Bike Track

Our new Bike Track

Genius Time

Team 15 have been working super hard on their passion projects this term. The process can get VERY messy and chaotic as each of us takes our learning in a different direction.

Mrs Turner is super-proud of how mature everyone is. She is also very thankful the wonderful parent help she gets on a Thursday afternoon. 

Watch this space for our finished creations, but for now, enjoy this short picture video of what we've been up to....

Reading Skills

All year we work on different skills for Reading. The last few weeks in Team 15 have been focused around using the punctuation to help us read with expression and flow. (We have been using punctuation in our Writing too so that it makes sense when other people read it!)

Here is a video of Zach and Simeng learning to use punctuation when reading aloud.

Zach was brave and went first. When he read the first time, he forgot to use the punctuation so we gave him some feedback - did you hear the difference when he tried it the second time? He was AMAZING!

Simeng is second in the video. This was her second attempt too. The rest of the kids are giving her feedback on how she used the punctuation. Great Team-work Team 15!

How do YOU think they went?

Leave us some constructive feedback in the comments.

Wheel-a-thon

Today Team 15 participated in the Sunnyhills PTA Wheel-a-thon. 

Some of us brought our bikes and some of us brought our scooters. Here are two pictures of us getting ready to go:

At morning tea we had a special visit from Simon and the Skate School. We were "WOWED" with the cool tricks! Check out the video!

Finally it was our turn to do our 'laps'. Mrs Turner tried really hard to get a picture of everyone! Some of us were just too fast for the camera! 

Jessie must have been going REALLY fast as the wheel fell off! Don't worry though, Mrs Turner and Mr Leslie managed to fix it!

Here us a video if us riding our scooters:

How many laps could you do?

xx

Let's Play Rippa Rugby

On Tuesday afternoon all the Year 3 and 4 children participate in sport. 

This week Team 15 were learning the skills of and playing Rippa Rugby.

We learnt that we must pass the rugby ball backwards and we all have to work as a team to get the ball up the field to score a try.

The Rippa Rugby rips are pretty hard to rip off.

We all had a load of fun in the sunshine playing Rippa Rugby with Mrs Grant

Here we are practising our passing.

Ask us to show you how to play and how to pass a rugby ball. We are all experts now!

Edgewater Marae

Here we go.

Learning all about our wonderful Maori culture.

Splish and Splash at Sunnyhills

The Year 3 Team (Rooms 14, 15 and 16)had the best day at Splish and Splash. 

There were three great activities for us to participate in on a hot summery day. 

1. Stuck in the mud under the sprinkler

2. Water challenge against another team to see who could fill the water trough the fastest

3. Being blasted with the hose, and practising our Pause, Breathe and Smile while being sprinkled with rain.

It was such a great afternoon to cool down and have some fun. 

We were so lucky that Mrs Trembath organised this for us to do. 

Thank you to Mrs Trembath, great idea! 

Lion Dancing

Today we were VERY lucky to have a presentation by "Uncle Peter" and the  E-PACS Lion & Dragon Dance Group  Unfortunately the children (who are the other end of the big lion) were at school so we couldn't see the 'full' display, but we did learn heaps!

Peter told us all about the Lion Dance and why it is an important part of the Chinese New Year celebrations. This group is very famous in the Chinese community. They often get asked to big important events and offered their time to us today.

We learned some of the 'poses' we need to practice. CAN YOU BALANCE ON ONE LEG LIKE THIS FOR THE WHOLE TIME YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH?

Theo from our class even got to have a go with the symbols (Peter said it was okay to practice at home with the pots and pans - has anyone tried yet?)

It was such a cool display. Please check out  the E-PACS Lion & Dragon Dance Group 

facebook page if you would like to see more. 

Here is a mashed video that Mrs Turner took of the event

Please leave us your comments.

"Gong hei fat choy"   "gong xi fa cai" 

"wishing you great happiness and prosperity."