Oshin: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

 

I made this tomato sauce bottle. We were learning about Kiwiana. It was very hard to make. Mr O'Brien blew up the balloon for us and then we put pieces of newspaper around our balloon. We used glue to stick the newspaper on to the balloon. We glued 3 layers of newspaper. We painted the balloon red with our paintbrush. We created leaves and top and glued them on top of the balloon so that it looks like a tomato sauce bottle.

By Oshin

Steven: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

 

I like my tomato sauce bottle because I worked very hard. I enjoyed doing the paper mache. It was a lot of fun. We got our hands all gooey and that was the fun part of making the bottle.  I like to open and close the top. It was enjoyable. 

By Steven

Novi: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

 I liked painting the tomato sauce bottle red and cutting the green paper leaves and top. I covered my hands with red paint and put my hands on the bottle so that there weren't any white spots on the bottle. I liked making the leaves the most. I made two leaf tops, one for me and one for JJ because he wasn't at school.

By Novi

Mele: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

 

I enjoyed making the leaves and the top. I had to roll the paper to make the top and I used glue to hold the paper down. I loved painting my tomato sauce bottle. We used balloons and Mr O'Brien helped us blow up the balloons. We used newspaper and glue to stick the newspaper pieces around the balloon. 

By Mele

JJ: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

 

I like doing the paper mache of my Kiwiana tomato sauce bottle. Mr O'Brien blew up a balloon for me. I covered the balloon up with newspaper and glue, then I painted it red. I glued the leaves to the balloon. 

By JJ

Lorenzo: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

I like mine. This is my tomato sauce bottle.

By Lorenzo
 

Isyss: Kiwiana Tomato Sauce Bottle

 

I like making the tomato sauce bottle, especially doing paper mache. I had fun making the leaves and the top. 

By Isyss

Lorenzo Receives an Award 2021

 

This morning at the Ruapotaka Prizegiving 2021, Lorenzo received an award for Growth in his Mathematics Learning. Ka rawe Lorenzo! 👏

Principal's Award: Mele

At today's virtual assembly, Mele received a Principal's Award for supporting her classmates in completing their learning tasks. Ka rawe, Mele. 👏

Duffy Award: Novi

Novi received a Duffy Award at today's virtual assembly. Novi moved up 4 levels in her Reading Test last week. Congratulations Novi. 👏

Visual Arts: New Zealand's Iconic Jandals

As part of our Kiwiana learning, Room 3 created the most famous and popular summer footwear, the jandals. Children and adults wear jandals everywhere. They are great as a beach footwear. 

Duffy Award: Lorenzo

This week's recipient of the Duffy Award is Lorenzo for his huge effort in attempting to read unfamiliar words. Ka rawe Lorenzo. 👏

Principal's Award: Steven

At today's virtual assembly, Steven received a Principal's Award for showing patience towards his classmates during online lessons. Ka rawe Steven. 👏 

JJ's Online Writing

Group 2 Reading group read a story called 'The Little Yellow Chicken' who had a party with his friends.  As a follow-up to their reading, JJ wrote a story about his party experience:

"On Sunday it was my uncle's birthday and we had a bbq. Then we had a cake with some ice-cream."

Duffy Award Recipient: Grace

Today at the virtual School Assembly, Grace received a Duffy Award for answering questions correctly by looking at important words in her reading. Congratulations Grace! 👏

This Week's Principal's Award Recipient: Lorenzo

At this morning's virtual School Assembly Lorenzo received a Principal's Award for his commitment to learning by regularly attending his morning and afternoon online classes.  

Tino pai, Lorenzo. 👏

 

This Week's Principal's Award Recipient: Oshin

Oshin received a Principal's Award this morning at the virtual School Assembly for taking responsibility for her learning and knowing her online learning routines. Tino pai, Oshin. 👏

Visual Arts: Buzzy Bee Part 3

 Here is our finished Buzzy Bee artwork. This wraps up our Kiwiana learning on Buzzy Bee, New Zealand's famous and popular toy. In the above artwork Buzzy Bee does what bees do best - collecting pollen and honey from flowers to feed the baby larvae which are resting in the beehive. 

Ka pai tamariki, your artwork is beautiful and colourful.

Virtual School Assembly Term 4 Week 3, 2021

 

Here is our virtual School Assembly hosted by Mrs Hamilton and the Prefects. Room 6 is presenting an item about their learning.  

He rawe to all those who contributed to the assembly and a big thank you to Mr O'Brien who put video together. 

Enjoy!

Celebrating Diwali: The Festival of Light

Today is the Indian New Year. This morning Room 3 celebrated the Diwali festival by creating flowers using the rangoli pattern. 

Look at our beautiful flower designs. Ka pai tamariki!

An Interesting Weekend Story by Mele

On the weekend something interesting happened. Yesterday no one came for trick or treating. I was worried that no one would visit me. Then it hit me. Nobody was visiting me because it was COVID.

Visual Arts Group 2: Buzzy Bee Part 2

Every Friday Room 3 has an online Open Whanau Morning where parents and siblings are invited to join in the lesson. Here is the second part of our visual arts lesson on Buzzy Bee, New Zealand's most famous and popular toy. Here is the link to our first arts lesson, Visual Arts Buzzy Bee Part 1 .

Can you see the progress the Group 2 tamariki and whanau are making?

Standby for the completion of our artwork Part 3, next Friday. 

Room 3 Shake Out Participation 2021

This morning at 9:30am Room 3 tamariki took part in the New Zealand Shake Out earthquake drill. 

As soon as Mrs Golder's alarm went off we got down on the floor, put our hands over our head, stayed calm and quiet, and listened for earthquake noises to stop. Then we waited for our teacher to tell us when it was safe to get up.  

You all were as quiet as a mouse. Tino pai tamariki for performing this drill so well.

Hineiturama's Arm

Hineiturama had an accident a couple of weeks ago. Her mum took her to the hospital and the doctors and nurses put her arm in a cast. She's a little bit sore but is on the mend. Luckily, it was her left arm because she can still use her right arm to write and operate her ipad. 

Take care and be careful Hineiturama.

Oshin Uses Her Hands To Communicate

Sometimes it's just easier to leave your microphone off when you have to communicate with your teacher. Here's Oshin using her fingers to answer the doubles question.

Visual Arts: Buzzy Bee Part 1

Room 3 tamariki are learning about Kiwiana. 

Kiwiana is anything that makes us who we are as New Zealanders. One of the most famous and popular New Zealand toy is Buzzy Bee. It is a pull along wooden toy that makes a clickety-clackety sound. We watched a video on Buzzy Bee and then we began our drawing, thinking about the different shapes that we could see on Buzzy Bee, such as circles and ovals, and the interesting colours on the toy. 

Here is part 1 of our drawing of Buzzy Bee. 

Grace Heads Straight Into Her Online Learning Independently

 

Online learning for Term 4 2021 started this week. Here is Grace working very hard. It's great to see Grace using her  Room 3 Learning Hub site to learn independently without her teacher's guidance. You can see that she has completed her Spelling, Handwriting, Writing, Reading and Maths. She is very organised and knows what the online routines are. I am very proud of you Grace. Ka rawe for your independence. 

Online Learning: Split Screen

 

Room 3 has been learning how to split their screen. It is not an easy skill and takes a lot of practise. It took a while for the tamariki to learn how to perform this new digital skill. Here is Grace's split screen. The purpose of splitting the screen is to be able to stay in view at all times with the teacher and having your Room 3 Learning Hub in front of you so that you can view your learning tasks at the same time. Tino pai to all those tamariki who were able to split their screen. 

Group 2 Visual Arts Online Learning

Today Group 2 tamariki had a fun day of drawing our favourite things. Can you guess what they are? 

Friday's Visual Arts

 

Room 3 takes a break from their focused learning to something more relaxing on a Friday. Today for visual arts, Room 3 tamariki drew self-portraits or pictures of themselves in their favourite costume.

Steven And His Mum Win the Ruapotaka School Whanau Challenge

To celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, last week our school held a Whanau Challenge where students and their whanua recited the school karakia. Every day during our online learning we said our karakia before our lesson. Listen to Steven and his Mum reciting the Raupotaka Karakia. Ka rawe you two!! 👏👏

Room 3 Online Learning

Room 3 tamariki are learning about skip counting in 2's, 5's and 10's. Here's a screenshot of one of the things we do in our online learning.  We have a warm-up first before we start our lesson. The learners mark their own warm-ups. Tick if it's correct or dot if it's not correct. They are doing a great job coming to google meet for their learning. Ka pai!

Levi's Father's Day Story

 

It is clear that Levi loves his dad. It's great to have a dad who is  always there for you. I'm sure your Dad is as proud of you as you are of him. Tino pai!

Steven's Father's Day Story

Steven does lots of different activities with his Dad. He is very lucky to have a dad like his and he is very proud of him. Tino Pai!

Grace's Online Learning

Grace takes responsibility for her learning and she gets straight into her online learning routine. Here's her Reading and Maths tasks. Ka rawe Grace, you are a great role model for your classmates. 

Steven's Online Learning

It's the start of our second Lockdown for the year and Room 3 tamariki is back to online learning again. It's great to see Steven focusing on his tasks while he is staying at home and he is using the Room 3 Learning Hub to support his learning. Ka pai Steven!

Start of Online Learning Again

This Week's Duffy Award: JJ 👏

Last week JJ was the recipient of the Duffy Award. JJ is very good at reading because he uses his thinking skills to decode and understand the stories he reads. Tino pai JJ!👏

Drip, Drip, Drop, Drop

It’s been raining a lot since the start of Term 3. Here are our rain pictures. We did paper folding to create the octagons and then drew the lines that the folds created to make our colourful umbrellas. Then we observed the raindrops that fell from the grey sky.

Drip, drip, drop, drop

In rainy puddles I love to plop.

Splish, splash, pour, pour,

Now it's raining even more. 

(from Poems For Little People)

This Week's Duffy Award Recipient: Novi

Photographer: JJ

Today at the school assembly, Novi received a Duffy Award for using her thinking skills to predict what will happen next in the story. Tino pai!

This Week's Principal's Award: JJ

Photographer: Mele

JJ also received a Principal's Award today for supporting his classmates with their learning. Tino pai!

This Week's Principal's Award: Mele

Photographer: JJ

Mele received her Principal's Award for being positive and accepting ideas and suggestions from others. Tino Pai!

Visual Arts: Matariki 2021

Our tamariki created the Matariki Stars that can be seen in the early morning sky during the winter months as part of our Maori New Year celebrations. We used crayons to create the bursts of colours that you can see during sunrise and dusted our white stars with our favourite glitter. 

This Week's Duffy Award: Tearoa 👏

Photographer: JJ

Pakipaki to Tearoa who was this week's Duffy Award recipient for using key words to help her answer questions correctly. Tino pai! 

This Week's Principal's Awards: Novi and Levi 👏👏

Pakipaki to our 2 tamariki who received this week's Principal's Awards at the school assembly this morning. Novi for thinking about the Kawa of Care when using the ipad and Levi for supporting his classmates with their poetry learning. Tino pai!

Room 3 Presenters

A big pakipaki to the Room 3 presenters who hosted this week's school assembly. They remembered their lines, spoke clearly and with volume. Superb performance tamariki! We are proud of you.👏

This Week's Duffy Award: Isyss

 

Isyss received a Duffy Award for reading so well and moving up 7 PM levels. Congratulations. 👏

This Week's Principal's Awards: Beaumont and Grace

Photographer: JJ

Well done to our two recipients: Beaumont for being responsible for his learning by staying on task and Grace for showing correct behaviour such as using her quiet voice and walking nicely when walking through the walking zone. 

Congratulations to our tamarkiki. 👏👏

Celebrating Miss Nicholas

Room 3 made a card with lots of flowers for our learning assistant, Miss Nicholas. She is kind and nice and she helps us with our learning. Yesterday at the Support Staff assembly, Mele said some wonderful words while Isyss and Patience presented yummy chocolates and flowers.  

Miss Nicholas you are great and special to us. 

Samoan Art

To celebrate Samoan Language Week, we first read a big book called 'Lavalava'. Then we used one of the designs on the lavalava to create our own tapa patterns with different shades of brown and black crayons.