Haere mai ki Term Tuarua

Welcome to Term Two! We have instore another action-packed term of learning and fun. We are learning about Safety this term,  in particular road safety, dog safety and fire safety. We are into our second term of learning using No Problem Maths, which has been a good added resource to our curriculum. Check out some of our awesome art!

Haere mai ki Term Tuatahi

Welcome to Term One in Room 6 at Turuturu School! We've had an exciting start to the year with lots of swimming in our heated school pool and spending the hot afternoons doing art. We've just started on our journey with No Problem Maths and have been developing our positive classroom culture. Mrs Dunlop is the release teacher for the year and she teaches a day a week. We'll keep you posted on exciting updates from Room 6. 

Haere mai ki Term Whā

What a busy term we have ahead! The start of the term will be busy getting ready for our Junior Production Taniwha! Taniwha! This is the first time that we have the Year 1 - 3 children taking the starring roles on stage. It's going to be a blast! Then we are learning about people in the community who help to keep us safe. A big focus will be learning the skills of run, jump and throw, which will be showcased at our Athletic Sports day in November. Plus the usual core focus on reading, writing and maths. 

Welcome to Term 3

As well as a priority on Reading, Writing and Maths, we are training for cross country, learning about the Olympics and getting ready for our school production to be performed at the start of Term 4. We are even going to have our own Potato Olympics soon. We have been learning our timetables too. The excitement is building for the Olympics!

Welcome to Term 2

What a great term we've had so far. Our main focus has been learning about Pests and Predators and making tracking tunnels to see if there are pests in our school environment. We have just been on a trip to Lake Rotokare to learn more about the pest free sanctuary and see real predator traps and tracking tunnels. 

Some Highlights of Term 2

Hāere mai! Welcome to Term 1

Kia ora koutou. This term has got off to a flying start as we are learning all about each other and ourselves. Swimming and Art are our main foci this term, as well as the usual Reading, Writing and Maths! Here are some pics of what we have been up to! 

Hāere mai! Welcome to Term 4

Another jam packed term of learning opportunities is in store for us. We start with our School Production in which we perform our dance, Pump Up the Jam, from the 1990s. We have Harold visiting from the Life Education Trust to further our learning about keeping our bodies healthy. Then the Year 4 students are going on a camp to Konini Lodge on Mount Taranaki. Later on in the term we have Beach Education at Opunake Beach plus a chance to show off our developing movement skills at the school Athletic Sports. Of course, we will doing some learning in the classroom too!

Te Tinana - Our Body

We have been learning the names of our bones and how our digestive system works. We watched a clip by Suzy Cato explaining what happens to baked beans when we eat them. It was fascinating but slightly gross too! Watch the video below. 

Puanga/Matariki Breakfast

We enjoyed a shared breakfast with our whanau to celebrate Puanga. We donated food and showed people around our classroom. We got to eat pancakes and waffles and fruit loops- things that we usually don't get to eat! We talked about Hiwa-i-te-rangi (the wishing star) and wrote wishes for the future. Ka pai!

Hāere mai! Welcome to Term 2

This term we're using the new David Walliams' book Robodog as the focus for a lot of our learning. Plus improving our relationships and using questioning to enhance our communication skills in games and in the classroom. It's going to be a blast! Here's a snapshot of what we've been up to in Room 6.

We are doing Reading Responders as we read Robodog. Here is some of our writing about whether a Robodog or Robocat would be better for the police force of Bedlam City. We used Canva to publish our work. 

We like doing Art in Room 6. It takes us days to finish our art but it is worth the effort!

We like to work together a team for lots of our learning. 

Welcome to Term 1! Welcome to another great year of learning and fun in Room 6!

Wow, where has the year gone? This term we will be busy preparing for athletics and learning our class dance as part of our arts inquiry. Life Education will be coming to give us a visit during this term. Our ROAR focus is being an active problem solver.

This term we are inquiring into forces and how they work. We have had a go using trolley's to push each other and to see what techniques were best to make us go further and what surfaces worked best. We then looked at gravity and how you can make a toy car go further by creating ramps at different heights. Some heights worked well while others didn't.

At the end of our forces unit we we used our new knowledge about ramps, surfaces and pulleys to create our own marble mazes. We had a success criteria we had to follow and when we completed our mazes we showcased them to other classes.

Show don't tell-The beach

The sand burnt my feet like a volcano erupting. The waves were cool like a beautiful summer day. The sun was shining like a bright star. The clouds  were like white rabbit’s fur. I was sweating like a heatwave coming this way. The breeze was swishing the sand.

By Dylan

Show don't tell -Winter's Day 

It  was  wet and dark. They were wearing rain jackets. There were puddles and it was pouring down. The clouds were black as the road. They were saturated with water. The clouds started to  connect.                                                                                    

  By Ryan

Show don't tell -A Summer's Day

The sun is bright like joy. The water is cold like sadness. I can feel the summer breeze on my face. The golden sand is as it is hot like the sun. The clouds are moving fast like flash. The waves are going up like a hot air balloon. The sun is making the water sweat.

By Talia

Show don't tell-A Snowy Day

The road was white like ice. He felt the cold icy breeze on his cheeks. The snow was puffy like a marshmallow.

By Declan

Show Don 't Tell- The Beach

The waves were swirling up and down like a bumpy road. The sun was breezing down on the sand and he was sweating. He was looking at the shining sun boiling his feet like a jug. There were clouds by the sun and it was summer. It was hot like a volcano burning the sand. 

By Elias 

Show Don 't Tell-A Summer's Day 

The sand was hot like a sweating person. It was a beautiful day and the sea was  shining. The sun was bright like a lemon. The waves were nice and came.

By Lexi 

At the beginning of this term we have been learning about geometry. We have had fun learning the different 3D shapes then making them using play dough and toothpicks. As we built our shapes we had to problem solve as some were tricky to make.

For the rest of the term we will focus on mastering our 2, 5 and 10 times tables!!!

This term we have dived into online distance learning. Fot the past 5 weeks we have meet up on Zoom several times a week to have class catch up and to go through our learning. We have done our learning through Seesaw and have used a range of learning times to practice our numeracy and literacy. Check out some of the learning we have been doing.

Welcome to Room 6's web page. We are lively bunch of Year 3 students! Here is a little about what we have been up to so far this year at school.

Term 1 has been a busy term full of fun and learning in Room 6. Miss Gale and Mrs Honeyfield have really enjoyed getting to know our students this term.

Earlier on in the term when the weather was scorching hot we spent most afternoons out in our school pool. We did lots of practicing to float, glide and retrieve items from under the water. As the weather turned a little chilly we began learning cricket skills. Now we are experts at bowling, batting and fielding. 

Throughout the term we have created a range of art based on famous artists. During writing we jumped into the future and wrote what we thought Taranaki would be like in 2050! Voice activated pens and flying cars were very popular. We are becoming basic facts ninjas as we are learning how to quickly make 10,20 and 100 during math time. During reading we have been following the Daily Five programme and we love being able to use technology in the class to help us with our learning.

Our days have been full of learning with the odd dance and song to add to the mix! It has been a great term in Room 6!!!!