Week 3 Current Events

Once again, our Current Events reporters have been super busy scouring newspapers for interesting news to share with Room 9 and all of our blog readers.

Press play to hear the report and make sure your speakers are turned on!

Katrina reports on a white heron who travelled from the South Island to the North Island:


Pete reports on a New Zealand man who celebrated his 100th birthday


Jazmine reports on the Murphy Street playground tree planting on the weekend:

Luc reports on the renovations of the Kai Pai shop opposite school:


Well done to this week's reporters.
I'm sure they'd love your feedback too, please feel free to leave them a comment!

Ways to Save the Planet

This term our Inquiry topic has been "10 Ways to Save the Planet"

Here we have some of the completed posters we did with one of the changes or actions we could make to help the planet.

Next term when the rest of our class is back (we have had lots away sick) we are going to finish our unit and make our digital story full of ways you can help us Save the planet!

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 Trip to the recycling centre and landfill

Yesterday we went to the recycling centre and landfill as part of our Inquiry topic "10 ways to save the planet".

We wanted to find out what happened to all of Nelson's rubbish and recycling.

Here you can see a snippet of just some of the things Room 9 learned while on the trip (you'll probably also notice how popular the compactor was with the students too!)

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Our Maori Legend Digital Story: Tangaroa's Gift

Swimming Reflections

Now that swimming is completed Room 9 has been reflecting on the improvements we have made, the skills we have developed and the techniques we have remembered.

Check out the video below to see/hear the reflections of some of Room 9 students.