Seeds

Our brainstorms about seeds using Inspiration

Flower Power!

This term our topic is Flower Power. We are learning all about plants and in particular their reproduction.  

To kick off our topic this week we have had lots of fun.  First we played 'Guess the Seed' competition.  Then we created our own cress head people and planted sweet pea seeds.  We look forward to watching them germinate and grow. We also had some interesting conversations about seeds.  Did you know that the stone in the middle of an avocado is actually a seed?  We also came up with some interesting questions after talking about the factors that all living things do. Can you help us with these? - How do plants go to the toilet? - How do plants breathe? - How do plants move?

Nelson Masked Parade

We Won!

So stoked to announce that we took out the Supreme Award tonight at the Nelson Mask Parade.

With around 400 children decked out in masks with were a sight not to be missed!

The theme was the 'Playful Pacific'

Nelson Central School represented the 4 elements of earth, fire, water and air paddling together in one waka.

Fun day Friday!

Today we had a great day to celebrate the end of term.  It began when we joined the most of the other syndicates to listen to author Ben Brown and illustrator Helen Taylor share some of their stories and the process that they go through to create their books.  

Next we had a treasure hunt.  During Maths we have been learning about position and orientation.  We had to draw a map of the junior playground and then write instructions for our buddy to find the treasure we had hidden for them.

 After this we presented our plays that we had been working on all week.  We worked hard to become fluent with our lines and in creating our props and costumes.

Aria dressed as an astronaut 

To end the day we had a whole school dress rehearsal in front of our parents for the mask parade tonight.  Sadly we had to farewell Greer who is moving to Henley School.  We wish her all the best as she settles into her new class.

Rugby World Cup

Today the Kahikatea Syndicate had a fun rugby themed tabloid sports competition.  We were all divided up into 10 different Rugby World Cup team countries.  We then rotated around 5 stations competing in fun activities.  Some of the activities involved dressing up in Rugby clothing, carrying a rugby ball on a plate over an obstacle course and doing the crab walk with ball on our stomach.  Congratulations to the Samoan team who won topped the scores both in the games and courtesy points!

Ellie's Bunny Visits

 

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have a visit from Ellie's baby bunny rabbit.  Ellie was very excited to learn last Friday after school that her Mum had bought her and a sister a baby bunny rabbit each.  She decided to call her Tansy.  Tansy seemed to enjoy checking us all out on her visit to our classroom.  Thank you for bringing Tansy into our classroom Ellie.

NIS Gym

 

On Friday we went to Nelson Intermediate to do gym. We learnt other ways to land on our feet and things that we had not done before. Mackenzie even did her first forward roll. I think every body had lots of fun.  

Written by Holly

What a week!

 

What a week we've had this week.  On Monday we made mouse traps as part of instruction writing.  We thought that they were really yummy.  We've been working hard on our masks and our performance for the ready for the Mask Parade next Friday night.  We'd love for you to come and support us from 5.30 onward.  During reading we read instructions.  On Thursday we got to create the items.  Some of us made rice hacky-sacks, others of us made newspaper kimonos and the rest of us followed instructions to make paper cups.  And then to wrap up the week we went to Nelson Intermediate Gym and had an amazing session there.  

Suter Art Gallery Visit

On 23rd of September Room 5 went to the Suter Art Gallery.  The exhibition was called Corbelletto. At the exhibition there were lots of different sculptures that were all made from the same shape.  In our groups Esther said that we could make our own pattern with only one shape.We tried about ten different patterns until Esther said find the best pattern.When we decided upon the best pattern we started to glue them on to create our own piece of art.

Written by Sophie and Ellie