Printing with our buddy class

The third stage in our work with our buddy class.

Today, we got to PRINT! We used a special type of ink/paint, rollers and paper to create our prints. It was really cool to see the different textures the card gave as well as the different levels in our work. Everyone had a part to play - a roller (with paint), a presser and a roller (without paint).

Next week we will be adding to our current prints.

Maritime Museum

Today, we went on our trip to the Maritime Museum. We caught a bus to the city and had a fun activity to do in the Museum. We saw lots of amazing things! Lots of things about the water, sailing, coastline, Sir Blake and things from the past. Check out some of our photos from the trip. Be sure to look on the individual blogs for their own recounts on the trip.

Crazy for Kids Can

Today was 

GET CRAZY FOR KIDS CAN Mufti Day. We got to dress up in Mufti, get crazy with some funky hair styles, crazy socks & crazy dress ups!

We had so much fun dressing up, have a look at who dressed up this week...

Term 3 Buddy Class - Landforms & Printing

This term with our buddy class we are learning about landforms. We now know that there are 4 different landforms

1. Mountains
2. Hills
3. Valleys
4. Plains

After learning about these 4 landforms we had to draw these four landforms on a massive sheet of paper. This was in our first buddy session.

Our 2nd buddy session (this week) we used our sketches from last week to cut pieces of cardboard to create our cards for printing, ready for next week.

Check out what we're up to...

THE TRIAGRAPH DGE by Lucky

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the triagraph dge. We learnt that the rule for the dge are the vowels come before the dge. This is what makes the sound. Here are some example.

Book Character Mufti Day

Today, we had our Mufti Day. It was all about dressing up in our favourite book characters! 

Check out the amazing characters we had in our class today.

Phonics - Soft C

For phonics today we focused on the sound of the soft c. We learnt that the rule for the soft c are the vowels E I and the letter Y come after the letter c. This is what makes the sound a soft c. Here are some examples.

Student Led Conference

We had our Student Led Conferences this week. It was great fun being able to see our families come in and share our learning with them. 

Here are some photos from Thursday. 

Thank you to our whanau for coming in! We really appreciate it!  

Welcome Back

Welcome back to Term 3. 

We hope that you all had a great holiday. Some of us did the Winter Learning Journey and you can check out the things that we learnt on our blogs. The links on the side. 

Keep coming back to our blog and check out the amazing things we get up to. We've got lots of events and some trips this term and we can't wait to share all this with you. 

Matariki Kites with Rm 3

For buddy class, we did some learning about Matariki, the Maori New Year. Together, we designed our own kites. We used kebab sticks, tape, black paper to make the kite and then used pastels (gold, white and silver) and read and white feathers to decorate them. Then we got to fly them. We had so much fun making and flying our kites.