Moto-X - Tyler

Yesterday, Corey and I went to Moto-X lessons.  We were doing jumping.  I did a big jump over the hill and went up a really big hill.  Corey did ten jumps and I did about fifteen.  We had fun going over the hills and the paddock.

Lizard Skin

Bailie brought in an interesting news item to share - a shed lizard skin! Check out the close-up photos below:

Why do some lizards shed their skin?

Are there other creatures that shed their skin?

What are they?

Ag Day

This weekend we have our annual Ag Day event. There are lots of things on this year, so please remember to bring everything you need on Friday - flowers, vegetables, vase, baking tray etc - in preparation for Saturday.

Button bracelets, mosaic mirrors, cakes, sausages, coffee, face-painting, bike decorating, gumboot throwing, Tokomaru School Art Gallery, bottle tombola and stalls along with the animals - all on this

Saturday 12th November starting at 10am.

See you there!

My Dad's Trip to Antarctica - Shayde

Shayde's dad is in Antarctica so he has written a stroy about his exciting adventure!

My dad went to Antarctica. He went on a c17 plane. My dad is staying at McMurdo base which is  an American  Base. He took pictures of  himself in  the  snow and one is  of penguins.  There were 3  penguins in the photo  and an Observation tube and  Pressure Ridge. The Observation tube goes under the ice, but only one person can go down in it at a time.       

Shayde

The clip below is a Google Earth tour of some parts of Antarctica: I wonder what it would be like under the ice?

Do you have any questions that you would like to ask Shayde's dad about Antarctica?

    

Tyler's Rugby Experience

Tyler with his dad and grandpa waiting for the game to begin!

Tyler got to go along to the Rugby World Cup semi-final between Australia and New Zealand! He has written a recount of his experience of the game:

In the holidays I went to the semi-final of the Rugby World Cup with my dad, grandpa, and Aunty Nessa. The game was the All Blacks versus Australia. We sat at G 12, 13, 14 and 15. We sang the National Anthem and we saw the All Blacks do the Haka.

The All Blacks got one try and two conversions and two penalties.  The All Blacks missed three tackles and Wallabies missed 20 tackles.

The stadium held 62,000 people.  It wasn’t a full stadium.  Me and my dad saw one seat empty!

Tyler S

Did anyone spot Tyler in the crowd while they were watching the game? 

New Zealand are Rugby World Cup Champions!

The game was a bit of a nail-biter but we got there in the end and won!  A big congratulations to France for getting to the final and to the All Blacks for winning!

What were your favourite parts of the game? 

What did you like about having the Rugby World Cup held in New Zealand?

Rippa Rugby

We were very lucky to have a representative from the Horowhenua Rugby Club teach us some skills that we can use in Rippa Rugby games.  He taught us about evasion, which means how to dodge players that are coming at you.  There was also some discussion about 'fair play' and we had to brainstorm what that looks like on the field.

What does fair play mean to you? 
Why is fair play so important?

Is fair play just for team sports?

Cinquains

Cinquains are poems that have 5 lines:

• The first line is the noun or name of the topic;
• The second line is 2 words that describe the noun;
• The third line is 3 action words about the noun;
• The fourth line is a 4-5 word sentence or phrase about the noun;
• The fifth line is a synonym (a word that has the same meaning) of the noun.

Click on me to read me like a book...

Have you tried to write a cinquain before?

Share your poetry in the comments section if you would like to share...

Interface Magazine Blog Competition

We have entered our class blog into the Interface Magazine Best Class Blog Competition.  We decided that this was a great way to show even more people our class blog ad there is the bonus of been in to win a 1TB Toshiba Canvio portable hard drive!

Why do you think our blog deserves to win? 

Haikus

Haikus are a form of Japanese poetry that have 5 syllables in the first and last lines and 7 in the middle line - a total of 17 syllables. We found that they were tricky to write as we had to keep coming up with different ways of saying a sentence as some had too many syllables and some not enough. Our class perservered though and the results are great!

Click on me to read me in book form...

Try writing a haiku at home - see if your family can do one together!

What did you enjoy about writing your haiku?

Our Poetry

Our Spring Poems

Finding out about our Adopted Countries

Each student in our class has 'adopted' a country that is participating in the Rugby World Cup.  We are lucky because there are 20 countries participating in the World Cup and there are 20 of us! 

Flags of Every Country is a site where you can hover over your country on the map and  find out more about your country's flag.

Please click on the link to find out a bit more information about your country.  Go to the bottom right hand corner of the page and click on your country, then on 'Toolkit'.

What are the official languages in your country?

What has been the most exciting fact you have found out about your country?

How is your adopted country different to New Zealand?  (Tyler S - how is New Zealand different to some of the other countries taking part in the Rugby World Cup?)

I Wonder - Poetry Voicethread

For Reading and Writing we are focusing on Poetry. We have been inspired by the start of a new seasong - all the joys of Spring! 

Today we found a post from our blogging buddies the Roadrunners, in America. They wrote poems with each line starting with 'I wonder...?'. So we have made our own whole class poem with each student contributing a line to the poem. You can read it below and also listen to it on our Voicethread. 

What do you wonder?

I WONDER

A COLLABORATIVE POEM BY ROOM 1 TOKOMARU SCHOOL

I wonder how and why God made us?

I wonder why we are alive?

I wonder why the grass is green?

I wonder why my great granddad died?

I wonder why tractors have different sized wheels?

I wonder how metal is made?

I wonder where I hid?

I wonder why dogs bite?

I wonder how you make lollies?

I wonder how the flowers grow?

I wonder why we have concrete?

I wonder why my fish died?

I wonder why schools got built?

I wonder why my cat Topaz died?

I wonder how God came alive?

I wonder what it is like in Australia?

I wonder what it would be like to be at war?

I wonder why some of my pets died?

What do you wonder?

ICT Club

ICT Club starts Wednesday during lunchtime at 1pm.  I am looking forward to introducing you to lots of new ICT tools and ideas.

http://tokomaruictclub.blogspot.com/

Keep up with what we are learning about at our ICT Club Blog.  There will be lots of links and ideas for you to check out!

Due to the limited numbers of students I can take at once many students missed out this term, but please try signing up for next term.