Room 3's Amazing Alphabet Stories

The Room 3 students have written stories using just one letter of the alphabet to begin each word on the page.  We were inspired by the book Amazing Alphabet Adventures by Tony Anderson.

To read our tongue twisting stories, please click on the book covers below.

Homework Superstars

These are the 12 Room 3 students who completed all their homework this term.  Great job.

Year 5 Maths

Looks like some of the year 5 students are really working hard to improve their maths skills.

Hot Potatoes

Stuffed Potatoes

Today we made stuffed potatoes. Here are all the ingredients you’ll need:

1 Potato (pre-cooked)

1 Tablespoon of filling (here are some suggestions)

Cheese

Ham

Sausage

Tuna

1 spoon

1 fork

1 bowl/plate

Set oven to 200 celsius.

Cut the pre-cooked potato in half.

Get a spoon and carefully scoop the inside out.

Put the inside on your bowl/plate,

Mash them up with your fork and mix your filling with the mashed up potato inside.

Mash for five more minutes.

Put the mashed potato and filling in the potato and squash.

You can sprinkle cheese on top if you want.

By Charlie

Today we made stuffed potatoes. To make a stuffed potato this is what you need :

Potatoes ( previously cooked )

filling ( you may won’t to choose from this list )

ham

cheese

baked beans

sweet corn

First  scoop the inside of the potato out don't break the skin. Keep the inside of the potato they will be used later on.

Secondly get the filling in a bowl and the bits left over from the potato in then mash together. Then after mashing place the filling in the slightly hollow potato.

Last put the filled potato in the oven for 15 - 20 min at 200 celsius. And then eat and enjoy.

By Sarah

Matariki kites in the winter sunshine

Today we used plastic bags to create kites for Matariki.  It was a nice windy day so they took to the sky quite well.
Sustainable Matariki Kites on PhotoPeach

Watch this space

Thanks Eliotte and Isabelle for bringing in wheels. The bicycle wheels are now suspended from the Room 3 ceiling - thanks Mr Beckham.  Watch this space to see what happens next.

10 icecream scoops

We have received 10 ice cream scoop compliments so next week Mrs Todd will be bringing in a treat.

Aahhhh Monsters!

This term we have been learning to sew.  Our latest project was to make fabric monsters.

Paperman

Today we watched a short animated movie called Paperman.  We predicted what would happen, then wrote our own versions of the story,

A sad slim man was holding important papers from his boss to do at home then paper came flying at his face.  A lady was running at her papers.  She stopped by the man and then paper slipped out of the man’s hands and blew right onto the ladys face then the lady pulled it off and there were lip marks on the paper.  The man started laughing then the quiet lady shot off onto the train the man did not realise.

The man went to work the quiet man had a whole pile of work on his desk. Then something caught  his eye the lady the slim sad man got the paper  and started making fast pointy planes. He flew them into the window of the lady but it did not work he tried many times he used all the paper he had one more piece of paper the lip paper.  He tried flying it but it did not work at all he gave up then the boss put more paper on his desk then the man pushed the paper off his desk and ran outside to find all the paper on the grey concrete.  He got mad and went away he got as mad as a snake then the lip paper came alive and went to were all the other planes were the lip plane made the other planes alive the planes clung on to the mad man.  He tried getting them off.  The lip plane went away and landed right where the lady was looking.  the plane made her  follow him to a train the other planes took the confused man to the place where the lady was getting off the train they met at that place then they went on a date and got married they loved each other and  lived happily ever after .

by Eliotte

A tired and exhausted man from work was carrying a bag full of paper work from his mad boss.  He was waiting for the train to stop by.  Suddenly a beautiful woman walked past him and caught his eyes with beauty.  Then, the strong howling wind blew one sheet of paper to the girl’s face, and left a bright red lipstick mark.  Both of them giggled silently, looking face to face.  The train stopped finally so the girl managed to get inside.  When the long train moved slowly, they smiled at each other.  The very next day the man was at his average boring work.  He looked to his left and saw the beautiful woman sitting down in the other building.  His boss gave him a whole pile of paper work on his table and walked away, very grumpy.  The man had the perfect idea, so he made a paper airplane and  tried his best to throw it across the building but it was no use.  He did not want to give up so he kept trying until all the paper ran out.  When the others at the office were looking at the man,  they were all curious and their backs were turned.  Suddenly the strict and angry boss came along and closed the window and gave the man even more paper work.  He tried even harder to get it across the building.  He used all the paper until only the paper with the lipstick mark was left.  He threw it and it still didn’t work.  He gave up and left.  The girl was walking and she saw it.

To be continued.

By Ceana

Science Display

Today we had most of the school, and lots of parents and families come to look at our renewable energy display.  The work was of a very good standard and everyone thought we had done a good job.

Renewable Energy on PhotoPeach

Keep up the good work Room 3

Well done to those students who are really making the most of IXL.  Our focus now should be on statistics (data and graphs).

Renewable Energy Models

We are working hard on our renewable energy models.  If you come along next Wednesday
 (from 3-5.15) you will be able to see the finished products.

Healthy Lunches

We have looked at the contents of our lunchboxes and discussed making healthy choices.  Did you know that the average child in New Zealand consumes (eats) 23kg of sugar every year!!??  That is as much as some children weigh,

Here are some of the healthy lunches students in Room 3 bring every day.

Science with Mrs Stephenson

This term we have been learning about Energy and carrying out experiments,

The Great Annual Flip the Kipper Contest!

Flip the Kipper on PhotoPeach

Maths practice

We have only had IXL for the whole class for one day and look how much we have done!!