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Grandparents Day!

Please have a look at our video we had such a fun day with our Grandparents' and Friends'.
Do you have a day where you celebrate your grandparents at your school?

Flower Show

On Thursday we had to bring some flowers to school for flower day.

I was helping Sophie and Katie make their garden creations.
By Dylan

It was great for Stevie to get an award.
By Kole

Coco's First Day

Coco Our Class Pet's First Day
Hi I’m Coco the new class pet for Room 3 at Broadlands School. I came on the Coco bus on Tuesday the 22th of November. When I got to Broadlands a huge welcoming party came to greet me. I learnt that I would get my bone to chew on when I chewed something I shouldn’t have. . They would give the instructions once saying it like this come Coco and I didn’t do them they would make me and tell me I am a good boy. This afternoon we did athletics with Matua Dan for an hour. Now I am tired out. There will be a lot of people to meet but I think I can handle it. Can’t wait to meet Colby my owner’s cat. Hopefully we will be BFFL

(Best Friends For Life).

Bike it

Bike it


This year we have been doing Bike It. We have been getting taught how to mountain bike for camp. It has been very fun for all of us and are looking forward to doing bike it again today. We are doing bike it because we are going on camp very soon and we are going mountain biking.

Camp Preparation

Camp Preparation

On November the 8^Th we are going on a Camp to Turangi. So we have been prepping to be organized and ready for camp. We have been focused on managing ourselves and relating to others, because on camp there are lots of team activities and challenges. We created a list of things that showed how we would not be managing ourselves and not relating to others.      

   LIKE

• Fighting  
•    Not caring    
•   Not Responsible

We are going to do more camp prep today.

 

Travel Smart Travel Safe

In room 3 we are learning to travel safe and smart. we made some cartoons on toondoo about travelling safe. Maddy, Jessie, Honey, Waiwai, Lani, Kelsey and Amy made one about travelling safe round the pool area. This is it. Their messgage is dont run round pools.

Wilson the puppy

Today I brought my new six week old labroudor puppy called Wilson to room 3 to show the class. Ms Matthews had a great idea that we could keep him in the classroom for the whole day so we can test him out to see if having a class pet is ideal. So I went and asked Mr Taylor and he said yes. My mum went and got his cage and food. When he arrived back at school he had a little sleep and then me and Jessie took him out for a play. He really loved going outside. We took him to the sandpit, field, tennis court and play ground. Room 3 loved having Wilson at school.

By Maddy.p

Snowing at Broadlands School

It snowed at school today 15 August 2011.

We loved the snow because we don’t get much snow out here.

We saw snow falling down from the gray sky. We were excited and we played in the snow.

You can feel the snow dripping down our T-shirts. We tasted the frozen water dripping down into our mouths.

Boo hoo! The snow went away and the sun came out. Everybody wants the snow to come back so we can have a snow fight.

BY Taelyn, Sarah and Hannah

Unison Thanks

Today two people from unison came to our school to teach us about electricity and how it works.They taught us what is safe to touch and what isn't safe to touch.They showed us some videos and all the safety gear worn by the people that work on the power lines and showed us what would happen if we touched electricity.It was cool.
By Jayde.
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Unison at Broadlands

Unison is here to talk to us about
Being safe with electricity.


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Class pets

Room 3 has 4 class pets. Their names are Blues, Max, Chezzle,and J.T, and they are from “Where the wild things are”. They are puppets and are fun to play with. Every week someone gets to take one home, this is decided by a shaker box. We have to take photos of their adventures.

Learning is!

Today we worked in groups to brainstorm our ideas about what learning is.

What do you think learning is?

Please share your thoughts and ideas, we are very interested.

These are some of our ideas:

Learning is combining with others.

Learning is using your senses.

Learning is thinking with other people or by yourself to get more knowledge.

Learning is using your brain and things you know and combining your ideas with other persons ideas.

Learning is finding out more facts.

Learning is perseverance.

Learning is combining lots of ideas to learn something new.

End of Term Creativity

These photos represent the tasks we were busy completing at the end of term.

Storyboard Creating

Baking

Poetry Writing

Designing Conflict and Resolution Games

Story Telling

Posters

Aileen and Me - Keywords

We have been learning how to identify keywords that help summarise the main points and ideas of our text.

This word picture was created in Wordle. Can you identify the keywords of this story. Maybe you could predict what the story is about. Have fun!

Teammr3

Painted Movies

We have created movies of our stories using Microsoft Paint to illustrate them, Easi Speak microphones to record our voice and Windows Live Movie Maker to put them together into a movie.

These programs are simple to use and as we create them it doesn't put any pressure on our schools wireless network which is a complete nightmare for most things. Ms Matthews uploads them at home.

Our reflections of our achievement has helped us to think creatively about timing of our pictures and fluency and expression with our voice. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have enjoyed making them.

Here are two from John and Corien. The others will be posted onto our kidblogs (link at the side).

Please leave us a comment and let us know where you are from so we can visit you. Regularly we visit blogs and start a learning conversation.

Writing Awesome Blog Comments

We have been reflecting on comments that have been written on our blogs and other school's blogs. From this we have explored many ideas from other schools and looked at Comments for kids to write our own success criteria for an 'Awesome Blog Comment'.

We have decided on 6 points for our success criteria:

1. Write your comment including a greeting, content and a closing.

2. Always use correct spelling, punctuation, grammar and spacing.

3. Compliment the writer in a specific way, ask a question or add new information.

4. Write a relevant comment that is related to the post.

5. Do not reveal any personal information about yourself in your comment.

6. Always proof read your comment and edit before submitting.

Remember that people from around the world will be reading what you have written.

Maddy P has been using our criteria to peer assess blog comments before we post. Please have listen to her podcasts. After reflecting on the podcasts we realise that Maddy should have given feedback using the language of our criteria.
Our reasons for doing this is that we value our connections with our global community and want to make many more.


Please don't leave without writing a comment and a link to your blog so we can visit you. Maybe you can add to our criteria.

School is Cool

This week we have been learning about creating storyboards for our Conflict and Resolution documentaries. We have also been pondering camera angles, different shots and movement to enhance the effect of our movies as well as maintain audience interest. John, Ben and Madison, our experienced documentary crew,  organised a School is Cool project  to practice our skills. They also helped us to reflect on our creations with their feedback. We hope you can learn from our practice, enjoy.

Thank you for visiting our blog, please don't go without leaving a comment with a link to your blog, so we can visit you.
Room 3

Conflict and Art

Room 3 are creating a piece of artwork with the idea of illustrating War and Peace, Conflict and Resolution. They are having a great day putting their ideas together. This is their work in progress, enjoy!

We will post the finished pieces with the strategies and tools that they used to create their masterpieces.

Waiouru

Our theme this term is War and Peace embedded in the rich concept of Conflict and Resolution.

Maddy, Abby and Jessie have created a video about our visit to Waiouru Army Musuem.

The hosts to our school were very funny, interesting and full of information. We highly recommend a visit to this musuem.

Stephan and Matthew have also created a video. I loved the rainbow at the end and their lovely message. We will remember them!