Term+2!!

Welcome back to term 2 in Room 3..... We have a lot happening..... For literacy we are looking at narrative writing, we are looking at Dr Seuss books discussing his messages, wacky characters and settings... This has transferred beautifully to our art and we are loving sketching these crazy characters and settings. We are also into our 2nd Madeleine L'Engle book and later as we get more into it, will look at it in depth for guided reading.. A REALLY exciting event in our class is that we have been talking on line with scottish author Julie Bertagna!! We discovered she had a blog site and she has responded to us, leaving us personal and fun messages!! She promises to visit us if she ever comes to NZ!!

Our school wide key understanding about the way we think and the type of questions we ask has crossed all curriculum learning areas through the term.... We have decided that room three are very caring and creative thinkers, and we need to focus more on getting those critical questions and thoughts happening!!

Our maths focus has been time, we looked at different types of reading and writing time, analogue, digital and 24 hour time and then went on to problem solve. We also investigated ancient forms of time keeping.

After a whole term of never ending flowers from our class garden last term, we have given our garden a much needed rest this term. Last term our class was filled with the smell of sweet peas...... mmmmm... We have dug over and are about to compost, getting ready for spring planting next term.