Jump Jam Extravaganza

Welcome back from the long weekend everyone, I hope you all had a relaxing time (I know I did)!
Tomorrow we have our Jump Jam Extravaganza at Hoon Hay School hall at 7pm.
All children performing are required to meet me at Room 9 (OLA) at 6.30pm. It is a gold coin entry and we'd love to see you all there!

Religious Education - Commumion of Saints

The children this week began exploring the Communion of Saints Strand in Religious Education. The topic for the Year 3 RE programme is 'Life, Death and Christian Hope.
This week we looked at sad times in our life. The children shared with the class times when they have been sad. A theme that was common amongst all the children was the death of a pet. The children in Room 9 also expressed the death of a family member, the earthquake and fights between friends as times of sadness in their lives.

Topic - Term 4

This week the children in the M team started an inquiry on Countries in the Commonwealth, exploring the rites of passage, customs and traditions of these countries. The children will be able to select a country that they would like to learn more about. It would be helpful to discuss this with them at home and have a look at this website: http://www.commonwealth-of-nations.org/Commonwealth-Home. Happy Learning!

Athletics Day 2010

Last Thursday we had our Athletics Day for the year. It was a fun day and we all said a big thank-you to Mr A for organising it. The children got to compete in many events with three children from Room 9 getting through to Zones. Well done Finn M, Sam and Jamie! At lunch we had a sausage sizzle and a well deserved break before the relays. Red house won the house relay and the teachers won the other one after the parents we disqualified!! Here are some photos from the day thanks to Jussy.

RED NOSE DAY - November 19

Cure Kids, in association with Paper Plus Group, is bringing back Red Nose Day – bigger and better than ever before – with the aim of raising $1 million to help fund research into life-threatening childhood illnesses affecting Kiwi kids. Cure Kids’ goal is to reach every Kiwi in the land and create a sea of red come November 19th through the sale of red noses, badges, wristbands, car noses and Cadbury’s Jaffas, all available from Paper Plus and Take Note stores and Shell service stations from November 1st.
I'm so excited about this! We used to celebrate this when I was at OLA Room 9!

Art Attack - Tuesday - Paint

Yesterday the children were with me in Room 4 for Paint. We looked at the art work of Kandinsky and based our work on his famous painting "Swinging".

The children had to follow severval stages to complete their masterpiece and they did a really good job.

Art Attack - Monday - Mixed Media

Wow what an exciting week we have had so far!

On Monday Room 9 were with Mrs Campbell in Room 7 for Mixed Media art. They were taught the skills of colouring and shading and then had to create 3D animal mask. The children also got to make masquerade masks. They look great and the children were hard to recognise!

Art Attack

Hi everyone,

I trust that your holidays have gone well, mine have been thoroughly enjoyable!

Next week we kick off Term 4 with Art Attack week (minus Athletics on Tuesday). A reminder please that children need to have an art shirt with them and a pencil and rubber. Sports gear is not required, except for on Tuesday. The children in Room 9 will start off with me each morning and move to their 'Art Teacher' at 9.45am. They will return to me at 2.45pm.

I look forward to seeing you all on Monday!