The Lorax Speaks for... (7)

Here is Sam's "The Lorax Speaks for..." video.

Please leave him a comment if you enjoyed it :)

Come to our Gala!

Our school is having a GALA this Sunday (11th November)

It starts at 11:15 and goes until 2:30pm, it is at Nelson Central School.

We made this mindmap using Mindomo to tell you how fun our gala is going to be. Click on the picture to make it bigger.

By Jessie, Sam and Kerry


By Thomas, Molly and Rohan

The Worm Farm

I made a movie to show everyone all about worms.

They eat things that we hate. They make it into compost. Their favourite thing is not all the scraps, they like eating the material too!

I took pictures of the worms and the worm farm at home then I emailed them to school. I recorded my voice talking about each picture using a digital voice recorder. Then I used MovieMaker to make the movie.

The cool thing about my movie was that I could hear my voice. Rachel, Monique and Daniel helped me to make it.

Room 9's Special Assembly

On Monday Room 9 took Kahikatea Syndicate Assembly. Unlike other classes we all got a part. Normally we have just two people take assembly. I felt patient. I got two parts. My parts were reading group 5's argument and saying "In Room 9 we have been writing arguments, have a listen". Everyone listened. We used a microphone, it was heavier than I realised. Twenty-three people are in our class.
By Joseph

Yesterday Room 9 took Kahikatea Syndicate Assembly. Evryone got a part. I felt shy. It was fun. My favourtite thing was using the microphone. We sang School is Number One. I was the second person to talk. It was really fun. We sat on chairs too.
By Jessie

On Monday Room 9 ran Kahikatea Syndicate Assembly. Everyone got a part. I felt nervous but it turned our to be ok. Everyone got a part.
By Ben

Yesterday Room 9 ran Kahikatea Syndicate Assembly. We got to sit on chairs. It was fun. I felt embarrassed but it was ok.
By Molly

When Room 9 took Kahikatea assembly. I felt fine talking to half of the school. When Darcy and I had our part a boy in Room 13 was talking. Viv noticed him and made him sit between her legs. Darcy and I were last.
At the end Rachel couldn't find Six Months in a Leaky Boat. So Jane showed Rachel how to skip tracks but the classrooms had already gone except Room14 and Room 9. So we had to listen to School is Number One.
Darcy and I were number 19 to speak. We all used the microphone. Darcy held the microphone and I held the paper with the writing on it.
By Sam

Sam's Message to his Dad

Sam's Dad is away for just over a week at a big conference in Seattle which is in America.

Clever Sam has used our Writing Spot blog as a way of communicating to his Dad while he is away since he doesn't have Skype and it still is quite expensive to phone... plus there is a huge time difference!

You can read Sam's post to his Dad here.

If you are wondering where in the world Seattle is: take a look at this picture.

Anzac Day

On the 25th April it is ANZAC day.

We read an ANZAC story and then worked in groups to write about why we thought ANZAC day was important. Here are what the groups thought...

We celebrate ANZAC day because people died in the war. You wear poppies to remember the soldiers.
By Thomas, Brianna, Molly & Donovan

We celebrate ANZAC day to celebrate the soldiers who gave their lives to make our country free.
By Rohan, Victoria, Kerry & Louie

We think that ANZAC day is about the soldiers who fought in the war.
By Josh, Tayla, Joseph, Quade & Daniel

We think that ANZAC day is all about the army and to remember the New Zealand and Australian soldiers.
By Zoe, Jaime, Jonti, Jackson & Lochie

We think ANZAC day is about people who died in the war. We think they maybe died in a poppy field?
By Kyle, Sam, Darcy & Jessie

We also made some great ANZAC artwork... check it out!

Our Trip to Cable Bay - the rocky shore!

On Friday Room 9 and Room 16 went to Cable Bay to look at the rock pools.

I went with Molly and my Mum in the car. When we got there we had lunch on the rocky beach.

My favourite creatures were the sea anemone, blue crab and cushion star.

By Kerry

On Friday we went to Cable Bay. I caught some rockfish.

My favourite creatures were the crabs, the fish and the starfish.

The crabs moved fast. The starfish clung onto the rocks. The fish could go under small rocks. I caught three fish for my group.

By Lochie

On Friday Room 16 and Room 9 went to Cable Bay to see the rock pools. I went with Ben and Penny.

When we got there we had lunch. Then we went an explored the rock pools.

My favourite creature was the clingfish. It looks like a rock. The mussel was bright and the starfish clung onto me.

By Sam

On Friday Room 16 went to Cable Bay. I went in the car with Nano, Darcy, Jaime and myself.

When we got there we had lunch.

My favourite creatures were the fish because it was all slimy, the crabs because they have cool shells and the starfish because it had tentacles.

By Jonti

More photos of our Cable Bay trip are on our flickr photo page - feel free to browse, download and print these gorgeous pics!