Measuring slides

Room 10 this week have been measuring.

We have been using lots of different tools for measuring: rulers, tape measures, scales and balls of string.

We have measured how tall we are, how much we weigh, how long the deck outside the classroom is and even how far we can flick a tiddly wink! Best of all was using our estimation skills in deciding which slide is the longest at Nelson Central School. Some of us estimated the white slide and some the blue slide as the shortest, but we all estimated the yellow slide as the longest. Whilst measuring we discovered the blue slide is the shortest and the yellow is the longest by 10m!

The best part was getting to go down the slides once we had measured them!!

Life Education

On Wednesday we visited Victoria and Harold in the Life Education trailer. It was very exciting to see Harold and where he lives. We learnt about parts of our body (heart, lungs and brain) and their functions.

We also thought and talked about ways of playing safely and being kind to others. We even did a puzzle on the wall of the trailer on what we need to keep ourselves healthy.

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Welcome back to Room 10 for Term 3. A special welcome to Oliver and Ruben who have started school with us.

We have been thinking about what friendship is and what makes a friend:

A friend shares toys. (Greer)
A friend makes rockets for you. (Hunter)
A friend sticks by you. (Jamie)
A friend cares for you. (Jude)



Thank you to Louis and Andie for their pictures of friendship.

Each person in Room 10 has a buddy friend from Room 3. Buddy time spent together every second Friday is eagerly anticipated and enjoyed. On Friday we spent time reading our poems from our poetry books to our buddies.

Magnetic Attractions

Having discovered in an indoor environment the sorts of things that are attracted to magnets we decided to explore further afield. On Tuesday we went onto the Adventure Playground to carry out our discovery roles of Predictors (Guessers) and Testers. We worked in pairs and first one of us was a Predictor, predicting what would be attracted to a magnet; and our partner tested our predictions. After a while we swapped over roles. We had so much fun discovering and exploring magnetic attraction. The wand magnets are really strong!

Matariki

Kowhai Syndicate celebrated Matariki on Monday 14 June. We started our celebrations with a shared kai, which was delicious. Thank you to all the families who contributed so generously. After lunch we all took part in a rotation of different Matariki activities. We hope you enjoy our slideshow.

Writing recounts

This week we spent a few days writing a recount of our weekend. We started off writing about where we went, then who we went with and what we did. Finally we added a personal statement about the experience.

Here is Tye's story:

I went to visit Grandad Mark. I went with Mum, Dad and Nikkita. They had a new cat. I played with the cat. It peeked at my lunch!

Here is a picture of Tye writing his story. It is lovely to see you using your finger spaces between words, Tye!

Zero Waste Lunchboxes

Room 10 has been working hard at bringing zero waste lunches to school. On Thursday Sarah Langi came to school to show us some examples of lunchboxes that have different amounts of waste. We built a big tower of pictures of lunches from those with the most waste at the bottom to those with the least at the top. We found out that it is possible to bring lunch to school with no waste and that it saves us money, too!