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.

Celebration hats

In room 5 we have been learning about celebrations so we made hats that would show us celebrating special events. Some people celebrated Matariki and Halloween and Anzac Day and other special events.
Room 13 showed us their hats that they had made and we showed them ours. When our buddies came to our class we showed them our hats as well.
"I made a hat that showed a Matariki celebration," said Josh.

"I made a hat that showed a Christmas celebration," said Isi.

"I made a hat that showed a Matariki celebration," said Evie

"I made a hat that showed a Halloween celebration," said Joe R.

"I made a hat that showed a New Year celebration," said Bella.

A Visit From a Famous New Zealand Author

It's the Nelson Arts Festival this week and some people from Room 5 have already performed with the choir at the Red Square in town. Lots of us watched the Mask Parade and Rohan went to see "In the Deep End"
Last week a new children's book called "Herbert the Brave Sea Dog" was launched. It's a true story about a dog that was washed overboard in the sea near French Pass. Room 5 were lucky to get a visit from Robyn, who wrote and illustrated the book.

"I think Robyn is very skilled at drawing," said Josh.
"I think Robyn has probably been practising nearly all her life, because she's so good," said Sam.
"I really enjoyed reading the book and looking at the illustrations," said Hannah.
"I liked the end papers because they show Herbert's journey," said Evie.
"I think Robyn takes a lot of care with her work," said Thomas.
"It was amazing how Robyn drew that picture of Herbert and the dolphin for us to keep, in three minutes," said Ella.

George's First Day at Nelson Central School

We are going to create a new blog so Room 5 in Nelson can leave postings about George's adventures. We will invite Room 5 in Cambodia to tell us what Wiki has been doing too.

Rooms 5 & 6 have been getting together this week to0 do team building activities so we are all ready to get along well together on camp. Yesterday we pretended that the adventure playground was full of flesh eating fish and we had to get our teams across from one side to the other using only two little mats. Today we worked with a partner on the blindfold walk.

You will see George, having fun in the photos. Later on we will research monkeys so we can learn more about George's family.

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I found this blingy thing for blogs in the holidays and I thought that this could be a fun thing to do on our blogs when we have finished making movies and camp shows. I tried to make her look and sound a bit like me. Hope you like her.