THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF NEW ZEALAND

Today the Governor General visited our fabulous school. In the picture is the Governor General Anand Satyanand. What a hard name to pronounce. He came into our class and talked to some of us. And a photo guy for the paper was flashing his camera YAY we might be in the paper. The Governor General talked about his job in front of the whole school and told us one thing to remember, that you should read books and make books and reading, your best friend. He had two big scary body guards.
After the assembly he was invited to have a snack , but he didn't.
We had a good time and he said himself that he enjoyed it alot and he bought his wife with him.
By Savanah and Cameron. : )

Build your wild self

Today we went to the New York Zoo and Aquarium website and we built ourselves with lots of animal things. We could add things like shark tails, tiger arms and rhino horns. We think it can help our learning by learning different animals namesand at the end you can find out about all the animals that you used.
We thought it was cool and funny.
You can visit the website here
Cailan

Using Google Docs

Today we used our Google docs to write a narrative. We all wrote at the same time.
We thought it was crazy but fun.
We think it could help us practice narrative writing. Mrs McRobert said we could use this with our Dunedin writing buddies.
Jason and Tunisia

Problem solving in Bubbledome

Today we went on to bubbledome.com it was really cool we got given a mystery by the computer and had to write about it conner and I got given a yellow hat thing. It had sparkles and we had use the clues in the story to invent what it could be used for.
We had to think creatively to make up the explanation. We thought the site looked a bit cartoony and young but the activities were fun and we had to think hard, they only wrote the start and we got to finish it. It was good problem solving.
Troy and Conner

Visit the site here

NPSRoom 3 gets 'Low' on camp

With snow on the hills outside on Thursday it was time to take it indoors! Big thanks to Miss Nixey who choreographed this in 4 separate groups with the help of the kids. The dance was put together in 4 parts and the kids had not done the whole thing together until this moment!

Interschool Speech Champion-Kate

last night I went to the interschool speech FINALS!

At first I was really excited but when I got to the hall I started to get a bit scared. I was told that I was the last speaker "Yay!" I thought but when I was listening to the other kids speeches I was getting a bit worried, they were really good.

When they called my name to tell me to go up, I was SO scared but when I started I got a nice calm feeling.

Then the judges went to decide, I went over to my Mum and Dad. They told me that I was really good and that I might win.

When the judges came back in I went back to my seat. Then they told everyone who came 3rd then 2nd and then 1st... I came 1st!!!!!

I went over to the judges and got the cup they also gave me a $50 gift card to Postie Plus.

We went home and I got in to bed.

"Thank gosh," I thought, "I'm glad I got that off my chest!"

This is my speech;

http://npsrm3.wikispaces.com/Kate

Jasmine, Heleni & Shaquille Science Fair

THE BIG BANG
We investigated what brand of Cola made Mentos lollies explode the biggest.

We tried Homebrand & CocaCola. We should have tested three brands so there would be three variables but we couldn't.

We discovered that Coca-cola created the biggest explosion.