Our Special Guest!

Yesterday we were greeted by a special guest, Adie from the Tasman District Council. It was great having her here and we learnt a lot about our topic this term, Our Changing Earth. She taught us about all the different types of rocks and soils in the Tasman region. Here are a few photos from when she was here.

Endball challenge

Yesterday Room 2 had their endball tournament against Room 7. Sadly we lost, but we tried our best and I'm sure that we will win next time!!! It was a close game ending in a draw at full time. It went into extra time where we just let the win slip away. Great try guys! Posted by Lauren and Maggie :-)
Make a video of your own at Animoto.

Guess The Singers???

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This month it is New Zealand music month, so your challenge is to try and guess the name of the artist, band or singer in the different pictures!!! Each picture has a letter next to it. So when you think you have your answer please comment with the name of the singer or band next to the letter which is by the picture! The winner who guesses all the answers right will win a PRIZE... Good luck from Lauren and Maggie :-)

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Exciting Sentences!!

In writing we have been working on writing interesting sentences. Here are some of the best sentences for:      The boy went up the stairs.

The tired boy stumbled up the never ending stairs.
By Tahlia

The hyper boy marched up the rickety, old stairs.
By Lauren

The infuriated boy thundered up the creaky, wooden stairs.
By Lucy

The grouchy boy trudged slowly up the old, creaky staircase.
By Shevana

The terrified boy slowly shuffled up the old, creaky stairs.
By Jimmy

Please comment on what you think of these awesome sentences!!

Posted by Maggie and Lauren.

Creating games

This week we are creating new games in groups, so that we can practice the skills we need to play End Ball better.

These photos are of the groups trailing their games with another team, and fixing the problems before we play the game as a whole class.

Next week we will be playing all the games.

We are also looking at what makes a good team and leader.

Comment below what you think makes a good team member and what makes a good leader

What type of rock is this?

What type of rock is this?? Why??

Can you identify what type of rock this is??

Can you justify why you are correct??

First person to comment correctly wins a prize!!

How was New Zealand formed?

 Awesome answers from Laura and Caleb

Pangaea was once a big continent that split over millions of years. After Pangaea split there were a bunch of islands in the Pacific ocean. The Australian and Pacific plates pushed these islands together to make New Zealand. The plates buckled together and forced the land to rise up and create the Southern Alps, this happened about 5 million years ago.
By Laura

Millions of years ago Pangaea was a super continent. Then some million of years later the continents started splitting apart. Then a bunch of scatted islands moved into place to form New Zealand. The Pacific and Australian plates pushed together and created the Sounthern Alps, which were made over 5 million years ago.
By Caleb.O

Haiku poems

This term we are learning different forms of poetry. We wrote haiku poems, describing an animal with out saying what it was. Read the following poem and guess what they are about.
The pictures are big clues too.

By Maria

By: Hayley

Inside our Earth

Completed earth

Last week we learned about the layers inside our earth.

We then used plastercine to make a replica earth, using 4 different colours.
We knew the mantle was the largest layer, so we had to design our earth to try accurately show the 4 different layers.

How accurate do you think they were?

Once we cut them open we could see the 4 layers

What facts do you know about the different layers?

What other interesting facts have you found out about our earth?

Captivating Captions

 On Thursday last week, our class walked up the Richmond Hills to look down at the land below and identify the changes. We compared the land today to old photographs and recorded the changes.

We are learning how to write interesting and informative captions for our photos on the blog. Here are some photos of our trip, with some students captions below.

A Room 2 pupil holds an old crumbly fossil shell that was found amongst the dirt and others, up the Richmond hills last week. By Maggie

On May 9th, Room 2 studied how the land evolved. Here is a picture of the view of Nelson from the Richmond Hills. 

By Taine

Flood damage occured to be everywhere along the tramp up the Richmond hills Room 2 endured last Thursday to study the changes in the Richmond area. By Jordana

Last Thursday Room 2 went on a walk up the Richmond hills to look at the changes of the land. Here they are filling out a worksheet and looking at how the land has changed. By Laura

Room 2 having fun running down the hill. By Philip

The fantastic students of Room 2.

Wonders

Our focus for CHANGE is our changing earth.
What would you like to find out?
What questions do you have?
What are you curious about?
What do you hope we look at this term?

I am really excited about our learning this term, geography was one of my favourite subjects at high school!!

Welcome Mrs Gauntlett

Mrs Gauntlett, photo thanks to Hayley

We welcome to our class,
Mrs Caitlin Gauntlett.
She is our student teacher, who will be with us for the next 4 weeks.We hope she enjoys being a part of our class.
We are looking forward to the exciting learning she will do with us.Keep posted to see the work we will be doing together.

Holiday memories

Laurens big catch!!

In the holidays my family and I went to Okiwi Bay. Dad and I went fishing near the mussel farms and got an 82cm Snapper!
That was one of the many highlights of my holiday, seeing a 20 pound snapper being pulled into the boat!

Written by Lauren

What was your favourite holiday memory?