Week 10 Fun

We have ended Term 3 with a bit of fun.  On Monday we enjoyed making popcorn and then writing a free-verse poem about it.

Popping Popcorn

Popcorn blows out of the machine

It's trying to escape the popcorn cells

Jumping round and out of the popcorn maker

The kernels look like the golden sun

It is tired from leaping around in the popcorn maker

Spinning round like a tornado

It rests in the bowl after popping around

By Cooper

On Wednesday we enjoyed making paperplanes and then flying them off the adventure playground.  The strong winds made this experience even more exciting!

Here is one of the poems inspired by this experience

Planes

Crash, floating

Landing, zooming, racing

Paper planes are fun

Flying

On Thursday for discovery time we had a newspaper dress up contest.  We found we had to work together, sharing ideas and negotiating.

Video and photo time!

This term for our inquiry topic we have been learning all about water. We know we have a right to food and water but we learnt that people's access to water is not always the same. Check out our animations below to discover some of the things we learnt!

 It's that time of year again! Calendar art time. We have created some bright and beautiful artwork that will look fabulous on calendars, diaries and notebooks. Check out our work below or come and see them in the classroom.  Look out for the order forms next term.

Calendar Art by Slidely Slideshow

Today we had lots of fun dressing up to support KidsCan. This organisation supports disadvantaged children around New Zealand. Today we raised $402. Way to go Nelson Central!!

Limerick Poems

This week in writing we have been learning to write Limerick Poems.

Here are some of our favourites.

Coffee

I am drinking coffee right now

Somebody was wondering how

Well you take a sip

Whoops! I spilt a bit

Well I still don't really know how

By Sylvie and Klara

Fred

Once there was a boy named Fred

Who had a very comfy bed

He went to the school

And jumped in the pool

And then he went back to his bed

By Ned, Amba and Chyla

Jo

There once was a squirrel named Jo

On her tail she had a bow

She had a nasty cough

So her tail fell off

That poor little squirrel named Jo

By Floss and Anna

Co-operation is the name of the game!

This week we visited the Suter Art Gallery.  As part of this trip we became curators of an art exhibition.  We had to decide if we were in charge of the museum which artworks we would put on display and what the theme of our exhibition would be.  We all had lots of fun negotiating and working together.

Again during discovery time this week we were focusing on the key competency of participating and contributing.  As part of this we have been focussing on co-operating, sharing ideas and working together.  Check out some of us doing this below whilst we were constructing a marble run out of newspaper and when we were playing with the long skipping ropes.