HUMAN RIGHTS WIKI

To celebrate and communicate our learning from our recent Inquiry topic, Kahikatea Syndicate have created a wiki.

Check it out to explore the wonderful things we have been learning about.
http://ncschildrensrights.wikispaces.com/

SUTER ART GALLERY - LANDSCAPES

We had a great time at the Suter Art Gallery. Esther taught us all about Landscape drawings. Now we can create space in our landscapes by using angles; overlapping; changing size and drawing a winding path or river.

Dear Esther,

Thank you for showing us the exhibitions at the Suter Art Gallery. My favourite exhibition was ‘Find It’. My favourite thing was finding all of the animals. My favourite painting was The Three Swans. I liked drawing a picture of Mrs Suter and I gave her a dog, cat and a fantail.

I love the Art Gallery!

From Arjuna

Dear Esther,

Thank you for teaching us at the Suter Art Gallery. My favourite exhibition was ‘White Gold’. This was my favourite because we got to make a cow. We had to finish the cows at school. I made a sightful cow. I really liked the sculptures of cows and I also enjoyed drawing the cows.

I can not wait until we can go again. I will see you on a Saturday.

From Lucy

Dear Esther,

Thank you for showing us the exhibitions at the Suter Art Gallery. My favourite exhibition was ‘Bing Dawe’. It was fun because we got to make clay birds in the theatre. It was cold in the theatre.

We scraped the sides of the birds. We also made the beak on the birds. Then you took the birds to your home and fired them in the kiln. When the birds came back to school Room 14 painted the birds.

Thanks you Esther. I will see you next year.

From Ana

Dear Esther,

Thank you for all of the fantastic exhibitions. My favourite exhibition was ‘Bing Dawe’. I liked this exhibition because we got to learn about shags. I always stop and look at the shags in Queens Gardens. It was fun when we made our own clay birds. Then we painted our birds at school. That was so cool!

I can’t wait to go again next year!

From Ellie

PYJAMA DAY

Yasmina, Eva, Lucy and Mackensey organised a pyjama day for Room 14. It was crazy and really funny!!

CONCRETE (SHAPE) POEMS

We are learning to write shape poems using alliterations and similes: Funny Tuatara.
Hides safely under its hole like a mouse.
Scaly skin. Spikes sharper than a tooth.
Lazy like an owl.

Harry

Beautiful birds bouncing in your backyard.
Chirping in the air charming songs.
Like a small balloon bouncing in the breeze.

Yasmina

Humpback whale. Fat and as big as the world.
Flipping and floating like a dolphin.
Likes to find food. Funky animal.

Jordan

TEAPOT VALLEY CAMP

Dear Brian,

Thank you for taking us to Teapot Valley Camp and back to school I had fun!

My favourite part of camp was going on the mini jeep. It was the best think because we got to have 10 rounds on it. It was awesome.

I also enjoyed the Ed’s Alley trampoline. It was the best because we went really high and could go upstairs to the bowling part.

I had the best time. I can not wait until I go to camp again.

From Lucy

Dear Andrea,

Thank you for driving me to Teapot Valley Camp. I had a super-duper time.

My favourite activity at camp was the giant trampoline. I liked the giant trampoline because it was bouncy and we bounced high.

I also enjoyed the Burma Trail. We got blindfolded and had to follow a rope, it was very muddy!

I had a fantastic time and I can’t wait to go next year.

From Eva


Dear Chris,

Thank you for taking me out to Teapot Valley Camp. I had a great time.

My favourite part of camp was sleeping in my cabin bunk bed because it was cosy and warm.

I also really enjoyed Ed’s Alley. I liked it because bowling balls is extreme fun.

I had the most spectacular time this year. I can’t wait to do it again!

From William

MASKED PARADE: POETIC WRITING

I felt hot and bothered.
I had dancing ants in my pants.
I heard very loud shouting, stamping feet to the music and lots of chatterboxes.
It looked like everyone taking pictures and cheering.
It smelled like hot crispy salty chips and steaming sausages.

By Eva

I heard people having conversations about how cool and beautiful the masks were.
I saw people looking out for their kids and taking photos.
I smelled the candy floss, pink fluffy candy floss. Yum.

By Mackensey

MASKED PARADE: POETIC WRITING

We are learning to create poetic writing:

POETRY: SPRING COUPLETS

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

The best thing I have done this term is being part of 30 Random Acts of Kindness in 30 Days. On Friday a person from ‘30 Random Acts of Kindness in 30 Days’ came in, his name was Grant. He had a camera man with him called Hayden. First Hayden filmed us making biscuits and cards for our buddies. Later Grant came in and we were singing a waiata. He introduced himself and then we grabbed our biscuits and cards and ran to our buddy class. When we were in there we shouted as loud as we could then we gave our buddies their biscuits and cards. It was Grant’s birthday so we all sang happy birthday to him and gave him a card and a biscuit. Afterwards we went outside and played Seaweed. We had so much fun. I can’t wait to do something like that again!

Oscar

CHECK OUT THE GREAT WEBSITE FOR FOOTAGE OF ROOM 14 AND OTHER RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS:

www.30days.co.nz

INQUIRY: Express Yourself

TRASH AND TREASURE

A HUGE thank you to everyone who helped out with our Room 14 Trash and Treasure Sale. We raised over $160 to contribute towards our Kahikatea Camp. Well done to all involved!

WE VALUE...

Room 14 have been discussing the Nelson Central School Strategic Plan.

NELSON CENTRAL SCHOOL:
VISION: A passion for life-long learning
MISSION: To inspire excellence in everyone
VALUES: Doing our best
Getting along with others
Looking after our world
Making good choices

We think all of these ideas are really important. Here are what we think the 'VALUES' should look like in the classroom: What else do you think should be added?

TRIP TO THE QUEEN'S GARDENS

THE TRIP TO THE QUEEN’S GARDENS:

On Friday 21st of August room 14 walked to the Queen’s Gardens. We walked there for a reward because we filled up the Kotahitanga jar. I walked there with Oscar, Arjuna and Desiah. When we got to the Queen’s Gardens we unpacked and we had our lunch. After lunch we played finding bugs. Oscar found a centipede and Jay found a snail. Oscar called his Centy and Jay called his Trailly. I wanted to find one but I couldn’t.

After that we packed up and went to the Japanese garden. At the garden Oscar lost Centy. I also tried to find a worm but I couldn’t.

On the way back to school we went a different way. When we got back we watched Prehistoric Park. I had an awesome day!

Toby

LUNCH AT THE QUEEN’S GARDENS:

On Friday room 14 walked to the Queen’s Gardens because it was Kiri’s last day at school. Our class got together and started walking. I walked with Toby, Arjuna and Arjuna’s mum. When we got there we all had lunch I sat on a big tree with Toby and Jay.

After lunch we had a play. I played tag, climbed trees and found a centipede. I called the centipede Centey. Jay found a snail and called it Trailly. Then we packed up and walked to the Japanese garden. When we were there I dropped my Centey. After that we walked back to room 14 and watched some of Prehistoric Park. It was a great day. I can’t wait to do it again.

Oscar

LUNCH AT THE QUEEN’S GARDENS:

On Friday 21st of August room 14 walked to the Queen’s Gardens because it was Kiri’s last day. Some parents came too but only two. When we got to the Queen’s Gardens we got set up and had lunch. I sat next to Eva and Ana, they’re my two best friends. After lunch we played lots of games like tag, bubbles and climbing trees.

After we had played some games and did all the stuff we needed to do we packed up and walked to the Japanese garden. It was amazing, there were lots of things made of concrete. Then it was time to go so we lined up and walked back to school. We saw shags nests and water wheels. It was so much fun. I can’t wait until next time.

Yasmina

BOOK CHARACTER DAY

To celebrate LIBRARY WEEK lots of children and teachers have dressed up as their favourite book characters. Check out the awesome efforts of Room 14!

HOW TO BLOW BUBBLES

DEAD PRECIOUS

On Thursday room 14 went to Dead Precious at the Museum. We saw lots of fossils and we also saw a pretend triceratops head! When we saw the Plesiosaurus my group draw a picture of the Plesiosaurus. After that my group went to make clay fossils! After that another group went to that part of the exhibition. There were lots of things to look at which included making fossils and the plesiosaurus. We looked at the crab shell with the crab inside and it was fossilised to. Nearly everything was fossilised! But some things weren’t. After that we read a story about ‘Dig a Dig a Dinosaur’ .
We saw a VERY VERY BIG ammonite. Mosasaurs ate them, they were much bigger than the ammonites.
We saw a video of the mosasaurs attacking an ammonite.

BY JAY

INQUIRY: Children's Rights

Kroo Bay Diagrams

KELLY SPORTS

A big THANKS to Bryce and Tony from Kelly Sports. We had a fantastic time!

Inquiry: Children's Rights

Rich Task
Compare how children’s rights are observed at Nelson Central School with those at another school in a different time or place.


We are looking at how children in Kroo Bay live. Kroo Bay is in Sierra Leone, Africa. The people there live in a slum community surrounded by rubbish. The conditions they live in are poor, struggling to find clean water and healthy homes. We are discussing children's rights and comparing our rights to those of the children in Kroo Bay.

SETTING THE SCENE:
We looked at the Save the Children website that has special interviews and videos of the children that live in Kroo Bay.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/kroobay/whats_new.php

We brainstormed what we already know about children's rights.

ACQUIRE INFORMATION:

We wrote questions that we could research to find out more about the children in Kroo Bay.

A GOOD QUESTION:

* Uses the seven servants

* Has KEY WORDS and KEY PHRASES

* Has punctuation

What type of medicine to people have in Kroo Bay and is there enough medicine for everybody? Oscar

Where do the children in Kroo Bay get their water to drink and survive and is it clean water? Quanah

How do people in Kroo Bay build their houses, what do they build their houses from and are they safe? Krystal

Where do the people in Kroo Bay get their toys from and do all the children have toys? Ellie

KATH BEE VISITS

The Junior Choir went to see Kath Bee at the Arts Centre. We sang lots of her songs. At the start we sang a ‘Hello’ song. Wills got to say ‘Konichiwa’ in front of everyone. The next song we sang was ‘Dragons Under My Bed’ – we love that song! We all loved singing ‘Dad I Want to be a Camel’ and Oscar got to go up the front and do some actions to show the different animals. We split into two groups and sang ‘Individuality’ by singing one line each. That was cool. We sang ‘Seasons’ which is one of the songs we sang at our Choir Concert. We had fun singing ‘Save the Planet’. Skyla and Ana had to go to the front and hold up posters so we knew what to sing. Skyla had ‘RETHINK’ and Ana had ‘REDUCE’. We also performed an action song that got us all moving.

At the end we asked Kath Bee some questions and she took our ideas for some new songs that she could write. We sang a ‘Goodbye Song’ which was really nice.

It was amazing and really fun to have Kath Bee at our school. We are very lucky!

Shared writing by Room 14

SKYPE

Room14 learned how to SKYPE on the Library computers. Half of our class went to Room 4 and we Skyped people in the library. We talked through a microphone which was really small. We look at the computer and could see each other through a web camera. We were learning to Skype so we can talk with Cailin in Dunedin. It was cool!

BY WILLIAM F

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