Smile it's international happiness day

On the 20th of March for the last 2 years Happiness day has been celebrated world wide promoting social inclusion and intercultural harmony.

The idea of Happiness Day was suggested by a country called Bhutan. The citizens in this country would be wealthiest if only money was measured in happiness. (Sounds like a cool country) 

This is a list of activities we did ...

~ Read the article

~ Found tricky words

~Found dictionary meanings for those words

~Made sentences for these

~Completed a word search

~Watched the related Youtube clip

~Write a blog post about the article

National Pi Day

Every year on the 14th of March Pi day is celebrated. Pi day was first discovered about 4000 years ago by the ancient Babylonians by calculating the area of a circle by multiplying 3 times the radius squared, giving Pi the value of 3

Pi day is now celebrated by schools, museums and even business's all across the country

Speeches

This week room 9 has been working on there speeches that we have to present in week 4

The speech topics are:

• Text bullying - make Cell phones R16
• Sport for life - why everyone should play sport
• Homework - should it stay or should it go?
• The best,worst and most interesting jobs
• My mum or dad -contender for Parent Of The Year
• If i could i would
• Why Southland is the best place to live
• Why New Zealand is the best country in the world to live
• Why boys shouldn't cry
• Green (or any colour you choose)
• The best pet in the world is...
• How to become fabulously wealthy
• Boys are cooler than girls and vice versa
• Parents are aliens 
• Why we should use manners
• Never judge a book by its cover (why face value can be misleading)
• One person can make a difference
• If i was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand

By Abbey and Lily

Our song that we are learning for polyfest this year