Bother we didn't win anything...

Sometime ago Room 3 and Room 4 entered an illustrated story competition promoting cycle safety and the wearing of a helmet ..."No Helmet-No Brain".
You can view our entries in an earlier post  here on our blog. The winners have recently been made public and unfortunately we didn't win anything but if you would like to see the competition winners in all categories   click here.
Thanks to all our supporters who voted in the peoples choice options. Even though none of us won anything we still had a lot of fun trying!!

Our Museum Trip to Learn about a wonderful author and illustrator Dame Lynley Dodd

We had a great session with Nicky at the Museum today. There were loads of Hairy Maclary books and some wonderful art work to look at. Lynley Dodd is certainly a very talented lady!
Thanks again to our wonderful parent helpers who provided transport and gave up there time to help us learn more about some of our favourite book characters. "Hairy Maclary and all of his friends"

Discovery Time

Yet again we enjoyed another successful Discovery Time ...making Lemonade with Kellen's Mum was a big hit with the children....Yum! Thanks Michelle for your help.

Making Lemonade

Dressing up and pretending with the phones.

Investigations with a magnifying glass or painting.

Building with kliko

Discovery Time

Did you know Hairy Maclary is 30 years old?

Hairy Maclary is having his 30th Birthday this year. We have been looking and reading many of the Hairy Maclary stories and will soon be going to the Nelson Museum to visit the exhibition of Lynley Dodd's Hairy Maclary stories and some original art. Olivia's family has a soft toy of Hairy Maclary and she brought him in to spend the day with us in Room 3. 

The author and illustrator of the Hairy Maclary stories Dame Lynley Dodd is having a book signing between 10am and 12pm on the 10 August at page & Blackmore in Nelson. Maybe you would like to take your precious Hairy Maclary Book there to get signed.

Hairy Maclary is in the middle of the picture.

Our First Discovery Time

We had a 'Discovery Time' session at school today. It was very successful. Discovery time is all about the children engaging in learning in a structured play type environment. There is always a focus on one or more of the the Key Competencies. Todays focus was on "Looking after Equipment" and our Discovery time today involved the whole school.
Next term Room 3 will be holding Discovery Times once a week on a Friday. The children were very excited to be involved in this type of learning today and I am very much looking forward to more of it in the future.

Leaves, leaves, leaves...

A couple of weeks ago we had some fun with leaves...for the past few weeks we have been working on making a book of our experiences on the iPad. We drew some pictures, wrote a story and most of us recorded our voice reading our stories.
 Click on the link below to see our story book. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.

  Our Leaf Story Book