Double Birthday

Today we found out that Lesley, who is a teacher in our syndicate (Room 13) has the same birthday as Aria in our class!

Check out the little movie "Birthday Wishes" that we made. It also has a special message from Aria.

Procedural Writing

WALT write descriptive procedures that help people to do things.

This afternoon Rachel set up a special task page on our wiki with procedural writing tasks we needed to complete. These were to help us with our instruction writing.

Take a look HERE at our special page and you can also learn about procedural writing!

Inquiry: Rights for Everyone Rich Task

WALT identify facilities at Nelson Central School that support disabled people.
WALT suggest possible changes and adaptions that can be made to make Nelson Central more disable-friendly.

This afternoon we shared our completed 'Rights for Everyone' Voicethread rich task to a packed house of our parents/caregivers and our Room 15 buddies. Thank you so much for coming, we loved sharing our learning with you.

Our Inquiry topic over the past 6 weeks has been looking at disabilities.
We learned lots about the different types of disabilities there were and then investigated our school.
We identified lots of facilities that Nelson Central School has already got to support people with disabilities.
Our next task was to then find out if there was anything else we could do to make Nelson Central more disable-friendly.
The two disabilities Room 9 decided to inquire and learn more about were visual impairment (blindness) and physical disability (in a wheelchair).

A BIG thank you to all the parents/caregivers who came to our celebrations on Friday afternoon - we just love sharing our learning with you!

Our Feet First Picture Book Entry

Room 9 has entered a competition run by Feet First to design a picture book for children.

It had to be based on active travel, be 16 pages long and we were allowed to choose the genre and style of our writing.

Room 9 worked very hard
developing the storyline using a storyboard,
choosing the language (rhyme and alliteration) for the story,
developing the background artwork in Kidpix
and posing for the photographs.

We are very proud of our picture book!!
Take a look and see what you think, we will let you know if we receive any good news :)

Spring has SPRUNG!

Today is the first day of Spring!

Room 9 wrote some fantastic descriptive poems to say Ka Kite to Winter and Kia Ora to Spring.

WALT use several different adjectives to describe winter and spring

Ka Kite frosty, white ice
Ka Kite frozen, snowy, snow
Ka Kite soft, slippery ice
And freezing icy icicles.

Haere Ra cold, windy storms
Haere Ra bare, old trees without any leaves
Haere Ra hot water bottles
And frigid icecubes.

Kia Ora fluffy hatching ducklings
Kia Ora new, little baby lamb,
Kia Ora fresh new flowers
And beautiful blooming flowers.

Haere Mai nice, green grass
Haere Mai silky, smooth, flower petals
Haere Mai happy new world
And pretty flowers.

By Eden

Take a look at a few more of the awesome poems below by clicking on the pictures.

Doing our BEST!

One of our school values is DOING OUR BEST.

Room 9 discussed with our cooperative groups what we thought this would look like and sound like. Then we reported back and gathered all our ideas. Take a look by clicking on the picture to see our ideas bigger:

Are you doing your best?

Thinking Hat Tuesday: If clouds had strings

Today we worked in our cooperative groups to talk about our oral language talk topic for Thinking Hat Tuesday. We had to think about if clouds had strings hanging from them.

Click on the picture to view our ideas larger!