Wednesday. Stormy night

We had a huge storm in Nelson yesterday so we wrote about it today. This is Rohan's report.

On Wednesday, 30th July there was a massive storm that destroyed Nelson. We were in our classroom when we head the whirling wind smashing and knocking off the huge branches. The basketball hoops fell down and the rubbish bin was blowing all over the front field.
When I was walking over to the bus on the front ield the wind was blowing me and the bus was wbbling. When I was walking up the hill to my house, the wind was blowing me backwards and it blew me onto the road. There was a powercut but luckily the lights turned back on at 7 o'clock. I reckon about one thousand trees fell over

Ice-cream

We had an exciting time at eLearning time today. We are learning about ice-cream because our rich task this term is to promote our own "ice-cream product" at a Trade Fair. We will need to learn lots of things before we can give a speech to promote ice-cream so we started answering some of our Inquiry questions today.

It was a bit different because we were doing "pair - share" where we work in pairs, not inquiry groups. Tomorrow we will discuss the information in our inquiry groups and that way we will all learn more about ice-cream.

We visited two fantastic websites which had wonderful pictures of enormous ice-creams as well as lots of information.

Click on Tip Top to go to the website.

Click on Much More Land to go to that website. We went to the consumer part because we love consuming (eating) icecream.

As usual everyone worked very,very hard!

Fabulous Fridays

We are going to have such fun times on Fridays this term that it will hardly seem as if we are working. After morning tea we are going to be doing science investigations. We did our first one today and it was all about milk. It was called "What Can We Find Out About Milk?" We had six different types of milk to test. There was Trim Milk, Organic Full Cream milk, Mega Vitamin Enriched Milk, Goats' Milk , Evaporated Milk and Condensed Milk. We recorded our answers to these questions. What colour is it? How Does it look? How does it pour? How does it taste? Some of the milks tasted lovely and some people thought some milk was disgusting. You might be able to tell that from the photographs.

Term 3 Our Trading Partners.

This term we are learning about how countries are connected to each other through Trade. Our topic for this term is called Trading Partners. We had a homework activity about it. It was a Scavenger Hunt to see how many products we could find at home that had been imported into New Zealand. After that we brainstormed in our Inquiry Groups for five minutes and we managed to think of 45 different products in 5 minutes. Some products were Cellotape, women’s cosmetics, Soft soap, board games, felt pens and balloons.

Cold Comfort

We are lucky to have the Suter Art Gallery so close to our school. This week we went to view an exhibition of 3 dimensional works that were made from thread of different types. There were floor rugs that looked like mountains and other interesting shapes. We had a chance to try weaving and rug hooking. We enjoyed it so much we didn't want to display our own work at school. We couldn't wait to take it home.

We had a cake stall today because we are raising money for our camp. We are not going to camp until Term 4 but we want to get started on our fund raising early as the other classes need to do fund raising too. Our camp is going to be at Teapot Valley. Our buddies, Riley and Sophie came to buy cakes and it was their very first cake stall. We raised $107. That's a great start!

Fun and Games

It was fantastic fun in Room 5 this morning, even before school started. Viv had given us the homework task of designing a game that we could play inside on a rainy day. We started playing our games as soon as we arrived. We were only allowed 2 sticks, 2 straws, a table tennis ball, as much string as we needed, and cellotape if we needed it. Viv had the equipment ready for us when we arrived.
Hamish made a hockey game to play on the carpet. There were heaps of games like table tennis, netball, soccer and lots of other games.
Everyone made up a game. They made it fun because it was creative.

Googling Nelson for Tourists

We had a wonderful session this week at elearning- (that's short for electronic learning.) We pretended we were tourists and we googled "Interactive Map of Nelson". We found a great website of a map of Nelson which had pictures of pins. If you click on the pins you can find accommodation, activities, restaurants and tourist shops. The address is;
www.harlequin.co.nz/MAPS/mapsfrontpage.htm
You should try it if you want to find out more about maps or the things we have in Nelson.

The Early Settlers' Memorial Display