Room 12 Nelson Central School 2010

School Community Picnic

2011-02-25T02:08:00.000-08:00

Tonight the School Community Group held its annual family picnic. It was a great night with a picnic on the front lawn followed by some good old fashioned games like 3-legged races, tug of wars and wheelbarrow races.

Big Day Out

2010-12-13T19:59:00.000-08:00

Today we had our Kowhai Syndicate Big Day Out at Tahuna Beach. First we started at the trains. We then moved to the beach and had fun making sand sculptures. After lunch we had a play on a bouncy castle and some time on the playground. Thanks to the school community group for giving each class $100 to put towards the cost of the trip. We had a fantastic day!

Hooray for the Little Red Hen

2010-12-13T19:56:00.000-08:00

Last week we put on our annual Kowhai Syndicate Production. This year we joined with Renwick 2 to put on the Little Red Hen. We performed it on the big stage at the school of music which was very exciting, and for some of us a little scary. We performed the show to the school on Tuesday on Tuesday, to some of our old Kindy's on Wednesday and to our families and friends on Wednesday and Thursday Room 11 and Renwick 3 joined together to put on the Caterpillar Boogie and Room 12A and Room 10 to perform the Tadpole Rag. Check out the photos below to see the fun we had and the movie to hear the final song!

Pike River Mine Coin Trail

2010-12-06T16:11:00.000-08:00

On Friday the student council organised a coin trail to raise money for the Pike River Mine Fundraising Scheme. All together we raised $210. Here we are placing our money on the spiral.

Nelson Intermediate Roadshow

2010-12-01T11:02:00.000-08:00

Today we were very lucky to get to watch a concert put on by Nelson Intermediate Students. There were performances from a kapa haka group, stage band, piano player and a drum group. We thought that their show was awesome. Maybe one day we will be up there performing like them.

Internet Safety

2010-11-16T20:55:00.000-08:00

The last couple of weeks we have been

watching some of the episodes on Hectors World about keeping ourselves safe on the internet. We created some guidelines today about the things we have learnt.

1. Don't use your whole name, you could use a nick name.

2. If you see something you are not sure about, tell someone you trust.

3. Don't send a message to someone you don't know.

To check out Hectors World Click here

To visit Keep Safe Kids, another website about internet safety Click here

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

2010-11-09T14:33:00.000-08:00

As part of our topic on time in week two and three we were learning the days of the week and the months of the year. During ICT we retold the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Enjoy!

Week 4

2010-11-05T19:17:00.000-07:00

This week alot has happened. On Wednesday Room 7 organised a Funraiser. At the beginning of lunch we all went out and played air guitar on the front field. Over 400 of us joined it. We didn't beat the Guinness world record of 1178, but we sure had a lot of fun.

On Thursday we also had our last session of grass hopper tennis. Unfortunately it started to rain, but we have had a lot of fun learning all about tennis this term.

To wrap up the week on Friday we had the opening of the new additions to the adventure playground. This is a project that the school community group and the student council have been working on. Thankyou to all those people involved in adding the new equipment to our playground.

Room 12 Break In

2010-10-26T00:08:00.000-07:00

Joining Room 11 at the start
of the day

Working hard in Room Six

Today when we got to school Sally was waiting outside the classroom because a thief had been inside our classroom, and had tried to steal our projector. They weren't able to steal it though. We weren't allowed in so we had to go to Room 11 for a little bit and now we are in Room 6's class because we are waiting for the police to come and finger print the classroom. We think it is cool because we might to get feed the fish and we get to sit at Room 6's desks. By Room 12

The policeman
fingerprinting
the classroom

Shadows

2010-10-25T23:42:00.000-07:00

On Friday we had fun exploring how our shadows changed shape throughout the day. We drew around our shadows using chalk at different time throughout the day. We found that our shadows got longer whilst we were at school.

Ship Ahoy!

2010-10-20T16:59:00.000-07:00

Today we went to the museum to the ship ahoy exhibition. We pretended we were on a boat like in the olden days. The museum was awesome because we got to see some spew and we got to dress up. The girls had to wear white dresses. The boys had to wear a waistcoats and hats. By Room 12 and Sally

Wonkey Donkey

2010-10-18T22:08:00.000-07:00

On Monday Craig Smith who wrote Wonkey Donkey visited our school. He read us the Wonkey Donkey book and his new book called Wilbee the Bumbleebee which is also based upon a song. He also sung us the 'Big Drip'. He showed us how to make the cool raindrop sounds with our mouths!

Watch the video below to see him performing his famous Wonkey Donkey song.

12 months in a year!

2010-10-18T21:53:00.001-07:00

Week 1 Term 4!

2010-10-18T21:50:00.000-07:00

We had a bit of fun last week to begin Term 4. This term our new inquiry topic is based around the sun. Sally took us on a bear hunt, we ended up in a cave where we discussed lots of things about the sun and light and dark.

Here are some of us inside
the cave.

On Thursday, we were treated to a performance from members of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Brass Band. They were a lot of fun. They even showed us how to make a musical instrument using a mouth piece, garden hose and a funnel!

Holiday Fun

2010-09-28T00:33:00.000-07:00

To end our inquiry unit and celebrate the end of term we made fizzy lemonade. We learnt that the yeast in the mixture helped to create the gas to make it fizzy. We tasted some of the lemonade and then Sally froze some of it and turned them into ice-blocks.

You might like to try making some lemonade at home during the holidays.

Lemonade

You will need:

- A clean two-litre plastic bottle with a screw on cap

- 3 lemons

- 1 cup of sugar

- 1/4 teaspoon of yeast

- A jug for pouring

1. Put the sugar into the jug.

2. Add some hot water from the tap, and stir it all until the sugar has dissolved.

3. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze them into the jug.

4. Pour the mixture into your bottle, then add cold water until the bottle is almost full. Leave about 5 centimetres of space at the top.

5. Add the yeast to the mixture.

6. Screw the cap on tightly, and tip the bottle to mix everything.

7. Leave the lemonade for at least four days. A place that is not too hot and not too cold is best.

You can tell if the lemonade is ready by squeezing the bottle. It is ready if the bottle feels quite hard.

During the holidays you might also like to play some of the games on the wiki by Lorraine Duncan from Wakaaranga Primary School, Auckland.

Folk Dancing Display

2010-09-21T22:42:00.000-07:00

To celebrate all that we have learnt in folk dancing this term we joined with Renwick 2 for a folk dancing display. We danced to 7 Jumps and Carnavalito. We then joined with Renwick 2 and did the Birdy Dance. At the end we danced with our parents. It was a lot of fun, especially having our parents dancing with us!

Yum!

2010-09-19T21:57:00.000-07:00

Over the last week in inquiry we have learnt about solids, liquids and gasses through food. We have investigated how jelly turns from the solid to a liquid and then back to a solid again. We had a little experiment in class comparing the difference between jelly made with hot and cold water. We left them on the shelf in the sun and watched how they changed. The cold water jelly still stayed solid whilst the hot water jelly softened up and broke into pieces. We wondered if the jelly would turn back into the crystals, but it didn't. .

We then heated some chocolate and watched it melt. After we took it off the heat and put it into some molds we quickly saw it set into a solid again. We learnt that chocolate is reversible.

Today we made lemonade. We used yeast in the mixture to create a gas to make it fizzy. At the end of the week we will get to try some and then we are going to turn some of it into ice-blocks to celebrate the end of term!

Changing State!

2010-09-06T23:01:00.000-07:00

Today in inquiry we explored how water changes from a solid, to a liquid and then to a gas. We watched a block of ice melt during the day and then we saw some of it evaporate when we boiled it in the jug. We then created a diagram to show how heating and cooling the water creates the change in the state of the matter.

We then had a quick look at this game below
To play it in a larger screen click on this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/changing_state/play.shtml

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Skip Counting

2010-09-02T00:47:00.001-07:00

This week for Maths we have been singing this song. It has been helping us to skip count in 2's, 5's and 10's

Solid, Liquid, Gas

2010-08-31T18:03:00.000-07:00

This week for our inquiry topic we have been learning all about solids, liquids and gasses. Today we created Inspiration Diagrams to classify things that were solid, liquid or gas. We learnt to use the arrows to show things that could be two states of these matters.

We have been singing a neat song about solids, liquids and gasses and we watched a great movie from this website. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/studyjams/matter_states/

Today we also played this cool game.

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To see it bigger, click on the link below
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/gases_liquids_solids/play.shtml

Calender Art

2010-08-29T18:33:00.000-07:00

Last week we drew these pictures. You can order these to be turned into calenders and cards as part of a fundraiser that the Parent Community Group are organising. They will make great Christmas presents. Look out for a notice coming soon!

You might like to check them hanging up in the classroom for a better view.

Week of Fun

2010-08-27T02:20:00.000-07:00

What a week we've had this week. We've had a lot going on. On Monday we had fun playing with Gloop to kick off our new inquiry topic on solids, liquids and gasses. We had fun exploring how it turned from a solid to a liquid.

On Thursday we went to the Nelson City Library with Ren 3. Viv the Librarian read us some stories and taught us some songs. Then we were given free time to explore the library and choose books to issue.

And to wrap up our week Missie who has relieved in Rm 12 came and made iced biscuits with us. She is moving to Australia and wanted to have a little farewell party with us.

Pyjama Day

2010-08-19T22:41:00.000-07:00

Today we had Pyjama Day at school. The School Council organised this to raise money for the Centre for Children's Happiness children's orphanage in Cambodia. All the money that the student council raise this year is going to this orphanage. Most of us in Room 12 dressed up including Sally. The student council had us lay out our money on the outline of some PJ's!

Soccer Fun!

2010-08-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday we had our first of 3 sessions with Jordan from Nelson Football. He taught us lots of fun games and showed us different ways to kick the ball. Here we are trying to steal the bibs off our friends in Room 12 whilst still trying to control our ball.

What a surprise!

2010-08-17T22:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had our second session with the firefighters as part of our Firewise Unit. They brought along their firetruck and showed us some of the equipment they have on board. Suddenly their pagers went off and they said they had to go. They quickly put on their fire suits and raced off! Some of us thought they were just pretending. Sally wasn't quite sure either but we later heard that they were called to a false alarm down the road. Some of us were a bit sad that we didn't get to hop into the fire truck but some of us thought that we were lucky to see them race off! All pretty exciting really!

West/East Exhibition

2010-08-17T22:33:00.001-07:00

Yesterday we went to visit the West/East exhibition at the Suter Art Gallery. This was based upon the willow pattern from China used on crockery. We learnt about the story behind the pattern and had a go sketching some designs from some of the art work on display. After this we made bowls our of clay. We can't wait to see them once they are fired and we can paint them.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Here is a movie that some children made all about the willow pattern

Fire Escape Routes

2010-08-10T21:59:00.000-07:00

Today in ICT we played the games on the Firewise Website. Some of us drew our escape routes using the computer. Sally was blown away by Theo and Grace's escape route maps! She thought that they were even better than what she could draw.

You can check out the games on

http://www.getfirewise.org.nz/Back_Up/games.html

By Theo

By Grace

Firewise!

2010-08-10T13:08:00.000-07:00

Today Kevin and Gary from the Nelson Fire Station came and visited us. They talked to us all about being Firewise. They showed us a movie how quickly a house can catch on fire all by a candle being left next to a curtain. We talked about our escape plans and meeting places at our homes if there was a fire. At the end we practiced getting out safely. We imagined that they black cloth that Kevin and Gary was holding was thick smoke! We can't wait until they come back next week and show us their fire truck.

Food for thought

2010-08-10T13:07:00.000-07:00

Tracy from Room 11 has organised an alternative to the 40 Hour Famine. On Saturday 14th August children are encouraged to eat a similar diet to that of a child from Cambodia. A similar diet would consist of the following meals;

Breakfast: Rice, Fried Egg

Lunch: Rice and Fried Vegetables eg Silver Beet, Spinach, Cabbage and small portion of protein

Dinner: Rice, Fried Vegetables eg Silver Beet, Spinach, Cabbage, small portion of protein and portion of fruit

ALL of the money raised will go to the Centre for Childrens Happiness orphanges in Cambodia to be put towards school supplies and shoes for the children. NCS children have already helped out children in this orphanage by sending several boxes of un-wanted books to them via Tracy.

We watched this video to learn a little bit about how the money we raise can help children in Cambodia. We decided that we were all very lucky to live in New Zealand!

Special Visitors

2010-07-29T22:28:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we were lucky enough to have visits from 2 different lots of people. special visitors. Harold and Victoria from Life Education are visiting Nelson Central School at the moment. We were all very excited about going to visit Harold in his special trailer. We learnt about different parts of our body and what they do and things which we can do to help keep our body healthy.

Here is what some of us wrote about the visit.

The Harold show was fab. I loved the movie. Ione

Today I went to meet Harold the Giraffe. First we left Room 12. Next we walked to his trailer and finally I went inside his trailer. Theo

Today we went to see Harold the Giraffe. He made us do a puzzle. Next we watched a movie. He put on a song. Jemma

In the afternoon we had a visit from a group of adult students from NMIT. They have come to New Zealand to learn English and learn all about life here. We sung them our special school song, taught them the Hokey Tokey and we showed them what we do in Phonics.

2D shapes

2010-07-20T22:57:00.000-07:00

This week as for Maths we are learning all about 2D shapes. Today as part of ICT Sally set us the challenge of photographing things around our school which are in the shape of the 2D shapes that we have been learning about. Check out our great photos below!

Interesting Lines!

2010-07-20T22:55:00.000-07:00

Today we had a bit of fun in art. We were learning about all the different types of lines that could make using our paintbrush. What made it extra fun was that we worked on two big sheets of paper and we kept rotating positions. This meant that we kept adding to what our friends had already painted.

End of Term

2010-07-05T16:23:00.000-07:00

To celebrate the end of term we made gingerbread men. We followed the recipe from the big book that we had been reading all week. We also talked a lot about measuring as we had been focusing on this during maths. They tasted yummy and were a great way to end the term!

Our Favourite Toys

2010-06-28T22:03:00.000-07:00

This week we wrote descriptions about our favourite toy. Sally let us bring them to school. Here are two descriptions that Sally thought were fantastic!

My Cats

Superman Cat has spiky ears. Superman cat saves people. He likes to be healthy. He doesn’t like to eat junk food. Superman Cat is cute. Poppy

Ice-Cream

Ice-Cream looks like an ice-cream cone. She lies in bed with me. She cuddles me. She doesn’t like bears. I love my dog. Jemma

Magnets!

2010-06-23T21:13:00.000-07:00

Today we looked at this great powerpoint presentation on magnets. We learnt that the North Pole isn't just where Father Christmas lives but that we have North Poles on magnets too!

(To view this best at home you will need to download the file to see the animations)

Magnets Ppt

NCG Music Group

2010-06-22T22:12:00.000-07:00

Today we were lucky enough to watch a performance from a Year 9 Music Group from the Nelson College for Girls. They played instruments and sung to us. We especially loved the song 'Don't Worry' by Bob Marley as we have learnt this song!

Zero Waste!

2010-06-10T22:29:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Sarah Langi came and spoke to the Kowhai Syndicate about the Zero waste challenge. She showed us lots of different examples of lunch boxes. Some of the lunchboxes had lots of waste in them because their food was wrapped in gladwrap and they had lots of packet food. She also showed us a fantastic lunchbox which had no waste! At Nelson Central School lots of us have been trying really hard to not use gladwrap. The next step is to make your lunchbox zero waste though? Could you use containers or buy a special lunchbox so you don't even have to use ziplock bags or lunch wrap?

Fantastic Writing!

2010-06-10T22:10:00.000-07:00

This week Sally had a day off sick. When she came back to school she enjoyed reading all of Room 12's fabulous stories that they wrote with Missie. Sally really enjoyed reading Aidan's story and she thought that you might like to read it too!

One night when I was sleeping I heard a sound. It woke me fully up. I got out of bed and walked to the open window and I looked out of the window and I saw a wolf howling!

Maybe Aidan might become an author one day?

Magic Magnets

2010-06-09T23:42:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we lucky enough to have Sterling come and kick off our topic on magnets. He taught us that magnets are a force and that they ATTRACT and REPEL! We had lots of fun exploring this with cars, paper clips and iron filings! Thank you Sterling for giving up your time to come and teach us!

Jelly!

2010-06-04T01:35:00.000-07:00

This week we have been learning about the different sounds that the letter y can make. We learnt that the letter y can make an 'e' and an 'i' sound. This week our poem was all about jelly so Sally decided it would be cool to make some jelly. Here we are making it. Sally forgot the camera when we were eating it though!

Check us out!

2010-06-04T01:28:00.000-07:00

This week our article from our blog on Robyn Belton's visit to Nelson Central School featured in the school newsletter. This included Poppy and Grace's story that they wrote. Check it out below!

NCS Newsletter 2.06.2010 Web

Cross Country

2010-06-04T01:21:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had our school cross country. Our syndicate has been training hard for it this term. We were split into our age groups and we all had to run two laps of the front field. Poppy and Ione then decided that they would compete in the open race! They had to run two big laps around the school. Poppy even managed to beat some of the older children! Sally thinks that we were all running superstars!

Top Finishers from Room 12 were

5 year old Girls

1st - Poppy

2nd - Rani

5 Year Old Boys

2nd - Jasper

7th - Brook

6 Year Old Boys

6th - Willem

9th - Theo

In cross country a man had a piece of wood. He clapped the pieces of wood. He clapped one time of the wood. The race started. In the middle of the race I fell over. By Phelan

Yesterday we did cross country. I was second. By Rani

Saving Water!

2010-06-04T00:57:00.000-07:00

To finish off our inquiry topic on water we have shared ideas about all the different ways we could help save water. Today in ICT we made posters of all the different ways we came up with.

Splash!

2010-05-30T13:08:00.000-07:00

This term for inquiry we have been learning all about water. Watch our movie below to see some of the questions we had about water before we started our topic and the answers we found to them.

Robyn Belton

2010-05-26T22:51:00.000-07:00

Today we were lucky enough to have Robyn Belton visit our school. She illustrates the famous books about Greedy Cat and other books like Herbert the Brave Sea Dog. She even drew us a picture of Greedy Cat. Here are some of the stories that we wrote about her visit.

Robyn Belton came to our school. She wrote the Greedy Cat stories. She showed us about when Herbert fell off the boat. We had to answer her questions about Greedy Cat and Herbert. I wonder why she does that? She is a good drawer. By Grace

Greedy Cat is fluffy. Robyn Belton read Greedy Cat to us. Robyn is a good drawers. She drew Greedy Cat. I like Robyn Belton. By Poppy.

Friends!

2010-05-25T00:50:00.000-07:00

This week we wrote descriptions about our friends. Here are two of the stories that met all the criteria and that Sally thought were fantastic.

Matthew

I play with my best friend Matthew. He plays with me. He looks like me. Matthew is long. Matthew doesn’t like dogs. Matthew likes roast potatoes. I feel special with Matthew sitting at lunch with me. Willem

Theo

My best friend Theo. He looks cool. He has orange hair. Theo does not like broccoli. He does like ice cream. I love Theo. Jasper

Printmaking

2010-05-23T23:30:00.000-07:00

This term in art we have been learning all about print making. So far we have made prints of leaves, bubbles and feathers. We also made prints using our fingers.

Water Cycle Song

2010-05-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

The last two weeks we have been singing this neat song about the water cycle. We thought you might like to watch it too.

2010-05-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

This term we are learning to write descriptions.

We know that we have achieved this when we include:

- Who

- What they look like

- What they like or don't like

- How we feel about them.

This week we wrote descriptions about our Mum or Dad.

My Dad.

By Charlie

My Dad is a football player. My Dad looks like Grandad. My Dad is cool. My Dad likes to read the newspaper.

My Dad

By Theo

My Dad is cool. My Dad likes reading. My Dad goes to the port. He goes there every single day. I love my Dad so so much. My Dad likes reading the newspaper. My Dad is so so so so cool! The End.

My Mum

By Aidan

My Mum has hair. She rides her bicycle. My Mum doesn't like going to the supermarket. I think my Mum is cool. The End.

My Dad

By Brook

My Dad has black hair. My Dad is a good football coach for a team. My Dad doesn’t like banana muffins. My Dad likes fruit and there is something else that my Dad likes. He likes bananas. My Dad is cool.

Room 12A opening

2010-05-11T21:19:00.000-07:00

Today was a very special day at Nelson Central School. Today we opened a brand new classroom; Room 12 A! Five new students who will be in the class helped Lynley their teacher cut the ribbon. Later on in the day Sally let us have a look through the new classroom. The new classroom is right next to our class so we have been able to watch its progress closely. We especially enjoyed when the digger was there digging holes. Sally thinks we have done very well concentrating on our work whilst they have been building because some days there was lots of noise from skill saws and hammers! We just hope that not too many people get muddled up between Room 12 and Room 12A!

Robin

2010-05-06T21:45:00.000-07:00

Today we sadly farewelled Robin. He is moving back to Germany with his family. We had a little party for him at the end of the day. Robin's Mum made muffins in ice-cream cones which we thought was very cool as none of us had had it before. We wish you all the best for settling back to life in Germany Robin.

Maitai Dam

2010-05-04T18:23:00.000-07:00

Today we visited the Maitai dam as part of our inquiry unit on water. We walked up to the top of the dam and looked at where all the water is stored. Nelson hasn't had much rain lately so unfortuantly there was no water going down the steep spillway. After that we went down into the tunnel below the dam and saw some of the big pipes that the water moves through. Click on buttons below to listen to some of our thoughts from our visit.

Autumn!

2010-04-22T22:25:00.000-07:00

This week we have had lots of fun related to Autumn. We have learnt a poem about autumn, had a leaf fight and made leaf rubbings using crayon. Watch our movie to hear our poem and watch us having a leaf fight!

Natural or man-made?

2010-04-20T21:33:00.000-07:00

This week we started our new topic on water called Splash! We have had some interesting conversations deciding whether objects are natural or have been man-made. Today we thought that human's original teeth are natural but false teeth are man-made! Today in ICT we created Kidspiration diagrams classifying objects as natural or man-made. You can look at them below.

Tuataras

2010-03-30T12:42:00.000-07:00

This week we made posters to communicate and celebrate all the things that we have learnt about Tuatara's. Check out the photos below to find out all the interesting things that we have found out. Do you know why Tuatara's puff up their spikes? You'll find the answer below.

* You can click on the photos below to see them larger.

Grouping Animals

2010-03-15T19:29:00.000-07:00

Today we looked at this powerpoint on the different ways that animals can be grouped. Do you know the six groups that animals can be sorted into?

Grouping Animals Variation

Inquiry

2010-03-15T19:07:00.000-07:00

For our inquiry we have been learning about living and non-living things. Check out this great game below we have been playing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/plants_animals_env.shtml

We have also been learning about how animals are grouped. You can practice grouping animals by clicking on the link to the game below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/variation_fs.shtml

Natureland

2010-03-10T14:46:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we went to Natureland to kick off our topic on "Is this an animal?" We learnt about different groups of animals. We learnt about fish, amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles.

We learnt that when Tuataras lay their eggs if they are hot they will turn into boy tuatara's but if they are kept cold they turn into girl tuatara's. Harry. We learnt about the skin of tuataura's. Their skin comes off them when they get bigger. Poppy and Willem.

We saw the fish. Charlie We saw a pig. Katie

We saw sea otters. They make milk for their babies. We saw them being fed mice. On of the sea otters swam with its mouse so they other sea otter wouldn't eat it. Matthew, Poppy.

Rugby League

2010-03-08T20:45:00.001-08:00

Today we were lucky enough to have Mike and Andrew come along to school to do an introductory session on league with us. Read some of our stories below to find out more.

Today we played Rugby League with Mike and Andrews. They tried to tag us with the rugby ball and you had to run away. Matthew

I went to the league. I liked it. It was fun. It was the best. Poppy

Today we played Rugby League with Mike and Andrew. Rani

Busy Bodies

2010-03-07T20:19:00.001-08:00

This term for inquiry we have been learning about our busy bodies and all the interesting, weird and wonderful things that they do. We made a voice thread to present all the things that we learnt. With Sally's help we selected the pictures using Microsoft Clip Art to make our Voice Thread.

Bella Visits!

2010-02-25T19:35:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday we were lucky enough to have Charlie's puppy Bella come and visit us. We were able to practice our questioning to find our lots of information about Bella. We learnt that she is just 8 weeks old. Charlie's family got Bella from some family friends in Nelson. All the rest of Bella's brothers and sisters have gone to Dunedin. We all thought that we would like to take her home!

ICT Headshots

2010-02-25T19:31:00.000-08:00

In ICT we have been learning to take head shots using the digital camera. We decided that to take a good photograph that:

- The person was in the middle of the photograph

- The photo showed just their head and shoulders

- The photograph was clear.

We learnt that to take a photograph of just their head and shoulders we could either move closer or use the zoom function. Check out our animoto slide show to see our photographs. Sorry all the photos wouldn't fit onto one animoto presentation.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Room 12 Class Charter

2010-02-22T15:49:00.000-08:00

Here is our Class Charter that we have developed

Microsoft Word - Room 12 2010 Class Charter

Busy Bodies

2010-02-21T23:01:00.001-08:00

This term for inquiry we are learning about our 'busy bodies'. We had fun drawing around Brook and labeling the different parts of the body that we know. As part of the next step of our inquiry model, the acquiring stage, we have created a list of questions we would like to find answers too. We have made sure that our questions start with one of the 7 servants like 'who', 'what', 'where' or 'when'. So far we have watched a movie from Suzy's world on skeletons and Theo has brought in his amazing book on the body. This week we are singing a fun song from Harold from Life Educations Trust Website called the Boddy Oddy song. On here is also the link for the "Who am I?" posters that we made last week as part of ICT.

http://www.lifeeducation.org.nz/kids-zone/

Bumpity Bus

2010-02-18T16:22:00.000-08:00

Here are those of us who don't go to choir performing our poem of the week. Enjoy!

Special Visitors

2010-02-17T22:59:00.001-08:00

Today we had some special visitors from NMIT. 5 adult students from Laos and Vietnam who are studying English and New Zealand culture came and visited us. They taught us some songs and how to say Hello in their language. We then sung them some songs and we were very surprised when they knew and joined in with the song in Maori. They said that we were very lucky to go to school here because if we lived in their country there would be 60 students in our class!

Swimming

2010-02-14T11:05:00.000-08:00

For P.E. this term we are swimming. Some of us are learning to become more confident in water and have been practicing putting our heads under the water, floating and blowing bubbles. Some of us have been practicing our freestyle along with floating and gliding on our backs.

Our Big Buddies!

2010-02-06T18:11:00.001-08:00

On Friday we had our first buddy time. Our big buddies are year 3/4 students from Room 6. We meet up with them on Friday afternoons and do fun things like play sport and make crafts. For some of our buddies it is the first time that they are the 'big' buddy so they were quite excited! Check out the photos below of us with our big

Our Big Buddies on PhotoPeach

buddies.

Statistics!

2010-02-03T14:34:00.000-08:00

Today in Maths we sorted and grouped our hats as part of our topic on Statistics. We sorted them into lots of different ways. We put them into groups and saw which ones were big and small. There were lots of big hats, one middle size hat and three small hats. We also sorted them into colours.

Written by Room 12 and Sally

Welcome!

2010-01-23T02:32:00.000-08:00

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