Room 6 - To be all we can!

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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The adults race was funny because Nigel, one of the adults, gave Juliana, a mum, a piggyback ride around the adult race. But then Nigel dropped her. Mr Clearwater was trying to beat them. It was just so funny and my step dad, Dave, bet all of them. He came first!

I love Room 6 because....

Hello world! Tim here, I get to do the blog this week with a little bit of help from Lorraine. I'm teaching her what to do because she's never done this before!

We had cross country on Monday. The weather was kind of rainy and cloudy. All the year 3 boys ran together. Mt Taylor called us on the loudspeaker and we went to the start line. Mrs Pilcher warmed us up. Mr T said "on your marks, get set, GO" and we ran off. We had to run round the track twice. I got puffed out and I sprinted to the end. My Mum and my class were cheering for me. My sister Anja and my baby brother Max came to watch me race. At the end I felt happy.

Room 6 is the best class in Mapua School because the kids are happy and we always work hard. I got the "YOU ROCK" award on Tuesday for my art.

We have got a new playground. It is fun to play on. It moved over to beside room 9. It used to be beside room 7. My favourite thing is the climbing chain.

As part of our Art topic we made some artwork inspired by Ben Heine. Our challenge was to use our imagination to create a line drawing of something that we see in the photo, that isn't there. They came out AMAZING!!!! Come and see them next time you are passing!

Have a great week, I gotta go!!

Timothy

My new baby sister

I love my little baby sister, she is so cute. When she sleeps she makes funny noises. My baby sister was born last week on Thursday 27 May. I want her to be called Scarlett, but Mum and Dave will pick her name.

This is a photo of my little sister at the school cross country.

Scale Map of Royal Pigland

Our challenge was to make a scale map of all the settings from "The Three Little Pigs".

Step 1: List all the places you want on the map.
Step 2: Create a scale. We decided 1cm=100m We used meters because kilometers are too far for Pigs to walk and the wolf wouldn't bother if they lived too far away.
Step 3: Use our ruler to measure the pathways between places.
Step 4: Add the places in.
Step 5: Share out maps.

This is actually maths because there is measuring in it. Georgina
I liked making the scale and measuring the distance in between the places. Travis
I liked how we got to use our imaginations and maths together. I liked creating and using the scale for a real thing. Ethan
I liked that you could just draw anything on there that you want. I liked doing the scale. I liked the thinking. Sasha

We are H.O.T (Higher Order Thinkers- refer to Blooms Taxonomy Link)because we were creating, improving, planning, designing, inventing, predicting, synthesising (putting all we know together) ...