R18 at the Museum...again!

Instruments from around the World exhibition at the Nelson Museum

Nelson Envirocentre

Today we wandered up to the Nelson Envirocentre behind Nelson College to check out what went on up there.  We saw a huge solar oven (no pancakes sorry), a biodome, an outdoor classroom and a greenhouse made of plastic bottles.  Check out the broken glass footpath we are walking on - not a place to go in bare feet!

Yay...its swimming time again!!

HSS hits the Big Smoke

Checking out 'The Block'

Coldplay...amazing!!

Working together

 

R18 has been learning about working as teams in order to create various structures using limited resourses. We made bridges, straw structures and towers...some worked, some didn't! The main thing was we had a lot of fun!! Check it out!

No sleeping on the job!

Solid as a rock!!

Who'd want to be a cleaner!!

Thumbs up!!

CCCUUUTTTEEE!

Last week Izzy brought in her new pet rabbit Ralph to meet us.  He was sooooo cute!

Building BIG!!

For homework over the last few weeks the kids have been building fantastic structures to tie in with our mini building topic.  Check out these incredible examples: