More Dancing kids

The dancing children are out in Moller Fountain Park. Each morning we take them out and put them in a different position. Solmaz and Hamish emailed Mr Mayor and asked why the he hadn't turned on the fountain. The next day 2 men were sweeping it out and on Thursday we met the fix it men and watched the fountain being turned on. So we put our dancing kids around the fountain in a circle. Unfortunately we have had heaps of rain, so we have had to bring them in early some days. We even put 2 out one day under an umbrella.
The dancing kids look fantastic and we are getting lots of comments in the paper and emails. One lady rang the school and we got 10 toots and 35 waves.  Solmaz

Duncan Leask

Duncan Leask is an artist. He collects metal and turns it into art. He is working on a gate for the Refinery Gallery. He loves metal art. One of his favourites is the circuit board on the window, it casts a green colour on the tool bench. “I love green,” said Duncan. Duncan plans up his ideas on the back of old envelopes. He has a dark studio workshop full to the top with junk,treasures and ideas. He displays his art out in the garden and in the gallery.

Written by Tanisha Dense September 9th 2008

Duncan Leask

Duncan Leask works at the Refinery Gallery with other artists. You’d think that artists only use paper or paint to ice or clay, but metal looks so much better because it’s economical. Duncan Leask has millions of ideas and thoughts. He doodles and plans on paper and wood. His studio workshop is up the back of the Refinery Gallery. 
Written by Hamish September 9th 2008

Dancing Kids

Instead of the spring lambs we usually put in Moller Fountain Park, this year we are painting dancing children.  We have just completed a unit on The body in Action and learnt all about the skeleton. The children have painted great body shapes, using their knowledge of the human body to get the arms and legs the right lengths.
We wrote to Nelson Pine Industries and they kindly donated MDF board for the dancing kids. Talley's arranged for it to be delivered to school. When the rain stops we will put them out in the daffodils.

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

Our adopted ship, Enterprise.

Enterprise berthed at Port Nelson on Sunday morning. We have emailed Skipper Lee and the 40 sailors during the trip and are really looking forward to catching up with him on his trip off.

We are really excited about our new hoodies. Everyone is getting a black hoodie even Judi.

Next time the ship comes in we hope we get invited for fish and hoki or even ice cream with Skipper Lee (because he is mad about ice cream) from Solmaz, Tanisha, Isabella and the Nelson Room kids

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