Tug of war

On Monday all of Kahikatea syndicate tried out the new tug of war rope. The old rope was broken and the Community Group had given the school a new one. The seven year old girls in Rm 3, Rm 14, Rm 5 and Rm 6 went up first and Rms 3, 6 and 5 won.Then the seven year old boys were next. After that was the 8 and 9 year old girls then it was the 8 and 9 year old boys.That was me and we won and I can't wait to do it again!

Dead Precious

Last week we went on a trip to the Museum to see the Dead Precious exhibition. We saw lots of different types of fossils and learnt about how fossils are made and about some of the prehistoric creatures that lived long ago. There was so much to find out and although some of us had been before we didn't seem to have enough time there!

Kelly Sports

Children's Rights

This term, for our Inquiry topic, we are applying our knowledge of children's rights to Nelson Central School and comparing this to other places around the world. As part of Setting the Scene we looked at what was a "need" and what was a "want" and related these to the Articles we know in UNCROC.
For homework last week we were asked to write questions about Children's Rights. Here are just some of them.
What happens if govenments take away children's rights?
How does New Zealand take Children's Rights seriously ?
Do people who violate rights have rights?
What do you think you should do if your rights aren't being respected?
Which countries don't have children's rights?
How many countries respect children's rights?
How did children come to have rights?
Are children's rights different and if so how are they different?

The Seven Star Fishes

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The Seven Star Fishes 2

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Our Matariki Inquiry study

In our Matariki study we are looking at tools and objects from Maori culture before the pakeha people came. Each group has chosen one area from the Te Papa website Matariki exhibition and found out some information about the use and importanceof some of the artefacts. We have done our own sketches of the artefacts. Some people chose Maori gardening tools, food gathering artefacts , Maori musical instruments, Medicine, Poi or weaving. We will put our information and sketches on a digital information sheet.

Science with Sarah

Last Friday Sarah came into our class and picked nine people to do science. Sarah is a Student Teacher. First we went outside and did some rubbings of bark on trees. When we were finished we came back inside and she got some pictures of animals, fur and feathers. We had to match the pictures to the animals. When we were finished we went back to class. The next week on Thursday we did science again. She bought her laptop, shells and some books. Everyone had a group with three people in it. My group started with shells and we had to find differences and similarities and write them down.
Next I went to the laptop and it had a slideshow of big cats and we did the same, then my group went to the corner where the bird books were. The next activity was to go outside and find a place where an animal can live. Then we chose an animal and drew the animal and where it lives on a piece of pape. Then we shared what we had done.That science was fun