Room Three is a class of twenty one year 2 children. We live in Oakura which is a fifteen minute drive from New Plymouth. Our school is close to Mount Taranki and also right by the sea so we like to use our environment as much as possible. We hope you enjoy our work in progress.

This morning we were amazed to see a beautiful rainbow as we travelled to school.

Rainbow
Red is the colour of the flaming dragon blowing out fire.
Orange is the colour of a sparkling monarch butterfly.
Yellow is the colour of a gleaming safety jacket.
Green is the colour of a cactus gleaming in the hot sun.
Blue is the colour of the sparkling ocean shining in the sun.
Indigo is the colour of deep dark caves.
Violet is the colour of the shiny cutter in room three.

By Mack

Rainbow

Red is the colour of a beautiful ruby gleaming in the sun.
Orange is the colour of a pretty monarch butterfly flying  from flower to flower.
Yellow is the colour of a sour lemon off a tree.
Green is the colour of a waving fern blowing in the wind.
Blue is the colour of a dainty bluebell in the garden.
Indigo is the colour of a yummy tasty plum.
Violet is the colour of a beautiful flower.

By Ruby

Koru The Kiwi

Cecile,Wendy and Koru came to visit our school. We had a water safety competition and some children received prizes. Lots of children had hugs and high fives from Koru. We can't wait until next swimming season.

Kereru

Ruby and her Dad have been looking after a Kereru which banged into their window and damaged it's wing. The good news is the kereru is all better and has flown back to his home in the forest. We were really lucky to see a kereru in our classroom.

Gymnastics Fun

We have been having lots of fun at the New Plymouth School of Gymnastics learning to jump, balance,forward and backward roll and walk along the high beam.It's been really good for our hand eye coordination.

Taranaki Has The Shield

Wonderful news!
Taranaki won the Ranfurly Shield and now we can keep it all summer.
Hunter's Dad brought it to our classroom for us all to have a hold.

GYMNASTICS

Room 3 has been enjoying their visits to New Plymouth School of Gymnastics.
Aren't we great!

SNOW !

THE EXCITING DAY

What a snowtastic morning! When I woke up there was crunchy munchy snow up on the Kaitake Ranges. I played on the tramp and Fletcher bounced tramp to tramp. It snowed 40 years ago in Oakura and it snowed today! At my house I had jack frost come to visit my house. I hope snow comes to my house again.

Brodie


SNOW DAY

We had a snow drift at our house. Hayley and I had a snow fight. Our tables were covered in snow. It is the first time I have seen snow at our house. When I woke up snow was on the roof. It was the funniest snow day ever.

Connor


VERY, VERY, VERY FUN

What fun! In the morning I dressed very warm and I went outside. I saw little flaky things blowing throught the air. It was snowing! I ran around and I noticed that if you step on snow it disappears. Snow is very fun!

James


THE EXCITING DAY

How fun! White little puffy balls floating down from the sky. Me and Scarlett ate the snow. I got some ice on the letter boxes. My Dad looked in the mail boxes to find it. The cars were covered in snow. The snow felt cold. I like snow!

Ellie


THE SNOWY DAY

What a big surprise! In the morning there was lots of funny white drops of water coming down from the sky. Then I realised what it was, it was snow! Then it got even heavier and heavier! Doris my dog was outside then she came inside, and went into her bed. The snow was soft, crunchy and light. I had a super morning.

Jago

Apples

How exciting!
We had surprise visitors Ken and Anna from More FM. Someone told them we deserved a box of apples. Thankyou to our secret friend. The apples were super crunchy.

Kelly Sports Commonwealth Games

Yipee! We're off to the Commonwealth Games! Yesterday on our back field we competed in lots of amazing games.

Our favourite game was tug-of-war! Heave! Pull! We tried to pull the sock over to our hockey stick. Ouch! Splat! we all fell over in a big heap! Ow! It was hard on my hands. That was a super day. Phew! Now we can have a drink.

Olivia

Primary Colours

We have been learning about the primary colours - red, yellow, and blue.

The class has written some poems.

What is Yellow?

Yellow like the beautiful sun shining in your eyes.
Yellow like the cutest duckling eating off your hand.
Yellow like the flaming warm fire sitting in your house.
Yellow like a shooting star racing through the sky.
I don't like yellow.

Toby


What is Red?

Red is a bright maple leaf on a Canadian tree.
Red is a hot burning fire.
Red is a stop sign that warns us to stop.
Red is a shiny sweet apple.
Red makes me feel hot.

Angela


What is Blue?

Blue is the colour of a blueberry, it is my favourite food.
Blue is the colour of your lips when you are in the snow.
Blue is the sea when I swim in the waves.
Blue is the colour of our chairs at school.

Jodie

What is Yellow?

Yellow is the sun out in the morning.
Yellow is the happy big moon in the sky.
Yellow is a beautiful sunflower in the grass.
Yellow is a juicy, squeezy lemon.
I love yellow.

Grace B

Pyre The Marmotte

Mrs Johnson went to the Pyrenees in France and bought back a marmotte. What is a marmotte? It is a mountain mouse who lives high in the mountains and feeds on grasses and plants. During winter they hibernate.
Room 3 have had a competition to name our marmotte. The winner was Oliver!
We are going to have turns taking Pyre home and showing him all the wonderful sights around Oakura.



Pyre has a book about his adventures in Room 3. Feel free to come in and see all the photos of Pyres' adventures with the children of room 3.


Edward and Pyre

First we went to a garden and we had a walk. There were beautiful and exotic flowers in the gardens. We had lunch and went on another walk and saw some goldfish. After that we went to the zoo and saw the lions and the rabbits. We saw a cockatoo that kept talking to us. We had another walk in a garden then had an icecream. When we got home Pyre and I watched a movie and then we had dinner and showed Pyre some fireworks. The fireworks shot up like angels, they were beautiful. Then we went to bed.
It was great to have Pyre for the weekend



Pyre and Olivia in Napier

"We're here Pyre." Pyre and I rushed inside to see what our bedroom looked like. Sally and Gordon showed us where it was. Then we went outside again, unpacked our bags and went to get fish and chips for dinner. I had chicken nuggets and ginger beer.

The next day I woke up and jumped into the shower. "Phew wee, that water smells like rotten potatoes!" We got dressed and went down to breakfast, yum, bacon, cereal and toast. Then Sally showed me her garden. There were roses, and little white English flowers that smelled very nice. I found tiny pink roses and the we found Sally's cat Spice. Spice was playing with the neighbours black cat. Spice jumped into all the flowers and squashed them. I went inside and played with Spice and their other cat Sugar.

The next day I went in the car for an adventure. We took lots of photos of Pyre.

When we were on our way to Napier I went into an icecream shop with Pyre. We took a photo and I had icecream on my nose. I purposely put icecream on my nose. Then we went back into the car.

When we left town we went to the park. Pyre had to be carried with my Mum. The we went to my Dad's friend Mike's house.

I like Napier

Olivia

Welcome Richie!

Welcome Richie!
Richie, the All Black's captain came to Oakura School. We had a great time listening to him and playing rugby.