Room 3 scientists

The children in Room 3 have been 'acting like scientists' by carrying out a range of science experiments. We have been discussing the equipment needed for each experiment then we share our predictions about what we think might happen and why. We observe carefully what happens during the experiments ( we have learnt that observe means to look or watch).

After that we talk about what happened then we write about it. We start: I think...........because............ . In this experiment we each folded a paper flower then put it in cold water and observed.

Here we are writing about what happened when Miss Gill ran the cars down the ramp onto the carpet. You can see the results of the experiment in the background, behind Thea.

We wondered what might happen if we ran the cars down a ramp onto the 'hard floor' in the art area - so we gave it a try. This photo shows what happened.

In this experiment we put some milk (with the fat in it), into a plate then Miss Gill added some food colouring then some dishwashing liquid. It was amazing - the colours 'spread out and went crazy'.

Here we are drawing our diagram, so we can write about our food colouring and dishwashing liquid experiment. We have learnt that a diagram is a labeled picture that scientists use.

We get pretty excited when we hear that we are going to be 'acting like scientists' again.

Welcome to Lachie and Luke

Today we welcomed Lachie and Luke into our room, from Room 1.

It's great to have you join us, boys. We hope you have a fantastic time in Room 3.

Pyjama day in Room 3

We have had a great start back to term 2, in Room 3. 

After hearing lots of exciting stories about what we got up to in the holidays we were all looking forward to our pyjama day, which was held on Wednesday the 4th of May.

Mr Wadsworth came down to join us for part of the day and we thought he looked 'pretty funny' in a pink dressing gown. Here's a photo of us all. Come on in to our classroom to see the pictures we drew of ourselves in our pyjamas, too.

Our trip to Queens Park

On Wednesday the 13th of April we all went on a bus trip into Queens Park, in Invercargill. The trip was part of our science, 'Living World' topic.

We visited the stumpery. It was great fun looking for different 'living things' amongst all the wood.

After we had had some morning tea we went over to the animals. We were looking at how the different animals kept warm and also how the animals kept themselves cool, in the sun.

We loved looking at the wild pigs. They came out to see us.

After visiting the animals we walked over to the bird aviary to see all the interesting birds there. We looked at their different beaks and feet and thought about how the birds use them.

When we had finished looking at the birds, we had a picnic lunch in front of the aviary, before getting back on the bus and heading back to school.

A big 'Thank you very much' to all the parents who came along to help us out on our trip, we hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did.

Book Fair Week - Dress Up day

Here we are all dressed up as villains and 'bad characters' from story books and movies. We loved getting dressed up and being able to be part of the whole school grand parade on the tennis court. Can you guess who we all are?

Our Room 3 Movie - The Winton Way with RERE.

Here is the movie that we made with Mr Wadsworth. We will tell you about how we show Respect, Effort, Responsibility and Empathy in our learning spaces. Hope you enjoy watching it, please leave us a message to let us know what you think of our movie.

Our foyer display

Have you been in to see our class display in the foyer? We made a short film with Mr Wadsworth, which was shown at our first school assembly for the year. If you weren't able to be at that assembly, we have put some photos up in the foyer so you can see what RERE has been teaching us. Our display will be up for another week and will be moved at the end of next week. Please come and see it.