Our Otatara Pa Posters

Otatara Pa Posters on PhotoPeach

Goodbye and Good Luck

W3 wish you the very best at your new school Seamus and we hope you enjoyed your giant cookie

Our Poi Demonstration Term 3 Assembly Item

Assembly Item T 3 from Sandra Chisnall on Vimeo.

Tui Reading Group (Boys) Presenting "The Taiaha."

Taiaha Boys Group from Sandra Chisnall on Vimeo.

Thanks you Seamus, Amos and Nicholas for sharing 

what you had learnt.

W3 Trip To Otatara Pa

W3 Trip To Otatara Pa on PhotoPeach

 

Brothers' and Sisters' Day

 

Here is the rakhi that Harsajan's girl cousins made for him.

Harsajan really liked it and he gave them some money! 

Our Te Mata Peak Trip

Thank you to our photographer Nikki, who took these photos of the Year 3 Group

Can you see.....?

Sitting under the Trig looking for places on the tile map

We can see the Tuki Tuki River

Lunch Time at Te Mata Peak Restaurant

Jaimee, the tree is taller than you!

The Redwoods

Just hanging around a rock wall. I wonder what the black rock is called?

Yes we made it to the end of the trail at the Tauroa Road Car Park

Some Swimming Photos from Term 3

 About to practise our Diving

Group Two in the smaller warm pool practising our skills

Swimming Thank You Letters

Te Kaha in Paris!!!

Check out Te Kaha from the link on the right hand side....there are lots of photos :)

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

WALT describe a character from a story
Watch this space for our descriptions that we are working on!

One day under the bridge there was a Troll. He was greedy, oh yes he was greedy! Every goat that went over the bridge got gobbled up. The troll was bony and old and hairy too.

When he got smashed off the bridge, he went to his cave to live but he was so starving and as mean as a black panther and he was running around to get a Billy Goat Gruff. He had to eat fish for the rest of his life.                   Matthew

Once there was a smelly ugly troll with white un-brushed messy hair and he had teeth that he never brushed so they turned dark yellow and he had evil eyes and black, dark eyebrows!

That troll was so mean and he had ragged clothes that he never washed in the machine.

One day he was feeling starving so his tummy growled because he saw 3 Billy Goat Gruffs…                   Harleen

A mean, ugly, hairy, messy troll lived under a rickety, wobbly, grey wooden bridge. His black pants were scruffy and tatty like his red vest and white t-shirt. He is always grumpy, angry and in the mood for a feast of Billy Goats.

In the inside of the ugly troll, he was feeling hungry and in the mood for Billy Goat Stew! He had weak skinny bones even though he looks strong but he is actually weak!

This is what the troll looks like. He is ugly, fat and almost as fat as a Xmas Pudding with yellow spikey teeth because he never cleans them. He is hairy and has a heavy gold horse-shoe shaped earring. He has long curly fingernails that almost touch his toes. He has a red velvet jacket and a dirty stained white t-shirt and dark green slim trousers like algae in the river. His black evil eyes spook everybody near that’s why his is proud of his eyes. He doesn’t have a hairbrush to brush his busy grey hair.                                                           Jaimee

Oh what a mean troll that lives under the old wooden rickety bridge. He is very old and he has got earrings and big yellow spikes for teeth because he doesn’t clean them. He is hairy and has curly claws.

His meanness and evilness is in his heart. He is always hungry for Billy Goats. He is dumb and as bony as a skeleton. He has a special taste for Billy Goats!                                 Seamus

That cranky old hungry troll that lives under the old cobblestone bridge is as smelly as a skunk!!! He is super strong and ultra ugly!! In fact he is so scruffy, you might mistake his sleeping form for a rocket!

His brain is as small as a microcube. He is grumpy and idiotic. In fact he is so idiotic, he might even try to eat a rock!

So as you might have guessed, he is quite stupid. MUNCH! CRASH! BAM! BANG! UH-OH! Here he comes, gotta go!! CRUNCH!!! Booooaaaaa!!! Biff!! Smash! Clang!       Nicholas

The mean old Troll is crazy. His eyes are red, his teeth are as sharp as a sharks and he is angry and grumpy. That Troll has a special taste for Billy Goats Gruff. He has big ears, as big as a rabbits and he is as hungry as the world. He has a white long beard. He is as hairy as a long hairy sheep and he has yellow teeth.                                                                                 Harsajan

The big mean ugly Troll once lived under the bridge. He has huge pointy claws and pointy teeth. He has a red vest. He has evil eyes and he has hairy, hairy, shaped ears and green shorts.                                                                                    Jorga

Cub of the Week

Thank you Mikayla Morrell for sharing your exciting news 

with us!

GO FOR GOLD!

Mathletics GOLD :)

Well done Seamus. The challenge for W3 this year was to see if they could get a Gold Certificate....and you did!

Assembly Awards Term 2 Week 8

Iliya, Amos and Seamus

Rippa Rugby and Netball

Shortest Day-PJ Day

Just some of the cuties from W3

Ormie The Pig Wants A Cookie

Our Finished Vehicles...well almost

Our Vehicles That We Made on PhotoPeach

What you have been waiting for! Our Vehicle Videos

IMG 0630 from Sandra Chisnall on Vimeo.

IMG 0632 from Sandra Chisnall on Vimeo.

Geometry

Hexagons had the challenges of making as many geometric shapes as they could using only 6 sticks. This is what we came up with.

We are learning that triangles dont always have sides that are the same length

Construction Time

Here we are making a MESS!!! No we have been busy making our vehicles. Keep watching for our videos :)

Players of the Day for Netball

Ella and Netika. Well done :)

Assembly Awards Term 2 Week 4

Congratulations to MJ and Harman

Ella the Magician

Ella, we think that you are very clever. How did you manage to get the red silk hankie into the little box?

What is the secret?

Describing Verbs

Today we made a list of as many verbs as we could and shared them with the class.

In our reading book we looked for verbs in the story and here is a list that Josiah and Netika made with Mrs Chisnall.

Making Mistakes is Good

This week in Maths we are solving addition problems where one of the addends is missing. Here is our thinking from Maths Groups Diamonds and Hexagons.

Mrs Chisnall doesn't mind if we make mistakes because that is how we learn. In maths, it is the sharing with others as to how we got the answer that is more important.

Term 2 Week 2 Assembly Awards

Congratulations to Seamus, Lealou and Mikayla Morrell. We are proud of you :)

Mufti Friday

Navdeep, we loved your bright colourful costume and wanted to share this photo on the Blog. 

You look beautiful!

Congratulations

Well done to the following children who are now ready to be tested on the next Maths Knowledge Level because they scored 80% or above:
Now working at Stage 4 (M.J., Kassie and Annaliese)
Now working at Stage 5 (Rayhan, Harman, Matthew, Mikayla M., Ella and Iliya)

I will have to work out if it is mathletics that is making the difference or the children using the maths knowledge sheet in their Home Book to nail their Maths Knowledge!
A big thank you to those parents who have been supporting their children.

If your child's name has not been mentioned above, it could be that they were away when we had the testing or they are already working at Stage 4 or 5.

Check out our Autumn stories

W3 went for a walk around the block

We collected some leaves

We talked about the trees and the leaves on the ground

We used our senses. Our eyes, hands and ears.

We brain stormed our ideas

We wrote some similes

We wrote our ideas into 2 paragrahs

Discovery Learning-Vehicles

W3 have been talking about vehicles. 
This week we have been thinking about how we could make a vehicle with wheels.
For homework tonight, the children are going to collect materials from around the house to bring to school so that they can test their ideas.
We will be posting photos on the blog of our models. At this stage we are only making a prototype 
(mock up/model).

If you have any extra materials around the house like containers (boxes, clean plastic bottles, milk lids or similar for wheels etc., they may be helpful to children who forget or can't find anything-THANK YOU :)

W3 Stars

Congratulations to both Matthew and Rayhan for all your hard work. A great start to the term.