Solar Speed Racer

Room 22's Solar Car in Action!

Watch  this video of our solar car completing its 3 metre race to the finish line.

How long do you think it took to do travel 3 metres?

Did the car complete the track?  

What caused the car to stop moving?

What time of day do you predict our car would travel fastest?

Kai Puppetpal

The children have been learning to write play scripts about kai (food) in te reo Maori. This one was written by Anna, Sasha, Annie and Hannah. The translation is by Callum.

Maui and the Sun Retelling By Hamish

Read this free book made on StoryJumper

NZ Flag Update

Today the 4 alternative flag designs were announced. Look at the post below to find out if Room 22's favourite flag made the top 4.

Digital Citizenship

Over the past 3 weeks Room 22 have been learning how to be great Digital Citizens, building on what they already knew.  Mrs Taylor, our school ICT Lead teacher has been working with every class in the school to help everyone to be safe and make good choices when online.
The things we have covered are:
Our personal details and information - what to share and what NOT to share
Usernames - making them a bit tricky for someone to guess real names
Spotting fishy business and what to do
Making sensible choices
For Kids:  Hector's World for KidsFor parents: Hector's World For Parents

The Alternative New Zealand Flag Designs

Zoe shared the 40 designs for the alternative New Zealand flag with the class. She told us who can vote, when the referendum will be and showed us the website with the designs.

Click on this link to see them all. Which one do you prefer and why?

https://www.govt.nz/browse/engaging-with-government/the-nz-flag-your-chance-to-decide/ 

 We had a mini vote to see which flag was the most popular in Room 22.  

The  winning design was........

   

 Thank you Zoe for sharing this current event item with us.

Making Poi

Room 22 made poi today as part of Maori Language Week and will use them to do a short kapahaka for their assembly this Friday.

We will post some photos of the finished poi and even a video of their dance.

Maori Language Week

To celebrate Maori Language Week Room 22 have been busy learning songs, phrases related to kai (food), making poi, learning a poi dance (kapahaka) and writing play scripts in te reo. 

 Click HERE to learn how to do a poi dance to the waiata 'E rere taku poi'

Click on this HERE to learn how to make poi. 

Term 3 Week 1 Reading Activity

Welcome to the first blog reading task for this term. Each week there will be a different news article or story on here with questions for you to answer in your Reading book. Your first story is about Mickey Mouse. Click on this link The Hidden World of Mickey

World Famous Explorers

Click here to read all about famous explorers

Week 9 Homework

Weekly Challenge  Find out some information about Matariki and present your learning. You may want to choose from one of the ideas below. ·         Create a facts sheet that has ten facts about Matariki.·         Design your own poster to advertise Matariki.
You need to incorporate: You need to incorporate:o    the star clustero    the mythologyo    the time of year.·         Check out some of the Matariki resources (website below) to find stories that explain the origins of Matariki. Retell the one you like best in own words.·         http://www.wicked.org.nz/Themes/Themes-gallery/Matariki http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/matariki/ http://www.wcl.govt.nz/kids/downloads/seven-stars-of-matariki/ http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/matariki-for-kids-2/ 

World Oceans Day

Our Padlet

Created with Padlet

Year 3 Cricket World Cup Final

On Monday 16th March the Year 3 Cricket World Cup Finals were held at school. The students and teachers had a wonderful afternoon! Luckily Cyclone Pam didn't cause any problems, the sun was shining for the matches. Congratulations to the teams who made the final, see the results table below. (2 students spotted the flags are not correctly matched)

Connections Video

Swimming

Swimming 

Room 22 started swimming this week and they have all made a great start!  They are working really hard on their swimming goals and already making good progress.