This week at Nelson Central we celebrated Wig Wednesday. This was a fundraiser for the child cancer foundation. As a school we raised over $400. Well done Nelson Central!
In Maths this week we are focussing on Statistics. As part of this we have been learning all about Pie Charts. Guess what we used to create pie charts about this week?
What's been happening in Room 2 this week you ask... Well let us tell you!
We have continued on explanations in Writing. This week we started writing explanations about the water cycle. We enjoyed singing along to this fun water cycle song. Some of us even made up some actions for it!
This week we finished off and presented our Inquiry Projects. We developed our vision for what we would like to see happen at NCS now that we are an EnviroSchool. Many of us focussed on just one element. Check out the videos and presentations below.
We also had our whole-school cross-country. Whilst we have already made selections for the Inter-School Cross-Country we still got in the whole-school spirit and joined in with the cross-country today. Well done to Nils who once again won the Year 6 boys race and the open race!
It may have been a short week but it sure has been an action packed one!
On Tuesday we carried on with Mahi Toi - A Totara Syndicate Arts Interchange Programme. The students with Sally have been working on a collaborative piece of art work. Each student was given a small piece of the artwork below to then enlarge. Look at the masterpiece we created when we pieced it all together!
As part of ICT and Inquiry we have been working collabortively with a buddy to create a Google Slideshow presentation. Below you can see Josie and Grayson both working on the same document but on separate computers! Sally has been very impressed by the we have worked together on these. Look out for the completed projects on our blogs soon!
On Wednesday we had our Totara Syndicate Cross-Country and boy did Room 2 dominate! Students from Room 2 won three out of the four races.
Year 5 Boys
1st - Nils
5th- Koebi
7th- Zai
10th - Michael
Year 5 Girls
7th - Rosie
8th - Emma
Year 6 Girls
1st - Floss
7th - Hannah
Year 6 Boys
1st - Ruben
5th - Max
6th - Ryan
9th - Sam
Thursday ended up being a bit of a foodie day!
We kick started the day by making popcorn as we have just begun a new unit on explanations. As part of this we are going to be explaining how popcorn pops! Check out this amazing slow motion video below of popcorn popping!
On Friday to celebrate Matariki the Totara Syndicate shared kai together for lunch. Room 2 were amazing and iced and decorated 120 star cookies to share with our friends!
Also on Thursday many of us were involved in the Water Safety programme at Riverside Pool. This week we had the challenge of jumping into the pool, putting on a life jacket and then forming a huddle.
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to visit Founder's Park to have a clay session run by Esther from the Suter Art Gallery. We each made a wall hanging inspired by the historic buildings at Founders.
On Wednesday as part of the EnviroSchool focus Mel came and spoke to us about how precious water is. She showed us a model of a local landscape and the negative impacts that our choices can have on our water. We also got to have a look at some of the critters she captured from our local Brook Stream.
On Thursday a number of us partook in a big inter-school hockey tournament. Congratulations to the boys team who placed third overall and to the girls who placed 4th. They were up against approximately 20 other teams!
