Rimu 3 hanging out!

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Making & Writing

Rimu 3 have been thinking about writing instructions. So over the past week we have been making Chinese New Year Fish Flyers, and writing the steps down as we complete them. Here are some of our flyers, and we'll post the instructions once we've published them. Then you can have a go yourself at home!



























Friday, 2 November 2012

What do we celebrate in Rimu 3?

Christmas, Easter
Eid
Children's Sunday Family Reunions
 Birthdays
 
Weddings


Awesome celebrations around the world

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is a celebration to celebrate New Year in China. It is the most important festival in China. It is celebrated in the Chinese spring in January/February. People in China and all over the world celebrate Chinese New Year. It is also celebrated in New Zealand.    
                                 
Chinese New Year celebrates good luck. Chinese have special traditions during Chinese New Year. They celebrate with Chinese writing on banners. They eat dumplings and moon cake. On Chinese New Year children get treats and money in small red and gold bags. On the last night they make paper lanterns and have a lantern festival. 
 
by Keegan and Chantelle

 Diwali- Festival of Lights

Diwali is a Indian and Hindu celebration it is celebrated with oil candles and fireworks. It is called Festival of the Lights. It is celebrated in between October and November. Diwali represents the light overcoming darkness and good vs evil. There is dancing and music and food. They use lights and fireworks to scare off the darkness and evil spirits.
They have tradition food  from India and sometimes they wear saris. For decorations they use oil lamps called diye. People celebrate with family and friends. There is a Diwali festival in Wellington.  Here's a link to the Wellington festival. 

 
 By Ella and Lara

Friday, 28 September 2012

CONGRATULATIONS RIMU 3
YOU WERE AWESOME!
 
So it's over! But you did SO well, we are really proud of you.
 
A few pics of your WONDERFUL performance to make you smile.
 





 
 
We also need to say a HUGE thank you to those of you that came and helped get us on stage! Making and pinning the costumes, putting hair up, applying make up and generally making sure everyone looked fantastic.
 
THANK YOU
and have a great break.

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Sunny Weather Maths

Well it seems that we are finally seeing some good weather, so Rimu 3 decided to make the most of it with some outside Maths today. Here’s what we’ve been up to.


In Rimu 3 we have been learning about directions and what way is anticlockwise, clockwise, quarter of a turn, whole turn, left and right. Mrs Lewis and Mrs Goh made a trail out of chalk. We had to have a blind fold over our eyes (or just close them!) and we had a buddy who told us to go left, right, anticlockwise, clockwise, quarter of a turn, half a turn and a whole turn. It was pretty hard cause most people got muddled up. Written by Madeleine Alosio

In Rimu 3, for Maths we have been learning about directions. We have learnt some direction words and had some fun outside. We used a trail of chalk, got a partner and told them what way to go.

The words we learnt and found out what they mean were…

Clockwise – Turning right
Anticlockwise – Turning Left
Full turn – Spinning around completely
½ turn – ½ a full turn so you are facing the other way
¼ turn – Just ¼ of a full turn!
These words were helpful to us when we did our trail.
Written by Erana Ngarimu