Room 3 won a National poetry competition!!!

  Room 3 had the opportunity today to Skype a real live astronaut in Florida –having won a national competition run by the New Zealand Space Agency. “Message to the future - school competition”

“Beginning with Pacific peoples, many cultures have voyaged to Aotearoa at different times from all around the world. They navigated across the seas using stars as their guide. The voyagers travelled in state of the art craft using the stars in outer space and the environment to guide them. They were scientists, innovators, astronomers and astrologers.Today, New Zealander’s are still looking to the stars and we are creating new opportunities to discover and travel into space.

The message will answer the question:            What could be our future in space?”

We also had Tahwai Moss who works for the NZ Space Agency at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment who joined our class today while we took part in the Skype call with Nicole Stott (the astronaut)
The first prize was 
* A certificate for the class
* Tuia mission patches for the students in the class
* A live-cross via skype with NASA astronaut Nicole Stott (retired) artist, and speaker

With expert help from Annabel.... the class had to compose their message in 200 words, and were up against young people across the country from Year 0 – Year 8. Here is Room 3’s poem....

 A Trip to Space

We could zoom to the Moon

Or float out to Mars, The Red Planet,

With dusty storms

Dark red like a light that is not working properly.

We could land on hot Venus

Hot like lava.

We could swoop out to Jupiter

With its swirling red spot storm

Spinning like a bey blade

Or take a rocket to the hot shiny Sun

Throwing out rays of light under Maui’s net

We would go past sprinkled stars

Glowing in the black darkness

Of Space.

Here are the pictures of todays skype call with Nicole Stott and visit from Tahwai Moss. The children got the opportunity to read their poem to Nicole and ask her many questions about her life as an astronaut in the International Space Station.

It was a very exciting morning!! Woop woop!!

    

And here's a short video of one of the kids questions being asked and answered.......

Thank-you Annabel for your amazing poetic inspiration this year. 

You are awesome!

Discovery Time Week 8

This week for Discovery Time our activities were....Construction with boxes, Making a lemon drink, Bubble blowing, Loom bands, Put up the Christmas tree, and making paper chains.

A visit for Constable Danny

Today we were treated to a visit from a policeman and his police car. We learnt about the things that policemen carry with them either on their person or in their car. We got to see the lights flashing up close and heard the sirens...they were very loud. We also got to go inside the police car for a closer look.

  

2019 A and P Show Entries

This year we entered some art work, a decorated biscuit and a sandsaucer into the A and P show...Sorry our art is not in the pictures below.

Discovery Time week 5

This week our activities were.....Construction with boxes, Weaving, dress-ups, making a necklace or bracelet, stamp pictures and skipping ropes.

Our Second Golf Lesson

We have been learning some golf skills at school. Room 3 and 4 have joined together for these lessons and in a couple of weeks the whole school are heading out to Totaradale Golf course to try our skills out there.

Making patterns

We have been making repeating patterns....sometimes we even make some using our bodies such as: clap...stamp...jump...clap...stamp...jump...etc
Here are some we made using materials from around the classroom.

    

Term 4

 Discovery Session week 2.
 We had fun with ....pretend baking, marble tracks, loose parts (box creations), collage, and water play. The water play wasn't very popular this time as it was quite cold outside.
Our Life Skill we are learning about this term is "Participating and Contributing" and our focus today was "having a Go"

Discovery Time Week 7

This week's activities were...Making a rocket, playdough, dress-ups, experimenting with weight using scales,and stacking cups.
We were learning to be curious learners....

   

The Life Education Truck visits Hope School.

Over the last few days we visited the Life Education truck and with the help of Ingrid and Harold we learnt more about the 'Zones of Regulation'.

We also learnt a very helpful breathing technique that will help calm us down if we find ourselves in the yellow or red zones.

The truck has some great technology enhancements which makes the learning even more fun. On the first day we went to the truck with room 4 and the second day we went on our own.

        

                           

Measurement - Volume

How many small cups of water will fill a container???
We've been looking at Measurement this term and lately it has been all about volume.
With our maths buddies we took turns using a dice to fill the chosen containers. There was also the maths strategy of "counting on" needed as they added to each others amounts. Good number links!!

  

Discovery Time week 3

Today we were learning about problem solving...There is no better way to learn about this than "Play"