Adventure Room, 2018

My name is Katherine Murphy and I am excited to say that I am the teacher this year in Adventure Room. We are made up of 21 Year 3 and 4 students.

​We have had another busy term here in Adventure Room. Our term began with speech writing and presenting – a first for many students! We focused on writing persuasive speeches, and had a few students earn placings at the Morrinsville Speech Competition. Well done!

Our school wide focus for the term has been the Social Sciences, so Adventure Room have been learning about water. Our unit ‘Water is Life’ has helped students to understand the role that clean water and sanitation plays in their lives, and other children around the world.
Students have come to understand that clean water and sanitation are not automatically
provided for everyone around the world, and the scary reality is that millions of children around the world don’t have access to clean water and sanitation. This learning became a
reality for us when there was a problem with our own water supply at school in Week Six! A lot of our literacy learning has centred on water this term as a result of our inquiry.

Book Week has been an exciting event this term and definitely a highlight for Adventure Room. We had a fun-filled week of reading-related activities, including a treasure hunt, trivia quiz, character dress-up, Stu Duval visit, buddy reading, and of course the Book Fair. Students showed a lot of enthusiasm towards all of the events, and worked well in their teams to
compete in challenges.
 

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Term 2 was a very busy term in Adventure Room. Some of our highlights included:

- Practising our singing and dance for the school production.
- Making our costumes for the production.
- Training for cross country - some of us went through to the district cross country as well.
- Participating in the mud run in the middle of winter!
- Learning about recycling.
- Visiting the Life Education van and Harold.
- Taking part in Rugby / Netball Fun Day in Morrinsville.
- Learning new skills in the Basketball Fun Day.
- Improving our basic facts.
- Using EPIC reading app.
- Using our PR1ME books to practise our mathematics.

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Term One Butterfly Creek Visit

On Monday we went up to Butterfly Creek in Auckland to build on their learning about bugs and insects this term.
“It was a fun trip. I loved walking through the butterfly house and having all the butterflies landing on me. I learnt that butterflies like to have a warm environment. We got to see a Tarantula which was huge, furry and very cool.” – Star
“I really enjoyed seeing how big the Moa was. We got to see a live Giant Weta and I learnt that Wetas are important in the bush as they help fertilize the plants.” – Georgia
“I liked seeing the fish, they were colourful and were funny to watch. My favourite part of the day was when the Weta did a poop on the floor – it was really funny.” - Liam
 

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