All Backs Poetry

After the All Blacks won the Rugby World Cup 2015 we wrote cinquain poems about the victorious team.

Newspaper Reporters

Last week we have been newspaper reporters.

Check out our writing below.

Amazing Award Winners

Congratulations to our award winners this week!

This was a special assembly for Room 3 as it was our turn to present the Gore Main assembly to the school, parents and community! We shared our writing from this term and our team building cup challenge.

I am incredibly proud of each and every one of my wonderful Room 3 students....you all spoke beautifully into the microphone and presented yourselves well! You are beginning to look like Year 3 students! 

Spooky Silhouette Artwork

We have been learning about silhouettes. We have found out that they are made from a light shining behind an object. A silhouette is when the object is all black and you can't see any details just an outline. 

Here is our spooky full moon silhouette art....

Amazing Award Winners

Congratulations to these three super children! 

Hydroponics Systems

We are learning about plants and water. We have learnt that plants use their roots to get nutrients from the soil and the roots take the nutrients up to the stem and then they go around the plant. We were surprised to find out that plants don't always need to grow in soil and some can grow in water if we put nutrients in the water.

We are trying to grow lettuce plants hydroponically and we hope to be able to eat the lettuces later in the term.

The lettuce plant is in perlite (a soft pumice like mix) we have a wick (blue cloth) to draw the water with nutrients in it up to the plant roots.

Super Award Winners

Congratulations to our week one award winners! Keep being amazing kids!

Our Term 4 value is DIVERSITY...this value is all about difference and accepting differences!

Have you been showing diversity? 

Thanks for the bottles!!

Thank you to everyone who brought along 1.5L bottles today! We now have enough bottles for our inquiry/technology unit. Watch this space to see what the children get up to with those 21 bottles....

1.5L bottles

We are still on the hunt for 1.5 L bottles (2.25 L are OK also). We are planning on using them next week as part of our inquiry/technology unit we need 21 of them in total and so far have only 8! If you or anyone you know will be drinking fizz over the weekend please ask them to save the bottle for you! 

Thank you! 

Team Building

Yesterday afternoon in the sunshine we practised working together to achieve a common goal of stacking the cups in a pyramid shape without touching the cups! It was very challenging!