TEKKIE BREKKIE

This morning before school Cooper,Floss and Ruby R taught the teachers how to use the app Little bird tales. We were nervous at first but then we got happier. Lots of teachers came to the Teekie brekkie. We had lots of fun. Dr Potaka took lots of photos of us.  Then he interviewed us in his office.  HE'S GOING TO PUT US IN THE NEWSLETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Cooper,Ruby R & Floss!!!

Let's get 3D!

Today we had fun with our little buddies using an amazing app called Colar Mix.  It turned our special colouring in pages downloaded from the Colar Mix website into amazing animated 3D images.  This app is available in both Android and Apple and can also be used on your smartphones.

Museum, measurement and mmmm..... chocolate cake!

We have had another busy week in Room 5 this week.  We kicked off the week by a visit to the Museum on Monday.  We visited the Christchurch Earthquake exhibition as part of our inquiry topic.  To find out more check out our blog posts on our individual blogs.

  

On Tuesday we sadly said farewell to our student teacher Roxy.  She has been in our classroom one day a week for the last 6 weeks.  We were sad to see her go but we loved the cupcakes that she made for us.

In Art this week we had fun printing our leaf string prints.  Most of us think the results were worth our persistence last week.

In Maths we have been learning all about measurement.  On Thursday we had fun seeing how many cups of water it took to fill a variety of containers.  To celebrate the end of our measurement unit and to also help Sally celebrate her birthday we baked a yummy chocolate cake!

Pirates, printing, persisting and performing

We have kicked of Term 2 with a lot of fun! On Monday when we arrived at school we found Sally dressed in a Pirate costume. Our Maths had a bit of pirate theme. Captain Blook A.k.a. Sally had a treasure chest to bury but she needed to measure out the correct distances and then draw it on her map. On Tuesday we had fun drawing out the measurements for Captain Bloods new pirate ship on the front courts. 

 On Tuesday after lunch we discovered that we could not enter our classroom as it was under inspection to see if it was Earthquake safe. As a result we had to have our writing lesson outside in a tent with just a small amount of resources that Sally was able to gather up for us. It was challenging as there were not enough pens and paper for us all. Room 7 joined us for a bit and we quickly discovered that it was very challenging due to the noise, because we were uncomfortable and hot. 

In art this week we started our new topic of print making. On our cardboard block we each created a leaf design using string. We all found it challenging to begin with, but we were proud of our results after we persisted with it. 

Today a large number of us performed as part of the school choir singing the song Malala. We were filmed performing this and our video will be combined with others from around the world to make a music video for this song.

Wrapping up Term 1!

It's been a short week, but boy we have managed to cram a lot in. We kicked off the week with a fun miniball session with Gus from the Nelson Giants.

  

 We also finished off our corrugated cardboard art.  This artwork demonstrates some of the techniques of tinting, shading and warming colours that we have learnt about this term.    

To celebrate the end of term in reading we have practiced and performed plays.

  

We celebrated Easter today by playing our Easter themed board games that we have made as part of our homework over the last two weeks

Today we also celebrated ANZAC day by having a special assembly.  We had a special guest from the RSA come and speak to us and Logan Ford came and played the Last Post for us.  All this action wraps up a busy Term 1 in Room 5!

  

Retells and Rights

Today we posted our little movies of our retells that we wrote earlier in the term.  We used a great little app called Little Bird Tales.  Check out each of our stories by clicking on our individual blogs.

Here is Tessa's retell of Tricking the Tiger.

• Click to view my tale.

Today we also finished our big posters on Children's Rights.  These are based upon UNCROC.  The United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child. Together as Kahikatea Syndicate each class has made posters to show these rights.  Check out our great artwork in our hallway.

Busy, busy, busy!

We are quickly racing towards the end of the term and we are busy, busy, busy in Room 5!

In ICT we have all recorded on of our goals that we set by using the programme Voki.  You can check them all out on our individual blogs.

We have also been busy using the IPADS to create story books using one of the stories we re-told as part of writing.  We have all completed our illustrations and are now up to the recording stage.  Look our for them on our blogs soon.

As part of art we have been learning about complementary colours.  Can you work out which colours are complimentary?

We have also been lucky enough to have 4 sessions with people from Nelson Hockey.  Here we are playing bullrush but with hockey sticks and balls!

Today we had lots of fun with our little buddies.  We had a range of sports equipment that we rotated around.  

  

A window into Room 5's week

We have had another great week of learning in Room 5.  This week we talked about our goals and what we would areas we would like to improve in. We each set ourselves an academic goal and a work habbit goal.  Come in and check them out on display in our classroom.  Look out for them later on on our blogs also.

In ICT children who are new to Room 5 wrote their first post on their blog.  Learn more about our Room 5 friends by visiting their blogs.  They would especially love it if you left them a comment!

We had fun again in art learning how to make colours warmer and cooler.  We learnt that we can make yellow warmer by adding red and cooler by adding blue.

As part of inquiry we learnt about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) .

  

Sally shared with us a copy of this and then in groups we decided what category we thought each right was about.  Sally was very impressed by how we thought carefully about each right and when we discussed and negotiated where each right should go. 

To end the week we visited Riverside Pool with our syndicate.  This was instead of our swimming carnival due to issues with the school pool.

Class Charter

At Nelson Central School we are a Rights Respecting School. As part of this we have developed a class charter. Check it out below.

Purple Cake Day!

What a day we have had at Nelson Central School today.  Today we celebrated Purple Cake Day.  This is a special day where children from all around the world help raise money for children in other parts of the world.  We had lots of fun dressing up and had a special assembly where the school choir performed some special Purple Cake Day songs.  Sylvie from our class raised $83.10 by making home-made lemonade.  Some of the lemonade was even purple!  In Kahikatea we also had a trash and treasure sale which raised $196.60!  Some of the other syndicates helped raise money by face painting, holding a wheels day and by having a cake stall.  We know that children in Haiti, Nepal and Kenya will be blessed. Check out lots more photos on our Facebook Page