to make a different type of mask.

These ones are not for wearing but to display on the wall.
We shared them with Room 5 , they gave us lots of positive feedback and asked us very clever questions about how we made them.

We started by just focusing on the hair and eyebrows.

Term 3 Week 8

 We glue our feathers on and our wonderful Pukekos are created...all ready to march down the street on the 19th of October (20th if it rains on the 19th) 

The Room 11 students will need a blue t-shirt to wear on the day.

The other classes making a kakapo will need a green t-shirt and those classes making the tui will need a black t-shirt.

Term 3 - Week 7

Nothing beats a bit of live music!

We paint and cut out the feathers for our bird masks.

Once again thanks to the parent helpers...

we hope your hands have recovered from using child-sized scissors!

The Pukeko masks awaiting the next (and final) step when we will be attaching all the feathers.

We put rockets together that show different ways of representing fractions.

Term 3 - Week 6: Planting strawberries, beginning to paint our pukeko masks for the masked parade, the sun finally shows itself so our sports leaders take us out for a game.

 We get our hands dirty planting some delicious strawberries, yum!

 We start painting the base-colour on our masks.

Thanks SO much to the parent helpers that gave us a hand 

beginning our masks and beaks.

Now that the paint is dry our next step is 

getting our cool blue feathers ready!  

The masked parade is on the first Friday of term 4.

 The sun shows up! 

Time to get active outside...yeeeehaaaa!!!!!

Term 3 Week 6

Here is a link to help you with this weeks homework. Click on the words below.

Tree Octopus website.

Term 3 Week 5: We eat our delicious peas, we create tinfoil olympic figures, we are registered for maths week which means we can use their cool website!

YUM!  The pea plants give the students a tasty reward for taking such great care of them.

We are registered for maths week so go ahead and use 

those passwords Room 11...have fun!