The big earthquake!!

Just reasently there has been a big earthquake in christquake.The rectascale of the earthquake was about 7.1. There has been lots of after shocks,some people that dont live in christchurch felt the earthquake. room 3 sent some flat stantley and letters to Halswell school because some of the there classrooms had been destroyed.

From HedChl and JohReg

World Teachers Day!

We have been celebrating World Teachers Day !

This is the day when teachers take a break and the kids teach.
We have been having loads of fun teaching maths, Scratch (which is a computer program) and other fantastic activites!

Forensic Science Writing

  Hello I am Barash and I am Nobjam we have breaking news tonight. A famous singer  known as Peeday is the victim. Who is the suspect? She was last seen at a pub on Monday night.  Her body was found at 2.00 am in the morning. Her parents found her with a bullet in  her chest in a alleyway. Room 3 scientists were investigating who the suspect was. C.j the rapper will be sent to court  tomorrow morning with room 3 scientists explaining the evidence  that they found . That is all for tonight folks.

This story is by:

Nobjam, Barash, Peeday and Merjak.

Stuffed Creatures

In Room3 we are making stuffed toys for Christmas presents for our family.
We have been designing our stuffed creatures for the last two weeks.
The skill we have been learning are to hand sew.This is an example  of a designed stuffed toy.

This design is by DeaNas

Senior Syndicate Athletics

We have been practising long jump, high jump, sprints, shot put, cricket ball throw and 800 metre run every Tuesday afternoon. This is to train for our athletics day in a few weeks. some of the top athletes will be going to inter schools to compete in their strongest event against the best from other local schools.

By: LimOli, GorCol, OneCod, HilSam

Room3s blog comes to life again

Room3 is committed to adding at least 4 blog posts a week.
Our posts will have words and pictures and will explain clearly what we are doing and learning.
We will include a title and labels.

Report Writing Lorax

Here in room 3 we have been doing lots different  genres of writing  like report writing  here is my example. The Bar-Fish-Swan is a member of the Lorax family The Lorax is Bar-Fish-Swan cousin. It goes from a body shape to have small wings  it takes about 4 months for Bar-fish-swan to learn how to fly. After Bar-fish-swan (Ebinandrewus) get it`s wings then it becomes a fully grown adult in just 5 years.

Bar-fish-swan diet is made up of mostly leafs of truffula trees and berries. Bar-fish-swan eats a lot of other things like grass and bugs.

This creature is manily found in the north island of  New Zealand were the truffula trees are. Scientists will not find this creature out of cover because it is prey of  lots of animals like Spiky Horns and Tangeld Jelly.

Bar-fish-swan has a big bushy beard , wings and golden coloured skin.

I think this creature will make a great pet.

By IsaAnd

Welcome back

Hi Everyone and welcome back to term 4, 2010! We have had an awesome term so far, we have been doing some fun activities like sports and production also lots of different things as well. Here is another very cool thing room 3 has been doing some of the year
6's have been doing restyle a.k.a wearable arts Their costume looks very cool. Everyone in room 3 have been enjoying the Lorax
writing and having a great time. At the moment we are doing persuasive and everyone is doing a good job!

Biggles the School Mascot

Our school has an awesome mascot called Biggles the Cat! Biggles is a small kitten with white, fluffy fur with a black tipped tail. Biggles often walks into different classrooms to see what the kids are learning. He is very loved and alot of people adore him. Here are some awesome photos of our mascot.(Photos by HilSam)

By WhaAly

Dear Diary

I am sad, very sad because the water is polluted and very smeary.

I hope I find some fresh water, some day and not a glumpy muddy pond by the thneed store where the once-ler is making thneeds that every one everyone needs.

I will search and search for a clean pond.

I am getting very hungry and very mad because we have to walk on our very weary fins.

I am getting worried very worried because we are alone with nothing to eat and our gills are very gummed.

I found a pond that is not really smeary and not muddy.

By PedMax

Fantastic Writing!!

By DeaNas

Dear Diary,

I'm really miserable because I have to leave my home because it is filled up with
  mucky mud that the old hideous Oncler made and left.I don't know where I'll
go but I'll keep my hope's up and I hope my new home is cleaner than my old
one. I think I'll go to Lake Taupo! That's my favourite place to be because that's
 where all my mate's are and its the biggest lake in New Zealand. I hope one day
 I can return to my old home when the pond is cleaner than ever, and the sky is as
blue as Lake Taupo.

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By PoiDan

Mr Big Head is a fancy man. The Year 1 children discovered Mr Big Head underground
 when they were digging in the sandpit. Usually these creatures live in the deep woods
 because they are scared of light, and land  creatures such as cows. Mr Big Head is a
 friendly man and likes to eat the children's scraps such as chips, cookies but be careful
because Mr Big Head is allergic to sushi. Mr Big Head uses his head to move large stones
 and uses his big leg and hands to dig. Mr Big Head is nocturnal so digging for so digging
for Worms

Glenview School's 2010 World Vision 20hr Famine

Some Students at Glenview School have participated in the 20hr Famine! It was very exciting day for the lot of them!
On Friday night, some of the 20hr Famine children had a sleepover in the School Library. They were occupied with movies, books,computers and even board games!
Other children that did not paticipate had a chance to tribute a small donation to the coin trail!

OneCod was one of the kids at the sleepover!

This is what he has to say:

The sleepover was absoloutly fantastic.
We learnt about people in Zambia and how they don't have fresh water or food just like we do. It was really interesting!
But the most aching thing about the sleepover was our backs on the hard, library ground!

Daring Diary Writing

Dear diary,

I'm so sad along with all the other Humming fish.

Today's the day we leave the pond in Truffula land,

because the greedy old Onceler is too smug to care about the fog taking over the pond.

 But we must act fast for the fog is getting thicker and it is biggering, and the smoke is coming.

I'm not looking  forward to this dreary future. Oh, this very day, the first of May is so sad.

Why, oh, why does it have  to be today of all days? We're all sad and we feel very very bad.

 Why today of all days?

By LimOli

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Dear Diary,

Ohhhh that day, that sad,sad day, we were happily playing in the clear flowing water,

when we attached some pipes, some big, some smaller. Out came the water that looked

like clay and the Onceler said....
"You will no longer play, starting from today. I am making

Thneeds and the Thneeds must stay. My buisness is special, more special than you.

So just go, thats all you have to do. You must leave right now, because the people must

say WOW!  Well this is my pond and if you don't get out, I'll use my special wand!" thats

what he shouted.
It was extremely cruel because he turned the pond into a stinky brown

 pool. It was horrifyingly scary and dreary and weary but mostly ERIE! But now we're

 living far, far away, where the Onceler has nothing to say. We live in a fresh clean pond

where ther is no Onceler and his special wand. But the place where we used to live was

a disgrace, and now we live in a SPECIAL CLEAN PLACE!

By PhiJes

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Dear Diary,

I enjoyed living here, under the shade off the Trufflla Trees. In our Bar-ba-loot suits we

 played, then the mean old Onceler came along. He smacked, hacked and chopped

our trees down. So there was not enough Truffula fruit to go round! No crummies in my tummy!

“Oh! Help us please Lorax!”
“Tell that Onceler man, to leave our trees alone”

Wednesday 2 June..

Dear Dairy….

Us the poor Bar-ba-loot bears, the Lorax sent us off. My tummy rumbled and grumbled.

I was so angry and mad at that Onceler man, him! Where will we go? I don’t hopefully know.

So off we went. Waving, goodbye.

By HilSam

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Dear diary 

I enjoyed living here under the shade of the Truffula trees. In our Bar ba - loot suits we played.,

then the mean old Onceler came along. He smacked, hacked and chopped down our trees,

so there was not enough truffula fruit to go a

around! No crummies in my tummy!

" Oh help us please Lorax! Tell the old Onceler man to leave us alone.

Us, the poor Bar- ba- loot bears were sent away.My tummy rumbled and grumbled.

I was so angry and mad at that Onceler man, him! Where will we go?  

 I don't hopefully know. So of we went waving, Goodbye.

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Medieval Helmet

Medieval Helmet

by Dunhar (with a little help from Dad)
Photos by Dunhar

Last Friday we had an amazing demonstration by some medieval actors.A helmet just like the ones knights would have worn during the Crusades.
First we found pictures of a few helmets we liked and decided on one:

Dad measured my head and cut a blank of steel.

Dad has a machine called a VibroShear that makes a dome shape in the steel, but it doesn't go deep enough.

So he used a tucking fork to shrink the edge.

He put a large iron head on the stake, heated the tucks, and flattened them with a wooden mallet.

Then he used a bossing mallet and block. A block is just an old tree stump, but they have been used for hundreds of years for making armour.

A wheeling machine was used to smooth out the lumps.

More steel was cut and rolled for the front and back pieces.

The edges were stretched in the wheeling machine so they curved out.

The sharp edges of the steel were folded over on the stake.

All the parts were riveted together.

Dad drilled holes in the front part.

Finally it was cleaned with Scotchbrite and coated with Gibbs Brand Lubricant.

Finished!

Options

Every Wednesday afternoon Rooms 1,2,3,4 and 5 do options. Basically, options are when you can do lots of things like drilling, wood work, crazy painting, cool programs, loud music and artistic clay. In painting we have been doing portraits and in clay we have been making pots.

We hope you like our story.

By BarAsh and NobJam

Here are some pictures of the things we do...

Scratch work

To See Our Work Go To This Website...
http://glenview3.yolasite.com/

Scratch is a program which you can make games or even cartoon videos! We use it to learn how to do computer programing!  On this site there are piano pieces, princess games and much more. We also work with some researchers from the Waikato University who are researching how children learn in maths on scratch, along with Room 4.

Published by MasDom and Whaaly

GROOVY RECOUNTS!

In Term 1 we wrote recounts about our most memorable time at camp! I really wanted to get some up on the blog to share. Hope you enjoy them!  

The Kauri Walk by GORCOL

The glaring sun barely made a twinge of light in the dark damp forest. An icy cold river lay stunningly beautiful and stupendously fast flowing before us. We bravely decided to get across by a rope. Carefully we clambered across the stream, one by one clinging onto the rope. Suddenly it was my turn. My heart skipped as I dipped my feet nervously into the freezing cold water. I manoeuvred my feet into the gaps in the rocks ."Low and slow", "Low and slow" played through my mind as I crossed. With one more leap I was across! A wave of triumph swept through my body.

Sqwilch, sqwelch, sqwilch, sqwelch went our shoes as we trudged along the track!


Hula By BarAsh

I felt so excited like it was my birthday and I was opening presents! Mayala, NobJam and WalMih approached the stage. Everyone was silent like sleeping cats. NobJam said " We're going to start with Mr Preddy!" He looked around and in his head I bet he thought "Me, you mean me?" He got up onto the stage and everyone was cheering ! We started singing the hula song while Mrs Nobilo was playing the tune on her guitar. Everyone was singing  "Thats the way Mr Preddy does the hula" over and over again!

Mayala announced  that all camp parents have to come up and do the hula, but all the men did the haka like confident rugby players, while the women looked beautiful doing the hula! It was a funny and hilarious night for everybody at that one special camp!

Published By WhaAly

Swimming sports!

Last week the senior syndicate went to swimming sports! 
There were awesome events like freestyle,breaststroke, backstroke, flutter-board, relays and much,much more. 


But when it came to speed our "secret weapon" LimOli kicked in and blitzed!
We had a lot  of other really great swimmers in our class too, that had very amazing successes!

LimOli won backstroke, the year 6's came 3rd in the relay and much more!

Lots of people made the interschools like NobJam, LimOli and PerSha!Awesome aye!

By GorCol

Cross Country Poem

On your marks, Get set..............GO!

Wind blowing my long dark hair, racers running everywhere
1st, 2nd,3rd, then 4th and up coming the lucky 5th.
Getting tired and getting puffed, and at the end you've had enough!
But it was worth every single trace, I'm very glad I  finished the race.
By WhaAly

The Rest of My Holiday

I am sitting in Dubhai airport on the way back home to New Zealand. We have a 4 hour wait here, then a 15 hour flight to Sydney, then 3 hours back to New Zealand. It takes about 30 hours in total!

From Montenegro, we went to Croatia. Mostly we travelled along the beautiful coastline - the water is the most amazing blue colour, and very very clear. I even had a swim (but it was FREEZING). We visited lots of medieval walled towns, which were fascinating. The biggest was Dubrovnik. Here is a picture of it:

There are lots of shops and restaurants and houses now inside the walls, so it is a living place. We walked right round the walls (about 2 km). They are very thick and very high, with hundreds of stairs, and many towers. Interestingly, Dubrovnik was attacked in the 1990's by the Yugoslav Army, and much damage was done to the walls, but the people have fixed them all up again and they have done a great job. You can see how much protection these medieval walls give to the people inside.

From Croatia, we spent one day driving to Mostar in Bosnia. Another country which has suffered wars quite recently, and you could see damage in the walls of buildings from all the shelling. Mostar has a very beautiful bridge, which got bombed, and has also been fixed up now.

The most incredibly beautiful place I have seen on the whole trip has to be Plitvice Lakes in Croatia. It was a long drive to get there, but it was amazing! We walked for about 5 hours, along tracks and boardwalks which went over and around waterfalls, for about 6 lakes and maybe 100 waterfalls! Bears and wolves live in this area too, but we didnt see any, though we saw some caves that looked like a good place for a bear to live. Look:

This is a map of the area, showing the lakes and where the falls are (called SLAP in Croatian).

Most of the boardwalks had no handrails. Luckily this one did, as we had to walk OVER this waterfall!

Can you see the people walking on the boadwalk in the far distance of this cave?

It is impossible to show you just how beautiful this place was, but it was incredible!

From Croatia we went to Slovenia (another of the old Yugoslavian countries). We did two very different things in Slovenia. Firstly we went in the MOST SCARY but amazing cave I have ever seen! It was enormous, and we had to go on a guided tour. We walked down and down and down to the cave entrance, then walked through the cave, sometimes on narrow little pathways on the sides of cliffs (with good fences thank goodness), and had to cross a little bridge 45 m (measure it - it was HIGH) across a raging underground river and waterfall. After all that downhill, I was very pleased to discover there was a lift to take us back up again!

The second thing we did was visit Lipica - the town where the Lippizaner horse breed was developed over 4 hundred years ago! These horses are nearly all grey (white), and are very good at performing difficult movements above the ground that used to be used in battle when battles were fought on horseback.

On our way back to Germany, we went to a salt mine in Austria. Again we went deep underground to see how salt was mined. We had to wear white suits like the Oompaloompas in the Willy Wonka movie, and travelled on little trains, and slides, and walked, and went on a boat on an underground lake! We even crossed the border underground into Germany and back again.

Once we were back in Germany, the weather got very very cold, but we didnt mind. Now we are on our way back to New Zealand, and on Tuesday I will be back in class with all of you again!

Albania

From Greece, we drove to Albania, a country that had been under communist rule until about 15 years ago. That meant that nobody could visit the country, and nobody could leave it. Now that Albania is democratic (which means that the people can vote for a government), it also means that tourists can visit. Albania was a very interesting country to visit. It is developing very fast, as better roads are being built, and people are changing the sorts of jobs they do. It has a very beautiful coastline with amazing beaches, that are just starting to get set up for people to come and stay. Some of the roads are still terrible, with large potholes, and slips which have not been cleared away. This made interesting driving for us!

The methods of transport were amazing. Some country people still used a donkey and cart as their main transport, and they would drive this in to town to buy things. The next group of people had tractors, and they would take these into town, and some people had cars – Mercedes mostly! Not many people were allowed to have cars when Albania was under communist rule. So in towns, it was not unusual to see tractors, donkeys, cars, horses all tied up on the sides of the roads! They all shared the roads together. Most country people also had a cow or a small herd of sheep or goats, but because they had no fences, one person in the family had to take the animal/s out to graze each day and sit and watch them so they didn’t run away. The sheep looked much better trained than most sheep I see in New Zealand!

This lady was right in town. She has her little donkey with a very big cart, and her cow tied on the back, going out to work in the fields for the day.

The landscape was quite changing, from flat to hilly to rocky, but right through Albania there were round concrete bunkers – safe places where people could hide if they were under attack from other countries. The man who designed the bunkers was asked if they would be strong enough to keep people safe from bombing shells, and he said yes, so he was made to go inside one while they bombed it, and when he survived, the communist party bought lots and put them all over the country!

Montenegro

In the 1990’s, the country that used to be known as Yugoslavia, had many changes, including wars, and now forms many new countries – including Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Slovenia. From Albania we went to Montenegro, the country with the wolves! We drove up a huge mountain in a national park, right to the snow, as at the top of the mountain was a mausoleum – a burial place/tomb for one of the important founding people of Montenegro. Montenegro means black mountain, which is the mountain we were on, that the country took its name from. Unfortunately, about 1.5 km from the summit, the road was undrivable, because snow covered it, so we had to (very carefully) turn the camper around, and park for a while, and walk the rest of the way. We saw no sign of wolves (or bears), but I imagine they come out more at the night time, rather than during the day.

This GPS photo shows one of the VERY windy zig zag roads we had to go on to get down an enormous mountain. Here is the view from the top:

We also visited a spectacular lake in Montenegro called Skadar – a lake that has water that reaches 30 degrees celcius in the summer, while the air temperature is 40 degrees. I was very pleased we were there in the spring time!