I hope everyone is safe and ok after the latest ground movement!  Keep smiling and if you need any staff member - use the blog to contact us.  Have a great Christmas! xx Mrs Anthony

Merry Christmas

Thank you to all those parents and caregivers who have been loving and supportive of all the children in Room 3 this year.  Without your support, I'm not sure we would have smiled as much as we did this year.  To those who are moving on to other rooms and other parts of NZ and the world - Good Luck and work hard - be the best you can be!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I look forward to seeing you in 2012.

xx Mrs Anthony

Remembering the amount of days ....

Room 3 maths remembering how many days are in a month.
30 days has September, April, June and November,
31 have all the rest except for
February which has 28 clear
29 in a leap year!

Congratulations to our First Communion People!

CONGRATULATIONS to Oliver, Lexi, Molly, Kiana, Joseph, Iuvale, David, Benzo, Cortia and Ciaran on making your First Communion on Sunday.  You all looked lovely in your dresses, suits and Lava lava.  As your friends and classmates we were very proud of you!  May God bless you all!

Monet in the making .......

Here we are planning our Monet painting of Lilypads.











And the original .....

Prayer Time

We have been very fortunate to have Cushla from Catholic Education Office in our classroom today teaching us about how to pray.  We had our eyes closed, focused on our breathing and listening to a song Be Still and Know God is here.  We felt really wonderful, calm, peaceful, relaxed, joyful, gentle, kind, loving, caring and faithful while listening to it.  Cushla also gave us 2 sets of Rosary beads from a very poor village in Mexico who wanted to help after the earthquakes.  The Rosary beads are hand made with cottons. They wrote us a message and as it is in Spanish, Isidora is taking the message home to get her mum and dad to translate the Spanish for us.
Thank you Cushla!!!

Drama

Today is our second Drama lesson in a series of lessons.  We are very fortunate to have 2 very capable student teachers coming in teaching drama as part of their University work.  These 2 teachers are both in their final year of training to be Primary School Teachers.  WE are having lots of fun :)  Photos to follow!!!!

School Holidays

Hi Room 3,
I hope you are having a wonderful relaxing holiday! 
I have added a new maths website to our list - have a look - it looks like fun.
Remember there is NO school on Monday - Labour Day.
See you on Tuesday 9am!

Mrs Anthony :)

Presenting the Plays

We had a lot of fun presenting our plays!


Amy and Lucy presented the Two Headed Patient.


Memphis, Alexis, Ciaran, Bradley, Valentine, Isidora and Aaron presented Dinosaur Dinner.





Oliver, Conor, Valentine presenting Little Monster goes to School.






Genevieve, Owen, Cortia, Benzo, Lennon and Betsity presented Chicken Jelly.






, Vimby, Samantha, Valentine and Iuvale presented The Sun and the North Wind.






Molly, David and Joseph presented The Green Jellybean Mystery.





All the children did a fantastic job - well done Room 3 Readers!!!

Having fun with Plays

We are focusing on co-operation when working in a group. It is nice to say words for our friends when they are reading however, we need to allow others time to think. In these photos, we are working in mixed groups and will present our plays informally to the rest of the class.



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Iuvale gets a prize from ANZ

Iuvale gets presented with a cap and a Webb Ellis Cup pin from ANZ to recognise his great achievements in being selected to be ball boy in the semi final Rugby World Cup on the 16 October!! Congratulations Iuvale we are so proud of you!





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Some Aliens are coming ...........

Here are some of the Year 4 Alien verses ...... Mrs Anthony read us half of Here Come the Aliens! written by Colin McNaughton.  We then had to follow the pattern of the verses and add our own ........

One is here
One is there
Some are dead
Some are standing on their head
Some are friendly
Some are deadly
THE ALIENS ARE COMING!

By Lennon

Some are fat
Some are flat
THE ALIENS ARE COMING!
By Kiana

They go into the mall
Where they look cute and cool
They go into a shop
and buy a chop.
THE ALIENS ARE COMING!
By Lexi

The aliens have landed in the sea
Their ship sinks
And the aliens say WEEEE
THE ALIENS ARE SWIMMING!
By David

Exploring our class blog

We are looking at our class blog and exploring the maths games! We have discovered we can be on the same team!

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Writing our version of The aliens have landed!

Watch this space - the Year 4's work will be on here soon ....... What are the aliens doing ......


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More Year 3 Poems

More wonderful poems from Year 3's ........

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;
One mad Monday I met a monster;
One terrible Tuesday I tickled a tiger;
One wacky Wednesday I watched a whale;
One thick Thursday I threw a thief;
One flying Friday I found a fly;
One sunny Saturday I saw a sun on the road.

By Amy

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;
One mad Monday I met a mummy;
One teeming Tuesday I teamed a trout;
One wacky Wednesday I woke a wasp;
One thoughtful Thursday I thanked a turtle;
One fun Friday I was funny;
One sunny Saturday I went to Spain with a sailing spider.

By Braithon

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;
One mad Monday I made a monster;
One terrible Tuesday I tickled a toad;
One wet Wednesday I watched the rain;
One thundery Thursday I threw a tantrum;
One fair Friday I found a fish;
One snowy Saturday a spider bit me.

By Patrick

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;
One mad Monday I made a monster;
One terrible Tuesday I tickled a toad;
One west Wednesday I wet a whale;
One thundery Thursday I thanked a thief;
One funny Friday I found a fish;
One stormy Saturday I sat on a seal.

By Jade

Fantastic Poems by Year 3's

We have been learning to write fun poems - here are some of the Year 3's work.  The rest of the Year 3's work will be up tomorrow - we are still typing them!  Year 4 and 5 work to follow :)  I hope you enjoy reading them as much as the children have creating them!

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;

One mad Monday I met a monster;

One terrible Tuesday I tickled a toad;

One wet Wednesday I went to watch the whales;

One thundery Thursday I thanked a thief;

One foggy Friday I took a fair to fairy found;

One sad Saturday I saw Spain.

By Genevieve

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;

One mad Monday I made marmalade jam;

One terrible Tuesday I tripped on a toad;

One wild Wednesday I watched a wrestling match;

One thundery Thursday I thanked a thief for throwing a thimble;

One funny Friday I found a fairy and a funny fish;

One sunny Saturday I saw a slug and a snail.

By Owen

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail

One mad Monday I made a milkshake

One terrific Tuesday I thanked a turtle

One Wednesday I went whale watching

One thundering Thursday I thanked a thief

0ne foggy Friday I found a fairy

One sunny Saturday I got sick

By Valentine

One sunny Sunday I saw a snail;

One mad Monday I made a monster;

One terrible Tuesday I tickled a team;

One wet Wednesday I watched a whale;

One thundery Thursday I threw up on a taxi;

One foggy Friday I found a funny fairy

One snowy Saturday I saw a spider was sailing to Spain.

By Aaron

Introducing Me!

As part of sexuality lessons Room 3 had to tell about ourselves. We found this hard - it is hard for some of us to say what we are good at. We were given time to write down all the things we are good at, our interests, what we like to eat, our family and what we enjoy to do. Some of us felt really scared but because we are a great supportive class we all managed to get up there and tell the class about us.

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Hard at work

Working hard on our blogs



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News time in Room 3

We enjoy sharing in our news in Room 3! Oliver is sharing his news in this photo. It is good for us to listen to each other and gain confidence in speaking clearly to a large group - our friends are very supportive.

Another Sporting Success!!!

We in Room 3 are also very proud of Amy!  She competed in the Canterbury Competition and came 1st in Level 1.  She then competed in the South Island Competition and came 3rd in the team event and 9th overall - Well Done Amy!!!

Iuvale - Rugby World Cup

Iuvale has been selected to lead a team out in the Rugby World Cup Semi Final 2011.  We are so proud and will be watching our little bit of St Mary's during the Semi Final - WELL DONE IUVALE!!!

Art with Mrs Moyle

While Mrs Anthony was away we did some awesome multimedia artwork with Mrs Moyle - come in and see it!

Welcome to Room 3's Blog

Welcome to our new blog!

Today in Room 3 we are working on researching about our Rugby World Cup Countries.  We are working in pairs and researching about Russia, Romania, Namibia, Japan, Wales, Ireland, France, Argentina, England, Georgia and South Africa.  We are finding out about all we can about our country and then will present this information to the rest of the class.