Room 13 have been writing narratives this term.  We have been using pic collage to create title pages for our published narratives.  First we looked at book covers to see the lay out.  We looked carefully to see where the title, picture and author's details went.  We discussed what the term illustrator meant.  here are some of our title pages.

Volcano

We had fun making a volcano for our science.  For the second experiment we added dishwashing liquid to see if  it would change the outcome.

Money matters

Term 3 Concept: Financial Capability - ‘Money Matters’

Next term the whole school concept has a Social Science & Maths focus and links to developing financial capability from an early age.

The key understanding the children will develop is that financial planning matters as it influences future choices and possibilities.  The driving question, ‘how can we be smart with our money?’ will allow the children to explore the following aspects of money at an appropriate level.

• Money
• Spending
• Credit & Debt
• Saving & investing
• Income & taxation
• Budgeting & Financial management
• Setting goals
• Identifying & managing risk
• Rights & responsibilities

The children will develop and understanding of the value of money and the concept of “The Three S’s” (saving, spending and sharing). Through “The Three S’s” the children will learn that it is important to save a third of their earning, spend a third and share a third.  The sharing could be within the family, local community or wider community, e.g. charities, church.

Change.

For Science we are studying change.  We looked at change in our lives and predicted what we would like to do when we grow up.

Popplet apps

here is  some reading work done on the iPad.

Pukeko Hunt

We are drawing and painting pukekos for our calendar art.  Before we started we went on a Pukeko hunt to see if there were any in our school!