Book Character Dress Up Day!

Today the kowhai syndicate dressed up as their favourite book characters to celebrate Library Week.

Room 9 dressed up as 101 and dallmations, fairies, spiderman, Indiana Jones, Pipi Longstocking, Darth Vader, Princess Belle, superman, Angelina the ballerina, Alice in wonderland, slinky Malinky, a cat, a cowboy, Harry Potter, an alien and Bottomly Pots.

Rachel dressed up as Badjelly the witch and Nina dressed up as Cat and the Hat.

We had a fantastic day and lots of fun dressing up as our favourite book characters!

By Connor & Eliza

Inquiry: A visit from Anne and Peddy

Our Inquiry topic this term is: Rights for Everyone

We have been learning about different types of disabilities. Today we were lucky enough to get a visit from Anne and her guide dog Peddy.

We wrote questions that we wanted to find out the answers to about Anne and her blindness. We emailed them to Anne. Today she came into Nelson Central to answer them.

Here is a story that shows how special Peddy is:

Peddy is a working dog and she helps Anne because she is blind.
Peddy knows how to cross roads and knows when it is safe. You are not
allowed to pat Peddy because she might distracted.

By Jayden

Check out these videos to hear some of our questions for Anne and the answers to them.

We learned how important Peddy is to Anne, she helps Anne with so many things in her daily life.

Even though Anne is blind, she can still do many of the same things we can!

96th days at School!

Today we have been at school for 96 days!

Every day we count how many days we've been at school. Then we count in 1s, 2's, 5's, 10's, adding 10s or odd numbers to get to the number of days we've had at school.

Today was the 96th day of school. Take a look at the video below to hear us singing our Days of School song. We are going to have a celebration when we reach 100 days of school

Room 9's Matariki Wishes

The 24th June was Matariki in New Zealand.
It is the celebration of the Maori New Year.

We had a great time doing three different rotations of workshops.
First we made fern prints with Rachel. Then we did knucklebones with Neroli. After that we did poi and rakau with Lesley.

In the afternoon at eLearning time we thought about our Matariki wishes for the world were. We used Kidpix to draw in pairs what our special wish was.

Our Maori Legend Digital Story: Tangaroa's Gift

Thinking Hat Tuesday - If there were no such things as trees

Our thinking topic this week was

"If there were no such things as trees".

We used the BLACK and the YELLOW thinking hats to examine the negative and positive aspects of this. You can see some of our ideas in the photo below, click on it to be able to see and read it much larger.

Our Responsibilities

Room 9 has been learning about our responsibilities at home and at school. We have explored how important our responsibilities are and what might happen if we don't do things that are our job to do.

Here is some writing by Room 9 showing they know all about their responsibilities at school:

At school my responsibilities are to clean up at the end of the day, to get ready at the start of the day and to try my best at my work. It is important to do these things because if I didn't pack up at the end of the day then I would leave everything at school. It is important to get my things out at the start of the day because if I had any notices then I can't give them to the teacher. If I didn't try my best then I would just give up!
By Eden

My responsibilities are to put my chair up. It is important to put my chair up at the end of the day so that the cleaners can vacuum under the chairs. It is my responsibility to put my pencil on my table. It is important to do that otherwise I wouldn't be ready for learning. It is my responsibility to push my chair in, otherwise somebody will trip over it.
By Charlotte

My responsibilities are to get my pencil sharpened. I have to put my chair up. I have to bring my bookbag to school.
By Sude

At school my responsibilities are to push my chair in and put my drink bottle on my table. I also get my pencil ready for learning.
By Connor

Thinking Hat Tuesday - If sheep could fly!

Every Tuesday for Oral Language in Room 9 is "Thinking Hat Tuesday".

This is a time where we challenge our thinking and apply De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats to problems or situations (imaginary or real). For the past week we have been learning about these different coloured hats and what type of thinking is needed when we 'put them on'.

Today we discussed "If sheep could fly..."

Click on the photo to see it bigger and read some of Room 9's great ideas from our discussion using the black (bad points) and yellow hat (good points).

For parents who want to know more about De Bono's Thinking Hats - check out this information page.