Matariki

Today we are learning about Matariki. We are drawing Matariki on the computer using Kid Pix.  We are also doing buddy poems about Matariki too. by Ellie.

It's all about Practise!

Room 16 has been working hard on their basic facts and improving their speed. 

We have joined Sumdog Maths which is a fun way to practise all maths. When we get enough points we can go into the online shop and buy fun things for our character. 
We have also entered the Sumdog contest where we will challenge other students in Auckland. It starts on July 5th.

http://www.sumdog.com


We have also started using, Are you a Maths Magician site to practise our times tables. In Year 3 we need to know our 1,2 and 5 times tables automatically. 

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/mathsmulti.html

We will report how the contest goes after July 12th. 

Room 16

Eating Cookies

I am very happy I made my first animation using Kid Pix. 

I hope you like it.

Alexandra

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Sam's First Animation

Today I made my first animation and I'm pretty proud of it.   What do you think?                                                                       

by Sam

Sam's Animation from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Ethan's Animation

Today I made my first animation. I'm very proud.

By Ethan

Ethan's Animation from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Stardome and Cornwall Park

Here is an iPhoto slideshow of our trip. We did observational drawing in the park, played on the playground and then went into the Stardome and learned all about Space.

Stardome and Cornwall Park from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Planet Roll Call

Here is our poem of the week. Read along and see if you can find the rhyming words!

Planet Roll Call

Eight planets around the sun,

Listen as I call each one:

Mercury? Here! Number one,

Closest planet to the sun.

Venus? Here! Number two,

Shining bright, just like new!

Earth? Here! Number three,

Earth is home to you and me.

Mars? Here! Number four,

Red and ready to explore!

Jupiter? Here! Number five,

Largest planet, that’s no jive.

Saturn? Here! Number six,

With rings of dust and ice that mix.

Uranus? Here! Number seven,

A planet tilted high in heaven.

Neptune? Here! Number eight,

With one dark spot whose size is great.

Good bye Grey Lynn School.

Today I'm going on a six week trip.So I'm really excited.The first country I'm going to is Hong Kong. Then I think London. I know my last stop, it's LA.When we are at  LA we are going to Disney land.Woo-hoo!   
I'm sending heaps of postcards and skyping a lot of people. We are going at midnight.I just can't wait till midnight.By Ruth.

I will be back in six weeks.

Grandparents Day

It's  grandparent day today. I drew a picture of my mum and dad.  I am going to bring my picture home.  Some  grandparents  couldn't came  to grand parents day.We all had fun today even if we didn't have our grandparents there.Woo-hoo. We  had a parade and an assembly. It was a lot of fun. 

by Hollie

Scaly beast

Scaly quiet beast.

Swimming fast with a fat tail.

Big fat chomping teeth.

By Sam

Please leave a comment if you know what it is.

Clever things

They are very quiet.
They creep when you are sleeping.
They are quite scary.
By Alexandra

The Wild

Dangerous wild, fast 
Seeing its prey, starts to sneak.
Black as the night sky.

by Ethan

Can you guess

Leave a comment if you now what the animal is.

Stomping haiku

Scary boney meat.

Herbivore,  carnivore. Raa! 

Now extinct,  goodbye.

By Geoffrey

Leave a comment if you know what it is please! 

The Wild Haiku

Looks through the dry grass.
Paws ready to pounce and pierce.
Camouflaged hunter.

By Noah

Leave a comment if you know what this is please.

Sharks haiku

Lives in the water 

It has sharp teeth to attack

It hunts for its food.   

by Elizabeth                                                                    

Leave a comment  please!

How many tens?

In maths we have been learning how many tens are in a number. We used rods so we could see how many tens make up a number. Then we drew it on our whiteboards. After we took a picture with the ipad. Andrea will print the pictures to keep in our modelling books so we can go back and see it if we need to remember. Then we drew it using kid pix on our own to show that we understand it.

Weston and Elizabeth

We drew this using Kid Pix

Poetry in Nature

WALT write to entertain. We are learning all about different types of poetry. 

This week we are focussing on Haiku. 

Enjoy the first video of our haiku poetry written during guided writing time.

Cherry, Weston, Jonty, Ellie and Red

Haiku from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Funky Feet Friday

Today we had Funky Feet Friday to support Travelwise. We are trying to walk to school and use our cars less.

We got to wear funky shoes and two people get to win a certificate.

Enjoy our iphoto slideshow of our funky feet!

Funky Feet Friday -Medium from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Fitness Freaks and iMovie

We have been learning to keep fit by moving our bodies for 10 minutes everyday. When it's raining outside, we do aerobics videos. 

We are also learning how to make iMovie trailers. Trailers are the little snippets of up and coming movies. You usually see them before you watch a movie in the cinema. We made one together today. We are going to be making our own this term. We are so excited!

Enjoy the fitness and the movie trailer.

Room 16

Fitness Freaks from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.

Before we take off into Space...

...Let's find out what we already know!

We did a KWL chart and recorded all the things we know or thought we knew about Space. 

A KWL chart help sort your thinking so you know what direction your learning will take.

K - What we KNOW
W - What we WANT to know/learn.
L - What we have LEARNED.

Then we recorded them using PhotoBooth and then dropped them into iMovie. 

Next we filled in the W - What we want to learn about Space. Our next step is to figure out how we will find the answers to our questions. 

When we have answered our questions then we will record our new knowledge in the L part - what we have learned. 

Please leave us a comment and share your facts about Space.

Room 16

What we Know about Space from Grey Lynn Scribblers on Vimeo.