The Solar System

A song about the solar system:

Make Your Own Cowbot - Great Holiday Fun!

Rosie's World have put together more cowbots for you to make.  You can choose the ones you like, print them off, then put them together. 

Have fun!

 

Which design is your favourite? Why?

How many cowbots can you make?

A Wet Towel in Space is Not Like a Wet Towel on Earth...

What a great video to lead into our Term 2 'Is There Anyone Out There?' unit!  Check out this video of what an astronaut has to put up with in space...

Thanks to Corey and Tyler's mum for the link.

Make your prediction now: What do you think will happen to the water when the astronaut soaks the towel in it?

What happened?

Why did that happen?

What question would you ask the astronaut about space?

Paper Recycling

The Harry Potters reading group read the article 'Making Paper' in Junior Journal 44.  As we were writing some thank-you cards for our Home and School and Trail Bike Ride helpers, we decided to make some paper for them.

Take a look at all the different colours:





 

 

 

 

Have you ever made paper?

How did it turn out?

What did you use it for?

Helping Your Mates

Thanks to Corey and Tyler's mum for sending us the link to this video. 

We think that Tom and Cory are great friends who obviously care about each other and help each other out.  All of us did the school triathlon and some of us did the Weetbix tryathlon, and we are impressed with Tom's stamina, determination, and perseverance in helping his friend Cory participate in the event.  Cool Kiwi kids!

Helping Your Mates video

 

Melville Intermediate - Tokomaru School's Lunches

HI this is Damien & Wattana and we are school councillors from Melville Intermediate school and we need help with our canteen we are asking all the schools in NZ to send us their menu of your canteen!

We would like to compare with other schools their menus for lunches, their canteens or tuck shops or how their students buy food at school. We want to do this because we would like to get ideas to improve what we have for sale at our school canteen to our students. You could send us your school menus or order forms by taking a photo or scanning them, you could film footage of your tuck shops or canteens in action, perhaps at lunchtime or perhaps without students in them (we will be doing the same at Melville Intermedaite) you can then leave a comment to us letting us know what the links are so we can view them. Thanks for being available.

Our reply:

Hi Damien and Wattana,

This is Room 1 at Tokomaru School.  We are a small school (66 students) so we rely on our parents and community a lot - and this includes our lunches.

We have a Variety Lunch every second Friday.  A parent/s create a small menu to choose from.  For example, this week's menu is Nachos $2, Vegetarian Nachos $2, Banana Milo Smoothie $1, Lamington .50c, Popcorn .50c. 

Each student takes an order form home and they choose what they want from the menu and return the money to school.  A parent/s then comes in on the Friday to make and give the food out to the students who ordered it.

On the alternate Friday to Variety Lunch, we have Fish 'n' Chips from our local shop.  The menu is Fish 'n' Chips, Chicken 'n' Chips, or Hotdog 'n' Chips (or just chips)  All are $3.  Students can buy drinks as well from the shop. 

Students must order before school starts and then some of our senior students go to the shop to pick up the orders and distribute them to those that have ordered them.

We really enjoy the variety of food each week and the profit that is raised from the Variety Lunches goes toward our special end of year trip for the whole school.

The photos below are of our order forms for our Variety lunch every second Friday:

Surprise Eggs - Procedures

As part of our Reading and Writing we have been learning about procedures - how to follow them and how to write them so others can follow them.

We made some surprise eggs for Easter and wrote a procedure on how to make them.

We made Powerpoint presentations with a slide for each step in the procedure.

Can you follow our procedures to make your own surprise egg?

 

 



2013 Cluster Touch Rugby Tournament

Amazing action shots of our students giving their all at the Cluster Touch Rugby Tournament.  Overall, Tokomaru School came 4=, so a great result for us all.

Voicethread: Triathlon Recounts

Click here to listen to us reading our recounts - Link to our Voicethread

For Writing we have been focusing on "showing not telling". We are learning to "paint a picture" in our readers' minds so they can "see" and "feel" what we are writing about.

We love receiving comments about our learning so please leave us a comment today.

What words did you use to "show" your audience what happened?

Perseverance: Triathlon 2013

Triathlon 2013 - We Persevered!

Results:

Year 0-2 Boys - Daniel, Jayden, Zion

Year 0-2 Girls - Ji'reh, Emma, Molly

Year 3-4 Boys - Eli, Henry, Josh W

Year 3-4 Girls - O'Meara-Jean, Shampagne, Jordan

Year 5-6 Boys - Kyle, Gianlucca, Lukaz

Year 5-6 Girls - Angel, Teigan, Mikah

Year 7-8 Boys - Ruairi, Mason, Moio

Year 7-8 Girls - Lauren, Cheymani, Tiana

Congratulations to all the competitors - you trained hard to take part in this event and so many of you achieved  a huge goal for yourselves - well done!

Rosie's World Visits Tokomaru School

Rosie and her team visited us today to teach us about dairy farming in New Zealand.  We enjoyed the songs and dances, and everything was FARMTASTIC!

Becky, Rosie, and Matt dance farmtastically!

Lucky Tokomaru students get to give Rosie a big hug.

In the milking shed - how many litres of milk were there?

Queen Mary 2

Take a look at the Queen Mary 2 - the biggest ship to ever visit New Zealand! 

I wonder how many people are travelling on the ship?

Where is the ship travelling to?

March: New Zealand Book Month

What books have inspired you? 

Who wrote them?

How have they changed your life?  

 

Check out the NZ Book Month website to read about books and how they have changed peoples' lives.

 

Use your $5 off voucher to buy a book that inspires you to read even more!

 

 

Swimming Lessons at the Lido

As part of our swimming programme this term, Room 1 and 2 went to the Lido for our swimming lessons today.

Check out our great technique in the water:

Paper Plus Classic Hits Competition!

It all started with an entry into a competition by a family friend of Jordan - next thing we know our whole class has won individual stationery packs from Paper Plus!

A huge thanks to Jordan and her family, Paper Plus, and Classic Hits!

Link to Classic Hits 97.8 Facebook page - check out our photo!

Room 1 wonders what is happening?

The absolute joy when they find out they have all won stationery packs from Paper Plus and Classic Hits!

Thanks, Jordan!

Room 1 start to get their packs...

Look at all our stationery!

We can't wait to see what is inside!

Jordan is thrilled she won this competition!