Our week!

What a great week we've had in Room 2. Check out some of the action we have been involved with!

On Tuesday a number of us participated in the Inter-School Cross Country event at Branford Park with several other Nelson City Schools.  It was a great course with many creak crossings and lots and lots of mud!

Well done to Nil's who once again won the Year 5 Boys race and contributed to NCS also winning the Year 5 Boys team event

We have also carried on with the Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme. During one of the lessons this week we talked about bribes, secrets and tricks.  Here are several of us analysing a cartoon.

In Maths we are focussing on Statistics. As part of this everyone has carried out their own statistical investigation in order to plan a fantastic class party. We look forward to having this at the end of the term.

On Thursday many of us had our final water safety session at Riverside Pool.  We had lots of fun using the inflatable boats and talking about safety on boats.

Wig Wednesday!

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?

Races, Raps and Rubbish Free!

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!

A short action packed week!

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.

Week 6!

It's been a week full of variety in Room 2!

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! 

Singing and Summit

On Sunday our school choir is participating in a special fundraising 24 hour concert called 'Sleeping with the Steinway'. This is a fundraising concert for the redevelopment of the Nelson School of Music.  Our choir is lucky enough to perform with the group called 'Off your Rockers'. They are a group of elderly singers.  We will be performing songs from both their era and our era. Check us out practicing below!

Today half of our class enjoyed a walk up the Centre of New Zealand as part of our Syndicate Sport. Aren't we lucky to live in such a beautiful part of  the world!

Food, food, food!

What's been happening in Room 2 this week you ask?

Well in writing we have carried on our Advertising theme.  As part of it we designed our own Cereal box. We had to think about the use of colour, names, slogans and gimmicks.   

In Inquiry. We investigated where the food in our lunch boxes came from and then designed a lunch box menu with low food miles. Check out more about food miles in the video below.

Last week in New Zealand we celebrated Sign Language Week.  So this week in reading we made our own videos in sign language. Check out Floss and Alex below.

If the earth were an apple...

This week we carried on with our Enviro-Schools themed inquiry unit.  Sally shared with us an illustrating example using an apple. We decided that our earth is very precious and we should look after it as only 4% of earth is suitable for humans to live on.

This theme was carried on in Reading. We read about a couple of different EnviroSchools in NZ and some of the projects they have organised.  See below for some of the ideas we think NCS should try

Half of our class were lucky enough to go to Riverside to participate in some water safety lessons this week.  Many of us were not looking forward to this but afterwards we reflected that it was pretty awesome!

Fantastic Room 2

We have begun Term 2 with a fantastic week in Room 2.  Sally has been really impressed by the way we have focussed and worked hard this week. Way to go Room 2!

We kick started our  week by beginning our new EnviroSchools Inquiry topic called 'Me in my Environment'. As part of this we were given a map of the school. On it we had to map a number of different features including our favourite place, quiet places, noises places and places that need some attention. During this topic we will begin to develop our vision for the school as we are now an EnviroSchool.

On Monday we were very proud of our very own Floss. She led our whole school assembly. Way to go Floss!

On Wednesday we met with our little buddies. We helped them create their own word clouds using a programme called Tagxedo. We also enjoyed sharing books with them.

This term we are learning all about Advertising as part of writing. We explored branding through logos and really enjoyed a quiz using the programme Kahoot. We also learnt about target audiences and analysed who we thought the target audience was in magazine adverts.

Today we wrapped up our week by playing in the Syndicate Final for G-Ball(Rounders) against Room 1.  We sadly lost 7-5, however, we have written a petition to Sue due to a late rule change that we were unaware about. We'll keep you posted!

Treasure and treats!

We have had a great week in Room 2 this week.  On Tuesday we had an outdoor experience with the Suter. We went to the banks of the Maitai and painted our own water colour landscape pictures.  Some of us really loved this experience whilst some of us found it a little more challenging. 

On Wednesday we were treated to our very own lunch time concert by Zoe's music students. This featured our very own Floss and Charlie.

Sadly we had to farewell Charlie today as she moves back to Christchurch.

Today we ended our week with some fun learning activities.  We have been learning all about position and orientation in Maths. As part of this we drew our own birds eye view maps of the classroom. Then we wrote instructions for a buddy to find some treasure that we had hidden in the classroom.

Today we also presented our plays that we have been practicing all week as part of Reading.