Driftwood, stone and seaweed scultpures

EOTC WEEK HAS BEGUN

Today the Year 3s and 4s kicked off 'Education outside the classroom' week with cooperative sculptures at the beach.

CHECK OUT  THE WINNERS - who get a small edible prize

 

Year 3 - Winner

Dylan and Tim

 Year 3 - 2nd Place

Andrew, Ben and Paige

Year 4 - Winner

Monty, Mathieson and Euan

Year 4 - Second place

Amy, Willow and Georgia

Most creative Winner

Lucy, McKenzie and Ella - Sushi Shop

Mini Carnival for the Orphans

This Thursday is the MINI CARVIVAL

The Year 3 and 4 classes have been busy cooperatively planning a stall or a game to make money for some the Orphans in Nepal.  In groups of 3 or 4,  the kids had to come up with an idea that would raise money at a mini carnival for the Senior kids of the school.  

They:

• Brainstormed ideas.
• Did some critical thinking.
• Changed and revised their ideas so their ideas were possible and effective.
• Made posters using the laptops to try and LURE the Senior kids.

 Cooperative planning and poster making

Potato Garden continued...

This was 6 weeks ago...

We planted potato seed inside tyres stacked 2 high... 

 

This is today!!

 Ahhhh... they're sprouting out of control...

  

We need to build the stacks higher...Let's get some more tyres.

 

Ready to build up so we can have more potato chips. 

Stars for Starship Hospital competition

The finalists of the Year 3/4 STARS for STARSHIP competition.

Tomas Pajo from Room 10 - congratulations!!!

 These fantasitc stars will be sent away to decorate the STARSHIP HOSPITAL and to go in the running for prizes.

The New Potato Garden

Step One: Collecting tyres from the local mechanic.

Step Two: Stock Piling

Step Three: Setting out the tyres to grow the potatoes in.

Step Four:  Fill the tyres with compost and soil, 

place 2 seed potoatoes and cover with 5cm of soil.

Step Five: Wait......Oh, sprouts!!!

To be continued...

Thursday = School Athletics

As Year 3s, the children in Room 10 will compete in the SCHOOL ATHLETICS this Thursday 11th November at Petone Rec.

What time? 9.45am to 2.30pm.

Representing Room 10 in the class relay is 

Macey, Helena, Tomas and Jake.  

We hope to see lots of family and supporters to help make it a real community event and a memorable day for the kids.

Tectonic Plate Sculpture

"In my sculpture of tectonic plates, it is making a mountain and an earthquake.  It is like India and Asia (making Mt Everest), it is like a snail slowly forming a mountain, maybe even a volcano."

Sculptured and written by Ben

Rich Poetry

Waves crashing –

It is eagles repeatedly screaming,
energetically, breathing non – stop

CRASH. BASH. CRIMP. TICKER.
It is an army charging closer and closer
towards the sad and salty shore.

SMASH. MASH.  
People are squelching
in the energetic watery waves.



By Helena

Study of Nepal and Poetry begins

Room 10 have begun their Term 4 inquiry into Nepal.  Check out the Year 3/4 Wiki.  Because Nepal is prone to earthquakes, as is New Zealand, we chose to learn about Plate Tectonics and how the world moves and is put together. 

We have also begun to read and write poetry.  Here are a few poems that we wrote today inspired by out inquiry into Plate Tectonics.  We are learning to use a variety of language features to give the reader rich images (and hopefully make them cry).   

What language features can you spot?

Tectonic plates –
Like a swirling, slimy, slivering snail

like waves coming near you when you're going to shake away with the sandy shells.

CRASH!  The plates crash like cars crashing into each other.

It is tiny insects running towards each other when a big tornado soaks them up

once there in the middle together.

By Mia

Tectonic plates –
Like an angry three horned tyrannosaurus
Crashing at someone,
Slipping and sliding.

It is a whirling, twirling ice cream machine, 

going crazy.

Like a whale gliding 

across the ocean

By Georgia

CONSERVATION WEEK

Room 10 celebrated the recent Conservation Week in a variety of ways:

Carrot Harvesting

Carrot Taste Testing

Garden Carrots vs Supermarket Carrots

...hmmm...which is best?

Garden Carrots Win! *Just!

 

 Maths Treasure Hunt -  NESW

 Beach Clean with our Big Buddies 

Fort Building on the Beach

Celebration of the North West Wind

Royal NZ Ballet visits Muritai

Today, a dozen or more athletes from the Royal New Zealand Ballet danced in front of the kids at Muritai.  They demonstrated how they warmed up and how they learnt and practiced different routines.  They then performed a series of different styles of ballet dances.  

Simply amazing!

Room 10 are quickly becoming little artists.  

Today they sketched the landscapes from the beaches of Eastbourne, taking a close interest in the lines they saw that the hills made.  They then planned which areas would be lighter or darker and which hills they wanted to be bright and stand out.  Once back in the classroom, the little chiddlers transferred their lovely line onto equally lovely card and used different  painting techniques to create different colours and effects on their artworks.  

Here they are.

The Process of a Painter

Connor's Landscape drawing and Painting

Wacky Animal Inquiry - Information Reports

In Room 10 we are continuing to develop our research skills.  

Here you can see children reading and finding specific information, taking notes, writing paragraphs of information and creating Information Reports in the form of posters or pamphlets.

Top-Hat Making for the Production

Pyramid Maths

When the Cat's away, the Mice will play.

While the Year 4s were away, the Year 3s had a play.   The kids in Room 10 for maths made a pyramid and learnt more about ARRAYS and MULTIPLICATION.  

We started with a 9 X 9 base, then added an 8 X 8 layer, followed by 7 X 7, until finally we placed a single block on top. 

We talked about squaring numbers and tried to remember some of them.

Mummification Information Report Writing.

Room 10 are researching all sorts of stuff about Ancient Egypt.  

These talented young kids researched, took notes and wrote superbly detailed information reports to explain HOW MUMMIES ARE MADE.  They wrote them with paragraphs that linked to each other, rich topic words, detail to support the reader, variety of sentence starters and a plethora of punctuation.  

They recored their information reports for you to enjoy and be amazed. 

Mummification...continued.

Mummification - How is a Mummy made?

Jake, Riley and Emma: The winners of the COOPERATIVE SILENT PLAY to show HOW A MUMMY IS MADE.

Cooperative learning is a big part of today's curriculum.  The children learn cooperative skills in different learning contexts.  This context was within our Inquiry into Ancient Egypt. 

Check out the winning Silent Play.

Year 3 KapaHAKA

The Year 3 boys and girls presented some of their learnings from their weekly Kapahaka sessions with Mr. Chadwick.  

The girls sang and used the rakau sticks, backed by the boys who did themselves proud when they finished it with their Ka Mate Haka.