Masked Parade

Last week we participated in the Nelson Masked Parade.  Well done to Nayland Primary who won the overall supreme award.  Check out photos and video from the event

NCS Mask Parade 2015 by Slidely Slideshow

We are lucky enough to have Ben and Andre from Nelson tennis in at school coaching us at the moment.  Thanks to Amaya for taking these picture of us in action.

Excitement at NCS!

On Monday we had a powhiri to welcome our new Principal Pip Wells to our school.  We sung a waiata and lots of people spoke in Maori.  Children from Pip's last school, Tasman School and other friends and family came with Pip as well. After the powhiri the adults had a special morning tea.

Today is the Mask Parade. Our school theme is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We are the swirlypops from Willy Wonka's Factory.  Look out for us tonight at the Masked Parade and check back here for more photos and videos soon!

S is for symmetry

  

Can you work out what we have been learning all about in Maths this week?  We'll give you a clue. It starts with S...... it's symmetry!

We had fun learning about symmetry in lots of different ways. Our favourite ways were decorating biscuits, getting arty and going on a symmetry hunt around the school with the IPads.  

  

We also talked about rotation, reflection and translation. Check out this song we used to help us remember these words.

As it was the last week of term we also performed plays.  Here is Lily as a native NZ bird up in her tree

Our week!

Highlights from our week

This week in Maths we have been learning about maps and directions.  As part of this we drew maps of our classroom and then wrote instructions to find some treasure.  I wonder what our treasure was?

In reading we continued reading instructions.  Each reading group then on Thursday got to get creative and follow the instructions.  Two groups made special rotating Keep out Signs for their bedrooms, another group made Wrist wrappers and the last group had the difficult task of breading friendship bracelets.

We also carried on working on our masks this week for the mask parade. We got all sparkly adding the glitter to our lollypops!

 

Crafty and Creative

We've had a week of being crafty and creative.

As part of literacy we have been both reading and writing instructions.  Here is one group of students getting creative following instructions to make rocking cards.

In ICT we had lots of fun creating our own animations using Lego Movie Maker.

We also stated making our masks for the annual Nelson Masked Parade.  Our school wide theme is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and our syndicate are making lollypop masks.

We weren't just crafty and creative this week however.  On Wednesday we enjoyed another session with George from Nelson Soccer and our second gymnastics session.

Sweet Treats

We've had a week of sweet treats this week.

On Monday we got to drink our lemonade that we made the week before as part of our inquiry topic.  It had turned slightly fizzy due to the yeast in it.  Some of us thought it smelt a bit like bread and some of us even thought it smelt like beer!

On Wednesday we we made sherbet.  Some of us found that our mixture foamed a lot when we put it in our mouth! We have also been learning to write instructions in writing so can you guess what we wrote instructions for?

On Thursday we had fun melting chocolate and making interesting shaped chocolate molds.  We decided that making the chocolate molds is a reversible change.  

After a couple of weeks of making lots of different things we began evaluating what product would be good to make and sell at a Kahikatea Market Day next term.  What will we sell? What this space!

We wrapped up our week with a special visit from the story teller Roger Saunders.  He kept us entertained with his stories using a range of musical instruments.

This week we also finished off publishing our stories using Little Bird Tales.  Check out Sylvie and Amaya's high quality stories below.

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Food, fun and crazy hair!

What a fun week we have had this week.

As part of inquiry and reading we have read and followed lots of instructions.  On Wednesday we made Hokey Pokey and then on Thursday we made two different types of fizzy lemonade. One recipe yeast is used to make the lemonade fizzy whilst in the other recipe baking soda is used.  The baking soda recipe didn't taste very nice so we tried adding more sugar and lemonade!  Whilst it wasn't quite like the lemonade you get from the supermarket we enjoyed watching the baking soda and lemonade react and fizz!

Today we have had a crazy hair day at school.  Over $200 was raised to go towards equipment for a sensory room for children with learning needs.  Well done to Amaya who was the winner and Amba a runner up for craziest hair from Kahikatea Synidcate.

Check out Amaya's cupcake hairdo!

You can also check out the weeks recordings from when were recorded for Kids Corner on More FM.  Listen to find out what age we think you are when you become an adult and what winkle pickers.

Our highlights!

Calendar Art 2015 on PhotoPeach  

 This week we worked hard on our calendar artwork.  You can check out our artwork above or come into the classroom to check out the hard copy. You can have your artwork turned into cards, calendars and notebooks.  Look out for the order forms next week.

Today we were fascinated to watch a documentary on Luca and his family.  Luca was in our class for 5 weeks at the beginning of the year.  His family featured on TV3's programme Kevin McCloud's Escape to the Wild last night.They live on a remote Island in Tonga.  You can watch it here

Today we had fun with our buddies.  They are learning about dinosaurs so we had fun helping them make their own salt dough fossils!  

We also enjoyed sharing Dinosaur books with them.

We're going to be famous!

We're going to be famous! Today we were lucky enough to be interviewed by Blair from More FM for the Kids Corner. He asked us interesting questions like What is a winkle picker? and What is a pinafore? Listen to us at 2.40pm on 92.8 More FM everyday next week! 

This week for inquiry we learnt about reversible and irreversible change. We learnt that when cooking toast is an irreversible change and melting and freezing water is a reversible change. 

Yesterday we were treated to a lunchtime concert by the two Nelson Central School Bands. Our very own Ned is the bass player in the Central Beats Band. Many of Sally's old friends are also in the Central Station Band. Check out them peforming below. If you want to see more look out for them performing at Bandquest on Saturday 22nd August at the Theater Royal.

Week 3

This week we finally made it to the Public Library to participate in the exhibition on the famous author and illustrator Eric Carle after our previous trip was postponed. He is most famous for his book The Very Hungry Caterpillar  We watched a video about his artwork and then had a go at making our own Eric Carle inspired animals.  You can see our syndicates animals up on display in our corridor

We have also continued to learn about solids, liquids and gasses this week. We enjoyed watching this simple video explaining about the different states of matter.