Me and Willem's ''elf yo self'' video

merry X-mas everyone. I hope you enjoy the elf your self video. click here to get to the elf your self website.
i hope you enjoy your holidays and the clips.

catapults

on Tuesday & Thursday we made some pretty boss catapults. The one that went the furthest went 10.5 meters and was made by Charle and Ollie . The one that went the second furthest happend to be mine. It went 9. 5 meters. And the last one that got in to the competition was Paige and Coopers. It was small but obviously was good.
By the way, the competition is when all the syndicates come together and fire their best catapults to see which class can get all of theirs to fire the furthest.

Here is a video.

Fruit & veg noveltys

Last Friday me and my mates from Room 5 entered cool A&P show fruit and veg novelty's. They looked absolutely awesome. I thought that the most creative in the class was Austins plane, it was so well thought of that it looked like a real model you would buy from a toy shop. I made a nice sports car with a spoiler on the back and a little man. On the same day we also made decorated biscuits. We made one to enter in the A&P show and we got to eat one. It was so much fun because the whole day we did not have to do any educated learning except for our spelling & basic facts. I made a yellow smiley face with a fringe made out of licorice and jelly beans for eyes. Here is some pictures of them.

Movie traler

this is my thingymajig about a movie trailer. I did it on Story Builder.

movie trailer

just dance

This is my Dance based around our inquiry, Simple machines. Here is mine, I did with Grace, Paige & Ed

Calender art

In room 5 we have been making art for our parents. With our art our parents can order them into calenders, Diaries, or postcards. Here is mine, I hope you like it.

 

BYOD argument

Here is my argument about Bring Your Own Device/s (BYOD). You see, In room 5 we have been learning to write arguments.

70 Nile St

Nelson

7010

8th November 2013

Dear Board of Trustees.

I can not decide whether I am for or against bring your own device (BYOD). BYOD is when children bring their own laptop, ipad, tablet, ipod touch or other to help with learning.

One of the reasons that tempts me to say no is, imagine the anger if an $1000 dollar device got stolen or broken. Teachers would get the blame and that is not good for the teachers reputation.  Kids struggle to take care of hats and lunch boxes at school so how are they going to take care of something that is worth a lot more.

However, kids might start having fun learning maths, literacy, or spelling. If this is so they might want to learn more. Therefore, teachers would not have to spend as much money on worksheets, to learn, they could just play a maths game on the ipad along with learning socially with the teacher. More than half of my syndicate, Kahikatea, would like it. Don't you think that shows their confidence?

But, Surely pop ups would make most children uncomfortable and feel frightened. Also, many adults may not trust their children to use a device sensibly and that could lead to tears.  Also, if a random person sent you a letter saying “Wanna be friends?” you could easily be tricked into doing all sorts of bad things. Such as giving credit card numbers, phone numbers and  gmail passwords.

Over these last few days I have come to conclusion I think we should have BYOD at NCS. For the following reasons BYOD would encourage kids to learn, it would save the school a lot of money and it would prepare kids for the future.

Kind regards,

Jasper

Room 5 NCS

Bridge valley

I really enjoyed going on the water slide and seeing Ed and Ruby fly across the water.
of jasper camp 2013

Super storms haiku

 Storms

Lightning is flashing.

Wind rattles my window pains

Thunder screams and roars

here is my awesome Saturn slide

My space mnemonic

solids' liquids and gas's

MY RAFTS

Jasper's goal from term 1

This is my goal

 from term 1, 2013 

Why cats should not be banned

Some people are starting to think that cats are killing some of our native birds. I agree but I do not think they do it on purpose. I think its their natural nature. They hunt birds just as men hunt deer, cow, boar and a lot of innocent creatures. And they even keep the rats and mice away. I disagree with all the talk about cats being band. I also disagree because I have the most lovely cat called...Timothy Silver Yoshi Copeland Waagen. Guys I love him with all my heart. My old cat Tom passed away sadly but when I got Tim I knew he was the one for me and he was. Now he is much older and the annoying thing is he molts, at least he doesn't go on my parents bed. They'd go nuts and me I'd get in HUGE trouble for letting him on the bed but hes still the most awesome cat. So really cats are DA BOMB!  

swimming carnaval

On Friday 2013 room 5 had their swimming carnival. I was proud of myself because i tied 1st place. I was also proud of getting into the relay race and room 5( my class)  came 2nd . The students selected for the relay team were , Jasper , Theo , Jack , Paige,  Grace and Jemma. And thats our swimming carnival