Congratulations Jonah

Congratulations to Jonah who today received the Principals Award in Room 30 for his kindness to all his classmates!  He has started Year 3 as a great role model and we love having him in Room 30.  Well done Jonah!

Descriptive writing .... the Rotorua Mud Pools

As one of our writing tasks this week we had to write five sentences to describe mud pools.  Using the iPads we have displayed these creatively using Explain Everything.  This gave us the chance to use the tools within the app.   Mrs Belt gave us a choice of which photo we wanted to use to display our sentences on and we could choose the colours and size of the font.

Here are a few examples.  We used Seesaw to send our work to Mrs Belt and we could read our sentence using this app.  

Reading with our Soft Toys

Soft toys have been popping up all week in Room 30, so Mrs Belt said we could bring them along today for a "reading picnic" under the trees.  We only had a little time at the end of our day before Community, but it was just enough to gather under a shady tree and enjoy some more of our class book.  Mrs Belt is currently reading Fantastic Mr Fox (by Roald Dahl) to us!

After a couple of chapters, we met some of the cuddly toys that had been brought along and heard some of their history.  Everyone really enjoyed this session after lunch so we may just do it again!

Lovely cakes and cupcakes

Thanks to all parents and whanau for supporting the cake stall today.  It was very busy and lots of the children in Room 30 enjoyed a cup cake or something delicious.  In many cases it was a very hard choice - there was quite a selection!  Mrs Belt took a few photos of some of us enjoying our cupcakes - unfortunately some of us were way too quick in eating them, maybe because they were super yummy!

Congratulations Amber

This week the Principal's Award for Room 30 went to Amber for her great work ethic and willingness to help around the classroom.  Well done Amber, what a great start to Year 3!

Library Time

On Friday Room 30 has our first visit to the library.  Everyone really enjoyed browsing for some books and Mrs Belt borrowed the Roald Dahl classic, Fantastic Mr Fox, to read to the class.

We hope everyone has enjoyed reading their books over the weekend!  Don't forget to bring them back to school on Friday to change them!

Room 30's Self Portraits

Over the last few days we've been working on self portraits to put on our wall.  With these portraits we were looking at proportions and symmetry and using colour to express ourselves.  The portraits are displayed on our classroom wall - check them out if you visit Room 30.