Well, what a day!

Well done on running the class for a day LADS.
I can imagine it was quite a learning experience for you!!
Do you all want to be teachers now? Or never again?!

Congratulations L.A.D.S!!

You won the election with 34 votes!!
We are looking forward to your day of running the class on Monday! Get planning!!
Will you be able to keep all your election promises??

Room 9 Political Parties

Kids First - Kids should have a choice ***** The Blues - Making things OK ***** START - Start to make a difference ***** Entertainers - Fight for Fun ***** CTS First - Building a brighter school ***** The L.A.D.S - When the LADS run the school we make the teacher look cool ***** Jaffas - What's life without fun, choice and jaffas? ***** The CTS club - Having fun is our specialty ***** Live NZ - Making you love life in NZ *****

Election 2011

In Room 9 we are studying the 2011 Election. We are researching a political party of our choice, looking at who is in the party and what their policies are, especially the ones that effect us (like education and family issues). We are also forming our own political parties in the class. We will run a campaign, make advertising material, and have a ballot vote. The winning party will run the class for a day.

Happy Halloween!

Don't eat too many lollies and make your 'tricks' nice ones! Remember to keep safe if you are out and about and enjoy your weekend.

Water restrictions!

There are water restrictions in Atawhai today. You must not drink or use the water - for washing/cooking/showering etc. See the council website for details: http://www.nelsoncitycouncil.co.nz/water-supply-contamination-detected/

Welcome Zoe!

It's great to have you in Room 9 for Term 4. We hope you have lots of fun and make some great friends.

Welcome back to Term 4! This is a short but busy term so buckle your seatbelts. The weather is warming up fast and soon we'll be in the pool. Get your legs warmed up for running and jumping (athletics). Year 6's - are you enrolled at your Intermediate school for next year?

Congratulations!!

Well done Holly(1st) and Josh (2nd)! You have made it through to the Interschool Speech Finals. Be ready to go on Thursday night - don't forget volume, slow, expression. And wahoo for Danita (3rd). A clean sweep for Room 9! Well done folks - very proud of you all. They were a great bunch of speeches by the whole class.

Rainbow ski trip 2nd attempt...

Rainbow is OPEN! We are all go for a great day in the snow. It’s going to be really cold so make sure you’ve got EVERYTHING on the equipment list. See ya soon!

Ski Trip - create a slideshow

Speeches - updated!!

Timeline for Speech Preparation:

Week 5 (29 Sept) - Plan ideas, start research and begin writing notes.
Week 6 (5 Sept) - Write speech, finalise words/props (if necessary).
Week 7 (12 Sept) - Put speech onto cue cards. PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!
Week 8 (19 Sept) - perform speeches on Wed or Thurs in class.

Wednedsday 21st September performers:
Sasha
Yanni
Amanda
Zack
Anahera
Logan
Lilyanne
Jake
Cedar
Cian
Kirsty
Finn
Holly
Oscar
Georgia

Thursday 22nd September performers:
Danita
Keegan
Arlya
Jarod
Janaya
Ian
Grace
Josh
Amy
Eleus
Jordyn
Jacob
Samantha
Jonah

Rainbow Ski day...

Check here from 6am Tuesday morning to find out if we are heading to the snow or not.

Rainbow is CLOSED!
Just had the call through to say Rainbow is a no go for today. The crazy weather is here for another day. We will try to book another day.
See you at school at the normal time in your uniform.

We will send our free days to Rainbow and if they can match one of those with one of their free days then we'll get another ski date. This should happen over the next few days and we'll let you know what's happening with a postponement date as soon as we hear. Thanks for your patience.

Mathletics

We are signed up for Mathletics NOW! You can access the site from our Maths page. Find the 'sign in' words and use your username and password to sign in.

Rainbow here we come!

On Tuesday 16th August we are off to the snow.
You can keep an eye on the snow report HERE.

Science Fair

How are you going?

The boards are coming to class and some of them are looking good.
You can buy them at Warehouse Stationery.

Keep working on your project! Only 3 weeks to go!

Welcome to Term 3.

Here we are back again, and as busy as ever!
This term we have lots to do:
SCIENCE FAIR
KOS
SPEECHES
SKI TRIP
MASK PARADE
....

Enviro-art

We collected different plants from our school environment and sketched them. Then we chose a few to put together, and created some enviro-art. We used pastel to colour the plants, and learned how to move the pastel around to create lines on the leaves/petals etc. We dyed the background blue to represent the sky.

enviro-art - Slideshow Creator

Check it out!! Go Cedar!!

Lindy Kelly

Today Lindy Kelly came to talk to us about her books: "Fern of Maru Bay" and "Fern and the Shipwrecked Monkey."
We love her books!
She told us lots of funny stories about when she was young. It seems as though she was a cheeky, fun 10 year old!

Maths!

We are doing some great Maths in class. Our focus is multiplication. Check out all the maths links over to the right ----------->
If you use any of these at home, post a comment below and tell me how you did.
Mangahigh (for the cubes) is not up and running yet......but it soon will be. I'll let you know.

Me and My Environment

CTS has officially become an ENVIROSCHOOL.
We have looked closely at our school environment and talked about the parts we like (and the parts we don't!).
We are in the process of making 3D models of the school, including all the natural and non-natural aspects of the environment.
This is proving more difficult than we expected!!
The design, planning and construction is hard work.
Working as a cohesive team is even harder work!!
BUT we are getting there slowly.

3D Models of our school - free slideshow maker with music

Welcome back!

Term 2 begins....

Welcome back. Another busy term is underway already. Our main focus this term is Enviroschools. Check out the enviroschools website to see what it's all about. Clifton Terrace is beginning an exciting journey.
How do you feel about your environment?
What places are you happy with? What would you change?

Say something about our awesome camp...

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Wow! What a book!

We have just finished reading the book: "Fern of Maru Bay" by Lindy Kelly.
She is a NZ authour, who lives in Nelson and has grandchildren who go to Clifton Terrace.
It was a very interesting book and it gave us an insight into lots of things:
How different people live.
How different people view the world and the people in it.
The authorities involved in law and child services.
How different animals might behave. (Animals were personified well in the book.)

Mrs McCormack couldn't put the book down each afternoon without Room 9 calling out for more.

We believe that Lindy Kelly is going to write a sequel to "Fern of Maru Bay" and we can't wait!
We hope she might talk to us about her books one day.

Click HERE to read more about Lindy.

First Aiders

First Aid - slide show

Native Trees at Camp

It's not long now till we set off for Marahau next Tuesday!!!!!! Hopefully you're finding all the bits and pieces you'll need, now is the time to let us know if you need a hand with anything!

Last week our focus was researching a native bird and drawing it. This week we'll finish off our drawings by adding colour. Both classes will get a visit from the NZ Red Cross who will take us through a People Savers' first aid course. Rm 9 will have their one on Monday and Rm 10 on Tuesday. Make sure you pay attention because you never know when you might need to use these life saving skills! Also, we'll be using the skills you've learnt to put together some Comic Art strips explaining what you would do in one the situations you'll be learning about.
This week we are also going to become familiar with a Native Tree that you might find in the national park. Just like last week, here are some trees that are found in the Abel Tasman National Park. Your job is to choose one and using the links below briefly fill out your research sheet. Make sure you look carefully at the pictures of your chosen tree as you will be drawing a detailed picture of it, its leaves and flowers etc...

Beech
Flax
Lancewood
Manuka
Rimu
Matai
Totara
Miro
Kahikatea
Pohutukawa
Rata
Ferns (choose one type)

New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC)

Te Ara Encyclopedia of NZ

Google Searching specific trees

One week until camp!

How is your packing going? Do you need help getting any items? If you are having trouble see your teacher NOW!
Don't forget to keep the baked beans/spaghetti and the museli bars coming in to our class this week.
Also the empty soft drink bottles for our ginger beer - WE NEED LOTS NOW!!
Do you know what you are bringing on camp day for your pot luck meal contribution, and your home baking?

Lots to do, so little time....

Native Birds at Camp

The countdown to camp is now on! We're getting groups and activities organised and even planning what we're going to eat on the first night!
Today we started our Camp Unit. We are going to learn about the Abel Tasman National Park; its birdlife, native trees, early Maori settlement and even learn some first aid.
The first task we are going to tackle is learning about native birds found in the area.
Below is a selection of native birds found in the National Park

Bell birds
Fantail
Kaka
South Island Robin
Shining Cockoo (pīpīwharauroa)
Morepork
Wood pigeon
Tui
Weka
Little blue penguin
Pukeko

Use the links about Native Birds in our curriculum links section to work your way through the tasks, and research your bird. Remember to take note of what your bird looks like so you can draw a detailed & labelled picture.

Welcome Luke!

Wow! Room 9 is busy this year!
We now have 29 children. Luke has arrived from Christchurch to be with us for a while. It is great to have him here, and he has settled in really well. We hope you enjoy your time here at CTS Luke.

Did you know.....

....that Izy's school in Christchurch is opening again this week and she will be going home in a week.

We will miss you heaps Izy! It's been great having you in our class. We hope you've had fun too. Please keep in touch with us and email us sometime. And we will do the same. We are glad you are getting to go home soon - you must miss your home and your friends.

Take care!

Love from Room 9

Click HERE to see Izy's school blog

Triathlon 2011

Here are some photos of Room 9 in action during the school triathlon. Great job Room 9!!

Triathlon 2011 - free slideshow maker with music

Busy week...

It has been a busy week so far in Room 9. We are getting into our routine work after testing week. Well done on all the testing you completed last week! You sure worked hard!

We observed the 2 minutes silence on Tuesday 1st March at 12.51pm to mark one week since the devastating Christchurch earthquake. Room 9 - I was impressed with your respectful behaviour during the 2 minutes silence.
We also wore our purple clothes on Tuesday to help raise money for Purple Cake Day, and the children of the Haiti earthquake.
It is great to see you all working hard to support the people affected by disasters. Well done.

TEA BY THE SEA
On Friday it is our annual Tea By The Sea event. Remember this is a rubbish free event so you will need your cups/plates/knives&forks etc, and you will need to take your rubbish home with you.
Looking forward to seeing you there! It is always a great evening, with lots of yummy food and groovy entertainment.
See you there!

And good luck to all who are doing the Weetbix Triathlon this Sunday. I'll see you there too.

Welcome to Izy.

Izy is joining Room 9 for a while, from Christchurch. It is great to have her here in our class. Welcome Izy!
And our thoughts go out to all the Christchurch people. Please post a comment if you have a kind, positive message for the Cantabrians.

Some of Room 9 at rabbit island with friends

What did you think of Rabbit Island 2011? Make a comment please.

Rabbit Island Room 9 - create a slideshow

Welcome to Room 9!

Hello everyone!
Welcome back to school for 2011, and welcome to the best class at CTS - Room 9!
How was your holiday? What did you get up to?
What are your goals for 2011? What are you looking forward to this year in Room 9?
Tell me something I don't know about you.......?!
Mrs McCormack