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

Learners of the 21st Century

What do you think? Does this slideshow really show what kids learn like today and what they want? Please leave your comment!

Dance with Mrs Royds

We had Mrs Royds in our class for 5 weeks this term. We learnt all about dance. These are some of the dances we made showing some of the 4 elements of dance.

Cycle Safety Training

This slideshow is of our cycle safety training day. We spent the whole hot day learning how to be safe on our bikes by learning how to control our speed, how to stop safely when we're going fast and then we learnt how to indicate clearly so we are safe around other traffic on the roads.

Personality Types

I just learnt that the link to the personality type test doesn't work.
Here are the Characteristics of Personality Categories for you to look at and discuss :)

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.

Nelson Brass Academy

Nick Sharpe form the Nelson Brass academy came to our assembly on Friday. We saw brass instruments that looked gold, silver and kind of pink but we learned that they are all brass.
Mr Sharpe showed us a tuba, a cornet, and his friend Mr derek had a trombone. They played a funny music story at the end.

What caused the change in what schools are like?

We can see how different schools are now to when the Bishops School was used in the 1840's but why have they changed, what caused these changes to happen.

We discussed how Word War 2 had a big impact because up until the women mainly stayed at home but during the war they had to do a lot of 'men's jobs'. After the war it must have been hard for both men who had been fighting and women who didn't want to just be a housewife.
During the war orphaned children were adopted but lots of them were just taken to work for their new 'parents'. It was lucky there was a law passed in 1866 making sure all children went to school or else those children would have just been slaves.

Maria Montossori was an amazing woman. She was the first woman in Italy to get a doctorate of medicine. She worked with childern with learning difficulties and she believed a light colourful classroom with fun games and activities- she is credited with changing classrooms to the way they are now!

Homework this week is to comment on our blog.
Please add a comment with your idea.

Old School Day

These photos are of room 3 at the Bishop's School. We got to dress up in olden day clothes. We got to experience what school was like in the 1840's.
We were thinking what was different between the classrooms now and then.

They said that they did work all day!!

These are some of the things that different.
*Desks.
*Clothes.
*Teachers are more strict .
*They had canes and straps.

Rm3 photos t1 w3 2010

These photos are of Miss Lonsdale taking rm3 in music. We were making beats with instruments. There is also Room 3 playing dodgeball, we had to try to get everyone out by hitting them with a ball and we played line tag. There are also photos of us working on our logos, our title pages and there are even some funny ones of us doing brain gym-can you guess which ones???

Woo hoo! 2010

Welcome to 2010 in Room 3.
What a great group of students!
We have already started finding out about our individual learning styles by completing quizzes on Multiple Intelligences (there are 8 different forms of intelligence according to Howard Gardner), Left or Right brain dominance which gives us an indication as to whether a person is more logical or creative, V.A.R.K (Visual, Auditory, Reading or Kinesthetic) to determine what form of instruction is easiest for us to learn from and on top of that we will also find out about our personality types.
Please take the personality type quiz on the links section of the sidebar.

All this information will help us to find out about our strengths and weaknesses so we can set goals in our learning this year and to recognise that not everyone learns the same way as we do!
I am looking forward to learning the results...

A Puzzling Day

Today Mr Wills took our class while Mrs McRobert wrote our reports. Not only did we play a number of puzzles but we discussed good puzzle design and the similarities and differences between puzzles. Mr Wills challenged us to adapt a puzzle of our choice to make it unique.
Troy liked playing the puzzles.
Tunisia enjoyed using her brain in a different way.
Jacob thoroughly enjoyed the different version of capture the flag.
To view the Puzzling Nelson blog click on the image below.

Marahau Day 2-the big walk

Marahau Baywatch-Sand races

On camp bay-watch was one of the four activities that we did. The leaders of each group were in charge of one game. Kate and Laura were in charge of bay-watch. Bay-watch is a relay game where you have to run to get a baton the first person to get the baton wins the round ,we have a few rounds and we find a boy winner and a girl winner. The boy winner was Manu and the girl winner was Savanah. Everyone really enjoyed the relay.
By Kate and Laura TEAM EXTREME leaders

Marahau Sandcastle Building

Last Term on Room3 camp Manu and Tunisia lead the sandcastle sculptures.
What you had to do was you build a sandcastle as a team and build it as creative as you could.
The rules were...
The teams had a limted time to build the sandcastle.

The teams had to be as creative as they could.
No talking back to the judges.
Help each other as much as you can.


The winners of the sandcastle sculptures were the Kung fu Possoms and in 2nd was the Netball Sharks in 3rd place was a draw with .Flaming Nuggets and Team Extreme Thank You For Watching, Room3 is this class.
Written By Manu and Tunisia

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