Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 
from Room 3 - Kids with a view

What a fantastic learning journey we have had this year.

Thank you to all our visitors and to all the people that have left us comments.

We really do appreciate your support.

Most of the Room 3 children will be back next year ready to take on another year with Mrs Laburn 
only this time we will be Year 2's!

We will be welcoming Robbie, Nicholas, Nico and George to our class.

Thank you to our special Quadblogging friends 

We Love Learning - Prep S

Learning Together - Prep K

Stoke Bishop School

Kathryn Wynn School

We think you are all awesome friends - see you next year!

And a special thank you to our NZ buddies

The Rockets 

Hamilton East School - Room 14

Bailey Road School - Room 14

Point View School - Room 14

(wow look at all the Room 14's)

Have a wonderful holiday!

Blog Awards - Hamilton East School

Look! - Room 14 at Hamilton East School 
held their very own blog awards.
We were very lucky to be nominated.

Thank you Room 14 for the nominations.

We hope you had fun selecting your favourite blogs.

Check out their blog to see who won the categories.

Room 14 Hamilton East School

Fabulous Christmas Wiki

Check out this Christmas wiki full of fun learning games and activities

Maths, Reading, Jigsaws, Crafts, Movies, 

Songs and much more

http://christmasinschools.wikispaces.com/Home

Voting Best Class Blog - Edublog Awards

Please vote for our class blog 

Click on the link below

Best class blog 2011 | The Edublog Awards

Scroll down to where it says 'vote here'

Click on the arrows and scroll down to 'Best Class Blog' and click

Then next to 'Best Class Blog' click on the arrows and scroll down to 'Room 3's Class Blog' and click

And then click vote.

Remember you can vote on your iphones too!

We do need your vote from home as we are only allow one vote per day from our school's IP address.

Thanks heaps

Best class blog 2011 | The Edublog Awards

edublogawards.com

To vote for your favorite just choose the category from the drop down menu below you want to vote in, who you want to vote for and then click Vote.

The 2011 Edublog Awards

The 2011 Edublog Awards – voting is now open

Thanks so much for the nomination Mrs Rivett we are so thrilled that you consider our

blog worthy of a nomination.

Please take the time to vote for our class blog everyone.

Please also vote for our friends in Room 14 

Best Teacher Blog

Wearable Arts - Rugby World Cup 2011

Grandparents Day

Look at all the wonderful grandparents that visited our classroom on Friday 11th November.

We had such an exciting day!

We 'WOWED' our grandparents with our ICT skills, showed them around our classroom and the school, performed some folk dancing for them, had a picnic lunch, and shared some amazing Point View School talent at our grandparents day assembly.

Our Diwali Rangoli Patterns

Diwali Rangoli Patterns 

There were lots of ways that we could choose to 
make our rangoli patterns. Making rangoli patterns helped 
us to learn about symmetry.

We could.....

*draw our patterns

*use blocks and other maths equipment 

*go online and use the following websites

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/symmetry/symm.htm

http://www.mathplayground.com/patternblocks.html

http://www.techniquest.org/virtual/sketching/ (this was our favourite)

To learn more about symmetry click 
on the following link - it's fun!

http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/1_Math/2_Illustrated_Lessons/4_Line_Symmetry/index.html

Singing our school song - Learning Together

Here we are singing our school song called

'Learning Together'

Our friends in Australia call their blog

'Learning Together'

so we thought they might like to hear us sing our school song that we sing proudly at every assembly.

Inquiry Learning - Kiwi Puppet Presentations

We decided to present our Inquiry Learning on the Kiwi as puppet shows. 
We used Australian animals because we thought it would be fun for our Quad blogging friends in Australia to watch. 


Koala: I was wondering how you search for your food?
Kiwi: I forage for food by scratching at the ground with my strong claws.
Koala: How do you know that worms are there?
Kiwi: I can smell worms that are buried in up to 3cm of earth. I use my beak to sniff for food.
Koala: How do you get the worms?
Kiwi: I make rapid stabs into worm tunnels using my beak as a spear.
Koala: Thanks for helping with my answers.
By Jacey and Orlando

Bat: Hello kiwi. Why are you brown?

Kiwi: The brown colours make me almost invisible in the dark.

Bat: What are your feathers like?

Kiwi: They are soft and fluffy.

Bat: It you lose your feathers what happens?

Kiwi: I will grow new ones.

By Benny and Tiffanny

Koala: Hi kiwi. What do you do during the day?

Kiwi: During the day I sleep in underground burrows I have dug or I find a log or hollow tree or thick vegetation to sleep in.

Koala: When do you come out?

Kiwi: I come out as soon as it is dark.

Koala: What do you do at night?

Kiwi: I leave my burrow to look for food.

Koala: Thanks for answering my questions.

By Mallika and Krishant.

Kookaburra: How big are kiwi eggs?

Kiwi: Just before kiwi lay their egg it is so huge it almost fills the kiwi's body and she has no room left for food. She stops eating three days before she lays the egg.

Kookaburra: Who sits on the eggs?

Kiwi: The male sits on the egg to keep it warm.

Kookaburra: When are the eggs laid?

Kiwi: In the spring the mother kiwi lays 1 or 2 eggs in a burrow.

By Neeve and Aum

Kangaroo: Hi I'm a kangaroo. How do you move around?

Kiwi: I have wings but I can't fly because they are very, very small.

Kangaroo: Can you run really fast?

Kiwi: Yes I can run faster than people. Kiwi can run swiftly with a side to side sway. The swaying helps me to balance.

Kangaroo: Can you swim?

Kiwi: Yes, some kiwi's can swim across rivers.

Kangaroo: Thank you for answering my questions kiwi.

By Maia and Joshua

Our Guy Fawkes Stories

• Click to view my story.
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Click to view our stories by Sienna, Krishant, Kairyn, Benny and Aryaan

An Australian Community

This term our Aussie friends Inquiry topic is ‘Our Community’. They went for a walk around their neighbourhood to see what is in their community. They took cameras and took photos of what they discovered. Then they made this voicethread using their photos to share what they saw in their community.

We are going to share with them what our community is like – so that they can learn more about us and where we live. They also want to see where we are the same and different.

 Does our community look the same as theirs? Do we have the same things as they do? 

During this week and next week Room 3 children will be taking photos of our community and then we will comment on the comparisons.

What differences and similarities can you see?

Aum starts his own blog

Meet Aum...                                                               

He created his very own blog at home. 

If you stop by his blog please leave him a comment it would make him so happy!               

Mrs Laburn is so proud of him. 

Keep up the great work Aum.

  http://aumiep.blogspot.com/

We did it - Second Place - Awesome!

Congratulations Kids with a View - We did it!

What a great thrill and very exciting news for our school.

We will certainly be looking forward to and waiting in anticipation for the arrival of the 

adidas sports gear!! 

What a lucky school!

Thank you to Sonny Bill Williams and Adidas!!

Check out all the videos here

1st Place Hora Hora School

2nd Place Point View School

3rd Place St Anne's Catholic School

4th Place Sunnyhills School

5th Place Linwood School

More Exciting News

Kids with a view entered this Adidas competition with two of our

 'Walking RWC Picture Frames' and a haka video.

We have had confirmation that we are one of the 30 finalists.

Watch this space for an update in the next couple of days!

Happy Diwali

We are learning about the Indian Festival of Lights - Diwali

In India, one of the most significant festivals is Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. 
It's a five-day celebration that includes good food, fireworks, colored sand, and special candles and lamps.
Soon we will add our Rangoli patterns that we made.

Do you celebrate Diwali?

Please share with us what your family traditions are.

Cross Country Notice

Congratulations All Blacks

Congratulations to the Mighty All Blacks

World Champions

Winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup 

Mrs Laburn meets the All Blacks!

Yesterday five All Blacks Aaron Cruden, Adam Thompson, Victor Vito, Hosea Gear 

and John Afoa met up with some lucky prize winners (including Mrs Laburn)

for a meet and greet session at the Backing Black HQ.

All Blacks do yoga  - TV3 News

Tonight it's game on!

We will be Backing Black more than ever.

Rugby World Cup 2011 Final

New Zealand vs France

Go the Mighty All Blacks from Room 3!

Have you met an All Black before?

Please tell us about it.

True RWC 2011 Sportsmanship

Our quadblogging friends from Australia made us a welcome back video.
How special is that!
It really is awesome!
They even give the ALL BLACKS a shout out!
You will also hear them sing the great Aussie song - Gidday.

Our friends in Australia show the spirit of true sportsmanship.

After you have watched this video Room 3

 please go to Prep S and Prep K's blogs and 

leave them some awesome comments.