Room 8 Nelson Central School - Kotahitanga

Explore Dream Discover

2011-03-04T15:20:00.000-08:00

This is our theme for 2010. In Term One we will explore 'The New Me'. We will be exploring how our body alters during exercise and the benefits that go with daily exercise. Our main focus is to create an aerobics routine, and present this to the class. We will be investigating what alters in our body during exercise, how the body alters and why. Words that have appeared in our word bank include heart rate, oxygen, respiration, thirsty, electrolytes, sweating, breething fast, cramp, glycogen, lactic acid, atoms, neutrons, protons and many more.
Following this we will be looking into the world of plants and insects- inquiring about the cycles of life.

Room 8's Life Lessons we have learnt from our caterpillars...

2010-11-17T13:34:00.000-08:00

Over the past few weeks we have had a lot of monarch caterpillars in our class. Fiona decided to save them from her swan plants at home; there were a couple of hundred... at least. After a week or more the food had run out, so the caterpillars were forced onto a diet of pumpkin and zuchinni; Fiona also read that only 5-10% of caterpillars in the wild survive to become monarchs. Unfortunately by this stage it was too late... we were committed to saving them!

It has been a tough life for the caterpillars in our class. We have given many away and we wished them well on their life journey. For those who remain in our class, we have observed them and have now come up with a list of life's lessons. Enjoy!

When you're breaking the law, don't get caught on camera!
Watch other caterpillars and learn from their mistakes.
Make some friends before you do anything else, they might come in handy one day. (Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer!)
Eat or die.
You can take a risk and be a brave explorer; you might find just what you've been looking for... or you might just be squashed by a giant shoe!
Eat, eat, eat. Poop, poop, poop.
Find yourself a good safe place to build your home!
We all begin life as cute wee caterpillars before going through an awkward phase and emerging as beautiful butterflies.
Keep out of harms way and don't go picking fights.
Live to eat, or live to be eaten?
Use words to solve your problems, not violence (and especially don't attack your own kind!)
You gotta do what you've gotta do to survive in this world!
Don't be fussy, eat what you're given.
Don't drink and climb!
Galliant food hunters.
Don't leave your waste lying around!
Never trust a stranger!
We all look kind of the same, but when you look closer we all have unique characteristics that make us different and special.
Climb to live, live to climb.
Not everything is edible.
It's a caterpillar eat caterpillar world out there. Danger is everywhere, beware!
Be careful out there because no one else wants to clean up your mess!
Sometimes you need to pause in your pursuit of happiness and just BE HAPPY!
Life is hard and it isn't always fair!
Trust your instincts.
Never ever leave the box and pursue your dream as an adventurer; you will probably never find your box again or a new food source, but those big hairy giants, with strange faces will pick you up and may kill you.
You can work hard in life, but still, only a few make it to the top; you need hard work, perseverance and a lot of luck!
Never give up, because there's no reason why you can't be in the 5-10% of caterpillars that make it to the top!!!

The link...

2010-10-25T15:55:00.001-07:00

Here is the link to the Nomes wikispace we have been working on...

http://sumnernomes.wikispaces.com/

Last minute poll...

2010-09-20T16:35:00.001-07:00

What is your favorite time of year?customer surveys

2010-09-13T17:16:00.002-07:00

What is your dream holiday destination?Market Research

by Hannah

What is your favourite sport?

2010-09-13T17:06:00.000-07:00

By Kerry

Physical and Chemical Changes

2010-09-12T19:11:00.000-07:00

Today in class we watched this You Tube clip on Physical and Chemical Changes.
What physical and chemical changes can yu think of in the world around you?

Eggsellent Poll

2010-09-08T15:16:00.000-07:00

Please only vote once per person!

Eggsellent Survey!

2010-09-08T15:10:00.000-07:00

Calendar Art Voice Thread

2010-09-07T22:16:00.000-07:00

In class we created our calendar art using collage, based on the theme 'My Own Utopia!'

We will be discussing via Voice Thread what process we went through to create our collages, and how we feel about our own collages, and the collages of others in our class!

We hope you enjoy them and purchase them as calendars or cards for our school fundraiser!

Boulder Bank

2010-07-19T20:31:00.001-07:00

Customize your own free scrapbook design

Totara Trading

2010-07-19T18:41:00.001-07:00

Personalize a free digital scrapbooking design

Buddy Time

2010-07-19T17:12:00.000-07:00

Personalize a scrapbooking design

2010-07-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

2010-07-01T16:43:00.001-07:00

Boulder bank

2010-06-28T18:51:00.000-07:00

Word bank:
Nelson, Boulder Bank, Nature, Goats, long finger, Boulders , Waves,
accumulated, eroded, current, long shore drift, rocks.
My plan:
Research information, how was it formed? & why. Well, my topic is
how and why the Boulder Bank was formed.
How? When goats pull out grass to eat, it loosens the rocks and then
when the goats step on the area it pushes the rocks down the hill
making land slides.
Why? The Boulder Bank is built from rock eroded from cliffs to the
north east that get rounded by rolling along the sea bed, pushed by
current and wave action. As the current slows the rocks get dropped
in a row that stretches in a 13 kilometer long finger extending south
from the cliffs. Rocks still roll south along the seabed at about 7.5
meters a year and over 6000 years enough rocks accumulated to
form the Boulder Bank. Today this Boulder Bank shelters Port Nelson.

Minature dictionary:
long finger: Boulder Bank
accumulated: Gathering together; the rocks
eroded: wearing down
current: flow of water; ie long shore drift
sea bed: the bottom of the sea

Boulder Bank explanation

2010-06-28T18:45:00.000-07:00

The Nelson Boulder Bank

The Nelson Boulder Bank is one of only two of its kind in the world. It is located in Nelson New Zealand in the top of the South Island. It measures 13 Kilometres in length and stretches into Tasman Bay.

A bank like this is formed when cliffs and mountains are eroded by either environmental or elemental forces, such as extreme weather like wind and rain or even wild goats. The rocks that fall down then create the material needed to form the bank.

The prevailing waves and wind carry the rocks down the beach. Over a long period of time a build up of this material creates the bank, this process is known as long shore drift.

This is a very rare event of nature that needs all the right elements at all the right times to create this wonderful natural structure.

By Sacha

All of us

2010-06-27T21:06:00.003-07:00

Create a scrapbook

jump jam ella ,harrison

2010-06-23T15:05:00.000-07:00

jump jam darcy,jacob,hannah

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2010-06-21T20:43:00.000-07:00

Jump Jam - Tayla, Max and Max

2010-06-21T18:35:00.000-07:00

Sunhine: by Pascal, Oonagh and Sacha

2010-06-21T17:37:00.000-07:00

Samantha,Callum and Josh's Group

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Harrisons voicethead

2010-06-21T17:17:00.000-07:00

The awsome Mumma Mia Jump Jam routine.

2010-06-21T17:13:00.000-07:00

Jump Jam Kerry, Shaye and Ford

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Autumn Leaves

2010-06-03T15:11:00.001-07:00

Term 2

2010-05-25T21:11:00.000-07:00

Term 2 is well under way. To support our theme 'Explore, Dream, Discover', Room 8 have been busy investigating 'Our Changing World'. To guide our learning we have focused on this statement 'Natural features are changed and resources are affected by natural events.' Our main line of inquiry that helped us identify key words and develop good questions was 'Natural events change the environment.' We have used all of this as an umbrella and have investigated a natural feature that is iconic to Nelson - The Boulder Bank. We are planning a trip to check out the effects of longshore drift and erosion.
This learning has been supported with explanation writing, and paper mache art work to create our own Boulder Bank. Photo's are soon to be included!! Our reading programme has included natures way of shaping our world.
For Maths we have explored shapes,reflection, roatation and tesselation. We completed this unit with designing our own individual nets, using pre packaging as a model, and isometric dot paper.
We are also planning a softball tournament with Hira School toward the end of the term. Other syndicate wide dates can be found in the newsletter link on the left hand side of this page.
We will finish off the rest of the term with 'The Force Be With You', a scientific investigation on movement, using 'The principles behind Leonardo's science'.

Deleware Bay Art Work

2010-05-25T21:09:00.001-07:00

Deleware Art work

Hi, my name is Nic and welcome to my blog page. Is this getting boring yet? Read on if not. Here you will learn a little (or a lot) about me. Enjoy (or not!).

1. My age is ten years old, and my sister is 8 (in case your wondering)

2. Likes and things I do: Here is a list of things I do after school: Monday: Climbing wall at Vertical limits (yay!). Tuesday: Swimming lessons (boo). Wednesday: Nothing (yay! PlayStation!). Thursday: Ellie's dance classes (Boo). And (un)lucky last, Friday: After school care program (unlucky all right).

3. Dislikes: Swimming (when I'd much rather be on the PlayStation!) and homework.

Thanks for reading this

The New Me

2010-03-02T13:07:00.000-08:00

Hi guys my name is SACHA and here's some stuff about me.

Age: 11 in two weeks
fav food: pizza
fav colour: Radioactive green
fav animal: DOGS
fave music: HEAVY METAL ROCK !!!!!
SOME COOL STUFF I HAVE AND DOI have two dogs - 1 boy and 1girl. Their names a Scrappy Doo Darth vader and Tualula.This week I am going paint balling with my mates. I go to acting classes on Friday's and I have tennis on Tuesday's.All in all I think I have an awsome life... see yah !!!

The New Me

2010-03-02T13:02:00.000-08:00

HI MY NAME IS HARRISON! I live with my mum dad and brother. I'm kind to everyone. My favourite colour is green, I like to play Primeville with Max Baxter, Omar and ME. I'm 9 years old. I love to play soccer. My favourit food is tacos . I use to hav a dog called maddie. I went to Canada for a year.

BYE ME!

About kahm

2010-03-02T12:58:00.000-08:00

Hi guess who I am? Kahm. Well I'm nine and one half. My likes are eating every thing/ seeing my dad/ and heavy music/rock. I can be found playing ps2 & computer games on the net. Dislikes include school work, chores and spelling it's boring.

about me

2010-03-02T12:56:00.000-08:00

Hi my name's Josh, I love pizza and Burger king,their my favourite food.I am a physical Kid,so I love cricket, squash and tennis.My favourite colour is blue and I love pigs.At home my pets are JayJay and Daisy,the cats.My nicknames is Dogul and rock is my favourite music.Future weapon's is an awesome TV show.Have you ever watched a action movie if so,you will love GI Joe,it's hardcore.

THE NEW ME!!!!!!!

2010-03-02T12:55:00.000-08:00

Hi guys! My name is Ella and welcome to my blog! Well lets get down to business, I love my pets and family. My favorite activities are swimming, tennis, yoga and going on a holiday!!! I absolutely adore when it rains, MARSHMALLOWS and Lasagna! My dad is a AWESOME cook and my mum is AWESOME too 'cause she tidys up the house, thank goodness!!! My favorite colour is green and purple. I have LOADS of favorite singers like Silena Gomez, Demmi Levato, Taylor Swift and Jessie Mc. Cartny. I HATE, HATE, HATE being cold and alone so I make myself bizzy alot. I am a book worm and I'm serious! I finished a Georgia Nicholson book in 1 night! I can't wait till netball season, but it is in winter AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Oliver and Ray (or Raymondo Afonzo the 3rd!) are my pets, Ray is my silly puppy and Ollie (Oliver) is my fuzzy pussy thing (puss-cat)!!! I am going to O-Kiwi Bay this weekend with my friends so I hope you like my blog!

SEE YA!!!!