Last Day of Term 3

Wishing all of the friends and family of Room 3 a wonderful fortnight of fun, sleep, food, adventures and quality time! We celebrated by having a water-fight game of Hunters!

Home base

Lorenzo had the right idea with his raincoat

Bella, Anika and Rachel hiding from the hunters

Scarecrow Day

It's Scarecrow making day!!

The courts before the hard work begun.

Taylor getting the princesses footwear ready

This team came up with an innovative spin on the Princess theme.
Have a look at the school fence and see if you can find out how.

We are so grateful for the help of our parents!

Ella sorting out the baby prince

Scarecrow carnage...who is this scary prince/princess/politician?

Alex sure has grown taller recently! Don't you think Room 6?

Henry checking out the 'people' hanging out on the school fence.

Pregnant Princess Kate and Prince George by Foster, Ella, and Liam

Some of the Scarecrows hanging out on the fence

Can you work out which ones are the scarecrows?

Baby Prince George with John Key photo-bombing

Asha, Tessa and Taylor with their scarecrow

Eva and Anika with their Prince

"Oh I can't believe it...YES I will marry you, my Prince" says Phoebe.

We liked Rapunzel - very clever!

Sea Turtles

Room 3 you can find links to more information and videos about sea turtles here. Just click on the links below:

http://seaworld.org/en/animal-info/animal-infobooks/sea-turtles/

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/

http://iucn-mtsg.org/about-turtles/key-unsolved-mysteries/

http://www.ted.com/talks/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_wish_to_protect_our_oceans

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_on_exploring_the_oceans?language=en

http://seaworldcares.com/

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-survival-of-the-sea-turtle#watch


Group 2: Ella, Bella, Eva, Phoebe, Grace, Rachel, Foster, Ollie, Seth and Lorenzo

Here is the research and planning you have done so far today. Have a look at some of the links above to find out more information to bring to writing time tomorrow.

Arty-types

At Assembly this week as shared our completed tree/calf art works from this post . We are feeling pretty proud of our efforts. We will have them on display in class this week for parent/techer interviews, and then they will be entered in the Calf Club Art competition and the local AMP show.

Room 3 Elections

We have become quite interested in the general election in the last few days.  We found out at Assembly this morning that Gladstone School is a polling place.  We had some knowledge already of what politicians did like:

"they are on tv"
"they wear suits"
"they are like John Key"

Today we did some research about what main political parties there were in this years election and what some of their policies were. Here's some of the information we found out from what we knew and what we found on their websites:

We decided that we would like to have a vote too:

We had to look at the information we found out and decide what was important to us. How do you think we voted?

It turns out that Room 3 would have a Greens government! Do you want to know why? Ask us some questions about this.


This exercise was based on the Social Sciences learning objectives:

• Understand how groups make and implement rules and laws.
• Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.