The Wild Robot

Spring has Sprung!

Chapter Chat

Twitter Chat Questions:

1. Can you please share any tasks that you have completed this week? Try and leave a reply on someone else's creation.

2. Why might the man have needed two thousand boxes of kiwi flavoured jelly beans?

The man needed 2000 jelly beans because...

3. If the recipe was not for the worms, who might it be for?

The recipe could be for….

4. Who was Barnaby and what did Ben think of him?

Barnaby was … Ben thought...

5. Why was Ben certain that the creature Barnaby brought in was not a bat?

Ben thought the creature was not a bat bat because...

6. How did Ben feel now about the boring town of Buttonville? Why?

Ben thought Buttonville was boring because...

7. Why do you think Ben needed the help of Pearl Petal?

Ben needed Pearls help because...

8. Why did Ben think the old Button Factory was haunted?

Ben thought the button factory was haunted because….

9. Ben signed the piece of paper. Do you think this was a good idea? Explain your answer.

I think it was a bad idea for ben to sign the paper because..

10. What do you think will happen when they enter the identification room?

I think they will be trapped when they enter the identification room.

Hour of code

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On Monday while the year 3 girls were away at the rippa tournament getting signatures from Otago players, the rest of us dabbled in some coding games. 
We had a lot of fun and our brains were working hard to solve the problems in the games. 

Here is a great video to watch about why coding is useful for our young ones if you are interested.

 Now that we have all logged in and had a practise, we may even get to add this to our 'Can Do' options. 

We saw some great problem solving, perseverance and persistence, especially from some of our year 2 students! Van and Charlotte were helping others and got up to really high levels. Ka Pai!

Writing

We are learning about describing our nouns with adjectives. Check out Mabel's awesome writing about the image below. Ka Pai Mabel!

Trip to Dunedin

What an amazing time we all had in Dunedin on Wednesday. The whole Junior syndicate visited the Toi Toi Museum along with the Otago Museum. We hunted for treasures about Asia at both places. At the Otago Museum we got to role play different parts of the Chinese New year. We learned lots about it. Here are some of the things we learned: 1. Chinese New Year is In January or February 2. People clean their houses for NewYear 3 There are fireworks 4. People dress up in special clothes 5. People eat yummy foods with chopsticks 6. Red is avery special colour 7. People give out red envelopes with money in them

Wontons

We have been super busy this week! We made some Wontons with Mrs Souness, and her mum Mrs Wong came in to help. Some people liked the wontons and some people didn't, and some people were not brave enough to give them a try!
We all loved making them and had a really great time! We enjoyed smelling the ingredients and talking about how they felt and smelled. What a fun day!

Chapter Chat

Fishy

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SeeSaw App

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Class Sheild

Wahoo! We finally did it. We won the class shield.

Easter Cake

Thank you so much to Isabella's lovely Mum for the beautiful Easter cake. We thought it was beautiful and delicious.

Arty Shape

This week we have been learning all about shapes for maths. Today we made three-dimensional shape monsters and wrote descriptions about them. Watch this space for photos.

Arty Shapes Publishing

This morning we made 3D shape monsters. My monster has a three metre long head. I made three metre long legs and four metre long arms. My monster is a cylinder.

Anashae

This morning we made 3D shape monsters. They look great in room 3. My monster is a cylinder.

Ollie

My monster is a pyramid. I added twisties and eyes. We like our monsters. They look amazing and cool.

Janae

My 3D shape is a cube. It has six sides. My cube is colourful.

Jayde

My monster has five sides and it is a pyramid. It has gold and silver on it with googly eyes and they look cool. They were hard to make but it was great fun to do.

Van

This morning room 3 made 3D shapes. The colours are orange, red and gold. The shapes had google eyes. They look amazing. Mine was hard to make but it was still amazing.

Noah

My 3D shape has two sides. It is a cylinder. It has two big legs and arms. My 3D shape likes to play around.

Shiloh

My 3D shape is a rectangular prism. He has long legs and really tall arms. He likes swinging on the swing and singing too. He has a moustache and no nose.

London

Today we made 3D shapes. My shape was a pyramid. It was hard to make with the PVA glue because I kept falling a lot.

Charlotte

My 3D shape is cool because it is colourful and it is cute with six sides.

Keira

My shape is a pyramid. My 3D shape has five sides. It is orange and yellow.

Maddox

In the morning we made 3D shapes. My 3D shape has five sides. It also has three legs and two eyes. It is grey, gold and purple. The legs have three different colours. The colours are orange, yellow and green.

Emma

This morning room 3 made 3D shapes. My one is a triangular prism. It is gold, orange and silver. It has eyes and legs and a mouth. My shape has four legs on each side that means it equals eight legs. It has two eyes and one mouth. It has six pointy ends and four triangles.

Mabel

My monster has two eyes and five sides and four legs. It is colourful and it is a triangular prism. My monster is made from two triangles and three rectangles.

Maddi Win

This morning we made 3D shape monsters. My one  was a pyramid. My pyramid has five sides.

Keely

I made a 3D monster. It has two legs. It is colourful and beautiful.

Savanah

My 3D shape looks awesome. It has five sides and a fish.

Holly

My 3D shape is a cone. 3D shapes are very hard to make and the whole class has made one but not everyone has finished theirs. Ollie, Savanah, Keely, London, Emma, Anashae, Maddi and Mabel have.

Elah

I made a 3D shape. It was a triangular prism. It has two triangles and three squares.

Ajay

FUNASIA

We have started our inquiry FUNASIA this week with lots of mucking in about Asia. Firstly Mrs Souness gave us some secret puzzle pieces that we had to put together in groups. The finished puzzles gave us clues about our inquiry topic. Next we brainstormed what we knew about Asia and came up with some questions about what we wanted to find out. Today we started the finding out stage of inquiry. Mrs Ramsay read us some books about the Chinese New Year. Then she showed us a clip of a lion dance. It was so much fun. Finally we played a game where we had to guess what her secret object was. We guessed right and it was chopsticks. Everybody had a go at using them to pick up pieces of lego. We worked well together encouraging each other. There were lots of laughs and we all managed to pick up something.

FUNASIA on PhotoPeach

We finally finished our masks and this afternoon we got to put them on and dance to the lion dance. It was so awesome.

We have been using the chromebooks while Room 11 is on camp. The year 3's have been using Google Slides together and have made our own slide. We had to insert a picture and write a bit about ourselves.

Ka Pai 

Our Beautiful Butterfly

Today after morning tea we arrived back to find that our butterfly had emerged from its chrysalis. First we watched carefully as it clung to the swan plant not able to move until its wings had dried. Secondly when we arrived back after lunch its wings were dried and it had flown outside of our classroom door. Next Mrs Ramsay carefully picked it up and gave it to Sebastian to hold while Steph raced to room five to ask Mrs Harris where the science garden was. After that we walked to the garden so that we could set it free. Finally room five joined us as we set our butterfly free on the swan plant in the science garden. The most interesting part was watching it fly way and when Mrs Harris told us that it was a girl.

Dudley the turtle

Today we had a lovely surprise when Mrs Mac brought Te Ra to our room with a very interesting pet. Te Ra was holding a small dog bed with something inside. It was all wrapped up in blankets. We thought it was a puppy or kitten. What a surprise we got when he pulled back the blankets and showed us his turtle. His turtle is named Dudley and lives in a tank at his Nana's house. Dudley likes to eat steak. He also likes it when we are very quiet. Thanks Mrs Mac and Te Ra for sharing this with us.

Dudley is quite at home in Room three.

Athletics

Today we had a busy afternoon running, jumping and throwing in preparation for our up and coming athletics day. The Junior school join up and rotate around different activities throughout the afternoon. It was great to see the sun. The students are really enthusiastic about the rotations.

We are getting ready to bunny hop through the hoops. It is quite tricky. Some of us are getting really fast.

Some Apps we use in class

Maths

Room three are learning how to measure by using direct comparison or rulers. Today we designed a bridge that would be wide enough for the Gingerbread man to cross so he wouldn't get eaten.

Spelling Journal

Here of some photographs of us hard at work practising our spelling.

Spelling

Today Mrs Ramsay showed us how to do our spelling journal. Our spelling journal will help us to spell words correctly. We get to practise writing the words in lots of different ways.

Room 3's Photo on Thursday, 2 February 2017

Room three students are very excited to be watching our tadpoles grow and change. Thay are an interesting addition to our lovely class.

Room 3's Photo on Thursday, 2 February 2017

Look carefully. Can you see the chrysalis? I wonder how long until it becomes a butterfly. Hopefully not over the long weekend.

Our Class Tadpoles

We have tadpoles in our class. Today we wrote descriptions about the tadpoles. We tried to include what the tadpoles looked like, where they were, size, and what they were doing.

We hope you enjoy, and would love for you to leave us a comment.

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017

Room 3 Blog's Video on Monday, 30 January 2017