The Room 3 Blog Sprogs

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Shading with paint

We are embarking on painting in art in Room 3, with Vincent Van Gogh as our inspiration.

Firstly, we need to practise some important painting skills.

At the moment, we are learning to create shades of one colour using white paint. We start off with the palest colour we can mix and gradually add more of the darker colour until we reach the darkest shade.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Ilam School Cultural Day

Today we celebrated the many cultures we have at Ilam School with a "Cultural Day".

Room 3 children made a real effort to dress up! We discussed the different cultures in our class and the traditional costumes of those cultures.

Room 3 children in their costumes

A silly pose!

Representing....CHINA!

Representing.....The USA!

Representing.....THAILAND, VIETNAM and KOREA!

Representing.....The MALDIVES and The PHILLIPINES!

Representing.....HOLLAND, ENGLAND and ISRAEL!

Representing......NEW ZEALAND!

Representing.....CANADA and SAMOA!

Micah from Room 4 with his lovely basket of home grown produce

Hanan with his little sister Florence

Later, we paraded down the street in a procession filled with the colours of the many costumes and flags.

After morning tea we watched a concert together. There were dances, martial arts displays, a Korean Drum dance, singing, piano playing and a Japanese drum group.

Afterwards, we shared a delicious lunch consisting of food from different cultures.

In the afternoon, we took part in activities such as Calligraphy, Origami, South African games and Samoan dancing.

We started off with simple origami patterns and moved onto harder ones

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Camp Photos

Some photos have been posted of our camp at Wainui. Check them out on the "Camp" page.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Our Brilliant Brains!!

A brain with a brain tumor above the brain stem

Today Dr Pip Tremewan came to talk to us about brains. We learned about what each of the 4 lobes of the brain are responsible for, what the cerebellum and the brain stem do and how the brain receives messages from the nerve cells located in various parts of the body.

Amazingly, we got to see specimens of real human brains including one that had a blood clot inside it and one that had a brain tumor above the brain stem. We even got to feel a real pig's brain to find out the texture of a brain!!

A brain showing a blood clot

Mika and Hanan putting the plastic model of the brain together

Touching a pig's brain - they don't smell too good

Levi and George examining the specimen


	We are making "thinking caps" to help us remember the parts of the brain and what the functions of each lobe are for.

We discovered that the frontal lobe is the biggest in humans because of how much we think in comparison to animals.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

2013!

Welcome back to school for 2013 everyone!

This term is going to be busy and exciting.

Welcome to Mrs Dudley who will be teaching in Room 3 on a Friday.

A little reminder to keep looking at the blog. We are going to Wainui Camp from February 18th to the 20th which is in week 3 of Term 1. Make sure you read the "Camp 2013" page under "Pages" on the right side of the blog. We will be having a gear check in week 2!

Another page worthwhile reading is the "Homework" page. This explains the minimum expectations for children's homework in the senior school. Any valuable, interesting links to topics/subjects being studied at school by the children will also be under "Pages".

And, on a final note...