Anzac in Memory

Lats week the children read a story about ANZAC day. They had to choose one things that reminded them of ANZAC draw it and explain it.

John

This is a Poppy. A Poppy represents world war 1. It respects the solders and nurses who died from the
First World War.

Shape hunt

Last week the children in the block went on the shape hunt. They had to look around their house to see what shapes they could find. Here are three examples of what they found. 

Jaxson

My shapes that I collect from my own house.

Cayden
Today I went on a walk. I hunted for shapes.

Shyla 
Hi theses are the shapes I found

What is a Landform

Here is Hopoate's wonderful Slideshow about landforms that he created with his sister.

This was a little hard but I got through it because my sister helped me. I learnt some interesting things.

Just Keep Writing

This term we have been away from our normal class and learning from home. But that has not stopped the children in the block from writing amazing stories. They have been writing in their writing books or straight onto their blog. I am so proud of them and all the great writing they are doing.

Toran

Jaxson

Eve

Get fit for sport

This week Ms Va'afusuaga challenged us to spell our name using exercises. I gave it a go. I hope you like my video.

Maths Videos

Here are some videos of two amazing room 21 children sharing their maths thinking.

Eve
Here I am showing you how I learnt one of the timetables and how I got the answer using cards to make my groups.


Cayden
Today I did some math and it was easy. So I did my own equation. I made a moving and showed how I solved it by putting it into bits. So first I added the tens then I added the ones. Hope you enjoy.

Reading Baskets of Fire

Last week we read Baskets of Fire. Here are some of our creations.

Eve
I drew a picture about the story I read of an explorer called Ngātoro-i-rangi who climbed a mountain and he said to his sisters to bring him a kete full of fire because he was cold but he ran past three baskets of fire already that's why he only has one.


Jaxson

                                                                       Basket of Fire

Ngatoro-i-rangi was a brave explorer. He was a expert at many things. He knew about stars and the sea, and magic. Many years ago when the first people came and made Aotearoa their home, Ngatoro-i-rangi sails his Waka all the way from Hawaii. When he arived in Aotearoa he set off  to explore the new land. He found a place with a huge lake and many mountains. Today, we call that place Taupo.
In order for him to claim these places he needed help from his sister back in Hawaiki. With magic the sisters were able to send  the Basket of Fire through the Gods all the way to Aotearoa!
With Kete of fire it helps Ngatoro-i-rangi able to claim the mountains.

Cayden

I read a story about Aotearoa and the storm of Ngatoro i rangi. This is how Aotearoa got heated up.

Making a plant

This is Shyla's creative plant.

Shyla 

Hi today I made a plant shape out of forks. Its grey. Little, grass plant and skinny. I like the way it point out.

Our World Create a Plant

Today for reading we are all reading different stories about the world outside. For our reading task we need to make a picture that creates our very own plant using thing from outside or inside our house.

This is Mrs Carruthers Example

My plant has silver metal flowers that stick out from the bushy mint leave. The long seeded yellow flower grows high above everything else.

I am excited to see what the children create.

Holiday Learning Journey Winner!

The points are in. The holiday have now ended and so has our every so fun holiday learning journey. I want to give a huge shout out to the 15 children who actively blogged during this time. You are all amazing.

Now it is time for our winners.

In First place Cayden. Cayden we loved the video you shared and the way you involved your whole family in your learning. Keep it up and we will have a prize for you when we return to the classroom.

In Second place Shyla. Shyla we loved all the different types of posts you did and seeing all the joy in your posts. Keep it up and we will have a prize for you when we return to the classroom.

And in third place Ponyamon. Thank you for your creative stories Ponyamon. Keep it up and we will have a prize for you when we return to the classroom.

Awesome Holiday Learning

Well done year 3! You have all been amazing during this Covid-19 Lockdown. We are so proud of you.

A special thank you to all who have blogged over this time.
Cayden
Aliana 
Oi'Oi 
Ponyamon
Shyla
Angel 
Jaxon 
Jaxson 
Braxton 
Toran 
Sa
Maung Maung
Eve
John 
Luisa

We have loved seeing your posts come through and leaving you comments.
Toran 

My Dad drew these pictures of me playing "GOTCHA"

To stop the virus there is this game named "gotcha" 

How to play gotcha

If you see someone in your family touching their face you say "gotcha" then they have to stop touching their face and try to not touch their face with their hands. There are two winners who get a prize. One person who has not been touching their face wins. One person who has caught lots of people wins. Our prize was lollies! 

Sa

Today was a fun day. We made lots of cookies, and they were yummy with lots of sugar. We made cookie dough and put it in the oven. We made icing and the color was pink, green, and dark green. My siblings and I all got to put icing on the cookie and it was so yummy. We all ate our cookies outside and play games. 

Eve

Hello Everyone my Name is Eve. This is how you wash your hands to keep germs off them. 

Thank you for Watching!

Helping out

Our wonderful year 3s are amazing helpers. Here are some examples of them helping at home during the lockdown.

Cayden
At home I do lots of things to help.

Like putting the dishes away.



John

Vika and keles grandad said who will help me do the veges. vika went to help a friend of hers. keie went to help his friend from next door but he changed his mind but his dad said go tomorrow. grandad did the gardening. I would pick up the rubbish todo a helpful thing.

Oi'Oi

                                                                                              

How I help out with my famliy is I wash the dish and clean the house up it is very good to keep your house clean.

Giraffes

Learning from home. During the Lockdown we have been learning from home. In this task we watched a video about giraffes and wrote stories. Here are 3 Stories. Please click through to our blogs to leave a comment. 

Cayden

Giraffes are smart because they can dive and flip. They have the tallest necks because they eat leaves. When they walk they are loud. Giraffes are the tallest mammals in the world.
Giraffes live in the wild in Africa or in zoos. At the zoo giraffes have pools so they can drink the water. They are very flexible because they do tricks in the water.

Shyla

If I was one of the giraffes I will fell bored to walk stairs but happy to jump in the pool. I will also run back up the stairs after I swim to the end of the pool.  At the end I will drink a water then run to out of the pool.

John

The giraffes were coming out of there cages and then one of the giraffes were joking at the security cameras then he poke his tongue out. 

They started walking to the top of the diving board. They went round and round to get to the top. 

After one giraffe was hanging upside down, so the giraffes can do a flip next they jumped in the deep big pool.

 Then after the giraffes kept on going until they drank the pools water then they herd a sound then they have to run away back to there cages.

We are all Different.

As we move into learning at home during the Covid19 Alert Level 4 Lockdown.
I have notice that the way children share is different.

They still follow  learn, create, share but how each children creates depends on their resources and support.

This task is about Aliens

Here is all the wonderful sharing my learners have done.

Ponyamon 
Aliens
When people see a aliens they get scared they can be scary because they look like a real poisonous but I think some of the aliens are poisonous because they skin look like and soft jelly and  they look like a toy but they are real. Aliens 51 is very scary then the others because it can go to New Zealand and they space ship is very fast.

Braxton

This is my Alien

Shyla

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Oi'Oi
Today me and my mum were drawing a alien for my homework and so I can’t get bored this alien lives out of space

Fish Story

On the last day of school before the lockdown we made animations about a fish. We listened to a story, drew characters and backgrounds to make our own stories.

Hunter 
This is my story about a fish.