Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Cool Kids Show


Elgregoe  with his puppet

Look at these faces

You've Got the Power




Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Children sharing their self portraits at our assembly

Making playdough

Room 3 at the library

Parent Evening

Welcome to Room 3's Blog

I am hoping that this blog will give you as parents another way to be connected to Room 3 and your child's learning.

I will be updating the blog with activities and work that we do in class and around the school.I will also use this blog to pass on any information that relates to your children's learning.

This year as most of you know the junior school are blended learning classes. In Room 3 we will be using ipads to help support and strengthen children's learning by giving them opportunities to use different apps to reinforce learning. This is just one way of reinforcing student learning.Some other examples we will be using are play-dough, drawing, listening to stories on CD's, reading library books , cooking ,making things to name a few.

From Monday to Thursday each morning will be when we do  reading, shared reading, guided reading, handwriting, spelling, writing, "word works" and maths. In the afternoons will be topic and the other curriculum areas.On a Friday I run a 4 year old session and this is based around Language experiences.

Homework
Each day the children will bring home a reader which they have read with me. They need to read the reader a few times to family members so that they are able to read it independently. The focus as a beginning reader is to learn  to follow the words as they read, be able to identify some basic words and point to them. As they move up the levels the focus is to get children to look at the beginning sounds of unknown words say the sound then think does it look right, sound  right and does it make sense.Readers need to come back each day because they then read to me again and this helps me to see what strategies they need to help.

Spelling
They will have 4 to 5 words to learn each week. On Fridays they will be tested and new words will be added to the list.  It is important that the children learn these words each day. They need to copy the words at least 4 times each. We are wanting the children to be able to write, say and read the words in their list.

Maths
The worksheet that they get is to reinforce the number knowledge that they are learning in class. This worksheet is to be done over 2 weeks.

Looking forward to adding to this blog and also Room three will be very interested in reading your comments as we post our blogs.


Thursday, 30 January 2014



This is Room 3, 2014
We are looking forward to  a great year of learning and having fun in our class.

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Our Auckland Trip

Room 3 children checking out the trams.
Getting ready to look around  MOTAT.
Riding on the tram at  MOTAT.

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Sharing in our community.

Today the junior school put on a concert and provided soup and a bun for 5 senior citizens in our local community. The children enjoyed performing.
Room 3 sang a song and played percussion instruments.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Term 2 catch up

Welcome to Room 3's  Blogg

This is the start of hopefully a fun way for parents and family to see what we do at Ohaeawai School

Our class
 
 We have been very lucky to have 5 I-pads in our class.The children are getting very good at using them. We have reading books, spelling  and maths apps which the children use to reinforce their learning.

The children learning how to use the I-pads
In term 1 we used a sewing machine to sew our school values kites

In term 2 we cooked cupcakes and made frog faces.

Room 3 had to run our school assembly a couple of weeks ago. We sang a song and played percussion instruments. We all sang really loud so that everyone heard us.


A few weeks ago we finally had our chickens delivered to our chicken coop. The class was very excited. We have  Adam Bennett from room 2 who comes and helps us look after the chooks.