Week 2 Term 2

This is the second week of term two.

By Micky

Update

Hello welcome to Matatoki's own Room 3 2012.

We haven't updated in a few weeks but we still have our blog going strong and many volunteers from this classroom are always willing to get a new post up on the website for you.

                                                                                                                                                                       

Breaking News!!!!!!

We interrupt this blog to bring you some important information.

On Friday The 4th of May There will be a disco for kids aged preschool to 13 years old.
It starts at 6PM and ends at 9PM Three awesome hours for the kids to dance and have fun. Entry fee of two Dollars and the are drinks, chocolate and Chippies for two dollars. SPOT PRIZES available.
It is at the Matatoki School Hall.
Be There Be There Be There!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                                                                                                                                  

In room three we are gaining computer skills by trying to type faster without talking so to do this we are given a piece of paper with words on it then we have 15 mins to type it up and then we write how many words we typed on a sheet.

                                                                                                                                                                  

   In class we have made koru Color wheels the first color is Purple, second is Blue, third is Green, fourth is Yellow, fifth is Orange, sixth is Pink, seventh is Red and the middle is whatever color you want it to be.
                                                                                                                                                                  

In class we have been making up Alliterations here are some examples;

Very Vicious Volunteer Vendors Vacated and Violated V's, Vowels, and Vats of Vomit Violently Very fast Very Very Vain of the Very Vicious Volunteer Vendors.

Solitary sober sleeping serpents slaughtered a sculpture of seven silly seahorses and seventy seven seagulls, suddenly six stupid scientists with Schizophrenia slammed several sliding doors simultaneously.

Zany zebras zapping Zulus in Zambia's zoo.

                                                                                                                                                                  

By Micky :)

    

Butterfly art and Tessellations

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Two weeks ago we made butterfly art with our hands first we painted patterns in our hands then we pressed our hands on a piece of paper four times after we finished the wings we painted the body of the butterfly then we put textures on this is what our hand looked like (up top)this is the finished pictures plus our tessellation :) (Under the top three photos )

Micky :)

Alpaca Competition!

My family own the cheese barn just down the road from Matatoki School, two weeks ago a baby Alpaca was born at the cheese barn. We decided to have an Alpaca naming competition. We had lots of entries, but only one person can win!The winner was a little girl called Zoe, she was from Matatoki School. The name she chose was PONCHO!

By Holly

Life Cycle

In class we have been learning about the Life Cycles of different animals. Here are our diagrams and an interesting fact about our animal.

A Hyena laughs like a person- Ethan.

 Axolotls have no eye lids -Sebastian

 The Angel Fish gets special spots on its belly as it grows older- Holly.

 The Pygmy Marmoset is the smallest monkey in the world-Holly

 The lemur have 6 sharp teeth sticking out of their bottom jaw -Aria.

 The cheetah is the fastest animal in the world Matt.

 The stripes of the tiger blends in to the jungle floor- Slade

 If a Tarantula bites a human its more like a bee sting then a spider bite- Sam.

Colossal squad have claws on their tenticals Kyron.

The lynx is heavily hunted- Bree.

The Hunger Games

In class we have be reading a book " The Hunger Games" written by Suzanne Collins. Tomorrow night we are going as a class to watch the movie. Is a very creative, thrilling book and every chapter leaves you in suspense, and the whole class screaming to read more! I would definitely recommend to all.

By Bryanna

Trolley Derby Day

Grey Power was successful in some ways, because Grey Power bought back to school  the Jack Wells trophy for the best homemade trolley and prizes for its team.Cam,(head of design) said "It was a good project to do during morning/afternoon interval,for something to do and it also gave us a goal which had to be completed within a certain time frame to  have it done by 10th of March.Cameron head of design, Matt and Kyron co workers and our painters we all had a great success in building the trolley, it really was great.Our number plate really stood out and it was ND 4 SPD.