Room+3

Term 2 Life is Choice__**
 * __Room 3 Inquiry Journey

Our journey this term revolves around the 'Keeping Ourselves Safe' Theme and incorporates the idea of making the right choices that make us and others safe within an environment or community.

The children in Room 3 practised our knowledge and skills when dealing with situations like being lost and perhaps being followed. We also discussed safe people and safe places. Then we identified different touch, nice touch, touch that hurts and touch that confuses us. The children were brilliant and already knew the difference between these and so I hope have learnt some ways in how to deal with them. Our last part of this KOS programme was learning, naming and using correct names for the body. At first this was not taken seriously, but after discussing with the children how important and powerful it is for a child to be able to say the correct name for parts of their body, they understood. The game to reinforce this was 'Simon says'. Great game, great fun, lots learnt!




 * __Term 3 - Change makes the World Go Round.__**

I said to the class that I wanted us to keep within the boundaries of New Zealand, this keeps it real and purposeful. We discussed New Zealand wildlife and I believed that we would be researching Native birds from the outcome of our discussions. I read stories that would ignite interest and promote thinking in this area. However, the children were very knowledgable when we brainstormed and it was soon very apparant that our Inquiry would lead us down a few paths.

After some more discussions, the children came up with some great questions. They were set in the context of New Zealand and ranged from birds to frogs to plants. So...we are off! The children have chosen which question they want to be apart of and we will soon begin our exploration into data retrieval.