Sunday 3 February 2013

Welcome to 2013!


I am extremely excited for a brand new year full of new learning, creating and sharing. This year, Room 12 consists of 27 brilliant year 3 students. They will be updating the blog often with news and photos, so make sure you come back and visit again soon!

Monday 15 October 2012

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to another awesome term of learning in room 12! I hope that you all had a super holiday and are ready to fill your brains with lots more knowledge. A special welcome to Ethan and Izaiah who have joined our class :)

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Poetry Recital

Over the past few weeks we have been busy practising reciting our poems aloud. We had a class poetry recital and we all did a fantastic job- Miss O'Brien was very proud!
Trisan and Sonya were selected as the finalists to enter the Middle School Poetry Competition. They both showed lots of courage to stand up and recite their poems in front of heaps of children, parents and teachers. The standard of all the finalists was very high, the judges had a really tough job deciding on the placings. Trisan was fortunate enough to win the year 3 competition- Congratulations!






Monday 10 September 2012

Water Survival Lessons

We love going to swimming lessons at Lloyd Elsmore Pools. Last week we learnt all about survival skills in the water

Gymnastics

Congratulations to Daniel K in our class who won 1st place overall in the Howick Interschool Gymnastics Competition. He also came 3rd in the year 3 boys team event. He now gets to go to the Auckland Interschool Championships- Good luck Daniel, we are proud of you!

Tulip Poems

Spring is in the air! We decided to write creative poems about tulips, let us know what you think!

Spring Tulips
Colourful tulips
dancing back and forth
Oval, bright colours
like a rainbow in the sky.
Soft, sweet petals
flying high and low
singing happily
in the breeze.
By Livingstone





Monday 27 August 2012

Bats

We have been learning to write information reports. We hope you enjoy reading our reports about bats.

Species 
Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
Habitat 
Bats live in caves and trees.
 Appearance 
 Bats have five toes, long fingers, stretchy skin and small eyes. Fruit bats have large eyes.
 Behaviour
Fruit bats like eating fruit and nectar from flowers.Vampire bats like drinking animal blood by biting their victims with their fangs. Most bats fly at night using echolocation.
By Keshav, Gurmehar and Daniel K

Species 
Bats are mammals and they are warm blooded.
Habitat 
Bats live in caves and on roof tops of buildings. They live in Australia and Asia and more countries.
Appearance 
Bats have toes on their feet. They have small eyes and tails. Bats are covered with fur thats grey or black.
Behaviour 
Vampire bats suck blood. They sleep in the daytime and come out at night that is called being nocturnal. They also hibernate that means they sleeps through winter.
 By Jerry and David
                                                                                                                            
SPECIES
Bats are mammals.
HABITAT
Bats live in hollow trees,roofs of buildings and caves
BEHAVIOR
Bats are nocturnal that means they sleep at day and are awake at night. Some eat fruit and drink nectar but vampire buts don't they drink blood.
APPEARANCE
Bats have five toes on the end of their feet.Their body is covered in grey or brown fur and their tongue is as red as blood.
By Ashley and Desmond

Species 
Bats are the only mammals that can fly.
Habitat 
Bats like to live in the dark places such as hollow trees and caves or inside roofs. Insect eating bats can be found in Australia, South America, North America and Europe.
Appearance 
Vampire bats have fangs to suck blood. All bats have soft wings. Baby bats have pink skins but adult bats have fur that is brown or grey. Bats have five toes on each of their very small feet. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Most bats have small eyes but fruit bats have large eyes.
Behavior
Bats are nocturnal animals which means  they are awake at night. Vampire bats drink blood. vampire bats use their wings to walk on the ground.
By Angelique and Sonya


Species
Bats are mammals.Some species of are vampire bats and fruit bats.

Habitats
Bats live in dark places.Female bats live in maternity caves to lay eggs.

Appearance
Bats have five toes and very small feet.Most bats have small eyes but fruit bats have very large eyes.Some bats have tails.Bats are dull brown or grey.Their wings look like hands with long fingers.

Behavior
Bats migrate to warmer places during winter.Bats are nocturnal.Bats are the only mammals that csn fly.Most bats rest upside down.
By Trisan Huynh & Daniel Toms

Monday 13 August 2012

Zoo Trip

On Tuesday 7 August we visited Auckland Zoo to take part in the Zoolympics. We had an awesome day seeing how we measure up against different animals.