Goodbye Ethan and Brooklyn we will miss you!

Sadly today we say goodbye and good luck to Ethan and Brooklyn. We hope you enjoy the new adventures ahead of you and we look forward to hearing all about them.

Let's Celebrate!

This weeks certificates go to....

Ask Me About

WOW, what a busy final week of term we have had in T3R.  Please ask me about...

• Printmaking of our spooky houses
• Term 1 reflections
• Mindfulness and mindfulness colouring in
• LHS students
• Number of the week
• Whole School Assembly
• Crusaders Visit - Weetbix and Posters
• Turbo Touch
• ANZAC Poems
• ANZAC writing

Turbo Touch

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about a new game called Turbo Touch. The name says it all - the game is very fast! It's a lot like touch but the main differences are you can pass in any direction and use the players on the sides to pass to also. We have had a lot of fun learning this new game.

Whanau Hui Certificates

Congratulations to the students who got certificates at Whanau Hui time today.  Keep up the great work.

Ask me About

• Quadblogging
• Let Me Think
• Enrichment Day
• Whanau Hui 
• Writing - Similes / Goals
• Maths 
• Mindfulness
• Art - Spooky House
• Photo Story
• LHS Sport
• Turbo Touch

Quad blogging with Ponsonby Primary

Today we looked at our first quadblogging school. Quadblogging is when you belong to a group of  schools and regularly look at each other's blogs and make comments. This allows us to connect with other 6, 7 and 8 year old learners around New Zealand. We have been talking about what we need to do on our blog in order for the other schools to have a better understanding of Lincoln Primary School. Today we learnt about Ponsonby Primary, we found things that were similar and things that are different.

Mindfulness

Today in T3R some of our students were given the opportunity to have a mindfulness session with Erika and Johanna from My Mindful Mover.  We learnt some techniques on how to focus ourselves even when it's a bit hectic around us.  The techniques included breathing, visualisation and yoga.  We will be practicing using these skills in class and teaching others how to be mindful.
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Reading Week 10

This week I am going to be exploring bees, crocodiles, crabs  and frogs depending on which group I am reading with.  I might come home with some interesting and cool facts about the animals in my text. We are going to be learning about some graphic organisers to help us record our learning.  Mrs Newcombe and Miss Taylor will put them onto the blog.  Please ask me about my learning.

Shrek's Superstars - Before and After Web

Mighty Minions and Gru's Group - KWL

Marty's Maniacs - KWL

Welcome Quadblogging Buddies to T3R

T3R is the short  name for Team 3 Red.  We are a group of 40 Year 2-3 students.  Our teachers names are Miss Taylor and Mrs Newcombe and sometimes Mrs Ellis and Mr Nicol.  We are also lucky enough to have Isobel, Mrs Boniface and Mrs Martin to help us at different times during the day.  We all go to Lincoln Primary School which is approximately 30 minutes from Christchurch City and have around 500 students from Years 1-8.
T3R is a awesome place to learn because we:

• Have Let me Think - a programme to help us develop our thinking.
• Are kete (bucket)fillers 
• Use SOLO to help our learning
• Have our Lincoln School HEROES and Powers
• Have lots of learning challenges
• Do lots of art
• Have DEAR (Drop Everything And Read)
• Do sport with Year 13's from Lincoln High School ( They are right next door)
• Having lots of different sporting opportunities
• Have Enrichment Day on a Friday.  We are able to choose different activities like dance, mandarin, jump jam, choir, coding and chess.
• Are a Bronze Enviroschool and are working towards Silver
• Have school houses called Rimu, Kowhai, Matai and Totara.
• Have 2 pools to practice our swimming skills in.