Wacky Hair

On Friday the 26th of October at Nelson Central Primary School was having Wacky Hair Day. Most of Nelson Central made their hair wacky like some people dyed their hair with dye or food colouring. Some people put a number pig tail in their hair, colourful mohorks and wigs.

Wacky hair day

Last Friday we had wacky hair day to fundraise for save the children. Some people had red hair some green some wigs some ponytails like Sam and Hamish. It was really wacky and fun. Brady had the coolest hair harry had the wackiest ever have wacky hair. Lachlan has wacky every day so he did not do anything with his hair he just left his hair red, fluffy and curly.

WACKY HAIR DAY

For wacky hair day I had hair that was all over the place and looked like Dennis the mennis. My hair was really stiff. My hair was green red and it was really wacky. I felt really, really cool because I didn't have to wear a hat. Other people looked really wacky too. My Mum said I looked Dennis the Mennis because she used to watch it. I died my hair yellow like last year. This year had sparkcels and yellow died. I got the idear from my mum and dad becouse my brother went wild with his hair that day so I did the same thing. I for got I had wacky hair and I ackserdently on my hat and it was yellow after that.

Bedazzled

At the museum we went upstairs. When we were upstairs we saw heaps of mirrors. Did you no that you can t can see someone through the wall? You need a mirror. After that we had a look at the mirrors we look at all kinds of mirrors. The mirrors were fantastic.

Camp

My favourite activitiy was archery because I nearly hit the target. Lewis
My favourite activity was the burma trail because it was fun and freaky. Martina

Camp

At camp we did lots of activatys our faviorite was jeep driving and archery.We had teapot valley burgers for dinner.We had pizza for lunch.At camp I played elegro on my violin And I played my guitar and Paris did a dance.
Max Sam Paris.

Camp

At camp we went into the maze and I got lost.The best part was when I got to play archery. Sam

CAMP

One of the things we liked were the activities.the activitiy I liked the most was....

the Jeep and the burma trail.
By Hamish and arlo

Room 8's water website!

Cross country

At cross country over 400 people showed up for one event. It was amazing how much
people showed to see friends, famly, people from another schools came. There were winners from room 8, winners were sam and every one who competed in the race. Im glad to see my cosen race in the open for his first time ever. After the race I played and cheered for Quade when I saw him race. It was awsome. I cant wait to the next cross country.

Kids Keep Safe-First Class in the South island

On Thursday we went to a programe called Kids Keep Safe. First we saw a pretend tramp try to look like a woman putting on make-up. Then Jane's sister came up and told us about how to say "NO!" and what to do after you say "NO!". This what you have to do after you say "NO!":Say "NO!". Run if that person trys to grab you. Yell or call for help as loud as you can. Try to wriggle free and put your hands out in front of you. Then once your free go and tell someone you trust about what just happend. They also said that we were the first class in the south island that were seeing this programe. We also learnt this rap that goes like this. "It's cool to keep safe 'cause my body is mine, I'll protect each part and I'll be just fine", boom boom you bang your fists with a friend at school or home and we all got a necklace with cards to keep safe. By Lachlan, Toby, Finn

Laptop computer work.

Dear Jane We enjoyed doing things about water on the laptops because it was fun to write our arguments, and use kidpix and all the coluring we did. The best part was all of the kidpix drawings. by Lachlan and Sarah.L

Our Holidays

In the holidays I went to the little Indian shop in town. And I hade kormer chicken. by Finlay.
In the holidays me, my cousin and my brother went to Bencarri Farm to go salmon fishing in Takaka.By Toby.
In the holidays. I went to the hockey fild for my brathers game i plade goley.By Brady In the holidays mum and i drove down into greymouth to see one of my uncles and g
randad. by chrystal.
In the holidays mum dad and I drove to Parha on the way back we stopped at the salmon farm. by Kyle.
In the holidays i went to Christchurch with my family and friends and went on the tranzalpine train and saw lots of snow By Lachlan.
In the holidays my cousin tom came down to nelson we did heaps of stuff including peadel cars then me tom and mum went to Wellington. by max.

Fitness

On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays we do fitness. We do swinging for 10 minutes.

On frosty mornings we don't do fitness because of the frost on the monkey bars, so we do something else.
By Stella and Fergus.

Fitness

I found runnning round the front field exciting and I somtimes race my self.

fitness I liked becuse there were new games and the old games had new rule.

Fitness

I found combining with all the other people quite challenging.This week I found you should respect other players.Do you know how to play Aussie rules?It's not about winning it's about having fun.By Max Sam and Jak.

Reading

I found it difficlt reading new words. By Louis

I learn't in reading that it's not just the pictures that count it's the reading .By Brittany

What is reading? By Ann.

Reading

The Dragons Under Our Beds

Room 8 learnt a song called Dragons Under My Bed. Here are the pictures they drew.

Our Blogging Rules

We have rules for our blog, we are writing them here so people know our rules.
We looked at Room 9's rules to help us.
We had to talk a lot about our rules because we didn't all agree.
OUR RULES

• We don't want anyone to know any personal things about us so we won't put our last names, our e-mail address or phone number or address.
• We will use polite and kind words on our blog.
• We will only put nice photos on our blog, we can take photos from a distance, take photos side on or only take the photo of half of a persons face.
• We have to ask permission to put someones photo on our blog.
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NO PHOTOS FOR ROOM8

We do not want photos on our blog. We don't want to be found because they might hurt us. People could print our photos in a wrong way. We think we should not have our photos on our blog. By SarahA, Brittany, Louis, Brady

NO PHOTOS ON ROOM 8`S BLOG!

We should not have peoples photos on our blog. Mean people could track you down,
follow you or trick you. They could also bully you because thay may disagree. Uneccesary people may be jealous and rob you. we already know that we cannot put any details such as last names or phone numbers. People could kidnap or in other words take us. Our opinion is that we should not have our photos on the blog.by Grace, Hamish, Chrystal, Sam

We need photos !!!

Our opinion is we definately want photes on our blog. We dont want to look silly because we might look weird side on. We could get famous. We want our relatives to see us. When people all over the world see our blog we want to make an inpresion. That is why we think we should have our photos on our blog.

By Max Jamie Finlay and Sarah1.

Maybe photos

Our group thinks we can put photos on our blog but no details on them.
So relatives over seas can see what we look like.
Friends that go to another school can see them.
Some people might like you and want to be your friend.
Somebody might want to track you down so we don't put any details.
Some people might want to do something special for you and want to know who they are doing it for.
Someone might need you for something and want to check if you're the right person.
This is why we have to be careful with our photos.
By Lachlan, Georgia, Kyle, Martina.

No pictures for room8!

Our opinion is we should not have our photo on the blog.
Someone could print our photos off and identify us.
They could print our photo off and make silly faces.
Someone could kidnap the person on the blog.
The person on the blog could over react.
Someone could follow us home and rob our house.
They could hurt you with something sharp.
This is why we don't wont our photos on the blog. nic sam paris.

Occasional Pictures on our blog

We think that we should occasionaly have pictures on our blog. This is important because in our opinion people could print out our really good face on photos. They might try to burgle us. Or even worse try to hurt us.We should only have side on, half of or far distances for our photos. We also think we should only put our photos on an angle so people can't see us properly. We also think that we shouldn't write things and details about ourselves like our phone number and full name which we also know is dangerous. By Stella, Mai, Toby and Keita.

How much water we have in the world

We got 20 litres of water and tipped it into buckets and pretended that it was all the water

in the world. Most of it was sea water, second to last was ice in Antarctica and deep underground, last was drinking water - out of 2 big buckets of water only 3 teaspons of that water is drinkable.
97.5% of our water is in the oceans and seas.2% of our water is in the ice and deep underground.Only 0.5% of our water is drinkable.

Water is precious, especially drinking water and we have to look after it and use it wisely.

By Martina and Grace

Our video about amazing dykes.

The amazing dyke

In Frisia, the north west of Germany storm tides appear every two to three years and can kill up to 50000 people and destroy houses and landscape. To protect themselves the Frisians build little hills and on these they build their houses. Later they build a big dyke all along the coastline. One big storm came 1362 and the flood destroyed the dyke in 21 places and 50000 people died.
(A dyke is a big dam and it is 9 meters or higher)

On the two pictures you can see a sluice. It is a special gate that only let the river out and not the sea in.

Rubbish

Today our class room went to a rubbish festival with Sarah from Nelson City Council. She told us not to litter the school. we should put our rubbish in the bin. If it's paper try to reuse it, then recycle. There were apples, sandwiches, bars, raisens, bananas and chippies thrown out. You can take it home if you don't like it or put it in the compost. Try and not use gladwrap because it's hard to unwrap and you can't recycle it. We are going to try and not use gladwrap or wrappers next Monday (but that's a holiday so we'll try on Friday.)

Too Much Rubbish

We have just been to an assembly with a day's worth of rubbish in it. You can compost paper, food and cardboard. It was so stinky. Unfourtunately, people havent found a way to recycle plastic yet. We have three or two big rubbish bins and three or two big recycle bins. We had a challenge to not have plastic in our lunchbox on Mondays.

Sea Creatures

Cushion STARFISH
Cushion starfish are fat and it’s skin is bumpy but the skin is not sooth and silky and they love water. By paris

Sea anemone.
It was green like a grassy garden.
It sucked at my finger it was really
Sticky. By Grace

The chiton is slow and small .its got a eight plated shell because it bends over rocks and it doesn’t like the sun. By SamA

Cable Bay

Crab sometimes have blue on top. They are super duper fast like a racing car. Most crabs are brown, some are blue brown and some are red. They can snip us.By Louis

I saw a star fish. It was a cushonstarfish. The colour was orange and black. Starfish stick on the rock. Star fish live in the sea. I like star fish!.By Ann

When I went to Cable Bay I saw heaps of starfish all different colours like purple blue green brown and black.There were brittle cushon and spiny.The starfish grab on to the rock like a slug.. By Brittany

At Cable Bay

Snake skin chiton
It’s oval like a stone when it’s afraid. It is a slow creature, as a slug. By Nic

Spiny Starfish are damp, dismal, spiny, star shaped fish.
Their suckers are as powerful as a sumo wrestler tugging a rope. By Lewis

Slimy Creatures

The shrimp darts across the pool.
It’s as skinny as a pencil lead. By Brady

Ooey and pinky red.
Like a mini brain.
Slimy and squishy.
A warty sea slug.
By Georgia


A CHITON IS A GREEN OR WHITE OR ORANGE LITTLE CHITON THAT MOVES ON A ROCK. You ant see their legs because that are small. They cant be in the sun because
It might out its skin dry. By Sarah

Cable Bay Trip

Spiny as ever, longer legs then a spider. Stickier then a vacuum cleaner on full power. By Kyle

The camouflage crab is slow like a snail but a bit faster. It is really big and the second biggest thing I had seen. By Jamie.

A spiny starfish is like a spider and its legs look like some gloves. By Finlay.

Rock Pool Creatures

Rose Brittle
It moves fast with its long legs to get to home. It’s like a scuttling crab. There body is round. Sarah

The sea squirt is soft like jelly and squirts water when you push it down. It’s small and round. It’s dark and peachy orange [mainly light orange]. By Stella

Cable Bay Writing

A starfish is sticky and slow. It sneaks as slow as a snail and sucks like a game of tug-of-war. By Toby

I LOVED THE GREEN SEA ANEMONES BECAUSE WHEN YOU POKED THEM THAY TRIED TO SUCK YOUR FINGER AS HARD AS A VACUUM CLEANER. By Chrystal

The Hermit Crab is covered in brown. It moved very fast. By Trevor

Cable Bay Sea Creatures

It sucks like a black hole,it grabs on to you like a giant vacuum cleaner. By Max

Camouflage crab they do not only hide they camouflage and hide. By Jak

It is as slippery as a piece of jelly. As pincy as an ant. It is as territorial as a magpie. As nosey as my cat .As scared as a mouse when we chased him. Rock Fish. By Sam

Cable bay creatures

It squirms slowly in the sand slipping around. Very small and quite long and weird. a sea worm. by Lachlan

Fast as lightening.
Small as a ant.
Scared as a rat.
Slippery as a fish.
Stinky as the compost. By Keita

Rocky Shore Trip

The race we saw was so fast it looked like it got teleported into another pool.
It was camouflaged it look like it was made out of sand.
By Hamish

I saw a black Starfish and two red dots. The starfish sticks on the rock.
By Fergus

The starfish clings to the rocks with its suckers. It’s shiny, slimy, squidgy, soft, starfish.
By Mai

More Writing

A story cline shows tension building up until it reaches the top. Then it starts falling down. The title is Finding mum in this story there is a big story cline. There is a boy who loses his mother in a supermarket he looked everywhere for his mother but he could not find her so he thought hard very hard so he walked back to were he lost his mum and there she was. Did you see how the tension built up? In the beginning he felt a little bit worried in the middle he felt lonely and finally he found MUM ( at the end) he felt very happy and relieved. You try writing a story cline one day. By Max, Lachlan and Hamish

Our Writing

We are learning to write a story that people want to read.
We wanted to make our first line interesting to make people want to keep on reading. Here are some of our first lines. I wonder what will happen next ...

Mysterious screeching coming out of nowhere. Sam C
“Screech” “Alright what was that?" Then I burst back in fright. By Lewis
On one Sunday morning I was reading a story in my bedroom. By Lachlan
I woke up ready to pounce. Sarah C
Yesterday it was my birthday. By Georgia
In the fantastic holidays Dad drove me to Cable Bay. By Stella
In the hot holidays I hiked to the hairdresser. By Mai
I woke up and boom! By Tarrin

Marine Reserves

We have been talking about what it would be like if there weren't any marine reserves.


We think ....
there might be a law that no one could fish anywhere by Hamish
the rock pools would just be rocks, water and seaweed by Toby
There would be no fish left by Grace
It might be just deserted by Stella
there would be nothing to look at when you go diving by Kyle
It would be really really polluted by Georgia
There would be no crabs to see by Lewis
The sea would be murky by Max
People could throw heaps of junk into the sea and the fish could die by Jamie
The life cycle could stop by Sam
There wouldn't be any starfish by Sarah
There would be no fish and chips. By Mai
We know that the Future Starts Now.

This means we need to ...

Use cars less because of Global Warming by Lewis

Make more and more bio-fuel by Max

We need to protect the future by Tane

The future means to carry on and if there wasn't a marine reserve it wouldn't carry on. By Stella

It means we need to try and stop the Antarctic melting quicker. By Kyle

We need to stop putting junk in the sea and start a new life for the fish. By Jak

If all the fish did become extinct we would have to use DNA By Hamish

We need to stop using plastic bags and start using eco (material) bags. By Toby

We can get jobs to help the future and use cars that don't take that much petrol. By Jamie

Stop using oil so it doesn't pollute the sea by Grace

We could put signs up so people know to keep the Rocky Shore safe. By Sarah

Orchestra - Peer Gynt

Today we went to hear 3 members of the Nelson Symphony Orchestra play for us. They played the clarinet, violin and oboe. You could break the clarinet into little pieces and put it in a box. It sounded sly. There was a big clarinet and a little one. The violin could play happy and scary music. Instead of using the bow you can pluck the strings. You can take the reed out of the oboe and it sounds like a duck call. If you blow it without a reed it sounds like just blowing. It is really hard to blow it ... you have to be at least 11 years old to learn. It plays refreshing and sleepy music.

David told us about a concert on Saturday for children. David dressed up as the King Troll. It looks very life-like, scary but funny.

Rocky Shore by Lukas

Here are some photos we took of "the rocky shore" in January (the day after Lukas turned 8!). This is a large red crab, and the other picture shows an octopus we found hiding in a tidal rock pool on the Great Ocean Road in South Australia. The octopus was amazing -- it floated right past all 6 of our family members while we were standing in the pool exploring! It was about 1.5 m long!! We hope you like them. Lukas and Nina-Marie (mum)

Our Rock Pool Creatures

We have bean using the combination key to design a Rocky Shore creature. We have been though a lot of trouble making these creatures. We have to get two rock pool creatures or a sea creature and combine the two to make one. We have done a t-chart on our creature about its features and why they have them.

By Nic, Louis and Kyle.

What we learnt about the Rocky Shore

You can`t catch any fish that come from there unless they swim out of the harbour.
Kyle

Shells get there colour from there food.
Hamish

Snapper can live up to fifty years old.
Toby

A cats eye snail has to hold on to a rock otherwise it will get washed away.
Sarah

Where females lay their eggs.
Nic

The spiny starfish turns its body in side out and sticks pipi and pulls and pulls
Brittany

LEARNZ FIELD TRIP

We have been on a Virtual Field Trip to Goat Island Marine Reserve. Our class couldn't actually go on the trip but we sent NCS Pooh Bear as our ambassador. We sent him e-mails. We watched videos and looked a pictures of the Marine Reserve. We have been thinking about the big question .... "What would the Rocky Shore be like if we didn't have any Marine Reserves?"

Swimming Sports

The swimming sports was really exciting for Kahikatea syndicate because we got to do a lot of stuff in front of loads of people. There were lots of races and it was exciting because we won heaps of them! It was a bit cold in the pool but we could cope with it. Hamish was so fast he did a length of the pool in ten seconds! It was so awsome at the piggy-back race becauce Lachlan was my pantner and he was really good! The swimming sports was a big blast.

Welcome Home Pooh Bear

We have just opened up the package that Pooh Bear travelled home in. He was very occupied reading the newsletters that Mike had sent with him but he really wanted to get out of the package so he could see if we had any honey for him. We are pleased to have him back from his adventure.

Welcome to Room 8, Nelson Central School

We are a class of Year 3 & 4 children from Nelson Central School, Nelson.
We are looking forward to learning about recording our learning storie in a digital way. We have family all over the world and we are excited that they will be able to see what we are learning in our classroom.
Please leave us a comment when you visit our blog.

Jane Portman.