Enthusiastic 3 rulz !

I wonder what students in Enthusiastic Three have been doing?

In Enthusiastic Three, students has been making some rain gauges because in class we have been learning about measurements.

This is how  we made them!!!

First we needed the materials.

This is what we needed…

a recycled plastic,tape,scissors and water.

We chopped the plastic bottle about 2/3 of the way up.

We flipped the top third of the bottle and tape the two pieces of the bottle together to make it steady.

Our bottle has an uneven bottom [like coke], so we filled the bottle until the bottle it is even.

Once we had done that we marked the
bottle with a vivid one cm apart. We had to remember to start where we filled the bottle with water.

We put it on a roof and we waited for it to rain.

The variables we had to watch out for were…
The place you placed it,
The the wind so it doesn’t get blown over,
The vivid markings might not be very accurate,
Check the false bottom,
The time you put it outside,
The season you put it out at,
The size of the bottle,
The dents on the bottle,
and much more!!!

Here is one review!!!

Our rain gauge was outside, on a roof for about 23 hours. The water level of our rain gauge went up about 3.2 cm. There was more rain in the rain gauge than  I expected. I wonder why there is bird poo in our rain gauge?
There was alot of dead ants in other people’s rain gauges but there are only one ant in our one, maybe it’s because that the bottle we used was not sweet,[like coke]the bottle we used was H2GO PUMP.

We used our clever thinking to reflect on the Rugby World Cup

Positive/Plus – The All Blacks won the World Cup.

Richie McCaw played his 100th test match.

We were undefeated.

Minus – The tickets were too expensive.

The All Blacks did not play in Palmerston North.

Interesting – The Irish won against Australia.

Suggestions – The rugby matches should have been on TV earlier.

It would of been good to take a rain jacket.

It is better to watch the Rugby World Cup games on TV because you got to see all areas of the game.

This term we are doing little businesses. We need to get in to a group 2-4. In our group we need to make a products  to sell to people. We get loaned $15 to spend to make our products. We need to pay it back plus 5o cents interest.  We are selling our products in week 7 in the hall.

In Enthusiastic 3 we have been learning about height,width and length.We first went outside with measuring equipment  to explore the school by measuring some things around the school like the big sand pit.The width was 5.95cm the length was 8.3cm and the height was 40cm but just the base.We also did some measuring with our buddy class but it was wet so most of us stay indoors.Some people went into the library to do some measuring there.We learn lots so did our buddy class.

Wow! What a great start to the Term.  The All Blacks are the best in the world.  We are an amazing nation of people because we all supported them.  We had a cool time last term learning about the different countries that were competing in the Rugby World Cup.

We are excited this term because we need to be getting organised for our Little Businesses.  There is lots of learning, planning, organising and then the fantastic selling will happen on our Market Day, 8 December.

We have an athletics focus this term.  We will learn new skills and our champions will represent us at the interschool athletics sports.

Sadly, we farewell our Year 6′s to intermediates.  But when we look at what amazing students they are we can feel proud and joyful!

Peggy Passion  In room 3 we are making  Peggy Square blankets. We have just finished Japan’s blanket and Christchurches blanket is on it’s way. Lots of us are still knitting ‘knitting for fun and starting to learn crochet. We are really having fun.

Enthusiastic 3 have been busy knitting for a whole term and The Tribune came to write about us and take photos! Shannen’s mum and dad forwarded us this photo which wasn’t included in the published article. You guys have been amazing learning new skills and persevering. Tino pai! Our blankets will be well received by people in Christchurch and Japan. Keep up the great work!

On Tuesday the 9th of August 2011 we had Ross Intermediate School Principal came to school.  His name was Mr Codyre. He had two people from Hokowhitu School last year and their names were Myah and Tarewa and they had a speech ready for the year 6s in the library.  It was cool and awesome!

On the 9th of August  the principal of Ross Intermediate came to school. With him was Mya and Tarewa they talked about Ross Intermediate. Mr Codyre told the year 6s lots of interesting things such as what there is at Ross Intermediate and about the choice awards. He also told us about the information packs. The packs are really awesome because it looks like a laptop there are also laptop classes you get a choice if you are in a laptop class or not.        IT IS REALLY COOL AND FUN….    BY KAYLIN AND AIMEE -LEE

Welcome back to Term 3! We hope you had a good holiday. Today we are celebrating Hiroshima Day. On Friday we are going to make a thousand paper cranes as a symbol of hope and peace. As you know, Japan had earthquakes and a tsunami so we will bring gold coins to give to the relief fund to help the Japanese people. Also Intermediate schools are coming to school. Also on Tuesday we started Gym. There are four activities and we have to work around each of the activities. On Monday our teacher, Mrs Handcock told us that we are doing an activity about Rugby World Cup. We are all very excited about that. Mathex is going to be later this month. We’re hoping to win again. Thanks for reading!

Enthusiastic 3 have been busy knitting for a whole term and The Tribune came to write about us and take photos! Shannen’s mum and dad forwarded us this photo which wasn’t included in the published article. You guys have been amazing learning new skills and persevering. Tino pai! Our blankets will be well received by people in Christchurch and Japan. Keep up the great work!

Hi, welcome back to week two of term two. In Enthusiastic Three we have been working on digital games but before we make the game we have to do alot of learning about digital games. We will keep up the great work and we will keep you updated.We have been learning how to knit and our goal is to make a peggy square blanket to send to Christchurch and Japan. We hope we accomplish our goal. Nearly every day in Enthusiastic Three, we have been practising for the cross country by running around the whole school field. To some of us it was easy but to some of us it was tough.

The questions we are thinking about are…

What makes a great digital game?

What makes a great peggy square blanket?

What makes a great habitat for creature?

On the 5 April Eddie a drummer from Ghana came to Hokowhitu School. Eddie plays all kinds of drums and he plays an African xylophone and a rocket drum.  He performed very well.  He played all kinds of beats and he had rhythm.  We also played a game with him and we danced.  Some children got up with him and they played some instruments.  Eddie was a very talented drummer.  He made us laugh.  We wanted to hear him play for the whole day if we could.  Since then we have been learning to drum and keep the beat.  Yesterday we learnt to write and read musical notation.

by Dayah and Kaylin