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Making Music!

Hi team!

This is the link to the Making Music resources on the LEARNZ website.
remember the username and password are on the front white board!

Go and have an explore! There are lots of resources and you can also access recordings of the audio conferences!

It is a good idea to go to the audio conference link and look at the timetable and topics - then go back to the audio conference page and check out the questions we will hear students ask in the different sessions!

Fleur-de-lis

Your task is to find out as much as you can in this session about Fleur-de-lis, shields, coasts of arms and shields!
Use your six big question words to gain information.

Here are some links to get you started

Fleur-de-lis

Shields

Coats of Arms, Shields and Heraldry

Rugby League Training

                   
This is me. I'm playing rugby league with Ava.
by Taualoa

Portraits

Nile Room!  As we are doing portraits with Mrs Hockley I have created a PINTREST account and made a PINBOARD full of different portraits.


Go and check them out! (they have comments for you to read as well).

Salmon Update Whaitiri

The little alevins are turning into fry because they are buttoning up. Buttoning up means when they are losing their yolk and their silver belly is covering the yolk. So we need to start teaching them how to feed, "I would really like to do that sometime".  We are testing the water so the fish are comfortable. We have to do water testing with chemicals. The colour of ammonia is yellow, pH is blue and nitrite is pinkish red. Ricky mostly tests the water. He tests the water before school, before morning tea, before lunch, before brain break and before home time. Things have been going good with our salmon. Nile room hopes you can come in and see our salmon soon.

By Whaitiri

Plot character conflict theme...

Watch this video!

Y6 can check this out as well!

K.E.G.S

On Wednesday the K.E.G.S (Kids Edible Gardens) kids decided to plant potatoes.
We coloured in a sheet that showed the stages of potatoes then Sahria put three types of potatoes in the box. Maris Anchor, Rocket and Ilam Hardy are three types of potato that are sprouting shoots.

By Victoria

Quick Term 3 Salmon Update

Our baby salmon have liberated themselves! On Tuesday morning when I checked them the basket was tipped over and empty!
Now they all live amongst the gravel at the bottom of the tank.
Some of them are starting to "swim up.

More from Nile Room on our Term 3 happenings tomorrow!

Rugby League!

On Tuesday Terri from Tasman Rugby League came to Auckland Point School to teach Nile Room some rugby League skills because schools from Nelson are going to Tahunanui fields to play against other schools.
The weather was pretty bad but rugby league players are tough! We played some tag holding a ball and using it to tag. You had to hold it so your fingers get dirty from the ball but not the palm of your hands. If you were tagged you had to stand still, sometimes on one foot until someone else could free  you.
We also played some 'Rob the Nest' games. Ms Kelly played with us.

By Maia and Ms Kelly

Salmon Update!

Salmon Advance by Alex

Our alevins are evolving into fry. Their yolk sack is depleting into their stomach A.K.A 'buttoning up'.
Up close you can see that they are starting to look like mini fish with a weird orange thing stuck to its body.
I can't wait to see what our fish/salmon will look like when they are fry!

On the 24th July Charmaine and Lesley came to help test the water. They also bought along some fish food. The fish food is tiny balls that smell like fish flakes. They smell very fishy.
Charmaine and Lesley also took out some tank water. I'm excited to see what they look like when they're in the next stage.
By Brearna

On Wednesday we tested the water and Charmaine and Lesley came in. We used a test tube and had bottles which were the test bottles. They were all a different colour. With some of them we had to put three drops int eh test tube and they would change colour. I thought it was cool and exciting because I have never seen the test tube change.

By Sahria

Big Fish!

Term 3 starts tomorrow so I (Ms Kelly) am in class making sure everything is ready!

Look how big our fish are now!  They don't have a lot of yolk sac left so we will have to start teaching them how to feed. Also we will need to let them out of the basket soon and start testing the water quality.

So exciting! (click on the picture for a close up)

Alevins Galore!!

First thing Monday everyone wanted to check on the alevins!
Some had come out of the basket and were wriggling about on the bottom of the tank - this is a 'nono' at this stage as it will make them use up their energy (and therefore their yolksac) to quickly!

We got in touch with Mark and he dropped by with a tiny net and rescued them from the bottom of the tank and popped them back into the basket.

He used tweezers from our first aid kit to pick out the dead eggs (five). Sahria and Sophie took them around to St Vincent Room and Trafalgar Room for them to have a look.

Below is a picture of all our alevins.

Alevins!

This morning when we checked the fish there was a GHOST egg.... then I saw a hatched fish!

Then, this afternoon, ANOTHER fish!!!

At first we thought they were lying on top of the other eggs and squishing them, then we realised they were lying on their yolk!

We are very excited!!

We have noticed that more of them look like they have two eyes.

Blogging....

I found an interesting article today about a 9 year old girl's blog...

Have a read of the article (click here) and let me know what you think in the comments below (don't forget to leave your name!)

What would you blog about?

Salmon Egg Update

Today we drew diagrams of what we thought was going on inside the salmon eggs.

Then we carefully took out a few eggs to have a closer look. We made sure to keep them cool and not bump them around to much so they don't get hurt.

Then we drew what we could actually see - we could see far less than we had imagined!
They do have very beady eyes looking back at us though...

Otis did a bit of writing about salmon...

"Salmon are vicious creatures and if threatened they will try to rip your heart out.
They live in underwater caves on dark dim ledges where they breed to make bigger and stronger salmon armies to wipe out all of the human race and take Earth as their own."


I think it is time we found out some salmon facts!!!

Salmon Rearing!

Today was extra exciting -  and not just because of the amazing storm!

Just after 1pm - right in the loudest part of the storm - Mark and Charmaine arrived with our salmon eggs!!!

The eggs are orangey pink and are in a small container. There are fifty of them.Mark left them in their container and tied it to the top filter tube with dental floss!

Mark covered the whole tank with a black plastic bag to protect the eggs from too much light.He also reset the temperature on the chiller to between 9 and 10 degrees.

Now we need to  peep at the eggs every now and then.  

In about a week we can start to expect some tiny hatchlings!!

TH

Today during 4 minute writing we started collecting words that start with the blend TH. Here are some of those words; the, thunder, that, thermal, there, thumb, thimble, thistle, thesaurus, they, through, three, thought, thinking, thick, thin, Thursday, Thumbilena

We then added words that ended with th; with, Earth, birth, worth, Smith,  tooth, smooth, booth, both

Words that have th in them somewhere; The Netherlands, together

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The Port!

BEFORE: Soon Nile Room is going on a special bus trip to the Port. We are leaving at 9:30 am and coming back at 11:30 am. All kids are required to stay inside the bus at all times. We think that is because it is very dangerous. Cranes will be picking up the containers and moving them around.
Also if we stay on the bus we won't get lost.

Drew found the "expected arrivals" from the weather page of the newspaper. Otis read out a ship name -The Spirit of Endurance which weighs 7464 tonnes! It is loading and unloading containers. We might see it when we are there!

AFTER:  We are back from the port. At the end of the trip we all got a squishy ball of the world.

We saw lots of cranes - Sophie

It was really sunny so we could see everything really well - Joran

We had  a sheet of things to spot during the trip - Alex

We hope we get to do it again - Saphire

We got really nervous when the bus drove close to the edge of the wharf - Jaladhi

We saw thousands of containers - Brearna

The 40 foot container fridges can take 130 000 apples - Sahria

The pictures of the wharf in a timeline was fascinating - Otis

SchoolTV

Hey Nile Room! Check out this Auckland School's website.
They are a primary school like we are and make their own tv school news show that anyone in the world can watch.
They started making it in 2001. Below is a clip from one of their 2012 episodes.



To check out other episodes of their show check out this website  Pt England's schooltv

Perhaps Nile Room's film crew will learn to make clips like this with Dave!

Problem facts!

We have trouble remembering one or two of our basic facts each time we do our basic facts ten by ten grid.
Today some people used equipment to model the fact they often have a brain block about.

Ricky has an odd one out... which one is it and why?

In 60 Seconds

This pictures shows some facts about things that happen online in 60 seconds (how many minutes is that?)

Friday aka Bike Day

Today we went on the road for Bike Safety. We split into groups of about five people with two instructors.

We went out of school, across the road, passed the Trafalgar Centre and across the bridge to the cycle track.

We learned to push off from the kerb. Before you push off from the kerb you have to do your hand signals.
I like the bit when we went around two parked cars.

by Brearna

Why Does Popcorn Pop?

Today in Nile Room we were investigating why popcorn pops. After we had thought about it we each came up with our own hypothesis.

Here are some of our ideas:

“...the pressure of the heat builds up until it bursts with a crunchy edible shell...”

“...the heat and pressure causes the kernel to expand and explode. When the inside expands, the kernel splits.”

“I think that when popcorn heats up the popcorn starts over expanding and inside it starts exploding and turns it into popcorn.”

“...warm air starts to get bigger and bigger in the inside of the kernel. The hotter it gets the bigger it gets then it splits and pop! There’s your popcorn.”

After we had shared some of our ideas we watched this video that explains what actually makes popcorn pop:

Most of our hypotheses were pretty close to being correct. 

The key point we learnt from the video was that a kernel of popcorn contains 14% water. It is the water in the kernel the causes it to pop. When then kernel is heated up, the water turns to steam and eventually the pressure from the steam causes the kernel to pop. 

After we learnt about what makes popcorn pop we got to see the process in action. We made a big batch of popcorn and then tasted it!

ANZAC Poppies!

Right now Nile Room are doing some pastel ANZAC art with Mrs Hockley!

Term 2!

Nile Room is currently investigating all things ANZAC. Check out Ms Kelly's 1914 iMovie below...

BEACH DAY!

APS is off to Rabbit Island beach on March 2nd.

Check out some of these sandcastle pictures as inspiration for the big day!

Also check out the amazing driftwood sculptures by artist Helen Jansch

The Brain!

Nile Room's topic this term is ME and HOW I LEARN.

We are thinking about our brains a lot.

Below are some web links about the brain that we will be exploring!

Kid's Health Brain Page

National Geographic - Your Amazing Brain

Your Brain and Nervous System

Cricket Coaching

Today Jaap and Gary from the Cricket Association came to APS to teach us some fundamental cricket skills.

Students from Nile and St.Vincent joined in the fun.

Maia was the roving reporter and took a good number of action pictures of people running around the field.

Noah from St.Vincent made a wonderful catch.

Whaitiri from our room was the catching superstar of the day.

We have had quite a sporty day today with swimming straight after play, movement skills with Helen straight after swimming, lunch time swim and cricket coaching straight after lunch!

It was wonderful to see so many people choosing to participate and contributing to our positive atmosphere!

by Maia, Eden and Ms Kelly

2012!!!

2012 is here and so is our new teacher - Ms Kelly!

Stay tuned for a photo of our new class and updates from our Nile Room students!