Room 12 Calendar Scavenger Hunt

It was chaos today as Room 12 wildly searched the room for yellow question cards. Each card asked a question that related to either time or the calendar. The race was on!

Investigating our NZ birds!

Kia Ora everyone.

Week one of Term 4 over and we are already well into our new inquiry 'All Birds Welcome'. Room 12 students have been really enthusiastic and it is amazing to hear some of the knowledge they have already.

We began the inquiry by heading outside with our hands over our ears. This was a strange experience for all of us! We came back to the classroom and a great discussion began about what surroundings we would normally hear. We began to think about birds and questioned whether we would be bothered or not if we couldn't hear them.

 Have you got any great NZ native bird books at home to share? Spotted any articles in the newspaper that we might find useful? We would love for you to bring them in. Also, if you know of someone in the community who might be able to speak to us about NZ native birds please get in contact.

 Below you'll find Room 12 sorting or classifying a range of New Zealand bird images into groups of their choice. A few non-native birds were included to make things tricky! No group sorted their images in the same way. We all had a look at each others work when we were done.

Milan, Tayler, Lucy, and Sophie sorted their images by how common they are. 

JJ, Jake, Joshua and Bhavik sorted their images by what birds they thought were native and non native. 

Vedika, Rebekah, and Trinisha sorted their images by the colour of the birds 

Harry, Jozef, Marwan and Ian sorted theirs by the size of the birds. 

Flynn, Hopoate, Sophia and Liam sorted their images into alphabetical order. 

Emma, Calla, Daniella and Kiah sorted their images in a range of ways, based on looks, native, non-native, and size. 

Our Beautiful Calendar Art!

Check out our calendar art masterpieces! We loved how each one came out so different.  If you would like to see them in person, pop into the office at school. 

Fun with the letter K

Room 12 had some fun creating an Educreations video during handwriting time about writing the perfect K. We found it tricky handwriting on the ipad but this helped us talk about what a perfect K looked like. Have a look at what we created..

Basic Facts Practise

Looking for another way to practise basic facts at home? Head to this website.
Click here ---> Prototec Basic Facts Website
The parts of each stage may not match exactly to the rungs on the Redwood Basic Facts ladder, but do reflect what each child needs to know at each math stage. Students in after 3 years at school should be working at early stage 5. Before this however, stages 2-3 and 4 need to be known well :) What is really great about this website is that it marks the answers and you have two options - to be timed, or to do it as a sheet.

 Have fun!

Exploring fractions

Last Friday, Room 12 had fun exploring fractions. Room 12 were asked to make and find fractions using anything and everything from around the room such as Lego, playdough, paper and math blocks! They had to make sure that if they were making fractions, the parts of the whole had to be equal/ the same. This helped us refresh our minds about what fractions are and ways fractions can be found. Here's a few pictures of our fun creations. 

Term 3

Welcome all to Term 3!

I hope everyone had a fantastic break and it's been great to see everyone.
Almost at the end of week 2 and we are all settled in once again! In maths we have been learning all about probability. We move onto ratios and proportions (fractions) from week 3 and this will cover most of the term. I'm looking forward to having lots of fun dicing and slicing things into halves, quarters, eighths, fifths, thirds... and I could go on!

In reading we have begun to learn about a new reading strategy called summarising. It's a fantastic strategy, especially when year 3's are beginning to read longer texts.

In writing, we have been focusing on brainstorming and giving exciting new words a go. The vocabulary Room 12 has been coming up with has been amazing! Let's not forget the importance of making sure we have full stops and capitals though..

Finally, our inquiry this term is called 'Fun with Friends', and we will be focusing on lots of different aspects of games. At the moment, we have been following the Commonwealth Games.

As you know, learning conferences are very quickly coming up next Wednesday and Thursday. Please do let me know if none of the available times left suit you.

Lastly, I took a number of photos from our market day. These have been posted below.