Storytelling in Room 10!

For the last few weeks, Room 10 students have been taking turns to read aloud to the class. We call it our storytelling time and each day we have someone different read us their favourite picutre book! It has been fantastic to listen to all the fantastic stories and especially the expression used when reading aloud!

School Disco

At 5 o'clock last Friday, the Y1 - 3's had their school disco. It was lots of fun! We made a HUGE train and went around the hall. They had a disco ball and the lights were lots of different colours.

Some more Hangi photos!

Powhiri and Hangi

On Friday we were lucky enough to have a beautiful day for Green-Gold Enviro School Celebration!
We had a Powhiri in the morning, along with some fantastic speeches from some of our senior students. Later on in the day we went and watched the hangi being cooked and taken off. We then all got to have a taste of the hangi in a fantastic picnic on the field.

We loved the hangi food!
George and Mathieson

The speeches that the seniors presented were cool
Anna, Ruby, Charlotte and Emeline

We really enjoyed the Kapahaka performances!
Ben and Jack

We liked getting the certificate and flag for Green-Gold!
Ella, Meike and Leah

The Muritai Herald!!!!

Last term our writing topic was persuasive writing. We did lots of debating and discussing our ideas before writing a few pieces of persuasive writing.

We also designed an advertisement using persuasive language. After doing all this work Lily thought it would be a great idea to put some of our writing and adverts into a newspaper! We all agreed and so the MURITAI HERALD was born!!

It was a lot of work to put together a newspaper but we are very proud of what we have achieved! Here are some pictures of our finished newspaper. We have a copy in our class if you would like to see it up close!

Tepapa

We went on a bus to Tepapa .We sat together on the bus and Annabelle's mum came and Annabelle got to sit on Wendy's lap.Our favourite parts were making our own squid and the dinosaur dig and cave.
by Annabelle and Megan

jump rope

On Wednesday we do jump rope.We do it so that we learn how to skip and it gives us exercise.

By William and Monty

Jumprope

This term room10 have been doing jump rope every day before morning tea. On the 23rd of September the year 3's are going to be jumping for heart.

By Mary and Charlotte.

the first moon landing

was 1969 We have been learning about the moon landing and the date hen the first person landed on the moon.

By Jonathan

Jump rope for heart

In room ten our class has been skipping out side to warm our selves up and for the jump rope for heart. We,ve been practicing new styles.

By Jack and Mathieson

GYMNASTICS

For the last few weeks room8 and room10 on Mondays have been in the hall doing gymnastics .
We have been learning balances and landing in different ways and forms. We have also been doing springs and jumping!

By Lily and Ella

TE PAPA

ON the 2 of september the year 3s went to TE PAPA for our inquiry about Maori ansesters.WE got to see the meeting house and Maori story house .THAT one was cool because it had maui and the sun.by BETH

Jump Rope

In room 10 we have been doing jump rope.We are doing all kinds of skips.

by Luke and George

Room 10's Wednesday Skipping!

On Wednesday room 10 goes outside to do skipping .We do it for fitness and we generally do it for about 20 minutes or half an hour .We learn to do all different skips like long rope.The whole of our class gets really tired at the end of jump rope.
by Ruby and Emeline

Paired Reading!

Today we did some paired reading for our inquiry unit. We are learning about the early Maori migration to New Zealand and what life was like for them when they got here. Today we read a short story about gardening and learned all about Kumara!

Paired reading is fun because...

'It's good because it is fun and you get to learn more words'
Annabelle, Ben

'You get to learn more reading skills from other people'
Emeline

'You can help others'
Megan

'You read with different people'
Robbie

Man walking on the Moon!!

Today was a special day - it is the 40th aniversary of the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. We watched a video clip today and discussed what it was all about. Tomorrow we are reading a newspaper article and using WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and HOW to summarise the important information.

Take a look for yourself...

Relating to Others

Our Key Competency focus for Term 3 is Relating to Others.

Today Room 10 looked at the Ministry definition of relating to others. We decided there were lot of words we did not understand so we spent some time looking up and discussing what each part meant.



We then wrote our own definition in language everyone can understand.



We then had to think about what this would look like, sound like and feel like in our school environment. We came up with lots of fantastic ideas! We are going to write Warm Fuzzies for people we see doing all these things in our classroom and in the playground.

If you see anyone from our class doing any of these fantastic things feel free to ask someone from Room 10 to write a warm fuzzie for that person or come on in and pop one up!

Voice Threads

Last term we planned and produced some voicethreads reporting on some of the activities we do in our classroom.

We worked in groups to plan and prepare what we were going to say and then used the laptops to record our voices!

We discussed what made a good voicethread and wrote a list of criteria for our own ones. Some of the things we included were - speak in a clear voice, plan and practice what you are going to say, speak slowly

Here are some of our voicethreads!

Matariki

Today at Kapahaka we were making kites in the traditional Maori way to celebrate this special time of year. This time of year is called Matariki. It is a celebration because this is the only time of year that seven special stars can be seen. We made kites using toetoe and flax (harake). Maori Tikanga says that we must give away our first piece of work. You can come and see some of our kites in the Library, Office or in other places around the school.

Composting

Take a look at this video. What can you find out about composting or worm farms?

Kapahaka!!

Fantastic worm website!

As part of our homework this week, we have been asked to look for facts about WORMS! Here are some questions to help you find information!
Where do they live?
Why are they important?
What do they do?
How do they grow?
How big do they get?
How do they eat?

Find as much information as you can. You can write notes in your homework book to share with the class!

Have fun finding out about worms!

There is a really cool link to some information under our Inquiry links in the side bar!

Leaf Skeleton

Today Grace brought in a leaf skeleton she had found. It was really cool because it was so fragile and delicate.

Next week....Slugs! are they the same as snails??

Have a look at this amazing banana slug! (Thanks Room 11 for finding these fantastic videos!)

Today we watched how a snail eats!

We have been learning all about snails in class and their possible effect on our garden. We have learned that there are many kinds of snails and that not all of them are pests! We have learned that a snail is mostly a scavenger and eats dead animals and plants...although they can sometimes have a treat of fresh vegetables! This week we are writing up everything we have learned about snails in a report. We will publish these on our blog so that you can see all the fantastic information we have!

Room 10 can dance!!

ANZAC Poems!

We used some pictures as our inspiration. We discussed what the people in these pictures would see, hear and feel.

We brainstormed lots of ideas, trying to think about words that really described what war would be like. We used these ideas to write some poetry.

Mrs Drinkwater has published these onto our writing blog. Feel free to go and have a look and leave a comment...if you want! They are also published up on the wall at school.

Our fabulous Beans!!!!

Capital E

Last week on Friday we walked outside and got on the bus. We went to Capital E.
We got off the bus and we watched our first show. It was all about drums. Their
first trick was drumming with fire. Then we walked down the footpath and went
to our second show. William L put his head in the scariest dinosaur. On Monday our
beans were very big. Now it is so big that its roots are on the bottom of the jar!.The stem is growing fast.

By Harry and Charlotte.

Here are some pictures....

last week by lily and robbie ?

Last week we have been doing lots of exciting thing.On Tuesday we year 4s and 3s went down to the pool and had our swimming sports . We were all excited about doing it.There were length races width races and little pool races. And on thursday we finished our publishing from monday about our holidays. On wenesday we planted beans with mrs holmes.Its growing well all ready ?

By Robbie and Lily

Plants, Sketching and Swimming!!

It has been a busy week in Room 10! this week we have started our new inquiry into "Growing Plants". It is very exciting as we have lots of neat experiments planned and eventually we will plant a selection of plants in our very own class planter box! (Thanks Ted for making these!!)We went and had a look at some of the different plants that grow in and around the school...we collected some small samples and even took some photos of the really interesting ones!

We have been busy sketching in our Art books and have produced some amazing pictures! We are practicing our drawing skills and also learning some shading techniques. We have been using our special 6B art pencils so far, but we plan to use pastels for our next piece of art. Please come in and look at our art books!

Swimming sports are being held next week, so this week we have been discussing and deciding on which races to enter. There is a selection of width races and length races to chose from.

Art and Fitness

Hi All

This week in Room 10 has been very busy!

For art this week we have done some sketching. We used 6B pencils to create patterns using all sorts of different lines. We got really dark fingers from so much smudging!
We then used a dye wash to add a little bit of colour. Hopefully Mrs Drinkwater will have these up on our wall next week, so please come in and have a look!

For fitness, we are doing relays. Lots of different kinds of relays. We have used tennis balls to throw and catch and have also done lots of running, skipping and hopping relays.

Room 10

Welcome Back!!!

Welcome back everybody! I hope you have all had a fantastic holiday!
I certainly did...and after a month in cold Europe I am certainly enjoying the sunshine of the last few days.
I am looking forward to meeting all the new children in Room 10 and getting to know you all. It's going to be another fun, exciting and busy year here at Muritai and I can't wait to start!

See you all next week!
Mrs Drinkwater