Term 3 in Room 12

Term 3

The holidays are over so we are welcomed by TERM 3. This term we are continuing our focus on science but this time instead of Chemistry we are doing the Living World and The Physical World. In The Living World we will learn about plants, animals and the environment and in The Physical World we will learn about things like electricity, forces and motion. This term we are also having a science fair, and no there aren't any merry go rounds. The science fair is when students pick their own science investigation that they present to there peers and whanau. The Olympics is coming up as well so to celebrate we are having TWO Olympics days. Everybody gets put into 16 whanau groups. A whanau group is a group that includes two students from every class. Each whanau group gets a country. On the first Olympics day the whanau groups get together and make a symbol to represent their country, some item of uniform they all have, a flag and everyone has to be able to say hello in their countries language. On the second day there is a opening ceremony where all the whanau groups march in and listen to speeches from the Queen (Our Principle Mrs Woollard) and the Chair Person (Senior Team leader Mr Ballantyne). Then the Jump Jam crew show us a performance. They do dances to Chocolatte and the new song Ruamoko. Jump Jam leader Kate says "The song Chocolatte is really energetic and Ruamoko brings us back to our Maori culture."After that the representative from each country comes up, shows the flag and says hello in their language. NOW THE GAMES BEGIN! By that I mean that we are also going to have Olympic Games. At the moment I am not sure what events we are having but last time we did this there was discus throw, equestrian (two people running through a course like a horse) and running race.
By Amberleigh