Spring Show

Yesterday was the Ranzau Spring Show. We had an awesome day with our buddies. There were 4 activities that we rotated around throughout the morning. The activities were: Painting, sand sauces, fruit and vegie creations and boot decorating. In the afternoon all of our creations were in the multi-purpose room for our parents to see. We finished the day off by playing games outside with our buddies.

Sofia's Star Challenge

This is Sofia's inquiry part of her Star Challenge.  Have a read about this inspirational woman!
Sofia created a book using book creator on the iPad.

Open publication - Free publishing - More challenge

Calendar art in progress!

We are using shaving foam and food colouring to create the background for our art! Watch this space for our finished master pieces.

Megan took the first group through what to do and then that group had to teach the next group.

Digital Citizenship

This morning we had a chat about being good digital citizens and how we can keep safe online.
Here is what we came up with:

What being a good digital citizen means to us:

Being a confident and capable user of ICT
Using sites that are appropriate for our age
Leaving positive comments for others
Keeping our personal details safe.  Not sharing our address, home phone number etc with others
Treating ICT equipment with respect

We will be using a site called Edmodo so it is really important that we know what being a good digital citizen means.

Joshua's Bio Poem

Joshua
Funny, Sporty and Reader.
Lover of frogs, soccer and reading.
Who wonders what it would be like to live in another country.
Who feels we're destroying our earth.
Who would like to become a billionaire.
Who is able to fly like a kiwi.
Who dreams of traveling the world.

Daniel's Bio Poem

Daniel 

Dedicated Sporty Awesome.

Lover of mountain bike riding hunting and great

   books.

Who wonders what the world will be like in years to come.

Who fears global warming.

Who feels if you believe in your in your dreams you can fulfill them.

Who would like to become a famous mountain biker.

Who dreams of becoming a famous mountain bike rider.

Stars of the Week - Leah and Taine

Our Fair Go Ad Entry

Ranzau School - Fair Go Ad Entry 2012 from Ranzau School on Vimeo.

Kendall's camera vs pencil art

Amazing work Kendall!

Star of the Week - William

Williams Flight - Recounted by Joshua

listen to ‘Joshua’ on Audioboo

Our fluffy Visitor!

This morning my mum bought in our duckling.  My sister found it on the side of the road and we are looking after it now.
The duckling is called Professor Quackers and it lives in an incubator in my brother's room.  We are feeing it silver beet, soggy weetbix, cabbage and dog roll!  It shakes its wings all the time and tries to fly.

It is very cute (We don't know if it is a boy or girl yet)

By Bree

Ranzau mathematicians.

Well done to Joshua who received a high distinction in the ICAS test (top 1%) and William for a distinction (top 7%)

Top effort boys!

Camera vs Pencil progress

Here is Hamish and Meg's Camera vs pencil art! They have both done a fantastic job!

Look what we have got!

This afternoon a special package was delivered to school! It is so exciting to have a reply from our buddies in London! We wanted to rip open the package ..... But Megan is making us wait until the morning because Joshua and Harvey are on road patrol!

 

Life Education

This afternoon we went over the the mobile classroom to learn about the brain.  It is this big trailer where Victoria and Harold hang out!  We got to see Harold and TAM (a mannequin)

Here are some of the things we learnt:

Each day to be happy and healthy we need:
Water
Food
Oxygen
Exercise
Shelter
Sleep
Love

We have 656 muscles in our body

If you haven't had enough water to drink in a day and you go to the toilet, you urine will be very yellow!

Brain messages travel 250 - 500km/hr throughout our body

Our brain is split into 2 main parts and each part has a different jobs.

We are going back in the morning and we will share some more learning with you.

Camera vs Pencil art

This week we are creating camera vs pencil art. We have chosen images and printed them out. We now have to use another piece of paper to draw part of the image using pencil. It looks pretty cool! We will let you see our finished artwork by the end of the week.

Brooklyn's so far:

One of the examples we are using:

Welcome Victoria and Harold

We are back after 2 weeks holiday! Everyone is happy to be back and we were all excited to see each other and hear what we had all been up to over the holidays. This week we have Victoria and Harold here from the Life Education Trust. Victoria and Harold came to our assembly this morning. Harold was a very energetic giraffe and we can tell he is very good at striking a pose for the camera. Room 8 has their first session in the Life Ed bus tomorrow. We will be learning all about our brain and how it delivers messages to the rest of our body. Check back tomorrow to see what we learnt.

Ranzau News - Term 3

Term 3 Ranzau News from Ranzau School on Vimeo.

BP Technology Challenge

On Tuesday 4 senior children (Max, Hamish, Abbey and Kendall) went to the BP Technology challenge at the Waimea College Hall.  It was heaps of fun!  We had 3 challenges to do.  2 of them we already knew about so we had time to plan them out at school.  The 3rd one was a mystery challenge.  We had to make a fishing rod out of newspaper and we had to catch as many fish as we could in 1 minute.  Hamish did a great job of collecting 390 points worth of fish (each fish was worth a different amount)
We came third in the mystery challenge and we got a certificate and we could choose a prize.  Hamish and Max each got a frisbee and Abbey and I got a drink bottle.

By Kendall

Letters reaching their destination!

Our Blog Buddies received our letters! And it only took about 5 days!

Click here to see what they had to say

Comparisons with our Blog Buddies

This is what our Buddies sent us back today.  Room 8 will create a venn diagram next week to compare the differences and see what we have in common.

Star of the Week - Savannah

Virtual High Five!

This is to say thanks to Mr Neal and the Mahana students who came to teach us about the game Ki o Rahi yesterday. It was awesome and we hope we can get a kit soon so we can start playing it at Ranzau!

Miniball Final

On Friday the Ranzau Giants played in the miniball final against Nayland Blue Saints. We beat them 32-20.  Player of the year was Ollie and Player of the day was Max.  The Ranzau Giants were unbeaten this season!  Thanks to Nigel for coaching us this season and to Delcan and Ben from the Nelson Giants who helped out too.

(Photo courtesy of Leah)

Star of the Week - Hamish

Global Children's Challenge

Today we started the Global Children's challenge.  We have all been given pedometers to count how many steps we do each day and to challenge us to do more.  It is to get more children moving!  At Ranzau we are really active so this will be easy for us to get our steps in each day!  We have a stepper of the day each day so we will let you know who our champ is each day!

Winter Sports

listen to ‘Daniel and Joshua’ on Audioboo

Feedback from Dave for Joshua and Daniel:

listen to ‘Feedback from Dave’ on Audioboo

Fabulous Friday Fitness

What an awesome start to the day!  The sun is shining and it is going to be a great day!

Fair Go - Sneak Peak

This photo was taken yesterday while we were filming our final scene for our Fair Go entry!  It's pretty exciting and our entry is looking great!

Well Done Kendall!

Last night Kendall performed her speech 'A Special Place' at the Waimea Inter-school speech contest.  She did an amazing job and she got 3rd!  Well done Kendall!  You represented Ranzau School with pride.  You shine!

Hello Barnaby Class!

We really enjoyed receiving your comments on our blog when we got to school this morning.  We would have been fast asleep when you were posting them!  Now you will be fast asleep while we are posting this!
Some of you commented on our Star of the Week awards.  Our certificates for star of the week look like this:

To celebrate our star of the week we make a poster that shows what is special about that person.

Can you show us what your star of the week certificates look like?

This morning we wanted to find out why your school was called Charles Dickens Primary?  We knew Charles Dickens was a writer and now we know that he use to live Lant Street and that your school runs along Lant Street.

We also compared your school street view to our school street view on Google Maps!

Outside Charles Dickens School

Outside Ranzau School

We are all really excited to get to know you all and to learn more about blogging with you.  We will have to have a Skype Date too :)

Star of the Week - Meg

Persuasive writing.

This morning we watched a short clip about a hover bike. We had to create a persuasive advertisement to persuade people to buy a hover bike! Our advertisement has to include:
Powerful adjectives
A question
A snappy slogan
The benefits of having a hover bike.

Star of the Week - Ben

Vote for Ranzau

http://www.letscookwithparmco.co.nz/class-of-2012/Ranzau

Please click the link so you can vote for Ranzau School to win the Parmco Let's Cook challenge.

New Project - Medium from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.

Netball Closing Day

On Saturday it was the last weekend of Netball for our 2 Ranzau teams.  They have had an awesome season and they have represented Ranzau with Pride each week.  Thank you to all the parents, siblings, grandparents and friends who have come along each week to support the girls.  How awesome were Tim and Craig with their sideline support on the weekend?! I think we need to get these Dad's helping out with our Production next term! Go Ranzau

large from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.