CAMP!

Wow!
We had the most amazing camp!

If your a Room 3 parent no doubt you have heard all about our camp- perhaps you were even on it with us! If not here is what we got up to and some pics to go with it!

Day one saw us travelling down to Napier. On the way we first stopped in Wairoa to pick up Whaea Jenni. Then on to Tutira School. We popped in to see what Tutira are up to, as they are a silver enviro school like us! They took us on a tour to show us how they look after the environment.

Then we arrived in Napier! First stop in Napier was at Ocean Spa! It was a chilly day so it was awesome to be able to have a soak in the warm pools!

After Ocean Spa we headed down to the Aquarium. Sandy met us down there while we took in the sites of Marine Parade and made the most of the beautiful big foot/bike path!

When we arrived at the Aquarium, Jacque met us and we got straight in to learning about the "Little Penguin". We learnt they are not called Little Blue penguin any more as people have had disagreements on what colour they actually are!

After learning about the Little Penguin we headed down into the Oceanerium where we were going to be spending the night, and had our tasty dinner! While we were waiting there Polly and Mrs Hook (We gave them their pirate names!) met us and helped us make our pirate hats. We then had a treasure hunt around the aquarium! All teams won some lollies! We quickly made our beds and then got to meet a bearded dragon! Her name was Anok.

BED TIME! And everyone was very good at getting themselves to sleep quickly- I think we were all very tired as well!

Then up for day 2!

Day 2 started with us having breakfast then we got to see the Paku fish getting fed. (Ask Kaedyn about the Paku fish- he has a whole lot of info on them!)

We knew we had a bit of a surprise happening, so after packing up we headed to the penguin enclosure.... we got to watch the penuins getting fed! And then we got to meet Draco the penguin! This doesn't happen at the aquarium for anyone- we were extra lucky and special!

After meeting Draco we got to watch the diver feeding the fish- Matt the diver was a high light for many!

We packed up the bus after watching Matt and then headed off to Perfume Point to see the "Art for Sea Life" big mural on the light house on the point. Then we headed down the board walk to lunch before heading to Eskdale school!

Eskdale school are an enviroschool- a Green Gold enviroschool!! So we were pretty keen to see what it takes to have a green gold enviroschool.

Then we made our way back to our whanau in Mahia!

All up we had an amazing camp! And we were very lucky that we had amazing parents helping us out.

If you see any Room 3 people about do ask them about camp! They are full of all sorts of info they learnt while there!

Manu Tī - Taonga Tākaro (Traditional Māori Game)

Manu Tī is a game traditionally played where opponents tried to snatch raukura (feathers) out of each other’s hair (top knots) or from the Tipare (headband). In pairs each person is trying to snatch the feather from another person. 

The benefits of the game are it improves reflexes, spatial awareness, reading opponents movements and body language, and peripheral vision. It is also a great way to warm up, whakawhanaungatanga, have a laugh, and generally encourage participation and engagement.

During Te Reo time in class room 3 tamariki each made a tipare using colourful pipe cleaners. Then by placing it on their heads with a feather in front they were all set to go with the game Manu Tī. The rules we had were you weren't allowed to block your opponents hands from reaching for your feather but were only allowed to move your body, your legs had to stay in place too. Talk about a challenge as each tamariki was eager to get their opponents feather. A lot of laughter from everyone! Not a bad first go at the game Manu Tī  Room 3.

Violet

Hi  I am Violet.
  I learnt about groups of  and describing  ourselves in Maori.
Miss Kereru wrote a question down and we wrote the answer down.  The  question  was 5 x5= ?  The way we worked it out was we had to draw groups of 5 and in every group there was 5. The answer is 25.    

Violet

James Plays Bingo

I Was playing on the ipad writing a's and stuff.  

Playing Bingo I put the counters on the numbers.  Aunty Lesley said a number and I put the counters and lady bug cards on the numbers.
I Liked it. I like playing Bingo and I found 8, 10, 6 and stuff.

James

Multiplication Mission

Day 1 of school and Room 3 tamariki were out on the netball court with coloured chalk writing and learning multiplication facts and the younger tamariki were learning to skip count in two's forwards and backwards to 20. The older tamariki were writing all the multiplication basic facts that they knew, and some tamariki were working out multiplication equations by forming groups of depending on the numbers they were multiplying.

Prior to their outdoor math learning we had a lot of discussion about the word multiplication and what it meant. The older tamariki said words like times and groups of, other words I mentioned were sets of, lots of, repeated addition, multiply and double. It is always important to go through the language and vocabulary involved in the learning area. 

I must say a lot of chalk was used and the tamariki had fun, not bad for a first day back!

Week 1!

Kia ora and welcome to Term 2 for the year.

Room 3 were full of smiles and laughter on Monday- it was so neat to see.
They bounced into class and have been putting heaps of effort into their mahi ever since!

We welcome two new students to Te Mahia as well. Lucy and Jack have come all the way from Mercury Island to start school here with us in Mahia. We are pretty excited they are here and Room 3 have been doing an awesome job at welcoming them.

This week we have begun our new literacy Centre. It is full on! Tamariki have been doing a super job at working out where they need to be and they have also been fantastic models for our photos which will be put onto the literacy centre board so that we remember what it is we need to be doing.

We have a busy week coming up next week with our Learning Korero's happening on Monday, then Enviroschools learning on Tuesday.

We also have our weekly bloggers happening this term so keep your eyes peeled!

Mrs Hitchy and Room 3!