Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Me and George
Hayden made this presentation about our class toy George when George went for a sleepover for the weekend. It shows some of the adventures that they had. Well done Hayden.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
We Love Te Reo
Kiaora koutou.
It's Maori language week this week and we have a few exciting things planned. We have a game to revise colour names, Elmars is visiting us today to read a story in te reo, we are going to learn new vocabulary about taku hoa - my friend, and best of all we will be watching episode 1 of the toku maori podcasts. Click on the link and it will take you to the website. You will be able to choose your own episode and learn te reo at home.
Monday, July 27, 2009
This is a great week to make your talking Dinosaur because we are going to the museum to see "Digging up the Past." I think we might even see a dinosaur bone. If you want to have a go at this activity the
User Name is nelson-cen
Click on this link to make a talking dinosaur.
You will need to ask me for the password and I will tell you at school.
Have fun!
User Name is nelson-cen
Click on this link to make a talking dinosaur.
You will need to ask me for the password and I will tell you at school.
Have fun!
Friday, July 24, 2009
1500 Visits to our Blog
In the first week of term we had a shared lunch. It was DELICIOUS and HEALTHY! We usually celebrate every 500 hits on our blog but we had been a bit busy at the end of last term. Suddenly our blog became popular and when we looked next, we had 1500 hits. It was definitely time for a party. We think our next party should celebrate 2000 hits and then well celebrate every thousand. We wonder how many we will get this year. Keep looking at our work and commenting because we love those comments from you.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Holidays
We brainstormed our holiday vocabulary and Viv used a special programme to make a fun Wordle picture.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Plus Minus and Interesting
Marama, the teacher of the Wockets left us a thinking challenge so we decided to learn about doing a PMI to organise our thnking. Just look at our ideas after 5 minutes thinking. Thanks for the idea Marama.
What if children, not adults were in charge of Children's Rights?
Plus
Children could do anything they liked.
If children were smart they would stay healthy.
Children could organise lots of fun things to do with others.
Minus
Children might not get an education because they might not go to school.
Children might not be ableto keep themselves safe because there would be no boundaries.
Children would pollute the air for everyone because they would want to go to too many places.
Children wouldn't be able to get out of fires because they wouldn't have adults to help.
Children could get hurt playing with matches and lighters.
Children might not care and they might get spoiled and unhealthy because of junk food.
Children might not be able to get out of the pool before they drowned.
Children would not know how to keep healthy because there would be no doctors.
Children wouldn't have the money for medicine.
Interesting
Adults should be in charge because they earn the money.
How would children build a safe place to live in?
A child could be the Prime Minister or President.
The Prime Minister would not be smart enough to make the right choices if he or she was a child.
You might not be able to understand what the Prime Minister is saying.
Children might tell adults what to do.
What if children, not adults were in charge of Children's Rights?
Plus
Children could do anything they liked.
If children were smart they would stay healthy.
Children could organise lots of fun things to do with others.
Minus
Children might not get an education because they might not go to school.
Children might not be ableto keep themselves safe because there would be no boundaries.
Children would pollute the air for everyone because they would want to go to too many places.
Children wouldn't be able to get out of fires because they wouldn't have adults to help.
Children could get hurt playing with matches and lighters.
Children might not care and they might get spoiled and unhealthy because of junk food.
Children might not be able to get out of the pool before they drowned.
Children would not know how to keep healthy because there would be no doctors.
Children wouldn't have the money for medicine.
Interesting
Adults should be in charge because they earn the money.
How would children build a safe place to live in?
A child could be the Prime Minister or President.
The Prime Minister would not be smart enough to make the right choices if he or she was a child.
You might not be able to understand what the Prime Minister is saying.
Children might tell adults what to do.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thinking About Children's Rights
We started our new Inquiry topic by using the Questioners Key from Thinking Keys to help us think about Children's Rights. These are some of the questions we designed.
1. Why don’t children in other countries have the right to live in peace?
2. Why don’t children in other countries have rights in the same way as we do?
3. What if children had to go to war?
4. What would happen if children didn’t have enough food?
5. How does Nelson Central School provide clean water for children?
6. How do poor children get an education in other countries?
7. Why do some children have to work when they should be going to school?
8. What might happen if children were not respected?
9. Why don’t children in other countries have clean air like us?
10. What if children didn’t have the right to clean water?
11. Why don’t children in other countries have the right to a safe and healthy shelter?
12. How does Nelson Central School help children have the right to an education?
13. Why can’t some children in other countries have the freedom to say their ideas?
We will be researching these and over questions over the next few weeks so we will show you more of our work then.
1. Why don’t children in other countries have the right to live in peace?
2. Why don’t children in other countries have rights in the same way as we do?
3. What if children had to go to war?
4. What would happen if children didn’t have enough food?
5. How does Nelson Central School provide clean water for children?
6. How do poor children get an education in other countries?
7. Why do some children have to work when they should be going to school?
8. What might happen if children were not respected?
9. Why don’t children in other countries have clean air like us?
10. What if children didn’t have the right to clean water?
11. Why don’t children in other countries have the right to a safe and healthy shelter?
12. How does Nelson Central School help children have the right to an education?
13. Why can’t some children in other countries have the freedom to say their ideas?
We will be researching these and over questions over the next few weeks so we will show you more of our work then.
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