Nelson Kids' ICT Expo

On Thursday Room 9 went in a bus to Victory School. We went because it was the Nelson Kids' ICT Expo.

There were lots of other schools there like Hampden Street, Nelson Intermediate, Clifton Terrace, St Joseph's, Auckland Point, Nelson Central, Victory School and Hira School. They all had something to show and children there to teach other children.

Most of the children from all of the schools came to visit and have a look at the expo over the 2 days. That was over 2,000 children!

At the Expo we saw a dinosaur, it was made by the children of Hampden Street School, they used it in their advert. There was a boy who had made a game called "The Adventures of Ball Man". Some children had also made a movie about the expo, some people from our school were interviewed for it. Victory School had a very cool craft shadow puppet show.

Some people from Room 9 got to teach at the Expo and got to show the children how to do things on the computers. We had a group teaching how to make animated movies using xtranormal, how to take a maths challenge on Tutpup and how to do beautiful artwork on Kidpix. They got to teach children as old as 13 years!

Take a look around the awesome Kids' Expo in the movie below :

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!!!

Goodbye Hannah!

Today is Hannah's last day teaching with Room 9.
We have really enjoyed having her with us over the past 4 weeks.

Here are Room 9's goodbye messages to Hannah :)

Happy World Teachers' Day!

Friday 30th October was World Teachers' Day!

Room 9 has made a tribute and gift for teachers at Nelson Central School and all over the world - check out the video below! We hope you enjoy it :)

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

Our Writing Spot Blog needs...

YOUR COMMENTS!

Students have been working very hard, either individually or in pairs to independently write on our special Writing Spot Blog.

It is a special place where students can independently express themselves, showing you some of what we are learning either in writing, or in our classroom learning programmes. Take a look over at our Writing Spot Blog today and see who you'd like to leave a comment for!

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