ABCya! literacy and maths games

ABCya! is a fantastic website powered by Disney with games and activities designed for children at certain ages. The literacy and maths games are especially great and very relevant to our learning here at school. We are going to be using this site as part of our maths and literacy program in Room 3 so have a look at home too and see what great things you can find!

Burger Day!

World Wildlife Foundation

In Room 3 we were curious about the other endangered animals from other parts of the world so, we did a bit of searching on the internet to find out more. We came across a great website from the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) that has lists of the different animals, as well as fun facts and games. We would love you to check it out, we think it's pretty fantastic!

Click here to visit the WWF website.

Our learning about deforestation

Yesterday Room 3 talked about deforestation. Deforestation is where a large forest is cleared by bulldozers. People clear forests to make room for cities and for timber. To find this out we brainstormed our ideas. The poor animals that live in the forests don't stand a chance against the bulldozers! 12 million hectares of forest get cut down every year. This causes the extinction of 50,000 species of plants, animals and insects each year. Learning this made us feel extremely upset and angry! We are glad that in New Zealand we protect our native bush and animals.

 We watched this You Tube clip to learn more.

   

Thank you for watching, if you have an idea about how we could take action, post your comment below.

Wall Wisher

Symmetry

Over the last few weeks Room 3 have been learning all about geometry including everything to do with 2D and 3D shapes and symmetry. As part part of our learning about symmetry we learnt about how a line of symmetry can run horizontally, vertically or be oblique. To test out our new knowledge we took some crazy symmetrical photos of ourselves - check them out!!