New Blog called Love2Learn

Happy New Year Everyone. I have a new little class now. Here is the link to our new blog!
http://room03eps2011.blogspot.com/
Please do visit and leave us some comments

Best Wishes

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2011. Wow an end of another academic year. Thanks to everyone that was a part of our class blog and to all the visitors and those that left us comments. This amazing class of pupils will be in Year 2 next year. They have worked so hard and have achieved a very high standard. I wish you all the best my little guys. Kindly visit my new class blog. I will put the link in  Feb 2011 when I get the first of my new pupils.

Hippo Retell by CW, MC and CT

At MOTAT

Room 3 @ MOTAT on PhotoPeach

Plop by the Green Group

The TERRIBLE Tiger by Joy Cowley

The terrible Tiger on PhotoPeach

Pukeko retell by VS, FK, TM, EW, JC, AS

BM at the Zoo

SK and CT at the zoo

BH at the Zoo

Hello HL

Dear H,
Hope you are having a good time in S.Africa with your grandma.We miss you. Come back soon. Have a great holiday! We made some more pine cone bird feeders for the birds. They simply love those.

Bird Feeder

Making bird feeders on PhotoPeach


The children worked in 2 groups with a leader and made a pine cone bird feeder. The birds just loved it!

Room 3 Fantails

Room 3 Fantails on PhotoPeach

EW'S Retell

SH's Retell

Working together!

This retell is based on the book Fire! Fire! The children created their pics in Kid-Pix and each told me what happened in  a sequence. I typed it out for them. They recorded their voices for their slides and then TM was in-charge of his group putting in the transitions and changing the time. He worked well as a leader and gave everyone a turn for their slide. In the end he saved and exported it to i-Pod format. Great job Blue group for working collaboratively!

HY's first Independent GarageBand Retell

Max Goes Fishing retell by Blue Group

Some of Our Trip Recount

 The writing skills in our class has greatly improved. Children are writing longer recounts independently and using adjectives too make their stories interesting. Here are a few, some of them are ESOL kids and 6 out of 7 started school this year. Well done my amazing little writers!

Yesterday Room 3 and Mrs. A went to Botanic Garden. We saw little ducks and big ducks. After looking at the birds we ate lunch. Then we went to a classroom. In the classroom we did some activities with teacher. The teacher said, “We are doing a bird shape”. So Room 3 said, “Yay!” We did bird foot print on clay and looked at the feathers. The teacher told us to ask questions so I put my hand up and asked how birds can lay egg. She said something. We went back to school. EK

On Wednesday Room 3, 5 and 1 went on the bus. Room 3 had some lunch and we walked and saw some ducks and a goose. We looked at the feathers. You put the glass and it is big. We caught the bus and we went home. We felt excited. BTh

Half of the school went on a trip. It took a while. We went to the Botanic Garden. We saw a water fall. We went to the children’s garden. We got some photos on the Kereru. We fed the Kereru from the beak. We saw a water wheel there. We went to a classroom. I talked about the Moa. We came back on the buses. It was exciting. It reminded me of a time when I went to the gardens for a wedding. JC

Yesterday me and Room 3, room 5 and room 1 went on the bus because we were going to Botanic Garden. We had lunch. For lunch I had yummy bread, crackers with cheese and apples. The apple was chopped up. After that we went for a walk. There was lots of flowers and birds. Mrs. A took pictures of us. We went to the kids park and played in the egg. I walked around the steps. When we got to school we had a sleep in the classroom. Then we went home. EW

Yesterday at school Room 3, Room 1 and Room 5 went on a trip to the Botanic Garden. At the sunny Botanic Garden we saw colourful flowers. We went with some parents. The children and parents went by bus. When we got there we had morning tea. After we had morning tea we sat on the Kereru and the egg. We saw ducks and white geese in the water. After we did all those things we had lunch and then we went. We went to a big classroom with a teacher. The teacher’s name was Trish. We learned about wings. The biggest wing was seagull’s wing. After that we went to school by bus. It was cool. BM

On Wednesday Room 3 and Room 5 went on a trip to Botanic Gardens and we went to the kids’ garden. We played in the egg. Then we sat on the pigeon. We came back to school and we went to sleep. It was home time. Then everybody went home and some children went to Kids’ Korner. AS

On Wednesday I went on a trip. My mum already knew about my trip and my mum went with me on the bus. She was excited because she likes to go on the bus. We took a picture of a Pukeko. I saw a bird and I saw a big tunnel and my mum took a picture. Then we had lunch. Again my mum took a picture of me. HY

Thanks Mr. A