Freak Snow Storm Hits Cockle Bay

Science Club members whipping up a storm.

Ben (aka Jack Frost) putting snow in place.

These young scientists know a bit about snow making!

Temperatures plummet during the freak snow storm.

If you would like to make snow at home, the link we used is:
http://www.learning4kids.net/2011/11/13/sensory-play-with-fluffy-christmas-snow/

Christmas comes to Room 3

Everyone gets a chance to cuddle one of our Christmas cuties.

Thank you to Nisha's Mum for these delicious individually named gingerbread cookies.

Some people put their cookies into an array so we could do some multiplication: 3 x 5 = 15, while other people were busy eating theirs, leading us to do subtraction: 26 - 15 = 11.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Grand Prix

We have been blitzing multiplication to finish the year.  Adan and Jordan are our champion drivers in the Multiplication Grand Prix.  If you would like to try this at home over the holidays, the link is:
http://www.multiplication.com/games/play/grand-prix

Room 3 Aquarium

Room 3 students have made and painted clay fish.  These are now on display in our 'aquarium'.  Parents, you are welcome to visit the classroom to see them or leave a comment on the blog.

Mr Cuddles faces surgery

 Mr Cuddles underwent surgery before school on Tuesday in the Room 3 Operating Theatre.  We are happy to report that he has made a full and speedy recovery.

The medical team suspected infected neck tissue.

Better out than in!

Hannah C checks vital signs - everything AOK.

Ethan administered anaesthetic in bear size amounts.

Diseased cranial tissue had to be removed from a lesion in the brain.

Two days later, and Mr Cuddles had made a full recovery.

Pathologists examined the brain tissue to determine the cause of illness.

Weetbix Tryathalon

Jackson, Hannah T and Bella competed in the Weetbix Tryathalon on Wednesday.

Every competitor had their own number and tatoos.

Clay Fish

Our clay fish have been fired, so it was time to undercoat them in white paint so that the background colour looks vivid and bright.

Polar Bear Club - Week 2

All the swimmers rated the temperature of the water after the second Polar Bear Club, and most people thought the water in the pool was warmer.

Farmers in Gumboots

These are the sweetest, cleanest, cleverest farmers I've ever seen in the whole of New Zealand.

Celebration Night - The Gumboot Song and Dance

We enjoyed watching the rest of the show.

Celebration Night - the Choir

The choir sang beautifully at the opening of Celebration Night.

City meets Country

On Wednesday we wore our gum boots to do PE after we had practised our dance!

Ocean Layers

As part of our Under the Ocean theme, we have been learning about the different layers in the ocean, their environments and how sea creatures have adapted to live in a particular zone in the ocean.  Our Year One buddies helped us make enough marine animals so that most animals are represented.

 After we had finished our wall display, everyone made their own representation using KidsPix.

Thank you for sharing your diagram on the class blog, Kaleb.

Polar Bear Club week 6

Most students from Room 3 and Room 5 joined the Polar Bear Club on Friday.  The new solar panels mean the water in the swimming pool is warmer than other years.  After our swim, Polar Bear Cubs rated how they had found the water temperature and most people found it warm(ish) using a scale of 1 to 10.

Here is the chart showing how we rated water temperature.

Halloween comes to Room 3

We lit our jack'o'lantern for Halloween.

Some people made bats for the classroom door.  We also had spiders hidden in our desks!

We had to find all the ghosts hidden in the picture. 

Athletics practice at Howick College

We practised our long jump technique on the field.

Then we practised on the long jump pit.

Ben demonstrates his soft ball throw technique

Jet Streamers split numbers in Maths

We use tens frames and beans to show how we split numbers to make 10

Conner demonstrates his learning on his whiteboard

May we play with clay today?

Chloe-Mae's clay fish

Bella's clay fish

First we had a Play Clay Day where we played and experimented with clay.  The next day we made a fish out of clay.  Now they must be left to dry out for three weeks before they are ready to be fired in the kiln.  The next stage will be to paint them in creative colours like the fish in the Go Fish Go book that motivated us in the first place.

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