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?