Talented Room 5!

We've had another fun week in Room 5.  On Tuesday a lot of us performed at Stage One with the school choir as part of the Nelson Art's Festival.  Check out the video below.  (Sorry that it is sideways)

On Wednesday Cooper, Ella M and Ruby M were really brave and helped Sally lead a Tekkie Brekkie before school.  They taught teachers how to use the Lego Movie Maker App to make animations.  Way to go girls!! 

Speak up!

 

On Thursday we kicked off our new inquiry topic titled 'Speak Up!'  We had a special syndicate assembly where Choi spoke to us entirely in Chinese.  We quickly discovered that whilst we didn't understand the language we could understand what she was saying.  She told us Nursery Rhymes in Chinese and Sally, Jo and Sue acted them out.  We then had to guess which one was being acted out.  

We discussed that we knew what Choi was saying because:
- She used actions
- She showed us numbers on her fingers
- Of her tone of voice
- The body language she used
- Of the facial expressions she used
- She acted/mimed
- She looked at us when she was talking to us

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.

Term 3 Week 6

We have had another great week in Room 5.  This week we sadly had our last session with George from Nelson Football.  We finished off our sessions with a mini-tournament.

In Room 5 we had our first discovery time this week.  Sally put out a range of activities to choose from.  These included sewing with hessian, xylophones, crazy catch, animation on the IPAD, creating our own plays and card tricks.  We all had lots of fun and Sally enjoyed seeing how we focused on our Key Competency of Participating and Contributing.  Many of us had to co-operate together, negotiate and we also learned from one another.

As part of our inquiry we also have been creating stop animations.  These have been lots of fun and we look forward to showing you them when they are all completed.

We wrapped up the week with a cake stall for our camp.  Together as a syndicate we raised $510!!!

A = Animation, B=Blogging, C=Collage, D=Dance

A= Animation.  As part of ICT we have been learning all about animation. We have had fun creating animations on the website ABCya Animate.

B= Blogging.  Check them out on our individual blogs next week!

By Cooper

By Cullen and Charlie

C = Collage.  This term in art we have been learning all about collage.  Last week we had fun creating our own recycled roosters. Check them all out in the corridor by the school office.

This week we explored making our own crazy Picaso inspired faces

D=Dance.  We also visited the Suter Art Gallery this week.  Our topic was dance inspired by the Suters Art Collection.  In groups we created our own dances to tell the story behind the artwork.  Here is one of them.  Look out for the rest of the videos on our individual blogs this coming week.

Futsal

We have been really lucky to have George from Nelson Football taking us for Futsal Lessons.  He teaches us lots of fun games and activities.  Sally has noticed that we are all getting better from week to week.  Check out some of the photos of us in action below.

Photos by Ruby R

Futsal by Slidely Slideshow

Catch up time

A lot has happened since we last posted on our blog. Last Monday we were lucky enough to have Button's visit. He is the Guinea Pig from Klara's brother's kindy. We have been learning to observe,notice and describe. Check out this great descriptive poem written by Coooper

Buttons

Whiskers twitch frantically

Claws grab people as they try to pat him

Fur brushes against people's hands

Mouth nibbles looking for food

Ears listen to people talking

Last Wednesday we ended up having a rainbow themed morning. We had lots of fun creating our own metaphor rainbows. It was Ruby's birthday the day before and her sister had made her amazing rainbow birthday cake. Ruby was very kind bringing it in to share with us. 

We were also lucky enough to visit the Water treatment plant up the Brook. We learnt all about how the water in Nelson is cleaned and treated and gets to us in our homes. We know that we are really lucky because we have been reading about children in Africa who have to walk 12km each day to get water for their family.