God is Holy - the Joseph story

We have been reading in the Bible about Joseph because we are learning about Egypt and the 'Rise and Fall of Empires'.  We can learn from history so that we don't make the same mistakes as the people before us.  We can also learn the right things to do!  We thought about Joseph and what we could learn from his life.  Here are our ideas:

Joseph knew a lot about God and trusted Him.  We can learn a lot from him!

The Creation Station # 3

One of the activities got us looking through microscopes to see leaves and onion skins 'up close'.  The onion skins looked blue under the microscope!  There are amazing patterns on leaves - if you get a chance, have a look for yourself!

Joshua and Richard looking very scientific...

The Creation Station # 2

Gabriel has a bottle of oil and water - can you see how they don't mix?  Even when the children tried REALLY hard to shake up the bottles, they couldn't get the oil and water to mix together!

...but it was fun trying, wasn't it!

The Creation Station #1

A group of children at school worked with Mrs Little to make a 'Creation Station' set of activities as part of our school Science Fair.  Room 10 was the first class to go around the activities and we were really impressed with the work Mrs Little's group had done.  Here is an activity that Grace had fun with:

                                                                                                    

This is how air moves across the wings of a plane and makes the plane 'lift' into the sky!

Music to our ears...

We really enjoyed a visit from Mr Bob Bickerton on Wednesday.  He talked to us about musical instruments and played about 16 different ones for us to hear.  He was very funny and very clever at playing.  Here he is with his harp:

The harp had the most beautiful sound.  It was our favourite instrument to listen to from the show. 
Thanks Mr Bickerton!

Using strategies in maths

A group in Room 10 has been thinking about...thinking!  How do we work out problems in maths?  How do we get to an answer?  Our thinking is our 'strategy'.  Here are some examples.  The problem was about how many planks of wood you would need to build a pig pen!  The answer was 70 but you can see that there are different ways to work it out when we looked at the different sides of the pig pen:

Great strategies Joel W, Christian and Hamish!

Mixed up stories!

Here are two more mixed up stories.  We hope you enjoy them!

Anya's mixed up story is all about 'girl power'!!!

Richard's mixed up story is for Star Wars fans!

More skipping

We told you it was catching!  Here are some more 'snippets' of skipping from Room 10:

From the top - Gabriel showing the basic jump, Hamish doing a criss cross, Namitha hopping and Petra doing a fast jump!  Well done, guys!

The skipping bug...

Have YOU caught the skipping bug yet?  Room 10 have really got it bad!  Here are some of our amazing skippers practising for the big Jump Rope day coming up in a few weeks:

 

The top photo is Martha and Lily working together, then we have Grace doing the running step and the third photo is Maia, Anya, Joel W and Tatiana having fun jumping with shared ropes!

Beautiful salt!

Do you know how beautiful salt can be?  When we did an experiment this week (finishing off some ideas from last term), we ended up with these amazing salt crystals:

Look closely - there are incredible patterns!

The experiment was based on the question:  If sea water evaporates, how come it doesn't rain salty water?  So we made some salty water (just normal kitchen salt mixed with tap water) and put a few spoonfuls onto a plate in the sun...and waited!  After a couple of days, most of the water had evaporated and we were left with these stunning crystals!  You CAN try this at home!

Hello B3 from Hastings Christian School!

We are very excited to have our first ‘blogging buddies’ over at Hastings Christian School.  It will be fun to share our learning with you and we hope you will give us comments that will help us to do better in our work.  Here is a bit about who we are:

Our school has 3 teams in it: Aroha (the juniors in Year 1-3), Tumanako (the Yr 4-6 classes) and Whakapono (the intermediate kids).  The team names mean Love, Hope and Faith.  Our class is Room 10 and we have 28 Year 3 children – 17 boys and 11 girls.  Our teacher is Mrs Sutherland and she loves playing the ukulele!  We have another teacher on Tuesdays called Mrs Bannister and she does extra exciting things with us that are awesome!  Our principal is Dr Ferrar – he is a ‘doctor’ of science and sometimes he goes around the school doing experiments that end with a big explosion!  We blog to share our work with family and friends everywhere.

Dr Ferrar at work...

We really like sport too!  This year we have had special training from coaches in hockey and soccer.  At the moment we are doing swimming in the ‘Swim for Life’ water safety programme and later this term we will also do a Jump Rope for Heart day to raise money for the Heart Foundation.  Next term we will do special training in netball.

Our hockey training!

 

It’s hard to say what our favourite subjects are because…we like everything!  Last term we had a special focus on Science and that was really cool.  This term we are thinking about History and the Egyptians.  We want to find out if they lived God’s way…or what happened if they didn’t.  It fits in with our Christian Living theme ‘God is Holy’.

We'll talk to you again soon!

Matthew and Maxie!

We had another 'furry friend' turn up on Friday - Matthew's dog, Maxie.  She is a real cutie and was very well behaved in class...but she was excited to be in Room 10!

Kelly Sports

We had a great time on Thursday morning with the guys from Kelly Sports.  They set up some fun activities that got us moving!  Here are some action shots from Room 10:

Gabriel, Mosese and Paula 'fishing' - catching a ball in a net.

 


Josh, Anya and Joshua try out for the All Blacks... 

Martha and Lily showing super soccer skills.

 

John, Mosese, Tatiana, Joel W and Luke bowl for the hoop!