Room 3's blog

Hi All,

Well what a crazy term and the end of the year is all but upon us. 

Firstly a huge congratulations to Sean McGruddy, Ashlee Edmonds and Salote Mua'kiholeva who have all been selected to travel to Japan next year with our travel group.  This is great to see and shows others in the class how a great effort in all areas at school also has its rewards.  Well done you three.

This morning we were very lucky to have a visitor to our school. Room 3 and Syndicate 1 spent an hour this morning working with NZ author and illustrator Stu Duvall.  Mr Duvall is a regular visitor at our school and takes part in our Writers Camp each year. Today he worked with us to teach us how to draw simple cartoon faces and images.  We used letters, numbers and shapes to begin our cartoons and we all did a great job.

Here are some photos of us taking part in the workshop:

We have been doing lots of things at the end of the term. We have been doing lots of tests like the Star test and English tests. We are studying our Te Reo words for the up-coming mastery test.

We also are doing maths with Louisa with our teacher Mr Kerr who is starting the teaching of Proportions and Ratios. We were having a novelty sports day on the October 5th, but it was cancelled because of forecasted rain.  We also have been selecting our options one and two programmes for next term.

The World Cup is very exciting to everyone in New Zealand, but have you thought  what the Rugby World Cup can do for New Zealand. Here, look at my question and please answer it.

This is a voice recorded about fun things we are doing this term

Room 3 This Term 3

This is a brain storm what we are going doing in Room 3. On Monday there was a lot of snow at school and at my house.  I was not at school but I couldn't play in the snow because I was sick, and there was no school on Tuesday. We are always having fun in Room 3.

This morning when we got to school our whole school field was covered in snow after all the of the snow last night.  It was far too tempting for everyone to not go and play in it and lots of fun was had by all.

YR.8 COMPUTERS

Over the past few weeks in computers the yr. 8s have been making thier own songs and remixing songs using Garage Band.

- They learned how to cut, paste, change volume, record their voices, and adding loops.

- The most used loops were animal noises and the vocals.

- The first week they learned how to use Garage Band and made their own songs.

- The 2nd week they played around and made a full 1:00 minute song.