Week 5

This week, Room 20 and 21 had their school trip to the Auckland Museum.
Room 20's favourite room was the volcano room because it was shaking. Room 20's second favourite was the war memorial because in there were old fashioned objects that we had never seen before.We can't wait until the next school trip.

Week Four

This week Room 20 did lots of exciting things.

The highlight of the week was our Year 3 assembly!

We also did cross country at College Rifles. Room 20 did exceptionally well. We had several people in the top 10 for boys and girls.  Well done to Tegan, Lilly, Alicia, Matthew and Joshua. Sheppard was the winning house with the most points. The teachers looked silly dressed up in fluorescent colours pretending to be from the 1980's!

We have been learning a lot about electrical circuits. We know how to draw a circuit diagram and make it with brainbox.

Year 3 Assembly

We have our assembly next Friday 23rd August! We are going to explain the Scientific Method to the school. Please practice the rap we have been learning in class.

Check it out here... The Scientific Method Rap.

You can also have a play learning more about Galileo (Kate shared about him in class earlier in the week).

Galileo drops ball, virtual experiment.

Have a great weekend!

Static Electricity

Take a look at this video to learn more about static electricity..

Static Electricity

Check out this link to roll a can with static electricity... Science Bob.

Try an experiment to test this out...

Static Electricity Experiment

They say opposites attract and that couldn't be truer with these fun static electricity experiments. Find out about positively and negatively charged particles using a few basic items, can you control if they will be attracted or unattracted to each other?

What you'll need:

• 2 inflated balloons with string attached
• Your hair
• Aluminium can
• Woollen fabric 

Instructions:

1. Rub the 2 balloons one by one against the woollen fabric, then try moving the balloons together, do they want to or are they unattracted to each other?
2. Rub 1 of the balloons back and forth on your hair then slowly it pull it away, ask someone nearby what they can see or if there's nobody else around try looking in a mirror.
3. Put the aluminium can on its side on a table, after rubbing the balloon on your hair again hold the balloon close to the can and watch as it rolls towards it, slowly move the balloon away from the can and it will follow.

What's happening?

Rubbing the balloons against the woollen fabric or your hair creates static electricity. This involves negatively charged particles (electrons) jumping to positively charged objects. When you rub the balloons against your hair or the fabric they become negatively charged, they have taken some of the electrons from the hair/fabric and left them positively charged. 

They say opposites attract and that is certainly the case in these experiments, your positively charged hair is attracted to the negatively charged balloon and starts to rise up to meet it. This is similar to the aluminium can which is drawn to the negatively charged balloon as the area near it becomes positively charged, once again opposites attract.

In the first experiment both the balloons were negatively charged after rubbing them against the woollen fabric, because of this they were unattracted to each other.

Hot and Cold Holidays

Hi guys,

We missed Tegan and Ruby as they were both away last week.

Ruby was relaxing in Fiji and getting her hair braided.

 

Check out what Tegan got up to... here!

Day One, Term 3!!!

We had a busy day in Room 20. Everyone was back and ready to get into their learning.

We learnt about Van Gogh and his art, and a little bit about his life. We discovered that his art developed over time - from looking dark and gloomy, to bright and with clear brush strokes.

The Potato Eaters, 1885

Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase, 1888

 You can read more about him here... Van Gogh Information.

This is a great website for you to check out to find out more... Van Gogh Museum  Click here to have some fun... Make a diorama.

We also started thinking about our new topic - "DISCOVERY". We learned about the concept of "I see", "I think", "I wonder". We watched a short video clip and had a go at thinking deeply about what it was all about... Watch it again here. We came up with some great thoughts and will be looking at many more interesting clips to get us thinking throughout the term.

In maths we looked at division and fractions, and we began Roald Dahl's book Matilda in reading. We are looking at Roald Dahl this term, so we all got together and made a display on the wall for our work. Today we looked at how Dahl uses interesting words to describe his characters. We discussed how he gave us a really good impression of how "The Trunchbull" moves, sounds, and treats children. We all had a very clear image in our mind of what she would look like. We want to be able to describe characters in our own writing like this!

In week 3 we will have some visitors to the school. We need to practice their national anthem. Click on this link to learn and practice it! Australian National Anthem.

All in all we had a great first day and are very much looking forward to what the rest of the term brings...

Year 3 Movie Premiere

We have been learning about the NZ Long Fin Eel. To share our learning we decided to make some movies. Please watch our movies and the other Year 3 movies by clicking here....Year 3 Movies

We had a movie premiere at Selwyn College. It was great fun to dress up, walk on the red carpet and watch our movies on the big screen in a proper theatre.

Check out Room 20 - winners of the best documentary and best overall film! Congratulations!!!