Swimming Lessons

This week the students write in their swimming diary during the afternoon.
Here is some of their writing......

I learnt to hold the board and arm stroke and I did both arms.   Dean 5.9.12

I wonder what we are doing tomorrow?

Libby 5.9.12

I learnt to put my goggles in the water, and Annabelle and Matilda and me.  Poppy 5.9.12

I did horse riding on a noodle.  Phillip 6.9.12

 Big Dean said it is called freestyle because it is three arms……………and I breathe on every third stroke. Amber 5/6.9.12

I learnt to go through the hoops and flip over onto my back.  Rose 6.9.12

My group is Poppy and Ianthe and Matilda and Phillip and Jane. We did horse riding.

Annabelle 6.9.12

I went second place at a horse race.

Ianthe 6.9.12

We did wiggly worm caterpillar and we layed on our backs with a board.  Jane 5.9.12

I held a board on my knees and I kicked on my back (that was hard). Matilda 5.9.12

Today I went up one group and did freestyle in three different ways. Henry 5.9.12

Scarecrow Competition

The Scarecrow Journey.

Last week we learnt about scarecrows.

We read books, watched videos, and looked at pictures on Google because there was a scarecrow competition. Lots of people brought stuff to make the scarecrow like wool, hay, wood, flower pots, old clothes, newspaper, plastic bags, and gumboots and gloves.

We made a dog a sheep and two scarecrows called Mr. and Mrs. Scarecrow. Matilda and Amber drew the faces. Then Mrs. Carrick took them to the scarecrow competition in Lincoln on Saturday. Ours came in 1^st place we got a Gold trophy and gummy bears. YUMMMMMM!

By Matilda, Henry, Amber and Libby

THE OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONY

I watched the Olympics. I saw fireworks at the Olympics. I saw the Queen jumping out of the helicopter. I saw the man running with the flame. Then he passed the flame over to a group of people.  The group of people put the flame on to a sparkly thing in the air. It lit up the whole stadium .It was amazing.

By Rose

Acrostic Poems about the Olympics

On the year of the Olympics lots of people

Like to watch the Olympics.                                                                          
You and

Me are going to watch the Olympics.

Pride of war.

I love the Olympics.

Children and parents

Sit in the stand and watch the people.

By Libby

On a year

Lots of people like

You and

Me went to London. There was lots of

People there joined together

In a stadium.

Come and

See the sports.

By Amber

On the 4^th the Olympics started.

Loads of people tried it out.

You wouldn’t believe it NEW ZEALAND won a

     gold medal!

My dad thinks he can do it.

People are amazing.

It is exciting!

Come on NEW ZEALAND win the Olympics!

Some times I wish I was in it.

By Matilda

Where is the hall?

On the weekend I saw the hall.

I saw the diggers pull the roof down on the stage. The dump truck came back and back and it came to the dump.

I got a drink.

I saw Phillip playing and Anna playing too.

By Dean

Where is the hall?

The diggers dug down but the hall got pulled down by the digger and it’s down and it got knocked down.

The dump truck carried sand and wood to the dump.

They loaded up the diggers.

By Phillip

Margaret Mahy

Margaret   Mahy

Yesterday Room3 celebrated Margaret Mahy because she had died by… reading her books, drawing a picture of our favorite books by her, and last we made witch’s hats. It was fun and Room3 hopes that she lives a happy life in heaven. Room3 loved her books so we would like to say thank you to Margaret Mahy for writing lovely children stories.

By Matilda

From Room3

POPPY'S HOLIDAY

The Birth of the Moon

One day the birth of the moon.

There was three ducks, and one snake and one turtle and a moon and a sun.

There was a surprise for the animals.

The sun got angry because the animals did not say thank you for the moon.

By Dean

The Birth of the Moon

Once upon a time there lived a snake three ducks and a turtle.

It was dark and the animals couldn’t see so they asked the sun to stay here, but the sun said, “No, but this night there is a surprise for you.”

It was a moon that’s lighting up the sky. The moon grew and grew.

The sun got angry because the animals didn’t

thank the sun. The sun took away the moon.

The animals said sorry to the sun.

The sun got the moon back for the animals

and they lived happily ever after.

By Libby

Night and Day

Why we have night and day

The earth is going around the sun. The sun shines on the earth. When the sun is shining on the other side of the earth it is day on that side. When it is day on that side it is night in New Zealand.

By Rose.

Why we have night and day.

This is why we have night and day. Night is when it is dark but on the other side of the world. The world spins around in a circle around in space. This is why on the left side it is light. And on the right side it is dark .Night is time for people to sleep. In day time people wake up.

By Amber.

Why we have night and day.

The sun makes day and night.

First the earth spins and that makes day and night. It does this because the sun shines on the earth when it spins. The sun shines in day and it is at the other side of the world when it is night here.

By Henry

Why we have night and day.

The earth spins round the sun.

The sun shines on the earth and spins 24 hours. The earth looks at the sun, it’s day and the other side of the world is night.

By Phillip

Why we have night and day.

The Earth spins round the sun to make day and night. It is day on one side and night is on the other side. As it goes round the sun the sun shines on the Earth.

By Jane

                                                                

NEW VESTS

Mrs Dunlop brought new vests for us all. She helped us put them on so we could have our photo taken for the newspaper.

NEW VESTS

Our topic this term is about planets, well not all about planets. We’re learning about the

Sun as well. The sun is a giant star. It is very hot. Some planets have rings. The planets go around the sun. The sun is very big indeed.

By Kara and Amber

Ronald McDonald

Ronald McDonald came to our school on Tuesday. He talked about road safety. He lost his sock. It was red and white. He sang a song and we joined in. It was FUN. He had a big yellow T-shirt, pants and gloves and red boots and lips. He had a red and white thermal underneath. He had yellow shoelaces.

By Kara and her friends

Ronald McDonald

ACROSTIC POEMS

I like ice cream.

Chocolate ice cream.

Every single drop is yummy.

Creamy and delicious

Resting kind of food.

Eating lots for supper

And for a treat.

Mummy eats it too!

By Henry

Down in the garden

All around

Is grass. The

Sun shines on

It. Then the daisy will

Escape into

Sunlight.

By Kara

A ROD TOWER

Little Bulldozer

On the weekend my mum went to Queenstown and got me a book of Captain Underpants. It has twenty chapters and 122 pages. It’s a book by Dav Pilkey. Two little boys hypnotised their principal to be Captain Underpants! The boys have a hypno ring.

Henry

Ianthe

Annabelle

Term 1 2012

We are back.
It has been a busy start to 2012.
We have taken a little while to start blogging.
We have three new students in Room 3.