Sean's 9th Birthday Party

For my birthday party we had an amazing camp-out and we roasted marshmallows over a real fire. We all slept in a big tent.  The marshmallows were delicious, crunchy, gooey,  and some of them were golden, others were black!!! ( not so nice.)

We stayed up all night and we were playing on our devices, playing hide and seek in the tent and nobody could find me!! In the morning we went up to the house and watched TV.  Next we played on the Xbox 360 kinect.  We were playing Halo two player and we were taking turns.

For breakfast we had chocolate chip waffles with golden and maple syrup!!! YUM!!!

TravelWise Workshop Scooter Course

Tornado Art Assembly Item

Raining And Pouring

It was raining pouring everywhere in Auckland. The Cyclone Lusi finally came rushing to Auckland. The sky was dark and there was crashing noises around us like lightning. I said "why does it have to rain at Saturday the 15th of March". It constantly rained the whole day including the morning and the afternoon. The Cyclone Lusi was formed from a pacific island far from the top of New Zealand. I bet people who do outside sports had to stay home all day. Like my day, it was changed because I was supposed to do outside sports like Tennis but it was raining. Also there was something strange. My home internet was off. Some people thought that there was a power cut from the internet company. Do you know what is a Cyclone. A Cyclone is a disaster that may cause a flood. A Cyclone is very strong wind and rain. It may be dangerous to go to the north of Auckland because your umbrella may blow away from the heavy rain and the wind. Guess what? I went to a buffet in botany and I opened the door and the door flew open. So if that happens in the city or the north Auckland the door will open much faster like the door is going to break if it opens too fast. Luckily Cyclone Lusi missed us so if Lusi came to us we would have had a flood.

If you want more information check the N.Z. Herald or YouTube.

St Pat's Mufti Photos

Top of the Mornin' To Ya! 

St Patrics Day

Top of the morning to ya New Zealanders, HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY!!! Everyone is celebrating including the Creepers. Today Howick Primary had a mufti day, the theme was GREEN. Nearly the whole 
school was GREEN. At morning tea Robyn saw leprechauns, Creeper T shirts and GREEN every where even the trees were dressed up (if you know what I mean).

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Tee Ball Stars

Friday Group: Devices

Tuesday Group: Weather Forecast

Namar's homework paragraph

On Thursday everyone said to me that something special is happening today.  They all knew it but me, every young and old person kept telling that their was something special happening so I kept talking guesses.  I also checked if there were any signs around.  Soon after giving up I found a wrapped piece of paper that said "Today is the swimming carnival!" I said "I found out the event yay!! YIPPEE!!!!!!!!! I did it."

Who wants an ice block?

''Me, Me, Me, Me!!'' say the children waiting in line to get their refreshing ice blocks. Every Friday at lunch time iceblocks are sold for camp fundraising. The ice blocks are sold for $1 in the hall after the lunch eating bell.

Our record is 167 ice blocks sold in one day (amazing right). The ice block monitors are: Robyn, Anthony, Rayne and Jayden. But Rayne and Jayden are no longer monitors because Anthony and Robyn are training new monitors who are Year 5.

Raynes homework paragraph

Words that are being use

• guess
• young
• wrap
• sign

Tonight we are going to concert and the group is called Young@heart. One of their songs are called Guess. They will sign our t-shirts and for dinner we can have a chicken wrap from McDonalds.

Blake's homework paragraph

 Words being used

.guess

.young

.wrap

.white

.sign

Guess what? Tomorrow is my birthday, and I will be 11 years young. 

This makes my star sign Pisces.

My mum will wrap my present when I go to bed and I am 100% certain that it is not going to be new underwear or new white school socks.

Lukas` Homework

1. A young guessing rapper started to knock on the sign for no reason.
2. Knock, Knock who's there? Sign. Sign who? Sign with a rhyme.
3. On the white paper there was a picture of a sign.

Natalia's homework

These are the words I am using...

• Guess
• Young
• White
• Wrap
• Sign

If you see them Bold they are the words from my list. Figure out if you can spot them.

1.   Today I had to guess a number from 9-15. A young boy came up to me and said "Can you sign this please". So I said "yes".

2. Today I had to write a word that started with W. So I said "What about White and Wrap"? and Guess what he said. He said "Okay".

That is all my list words into sentences. Hope you liked it. 

Anthony's homework

The words I'm going to use:

1. Television
2. Telephone
3. Automatic 
4. Autograph

I watch the television after school while the telephone rings at a random time. At the same time my brother Kelvin gets out of the automatic car door. What a surprise, he has got a poster with the All Blacks autograph for ME!! 

By Anthony.

Spelling Activity

A long time ago, far far away lived young man with a big dream.  His dream was about having his very own white horse. The man did not have any money to spend. either way it was only a sign with a picture on it.

Elliot's spelling paragraph

Can anyone guess how young I am. If you get your answer right I will wrap you up a white coloured present and I'll even sign it with my name.

Written by Elliot

Our Class Boat.

At the start of  the year we made a class boat. The first thing we did made was our life rings.  The first we did was make a circle with a compass to make it round it took a while first we had to do draft then publish we had to write our names.

The second thing we did was do a draft of our class flag. One one corner we did the New Zealand flag and on the other corner we did our school boat on the bottom corner we did our school logo and then on the other side we did countries then were done and we put it on the flag at the top.

The third thing was make little flags of were we come from the teacher took photos of us and we had to make a flag then stick our face next to our flag and put it on the boat. 

Softball Is Cool

Softball has started with players that can bat, throw, field and backstop.  One lady is coming this thursday to see our team so she can tell us what is wrong and what is right and d to help us improve.  For now Mrs Kittson is choosing 12 players to play softball. 

Our Round Robin Sports

On the second week of school we started Round Robin Sports and the teacher split us up into groups,team A and team B within the class.
But now we are having  Round Robin sports on Tuesday instead of it being on Friday because we have changed the groups around, so they are now muddled up with other classes.
We can't wait for the sport today to see who is in our group and get into the game!!!!!!

Our New Reading Groups

On  Monday the 10th of March we started to do Reading  Groups.
The names of the Groups are...

• Tui
• Kakapo
• Pukeko
• Albatross 

Those are the groups.We hope you enjoyed it.

The New Writing Groups

On Monday the 10th of March 2014 Miss Lister announced the new writing groups.  The groups are called Sharpeners, Erasers and Highlighters.  On the first day the Sharpeners did a blog like what we are doing right now.  The Erasers and Highlighters were on the mat with Miss Lister.  You need to have the Date and the title and an interesting hook.  Hook is plays a very important role.   You need to have a hook so that the reader will carry on reading you're
 story and want to read more of you're story.




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World War ll Presentation

Great presentation by the Monday group today.

Very informative and great props used this week.

Excellent job boys!!

Miss Lister

Swirly and Bubbly Tornado Art

Swirly, Bubbly, Tornadoes on PhotoPeach

Splash 'n' Funday

SPLISH!!!! SPLASH!!!! SPLOSH!!!! As the racers went flying across as if they were flying fish!!!

Last week on Thursday was the legendary competition called the swimming carnival!  People were roaring to their favourite racer as if they were monster trucks! CLAP!! The racers went forward swimming their fins off.  There were two magnificent swimming groups.  First the Striking Marlins and Preposterous Dolphins. First the marlins had their races and after their races the dolphins raced and then the marlins had the final races.  Three of the finalists in our class were Anthony, Robyn and Dougie.

After all the races were finished the seniors had a splash fun time where there were water races with water buckets and we did the awesome swimming slide.
We had such a great time at the swimming carnival and also it was FREEZING COLD!!!!

Rock Climbing At Extreme Edge

Ever wondered what rock climbing is like? There was a lot of walls there was easy walls for kids, challenging walls for teens and there was extreme walls for adults. There was an adventure land for kids one to nine. My favourite part of rock climbing is when we got to go in the adventure land to climb the other walls and slide down bouncy castles. Leyton's favourite part was the hockey table.

Written by Elliot

The Powerful Relationship

On the 18th of February Mrs Simpson came into room 3 to teach us about SOLO taxonomy. The thing room 3 choose for the topic was friendship.  As the word was everyone rushed to their desks at the speed of light. As soon as they reached their desks they started getting pieces of paper and writing as fast and neat as could, many people like Jayden and Namar did five ideas as well as some others did. At the end Mrs Simpson called everyone down to the mat and as soon as the word was said everyone raced to the floor. Everyone started sharing their ideas on the mat and putting them into relevant piles and not relevant  piles, some of the ideas were mostly sharing, caring, playing and friendly. At the end everyone was impressed by their hard work and so were the teachers impressed and just like that everyone was happy and the teacher left by giving us a congratulations for our great effort.

Jason and Namar

Magic The Gathering!

Internet Safety!

Lukas' Reading Comprehension Diamonds

For Reading in room 3 we have been doing Reading Comprehension Diamonds. Miss Lister told us we could do it in groups of our choice so we did. My group was Namar, Jayden and I. Namar was reading while me and Jayden were listening. Then we cut it and folded the lines. After that we write under the Who? What? Were? And When? about the story. Then we coloured it to make it nice and colourful. Now you can come to our class and look at it on the Reading Wall!!!!

Our head full of personality

Here we are sitting on the mat waiting for Miss Listers instructions. 
Then she said we are making heads full of our hobbies and things we relate to.
Here are some of the heads Room 3 have done.
My favourite is all of them but the best in my opinion is Salomi, Natalia, Arial and Robyn's

Connections have begun

 On Monday we were introduced to our new topic called Connections.

Connections are things that relate to people. It's like your family, it's connected to you. So it means that they are part of your life. 

Also your neighbours and your school is part of connections. 

Friends can be part of connections because they help you and you get better. 

Teachers are part of connections because you know them. 

So people you know have CONNECTIONS!!!!

Our Presentation Group Today

Great success today with our presentation group!! Very creative and entertaining.  Great thinking outside the box.  This was an outstanding effort for you first turn.  I cannot wait to see what you will do next Wednesday.

Miss Lister

Round Robin Sports Has Started

Round robin sports has started with a blast with room 3s teams all ready winning the first 2 games. But sadly  Strikers have lost a game by one point but Southern Storm as they have won all there games. The sport that Southern Storm hasn't played is long ball and non stop cricket.. The kids will have to bring there drink bottle and their own sunblock cause the weather has started to get more hotter and a hat. So far all the teams have done outstanding for the past 3 weeks doing hard work and supporting each other.The captain for strikers  is Robyn for Southern Storm is Elliot the sport that strikers haven't played is long run.        

A Good Home Run on PhotoPeach

Nationwide Viewing

Here's a little screenshot of the world map (zoomed in on NZ) that reveals something exciting!!

It looks like I am not the only one who is online on our blog at this time because there is someone else currently online near the top of the South Island.

Nice job Room 3!  

Looks like our blog is travelling :)

Miss Lister

My dogs

My dogs Daisy and Penny are naughty. Daisy loves to chew everything and Penny steals any food that she sees. Penny is a jack jussell and Daisy is chihuahua.  But the sad thing is that Daisy is adopted because her mum got run over. But I love both of them.

Young@Heart Visits HPS

We were all pumped and excited for the performance from the Young@Heart Choir group.  The songs they sang were

• Roar
• Fix You 
• Let It Go
• When im 64
• Counting The Beats
• Raidioactive
• Party Rock anthem

The clapping that the whole school did nearly bursted my ear drumbs.  Everyone was so greatful for their performance we all want them to come back and perform for us again!

By Blake, Nargis and Rayne

Young @ Heart

The School Cricket Team

  On Wednesday the 26th of February the Howick Primary School cricket team was going to have their first match against Pigeon Mountain  Primary.  Sadly we lost by 1 point.  But we did some good hits and good bowls.  Some people got 2 points and some got 4 but Mason almost got 6 points.  Mitchell saved 8 points from their team.  It was a very exciting game to watch. We can't wait till the next game.  It was a good game.  We like watching cricket.