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).

Rich Adjectives

We have been learning to use adjectives to describe things. Soon we will use all our knowldge of adjectives to write some awesome poems.

We had to use 6 adjectives to describe an object or a thing. Here are some of our lines:

The toy monkey is green, purple, orange, happy, cheeky and cute.
By Siobhan

My classroom teddy is soft, cuddly, blue, useful, little and has black eyes.
By Grace

The dice is useful, rubbery, small, soft, yellowy and dangly.
By Holly

My learning journal is colourful, useful, small, hard, rustly and rough.
By Te Miri

My pencil is blue, wooden, sharp, smooth, hard, cold and little.
By Arjuna

The globe is round, blue, useful, colourful, big and hard.
By Melany

Can you think of at least 2 words to describe the object in this picture?
Post your answer as a comment below:

Loud Shirt Day

Last Friday it was Loud Shirt Day. It was to raise money to give children who can't hear very well a voice. It is to help them get cochlea implants so that children can hear.

Amber, Jack, Logan and Te Miri all got dressed up in their loud shirts and donated some money. Logan and Jack also won a prize for their great loud shirts!

Processing Fish

We have been learning how fish gets from the sea in New Zealand to a dinner plate in another country.

One of the processes of exporting fish overseas is processing it.

Take a look at some of our diagrams to see how Sealord process the fish on the factory freezer trawlers after it has been caught.

By Amber

By Beau

By Logan

By Te Miri

Maui and the Sun retelling

Last week Room 9 looked at the legend "Maui and the Sun".

We had lots of discussion and listened to the story a few times. Then we had to retell it in our own words and write a recount of what happened in our writing.

Here are some of our recounts, some will even be published in the next school newsletter! We hope you enjoy them :)

Once upon a time in the olden days the sun went too fast. The villagers didn’t have enough time to do their chores. Then Maui made a plan to catch the sun. Maui got his bravest men to come and help him catch it. They asked one of the women to weave a rope for them to use. Maui said a karakia to protect it. They walked all night and slept all day until they reached the edge of the world. Then they found the sun. They caught the sun and made it go slower.

By Te Miri

A long time ago the sun went too fast. The villagers didn’t have enough time to do their jobs fast. One day the villagers got mad. Maui got a plan so they went to the sun’s lair. They got ready. A big red light came up. The sun popped up. “Pull men!” said Maui. Maui went to the sun and started to beat the sun. “Stop it! Stop it!” said the sun. “Only if you go slow so we can get our jobs done, ok?” said Maui. “Just let me go,” said the sun. From then on the sun always went slow.

By Dylan

Once upon a time the sun always travelled too fast across the sky and the villagers did not get time to do their chores and for the children to play. Maui said “make me a rope and a trap”. Maui called his best guards to help him so they walked night and day until they got to the edge of the world. They found the sun’s hole and put the rope over the hole. Then they sat down and waited until the sun came out. Then Maui pulled the sun in until the sun said “yes, I will slow down!”

By Tyler

So what is our Classroom like?

In the school holidays I am going to speak to some teachers from Petone in Wellington about some of the things we have been doing about learning & ICT in our class and at Nelson Central School.

Over the past few days some of Room 9 have helped me by recording themselves talking about some things in our classroom using the digital voice recorder.

I have put them all into a video below. It is like a TOUR OF OUR CLASSROOM!

I hope you enjoy it!

From Rachel :)

Special thanks to the students below who chatted away for me: Toby, Chloe, Luke M, Te Miri, Melany, Arjuna, Siobhan, Oscar, Baxter and Logan.

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 :)

Our trip to the Public Library

Room 9 went to the Nelson Public Library. We stopped off at the Queen's Gardens to have our lunch. I had an excellent time. I even found a book about Tuataras. I read different books. We walked back to school.
By Toby

Check out the awesome video that some of Room 9 made about our library trip below...

Room 9 went to the Nelson Public Library. On the way we stopped to have lunch at the Queen's Gardens. After lunch Toby and I climbed on a tree. Then we kept going. When we got to the library we sat down. After that we looked for some books about Nelson (I found one). Then we just looked at books. I found a really cool book.
By Merlyn

Our Holidays

Room 9 is back from holidays, we had 2 weeks off school!

Take a look at our video to see what eight students from Room 9 got up to!

Feathered Friends

Room 9 has been learning about birds.

We have been using our Go Zone that is called "Feathered Friends" to help us.

So far we have learned the names of these New Zealand birds.
They are:

• Fantail (Ethan)
• Kakapo (Luke M)
• Tui (Jack)
• Ruru or Morepork (Merlyn)
• Kiwi (Te Miri)
• Kaka (Luke H)
  
• Kereru (Hayden)
• Kea (Siggi)

We have found out these great facts about birds:

• A kakapo and a kiwi can't fly (Merlyn)
• Kakas are the 'clowns' of the forest (James)
• Kiwis can't fly (Grace)
• Kiwis come out at night and hunt for insects to eat (Luke M)
• Kiwis have whiskers (Ella)
• Fantails have a fan-like tail (Ethan)
• Tuis can fly and they don't have whiskers (Toby)
• Kakapo, tui, fantail, ruru and kea are all names of birds (Oscar)
  

Staying Alive!

On Friday Room 9 went to the Staying Alive Expo at the Richmond Showgrounds. All of Kowhai and Totara syndicate came too. We went on a bus with our teachers and Renwick 2. The bus ride was fun and bumpy. There were no seatbelts on the bus. The bus was big and we could see out the windows.

When we got there the bus left and we ate our lunch. We looked at the crashed cars and the pretend grave. For Staying Alive our first activity was looking at why we need to wear seat belts. They had seat on a slide, it showed you what happens when you are in a crash. Taylor went on it. His sunglasses fell off his head because of the impact.

Here are some of the things we learned:

• it is good to have a booster seat until we are 8 years old - Ella
• we learned how to get down, get low and get out! - Oscar
• fire can go through a house in just 6 minutes, you have to get out quickly - James
• when you have a fire you can meet your family at the mailbox (or end of street) so you are safe - Luke M
• if there's a fire and there's a fire engine coming the cars have to let the fire engine go past - Luke H
• even driving at 60kms can mean you don't stop in time and you may run someone over - Toby
• you need to get out of a fire straight away because the the smoke is poisonous - Amber
• get low and get out if there's a fire in the house - Tony

The whole day was awesome, excellent, interesting and fantastic. We had lots of fun and also learned lots too!