Merry Christmas from room 5 & George

We have had lots of fun this week to finish off a brilliant year. We went to Riverside Pool with Room 6 for a swim, we had Secret Santas, we had a Bubble Party with our buddies and we packed up our room for the long holidays.
We have all had fun with our class blog and posting on our own blogs too. The Year 4's will try to set up new blogs in their new classes and the Year 3's might try to link theirs to the new Room 5 blog.
George is going to Evie's house for the long holidays. We wonder if he will enjoy having a big bath before he comes back to school.
Viv is having a term off and Sarah is teaching Room 5 for the first term.
This is our last blog for the year so Merry Christmas and look out for our new blog by our new class next year.

Our Chinese Dragon Dance

It's the end of the term and the end of our school year so we had a celebration of our own because we have been learning all about celebrations. We had a celebration like the Chinese New Year parades. We had started with a shared tea and all of the families brought lovely food for us. Next we had the lion Dance and the Dragon parade. Room 6 led the parade because they were the lions. Room 13 were next with a white dragon, Then came Room 3 with a red dragon and we were at the back of the parade.We went right around the front field. Fenn's dad, Peter made a fireworks display for us. There were happy bangers and a confetti cannon that spurted out a fountain of confetti strips.

"The fireworks were loud and amazing," said Josh.

"Everybody brought a lot of food," said Ella.

"It was really, really fun," said Isi.

Singing with Suzanne Prentice

On Tuesday, the senior choir went out to the Hope Church to sing at the Suzanne Prentice concert. We went for a practice on Tuesday morning.
We sang "See You Later Alligator" and a big alligator came out. His tail accidentally hit Rohan and Joe then he gave the choir teacher Tanya a kiss. Hannah did a solo song.

"My favourite song was Banana Boat," said Joe P.
"I liked being in the front row where everybody could see me," said Rohan T.
"I liked when Suzanne put the microphone to my mouth. I forgot the words when she did that," said Joe R.
"It was funny when Snappy sat on a girl and made girls dance," said Josh.
"I thought it was funny when the alligator came out," said Isi.
"I liked doing the actions," said Evie.
"It was funny when Suzanne kept on waving goodbye when she was leaving," said Rohan.

It was a wonderful performance!

We're famous!

Last week we had a message from the people at Digitalnz because they had seen our Memory Maker movies. Fiona asked us if we could make a movie at school to tell them about what we had been doing and how we liked their Digitalnz site. We made the movie and they are so pleased with it that they are going to use it at their official opening launch tomorrow. You can see our movie on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cutQ8oU9scA

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DigitalNZ

The National Library of New Zealand are collaborating with organisations throughout New Zealand including Te Papa and other museums to design easy ways of finding, sharing and using New Zealand's digital items. The place to explore this is Digital NZ.

On November 11 it was the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armististice to end World War 1 so we made a movie in class using digital material on the Coming Home Memory Maker site. Later that week some room 5 people showed their families how to make a digital movie using this site.

Check out our movies.

• Lest We Forget by Room 5 Nelson Central School
• WWW11 by Tom
• War by Thomas
• the movie of joe by Joe R
• Peace at Last by Evie

Great News by Ella
Dig NZ by Hannah
Wartime by Josh

ICT Expo

We went for a bus trip to Victory School hall today because lots of schools were showing the work they have been doing this year with computers, cameras, voice recorders and other technology. We saw some of the movies that Room 5 made earlier this year.

" I liked the magnifying wand," said Hannah.

" I Liked how you could make realistic people on the Marvin programme," said Josh.

"I thought the photo booth was cool because it made you look funny"

"I thought the robotic toys were really cool. My favourite one was the bear that played a drum," said Rohan O.

" I liked the monkey playing the tambourine," said Thomas.

Suter Colours

Halloween

We are learning about the diverse ways that people celebrate their special occasions.
We interviewed Natayla's father Peter to learn how he celebrated Halloween when he was a child and to discover how Halloween celebrations have changed in USA and New Zealand.