Collaborative Writing - Day 3

Today was our 3rd day of collaborative narrative writing with Year 3 students in Room 10 from Grey Lynn School in Auckland.

3 more groups were online using Google Docs to write a story together at the same time. Take a look at the completed narrative stories:


Indiana Jones in Space

Names of story authors:
Nelson Central: Ellie and Ella
Grey Lynn: Jeru and Salote

Once upon a time, Indiana Jones had been sent on a mission to travel to the moon. He needed to locate some special rocks that might have oxygen in them. But evil monsters were protecting the rocks because they needed the rocks to help them breathe.

When Indiana Jones arrived on the moon, the first thing he did was put on his space suit so that he could breathe. His space suit also had a high tech whip in it which would help him later. He located the rocks with a special rock locater that the President had given him. He held it out and it beeped when it was near the special rocks. He was in the right place, but he had no idea how to get the rocks out. The rocks were way too heavy for him to carry.

He saw a space dog and asked if the dog could help him. "Of course," said the dog. "What would you like me to do?" "I need you to distract the evil mosters so that I can get to the rocks and pick them up with my special electrical whip." "Ok," said the dog, "but you'll have to give a good reward afterwards." "It's a deal," said Indiana.

The dog got a red flag and waved it in the monsters faces and ran away. The monsters followed the dog. Indiana used his electrical whip to lift the rocks all the way back to the ship. The dog met him there and got a bone as his reward. He was very happy. Indiana got what he wanted too, the rocks to take back to the scientists lab on Earth. It was a great deal that had helped them both!

A magical holiday

Names of story authors:

Nelson Central: Charlotte

Grey Lynn: Maia

A long time ago, there were two friends called Madeline and Jack who were going on a holiday. They were going to a magical place in England. They flew there on a jet and went straight to the house that they had rented for the week with their parents.

When they got there they immediately ran out into the snow. The snow felt soft and wet like a towel that has been accidentally dipped in the bath. They threw snowballs at each other and made snow people. They loved being in the snow, but soon it was getting dark and they needed to find a place to stay for the night. They went up to the house, but they found that it was locked! "Oh no," said Madeline "where are we going to sleep?" "There's a cave over there," said Jack. then Madeline turned around and saw it.

When they went inside the cave, they saw that some creatures pick ing up objects that looked like glitter . "What do you think that stuff is?" said Jack. "It looks like fairy dust to me," said Madeline. "I think we should get out of here!"

Suddenly, a tiny voice said, "can you help us?" Madeline and Jack jumped because they had never heared such a small heard such a small voice. When Madeline looked down, she saw a pair of wings and a little face. "The goblins are stealing all our fairy dust and using it to fly," said the fairy Sparkles. "But we need it to help the corn grow next spring." "What would you like us to do?" said Madeline. "We've got snowmen," said Jack. "Would that help?"

"Perfect," said Sparkles. "I'll just tap them with my wand and that will make them come to life!" Sparkles went outside and came back with an army of snowmen. "Fellow snowmen," said Sparkles, "follow me!" The snowmen started to throw very bright snowballs at the goblins. When a snowball hit a goblin, the goblin dided soblin dissolved instantly.

"It's working!" yelled Madeline. "Keep going!" The snowmen continued throwing snowballs until all the goblins had dissolved. "Thank you snowmen," said Madeline. "See you tomorrow." "And thank you, Madeline and Jack," said Sparkles. "Is there anything I can do to help you?" "Yes!" said Jack. "We need to get into our house!" "Of course," said Sparkles, as she unlocked the front door with her wand.

"That was a truly magical holiday," said Madeline. "I agree," said Jack, "and it's only just beginning!

The Parrot and the Dog

Names of story authors:
Nelson Central: Nopera and Dom
Grey Lynn: Jordan and Briar

Once upon a time there was a Dog called Jazz and Parrot called Squawky. They lived next door to each other, but they hated each other. Jazz was always chasing Squawky and trying to catch and eat her.

One day there was an earthquake. Jazz was busy chasing Squawky up a steep hill and he was getting closer and closer. Squawky called out, "please stop chasing me. I'm getting tired and it's not fun!" Jazz didn't care, he thought that was a great game.

Suddenly, BANG! Rumble, rumble, rumble. The ground began to shake. "It's an earthquake!" yelled Squawky. "This is fun!' It's like a massage on my wings!" Jazz wasn't so excited. "Help!" he wept. "The ground is breaking under my weight.; I don't know what to do."

Squawky was having the time of her life. She was having a roller coaster ride in the sky. But down below, she could see Jazz trembl.ing it looked liked he was in a sand He looked very scared. "I will save and help you only if you promise not storm to chase me anymore," said Squawky. Jazz agreed.

Squawky swooped down and scooped Jazz up in her sharp talons and took him to safety. Jazz wriggled like a wiggly worm in Squawkys talons, but Squawky didn't drop him. When they finally reached the safety of Squawky's home, Jazz was really relieved. He had escaped from the terrible shaking earth.

From that day on, Jazz and Squawky became best friends and visited each other every day. Sometimes, Squawky would let Jazz chase her, but only for fun.

Well done Groups 7, 8 & 9, very imaginative stories.
Our final day of narrative writing is tomorrow!

Room 9 Teaching!

At the Nelson Kids' ICT Expo last week 12 students from Room 9 were extremely brave and confident...
They got to teach over 2,000 children from 8 different primary schools!!

Room 9 were running 3 stations. They had to demonstrate, teach and help the kids (and some of the teachers too!)

One station was using xtranormal to make animated movies, another station was using Tutpup for maths challenges and the final station was using Kidpix for artwork.

Take a look at some of the interviews and photos of Room 9 presenting in the video below. They were SOOOO fabulous!

A huge congratulations to the 12 students involved - you made us all so PROUD!

Our Stream Study

Last week we went to the stream up the Brook to learn about healthy streams.

This week some groups of students (who will be presenting and teaching other students next week at a BIG Kids' Expo) have been experimenting using the online website xtranormal to make their very own animated movies about the features of healthy streams.

Check out the groups' work below, we can't wait to show you the completed 'proper' projects after the Kids' Expo next week!


By Ellie and Luke



By Pete and Eden



By Charlotte and George N


Well done groups! They are looking FANTASTIC for an experiment, you will produce AMAZING movies next week when teaching all the other students from around Nelson in the Kids' Expo!!!

What we have enjoyed this term!

WALT to write a letter

Term 3 is just about coming to an end. Room 9 brainstormed lots of things that we have done this term. We chose things we really enjoyed doing.

Then we wrote a letter to Rachel to tell her what we enjoyed doing this term.

Take a closer look at our brainstorm by clicking on it to view our ideas larger.

70 Nile Street,
NELSON

24 September 2009,

Dear Rachel,

I liked skipping because we were getting fit and learning new ways to skip. I also liked fairy tales citizens because we got to hear new stories that interesting. I liked it when Nina came because we got lots of stories read.

From George B.

70 Nile Street
NELSON

24 September 2009

Dear Rachel,

I enjoyed skipping because I learned alot more about skipping. I liked having Ruth over because I liked it when we had to guess the music. I liked Jump Jam because it was jumpy fun.

From Ellie

(please note for Internet safety reasons we have used our school address instead of our own)

Hosting Assembly

Last week Room 9 hosted Kowhai Syndicate Assembly. We decided it would be for spring.

For our spring assembly Room 9 had to prepare and write our words and choose the songs. Room 9 also had to make some daffodil artwork. We had to show our daffodils to the whole Kowhai syndicate. The songs we chose to sing were Just One Earth and Seasons.

The whole Kowhai Syndicate came to our assembly. Lots of our parents also came. We even dressed up for assembly, we wore spring coloured clothes, some colours people wore were greens, pinks, yellows and clothes with lots of flowers on them.

Dave, George N's Dad took some pictures and 2 movies of us. Thank you Dave :)

By Aulay and Ellie

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.

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!

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.

Thinking Hat Tuesday - If bees were as big as cats!

Today's Thinking Hat Tuesday challenge & brain extender topic was:

"If bees were as big as cats"

We focused our thinking by using the Red and the Yellow Thinking Hats.
The red hat is all about our feelings about the topic, while the Yellow hat is all about the strengths and good points/ideas about the topic.

You can see some of the great thinking Room 9 has done on te picture below.
(Click on the photo to view it larger)