2010 - What did you like best?

Kia ora Room 3,

Please answer these questions...

1) write your name

2) Which Inquiry topic did you like the best this year?

2a) why?

3) Which writing topic did you like the best this year?

3a) why?

4) What was your favourite PE topic?

4a) Why?

5) What is one thing you would still like to learn?

Wednesday - New Christmas Games

Here are lots of new Christmas games to play and enjoy :)

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/christmas/games.htm

http://holidays.kaboose.com/games-xmas.html

Maths- Probability Games

Here are some games to play to practice using probability

http://jmathpage.com/JIMSProbabilitypage.html

http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/probability-games.html

Worm Webquest

To help us make our worm farm successful you need to know all about worms and how to care for them.

Go to this website and complete the activities

http://www.williamstownps.vic.edu.au/students/webquests/worm_webquest/enterthewebquest.htm

Co-ordinates

Play these games to practise using a map

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/coordinates.html#Coordinates

Measurement Games

Play the games on this site

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures/capacity.html#Capacity

Miss Collins

Hi Room 3,

Hope you are all having a great week at school. I am in Salzburg in Austria at the moment. It is beautiful here and has such amazing scenery. I went on the Sound of Music tour today and it was a lot of fun ( they filmed alot of the movie in Salzburg). Heading to Czech Republic tomorrow and then we are off to Turkey.

Say hi to Miss Baxter and all the other teachers for me.

Miss Collins

Addition and Subtraction Games

Play these games to help practice your adding and subtracting

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/index.htm

What do you want to know about worm farming?

1. Write your name and your question.

Then use the internet to try and find the answer...once you find the answer write it on our wormery wikipage

CHAT ON ME!!!!!!!!!

1.oh there is no 1 just chat this blog!!!!

Term 4 Goals

Write your name

1. What is your goal for writing this term?

2. What is your goal for reading this term?

3. What is your goal for maths this term?

Where in the world is Miss Collins?

Hi Room 3,

How are you all? Hope you have all had a great holiday and are enjoying been back at school. Just thought I would send you a message on the blog to tell you where I am in the world. At the moment I am in Krakow in Poland and I have already been to Frankfurt and Berlin. You should look on a map to see where these places are. Well have a good week and say hi to Miss Baxter for me.

From Miss Collins

The Martians are Coming!

Predicting the story...

Yesterday we read the story 'The Martians are Coming!'.
What do you think will happen next?

1) Write your name
2) Write your prediction of what will happen next

Mass and Capacity Games

Our new maths topic is measuring weight and the volume inside things.

Here are some games you play to help you better at mass and capacity.

Weight games

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures/capacity.html#Weight

Reading Scales games

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures/capacity.html#ReadingScales

Mass games

http://www.teachingmeasures.co.uk/menu.html

Capacity games

http://www.teachingmeasures.co.uk/menu.html

Telling the Time games

Go to these sites and play these games

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/clock2/clockwordsres.html

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec4.html

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec5.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm#Time

Space technology

1. Write your name
2. What is one thing that you have learnt about satellites today.
3. If you were going to launch a satellite into space, what would you name it?
4. If you were going to launch a satellite into space, what job would it do?

Production Night!!!!!

1. Write your name

2. What is one thing you are nervous about for tonight?

3. What is one thing you are looking forward to for tonight?

Goal setting for Term 3

1. Write your name
2. Write a maths goal
3. Write a reading goal
4. Write a writing goal

What happened to your shadow over the day?

1. write your name
2.write what happened to your shadow

What do you think will happen to your shadow over the day?

1. write your name
2. Write what you think will happen to your shadow

Jareds wonderings

Q:Why do the planets move they move because they are orbiting the Sun
because it is the heavyest. the Suns gravaty pulls on the planets.
they spin side ways so they wont fall in and explode

Saskia's wonderings !!!

Who was the first person in space ?


Yuri A. Gagarin was the first person in space on April the 12th 1961 !!!

Sam's wondering

How hot is the sun?

15 million degrees

Paris wondering

why is the sun so big and why?

because the earth wouldn't be hot enough

Alexis's wondering

How many stars are in space?
There are 400 billion stars in the milky way and 3 thousand million billion in the Universe.

Joseph's wondeing

Who is the furthest man that has travelled in space and how far did he get?



The furthest man that has travelled in space was a man called buffet he travelled 264,931,869.

Liam's wondering

How many moons does Mercury have?

At least one

Briar's wonderings?

What spaceship did Neil Armstrong use?

The Saturn V Rocket

Mithy's wondering

why is the unniverse going to shrink & how?
sintists think that black holes are going to suck in galxys which will cause the universe to shrink

Ruby's wondering

Q How hot is the sun?
A 15 million degrees celcius.

Alex's wondering?

How far away is the nearest star besides the sun?

4.24 light years away from Earth and it's name is Proxmia Centauri

tyla's wondering /

what is the biggest star?


the biggest star is the vy canis majoris red hypergiant

BENS WONDERING?

How many dwarf planets are there?

There are 5 dwarf planets there names are Pluto,Ceres,Eris,MakeMake and Haumea.

How many times bigger is the Milky Way than Ptuto?

Pluto is 2317 Kms in diameter. The Milky Way is 95000000000000000000000 Kms in diameter.

Ewan's wondering

How fast does light travel?
299,792,458 ms.

Maia's wondering

Q: How many dwarf planets are there and what are their names?

A: There are 4 other dwarf planets and their names are Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.

Riley's wonderings?

how fast is the speed of light?

2,99,7,92,458 meters per second!!!!!

Emma's wondering

why did scientists make pluto a dwarf planet?
because pluto was to small to be a planet any more

Lachlan's wondering

How did Saturen get it's rings?

They were made by things crashing into Satuen and it's strong gavity

macee's wondering

How big is the milky way?

1,00 million light years away

Miss Baxter's wondering?

What are comets named after and who named them?

The Greek people called them'hairy stars" because they had a long tail. When people spot a new one it is named afte them!

Wednesday 19th May

Today I would like you to visit



www.otagopeninsula.wikispaces.com

and post a post-it note on our wallwisher about 1-3 facts you have learnt about the Otago Peninsula.

Then go to our wikispace

www.weareroom3.wikispaces.com

And post a post-it note on our wallwisher on the home page.

When you are finished sign in and....
1) Finish your Otago Peninsula Trip writing on our own wikipage
2) Read some other people's pages and send them some comments.

You have 30 mins to do all of these. remember to use the laptop like a see saw.

We will be learning how to make a voki and add one to our wikipages today when you have completed everything above.

Otago Peninsula Animal Facts

We have been finding out information about animals that live on the Otago Peninsula. All the animasl we have been researching are endangered. That means they are in danger of dying out and becoming extinct.

Please write your name and 1 fact about each of these animals

1. Royal Albatross
2. Jewelled Gecko
3. Fur Seals
4. Yellow eyed penguins

Maths Multiplication

Today you need to practise your times-tables.

We want you to know them all instantly...like "snap"

http://www.ictgames.com/multinumberlines.html

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/timetable/tgame1.html

http://www.ictgames.com/spitfireufo.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/index.html

Wednesday Morning Maths

Today in your 15 mins time slot you need to visit

http://www.ictgames.com/resources.html

Play as many games as you can in your 15 mins

Enjoy :)

Addition and Subtraction

In your 15 minutes time slot go to this website

http://www.primarygames.co.uk/

Play as many games from this site as you can in your 15 mins

Enjoy :)

Today's punctuation game

Go to this web site to play this game to get better at punctuation

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Paintball

Use the see-saw to take turns with your buddy to do each question

What was the most important quality of a friend that you and your group decided?

1. Write your name
2. Write the quality that won your group's TP chart
3. rite why your group thought it was most important
4. If you think it should be something else write what you think is most important and why

Have some fun.

1.If you wanna have fun go to www.primarygames.com

2.Then post a comment and type three things about one of your fav games

3.type your first name

what is your favourite sport?

1.write your first name
2.write your favourite sport and why

what is your fav soft drink?

1.write first name only
2.what is your fav soft drink ?

what is your favouite insect

1.write your first name only
2.write your favourite Insect

what is your eye colour

1. write frist name only
2.write your eye colour

what is your favorite tree?

1.Write your name only
2.Write your answer

what is your favorite pet

1. write the name of your favourite pet
2. write your name

What is you fav colour

Write your first name only.
Write your favourite colour.

what is your favurite sea animal

1. write your first name only
2.write your favourite sea animal

what is you favourite subject at school

1.write first name only
2.write your favourite subject at school

Whats your favourite colour

1. Write your first name only.
2.write your favourite colour.

What is your favourite colour?

1.Write your first name.
2.Put in your favourite colour.

3.Then your done.

Whats your favourite fruit ?

1.write your first name
2.write your favourite fruit and why.

What is your bed-time?

1. Write your first name only
2. Write your bed time

do you like drakel mathel

1.what is your first name
2.wirte if you like drakel mathef

Thursday maths activity

Go to this website

www.onlinemathlearning.com/statistics-games.html

Play 5 different graphing games

Friendship Scenerios - What would you do?

With a buddy read these scenerios and together decide how you would solve them...
Post your answers on our blog.

1: You open up a birthday gift from a friend and you are unhappy that it isn't something you had wished for. How do you respond?

2: You are out at lunchtime and notice a couple of your good friends are picking on a classmate who is really upset and not able to get away from them. What should you do?

3: You are at the store with your best friend who didn't bring any money. While you are paying for your own candy bar, you see your friend steal a couple of items. How do you react?

4: You are playing a game with friends and a classmate comes over and says they have no-one to play with. There is only 4 spaces in your game and they are all full. What do you do?

Introducing yourself

1. Write your name
2. Write your 2 favourite things to do at school
3. Write your favourite games to play with friends
4. Write what quality you think is most important in a friend
5. Write 1 thing you want to learn this year

Statistics

Go to this website and play all these graph games

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/data.htm#Graphs

When you are finished log onto our blog and write

1) Your favourite game and WHY it was your favourite.
2) The names of 2 different graphs you know
3)Your name