I am Mateo.
I come from Chile.
I have lived in NewZealand for four years.
I came to Greenpark School at the start of the term.
I felt proud when I introduced my home country to Room 3.
The children from Room 3 were interested in most parts of Chile.

PUPPET SHOW

At the puppet show the whole school including the teachers watched it. It was fun watching it.
There was a blue velvet cover over a puppet box that looked like stairs.
By Meryl
The characters were sheep, camel, donkey, ox and a chicken, some shepherds, a band and a 3 news puppet. The ox was very funny. The band was called the Barnyard Barnicles.
By Lucy

The Meeting House

We made a meeting house. Mrs.M's neighbour had to help Mrs.M pull it apart because it woudn't
fit in her car. When Mrs.M got to school she took all of the pieces out of her car. Some of the boys
helped her put it back together again.Then the boys helped Mrs.M make the roof out of cardboard. The girls made panels for inside the meeting house and the boys made poles that looked like they had been carved in maori patterns. The next day we drew pictures of the meeting
house. By Lucy , Stacy and Callum.

Doug the Digger

On Tuesday a truck came to school. We watched Mr Mac take the digger off the trailer and the digger waved at us. After that we went to the library. Mr Mac told us about his life .Then we went to the digger. Mateo was the first to go on the digger and the truck.The digger can pick
up a stick and put it on two sticks and it can pick up a golfball.
by Evarnn,Callum,Mateo and Jared.

On pets day Lucy.Cs Mum brought a horse called Moose. Lucy's Mum rode a special ride called
dressage. She did it with music. It was called musical freestyle. Last year she entered in a competition called "Zilco" musical.

PET DAY 2009

Hands Up for Learning

On October the 30th we had a day called Hands up for Learning. Mrs K counted down from 10. Then we raised our hands and said "hands up for learning". Before we made hands for Hands up for Learning. We had lunch with our parents. And before that we handed out certificates and said our poems out loud to the audience.
By Evarnn, Charlie and Jared

Celebrating

Our school topic at the moment is Celebrations. We have done lots of work on Celebrating and posters. We did posters about celebrations like ANZAC Day , Childrens Day and Guy Fawkes Day.
We got two hoops and wrote lots of celebrations and put celebrating labels in the hoops. We did posters about ANZAC Day, Childrens Day and Guy Fawkes Day. We went on the internet and found out where the 3 celebrations were held. The next week we learnt about Diwali and White Sunday.
We got given a doll and we had to make a costume like what they wear in the celebrations of Diwali or White Sunday. The next week we got given a notice about parents to come and share our learning.
By Jelena, Lucy and Stacy

Kids @E-Expo

Today I found out about how to make stick people into videos.You make them do things and  you can also change the color of it too.You can make the people dance and do other stuff. I also found out about Little River doing photo story.By Jelena.

Kids @E-Expo

Hi room 3. I have just had a walk around the hall and have seen a  whole lot of different things.

There was a boy who was on photo story.I learnt that you can put music on it. You get to choose 

the kind of music you want. In the corner of the room there is a thing all about antartica. Plus its

really fun at the expo. By Lucy. 

Hi  room 3

We are at the kids expo at Burnham School. We have just had lunch. There are lots of other people here.Lots of People are looking

at our blog and videoing it too. 

Room3 Bloggers

Deciduous Trees

Last term the oak tree grew some leaves.Mrs M. showed us how to put leaves on our trees.
Mrs M. gave us green paint and a bag to put in the paint to put leaves on the v trees.
by Charlie and Jared

Stacy taught Charlie how to make a comic life about our leaf prints.

Room 3 Leaf Pictures

POEMS

Today Jelena and Lucy wrote these poems during free writing time.

Blue

Blue is the clear blue sky with fluffy white clouds,
Blue is the sparkling ocean,
Blue is the blue birds flying in the sky,
Blue is our school uniform,
Blue is the rain falling down,
Blue is the colour of the slide.
by Jelena.

Seasons...

shiny sunny sunshine
summer days so long,
windy days every day
autumn is so cool,
snowing every
time I see it
winter is so cold
finally spring is a big suprise for us

by Lucy

Zero Waste Education

One of the learning outcomes from the reusing unit last week was for students to design and make a money box or pencil holder using reused materials.
Here are some examples of the student's creations.

Our Work on Time

For our work on time we have groups of people learning different times.Some people are learning
o'clock, half past and 3 people are learning quarter to and quarter past.We went outside and put a
big clock face with no hands or numbers because Mrs M. wanted us to put the numbers where they
belong.Then we played a game called Whats the time Mr/Mrs Wolfie?Callum went first.We learnt some new time games.One of the games is called clock face race.We had mini white boards and clock magnets to match the analogue clocks to the digital clocks.There were half past and o'clock
magnets and as well there were quarter past magnets. Lucy and Stacy learnt a new game and it was called The right time.You played it like this.You take the clock cards and share them with a friend then you say quarter past or half past or o'clock.If it is right you take the card and if it is wrong then you leave it in a pile.Then you take turns.
By Stacy and Lucy.

CLOCKS COME IN ALL DIFFERENT SIZES

Wacky Wednesday

On Wacky Wednesday we dressed up in a wacky way. I came as wacky as I could. I did a wacky walk, sat in a wacky way and played games in a wacky way.We even did huff 'n' puff in a different way.People wore shorts on their heads and wore pjs. They wore two hoods, one to cover their face and one for their head.We did wacky stuff in class. Callum,Stacy,Jessica M. and I got paint on us and said '' I am turning into an alien.'' We had lots of fun.
By Jelena.

Wacky Wednesday

A Visitor or a New Student ??????

Learning about Leaves

The older students shared their books about leaves with the younger children and talked about what they had found out.

Deciduous Trees

Mrs M taught us how to draw a deciduous tree with "vs" on the concrete to give us a good surface. We drew deciduous trees because they had no leaves. In autumn the deciduous
tree's leaves fall off.
by Charlie and Jared

Deciduous Trees

Why do the leaves fall off the trees at Greenpark School?

In our classroom we had a sheet of paper to ask questions with a group or with one other person.On our piece of paper we asked questions about leaves.We told the class our questions and Mrs.M wrote our good questions on a big bit of paper.The other day we answerd the questions with another piece of paper and looked up two different websites about leaves and found out answers to our questions.When we found out the answers to our questions the older children made a book about leaves and used the 6 important questions and wrote the questions and answers in our book.We did our illustrations and we took our books to the principal and got a principal's award.
By Callum and Jelena.

WE ARE ALL BACK AT SCHOOL

It is Week 4 and after three weeks with almost the whole class having time off with illness we are all back at school. It has meant that our topic on LEAVES has been delayed for a little while but we are back on track again now.
Mrs M.

Blowing Leaves

Blowing Leaves

Blowing Leaves

Leaves

This term our class topic is "Leaves".We got 2 sheets of paper that had question words on it.
Why, Where, When, What, Who, How and Which.
Carol the caretaker gave us a letter shaped as a leaf.
It said thank you for cleaning up the leaves on the court. The trucks broke so what will you do next time?
The next day we went outside and looked at what tree the oak leaves came off and blew
to the court.
Stacy thought the wind blew in different directions to make the leaves get on the
court. The next day Mrs.M brought her leaf blower to see if Stacy was right. She was.
Callum, Blake, Cody and Meryl had a turn with the leaf blower.
By Stacy and Lucy

Questioning

We are learning to ask good questions this year.
Today the Year 3s worked on a question to ask others,
when they already knew the answer.
Can you work out the answer to this question?

What is an orange, crunchy, long cone-shaped vegetable that grows underground in your garden, and has green leaves that grow out the top?

What is a soft yellow crescent shaped fruit that you peel?

Some of our busy girls then wrote their own questions, knowing the answer.

What is a juicy, round red fruit that grows in the garden? by Lucy

What is a red, mushy fruit that has lots of seeds and is very juicy? by Jelena

What is a green vegetable that is long, has leaves just at the top , and grows on the dirt?
by Stacy.

Healthy Food Choices

Healthy Food Choices

We have continued our MAKING CHOICES topic with a health focus on making healthy food choices. We have made posters of the Food Pyramid.

Mask Making

Today Mrs M told some year 3 people to help Cody, Jessica V, Jody ,Laudis and Freya make a mask.
First we had to get a brown paper bag. Then we had to cut out some eyes. After that we had to draw a nose and a mouth.When we got to work it was very easy. All the masks looked cool. When they were finished Mrs M took a photo.It was fun.
by Callum

THE THREE JESSICAS

Greenpark Cross Country

There were eight Snow Whites and Five Dwarfs.