Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas From Room 3 at Gore Main School!

Swimming at the Gore Pool

As part of our 'end of year' celebrations we decided to go swimming at the Gore pool!  We were lucky enough to have an inflatable up and we enjoyed having some Mums in the pool as well.  Check out our pictures!

Christmas Party!

On Tuesday the 11th of December Rooms 0,1,2 and 3 decided to have a combined Christmas celebration!  We played lots of games together, sung some christmas carols and shared hot chips!  We even had a visit from Santa Claus!  It was great and the Junior team had a wonderful and fun filled day.

Santa has been!

We all got a present from Santa!

Shaking Santa's hand!

Aren't we lucky!

The big man in red!

Presents!  Presents!

We love you Santa!

I wonder what is in these....

The boys shaking Santa's hand

We love our presents!

Eating hot chips!

Checking our our presents... "What did you get?"

Planting sunflowers!

We are very clever gardeners in Room 3!  We painted our own containers with bright colours (which we recycled), put dirt in them and planted sunflowers seeds.  Over a few weeks our sunflowers grew and grew!  We watered them and made sure they got sunlight.  Once they were about 10cm high we transplanted them into a planter box in the school grounds.  We decided we wanted to grow another sunflower each to take home at the end of the year.  

Out of our fancy pots into the raised garden!

We are gardeners!

Our little sunflowers in their new home

I can use these tools!

This is important work... I must get it right!

Our sunflower patch!

United Kingdom Oma!

Room 3 has been corresponding with classmember Jessica's Oma in the United Kingdom.  Last week we had a visit from her!  We were all able to call her Oma... it was awesome!  When Oma visited Room 3 she taught us how to make our own books.  In groups of about 4, the children learnt how to fold and cut paper to make their own special book creations.  We can't wait to put our stories into them. Oma brought in a large variety of her books that she had handmade.  We were amazed!  Oma gave Room 3 a beautiful book with verses about books in it.  Mrs M is reading a verse each day.  This has inspired us in Room 3.  We enjoyed our time with Oma and we would like to thank her so much!

Room 3 with Jessica's Oma... we had just made our own special books!

Being silly with Jessica's Oma!  We have lots of fun in Room 3!

A sample of one of the books we made!

 

Term 3 Inquiry - Habitats

For the Term 3 Inquiry we chose to look at 'ponds'.  We went for a walk in the local park "Bannerman Park" and found a dirty disgusting pond.  We decided to take action!  We decided to write to the Park Manager and tell him what we thought about this dirty pond.  We had learnt all about ponds and we knew what a healthy pond should be like.  We wrote and illustrated a persuasive letter to the Manager.... Clean up the pond!  The Manager responded with a letter and action occured.  The pond had the rubbish and sticks removed and the boardwalk was repaired!  Room 3 has realised that we can make a difference!  Well done Room 3!

The dirty pond.... yuck!

Looking at the dirty pond...

What can we do with this dirty pond....?

The pond is full of leaves!

Our classroom pond!  It is very healthy!

The pond food chain

Pond food chains!

Fun day

The children of Room 3 filled their golf ball jar again.  We had a fun Olympics 'type' day with Room 1 to celebrate the achievement!  The day started out with all the children going into mixed groups.  The groups then designed a name and flag for the competition.  After that we had the events!  They were:  Kiwi fruit and spoon races, Scooter races, Paper tree building and Target.  The children all had fun moving around the different activities.  Everyone won a gold medal (crunchie bar)!  After that we watched Toy Story and enjoyed yummy cake and fish'n'chips.  There was fizzy as well!  We finished the day with a walk up to Bannerman Park to feed the deer.  It was an awesome day.  Check out our videos!

Talent Quest

Congratulations to all those Room 3 children who tried out for the talent quest!  Here is a list of the children who made the grand final on Friday the 28th of September!

Finalists:

Jessica and Danielle - Dance

Talia and Bre - Dance

Jessie - Visual art

Jessie - Creative

Claudia - Creative 

Rhett - Building and construction
 
WELL DONE TO THOSE CHILDREN WHO RECIEVED A PLACING IN THE TALENT QUEST!

 

There is a video clip of Jessica and Danielle which I am having trouble saving!  

Dancing girls in Room 3

The children of Room 3 enjoy performing!  Check out the dance of a couple of the ladies in Room 3!

Rhythm Interactive Performance

On Wednesday we had a wonderful opportunity for all the Gore Main School students!  It involved a all children in the school playing a drum at the same time while being led by a very talented man.  It was amazing and the children of Room 3 enjoyed it alot!  The children all kept a great rhythm trying to keep in time with the Rhythm Interactive leader.