Ranzau News Term 1

Ranzau News - Term 1, 2014 from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.

Bailey's Star Challenge

Today Bailey shared some photos from one of his Star Challenges.  He cooked 2 meals for his family and it all looks so yummy!  Room 8 are free to come to the O'Malley's any time for a meal cooked by Bailey :)

Great job, Bailey!

Reuben and Rohan's bird house.

Today for exploration Reuben and Rohan started to built a bird house. They chose a design from the internet and Reuben's dad helped them with getting the wood they needed. Once it is finished, we will have to find the right spot in one of our trees so that the birds can enjoy it! 

Forest gecko.

This week we have been looking at animals that live in water catchments. We chose an animal and did a. It of research about the animal and what we can do to have protect them. This is Mine and alices's. 

By Ella 

Eiffel Tower

Today for reading we were doing Non-Ficton text and we read about the Eiffel Tower.  Here are some of the facts we learnt.

It was Opened on the 31 March 1889 so it is 125 years old!
It was named after the Gustave Eiffel.
The Eiffel tower is one of the most famous towers in the world.
The Eiffel tower is 324 metres high.
It was made out of Iron.
It was the tallest manmade structure for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York was built.
The sun causes the tower to grow about 15cm!
It weights about 10,000 tones and it took 18,000 pieces of iron to create it.
It was nicknamed La dam de fer which means the iron lady.

Bella's character description

Tasman Region river catchments

Today we looked at River catchments in our region.  Some we knew but there were lots that we didn't.
This is what we found out about water catchments today.

0. A catchment is an area of land that ‘catches the rain’. The edges or boundaries of a catchment are the hills and ridges around it.
   Raindrops fall onto hills in a catchment, then collect together to form tributaries and streams. Water, in streams, continues the journey downhill with the force of gravity. Streams become larger and may eventually feed into a large river. The river flows through an estuary and out to the sea.
   Water flowing under the ground is called ‘groundwater’. Water enters the groundwater system through rivers, streams and also directly through the ground when it rains. 
   

Next week we are going to look at animal life around catchments.

Here is the link to the Tasman Region river catchments.

Tasman Region river catchments

Winter Olympics.

This morning we have been looking at the Winter Olympics and what sports are involved. Lots of the sports we had no idea about! We have chosen a sport or an event in groups and we are going to put together some information so we can teach our classmates about it. We will share our findings with you when we have finished. 

We are back for 2014!

We are all really pleased to be back at school for 2014. We have spent the last few days settling into our new class and learning about our routines in room 8. It is going to be another busy and exciting year at Ranzau. 

Pet day

Today we had Ranzau School pet day. We have this every second year. There were lots of animals that came to school today. We have a special visit from Christine who works at Natureland and she came with lots of interesting animals. We had a fanstastic morning doing fun activities with our buddies and then we had an afternoon in the ring where dogs, goats, lambs and calves were shared. 

Kapa haka exchange

On Wednesday we had a kapa haka exchange with Stoke School. It was a time for both of our kapa haka groups to celebrate what is special about our schools. We performed for each other and then we shared Kai. We do a kapa haka exchange every year and we alternate between it being held at Ranzau school and Stoke School.

Global citizenship.

Today Lauren from world vision came to talk to us about being a global citizen. We talked about being the change we want to see in the world and making a positive impact to the world around us. At Ranzau School we are great citizens and we are constantly showing other people our amazing qualities. 

Stan Walker Concert by Paris

I felt butterflies deep within me as Bree,Brooklyn,Mum, Abbey and I excitedly hurried into boys college! We all couldn’t believe that we were actually here! We scampered into our seats and waited for about 15 minutes, then a deep voice welcomed Whenua Patuwai to the stage, there were screams coming from everyone! We stood up on our seats so we could see! We yelled, “YEAH STAN!!!” As he sung his opening song Black Box! People were staring at us like we were CRAZY but we are definitely not crazy! Haha! About half way through the concert all the kids went and bought a cap that had SW on it. The lady who gave it to us said that after the concert we could have Stan Walkers autograph!!! We ran back to our seats, Just as we got there Stan was singing my FAVOURITE song of the night Bullet Proof! As soon as Stan said that he was singing his last song we all leapt out of our seats and ran in a mad dash to the small line to get Stan Walkers autograph! But suddenly he stared to sing Take It Easy! At first we were very confused then we saw Taylor and her friends so we had our own mini party because we didn’t want to lose our spots! Finally we got his autograph and a picture with him and headed off home! We had an AWESOME time I really hope he comes back to Nelson soon!!!

James' Rep Tournament

“Come on boys lets win this match!” I said as we jogged out onto the pitch. I realised just how hard this match was going to be. I jogged over to my starting position and waited for kick off. A short sharp burst from the refs whistle signaled the start of play and another burst 40 minutes later ended our first match. Even though we had lost 4 - 0 we had all thoroughly enjoyed it and were looking forward to our next match. Sadly half way through our second match a kid from Canterbury red gave me a painful ankle injury. Luckily we had no more matches on that day. The next day we had a match against Nelson white which we lost 5 - 2 and another match against mid Canterbury. We all really wanted to win this match and thats what we did. We had a great start and put 2 balls in the back of the net. In the second half we only got better putting 4 more balls in the back of the net. The next day we had one last game against Malborough blue which was a 15th and 16th play off. we jogged out onto the field and waited for kickoff. As soon as the whistle blew we sprinted our hearts out and managed to gain a 4 - 0 lead at half time. In the second half we did really well and scored another 3 goals which left the score at 7 - 0. So we finished on a high and ended up getting 15th out of 20 I think. I was so happy the way I played and even though we did not do very well I was still really happy! So thats how reps went.

Gemma and Emma's picture challenge

Earths's oceans

Every Tuesday when Barb comes in to teach us, we have been looking at our world. This week we looked at Oceans and how they were made. Barb showed us this really cool video about it. Check it out.

Max and Ben's picture challenge

We are back!

We are back and already busy getting into our learning for Term 4.   We had heaps of replies from our Blog Buddies about our picture from last term. Ben & Max, Emma & Gemma are going to give us 2 new ones this week.  We hope you enjoy having a guess at what they are!

Ranzau Term News - Term 3

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Picture Challenge

Can you guess what this is a picture of?