Royal Visit

Today many Halcombe children went to Feilding to try and catch a glimpse of Prince Charles and Camilla. Azi from Room 3 was one of the lucky children who was waiting in Manchester Square to see the Royal couple and she was dressed in her finest hoping to meet them.

This snap was taken by the Manawatu Standard: Princesses in Waiting

Kitchen Chemistry: Experiment One

Experiment One: The Lunchbox

Imagine if you left your lunchbox, with left over food in it, somewhere for a whole week!! Imagine in your lunchbox there was a sandwich, some strawberries and a half eaten apple! They look yummy to start with, but how would they look after 2 days, 5 days, 7 days - how about after 2 weeks!?

To investigate changes in food Room 3 left a sandwich, some strawberries and a bitten apple out for 2 weeks. We predicted what we thought would happen, then we observed the changes and took notes and then researched to explain the changes.

Have a look at what happened....

Halcombe School Disco

Thank you to the Student Council for putting on such an awesome disco for us on Friday! We had a great time dancing and doing the limbo, and the glow sticks we such an epic idea! THANK YOU!!

It's Disco time...

Cross-Country 2012

After many weeks of hard training, Halcombe School ran the cross-country on Friday. Everyone did a great job running up and down the hills, through the creek, as well as the bog and the prickle patch! Congratulations to everyone who competed and a special well done to all those who placed in their race. Good luck to those children who are competing in the inter-school cross-country at Hunterville on Friday.

Pet Day 2012

Halcombe School's Pet Day was held on Tuesday 22 October and it was a day filled with wonderful pets, competition and creativity.

Room 3 either bought a champion pet or decorated a farmer's hat as part of the indoor exhibits. Congratulations to everyone that either competed in the pet day or made a farmer's hat.

Have a look at some of the photos from the day below:

Inventions update!

Room 3 is now well into the second week of inventing their wet lunchtime activity, things are ticking along nicely and most groups are now into the modification and testing stages.

The Problem:

During spring there are many wet lunchtimes and in Room 3 there is not enough activities that can be played by a group inside.

The Brief:

Design a wet lunchtime activity that can be played by a group. It needs to be portable and be easily unpacked and packed away.

The Groups:

Group One is inventing two race tracks where cars have to speed past obstacles to reach the finish line first.

Group Two is inventing an Angry Birds inspired game where you must blast your Angry Bird out of a volcano to hit stars, and collect points, avoiding the dangerous dragons!

Group Three is inventing the 'Tigers and Monkeys' board game where tigers and monkeys have to race through the jungle to get away from the evil poachers!

Group Four is inventing the 'Army Training' game where players practice their aim shooting stars for points.

Group Five is inventing a dance mat where dancers can practice their moves to the latest hits!

Hotdog lunches!

Student Council donation

The Halcombe School Student Council has been looking for a worthy cause to make a donation to and decided to donate to the Palmerston North Rescue Helicopter.

The Team really appreciated the donation and wrote us this lovely note!

Room 3's Tech Challenge

Over the last week Room 3 have been spending their afternoons completing a tech challenge! The instructions seemed simple....

But this task was anything but simple! We needed to plan, design, build, test and evaluate, rebuild, test and evaluate and then share.

It was a big job but we all create a unique and creative chair that fit the needs of Baby Bear!

Tech Challenge: Baby Bear's Birthday Chair on PhotoPeach

 

Daffodil Day

On Friday, Room 3 and all of Halcombe School got into the spirit of Daffodil Day by wearing yellow and donating to the Cancer Society.

Our bright yellow outfits and a beautiful sunny day made for a perfect parade  and we also raised a record amount for the Cancer Society!!

Inventions

Room 3 has had a great time working on our inventions inquiry over the last two weeks! So far we have learnt about who can be inventor, what amazing inventions have been created over time and have started thinking about what processes an inventor goes through.

For writing this week we have been designing and building Technics car and then writing a procedure on how to build the car for a buddy. We have really had to think carefully about how much detail we add to our procedure and have had to make so many changes so that our instructions were simple, but still really clear!

Check out the photos of us making our car and writing our procedures.

Daffodil Day 2012

Maths Trail for Maths Week

To celebrate Maths Week on Monday Room 3 and Room 4 joined forces to complete a maths trail. We had a blast finding the answers around the school to the problems that clever Miss Campbell wrote for us! 

Some of the questions we had a answer were:

• Which classroom is closer to the flagpole? Room 3 or Room 5?
• How many number sentences can you make out of Mrs Lynch's number plate?
• Who has more windows for Mr Martin to wash? The senior team or the junior team?

Check out some of the photos from our maths trail below!

NZ Maths Week

Congratulations Team NZ

Well the Olympics are all over but New Zealand has a lot to celebrate with an impressive haul of 13 medals!! Of course 6 of those are gold!

In Room 3 we think that our New Zealand Olympians are epic and we are very proud! GO TEAM NZ!!

Team New Zealand update

Congratulations Team New Zealand on two Bronze medals - one in the Equestrian 3 Day Event and the other in the Women's Double Sculls.

Check out the photos below showing our proud Olympians with their medals.

Wheels Day

Halcombe School Quiz Night

Olympics: London 2012

In the lead up to and during the 30th Olympic Games in London, Room 3 will be learning about everything Olympics!

Key ideas for us will be about:

• the history and importance of the Olympic Games
• how to support and encourage our New Olympians
• about persistence, motivation, passion and achievement
• about great New Zealand sports people and role models

Before we get back to school and get stuck into our learning, I have a little thinking challenge for you all...

What sports do you know of that are in the Olympics?

Post all your ideas as a comment below, but make sure you read the other comments and post something new!

Lets see how many sports we can think of!