Ag Day 2013

While the weather wasn't too kind to us, we had plenty of community support with everyone turning up on the day to watch us compete and buy lots of goodies from all the stalls!

School Athletics Day 2013

Senior Cluster Athletics Day is tomorrow at Massey, and Junior Cluster Athletics Day is on Thursday 28th November at Tokomaru School.

Some photos of Room 1 in action at our school athletics day:

New Zealand Species Research

As part of our Science unit we have been researching various New Zealand species - their habitats, diets, and breeding.  

Check out some of our informational posters below:

Josh - Katipo Spider

Jordan - Blue Duck

Josh W - Royal Albatross

Luccas - Tuatara

Natalia - Chatham Island Black Robin

Sean - Tuatara

Shampagne - Hector's Dolphin

Teigan - Hochstetter's Frog

Haast Eagle - Tyler

Tyler S - Long-tailed Bat

Aotearoa and Ella - Takahe

Brooklyn - Kingfisher

Corey - Blue, Fiordland, and Yellow Eyed Penguins

Eli - New Zealand Falcon

Henry - Tuatara

Printmaking

As part of our unit looking at endangered animals in New Zealand, we created some prints inspired by the animals, their habitats, and New Zealand.

These prints will be used for fundraising - contact the office to get your orders in for calendars, cards, and diaries.

Check out some of these links on our blog for more information about the animals and birds we have been focusing on:

Maths: The Cost of Building

For Maths today we were learning some geometry language like 'cube' and 'face'.  The context we were looking at this through was buildings.

We had several tasks to complete in our groups, including working out the cost of building materials and paint.

Check out some of the tasks below and see if you can solve the problems:

Each cube that is on the ground (1st story floor) costs $10
2nd story cube - $15
3rd story cube - $20
4th story cube - $25

What would these buildings cost?

What would the most expensive building cost?

How did you solve these problems?  

Carnival of the Animals - Aquarium

As part of our music unit, we have been learning about responding to and creating our own music.  We have listened to some of the songs on Carnival of the Animals and liked them so much, we have done some visual art for the song 'Aquarium'.

Wow!  What an amazing aquarium!

Welcome to Room 1, Mr Morrimire!

We are lucky enough to have a student teacher in our class for 6 weeks!  Mr Morrimire will be joining us for 2 weeks this term and 4 weeks next term.  He has already brought us microscopes to use in class for looking at all sorts of things - we have already started collecting bugs to explore close up.

Jordan peers into the microscope to see what she can see!

Mr Morri reading with the Gronimo Stilton reading group.

A big Tokomaru welcome to Mr Morrimire!

Touch Rugby

Yesterday we had some fabulous representatives from Shannon Touch teach us some basic skills in Touch Rugby.  We got to play a game at the end to put those skills into practice:

Playing a warm-up game - 'Blob Tag'

Tyler and Josh practice passing quickly.

Zion passes to Natalia.

Ella steps over the ball so the dummy half can receive it.

Ella runs up!

Shampagne went for a run but O'Meara-Jean managed to make the touch.

We Make the Whole World Smile :)

Red Nose Day 2013 for Cure Kids - check out their website here for further information on donations.

Can you guess whose nose is whose?

Ice-cream Reviews

This time we are reviewing ice-cream!  Three flavours from the Tip Top range - Go Go Banana, Raspberry and Lemonade Fizz, and Swirly Caramel were all observed and tasted before making our recommendations and sharing our opinions.

Keep an eye on the blog for our reviews on these products...

Tasting

Smelling

Tasting

Observations

What is your recommendation?

More tasting!

What was your recommendation for each ice-cream?

What was your opinion about each ice-cream?