Spring Time Buddy Reading

We are practising reading smoothly and fluently to each other. It is important that we make our reading sound interesting so people will listen to our stories!

Amazing Authors

We have been super busy working on our Story Bird stories in pairs today...keep an eye on the "Our Published Books" tab of this blog to see the finished products.

NOTICE TO PARENTS: Talent Quest Assembly

Parents, Friends and Families,
There will be a Talent Quest Prize Giving Assembly this Friday 25 September at 2:20 pm. You are more than welcome to come along!

Camouflage Technology Challenge

Thanks to everyone who brought along some materials to create their camouflage product. We will be doing the building of these products on Thursday morning to give everyone time to bring along what they need. 

The children have been put into different groups and each group has a different area to camouflage in.  Here are photos of the different areas.....

 Tree Trunks

Garden  

Flowers 

StoryBird Writing

This week we are creating picture books online using a website called StoryBird. Click this link to read the stories written by Room 3 2014 

Room 3 2014 StoryBird Books

Today the children received their own log in details (user name and password) they may create stories at home and publish them when they are completed but must not work on or change their 'school' story.

Amazing Award Winners

Congratulations to our award winners this week!! 

Go the All Blacks!

We had a World Cup Mufti Day today. Here we are supporting the All Blacks

Our Talented Performers

Each year Gore Main School holds a Talent Performance where the children get to show case their talents on stage to the children and parents. We were so impressed by the amazing talent we have at Gore Main School. Congratulations to all of those who performed yesterday. 

8 talented children from Room 3 took part in the talent performance. Here is a movie of their performances.

Unfortunately performers Bella, Anouk and Millie were absent from the group photo taken at the start of the movie 

Awesome Award Winners

Congratulations to our award winners this week! Lachlan has been showing kindness and won the values award. Addison is our shooting star this week! The other shooting star winner was away so it will be presented next assembly! 

Our Inquiry Experiment

We have been learning about the adaptations of birds that live in or around water. We learnt that ducks have a special oil that they spread over their feathers to keep them warm, dry and floating. We tested this out using a cotton ball as the duck and oil. 

When we didn't put any oil on the duck it sank!

When we only coated the bottom of the duck (the part that the water touches when it swims) it turned over so the oil side was up and floated upside down! This was not ideal and the duck wouldn't be able to breathe or survive! 

Lastly we coated the whole duck with oil and it floated on the top of the pond! Yay!

This is because oil floats on top of water!