Cable Bay Walk

Big thanks to Lilly and here friends for making this video of our Nikau Syndicate walk, from the Glen to Cable Bay.
Check it out here...

The Water Cycle Song

The Water Cycle Song

Powerball final

Here is Room 10 winning their final in the powerball competition against Room 14. Look carefully and you can see Johnny score!!



Here is the winning team and their supporters

What water bug am I? Students version

1. This bug lives in clean flowing rivers under rocks
it has pincers and lots of legs.
What am I ?

2.In am up to one Inch long 
If I am a adult I will have no mouth
I am found in flowing clean water 
What am I ???????????

3.I get eaten by Aquatic Beetles

I poo with my mouth 

I breath through my skin

What am I ?

4.they are red and black

they are part orf the spider family
they are carnivorous
What am I ?

5.Adult is known turns in too a bee fly 
It was a breathing tail 
Grows 7cm long
What am I ?

6.Lives in still or slow flowing water.
Body has 13 segments.
Less than 10mm long.
What am I ?

7.I am a completely flat insect

We breath threw our skin

And we live in water

What am I ?

What water bug am I?

There are about 40 species in New Zealand.
It has  seven pairs of gills on their abdomen.
The adult may live for a few minutes to 24 hours.

Maori Language week

On Thursday Room 10 went over to First Years Preschool to present our Te Reo maori books that we had prepared in the previous weeks. The books had colours, animals and numbers all in Te Reo. The kids really enjoyed the books and it was a good way to celebrate Maori Language Week as a community.

By Abby

On Thursday Room ten visited First Years Preschool. We had been planning this for a few weeks, but decided to go during this week as it was rather special, it was Maori Langauge Week. During class time, we had been making Te Reo booklets as part of our Te Reo learning. We also learnt 3 songs and shared them too. It was a great trip and it was also awesome to see the faces of the kids light up when we showed them our booklets.
By Emily

Check out the video our our action song

First Years Preschool visit

This weeks poem was about spring personified. Personification is when something is given human like qualities. The students wrote their own poems, focusing on using active verbs and personification. We tried presenting them on ADDTEXT, a new site we are learning to use, so here are some examples...

By Abby

By Cullem

By Emily

By Olivia

By Seth

ThingLink

We are learning how to use a new site called ThingLink to share our learning.
These shots are about our trip to the Nelson Courts, and somethings we found out on our trip.
Here are a few examples..
Make sure you hover your mouse over the photo to find the hot spots!!



By Olivia and Brooke



By Summer and Annameika



By Asha

Rights songs DANCE

We turned our rights songs into dances. The students had to add different elements of dance and movement to try and share a message or story of what they think the message to the listener is.

Here are two examples of what we have seen so far...

Paris, Lilly and Maia

Max, Sam, Liam, Johny, Josh

Rights Song presentation

Students have been looking at how singers can share their opinions and messages through their song lyrics. They identified the rights they sung about, and persuasive language features used to add impact to their lyrics, and the message they wanted the listener to get.
Here is an example from Brooke and Lilly..

Kahurangi Show

Last Thursday a Maori performance group by the name of Kahurangi  performed here at WIS. They performed 7 different dances and songs to two different audiences . Their theme was to share Maori legends through acting ,dance and song. I really enjoyed this show especially when three boys got called up to do the taiha.

By Annameika❤️

Here check out this cool video of them...

Charlie on his Guitar

Thank you so much Charlie for sharing your talents with us. We thought you were amazing!! As Liam said "it was great how you started with a "Stair way to heaven" and then ended with "Highway to Hell"
Here is a wee taster of our show. Thanks again Charlie!!

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Winter Tournament Update

Many of our students participated in the annual Winter Tournament last Thursday and Friday.
Here are some of the sports reviews from our class...

Hi I'm Seth and I participated in the hockey at winter tournament.
I think it went really well even though we did not win. The opposition were really hard and good hockey players. We were polite, happy, enthusiastic and good sports. 
We came 6th out of 7 teams. We had a lot of fun a big thanks to Mrs. Parker for organizing it.

The Waimea Intermediate girl’s winter tournament basketball team participated in the top of the south Intermediate Winter Tournament alongside Nelson Prep, Nelson Intermediate, Baholly, Brodgreen and Renwick. Day one, our basketball team had four games winning them all by over 20 points, the whole team was overwhelmed with excitement after that day and we couldn’t wait for day 2. Day 2 was also a long day with another 4 games but we won our games by more than 20 points again and entering the final with another strong lead and winning the trophy for 2017.

By:Maia Jones and Paris Hart

Boys Football

I'm Sam, the vice captain of the Winter Tournament Football Team.

We had a really strong team this year and smashed the competition, winning every game by at least 4 goals (including the final!) We were over the moon after winning the tournament, it was a shame the first day was rained off, but we managed to play 4 games in on Friday. I’d like to thank Ms. Bibby for coaching us and helping us be able to work together as a team. Also I’d like to thank Mr. White and the girls football team for letting us train against you. It was the first time in 10 years Waimea had won the tournament and it won’t be our last. 

The Waimea Intermediate 8A netball team played extremely well, but sadly losing to B.I.S, just 1 point in the grade 2 finals. The winter tournament  was a great experience for all of our netball team because we had a lot of fun. On the first day 2 of our 5 games got called off because it was raining but the rest of the day went on . The Waimea 8As did amazing in the tournament and I know our coach is very proud .  By: Lilly Zwart

It was Thursday morning, the first day of Winter Tournament, and the rain bucketed down and thrashed against the window of the art room, where all of the football girls were meeting with Mr White. The fields were very muddy and wet so we couldn't start our Winter Tournament in this weather. Mr Brunning had finally agreed for us to use the school fields, so we ended up playing two friendly games against the Bohally girls football team. The next day it was time for competition and we all hopped on the bus after we'd done the roll so we could go to Nelson Intermediate to play football. We meet our coach Matt at the playing fields and we had a bye for the first game, so we had time to eat, warm up and talk about the game ahead. We won our first game 2-0 in the last two minutes against Broadgreen and we went straight to the final. The final was intense against Bohally and the first half they were up 1-0, but we regained our strength and got the score up and when the final whistle blew the score was one all and we went straight to the penalty goals. It was best of five shots and it was Bohally's turn first. We only managed to get one out of the five goals and Bohally got four so we lost our five year winning streak. I think that our team worked really well together and at the end of the day I think that we had fun and we tried our best and that's what matters.
By Olivia Christall

Liam at Badminton

Science

We have been learning about how to follow a scientific procedure. Room 10 have been working in the Science Lab, exploding lunch bags and burning tea bags. Sounds like fun, but check out the pictures to see their learning...

Ma is white

In Te Reo, we have been learning the names of colours. Now we have mastered our numbers and colours, we are planning to make some picture books for the preschool to help them learn them aswell. Mateo loves these songs and is learning them at home too, so thank you Room 10!

Check out their latest song here...

Reading - Inferencing

Last week for reading we were learning about how to infer. We were shown parts of a machine and we had to make inferences about what they might be used for and how this worked. In the end Lilly shared with us she has this object at home, that peels apples. She brought it to school to show us how it worked. It made a lot more sense seeing it in action!
Thanks Lilly

Te Reo challenge

Here is a video of Room 10's latest challenge. They have been learning to count in Te Reo Maori. They took on the challenge to combine hand actions, counting forwards and backward in Te Reo Maori. I think they were amazing, and I was impressed at how quickly they learned this and how fast they were. Special mention to Olivia and Brooke, whom Jonty said "were the most practised, fastest and accurate!" Check it out...

Ken shares his learning

Ken is interested in becoming a chef. He has been reading about supermarkets and baking cakes. This week Ken went to the supermarket to recreate his book, and buy ingredients to make brownies. Zack photographed Ken's trip to the supermarket and Jesse helped give Ken instructions and bake Miss B's favourite recipe, chocolate brownies. Here are a few pics of their journey...
A big thank you to Trina for all your help, and everyone in Room 10 loved eating the brownies!!

Guess the job?

1. You come home smelling like yeast, and start working early in the morning.

2. Your uniform can save your life. Watch out you may get wet.

3. You need to have your full drivers license for this job. Every day can be different, but beware, it could get dangerous.

4. Not many people like coming to see you, but they should do about every 6 months.

Guess all the jobs correctly, don't forget to write your name down to win the points.

Students Artwork

Wire inspired

With Greta the Artist coming in to talk to our class, the students read about different artists. From inspiration from their art work the students created some artwork to share with Greta when she came in to talk. Here is some of their work...

Pacific Art

Sculpture designs

Sculpture inspired

Getting feedback from Greta the artist

Interview with Greta the Artist

Greta giving Room 10 feedback on their art work

On the first of June, Greta Greenwood  (Clays’mum) came to talk to our class about her part time me job as an artist.

Typical days for Grate are normally working towards exhibitions, but every year Grata only goes to one. So on days she is free, she paints abstract pictures or gathers ideas. Greta’s other part time job is a teacher at Appleby Primary School, and  she spends majority of her time teaching.

Grate has always loved art but doesn’t like how she has to out herself out there if she wants to sell her art, and also doesn’t like how she is always selling herself to sell her artwork.

People who suit this job are people who love art and are talented enough to draw something that someone knows what it is. Skills for this job are just to start drawing with confidence and to not get scared. Greta learned these skills by creating at our age, she also chose art subjects at college.

Greta needed a visual arts degree if she wanted to be a full time artist, but Greta did need an IT degree for this job. School subjects that are useful are art, photograph, painting and sculpting. Visiting galleries and viewing artwork, going to exhibitions are all great activities to see what you like.

It is hard to make a living out of this job but is easy to use it in different ways, like teaching.

By Maia

Interview with Gavin

Gavin Martin

Last week Gavin came in to talk to Room 10 about his exciting and rare job as a panel beater fabricator/certifier of modified vehicles. During his day Gavin would be cutting rust off cars, preparing them for a paint job and doing safety checks, he also fixes 80-90 year old cars and builds custom guards for them.

He dislikes getting dirty but loves knowing that he has built a car out of pieces for someone to drive. Maths, technical drawing, design and reading are subjects and skills that help in the job. The job suits someone who loves cars. Gavin learnt the skills from his father and was also partly self taught, but these days you need to have qualifications in maths and welding from Polytec.

He said the job is harder to get in to because it is a dying art and you also need an eye for detail and be good with your hands. Gavin also told us that one of his cars has won over 35 national titles.

By Oliva

Week 5 Spelling Rule

Chris Roberts Police Detective

On Monday afternoon, Chris Roberts came in to talk about his interesting job as a detective in the Organised Crime Unit. Chris told us that there was never a day like another. One day he would be at the computer, doing paperwork and taking evidence to court, the next you might be investigating a grusome crime scene.

Chris Roberts - Police Detective

To get into this job, you have to be a calm, open minded, hardworking and a little bit nosy.
It also helps if you are good at P.E, Maths and English.
To become a Police Officer Chris had to have a NZ Drivers license, be fit and a citizen of NZ or Australia, and spend 2 years at the Royal NZ Police college in Porirua.
With the pay of 40-50k, for your first year constantly rising, it is a job to look forward to.

Written by:Brooke Redwood

Week 4 Spelling rule

Next reading choice

Week 3 Spelling Rule

Week 2 Reading options

Week 2 Spelling rule

Changing "y" to "ies"
When the word ends in a vowel + y just add ‘s’
key → keys
delay → delays
trolley → trolleys
(because we can't have three vowels in a row delaies x )

If the word has a consonant before the ‘y’:
take off the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’
baby → babies
company → companies
difficulty → difficulties

Watch these videos to help..

Week 1 Spelling rule

Passion projects Round 2

Samson teaching the moon walk

Cullem showing his group how to draw some cartoon characters

Charlotte demonstrating how to draw one line pictures

Abby teaching German

Vanessa giving her group a trumpet lesson

Annameika showing her students how to play a song on the keyboards

Ken sharing his language - Thai

Asha getting the girls singing

Passion Projects Started

The students are started to teach other students something that they feel passionate about. Here are some photos from yesterday...

Maia and Paris teaching some dribbling skills

Liam teaching some squash skills

Jesse giving directions to make an origami crane

Seth helping his students to make a paper creation

Summer teaching her students how to pronounce their own mihi

Charlie showing his students the cords for a Green Day song

Max and Sam leading their teams in a game of football

Emily, Brooke and Olivia showing the girls some netball skills