Our Poetry Voicethread

We have been learning to write great poems. We have been using lots of adjectives in our poetry to describe and make our writing interesting.

Take a look at our Voicethread below where you can hear us reading our best poems (if you can't see it, make sure you press reload on your Internet Browser).

Diana Noonan Visits NCS

Today Nelson Central School went to assembly.
Diana Noonan told us a story.
It was called The Giant's Stew.
By Tony


Today Diana Noonan (an author) came to the Nelson Central School hall. Room 9 went there to meet her. Room 9 walked there. First Diana read the school stories that she wrote. My favourite book she wrote was called "Trees belong to everyone".
By Merlyn


On Friday Room 9 and the rest of Nelson Central went to the hall. Her name is Diana Noonan. She is an author. She wrote Best Loved Bear, Best Dressed Bear, Trees belong to everyone and The Giant's Stew. My favourite story was Trees belong to everyone. It was my favourite story because I like it how the children sang. Diana Noonan is a nice lady.
By Charlotte


Today Nelson Central School had a very special visitor. The visitor's name was Diana Noonan. Her job is to write books. She is called an author. Diana read us some books. When she read the books her tone of voice sounded cool. She wrote the books herself! They were good books.
By Siobhan

NZ's Exports

We have been learning about trading and imports and exports.

New Zealand exports lots of things to other countries around the world. This means we sell other countries things that we have lots of.

Do you know some of the things New Zealand sells to other countries?

Take a look at some of our Inspiration diagrams to find out what!

By Grace & Melany

By Charlotte & Quanah


CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL OF ROOM 9'S DIAGRAMS!

Trade-a-thing Day

On Thursday 21st of August Kowhai Syndicate held a "Trade-a-thing Day" in the hall to celebrate the learning we have been doing in our Inquiry topic of Trading - looking at imports and exports. We each brought 2-3 things we no longer wanted anymore to trade/swap with other children in our syndicate.

Here are what some of Room 9 thought of Trade-a-thing Day:

I thought Kowhai's trade-a-thing was great. I got a book, a rabbit and a toy Jasmin. Before that I had an Aladdin book, a bag with a pencil sharpener and a ball and a bag with some other stuff in it. I traded with Logan, Ella and a girl in Renwick 2.
By Charlotte

I thought trade-a-thing day was great! I liked it because there were lots of cool toys and you could trade. There were lots of other children to trade with. I traded a fire engine for a spider (with Toby) and a puzzle for an aeroplane (with Oscar).
By Merlyn

I thought trade-a-thing day was fun. I traded with Quanah, Grace and Holly. I treaded with Grace for her pony and she got my giraffe puzzle. I traded with Quanah my cheetah puzzle for her violet doll. I traded with Holly my elephant puzzle for her doll's mirror.
By Siggi

I thought Trade-a-thing day was excellent, fantastic and fun. Before I had a note book, a teenage mutant ninja turtles car and a spider. After I had a fire engine, pen and the teenage mutant ninja turtles car. It was on Thursday. I liked trade-a-thing day because I like trading things.
By Toby

I thought trade-a-thing day was fascinating. I traded with Tyler. I traded my bouncy ball for a bionicle. I did not trade my car. I wanted to trade my car but everyone else only had little stuff to trade.
By Dylan


Here is a video of Room 9 all lined up with their things ready to trade:




[Special thanks to Dylan and Jack for making the title credits for our movie]

Current Events: The Olympics

Today we have been discussing
The Olympics for Current Events.

Each child from Room 9 had to bring in an article or something to talk about that was to do with The Olympics. Room 9 spoke about many different sports all played in the Olympics and knew heaps of facts about what had/has been happening.

6 children were chosen to speak about their current event in a movie recording. We hope you enjoy all of the interesting things they found out about the Olympics!

Don't forget to leave us a comment if you want to share some information about the Olympics with us!

How to make a Pop up Card

We are learning to write instructions on how to do different things.


Here we will give you instructions on how to make a pop up card. Maybe you might like to have a try yourself!


You will need:

• Coloured A4 paper
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Pencil
  

How to make it:

1. Fold the piece of paper in half like a book (Holly)
2. Draw a 6cm line using your ruler from the middle of the fold (Luke M)
3. Cut along the line with the scissors (Toby)
4. Fold two triangles out from the cut (Logan)
5. Unfold the triangles (Amber)
6. Open the card out like a tent (Ethan)
7. Push the big triangles through to the other side and fold them (Charlotte)
8. Fold the folds of the triangles (beak) the other way so they stick out (Oscar). This makes a mouth.
9. Close the card. Make sure all the mouth is pushed inside and fold it all down (Arjuna)
10. Open your card and decorate it! (Ella)
    

If you get stuck, this website, is what we used to help us.
It has great photos of how to make the folds.

Itineraries for visitors to Nelson

This term we have been planning an ITINERARY for a new visitor to Nelson.

In our scenario, our visitor was to be a 60 year old Grandma who enjoys art, walking, craft and reading.

Our task was to:

"Plan an itinerary around Nelson for a visiting 60 year old Grandma.
Include where you would go in the morning, for lunch and in the afternoon.
You will need to be able to walk to all your destinations from Nelson Central School."

Here are our finished slideshows that detail our ITINERARY, use the arrow keys to flick through the pages :)

Emma

Room 9 has two teachers for 5 weeks!

One is Rachel and the other is Emma!

Emma has been helping Room 9 with their learning.

Here is what a few of Room 9 had to say about Emma:

• Emma is here to help us learn - Dylan

• Emma is a nice teacher - Ella

• She helps us with words that we don't know - Luke M

• We like Emma - Siobhan

• She is a good teacher - Charlotte

• Emma helps us with our writing - Merlyn

• Thank you for teaching us Emma - Oscar

• You are a great teacher Emma - Amber

[Kidpix picture by Ella]

Our Holidays 2

Another group in Room 9 has finally had some time to sit down with Rachel and put their video together about their holidays.

We hope you enjoy hearing about these students' holidays :)

What we like about our school!

Our topic at the moment is:
"It's our school and we're proud of it!"

We have been looking at all of the really cool things we like about Nelson Central School.

We used a special programme called Inspiration to create bubble maps that brainstormed all of our great ideas. You can click on the picture to view our ideas larger if you want.

By Arjuna, Hayden and Chloe


By Quanah and Charlotte

By Melany and Grace