Eating from our class garden...

Today we pulled out the celery that's been growing since last term.
After Aaliyah and Danielle kindly washed away the dirt and a (few slugs), we chopped it up, and chomped away. Some of us didn't like it, but nearly all of us tried it.

Most of us decided celery is pretty good. It goes particularly well with onion dip!
 MMmmmmmmmmm!

PET DAY

Today was Pet Day! The day started with some of the children heading out onto the field with their pets. We had lambs, calves, ponies, cats, dogs, goats and even a chook!

While the judges were busy checking out the animals, the rest of us went into the hall to create miniature rural scenes. We were joined by the other classes who were busy creating various artworks.

 

 

 



Pet Day was a lot of fun. There are lots of well looked-after and loved animals at Halcombe School.

Welcome back!

Welcome back to Room 3. I hope you all had a refreshing holiday. What a pity about the icky weather.

This term we have two new girls in our class. Welcome to Jessie Jukes and Jade Hall. Both girls are Year 3's and have come from Palmerston North schools.

Next Monday is Pet Day, and we have been busy over the past two days, working on our Applehead Dolls for this special day. Yesterday we peeled and carved faces into apples. Miss Jeynes took the apples home and they are slowly shrivelling up in her oven. (They will look like wrinkled faces in a few days!).

Today we were busy cutting, cellotaping and glueing material onto recycled plastic bottles to create the bodies for our Appleheads. Here are some of us busy at work ...

This is our lovely smiley Jade. Great to have you in Room 3!

Happy Holidays!

The day has arrived! It's the end of term. Today is a bit sad because it is Anthony's last day. We hope you enjoy Parklands School in Palmerston North, Anth.

Have a great holiday everyone!
Keep reading! Get 'lost in a book'!
Keep practising your timestables/division facts!

See you next term

Buddy Class Trust Walk

Today we joined with Room 6 (our buddy class). They had a fantastic activity lined up for us ... a trust walk!!!
We buddied up with a Room 6 kid, and were blindfolded (with a rugby sock). Our buddy carefully led us over, under, through, around an obstacle course that they'd set up during lunch time.

It was a little bit scary at the start, but our confidence grew as we were led around.
Then after it was over, WE got to lead our buddy!

Juicies for Sale

Don't forget Juicies are on sale every Wednesday outside the library!

Milk in Schools

Today was our first day of getting milk at school. Mrs Simpson came into our class and played a DVD that explained why milk is so good for us, and also it explained how to pack down the carton when we've finished, to get it ready for recycling.

 

We really enjoyed our milk and are looking forward to gulping down some more tomorrow!

 

Daffodil Day

Today is Daffodil Day! It was great to see how so many children got into the spirit of the day by dressing up in yellow, and donating money for the Cancer Society.

Some of Room 3 children dressed in yellow rubbish bags, or wore yellow pegs. One clever boy even tied yellow teddies around his tummy! (Good on you Tommy)

Here are some photos of our parade ...

Daffodil Day

School Disco

We had our school disco last Friday night. What a spectacular night! (and a great way to calm our nerves after the earthquake).

Here are some photos of the Junior disco ...

 

A HUGE thank you to the Student Council for organising and running the disco. You did a brilliant job. We had so much fun.

MATHS WEEK FUN

This week is MATHS WEEK. Room 3 have enjoyed learning new games that challenge us. We've learnt games that require strategic thinking and we've enjoyed the challenge of taking a game and changing it to make it more challenging.

Yesterday we went on a MATHS TRAIL around the school. We were in small teams, and had to find answers to maths problems. One of the tasks was to find as many different shapes as we could on the playground.  How many different shapes can you see in this photo?

We had to solve real life problems that involved adding, subtracting, and multiplying. We also had fun challenges like .... how many jumps to get across the netball court????

 

 

We taught the Room 2 children a fun adding/subtracting game called 'First to 15". Ask us how to play it if you want to learn...

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

The Big Sad Wolf Show

We were all treated with a special show today called The Big Sad Wolf.
It was a very funny show about a poor, misunderstood vegetarian wolf, who is blamed for eating sheep. But eventually the real culprit gets found out.

Here are some pictures ...

What a fantastic show. It was great to hear so many children laughing together.

MATHS WEEK

Maths week is coming up!

School Disco

The school disco is coming up on Friday 16th August. Check out this clip

 

Gymnastics fun

Here are some photos of today's gymnastics session. We are rolling, balancing, leaping, landing and skipping...

Using Double Vowels 'ee' and 'ea'

Created with Padlet

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Room 3. I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday with their families. Hopefully you got a chance to get away or do something fun.

This term our topic is CREATIVITY - with an emphasis on performing art. We will be performing short plays in Room 3, and some clever cookies will get the chance to write their own.
We will also be working towards putting together a short performance for parents and family to see at the end of the term.

Exciting!

Today we started our Gymnastics unit. Here's a photo of some of us warming up ...

Children, don't forget to bring your shorts, leotards or leggings and tee-shirt for gymnastics. We'll be doing this every Monday and Tuesday afternoons for the next 4 weeks.

Stay tuned for more photos ...

Ink Prints

Last week, we constructed cardboard templates for our print blocks. Our theme was 'rickety' houses. We took two art sessions to glue strips and pieces of cardboard to create a scene of an old house in the country.
We learnt how to overlap cardboard, and how important it was to leave gaps in between strips of card.

Yesterday, we got stuck into the ink. We carefully rolled the ink rollers over the ink and onto our cardboard templates...

Then when the template was totally covered, we placed a piece of paper over the top. We had to rub, rub, rub all around - into the grooves. And just when we thought we'd rubbed enough - Miss Jeynes said "NO! Rub some more. It'll be worth it!"

But it was all worth it when we peeled back the paper to reveal our materpieces!

Burger Day next Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

 

YUM! Check this out. The student council have organised another yummy treat for us in our last week of the term. These are chicken patties with cheese, onion, lettuce, sauce, etc.

Only $2.50

Pay your money at the office by Wednesday.

 

 

Soccer Fun

Today we had our second soccer session with Mr Ricketts. We've been practising our dribbling technique ...

Next week, we'll be working on Netball skills. We've really enjoyed practicing large ball skills - and we've been so lucky with the weather too!