Jack C Returns

At Universal Studios

An email from Jack
Hello Mrs Russell and Room 3
It's Jack C here.
My brother and I almost got arrested at universal yesterday because Sergeant O'leary
said that our hair was too long (pic above)
Have been having lots of fun
I got my photo with Spongebob
Went to Disney land and Lego land and got to fight Darth Maul in some Jedi training
I went on Peter Jacksons King Kong ride and it was super scary because King Kong stared at us

Having the best time of my life
JC





Worry Dolls

 

We read Silly Billy written by Anthony Browne.  We learnt about Worry Dolls.

Worry Dolls come from the Central American country of Guatemala.  They are made from tiny pieces of wood and scraps of cloth and wool. 

Long ago, the children of Guatemala made these dolls, and when they went to bed at night, they would tell a ‘worry’ to each one before placing them under their pillows and going to sleep.  In this way they would wake up in the morning feeling much less troubled.  To this day, children in Guatemala trust their dolls to take away their worries as they sleep.

This custom has now spread around the world.

We made our own worry dolls using pipecleaners and wool for the body, wool for the hair and felt pieces for their clothes.  We named them by choosing names from 'Silly Billy'.  We took them home with us after showing them at assembly.

Room Three's Worry Dolls.

We Are Back with lots of news!!

OUR LEARNING
We have been a very busy class over the last term and a half and have so much to report on.  We have exciting topics that we have learned like 'Healthy Us',  'Dr Seuss-Oh the Places You Can Go', 2012 Olympics, and a mini unit  'Weather' which we are currently doing. 
We have studied fractions, statistics and numeracy in maths.  Mrs Waldron, our principal also gave us all a trial on Maths buddy which many of us got certificates for achieving excellent results.  We learnt alot about maths and working on a computer based learning programme.  Thank you too, to Mary-Lee who guided us when we were rostered on to the school computers.   MATHS IS FUN!!!
Some of us - the Purple Pandas are working on SRA independent programme in reading.  Soon we are reading plays---they are soooo much fun!

THE RAIN
Room Three could tell you all about the weather we have been having - as it means we often miss being outside for play, lunch and sport.  We have had, which was exciting two visitors to the sport field during all the wet weather.  A pair of ducks - we look forward to seeing them with their ducklings in the spring.

CROSS COUNTRY
We have just had our school cross country.  It was a beautiful sunny Friday (luckily our principal looked at the long range forecast)  It was a hard race, twice around our school and church.  The hill up behind St Peter Chanel Church seems very  steep when you are running.  We were proud of where we all got.  The Year Fours are looking forward to the opportunity next year, to try to qualify for the Greater Green Island Cross Country and the Otagos.

TRAVELLERS
Two of our children Phoebe and Jack C are very lucky children and at present are doing all their learning overseas - what a life experience!  Phoebe is in England with her mum for a month and Jack C is in America and Mexico for two weeks with his family.  We cannot wait for them both to return with all their exciting adventures to tell.  An added bonus for a very lucky Room Three class mascot 'Geronimo' is that he has gone to England with Phoebe.  We cannot wait to read his travel diary.

WELCOME
Finally, we have two new children in Room Three.  Saxon who came to us from Brockville School and Ethan who returned to SPC after two terms on a farm in Southland.  Welcome to you both, its great having you in Room Three!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

We are reading 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl.  We are really enjoying it and find it so funny that we laugh out loud and don't want to stop listening to it.  Each chapter gets funnier and funnier.
It has five children in it who get to visit Willie Wonka's very large chocolate factory.  They are Charlie Bucket, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Mike Teavee and Augustus Gloop. 
We recommend to everyone to read it, it is very cool.  We could tell you more but it would spoil the story!

As part of our literacy programme Mrs Russell reads to us every day from a chapter book.  Often we get activities or art to do about what we are reading. For this book we are making our own board games.  Today we were put into pairs or threes and we have begun to design our very own game.  We have named our games and have started to write down  some of the penalties and rewards for our game.  We are even going to make the game pieces.
This is going to be fun.  We will keep you posted on how it is going and what we learn about working together and co-operatively.

Term Two:Week Three:



Ava 20 hours old

Ava Mary Elizabeth Todd and her bear

   

Mrs Russell's News...

Well. what a busy week Mrs Russell has had.  On Monday she rushed away from school to go to Invercargill to go and see her brand new granddaughter Ava.  When we got to school yesterday Mrs Waldron and Miss Tubbs told us they would be teaching us instead of Mrs Russell.  It was very exciting.  We wrote letters to Sophie and Danny (Caleb and Ava's mum and dad), some of us wrote to Ava.  We drew pictures for and of Ava.  Mrs Waldron is making it into a book for Mrs Russell to take to them when she goes to visit.  We saw the photos today and we all picked our favourites.  Mrs Russell loves the one with her new teddy. 
Room Three LOVES babies!!!

'My Great Grandfather' by Regan Taylor

Wednesday -  'My research information on my Great Grandfather' by Regan Taylor

Regan aged 8

My Great Grandfather's name is Douglas Basil West.  When my great grandfather was in the war he went to Eygpt.
My great grandfather sacrificially served as a gunner in World War 2 in Northern Italy and when he was in the war, he was a gunner and when a grenade exploded a bit of the grenade hit him in the back.  The hospital couldn't get it out but that isnt the way he died.  My great grandfather luckily died by old age. 
I always think that he's lucky. 
When my great grandfather was in the war there was no unattacking aeroplanes so when he got hit in the back he had to go on an ambulance boat.  When my great grandfather got hit and got put in the ambulance boat, the boat made cloudy stuff come out so the Germans couldn't see them.
When my great grandfather was in the war he went to Eygpt and  he rode there in a Bren carrier. 
When my great grandfather wrote letters to Nan Nan, his wife, she always got cut up letters because they weren't allowed to tell people where they were and what they doing.

Term Two: WeekTwo:

Tuesday - This week has begun just as busy as every other week at St Peter Chanel School.  Yesterday was a wet and cold day and we were able to watch a movie at lunch time.  This has been a new treat for us this year for two reasons.  One reason was that we had a faulty projector on our interactive white board and our summer and early autumn had been superb!  We watched Finding Nemo it is Mrs Russell's most favourite movie.

This morning we did not begin with prayers like we usually do but by singing with Michael Mangan in Room Six.  We had a great time as we already knew a lot of his songs.  We are looking forward to his new CD which he will have finished in two months.

Mrs Russell might bring Rosie back to school to visit Room Three again.  We all hope she does!  Watch our blog to see if Mrs Russell remembers!!!

Term Two: Week One

Kia Ora -  Welcome to Room Three's Weekly blog. 
This week we have been learning about ANZAC Day and why it is so  important for us to remember.  We had a special shared prayer on Tuesday afternnon which Room Three led.  We sang the national anthem and used symbols such as rosemary and a cross to help people to remember.   After shared prayer we went into family groups and made poppies and ANZAC wreaths.   In class as part of our learning we found facts about ANZAC to share with each other.