Boats in the rain

The heavy rain at night gave us deep puddles, quite deep enough to float our tinfoil boats with acorn cargo - great Science involving floating and sinking.

Chrome books

While Year 6 was at Camp Raglan, Room 11 lent us 21 Chromes books so that we could all u use one at the same time! We used them to write a short, colour coded narrative and do some ARBs about fish and birds.  Thank you, room 11!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Groups are named!

We have three group tables in Room 19, and at last each one has a name.  Each group table brainstormed some names and then voted on their favourite.  Let me introduce the Wonderful Wekas, the Marvellous Meerkats and the Delightful Dragonflies.  As you can see, Hoover helped with the voting.

Cross words

Everyone has a chance to make a crossword with a buddy using the magnetic letters.

David and Jiny's crossword

Luke and Shaun's crossword

Popcorn Friday

On Fridays, we check our basic facts and home reading, and test our spelling.  If everyone remembers to hand in their home learning book and reading log for marking, we have popcorn Friday.

We pop our popcorn right here in the classroom, which makes the room smell delicious.

Middle School Swimming Sports

Year 3 and Year 4 students all competed in the Middle School Swimming Sports on Wednesday.  Competitive swimmers raced first, followed by the non competitive races: Dolphin Push, Flitter Flutter and the Wheelbarrow.  Everyone competed in two events, except our relay team (Kylie, Luke, Paula and Samuel) which also competed in the Year 3 inter class relay. Congratulations to everyone who raced, and a special mention to Samuel who came first in the seven year boys' competitive race.

Competitive girls under starter's order.

Competitive boys under starter's orders.

Dolphin push

Flitter flutter

Wheelbarrow

Lining up to record swimming results

Room 19's swimming relay team.

Keeping cosy between races.

Gallery clapping and cheering competitors.

Winners of the competitive girls' races

Winners of the competitive boys' races - special congratulations to Samuel from Year 3.

Working with tens

Travis practised making tens using a number line on an ipad.

The Jet Streamers made all the numbers with ten up to 20 using peg boards - great co-operative work.