The Bridge Challenge - 2018 Manaiakalani film festival

In term three we studied structures. In room three our main structural focus was bridges. After finding out lots of information about the different types of bridges and there purpose our teacher set us three challenges. This movie shows us taking part in these challenges. 

We learnt a lot, not only about bridges but the importance of planning, working together and how sometimes however hard we try to achieve the goal it just doesn't work. 

 In our movie we had a newspaper bridge challenge. We referred back to what we had learnt about the structures of bridges and how the triangle shape makes a strong bridge. After planning a great design we discovered that although the bridge looked great on paper the real life bridge itself was not so great and shortly after filming our bridge collapsed. We believe this is when we learn the most.

Certificate of the Week

This weeks certificate was "for having an Amazing start "to the new term. The winner of room 3 was Tonga. Here he is with his certificate.

Matching number to items counted

This week the circles maths group were learning to count the correct number of bears or cubes to match the numeral given. They did a fantastic job! Here they are counting and matching.

Amazing writers

After being away from school during the holidays it sometimes takes a little while to get going again. This was not the case for Densyn and Nita as they produced their best writing of the year in class yesterday.

Treat day

It is the end of term three and we have been working very hard.

Our teacher is very proud of us and all the learning that we have

Achieved this term so we had treat day!

We had to make and prepare everything we had. Below are pictures

Of us making fruit kebabs. They were yum!

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Bridge Silhouette

Yesterday as part of out topic on structures we had to paint a bridge silhouette. We had the choice of one bridge that would need to fill the whole paper or we could fold our paper into 4ths and draw a different bridge in each section. Here are our results.

My name is Keira and I chose to paint a silhouette of one bridge. It took a long time, all day!!

But I am very happy with how it looks.

Hi I am Ailima. I chose to fold my paper into 4ths and make 4 different bridges.

It was very tricky to make the water and the sky around my bridges. It took ALL DAY!

I love my picture and I’m taking it home for my mum.

Hi I am Lucas. My bridge has lights on the top for the cars to see.

I had lots of fun painting and drawing my bridge.

Hi I am David. I was the first to Finnish my picture. I was good at adding 

Detail to my picture with the small paint brush. I like my picture.

Shapes

In room 3 we have been looking at the attributes of a shape. For example corner, angle, side. We then had to use shapes to make a robot and record the shapes that we had used. Here are a few of our robots.

Domino Addition

In Room 3 today we found a fun way to do addition. We used dominoes. Here we are learning how to add 2 numbers together.

1. Choose a domino

2. Count how many dots in each square

3. Draw the dots on our domino

4. Write the equation underneath 

5. Count up all the dots

6. Write your answer to the equation

Building Bridges part One

This term we are looking at structures and in Room 3 our main focus is:

How bridges are made and the features that make them good for there job.

In small groups we were set a challenge of making a bridge. Each group had a different material to make their bridge. We had 30 minutes of discussing and planning before having to share our bridge.

The criteria:

• Must be able to stand without assistance
• Must be able to push the little yellow toy car along the bridge

We then discussed what worked and what didn't and what we would change the next time we were challenged with building a bridge.

                                              Team A - material wooden blocks

                                               Team B - material paper

                                             Team C - material lego

For our first time we we're pleased with our results but we are looking forward to trying again and  using our new ideas to make them better.

We are hoping to make a movie at the end of the term to show you what we have learnt over the term.

Successes in Room 3

Here are our champion readers in Room 3. At the top we have David who has just completed reading recovery and below we have Yavi who received the certificate for showing excellence in reading.

Next we have Sisilia who is always caring and thinking of others. Followed by Tonga and Brooke for displaying a good attitude to learning and finally we have Unique who was chosen as the role model of the week by our Kiwican leaders Mr Matt and Miss Lilly.