Room 4 news

2011-11-21T12:04:00.000-08:00

H2O Xtreme : Screams of excitement and bolts of laughter echoed throughout the complex as we came thundering down the waterslide.

2011-11-21T11:54:00.000-08:00

Zoo: At Wellington Zoo we had a night tour. There were giraffes, lions, cheetahs and enrichment making for the monkeys. This involving stuffing pinecones with popcorn, jam and seeds to encourage natural behaviour that they would do in the wild. We slept and there were noises all night long . finally morning came and we woke up bright and early to all sorts of animal sounds then we started a day tour to see all the animals that we did not get to see the night before! We feed the monkeys their enrichment we made the day before¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

Room four back in business

2011-11-17T14:55:00.000-08:00

Finally wwe have worked through the challenges of changing google accounts and we are back in business.
We welcome your feedback about some of our learning and likes are always good!!

Wellington Camp

2011-11-17T14:47:00.000-08:00

Twisting, turning,
Going down the black hydraslide.
It was day four of our Wellington camp
We took the train out to Upper Hutt for a night swim.
Amazing...
Extreme!!

Natalya

hi

2011-07-07T19:38:00.000-07:00

We played golf at the Kina golf course

With Mahana school and we played on the 21 of June. The nice sea view and the sun shine put some enjoyment

Into the day thank you Craig and Steve for preparing us for the golf tournament

and gearing us up. For the next invitation from the other schools.

2011-07-07T19:05:00.000-07:00

2011-06-22T03:12:00.000-07:00

Practising my british accent on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland :)

2011-06-19T03:29:00.000-07:00

Hey room 4 and others sorry i havn't posted for so long it's because I have had jet lag and been real tired and been sight seeing the world and meeting my new Uncle Les and Auntie Lyn .. oooo and being on Close up. It wont be on TV for about a month. Cause Paul and Jason from TV are going to film us on the London Eye next month. We went up the Eiffel tower to the top. It was wicked and a long way down. We travelled in a open top bus and watched the french people tooting and yellying and driving crazy.

Golf at Tasman Golf Course

2011-06-13T21:02:00.000-07:00

We are all set to hit the golf course on Tuesday June 21st. We need lots of parents to help so let Mrs Shand know of you can come along. You'll be really impressed with how well we can hit the ball.

2011-06-13T21:00:00.000-07:00

It is great seeing you pop up on the screen Drew, it is almost like coming along with you! Hope you have a terrific flight (for how many hours??)

In Australia waiting for flight to France

2011-06-13T16:59:00.001-07:00

We are now in Sydney airport. We are waiting for our flight to France. We are leaving in 1 hour.

Hi all friends :)

drews trip day one flight to christchurch

2011-06-09T16:40:00.000-07:00

We had a good flight to Christchurch. We are waiting to fly to Sydney. Melody got to give out lollies with the hostess and I say "Hi" to all friends at Tasman School.

Two new bloggers in Tasman School

2011-06-08T14:21:00.000-07:00

The name of the new bloggers are Drew and Traego.

The Matariki festival is coming up it is going to be pretty cool.

What smells good at MOTEC?

2011-06-07T21:32:00.001-07:00

I hope you're remembering to bring some back for your hard working, hungry teacher Jordan!

Basic Facts

2011-06-07T21:25:00.001-07:00

This is a great way to practise your basic facts.

Basketball Mania

2011-06-07T21:16:00.001-07:00

The miniball is away and running. Motivation is high and the students are working hard.

Matariki Costuming

2011-06-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Toni Collins for making Orin's awesome costume for the production. We will keep you posted on our own creations soon.

Cross Country

2011-06-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

Cross country rolls around so quickly! A massive effort from Connor saw him coming in second. Congratulations also to Tayne as he not only took out the school cross country and the Moutere Hills but the Motueka combined schools as well. He will be representing us in the Nelson final soon. Can't wait!!

Bronwyn again

2011-04-14T16:54:00.001-07:00

Thought you might like to see a good photo...

Room4's awesome posters.

2011-04-14T16:31:00.000-07:00

This exciting term we studied civil defence we made some awesome posters. which tell you what to do in an emergency including Tsunamis and earthquakes. Christchurch was one of the unluckiest cities in New Zealand. If you don't have a emergency kit or a house hold plan do it now!!!

Room4

2011-04-14T16:28:00.000-07:00

ICT

2011-04-14T16:26:00.000-07:00

Once a week we decided to spruce up our ICT skills. So now we have new knowledge like how to make our own avatar on Wimp yourself.com. Also we have discovered new ways to use google like: Google Doc for making slide shows and Google squared and other awesome things. By Tiare & Alice

bronwen

2011-04-14T16:25:00.000-07:00

For the past 5 weeks we have had the amazing bronwen as a student teacher. We have learnt new math stratiges and some survival skills . it has been an amazing 5 weeks .

Tasman School Biking day

2011-04-14T16:12:00.000-07:00

On Friday 8th of April Jodie Fa'avae and Marty Clark from Sport Tasman came to Tasman school and challenged us with bike ramps, obstacle courses and a seesaw to balance on. Jodie also impressed us with her skills in a slow race... which doesn't surprise us as she is New Zealand downhill champion.

Different fonts

2011-04-14T14:52:00.000-07:00

I have been researching about some cool fonts . If you want some cool fonts you can go to http:/www. flaming text .com and http:/www .font space.com. 3 of my favourite are Harry,Mosaic,Stained glass. Have fun. Natalya

Cross-Country Fever

2010-06-08T15:30:00.000-07:00

The week of May 31st was a big week for us here at Tasman with the school cross-country on the Monday followed by the Moutere Hill Inter-School Cross Country on the Thursday. We did ourselves proud with everyone running to full potential. Special Room4 recognition goes out to Tayne as he easily won both of his races (and still sprinted it out at the finish!), Atorea for winning the school race and Mars for coming in third at Rabbit Isand for the inter-school race. Congratulations guys! We look forward to next week's Motueka Championships.

Hockey Victory

2010-06-08T14:59:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday the 19th of May we completely outdid ourselves at the Nelson Primary Schools hockey tournament by surprisingly coming home with the trophy. Billy Wriggly said 'I couldn't believe that we actually won. It was awesome!!'

Marahau Camp 2010

2010-05-02T18:50:00.000-07:00

Lilli- Camp was a great outdoor experience.

Connor B- Camp was a real success!

Lilly-Mae- Camp was learning new things.

Drew- Camp was an amazing experience.

Hannah- Camp was exhilerating.

Mars- Camp made the adrenalin rush through my veins.

Alice- I had a lot of fun with my friends on camp.

Zara- Camp gave me great opportunities.

Connor R-H- Camp was a fantastic place.
Cole- Camp was the best place I have ever been to!

Atorea- Camp was an awesome experience.

Tayne- Camp was full of fun challenges.

Piet- Best camp I have been on.

Francis- What a jam packed week, full of fun experiences.

Orin- I liked the hot chocolate.
Mrs Shand- Room 4 students blew me away on camp. I can't think of a better group of students to have spent the week with.

Pics of Mr Kempthornes visit

2010-02-14T17:47:00.000-08:00

Mr Kempthorn's visit

2010-02-14T17:27:00.000-08:00

15/02/10

Richard Kempthorne (the Mayor) came to talk to us about the penpal project we are working on in Grootegast in the Netherlands. He mentioned how we are sister cities and how Tasman and Grootegast are alike. Mr Kempthorne aslo brought along some photographs of the school. It looks very cold there everyone is dressed warmly and the landscape is very white with snow. We are looking forward to hearing back from our penpals.

Disco

2009-11-19T15:09:00.000-08:00

On the 6th of November our school had a disco for all ages- one for junior students and a senior one. The juniors went from 5.00pm to 6.00pm and from 6.00 to 6.30 we shared a great tea and then the senior one started. It went from 6:30 to 8.30. You brought $2 and you got a fizzy drink and good music to dance to. It took almost an hour to do the setting up. It was a great night... we definitely will be doing it again in the future!!

By Lilli

Susan Rifici

2009-11-19T14:49:00.002-08:00

For the last 2 terms Susan has been coming into room4 to teach us about Healing Species. Every Thursday afternoon she has been coming in with a different dog from the Nelson Ark. We wrote letters to the circus and some products companies to ask them to stop testing their products on animals and test them in the labs. She also has been teaching us to let it out if you're angry or sad -just to let it out don't bottle it up. She showed us a video of standing up to people if they are treating you wrongly and to tell someone that will help you. It was a great learning experience and very inspiring.

By Emily

2009-11-19T13:17:00.000-08:00

Athletics day

2009-11-19T12:45:00.000-08:00

On the 14th of November the Athletics day was held at the Moutere sports complex. Its always held on the nearest Saturday to Armistice day and it involves a whole range of activities which includes high jump, long jump,runing and sprinting. And there are always races at the end the RSA which the 2nd fastest kid in each school races in and the peace shield which is the fastest kid in each school and Brad won it!!!! The parents race is quite popular with the parents that can be bothered to run and not make up excuses. Jordi and Sebastians dad always gives it a go and he usually comes out first also Jamies dad Mark won his race. It is always a great day and most people enjoyed every minute of it.

Chess competition

2009-09-23T17:15:00.000-07:00

...One day until the end of term and room 4 is busy practicing for the interschool chess competition set up by one of our year eight students - Jamie.
As we type, people are honing their skills in preparation for this event.
Look out next term!

waimarama sanctuary visit

2009-09-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

On Thursday the 17th of September my class went to the Waimarama sanctuary up the Brook. There were 6 activities we started at 6 went to 1 and so on. our favourite activity was the 5th one where we got to go into the stream and catch little fish food.
The other interesting activity was number two it was all about whales. We saw lots of whale bones. I found out that a blue whale is 33m long WOW that’s huge!!!
The 1st one we went to number 6 i thought was quite weird it’s was singing and puppets it bit odd for me.
Activity 1 was fun because we got to run around and play a game.
The worst one for me was the activity where we had to be blind folded and go around and guess what was in the box. There were fungi and a stoat (EW) a kiwi, leaf litter, birds nest, moss and Owls wing (also gross).
On activity 3 1 person had to go into the middle of a circle and have an egg in front of them. one person had to sneak up and try to get the egg but if the person in the middle pointed at them they were out.
It was a great day out and a fun experience and we would love to go to it next year.

upcoming events

2009-09-10T16:51:00.000-07:00

This week we have a lot of upcoming events including the Nelson year 5&6 cross country on the 14th of September. Tuesday the 15th of September we have the winter tournament which includes hockey football netball and rugby (but we will not have a team for rugby) Thursday the 17th room 4 we have won a trip to visit the Waimarama Sanctuary in Nelson. On Friday our best year 7&8 runners will compete with the best in Nelson at cross country.

CAR WASH!

2009-08-30T16:41:00.000-07:00

Room4 will be having a car wash on Fridays to fund raise for some $ for our wellington camp

It will be on on Fridays @ Tasman school after assembly

Cost: $3.00 per wash

leek and potato soup

2009-08-04T13:26:00.000-07:00

Hey,

IN the start of term 3 our class made leek and potato soup.

We planted leeks in the middle of term 1 and they were ready by the end of term 2

so we thought we would make soup. We prepared the bread by putting yeast in water along with sugar and we put it by the fire. Once it had foamed up we added the dry ingredients and kneaded it. It was time to make the soup!!! We cut up all the ingredients and boiled them added the stock and blended it together. We added milk and walla there's the soup.

Harry Potter!!

2009-07-02T20:19:00.000-07:00

All who have ordered and paid for tickets should have received them via your children on the last day of term.

Any others ... contact Bridget R ( Piet , Lillian and Henry's mum).

You have contact details via your parent handbook.

Have a fabulous holiday everyone

Pip

End of term

2009-07-02T14:09:00.000-07:00

Today is the last day of term 2. Reports came out this week and we are all proud of our work and what we have achieved.

We are looking forward to finishing the day with a "chocolate" game - and the holidays!

Room 4

Book week

2009-06-25T16:47:00.000-07:00

We had a book week and one day in that week we got to dress up as our favorite book character; it was a lot of fun.

Book week

2009-06-24T19:29:00.000-07:00

2009-06-10T19:34:00.000-07:00

This week during reading we have been using a programme called AVAILLL which uses books, videos and subtitles to build our reading and watching skills.

We have been studying Peter Pan - the old book - and the movie " Hook".

This week we started "Holes" written by Louis Sachar. and we are looking forward to watching The Bridge to Terabithia in the future.

Posted by Lilli and Eric

Trip to town

2009-06-08T20:34:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately we were rained off today but hope to get to town next Tuesday instead. Sue.

2009-06-08T19:52:00.000-07:00

Buddy Reading

2009-06-08T19:41:00.000-07:00

Room 4 has been doing buddy reading with Room 1 to get their reading mileage up, so they will be ready for the higher classes.

Bailey

2009-06-03T19:50:00.000-07:00

MASSIVE - a real drama!

2009-06-03T19:33:00.000-07:00

Massive is a Motueka dance, and drama show.

The 6 schools that were involved were Tasman, Brooklyn, Motueka South, Parklands, Upper Moutere and Riwaka. Lower Moutere and Tasman Bay Christian schools presented some artwork.

The theme was “Imagine”.

Each presentation had to be 8 minutes long. Tasman’s one was about a girl that was feeling low then she went to a spiritual world where she found inner strength.

It took a lot of hard work to put the show together. First we chose a theme to do it on. ..After that we chose some music to dance to.

We did a hip-hop and a spirit dance. The spirit dance included our Kotuku dancing. It took 5 weeks to get it all together from the first ideas to the final performance.

We are all so proud of what we have achieved!

by Lilli and Emily