Thinking

We have been learning about Key Competency's in class. Our group thinks Thinking is the most important because if you don't think you can't do anything at all. Everything we do everyday needs us to be thinking.

Please fill in our surevy so we can prove Thinking is the most important Key Competency.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8L9VFDS 


Thanks
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Participating & Contributing

Our class is looking at Key Competency's. Grace, Devon and I think Participating and Contributing is the most important Key Competency. For example, if we didn't use Participating & Contributing on camp, no one would get anything done, we would have no group activities and everyone would be tired and we would be SUPER hungry! Please take our survey so we can prove to our class that Participating & Contributing is the best Key Competency! :)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H52FBKW

Camp Inquiry-Managing Self Survey

At the moment we have been doing a camp inquiry booklet.We all chose the  Key Competency that we thought was the most important on camp, we think that Managing Self is the most important.

 We have been collecting information from different resources e.g our principle-Mrs Gulbransen and Miss Mason to prove that our key Competency is the most important. We have been making surveys and we put them on survey monkey to help prove our point that Managing Self is the most important Key Competency on camp.

The link to our survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KF7RZVS
Please take our survey.

Camp Inquiry Survey J and L

We have been doing a camp inquiry project and as part of that we had to make a survey. We had to prove that our key competency was the best! The website we made it on is called survey monkey. Here is our link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BRWPN8D we had to do 10 survey questions on our topic; relating to others.

There were 5 groups and each of them had a key competency to work on.

There is managing self, relating to others, thinking, understanding language symbols and text and finally participating and contributing.

Make sure you check out our surveys!

29/09/11 REPORTER OF THE DAY

Aidan Clark. There is hope of the 29 men who died in the pike river mine.TheWarriors are in the quater finals for the NRL.

29/09/11/ GO THE ALL BLACKS

I told the class about my Weet-Bix 100% All Blacks cards and I told them about my favourite rugby players and my favourite page and my All Blacks Handbook 2011 and I have the whole collection.

reporter of the day.

Yesterday Adam and Flynn did their reporter of the day. Adam did science facts here are 1 of his facts... The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

 Flynn did his on news.

20/09/11 TOTS TO TEENS !

Tots to teens are really popular in our school kind of people grab them then put them in the bin
here are a few facts and fun stuff to do. Here is great games for kids ohhhh this one um murder in the dark  
it's is like spotlight but in groups of 3 there is one game you can do himmm lets see a cool one rugby world cup FEVER!did you know that over a millon people are invold in it.cool
whats that got to go bye and get tots to teens have a look and have fun

16/09/11 REPORTER OF THE DAY

Haha Abby funny guess what what do you get with a camal with a cow a lumpy milk shake hahahaha
ok another one hold your eyes togerther why did the rocket lose his job? Get Abby and she will tell you loads of funny jokes hahahaaha Abby what a good joke

12/09/11 Flynn's speech

This cool speech about cars from FLYNN! he wrote about fast cars the most expensive cars he showed us cool pictures ohh and funny cars hahaha a cool speech turnd into a awsome speech goooo flynn year!

09/09/11 Reporter of the day

Faith did reporter of the day, I did show and tell, I showed an Italian bag, And Italian braclets. they were so cool and fancy.

007/09/11 Reporter of the day

scientific facts. aimee was reporter of the day; fleas can jump 130 times their height. So as a human this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 feet into the air.
The Most dangerous animal in the world is the common house fly. Because of it's habbit of visiting waste, they carry more diseases than any other animal.
the Stegosaurus Dinosaur measured up to 30 feet long but it's brain was the size of a walnut.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
There are 206 bones in the human adult body and there are 300 in a child's body. This is because as you grow some bones join together.
The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup or the stapes bone in the middle of the ear. It is about .11 inches long.

Reporter of the day.

Today our reporter of the day was Lauren. She did a news article on the 2011 Best Chip Shop compition. She told us about The guidlines of the chippies and the Nelson Winners competing for the top spot. They are... Victory Square fish and chips, The Sands in Tahuna and Sea Breeze, City Takeaways in Town. For healthier, tastier chips buy your chips from the places above.

05/09/11

There is a cool book called the fish in room 11 it is by Heather Dyer it is about there school is by a sea and they would swim in the sea and they saw a fish swimming in the sea and caught the fish and took it in there class but after a while they saw that it was dieing so they picked it up and put in the sea but some thing happens something bad read it it is a easy read.

01/09/11 Speeches

This week we have done speeches.

01/09/11 Winter Tournament

Today we have winter tournament at saxton feilds. The sports we are playing are rippa rugby, hockey, bocia, netball and football.

Literacy activities on Study ladder

Everyone has a new personal login and password to studdyladder.
Each group has 4 or 5 tasks to complete. They can be done in class time when your group has eLiteracy or you can work on them at home.
If you are in room 3 for maths there are activities set for you as well -but you have to use your maths login.
Have fun learning and playing.

The photography challenge.

This week we have been assigned to a photography challenge. The students had to learn and use the rule of thirds in their  two photos within the school grounds. If you didn't know the rule of thirds it is... if you were to have a grid on your camera while you were taking your photo ( which we actually had for planning, ) you would not put your main focus in the center of your grid screen ( which again most peoples gut instinct would jump to do. ) Instead you would put in the corner somewhere for maximum effect and then you could get some detail on where you are, who you are with, etc. That's it! Pretty complicated to explain, but if you try it you will get the hang of it. Same as every new thing you try.The winner of the challenge will win an ipod touch!!!! This competition is open to anyone so you can compete. Go on, get snapping!


We also learned about angles of the camera, getting lower for a tower effect on the object or up high for a birds-eye-view over your centerpiece.

This is a photo of a ladybug found in our school gardens by Grace and the photo was taken by Mrs McRobert, room 3's teacher.  ( Left. )




In loving memory of Mischief Frederick Coxwood ( the ladybug, ) who is flying to the top of the class with his kind heart and budding talent. He is resting in our school gardens peacefully with all our love and care.


By Lauren

House Captain assembly:

On Thursday the 17th of March we had a very special assembly because  this assembly was the one when we choose the house captains. The people that got chosen to do their speeches from our class were Jordana, Grace, Aimee and Lauren.We all did very well! But we are all wondering who are going to be the house captains.We are supposed to find out today.We all have our fingers crossed!!!!

What the most interesting thing we have done in the past week in my opinion....

02-03-11.
Over the past week, in my opinion, the two most interesting things were.... 
When we had Mr Deacon. He gave us a poem, then we had to get into groups of three. We had to decide on our parts -(with some people it took a debate!) We practiced our little hearts out until we got it right!
After everyone was ready we had our own little concert, showing off our wonderful talents. We all had some laughs!!  :)
The other thing that was cool was with Mrs McRobert. We had to write a re-count about what we did in the weekend. First we had to write up a plan for our re-count,  in the plan we had to include the "when,what,why,who and how". We also needed to come up with three events and put a star* next to the event we were going to describe the most. Another thing we had to do was come up with six descriptive  words we would use in our re-count.
Lastly we needed to come up with our conclusion, so we wouldn't babble on forever!
After all that we had to write our re-count with detail and description.
We had many other things to rave about at the end of this week all because of our wonderful teacher, the one and only Mrs McRobert!!!   By Jordana.

Basketball training with Mike from the Nelson Giants.

On Monday 21st of February we had basketball training with Mike from the Nelson Giants basketball team. We worked with him from 11:45 until 12:20. The class learnt basketball skills such as the Long Drop, the Egg Beater and the Nutcracker as well as a easy way to shoot perfectly. It involved making your arm a giraffe's neck and flicking your wrist, then pointing your fingers downwards which, makes the ball fly high  above your head while spinning and falling into the net. He also taught us the proper way to dribble, including how to dribble down by your knees, with your left hand, right hand, with two balls and how to dribble while flicking the ball between both hands. He gave us some things to practice at home and made us do push -ups!!! We had  ball! (He he!) We are very  thankful for this brilliant experience! Thanks Mike!!! :)

Which personality are you?

From the activity we did at school today -record your personality on your learning crest. You or your parents might like to try the quiz on the links list to find out more...


Driver (Lion/Bear):
Objective-focused
Know what they want and how to get there!
Communicates quickly, gets to the point
Sometimes tactless and brusque
Can be an "ends justify the means" type of person
Hardworking, high energy ?Does not shy away from conflict

Expressive (Otter/Monkey):
Natural salesmen or story-tellers
Warm and enthusiastic
Good motivators, communicators
Can be competitive
Can tend to exaggerate, leave out facts and details
Sometimes would rather talk about things than do them!

Amiable (Turtle/Dove):
Kind-hearted people who avoid conflict
Can blend into any situation well
Can appear wishy-washy Has difficulty with firm decisions
Often loves art, music and poetry Highly sensitive
Can be quiet and soft-spoken

Analytical (Fox/Owl):
Highly detail oriented people
Can have a difficult time making decisions without ALL the facts
Make great accounts and engineers
Tend to be highly critical people
Can tend to be pessimistic in nature
Very perceptive

No one personality type outshines the other or is preferable to the other - but all complement each other in different ways. If you are choosing a team for a difficult task, it is a good idea to have representation for each on your team for a balanced approach to the task at hand.

2011 Woo Hoo!!!

Hi,
Welcome to room 3/ 13 in 2011. Our year will start in room 13 while we wait for our pretty new classroom to be ready for us. Then we will move out and back into room 3!
I'm looking forward to having a great year with those I know well and those I only know a little!

I hope you are ready for a BUSY year!
Mrs McRobert