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 We are the Room 6 Tui and we are looking forward to taking viewers on a journey of our learning as the year goes on. Room 6 are a wonderful team of learners and we have 2 teachers to help guide the way this year. Mrs Bredenbeck is in the class Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Miss Dodd is in the class Thursday and Friday.

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= Merry Christmas to everyone in the tui family........hope you have a great Christmas and happy holiday season = = =

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Well here we are, back to work hard and enjoy another busy term. Miss Dodd is back in Room 6 on Thursdays and Fridays and Mrs Bredenbeck will be in the class Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ======


Check out the Art page to see some of our fabulous work from Term 3. Also you will be able to view our work at our Art Exhibition in Week 3.

**Welcome to the Room 6 Tui Wiki page for Term 3!! There are some changes in our class for the term.

Mrs Bredenbeck will still be hanging about in Room 6 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Mrs Bam will be replacing Miss Dodd for the term and she will be in the class Thursday and Friday. Welcome Mrs Bam!!

Miss Dodd will become a Pukeko for the term which is very exciting, remember, Miss Dodd will still be a member of the Tui so remeber to say 'Hi'!**

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 Please keep checking our class wiki for snippets of our learning journey. Term 3 2009 We have a busy term ahead of us, and with the senior school putting on their production this term, we are heading down the learning path of 'Entertainment'. We will be working on Visual Art which will be exciting, so watch this space for the masterpieces that will unfold!!

Entertainment is an exciting inquiry. We have been discussing art as a form of communication and we have discovered that one form of communication through art is creating a picture that tells a story.

We have been creating some fantastic Koru art. We began by experimenting with shape and colour. Next we used the Koru to create a story about ourselves and our families.

Once Mrs Bredenbeck becomes at one with technology she will enter photos of the learning journey we have gone through so far.

For the next couple of weeks we will be looking at artists. Room 6 are beginning with Van Gogh, focusing on the artists popular painting 'Starry Night' We will be doing an art swap with the Wings team where other artists will be explored also.

= Term 2 2009 = = Welcome back to all out tui and tui families for another busy term at school. = = This term the Wings team are focusing on inventors and inventions. The Room6 tui are going to be focusing on transport. = = Our BIG QUESTION is " How has transport had an effect upon our lives?" = = We will be investigating how we used to travel around before modern engines were invented and how inventors have continued to change and improve transport to make it better. = = The Wings team have had some fabulous visitors at school recently. Sarah an ex pupil came along with her pony and gig, Bryce, a friend of the school flew in and landed his helicopter on the school field and delighted us by taking 3 lucky children and 3 even luckier teachers for a ride around Te Awamutu. We also had some digging machines working at school and the men very kindly spoke to us about these machines.......and there's MORE to come!!! = = = = =

**?????????????????** Wow have we had some great visitors bringing in their machinery and inventions............this week we had a local motorbike company Wilksbrookes....bring in some motorcross bikes for us to look at. Thanks Ilana and Mark .....and little Brooke.

Pekerau School also had some very entertaining visitors this week...... the Flaming Phoenix Entertainment group... from Hebei Acrobatic school in China. These are children who attend a special acrobatic and magic school who have come to New Zealand to learn English and to entertain people, practising their skills. The children begin learning their tricks and skills at 5 Years old. The youngest performer we saw was 9 yrs old with several children between 9 and 13 yrs. They were fabulous and our children were fascinated and spellbound by the performance.

This week was Room6tui's school assembly......it was out turn to host assembly. We shared information about the butterfly study from Term 1 and some information about inventions, transport and bikes. We even introduced everyone to the latest motorbike invention....The Triple Wheeled Sprocket Rocket!!!!....... =** BMX Champion **=

Some of our R6 girls went to Room 2 today to interview Rebecca Petch. Becs is NZ #1 in her age group for BMX and is off to Adelaide to compete in the World Championships.This is what the interview sounded like. media type="file" key="VOICE012.WAV" width="300" height="50"

= Term 1 =

=__ Diary of a Monarch Butterfly __= Room 6 Tui have begun observing the changes that a caterpillar goes through on its way to becoming a Monarch butterfly.Miss Dodd brought in some swan plant leaves with tiny eggs laid on them. We watched as the eggs hatched, the caterpillars were tiny at first but grew bigger and bigger as they ate more and more. These photos were taken on Wednesday 18 February.We have 2 chrysalis and LOTS of caterpillars!!!!




 * It is now March and we have hatched out many Monarch Butterflies already.........but we still have heaps of caterpillars....Miss Dodd brings swan plant leaves to school every day to feed our VERY HUNGRY caterpillars..................**

 media type="custom" key="3422836" Room6 tui are currently working on Powerpoint presentations to show their learning about the Monarch Butterfly life cycle............watch this space! Lucy's powerpoint Arnica's powerpoint Taylin's powerpoint Josh's powerpoint

= Year 3 camping day =



On Thursday we all worked together to put up the school's tents. We had to use all the key competencies...Thinking, Relating to Others, Managing Self, Participating and Contributing and ..Understanding language symbols and text. We used the competencies to help us think about how to put up the tents, working together as a team, joining in, taking turns and listening to instructions. We had a great day .......we loved being in the tents and we played games, ate sausages, toasted marshmallows and had FUN!!!**
 * While our Year 4 classmates were at Whakamaru camp we decided to have a camp day for the Year 3's.