Personification

Kia Ora everyone,

Today we did some writing using descriptive verbs and personification.

They are just so good that I had to share the whole lot!

When it's windy the sunflowers are trying to race out of the dirty and grassy ground. They want to explore the universe. The sun is a whole lot of hot, shiny stars. Lots of white sponges surrounded by the sun.

By Jakeb C.

The sunflower sprinkles her seeds all over me like a shower. Her leaves are tickley on my face. Her petals make a pillow and swish across the sky.

By Lucy

The stars are shooting by like a cheetah. The stars are bright like my white teeth.

By Hugo

The sun sings a soft lullaby to the clouds. The sun is a shiny face looking at me. The sun swims in the hot sky. The sun blows the clouds away from the sky. The sun is a big, bright sunflower.

By Julia

In the wild sky there is a something shooting by. "There is someone looking at me", I said to the sky. She said to me, "maybe it is a rocket shooting by you". I said to her, "maybe it is a lantern".

By Esme

The sun is hot in Samoa and it makes me tired.

By Junior

The sun shines and lights up the blue, dark sky and whispers to the clouds a nice lullaby.

By Rosa

The sun is as hot as lava and as gold as the stars in the night sky. It burns down to the sleepy world below and whispers to the clouds. The sunflower waves her leaves in the breeze. She bends down and pleads me for water.

By Emily

The sun is a big star that waves to the world below. The sun tells funny jokes to the clouds. She sometimes shoots to her bed and snuggles up tight.

By Charlotte

The  stars are someones gleaming eyes, twinkling in the night sky. The stars are like fireworks, sparks everywhere.

By Pearl

The sun burns its bright arms of fire, like a sausage on fire.  The sun shoots out like a cannon ball shooting out of a cannon.

By Connor

The sun shines like a diamond shining brightly, like fire, like flames.

By James

The sun is burning down the sky, shining down the very gold sun, so hot, like the desert. So hot.

By William

The sun's arms are fire trying to set the clouds on fire. That's the evil sun.

By Nico

The sun is very hot. It is like a BBQ. If you touch the BBQ, it is like the sun. The sun makes you sweat. Put sunscreen on or the sun will burn your whole body!

By Dylan

The sun slowly sets as the moon comes up for a nap in the sky. While the sun sets, it goes for a great holiday on the mountain top. It warms the lions as they sleep during summer. At last it comes back up.

By Caitlin

I rang santa up. Santa said to me, "you are good, now you can get presents for christmas time".

By Sylvie

The stars are angels gleaming and twinkling in the dark, night sky. But, as dawn breaks up from his holiday, the stars go back home under the ground where they'll have a cup of tea. When the sun journeys back home, the stars come back to the dark, black sky and go back to work on the computer.

By Molly

The sunflower is a lady who grows out of the ground. She's like the sun, except she doesn't grow that high. She sparkles and shines from the sun. When the breeze is high, the leaves from the sunflower come alive. She waves her leaves to me to say, "hi". She sometimes bends down to pour some sunflower seeds in my hand. She says goodbye to me and squishes her petals to go to sleep.

By Samantha

The wild wind

Hi all, today we decided to write about the wind as it is such a wild, windy day!

Wind

The wind feels strong like giant footsteps. The wind looks like the sky is broken. I love the wind. The wind pulls me like a toy. The coldest wind is point zero %. "Cold aye", I said, "aaaaahhhhhhhhh! Im getting blown through a bush backwards!"

By Caitlin

The Wind

I like the wind because it sings me a lullaby every night. It helps me snuggle down in my cozy bed so I can sleep.

By Molly

The Wind

I like the wind because it will blow my dad's car away. I think we could drive in the sky. Then the wind would let go of us. We would drop down.

By William

The Wind

I like the wind because it blows me along. It feels like I'm magic. I like the wind because we get to go on the computer or watch a movie or we will play with the lego. It's fun.

By Connor

Hi all

Ni hao,

I hope you all had a fantastic time at Market Night last Friday.

Our class sold our christmas cards, gift tags and candy cane mice. Everyne was impressed by the quality of our work. And so were we.

We made $195!!! Amazing aye?! We are all super impressed with ourselves.

But, we also would like to say an humungous thank you to two ladies who made our stall possible.  These ladies put in an enormous amount of time, enery and resources.


Jo Daw and Rose Sipeli...

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!

We could not have done it without you.

We would also like to thank Melissa Tait and Emma Instone for their wonderful efforts too.

Thanks everyone, for you support in materials and  ideas.


Photo's are coming soon!

From Room 3

Athletics Day

Hi everyone, we had a fantastic day yesterday at athletics. We decided to write acrostic poems where the title is written vertically. Enjoy!


At  Athletices day
Talking at athletics day
Help, I can't run fast enough
Learning how to jump over hurdles
Empathy for the teachers
Talking to your friends
I showed empathy to others
Cool at Athletics day
Screeching when I jumped over the hurdles

Dads watched us.
A great day
Yay I won!

Rosa


At  Hataitai park, we did athletics
The Teachers put us in groups
Hurling down the track
Learning sports
Eating our lunch
Trying our best
I threw the bean bags
Crashing down the track
Special sunny day

Dads and Mums helped us
At the end we walked across the bridge and back to school
Yay we won!

Emily

At Hataitai park
Trying again
Hard work
Leaping over hurdles
Egg and spoon
Teams together
I sprinted down the path
Concentrating
Some felt happy and tired.

Julia

At Hataitai park
Throw the vortex
Helping everyone
Leaping over the hurdles
Egg and spoon race was my favourite thing
Team work was the best
I worked really hard for my team
Quoits could go really far
Sun helped get big spirits

Down was never the right thing
At the end I had a great time
Yay it was awesome

Molly

At the grass, we did exercises
Trying our super hardest
Helping people
Leaping high
Eating our morning tea
Trying our good listening
I threw the vortex very high
Cones everywhere
Super hot day

Dad's and uncle's came
At the end we went back to school
Yay, we won!

Dylan

At the Hataitai Park
Try helping each other
How we do sports
Leaping like a lion
Eat our food
Talking to each other
I like doing the hurdles
Cross the field
Sliding across the All Blacks field

Dancing
After all the work we went back
Yay, we won!

Lucy

At Hataitai Park
Teams were called
Hurdles were fun
Loving it!
Excited like an emu
The quoits were cool
I lept like a lion
Children were everywhere
Sunny day

Dad's and mum's came to watch
Athletics is fun
Yay, we were all winners!

Pearl

Awesome day
Trees around us
Hot and hard
Love or like it
Exercise
Teams
I win
Children
School kids

Day
Across the bridge
Yay, I won!

Jakeb C

At the park
Trying to do everything right
How we do sport
Leaping over the hurdles like a kangaroo
Everyone is good at something
Teams go together
It's really very fun
Cool day
Should we have a drink?

Doing sports is fun
At the end we buddied up
Yay, we're the best!

Samantha

At Hataitai Park
Trying to help
Holding the vortex high in the air
Letting some go in front of you
Ending the race
Taking turns
I won
Coming first
Skated over the hurdles

Doing sports
Adding points
Yay, I've won!

Caitlin

At Hataitai Park
Teams together
Helping a kid
Leaping like a lion
Everyone excited
Trying to do the right thing
I threw the vortex
Cheering each other
Sunny, sunny day

Day is wonderful
A very smooth day
Yay, we are winners!

James

A cool day
Trying to win
Hi Hugo
Lots of games
Eating morning tea
Tired of playing
I had fun!
Courses are fun
Some of us won

Dads rock
And we do too
Yahoo!

Connor.

At athletics day
Try your best
Help your team
Leap over hurdles like a horse
Egg and spoon
Team up
I enjoy it
Catching up
Scattering fast

Dashing very fast
A very good day
Yay we are the champions.

William

At Hataitai park
Trying our best
Help, I'm not fast enough
Leaping like a lion over the hurdles
Eating our food
Teams rock!
I threw the Quoits very far
Clever thinking
Starting our best day

Dad's and mum's came
Athletics day
Yay we won!

Jacob D

At Hataitai park
Teams playing with each other
Helping the team
Love the games
Eating the food
Teaching the children what to do
I had fun
Cones everywhere
Sitting down when you are eating

Dads watched us
Awesome sunny day
Yesterday

Nico

At Hataitai park we had the athletics day
The vortex flew like a rocket
Hurtling down the track
Learning more things
Eating like a dog
Terrorising the track
I liked it
Connor went super fast
Sunny, sunny day

Dad and Mum came
A quoit flew
Yay my team won.

Esme

At Hataitai park we walked over a bridge.
The vortex is a ball that has a tail.
"Help! I'm not fast enough"
Leaping over hurdles like a kangaroo.
Eat our playlunch
Try our hardest
I liked the hurdles
Charlotte go! Charlotte go!
Sunny, summer day

Dad's and mum's came and helped
And then we went back
Yay, we are champions!

Charlotte

That is the end of our acrostic athletics day poems. Now we also have some very special news stories.

On the weekend I went to my friends house. I had fun and I liked it. We went home and we ate chicken.

Junior

Yesterday I went to the pool and after I had to do my swimming lessons. I got to go to the cafe and I got to have an ice cream.

Hugo



Thanks for eading our writing. We really appreciate it!

Ka kite ano from room 3

Tena Koutou Katoa

Hello everyone, we have been busy writing more stories and recrafting them.

The following are from people who have really tried hard to improve their stories.

Off To The Farm

I am going to the farm. The farm has some animals. There are horses and cows and sheep. I ride a horse. My mum is picking me up after school at 3 o' clock.

By Sylvie

I made a pop up book about houses. It has a contents page. It has some games in it. Today I am going to after school care. Today I am going out with my mum, Gino, and Gino's friend, Paul. (after recrafting...) We went to Denny's. We had lots of food. I wanted to have a fruit salad for pudding, but but they ran out of them. It was cute. After school care was fun. We played on the playground most of the time. I talked to the teachers about school.

By Jakeb C.

Solar Eclipse

Today is the solar eclipse. The school might have special glasses to see the solar eclipse. They have film tapes in the special glasses. I saw the solar eclipse with my class. It was awesome. The sun looked like a red moon, with pink aswell. There won't be another solar eclipse for over ten years. I will be a teenager at high school!

By Nico

Yesterday we went to the library. Vanessa read a book called Revolting Rhymes. It had funny jokes. One joke was,

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Interrupting sheep
Interrupting sheep who?
Baaa!

Then we went back to school. My mum came too. We held hands with each other. It was really fun.

By Lucy

Story Time

Hi everyone,  today we only have one story to share, as it is a long one! Enjoy, and please leave us a message if you'd like to!

The Evil Queen

Yesterday I made a book at school. It was about an evil queen who killed Lucy. Lucy was a nice queen who protected everyone. In Fairyland, she looked for any danger arond her or her friends. She liked everyone in Fairyland.  Her danger was the wild cats. She got robbed by some of them so they fought them and the wild cats fought back to the magic stars. Some of the wild cats caught the stars, but the stars escaped from the dungeons. The magic stars captured the wild cats. Everyone said sorry and they all went out together.

By Rosa

What a week it's been!

Hello out there,

We have had a week full of interesting things to write about...

We had our exciting weekends, guy fawkes, and then we summarised all that we had learnt so far about China, in the form of a list.  We found that we had learnt a whole lot. We also decided that instead of our regular reading  activities on Wednesday and Thursday, we would write books, using recycled paper. We shared them in assembly.

Here are just a few of our stories:

Things I have learnt about China

1. I learnt that if you went into the Forbidden City, you could loose your head. That could also cause pain.
2. I learnt that Shanghai is the largest city in China.
3. Goldfish make great pets.
4. The giant black and white panda are the slowest animals in China.
5. You can see the great wall of China from the moon.
6. I also learnt that the great wall of China is the longest wall in the whole world.

By Caitlin

Ballet Lessons

Yesterday I went to ballet lessons. My mum is going to the ballet lessons too. It is so much fun. I like the ballet lessons. My mum watched me.

By Sylie

Things I have learnt about China

1. In the Forbidden City, if you entered and you were not a noble person, you would loose your head, but not now, that was in the olden days.
2. In Shanghai I learnt that there is a shop called Pearls City.
3. Goldfish make great pets because there is no room for dogs.
4. Dragons fly so fast nobody can see them.
5. Only one child is allowed in each family.

By Molly

Things I have learnt about China

1. In China they have fireworks.
2. Kids in China love to fly kites
3. People eat with chopsticks.
4. Cats and goldfish make great pets because there is no room for dogs.
5. Pandas need to eat their own body weight in bamboo every day.

By Charlotte

Thinking about Fireworks

Last night me and my mum were making a cake while waiting for guy faulks to come. Beautiful flashing came out when the fireworks were out. I rushed out the door and my whole family came out. I saw heaps of colourful flashing down the black velvet sky.

By William

Watching fireworks at home when I was four

Two years ago, when I ws four years old, I saw fireworks blooming in the twinkling sky at home. My sister was too young to watch them zoom in the old sky. I saw all the colours of the rainbow. Some fireworks split up into different colours. I enjoyed seeing the fireworks.

By Samantha

That is all for now, we hope you like reading our stories. We have been trying hard to make them really interesting, using describing words, so that they will be enjoyable to read.

Have a great weekend!

From Room 3

Story time...

Halloween

Last night I went trick or treating. Not many people came to our house. I got lots of lollies of different kinds and they were yummy. Our house was decorated with a big long string with pumpkins and cobwebs on it. One house didn't have lollies so they gave me Oreos. I went with Gino.

By Jakeb C

Summertime

Last summer me and my brother and my mum and my dad zoomed to the beach. Me and Louis splashed in the water and the sun was out. After we went in the water, I built a sandcastle with a big red bucket. It looked like a strawberry. Me and Louis threw beach balls to each other. Then me and my dad carried each other really deep out into the sea.

By Rosa

Halloween Trick or Treating

On Wednesday it was halloween. I went to Miss Finch's home first. I saw Chelsea. Most people were out. One man gave me a packet of chippies. Alex didn't come because he had a bad day at school. Also, my next door neighbours, Eddie and Matylda, came with me. My dad came too. Miss Finch gave me, Eddie and Matylda two chocolate bars each. When I got home I got some more from my mummy.

By Esme

Last summer

Last summer I went to the beach and I made a big sandcastle. I loved the sun shining and beaming on my back. I also loved the sun blazing onto my hair. My sandcastle was as big as a grown up. I looked around but my ball wasn't there. I saw Flo had the ball. Dad said, "Come on Pearl, it's time for lunch!". I felt very happy to spend such great times and make such wonderful memories with my family.

By Pearl

By Pearl

Talking About China

Ni hao everybody,

This term one of our major topics is China. We have been so lucky to have two people come in to our class and talk to us about their experiences.

Firstly, Mr Li came in, William's dad. He gave us a sheet of Chinese characters. These characters are symbols which are words in Chinese. He gave us bookmarks for our books. Lucky us! Mr Li told us that dragons are so fast, nobody has ever seen one! We thought that was pretty funny.

Secondly we had Steve Daw, Caitlin's dad. He just came today and told us all about how many people are in China and how many there are in NZ. 1,200,000,000 people live in China! No wonder there's not much room for dogs as pets, but goldfish make great pets. We learnt you can see the great wall of China from the moon. Pearl learnt that in Shanghai there is a shop called Pearl City.  In the time of emperors and dynasty's, if you tried to get into the forbidden city, you could lose your head!! But not today.

That's all we have time for today. Look out for more stories later this week.

Zaijain (goodbye)

Welcome back to Term 4!

Welcome everyone, it is now Term 4.  Today we wrote about our school holidays. Here are just a few samples of the great writers in Room 3.

In the holidays I went to Kelly Tarltons and it was an aquarium. There was a glass tunnel with squid and eels and sharks. I saw the gold too. After, we went to the cafe'.

By Hugo

In the holidays I went to the shop and I saw a horse. My mum bought it for me. She put it in her bedroom.

By Sylvie

In the holidays I had my ears pierced and I got a... lollipop! I didn't cry. I got to choose my own earings. They are green and then I went home.

By Charlotte

In the holidays I got some badges and posters at the zoo. I lost my hat, but I got it back. I went to a Cinderella play and Connor came for a play date.

By Jacob

Thanks for reading our stories.

Kia Ora everyone,

We have some more stories to share...

My Birthday

The day after tomorow it is my birthday. I don't know what I am getting. This is a suprise. I am getting more excited every day. I hope I get a wallet.

By Caitlin

Bonfire

Yesterday night I had a bonfire up in ur garden and after we had dinner we had marshmellows on a stick. It was 8 o' clock and I had fun. I want to do it again.

By Hugo

Spinosaurous

I wish I was a Spinosaurous.  I would eat fish. I would have a big sail on my back. I would be bigger than a t-rex. I like spinosaurouses. I would be in the crotaceous period.

By Jacob

The time I was sick...

When I was so sick.

One day I felt so sick I couldn't even walk. I had a headache, an ear ache and a tummy ache. Mum came in. She said, "What do you want ot do?" I said to her, "I want to do nothing at all!" I went to sleep. While I was sleeping dad carried me in the car and then he drove to the hospital. I woke up then they gave me medicine then I went to sleep.

By Julia

The day I was sick.

When I was sick I had a headache. I brought my blanket and pillow pet onto the couch. I watched t.v. I drank lots of water.

By Emily

Having the Chickenpox.

When I had the chicken pox I stayed home because I was so sick. My mum let me watch t.v. and then she told me to go on the trampoline for two minutes. After that I played with Milo, my dog. Then I went to bed. I felt better. The next day I felt so much better and my friend took such good care of me. It was the best day in my life!

By Rosa

On Sunday I went swimming and we went to Karori Park and we went on the hydraslide and after that we had hot chips and it was yummy and after we went home and I played Scooby Doo on the wii.

By Hugo

In the weekend...

Tena koutou katoa

Welcome to Room 3's blog. We have some stories to share with you.

On Saturday I went to the park. Before I came to this school, I went to another school. I did some maths with my teacher.

By Junior

On Sunday I went to my sister's friends birthday and we hunter for gold coins. They are pretend and if you found one you would get a tiny box of stuff.

By James

In the weekend I went to feed the cat and when we got home we played snakes and ladders. Then we went ot the playground. Then we did some maths on my ipad.

By Jacob

The day of my birthday...

Kia Ora

So many of our class have been having birthdays recently or are having birthdays soon, that we decided to write about them.  We hope you enjoy reading about them! Don't forget to leave us a comment. Thank you :)

My Birthday

When I pulled my covers back I jumped out of bed! I ran along the hallway. I went to my sisters room and shouted, "Anneke! Rebecca! It's my birthday!" Then I went to my mum's and dad's room and shouted, "Mum, dad, it's my birthday!" I was turning five. I felt really excited.

By Emily

Exciting Birthday

I woke very early and woke up my parents. Then I had breakfast. Then we went to my birthday. It was in Junglerama. I invited only one person from school. All the others were my friends from outside of school. Some were boys, some were girls. I had a Barbie cake. It had flowers around the Barbie. We had fun. Then everyone went home.

By Julia

Happy Birthday

When it was my birthday I woke up my mum and dad and brother. It was early. I ran down the stairs. I quickly opened my presents and waited for my guests. I felt good.

By Lucy Lion

In the weekend...

Today we wrote about what we did in the weekend. Today we are sharing two stories. We hope you enjoy them and leave us a comment.

Spraining my ankle.

On the weekend I went to Christchurch and I sprained my ankle. It hurt me a lot and it was my grandpa's birthday. When I sprained my ankle I cried. My grandpa came and put on a plaster and took me home. I felt better when he put me in my bed. I went to sleep.

By Rosa.

Sleeping in a hut.

In the weekend I walked to a hut. The hut had no lights. In the first place, me and my brother explored the hut. We found a cupboard. In the cupboard was bark. We slept in a sleeping bag. In the morning we walked home. When we got home, I felt exhausted.

By Esme

Hi Everybody

Hi everyone,

It's been a little while since we last wrote as we have been so busy with the production. We loved seeing the other syndicate's performances too, especially The Machine Stops, from the Senior Syndicate. We liked the bit where Tane came along and did a hand shake and when the humans said "the machines have totally stopped". The Middle Syndicate did a fab job too, with their performance The Battle Of The Mountains. We liked the taniwha's and the really colourfully painted mountain hats.

But of course we loved our performance the best! Old McDonald and his musical farm were a firm hit, as were Tom Tom and his little piglets, and of course the wonderful skippers. You guys rocked!

Something you may not know is that out of the entire Junior Syndicate, Rosa Stanley's picture of Humpty Dumpty was chosen to be on the front cover of our Production programme.

That's all for now, we will be putting on more writing from next week onwards, so keep an eye out and don't forget to put on a comment. I've asked the IT people why some comments haven't come through (I publish all the comments that do come through), and apparently its because the correct process isn't being followed. You must push 'publish' at the end.

Thanks for reading our blog, we appreciate it!

From Room 3

Our Olympic Presentations

Hi everyone,

Today the people who were judged the winners from Room 8 presented their facts about the olympics in assembly. Emily introduced the item superbly, and William held the microphone for everyone  fantastically. The speakers themselves, were utterly amazing.  They were so outstanding, that Mr McGimpsy said how impressed he was with them. So well done Jacob, Rosa, Caitlin, Emily and William. You showed tremendous confidence. We are all proud of you!

Ka kite ano

from Rm 3

Hello from Rm 3

Kia Ora everyone,

we thought we'd have more time for literacy and numeracy this term as there is no swimming, but the production is taking up even more time than swimming so we've had less time for writing our stories on this blog. However, we will try and get at least one story up a week. Today we have a little more time so we will share a few more.

The children have learnt so many facts about the olympics that they are going to share some of them at assembly tomorrow.

Today we wrote about our reflections.


My Reflection

I look in the mirror and I see a beating heart. I see a green eyed girl looking at me. I see a helping friend who is kind, looking at me.

By Lucy


Mirrors

When I look in the mirror I see someone looking at me. I don't know who it is but I stare at her for a long time.

By Caitlin


My Self

When I look in the mirror I see my heart. It makes me feel good.

By Connor


What I See

I look in the mirror and what do I see? Another friend smiling back at me. I see a love heart.

By Emily


What Do I See?

What do I see in the mirror? I see someone who has the same eye colour as me. I see someone who likes to be quiet. I see someone who has the same colour hair as me.

By Samantha


Please leave us some comments...we LOVE to come in and see new comments each day.

From Rm 3

The end of the week...

Hi everyone, it's great to be back at school!

We all had fantastic holidays doing loads of ultra cool stuff. We wrote all about it and Miss Finch has published our stories for everyone to read when you next come into our classroom. Please come and read them as we are very proud of them.

No swimming this term.

Thanks for all the costumes for our production. We're all excited about performing it for you in week 6.

Have a brilliant weekend.

From Room 3

Stunning Starry Night

Today we wrote at least two sentences about the stars in the night sky. We brainstormed lots of interesting words that reminded us of stars, like jewels, treasure, gold shining, sparklers, glitter, floating lanterns, sunflowers, constellations and more.

We decided to take all our sentences and share them all because we did such a fantastic job that we couldn't choose just one person's work!

Stunning Starry Night

The stars glitter, shining gold from the dark night sky. Guojinwang 
The crystal stars glitter in the black sky. Charlotte
The stars are twinkling at me, shining in the black sky. Julia
The stars are glittering crystals, twinkling in the sky. Molly
The stars are yellow sparkling in the cloud's big sky. Rosa
The stars are like beautiful silver glittering lanterns, floating in the sky. Lucy
The stars are lanterns in the shining gold sky. Dylan
The stars are treasures, as bright as the sun. The stars very glittery constellations. Jacob
The stars are glittering lanterns, shining gold. Esme
The stars are like pictures in the sky, called constellations. The stars are like beautiful treasure, glittering and shining. Samantha
The stars are lanterns flying in the sky, crystals gleaming in the sky. Nico
The stars are glittering, yellow up in the sky. Hugo
The stars remind me of crystals and the colour yellow. Connor
The stars are the sun, just a bit further away. They're as sparkly as gold and as pretty as a lantern. Caitlin
The stars glitter and remind me of crystals and lanterns. James
The stars are golden lanterns floating in the sky. Emily
The stars are floating pictures called constellations. Pearl

What a fantastic job you all did today! I am most impressed with your descriptive language. Well done.

Patterns and Math

In Room three we have been learning about patterns and maths, like 11 + 7 = 18. We do it all by ourselves. We don't have to use our fingers.

By Caitlin

Overcoming our fears

When I was one, I got my big surf board. I was too scared to go on it. I might fall into the deep sea or I might trip over, but I did it anyway. One day I fell because my dad pushed me over. I didn't get hurt. I felt happy!

By Charlotte

Five Senses

I like the taste of chocolate swirling in my mouth.
I like hearing the sound of drilling.
I like smelling flowers.
I like seeing the sunlight.

By Emily

My Monster Story

Scary Monster

My monsters name is Potato. He is old. My monster is a male and he is short. He talks using my language. He has skin. My monster lives in jungles.

By Guojinwang

A merry monster Monday!

Hi everyone,

We have some more writing to share with you. Starting tomorrow, we will be posting just ONE special story or poem from Monday to Wednesday. I hope this inspires Room 3 to try their hardest during writing time.

I Can Write!

I can write about tigers.
I can write about snakes.
I can write about cakes.
I can write about spiders.
I can write about you, or me.
I' a writer - Wackydoo!

By Dylan

I Can Write!

I can write about snakes
and cakes
and the best of mates.
I can write about me, or you.
I'm a writer - wackydoo.

By Jacob

I Can Write

I can write about the blue sea.
I can write about wigs and squigs.
I can write about paws and roars.
I'm a writer - wackydoo.

By Julia

We hope you enjoyed our poems! Look out for us tomorrow too!

See you all next time,

From Room 3.

Max as in Maximum Height!

Kia Ora everyone,

We have a new addition to our class. His name is Max and he is a giraffe. We made him ourselves. We drew brown spots on some paper and then we cut them out. Once we had a whole lot of spots, we glued them onto Max's neck and face.  Max is our guard giraffe because he is going to live right outside our classroom door.  We also made sure Max had plenty to eat. We coloured and cut out loads of leaves too.

Thank you for reading our poems!

Jumbo, Kia Ora, Ni Hao and Dag (that's Dutch if you didn't know!),

Room three would like to say a big, enormous THANK YOU for reading our poems and leaving us feedback. 

We really appreciate it!  We were amazed, and very impressed, that people on the other side of the world in America, read  things that we had thought of and created.

Today we had swimming so we don't have any stories or poems to post, but we will be back tomorrow.

Until then,

Take care and good bye from Room 3.

Today in writing we wrote about a grandparent.

Kia Ora everybody,

Here are our three fab writers of the day...

Grandpa

My Grandpa takes me to the dairy to get a treat.
My Grandpa takes me for a walk.
My Grandpa takes me to the pool.
My Grandpa takes me to the zoo.
My Grandpa makes me feel like the most special child in the whole wide world.

By Rosa

Grandma

My Grandma takes me to playgrounds every day.
My Grandma takes me gardening because I like flowers.
My Grandma takes me home when Mummy is working.
My Grandma takes me out in the garden so I can see beautiful butterflies.
My Grandma makes me feel like the most special child in the whole wide world.

By Samantha

Grandad

My Grandad takes me fishing on the beach.
My Grandad makes me cup cakes.
My Grandad plays sports with me.
My Grandad takes me to the zoo.
My Grandad makes me feel like the most special child in the whole wide world.

By Guojinwang

Thanks for reading our Grandparent  poems.  We love that you value our work!

Our writing today

Hi everyone, from now on, we are going to publish three stories of the day from our story writing.

Please give us feedback.

Today we wrote poems about where we live.

Our Home

Above my house is a moon rising.
Beside my house is a frog croaking.
Below my house is a kangaroo bouncing.
Around my house are bats flying.
Inside my house is a snake slithering!

By Hugo

My House

Above my house is smoke billowing out of the chimney.
Beside my house is my dog burying a bone.
Below my house are worms squiggling.
Around my house is a kennel and plants.
Inside my house is my dog and me!

By Pearl

My house

Above my house are birds squarking.
Beside my house is a hose sprouting on the lawn.
Below my house are mice crawling.
Around my house are lots of flowers.
Inside my house is all my family
and me!

By Lucy

Thanks for reading our poems. We hope you enjoyed them. Please look out for more tomorrow.

Goodbye from Room 3

Hi it's terriffic tiger Tuesday!

Ni Hau everyone,

We hope you had a relaxing break.

We are still thinking about alliteration and adjectives (describing words), but this week we are focusing on VERBS... doing words.

This week, can you go and see Room 8's classroom blog? Their address is:

kilbirnieroom8.blogspot.co.nz

You can check out some cool photographs there and pick your fave!

Pearl and the rest of Room 3 says

Bye bye butterfly (good alliteration Pearl!)

hello

hello room 3

Off We Went...

Hi everyone,

Yesterday we had a very fun, fabulous and furry day at the zoo. We raced around the zoo road, spying all the small scurrying aminals, like the monkeys, mere cats and mice. And all the long legged large ones, like the lions, the giraffes and cheetahs. The gorilla's were monkeying around, going upside down, climbing ropes and sliding down wooden poles. After morning tea, we went inside where we met Lynn who taught us all about animal habitats and patterns. We got to touch a lizard, a hedgehog and a... RAT!!! Can you believe it?

Today we raced down Haitaitai hill to the library.We met Vanessa who taught us how to find certain books. We got into groups and had a challenge. We had to find a new book, a CD book, a book with a certain coloured cover and a book whose author started with a certain letter. It was lots of fun.

I hope everyone's homework made it to your house...some children forgot their homework books again :(

Tomorrow we are off again... to swimming! We can't wait.

Until next time, see you later from Room 3.

Kilbirnie School, Room 3 Blog

Kia Ora everybody,

We're going to the zoo on Monday! Yipee! Well, we hope are, it just depends on the weather.  We are looking forward to seeing lots of animals and animal patterns. Some of our favourite animals are: tigers, giraffes, cheetah's, zebra's, leopards, elephants, and lions.

We wanted to tell you how much we enjoyed seeing Harold. Harold, from the Life Education Trust, taught us what our bodies need to keep healthy and happy. Can you remember to tell your parents any of these?

On Wednesday we did our swimming lessons. We love Kilbirnie Pool and we love swimming!

Until next time, Take care and keep safe.

From Room 3

Hi everyone,

This is Miss Finch's first ever blog!

This term we are learning all about patterns. Last week we created wave patterns. Then we put little yachts, made out of triangles on top of them, to make some awesome pictures. Check them out.

This week we are creating repeating koru patterns.  We are going to make a boarder. They look amazing!

Don't forget, this week we are going to the zoo, where we will see many more patterns.

But today... WE ARE GOING TO MEET HAROLD THE GIRAFFE, with the life education trust. WE CAN'T WAIT!!

Okay, until next time, Ka Kite ano from Room 3.

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Te reo

We really enjoyed our Te reo session with Rachel today. Here we are singing one of our favorite waiata...

Runathon

Today we had a runathon to raise money for our new library. We were all worn out afterwards! It was great fun & we can't wait to find out how much we made.

Hairy Maclary

This week we are reading Hairy Maclary books in our classroom - we found this on youtube

Hello Room 3

Hello Room 3,
How are you?  Are you having a nice week so far?  I hear that the teacher who is looking after you is a lovely lady.  I'm still at home - and still coughing! It's not much fun. But, it is great being able to look at your blog and keep up to date with what Ruckus is doing!

Some of you have asked how to leave a comment, so here are some instructions for you:

1) At the bottom of the post (or page if it is on Ruckus' page) there is a little box that tells you how many comments have been left so far:

2) Click on the link that says ' '0' comments' (there might be some comments already there if others have left comments before you).
3) Then you can write your comment in the box that pops up.

4) The most important thing is that you select the profile that you comment as.  (Mums and Dads,  unless you have an online profile such as a google account or one of the other listed accounts, you will need to post as 'anonymous').
5) Once you have posted your comment, you can click 'publish'.  An email will then be sent to me and I can approve your comment for the blog.

Happy Commenting!
See you soon Room 3
From Miss Rhodes

Oliver & lynella come to visit!

It was an interesting morning in room 3 today, as Oliver & Lynella came to teach us all about wearing hearing aids & how we can help people who wear hearing aids.

These are some of the ways we learnt that can help people to hear us clearly. 

1) Make sure you are close to the person when you are speaking. 

2) Make sure that you look at the person when you are speaking. 

3) Make sure that you speak clearly when you are speaking. 

Hello Room 3

Hi room 3,
I'm so sorry to have not seen you all this week so far.  I have had a nasty cough and the Doctor ordered me to rest for a few days.  I'd much rather be at school with you guys though! I have been thinking about our Mihi's and getting them finished for assembly on Thursday. Hopefully we will manage to get that done in time.
See you very soon,
Miss Rhodes

Ruckus the Blog Dog!

Woof Woof! Hello Room 3, I am Ruckus.  Blogs are my most favourite thing! 

I can't wait to come and visit you at your house and look at Room 3s blog with you! 

Can you guess which hair style belongs to which member of Room 3?!

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Wacky Hair Day for Christchurch

We came to school and everyone laughed at our wacky hair! We bought gold coins to give to the people of Christchurch.  The money is going to a charity called 'Gap Fillers' they are a charity that are filling in the gaps in Christchurch with fun and exciting activities.  Watch this space for some funny pictures of our wacky hair styles!

Welcome!

Welcome to you all - Mum, Dad, Brother, Sister, Auntie, Uncle, Cousins, Grandma, Grandad and Friends!
This is our class blog - you can look at it any time to find out what we have been doing at school.
We hope to see your comments below.
From Room 3