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Inquiry: Similarities and Differences
WALT identify the similarities and differences between a person with a disability and a person without a disabilityInquiry Stage: USEWith our Inquiry partners, we chose one of the disabilities we have...
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Thinking Hat Tuesday: If clouds had strings
Today we worked in our cooperative groups to talk about our oral language talk topic for Thinking Hat Tuesday. We had to think about if clouds had strings hanging from them.Click on the picture to view...
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Doing our BEST!
One of our school values is DOING OUR BEST.Room 9 discussed with our cooperative groups what we thought this would look like and sound like. Then we reported back and gathered all our ideas. Take a...
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Spring has SPRUNG!
Today is the first day of Spring!Room 9 wrote some fantastic descriptive poems to say Ka Kite to Winter and Kia Ora to Spring.WALT use several different adjectives to describe winter and springKa Kite...
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Our Feet First Picture Book Entry
Room 9 has entered a competition run by Feet First to design a picture book for children.It had to be based on active travel, be 16 pages long and we were allowed to choose the genre and style of our...
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WALT identify facilities at Nelson Central School that support disabled people.WALT suggest possible changes and adaptions that can be made to make Nelson Central more disable-friendly.This afternoon...
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Procedural Writing
WALT write descriptive procedures that help people to do things.This afternoon Rachel set up a special task page on our wiki with procedural writing tasks we needed to complete. These were to help us...
View ArticleDouble Birthday
Today we found out that Lesley, who is a teacher in our syndicate (Room 13) has the same birthday as Aria in our class!Check out the little movie "Birthday Wishes" that we made. It also has a special...
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Road Safety
On Wednesday Ronald McDonald came to visit the kowhai syndicate.He taught us about Road Safety. We learned that when we are on a bike, scooter, skateboard or rollerskates you MUST put a helmet on.He...
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Spring Chicks
Today Jacob brought 3 chicks to Room 9.Everyone got a turn to pat the chicks.It was raining on the day that the chicks came to Room 9.They were very smelly!We tried to feed the chicks but they did not...
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Our Writing Spot Blog needs...
YOUR COMMENTS!Students have been working very hard, either individually or in pairs to independently write on our special Writing Spot Blog.It is a special place where students can independently...
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Hosting Assembly
Last week Room 9 hosted Kowhai Syndicate Assembly. We decided it would be for spring.For our spring assembly Room 9 had to prepare and write our words and choose the songs. Room 9 also had to make some...
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What we have enjoyed this term!
WALT to write a letterTerm 3 is just about coming to an end. Room 9 brainstormed lots of things that we have done this term. We chose things we really enjoyed doing.Then we wrote a letter to Rachel to...
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Happy World Teachers' Day!
Friday 30th October was World Teachers' Day!Room 9 has made a tribute and gift for teachers at Nelson Central School and all over the world - check out the video below! We hope you enjoy it :)
View ArticleGoodbye Hannah!
Today is Hannah's last day teaching with Room 9.We have really enjoyed having her with us over the past 4 weeks.Here are Room 9's goodbye messages to Hannah :)
View ArticleOur Stream Study
Last week we went to the stream up the Brook to learn about healthy streams.This week some groups of students (who will be presenting and teaching other students next week at a BIG Kids' Expo) have...
View ArticleNelson Kids' ICT Expo
On Thursday Room 9 went in a bus to Victory School. We went because it was the Nelson Kids' ICT Expo.There were lots of other schools there like Hampden Street, Nelson Intermediate, Clifton Terrace, St...
View ArticleRoom 9 Teaching!
At the Nelson Kids' ICT Expo last week 12 students from Room 9 were extremely brave and confident...They got to teach over 2,000 children from 8 different primary schools!!Room 9 were running 3...
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Collaborative Narrative Writing - Day 1
This week Room 9 are writing some narrative storiescollaboratively with another class!The class is in Grey Lynn, Auckland. They are year 3s and are from Room 10. We have been reading, looking at and...
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Collaborative Writing - Day 2
Today was our 2nd day of collaborativenarrative writing with Year 3 students in Room 10 from Grey Lynn School in Auckland.3 more groups were online using Google Docs to write a story together at the...
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