The awesome Room 3 morning class enjoying the sunshine!

The Sherrif Callie Cafe

We all enjoyed making a variety of cookies from the new less sugar cookbook the Home and School are selling as a fundraiser.  We then decided to have a cafe in Room 3 and sell flavoured water, cookies and hot chocolates.  We invited every class in the school to come to our cafe and gave them all $10 to spend.  It was a good way to practise our maths by working out the change.  

The Gruffulo Show

We loved going to 'The Gruffulo Show' today at the Civic Theatre in Invercargill.  

Thank you to all the parents who helped out for this awesome day out!

Playing at Anderson's Park on the way back to Dipton.  

We are now a Sunsmart School

Today we made some really cool beads that change colour when you go out in the sun.  We learnt why it is important to be sunsmart and we got awarded with a plaque and certificate from the Cancer Society for becoming a Sunsmart School.

Making lots of noise for the 'Tour of Southland' when they go past our school today

Popcorn

Alyssa and Maddison read a story during reading rotation called 'Pop, Pop, Pop' where they learnt how to cook popcorn from popcorn kernels.  They wanted to try making some popcorn after this so off they went to the staffroom to do so and made enough for the entire class.   Everyone enjoyed eating it and this became the writing topic for the day. 

Spring has arrived in Room 3

We had fun this week creating these daffodil handprints.

Spring Writing

The daffidols are cool to see in the Spring time.  
By Emma

In Spring there are new baby lambs born.  
By Scarlett

The bright yellow daffidols are big and when Spring arrives all the daffidols come out.  
By Arnica-May

I love daffidols because they are yellow.  I also like tulips because they are colourful.  
By Sophie

The bright yellow daffidols are cool and smell like perfume.  The baby calves and lambs are born and the weather is warmer in Spring but sometimes it is cold.  
By Maddison

The flowers are growing now and the sun is out.  
By Keira

There is a flower growing now that Spring is here.  
By Skyla

There is a bright sun and it is yellow.  
By Ramon

The bright yellow daffidols have arrived and they look like the colour of the sun.  The cute calves are born and they are playing in the calf shed.  The shinning sun is now out and Spring has arrived.  
By Alyssa

Maths about Me in Room 3

The Solar System

This group worked well today putting the Planet Jigsaw together after being shown the planets in the sky last night by Lloyd Esler at the Matariki evening.

Storytime

Justin our 'big buddy' reading us a story while we drink our milk.

Elgregoe the amazing Magician comes to school

Everyone enjoyed watching the Elgregoe show 'You've got the Power' this afternoon.  The show taught us great values and how to treat others.  We enjoyed the tricks and music and we all had a great laugh.

Matariki

Matariki is a Māori word that can be translated as tiny eyes, or eyes of God. It is also the name for the Māori New Year celebration and the Māori name for a small group of stars (Pleiades) that drop below the horizon in April and reappear in June.

Check our the artwork we created to celebrate Matariki.

Ciska from the senior room sharing a star that she created to celebrate Matariki this month.

We have also been celebrating Matariki by learning how to weave.  

We made our own lanterns for the Matariki evening this term.

We hope you can come to our Matariki event on the 6th of July.

We have had a student teacher in our classroom

Room 3 morning class in Term 2

We have enjoyed having a student teacher from Otago University in our classroom for the past two weeks.  

We hope she has a great trip overseas.  She showed us where she was going on our jigsaw world map.  

We really love the books she gave us and have them in our classroom library.  So thankful!