A Strip of Arrowtown Landscape Art

For art some of us have been working on A Strip of Arrowtown Landscapes. We had to include what was important to us, and to Arrowtown. We used pastels and dye. Here are the first ones that are finished.

 

Year 3 Writing

Room 6, 7 and 5 get together to do writing on Thursdays. Here we are working collaboratively with our buddies. We are writing letters to The Onceler from" The Lorax" to giver our opinion on what he is doing to the environment.

 

 

Happy Easter!!

Year 3 have been looking at patterns in Maths.
Room 5 made patterns to create beautiful Easter Eggs that we turned into cards to give someone special at Easter.

Patterns

People are stick weaving

patterns

 Today the year 3s are learning to make patterns. 

Look at Tiara and Harpe doing Lego.

Look at Tallulah and Lucia doing origami.

Look at Alaska's amazing work. 

Holly's done some excellent work.

Holly's done a great design.

Look at Harvey's great design.

Learning to use google docs

Some of use have been focusing on the poem called "My Robot". We decided to create our own robots  to introduce ourselves to Google Drawings. We are learning how to make shapes, copy and paste, enlarge, re-position and colour. Check out some of the robots, and other pictures we have created.

Emily's Awesome Robot.

Olivia, by Mika



Loki's Robot



Dom's Domnator



Fireworks, by Flynn

Arrowtown School Kapa Haka NZ Open Welcome Party, Arrowtown 2016

It was great to see so many of the Year 3 children supporting the Senior Kapa Haka at the NZ Open Welcome Party. We have got so many Year 3 children in the junior Kapa Haka, so watching the performance was very inspirational.
If you missed the performance you can see it here.

Pattern are awesome

On Friday all the year 3 children worked on our pattern activities. We were the blogger reporters. Isla made a beautiful patern. Can you see it?

Eve made a grat pattern.

Matisse is a good sewer. She is making a sewing pattern..

This is a good pattern.

Good

Good

Good

Nice.

Awesome!

Year 3 pattern activity stations

 

Albie is playing a number pattern game.

Some children made bead patterns.

People are making kliko.

People are making paint patterns.

People are making lego patterns.

People are playing hour of code.

People are making stick weaving patterns.

People are playing the xylophone .they made music patterns.

Kiwi Friendship Song

At syndicate assembly Room 5 sang us a song. We are all going to learn it for next time.

Kiwi Friendship Song

Tena koutou, Haere Mai

We are kiwis saying Hi!

Kei te pehea koe to you,

We’re kapai, hope you are too.

With a…

tahi, rua, toru, wha

Come along,

sing along with our song.

Chorus

Aotearoa we are proud

We’re the land of the long white cloud.

We’re all black with kiwi pride,

Silver Fern is at our side.

Now it’s time to say goodbye,

Ka kite ano, hi and bye.

We’ll be friends from this time on,

Come and sing our friendship song.

With a one, two, three, four

Come on sing along with our song.

Chorus

Repeat

Now it’s time….

CHOICE!

Year 3 Pattern Exploration.

Today all the Year 3's got together to start our Maths topic- patterns. We explored different patterns around the school. We didn't realise that there were so many.