The Magic

This year the year 3 children have had a wonderful year. They have noticed that there is something special around us and this is our movie trying to find out what it is.

Many thanks to Room 16, Room 4 and The wonderful year 4 girls who guest starred in our movie this year.

Art Fun

Today was the first day of term and we had an immersion day looking at different forms of art and planning for the term ahead. 

We started the day in immersions assembly with each team sharing their focus for the term. Then we started writing creative recounts about the assembly. 

After morning tea and for the afternoon we started our art rotations. 

Our rotations were focused on basic skills and planning. 

We practiced using a paint brush carefully. 

We design our visual Mihi which will be one of our digital art projects this term. 

We thought about a drew cultural designs in chalk outside. 

We learnt to draw a range of character and cartoons. 

PENN Move Ya Body!

This term we are learning all about moving our bodies and keeping fit and healthy. In rooms 19 and 20 we have been learning the ChaCha and keeping moving through dance and thinking about what we eat and drink.

Check out our movie.

Bubble Gum Dancer

Last week we had the amazing Bubble Gum dancer come and share their amazing moves with us. We loved the way they shared their moves with us. We also enjoyed seeing some of Pt England dancers. 

Rube Goldberg Machines

We have had a busy term in team 3 learning all about forces and motion. We have taken all this learning a designed and animated our Rube Goldberg Machines. These machines show different simple machines in action and how they impact the balls as they move through the machine.

This is our Task Description and Rubric:



These are the wonderful creations of some of our year 3 learners. Sadly many did not get a change to record their voice over but it is clear they have worked hard and thought carefully about their Rube Goldberg Machines and how many simple machines can work together.

Dee Jaye

Tawana

Zaria

Jacob

Auckland Zoo

Last week on Thursday we went to a Auckland  zoo. We went on a bus. When we got there we had morning tea. After that we walked around the zoo. I saw the Tasmania DEVLIS they were fat, they had a white line across their bodys. They are black. The zoo keeper said" they do not harm humans. They eat meat we can call them cold blooded animals. They are the best animals I have ever seen and the most beautiful DEVLIS ever. They live in Australia.

Alex believes all zoos should be shut down because they can not provide the right environment for animals that should live in the wild.

I disagree with Alex because I think that all zoos can help animals and keep them safe. The animals helps us to learn about when they are hurt p. Zoos can teach us about all the animals. Vika agrees with Eva because animals can help us learn and and keeping them safe and animals don't hurt ever even killed. 

Legacy agrees that zoos are good but have you thought that animals don't get hurt at the zoo. Becuase the zoo keeper look after them. 

I agree with Eva and legacy that animals can die and I also agree with Vika that animals can help us.

Zoo Trip

This week we were lucky to go on a Zoofari trip to the Auckland Zoo. We really enjoyed our trip and had lots of fun learning about Native Birds from the wonderful staff at Auckland Zoo. We also had time to explore and see all the amazing animals. The kids really enjoyed the Bug Lab seeing the great creation and exploring the world of bugs.

Forces and Art

This term is all about forces and motion and the wonderful Ms Eadie has been at it again using art to teach gravity. For this wonderful piece of art the kids dropped balls with paint on them from different heights to see what kind of mark it would leave. It looked fantastic and it has made us even more excited "I Like to Move It!"

Matariki Art

Last Wednesday while I was away the wonderful Ms Eadie taught the beautiful year 3 learners to create another master piece. This time they look the theme of the up coming Matariki celebrations. They created a beautiful greenstone surrounded with lovely stars to show the starts of Matariki. Check it out.

Coding

This term student in year 3 have been learning to code using scratch junior. We have started by creating small stories where two characters interact. 

We are so excited to keep coding. 

Our Marble Run

This term we are learning all about forces and motion. How and why things move. As part of our immersion day each person made a piece for our marble run. After a long wait and lots of thinking about how we would put it together our marble run was finally completed and here it is.

When we put marbles down different paths we see them travel at different speeds. We love our new marble run.

I like to move it!

This term our inquiry learning theme is I like to move it! We are learning about our physical world and what makes movement happen.

In team 3 we are learning about how movement is occurring in our everyday lives. We are also learning to make different objects and machines that demonstrate movement.

A video made by the team 3 teachers that shows some of the things we will be learning this term.

Immersion Day

Today we learnt about physics and explore different way we could make things move. We also created lot of cool art about movement including paper planes.

We are so excited for this term and learning more about movement and the science behind it.

Fiafia

Today we had an awesome Fiafia. Sadly the weather did not hold but we still had so many wonderful families come out and watch the event.

We ended the night soaked but so very proud of every single child who stood on that stage.

Well done year 3s.

I am especially proud of the children in my rock n' roll dance group. You were all amazing!

Icing Cookies

The children in Rooms 19 and 20 have had a wonderful term. They have showed respect and learnt so much. So we decided that it was time for a treat in the last week of term.

As a treat we iced biscuits and decorated them with lollies. The children loved making their very own designs and their sweet treat to end the term. Take a look.

Forces in motion

This term we are learning about forces and motion. This is our immersion day. We played games and made a marble run to see forces in action.

 

Art

This term we have made some awesome art.

First we made picture of the sun and sky. We created these using dye and black crayon. Once we had finished we added some glitter to make it sparkle.

Next we created a self portrait.  I am so proud of the way these turned out.

Many thanks to Ms Eadie for teaching us all how to do some super cool art.

Kiwisport

This term our classes did kiwisport Get, Set, Go.

We had so much fun doing lots of different physical activities. 

Swimming

This term Rooms 19 and 20 went swimming at the Glen Innes Pools. We had so much fun and learnt some really awesome new skills.

Below are some pictures of us swimming.

Welcome to 2018

Our first week back at school as been amazing room 20 have been very busy learning and we wanted to share our learning with you.

We had a great first day on Wednesday learning about our classroom and working together to create a class treaty that we all agreed on.

Here is our Treaty:

On our Thursday we learnt all about taking care of our iPad and Styluses and then we got to work creating some amazing animations and sharing some information about ourselves by drawing pictures and voice recording.

On Friday we had our first team 3 Jump Jam session. We all loved dancing together and getting to know all the team 3 teachers and students who will be our family here at school this year.

We can't want to see what week two brings. Keep and eye on our blogs to see what we learn next week.

Hyperstudio Movie

This term we worked together as a class to make one music video. We had to take a line from our song and think carefully about what it meant then animate the meaning. All the lines were then put together into this movie. We hope you enjoy it!!