Easterly Storm

At 2.15 on the 30th July 2008 a tremendous storm hit Nelson.  We had been expecting it all day and during the afternoon the wind increased until we could hear it roaring and howling outside the classroom. It banged on the roof, threw leaves and branches at the windows and slammed doors and pushed the mums and dads around, as they scurried around the school collecting their children.

We wrote this poem the next day:

The Storm

The wind howled,

the lights flickered,

the parents worried,

the leaves flew,

the branches snapped,

the roofs buckled,

the kids scampered,

the windows broke,

the trees fell,

the lights went out.

The wind howled.

Hooting on our tooters

Last term, in making music, Nelson Room learnt to play the recorder. 

After a lot of hooting and tooting we mastered it. Our favourite tune

has to be Skateboarding and we play it with gusto.

On Friday we preformed at assembly, and we thought we were fanastic.

Everyone clapped!

New Hoodies

Our adopted ship, Enterprise and the bosses of Talleys, organised for all the children in Nelson Room to get a hoodie with Adopt a Boat on the front.  The hoodies are black and white which are our school colours. There is a map of New Zealand on the back and Enterprise in big letters.

 We were invited down to the Maitai Wharf to share a fish and chips lunch, meet some of the bosses and get our new hoodies. 

We had lots of photos out on the wharf, jumping around and looking drop dead gorgeous in our new hoodies.

We decided after we had sorted and graphed our finds that the living stream at Jack's Paddock was healthy and full of life.

Some of the more interesting finds were a freshwater crayfish, water beetles and water spiders.  No eels unfortunately!!  But we were fascinated by the sandfly nymphs. Kind of attached worms,that undulated slowly.

Visit to Maitai River.

As part of our Living Stream Study we visited Jack's Paddock,which is almost up to the dam on the Maitai River. With Mel (educational officer at DOC) we explored the site. Nobody fell in!!

We were all very surprised by the variety of river life we found. 

The children spent an hour and a half, lifting stones and examining their finds.

Nicki told us all about the materials that clothes were made of, in the 1840's.  Clothes were made from linen, wool, cotton and silk.

if you were rich you would most likely have a dressmaker. The dressmaker would make your clothes or you could order clothes from London. There was a lady named Mrs Greenam, she was wealthy (rich) and her clothes were mostly made from silk and linen. If you didn't have much money your clothes would have to be made  by yourself.  Maybe out of wool or cotton.    

Unpicking the past exhibition

We were invited to go and see Unpicking the Past. We learnt that people valued there clothes in the 1840's.   They would recycle their clothes and pass them down to younger brothers and sisters.

Their mothers and their grandmothers and big sisters made their clothes.  Material was very expensive and it took a long time to make the new clothes by hand.  Solmaz