We've had a great first week back at school in Room 2.

This week we participated in a whole heap of activities around a story called Little Red's Cookie Catapult. This story was a slight variation of Little Red Riding Hood in which Little Red is trying to get her cookies to Granny.  The wolf however gets in her way and eats them all up!  We've talked a lot about growth mindsets as well. Granny doesn't have a growth mindset as she thinks 

" The wolf is too clever, I'm ready to give up" and "I just knew this wouldn't work!"  Little Red however has a growth mindset and says"  Don't give up Granny. My secret path through the forest didn't work so I will have to find another one."  and " I have learned from my mistakes... I will have to think of another way to get the cookies to Granny."  As part of this we had to design our our own catapult to get some cookies to Grandma.  We had to show our problem solving skills and display a growth mindset, especially when our plans didn't work.

We also had fun icing and decorating our own biscuits.

Welcome back!

Hi From Room 2 2017!

We'd like to say welcome if this is your first time to our blog.  Currently there are 24 students in our class on nine and ten year olds in sunny Nelson, New Zealand.

Check back here weekly so see all the learning and fun that goes on in our classroom!

Farewell

Our last week of school for 2016 was a week of celebrating and farewells. On Monday we had our Year 6 leavers assembly at the Cathedral. We recognised all the different ways the Year 6's have served at Nelson Central. We ended up special assembly we a haka standoff between the Year 6 and 5 students.

On Tuesday we had our Year 6 Leaver's Disco. This was a fun Hawaiian themed night of games, food and dancing!

On Wednesday we returned to the Cathedral with our little buddies from Room 9 to look at the Christmas trees.

And today we had our final whole school assembly for 2016. And as tradition goes, it ended with everyone throwing their hats into the air!

Big Day Out!

On Wednesday Room 2 enjoyed their Big Day Out to celebrate the end of the year. We had lots of fun hydrosliding and playing mini golf at Tahuna. Unfortunately we had to cut our day short due to the weather and missed out on our Scavenger hunt.

Suter, sports and cycling!

What a week we've had out and about!

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to visit the Suter Art Gallery in it's upgraded premises. We explored the new buildings and then made our own Christmas Tree ornaments out of clay. We can't wait to have them back and decorate them once they are fired.

On Wednesday a number of our Year 6's participated in a cycle ride to Nelson Intermediate. We were shown safe routes and practices for when we cycle there next year.

To wrap up our busy week on Thursday the Totara Syndicate went out to Saxton Field for our athletics competition. From the pics below you can see that we had fun running, jumping and throwing!

Kids teaching Kids!

This term we have had a mini unit called Kids teaching Kids. As part of this we had to teach the others in our class about something that we are passionate about. We had to think about what we would the key points we wanted to teach and plan a lesson or presentation around this.

Check out Ryan and Michael's Tackle TV video below and some of the other lessons that took place. 

Nelson teaching us all about archery

Noah taking an art lesson

Tilley teaching about acting and being involved in a production

Floss and Hannah taking a gymnastics lesson

Didgeridoos

Last week we had a reliever in Room 2 because Sally was at camp with Room 1. The name of our reliever was Che. He brought in some long cardboard pipes so we could make Didgeridoos. We started off by choosing one of the long cardboard and painting a base layer of black. Then we added another base color with the black. After that we had to put some dot art around where the different colors met. Next we drew a picture of a object and painted it. Finally we did dot art around the outline of the object and did some shapes with the dot art as well. When we were finished we had some didgeridoo lesson. We had a blast with Che!

Written by Sam and Alfie

Powhiri, Peace and preparation!

Check out some of the action we've been involved with this week.

On Saturday the 5th November from 2:30-3:30 going to be a Peace Picnic held at the Nelson Cathedral. As part of it all the children at NCS have completed a panel that is being sewn together to create a giant blanket. You can see it beginning to take shape below.

This week we have been finishing our comics. Sally has been very impressed by the way we have persisted and completed them to a high standard. All our hard work has paid off!

Yesterday the Year 6's who are attending Nelson Intermediate were welcomed on at a powhiri and participated in a range of activities from cooking, to riding drift bikes and mountain bikes, outdoor games and completing tasks in the technology rooms.  Some boys completing a Science task.

Caleb having fun on the drift bikes.

This term each of us are presenting our own mini lesson to a group of students in our class. Here you can see Ryan and Michael preparing their 'Kids teaching kids' lesson on how to tackle safely in rugby.

These are 2 gymnasts who entered the Nelson primary school fair. They both won a silver team medal. All together Nelson Central School won 10 medals.

Creative comics continue!

We've carried on this week working on our comic writing unit. As you can see below our comics are beginning to take shape.  Sally has been very impressed by the way we have worked hard producing some quality work. Way to go Room 2!

During buddy time we enjoyed showing our little buddies how to create their own comics on http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Super Hero's and Villans

As part of our comic unit this week we have designed our own Superhero's and Villans. This is Dr. Derp. He is a super villain.  Derps super power is cyber space. He can jump into computers and travel through the internet. We made our super heroes/villains at www.marvel.com.  By Sol

This is Boss man.

                              Boss man's power is: Absorbing powers

                                      He lives in:NZ

                                        He is BOSS

                                           By Ed H