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.

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 :)

Lunch with our Monster "IT"

We have been learning to use lots of different describing words in our writing.

Today we wrote poems that described the food we would eat if we went out to lunch with our monster "It". Here are some lines from Room 9's poems.

If I had lunch with It...
We would start out with white and orange fish pie. (Holly)
Then he would serve me a stinky, red meat pie. (Baxter)
And a cup of fat,chocolate worms. (Chloe)
Next we will eat rainbow goo. (Keely)
For desert, I would eat crimson, slushy pavlova (Logan)
And green, slimy slugs (Quanah)
with a monster sized apple (Tony)

Here are four of our best monster pictures... what do you think?

By Melany

By Logan










By Arjuna & Toby

Last two Holidays Videos!

Hurray!

The last two holidays videos have been put together from content gathered from Room 9 during the first 2 weeks of term.

We did our drawings in Kidpix and recorded our talking using the Digital Voice Recorder. Movie Maker then helped us put it all together into a movie!

Check out the last 2 videos below!






We hope you enjoyed the videos :)

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

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!