Room 17

NZ Book Day!
Last week we celebrated our wonderful NZ authors by dressing up as our favourite character from a kiwi book! There were many incredible costumes around! We also took part in the book exchange where some of the students could swap their own book for another. What a great day!

1st September 2017
Science!
Over the past few weeks Room 17 and 18 have been conducting science experiments for our concept of Exploration. The children have had a choice between 2 experiments each session with either Miss M or Miss Searle. We will be presenting our findings for the Science Exhibition so stay tuned! Here are some photos from our experiments.

Toast experiment

Oobleck

Butter

Colder ice

27th August 2017
Volume and Capacity
This week Room 17 have been exploring volume and capacity in Maths. To start with we looked at various container sizes and ordered them to show which ones we thought would hold the most-least amount of water. 
We talked about cups, millilitres and litres as units of measurement. Later this week we will be making estimations and finding out how many cups (250mls) fit in each of our containers.

1st August 2017
MOTAT Trip!
Today Room 17 joined Room 18 and 19 at MOTAT. As part of our concept 'Exploration' we visited to do some exploring of our own. To begin with we had our teaching session called 'Bust that Myth' where we got to explore different stations and either prove or disprove the statements on the tables. After that we had a great tram ride and then were able to do some more exploring around. We saw some amazing things and were able to interact with lots of the displays. 

Here are some photos of the day! 

 

Native bird research link:
http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/

27th July 2017
Native Bird Writing

Next week Room 17 will be writing information reports during Writing time. At our library session we chose books that featured information about NZ native birds. Today in collaborative groups we wrote questions that we could research using these books. We also researched on a website to find out more information. Here are some photos of us collaborating and working together.

22nd June 2017
This week Room 17 has been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We have been using language such as faces, edges, corners, vertices, sides and points to identify the parts of shapes. 

We learnt about different kinds of shapes, some that we had not heard of before! These included; pentagonal prisms, triangular prisms, spheres and square based pyramids. 

On Wednesday we made some 'nets' of shapes using 3D wooden blocks as a guide. We traced around all the faces and created our own paper 3D shapes. Here are some photos of our creations!

We also started to explore Measurement. We started by making estimations of how long we thought our hands and fingers would be. In pencil you will see our estimations. After we estimated lengths we measured our fingers and hands with 1cm cubes to get the actual length. These measurements are written in coloured pencil. Lots of us were very close! Here are a few examples of our work. The rest can be viewed in our classroom.

12th June 2017

Life Education
Today was our first session in the Life Education Caravan with Harold. We learned about body langauge and how we can tell how people might be feeling based on this. We also discussed resilience and how we can 'bounce back' from situations. We talked about empathy and 'putting ourselves in their shoes'. We are looking forward to our next session on Thursday!

6th June 2017
Today we had a goal setting session in the afternoon where we updated our goals. We worked with a buddy to decide if we had achieved our previous goals and talked about which new ones to choose. Each pair had to prove that they had achieved their goal by using evidence from their Writing and Maths books. The buddies gave feedback and suggestions on how they could achieve their new goals.

17th May 2017

Epic Reading
Room 17 are Epic Reader's! We have just signed up for Epic - it has a huge variety of books for us to read during Reading time. We search for a topic that we are interested in and can even save books to our favourites for later! We have already earned a medal after one day!

11th April 2017
Swimming Recounts
Here is some art work that we did based on our swimming recount writing. We imagined ourselves underwater holding our breath. Here is a photo of all our work. Come in and have a read!

6th April 2017
Writing Warm-up activities
To help us achieve our Writing goals, Room 17 have been participating in Writing warm-ups that focus on some of our goals. This week we focused on using adjectives, synonyms, conjunctions and using time words. These are all skills we can use in our independent writing.

17th March 2017
Swimming Week 7
This week Room 17 and the rest of the Year 3 team started our swimming lessons with Hilton Brown. It has been heaps of fun and the children have been learning a lot. Here are some photos of Friday's session.

14th March 2017

Robotics and Coding Week 7

This week Mrs Taylor gave us the opportunity to have a go on Scratch Senior. She showed us different actions to use and we focused on turning our characters. Here are some photos of us working together.

6th March 2017
Citizenship Cup

Well done to Isabella who was awarded the Citizenship Cup this Term. She is such a great role-model in Room 17!

10th March 2017
Robotics and Coding

This term Year 3 have been working with Mrs Taylor on Robotics and Coding. You may have seen our performance in assembly on Friday. We have been exploring programmes such as Kodable and Scratch, as well as looking at controlling the MBots with a remote and iPad. We are looking forward to learning more as the term goes on. Here are a few snaps from our sessions.

7th March 2017
Te Tuhi Art Centre

On Friday Room 17 visited Te Tuhi Art Centre to take part in the 'Wish you were here' workshop. This links with our topic this term: Whanaungatanga - relationships and connections. We had a great trip! Thank you to the parents who came along to help.We will be writing about our experience next week during writing time so please come back again to find out how it was. Here are some photos from our trip.