Week 7 & 8 - Who would have thought....

That we could fit so much into 2 weeks! Our blog felt the wrath of report writing time and had to take a back seat....life in class however continued as normal and Rm 3 has had a couple of busy weeks. Last week we had the wonderful Mr Mahupuku come in and share his bowling knowledge with us. The children remembered many techniques from last year and in a tight girls vs boys competition the girls fought it out to win 1 up, great fun and a huge thank you to Mr Mahupuku for giving up his time.

With bread as our focus last week one of the things we considered were changes to bread, and ways we use it. As a part of this we made our own sandwiches. There is nothing like making your own food, makes it tastier somehow, lots of comments like "wow this is so delicious" and "this is my favourite food ever"....so the lunch maker in your house can take a break and the Rm 3 sandwich maker will step in!

This week is Matariki and the children have been working on a special project with Miss Playle. More to come on that later...today we started thinking about our food festival and made fruit kebabs with chocolate dip. This afternoon we caught imaginitis (a condition that will hopefully never heal!!) and made our own kebabs with some interesting additions.....dogs, cats, bay blades and bananas to name a few. A newsletter went home today about the Food Festival, please check your child's bag and see if you can help us...

Week 6

Thank you to all the parents that attended the Rm3 assembly, it was fantastic to see the children so well supported. What an incredible job they all did, reading and speaking their parts. I was thrilled that all the children made it up on stage. Thanks also to the experience and expert guidance from Miss Playle and Mr Hill, and the on the spot technical support from Miss Sutherland. All contributed to the great sense of pride and achievement the children expressed following assembly!

 

This week was a great celebration of books and the kids really enjoyed visiting other classroom teachers to share stories and participate in book-based activities. Lunchtimes provided surprise guests to share their knowledge and story-telling sessions. No doubt the excitement of Friday's hat parade started at home, the hats were just amazing and some hard work, imagination and collaboration went into them. Well done to those who were awarded prizes for hats and bookmarks.

This week we welcomed Stevee to our class, you should be very proud of your wonderful children who made sure that Stevee was included and welcomed from the get go. Please introduce yourself to Stevee and her family if you get the chance...

Take a look at the Rm3 authors hard at work creating their own books following the reading of The Boring Book that they read with Mrs Kelly...

 

We had our first rippa rugby session with Doug on Thursday, lots of fast running and some future All Blacks and Black Ferns at play!!

And finally for this week some of our amazing hat creations. Looking forward to a busy week 7, wow the Term is flying by......