Mask Parade

Mask Parade on PhotoPeach

Tonight we went in the Nelson Mask Parade. This year the theme was global spirit. At Nelson Central each class chose a different country to represent. We joined with Room 11 and represented Cambodia. We spent quite a few weeks making our masks. We did lots of painting and gluing of sparkly bits onto our masks.

Some of us were a little bit nervous before the parade but by the end we decided that we had had lots of fun. When we were marching in the parade we all sung the chorus from Bob Marley's song "One love, one heart" Room 2 and lots of parents provided the music for us. It was really neat when people were cheering and clapping for us. Now we just have to wait for another two years until we are in the mask parade again!

Please check back on Tuesday for a video from the mask parade

Kelly Sports

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to have Katelyn and Bryce come from Kelly Sports to do a sports demonstration with us. Read the stories we wrote about it below.

Today we did Kelly Sports. We lined up then played soccer, then we played basketball. It was fun. Akira

Today we went to Kelly Sports. Their names are Katelyn and Bryce. My favourite was getting the stickers at the end. Amber

Kelly Sports was fun because we got a sticker and it was lots of fun. Joel

Today I went to Kelly Sports. It was fun because Bryce was there. He was funny. It was so much fun. Becky

Gingerbread Men

To celebrate the end of our latest inquiry topic on fairy tales and citizenship along with the end of the term we made Gingerbread men. On Thursday we made up the mixture with Sally. We realised how important some of the things we had been learning in class are for real life. We had been learning all about instructions. When we made the mixture and we had to follow instructions so the mixture would turn out alright. We had also been learning about both fractions and measurement in Maths. We saw how important these are in baking. Kelly, Charlie's Mum then helped us cut the gingerbread men out. On Friday Sally brought the cooked gingerbread men back to school and we got to decorate them with icing and pebbles. Last of all, we got to eat them! They were yum!

What a week!

Week 9 Action on PhotoPeach

Wow what a week we've had. We have had an action packed week in Room 12. On Thursday we were lucky enough to be invited to watch a performance by the junior classes from Te Pouahi. They put on a dress rehearsal for us of their performance for the Kapahaka Competitions. On Thursday we also made moouse as part of our instruction writing. Throughout the week we have kept working on our masks ready for the Mask Parade at the end of the first week of Term 4. On Friday to wrap the week up we had a folk dancing demonstration. We did a dress rehearsal for our buddy classes and then we did our main performance to our parents. At the end of our performance we had our parents and buddies come and join us for the birdy dance!

Measurement!

Today Sally told us all to bring along our favourite teddy for Maths. We have just started a topic on measurement and today we were learning all about length and the keywords short and tall. To begin with we got in small groups and we had to arrange our teddies from shortest to tallest. Some of the groups really had to think carefully and use their co-operative skills as some of the teddies were about the same height. After this we had to measure our teddy bears using multilink cubes. Max and Sofie's teddies were the tallest because they were 21 cubes tall. Amber's teddy was the shortest because it was only 5 cubes tall. Tomorrow we are going to measure Sally's huge teddy (he's in the middle of the photo). I wonder how many cubes tall he will be?

Ordering our teddies from shortest to tallest

Ronald McDonald visits!

Today we had a very special visitor to our school. We had no idea why Sally was taking us to the hall, then suddenly Ronald McDonald appeared!! He spoke to us about road safety. We learnt that we need to stop, look and listen when we are crossing the road. He also talked about being safe around driveways and wearing seat belts when we are in the car.

John Bevan Ford!

On Tuesday we went to the Suter Art Gallery. We visted the John Bevan Ford Exhibition. We made a colourful bird. We had to draw patterns like John Bevan Ford on our manu (bird). We also got to make a huge puzzle of one of John's artworks. The puzzle was as big as one of our big tables in our classroom. We even did Maths there because we had to count all the birds in the room. There were over 100 birds!

Written with help by Sofie and Nikkita

Rights for Everyone!

This term we have been thinking about rights for everyone. We have particularly thought about the rights of those with disabilities. As part of the last stage in our inquiry model we had to communicate with others all the things that made Nelson Central School disable friendly and things that didn't make Nelson Central disable friendly. We also had to come up with new ideas that would make Nelson Central even more disable friendly. We have made a movie to communicate this with others. Sally showed us about story boarding and then with Sally's help we planned out our movie. It was also very exciting because Sally and Tania taught us how to take little movies using the digital camera. Check out the movie below!

Wacky Hair Day

On Friday to help raise money for Daffodil Day as part of the Cancer Appeal we had a wacky hair day. There were lots of wacky hair styles in Room 12. People had teased their hair, painted their hair wacky colours, put pipe cleaners in their hair and wore wacky wigs. We all brought along money which we used to make a coin trail with the rest of the school. We managed to raised $450!!!

Now you see us...

Last week with Caroline in art we were learning all about the technique of folding as part of our unit on 3D and sculpture. We each got to make a fan. Check out our fun pics below!

Now you see us....

Now you don't!