The Breath Holding Competion

On the 18th of February 2014 rm 3 had a breath holding Competition.  We did it in the school pool.

Dougie and Robyn made it to the end.  The rest of us reached half way or a little bit further. If your head came up to the surface you had to stop there and stay in your spot and go to the side of the pool.   
Breath Holding Competition on PhotoPeach

 

Jayden's Bio Poem

Dougie's Bio Poem

Salomi's Bio Poem

Namar's Bio Poem

Sean's Bio Poem

Jason's Bio Poem

Arial's Bio Poem

Shreya's Bio Poem

Bio Poem by Kyle

Isobel's Bio Poem

Check This Out Everyone!

We got a view from California 

Room 3s blog got a view from Mountain View, Calafornia while Miss Lister was checking the blog.She said "Guys look we got a view from California" We were suprised. We were also amazed.It made us feel famous.

IF THIS WAS YOU... COMMENT SAYING, "HI HPS"

Aqua's bio poem

In  room  3  we   were   learning   how  to  write   a  bio  poem.  This    is   the  bio  poem  I   made.

Blake's Fotobabble for his Bio Poem

Bio Poem by Lukas

Anthony's Bio Poem

Rayne's Bio Poem Fotobabble

Natalia's Bio Poem

Natalia's Bio Poem

I have just tried out Fotobabble and I did it on my very own Bio Poem about myself. This is my Bio Poem about myself.  Please click on the link to watch it.

My New BMX Bike!

On the 20th of February me and my family went to Bike Barn and got a new BMX bike.  But the Bike Barn counter man said that we have to get my Redline BMX Bike next week on Tuesday and then I'll be alright for the rest of the next 10 years hopefully. And I'm testing it out is well after school and we have to pick it up then were taking it to Lloyd Elsmore BMX track to test it out.  Ok time to get to the description, it is a USA crossed BMX bike.  The crossed bike is a jumping/racing so it will be cool at the BMX track.

By Jason

Round Robin Sports

Senior School and Montessori have round robin sports every Friday at 2.15pm.  Room 3 have two teams called Strikers and Southern Storm.  There are two teams per class, every teacher has a summer sport that they chose and the sports are touch, non stop cricket, long run and softball.  Also every child in the senior school and montessori have to wear P.E. gear.  You can have no shoes or you can wear sports shoes.

Each Teacher will pick a player of the day for good sportsmanship and great skills.  Good sportsmanship means to encourage your teammates, be supportive, helpful and be fair.  You have to do all of these things to get a team with loads of good sportsmanship players.  If it rains we don't do any sports but we do go into the hall to do an activity about something so we don't get bored.  So we get to do something every Friday.

By Luke, Sean and Dougie.

Show and Tell

Today we found out we are doing a topic that helps us to be brave so when it comes to speeches we are not afraid to share our speech. We are in groups of four five and six we have to present or share a resent event or a item.

E.g 

What they did in the weekend

What they saw on the news 

Do a skit 

And more 

We will do it every afternoon after lunch on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday We can discuss the plan during iSnack.

Group Points

In room 3 this year we will have group points this is how it works.

First we picked our group names and they are:

1. Pineapple
2. Kidz
3. Minecraft
4. Minions
5. Boys

We get group points from doing the right thing at the right time. At the end of the week Miss Lister gets a student to count the group points. Whatever group wins they get 10 minuets free time the next Monday.  But the others have to do work.

Our Job Was Harder Than We Thought!

When I was on sports trolley in the junior school I found it hard.  Because everybody threw stuff at the trolley.  So I band them.  Only for the day!!!   Annalise got so MAD!!!!  Blake was not as mad!

Mr . Cuddles

Mr Cuddles.

Mr Cuddles is our class toy.  He goes to different people.  When we get him we have to write in a book.  He is very cute and cuddly.  On Monday when we have to bring him back we have to read what we wrote in the book and we need to draw a picture. He loves rainbows.  Everyone likes him.  He likes room 3 the most.  He looks fond to Fridays so he can get to know the person he is going to.

By Arial, Isobel and Salomi

Signs Up! ..... Signs Down!

Last Friday us Road patrollers did a back to school campaign to tell drivers to slow down around our school. the signs said on them  Look out for kids  Keep us safe      Slow down for me.  We got something

like four honks and thirty waves. I'm glad

I was picked for the back to school 

campaign.

           

                       Enjoy the photos

By Robyn

Our Amazing Culture Art

Room 3 has been doing culture art, some of the cultures we have been doing is South African, Samoan, Fijian and Maori. These are all unique art that we have been working on all week and there are all coming out GREAT!!Also we have been doing lots of patterns.

The top art belongs to Annalise

The next art down is Anthony's

Also the next one is Elliot's.

And the last but not least Rayne's.

By Elliot, Natalia and Rayne

Sports Trolley

Sports trolley is were you get some sports equipment like,balls,cricket bats,ball launchers and many more.
Room 3 is on sports trolley for two weeks and if you get out some sport equipment.  If you don't return we will track you down.  If you steal sports equipment or do something bad we will band you and if really bad
the teacher will put you on chances.  When you are on sports trolley you have to right children's names down on a piece of paper

Milk Is Back And Fresh

Here is a picture of the milk bin

Milk is back and better than ever. Its 200mls so you should get 1+ heathy and makes your bones strong. Remember to fold it properly and put it in the carton bin so that all the cartons fit in the bin please. Our milk that we get everyday its free from Fonterra.  

Ahh The Ants Are Coming

Ahhh the ants are invading  Room three.
Miss Lister read us a book called The Ant army while we were eating I snack.  we
 did a Infering Reading Response sheet to do with the story (The Ant Arm).y
There were four sections witch were Traits,Actions,Dialoge and My Thoughts.
This is how we set it out.

Traits        Actions         Dialoge         My thoughts

                                                      

caring            ate a cupcake       told his mummy 
kind                                            dont sweep them up.      funny,shocked
respectful     ate a sandwich
                                                                         
               




During the time of the work we were able to look at the book and Miss Listers  example.5 minuets later Miss liter asked us what we we have done.

Graphs Graphs Graphs

Here are our comparison statements we did for our graphs. The question we asked was:
If you could have only one device, what would you choose?

1. Xbox has more votes than laptops by 27 votes.

2. iPad has more votes than play station by 3 votes.

3. Laptops has more votes than computer by 2.

4. Xbox has 12 more votes than a tablet.

5. Laptop has 2 more votes than computer by 8.

6. Wii and playstation are the least with 0 and 3.

The Amazing Dream Tree

Our room has an awesome colourful Dream Tree. If you don't know what's the dream tree, im going to tell you in a moment. Our dream tree is a tree that we put our amazing social goal and our academic. 

We all decide our goal with a special poem.

S.M.A.R.T. 

Goals

Specific

Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?

Measurable

How would you know when you are done.

Attainable

Is it realistic.

Relevant

How does it fit your life.

Time-Bound

When will you achieve your goal?

When's your deadline?

    Here's a picture of our dream tree and
the goal making poem.

Slop Slap Splash

Today we started our second day of swimming. Room 3 students have been swimming since the first day of term so get your swimming cap on and dive into the blog

  Dolphins                      our swiming days are        
Stingrays and                      Tuseday
Seahorses                           Wednesday
                                           Thursday



We have been learning a lot about swiming latley we have been doing
Doplin dives.
Freestyle.
Doggy paddle, and
Back stroke.
and for a little bit of fun we sometimes
do wirl pools.
and  of course we aloso have FREE time.

Room 3's Start to the Year

In room 3 lately we have been doing swimming, Maths, Learning focused realationships and writing!!

During swimming time I have been sitting out because I didn't have a swimming cap but just yesterday I got one!!!! I've only been swimming once but it doesn't matter because it was fun when I did swim. We were practising different parts of freestyle so we can become brilliant.  We needed to put our ear on our shoulder while we hold onto a flutterboard.  The other arm needed to be on our side.  Our whole body was sideways. It was hard at the start but at the end I still found it hard.

Now for Maths.  During Maths we have been doing graphs (bar graphs) When we do we the bar graphs we were split in to groups of 3.  And of we went to go work.  My group was Natalia, Blake and I.  We were the first one to finish.

This is what it looked like.

Now for the important one Learning Focused Relationships is just to help know everyone.

Last but not least Writing. Lately during writing we have been drafting stories e.g. Acrostic poems with people names like this one.

(If you have been reading this blog I would likes to say thank you for taking your time to read this oh yea dont forget its valintines day!!!!)

The Dinosaur Library

Wow, the library is so cool.  Susie set the library like a dinosaur cave. She made a secret tunnel that led us to the  bookshelves.  Their were heaps of dinosaur pictures and even more dinosaur books.

It felt like like we were in the dinosaurs world.  We really liked the dinosaur decorations.  The book shelf looked so cool because there were lots of different kinds of dinosaur pictures.  I can't wait to see what theme it will be the next time.
We think it would be magnificent if she did a movie theatre in there next time.

By Aaron and Elliot.

Room 3 Goals

Everyone was wondering what we were doing. Miss Lister read out the instructions. Then she gave us a leaf to trace. When we did that we cut the leave out and ruled lines. After that we had to write 2 goals. 1 was for a subject (not maths yet). The other was for 1 of our words from the class treaty. When we were done Miss lister stapled them on our dream tree.Then we were done.

New Jobs for Room 3

Hurray, there are new class jobs for room 3! The jobs are Class Captains, Line Monitors, Teacher Assistants, Desk Inspector and lucky last Table Captains.

Class Captains

• When the teacher goes out the Class Captains are in charge.

Line Monitors

• If the line monitors tell you to be quiet in the line and you don't be quiet you will be in big trouble by the teacher.

Teacher Assistant 

• They help teacher when the teacher needs help.

Desk Inspector

• The desk inspector checks others desk if their desk is messy.

Table Captains

• Table captains are the leader of their table.

Anthony and Aaron got a job but Lukas didn't.    

iSnack in Rm 3

iSnack is a fun healthy snack .After we have a snack we go for a jog, run or skip.  iSnack keeps us healthy and fit so we have energy to run around. Room 3 really enjoys and LOVES iSnack. Some people bring fruits, vegetables, yoghurt or half a sandwich.

By Salomi and Shreya

The Brain Filling Education

This week we learnt to make a post card about the holidays to myself. Making a postcard was quite challenging because we you don't often write a postcard to yourself.  It ended up being nearly perfect.  We felt proud. 

This week has been challenging for the the new year 5 students because their are new rules and ways they need to learn.  It is different in the senior school compared to the junior and middle.  They are doing pretty fine.

We found out that the furtherest breath holdersfor swimming in the class were Robyn, Dougie and Anthony. We all needed to go under the water as far as you can and try to touch the wall on the other side of the pool.  All of Room 3 is really exited about the swimming carnival.

Room 3 also made our 2014 class treaty like the treaty of Waitangi. It's really important to follow the class treaty and never break the rules. Room 3s treaty was made so all the room 3 children could do as it said and so that Room 3 could be the best they can. Good manners means a better future.

By Namar and Anthony

What I did in room 3 this week

This week I was excited to go back to school.

Well first I got all of my stationery and put it in my desk I got a lot of stuff I got books, twink, pens <blue red>, felts, colouring pencils, erasers.

The school went to the hall for the Powhiri. Then it was morning tea!!. 

We did writing about post cards to ourself. Then lunch time! After lunch time I tried out for kapa haka. Then hometime!

By Isobel

A Postcard to Lukas

To Lukas

When I got to Jump, me and my sister had to wait 15 minutes because we were early.

As soon as I got in, I went straight to the foam pit. There was a rope you could hold on to and do a big swing into the pit. Weee!! Then I got stuck <great>. 

Five minuets later when I got out of the foam pit I went to the dodgeball area.  At first I was the only kid there and it stayed that way, which was perfect.

Times up! I was sad that I had to go. I had so much fun!. 

From Lukas

A Postcard to Myself

To Natalia

Oh my gosh guess what I did in the holidays. I went to a beach called Goat Island.
It is not in Auckland. It's somewere at the top of New Zealand.
Ok let me start my story. It was an hour and a half to get there. 
We swam in the beach and had a picnic there.I was sad when we left because I had sooooo much fun.I hope we can go there again.

Love Natalia.