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

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

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!

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!