Welcome to Room 1, Kobe!

Room 1 would like to welcome Kobe to our class.  A big welcome to Tokomaru is extended to Kobe's family as well - we look forward to learning with you!



Welcome, Kobe!

Some More Tokomaru Trail Bike Ride Photos!

These photos show a different view of the Tokomaru Ranges Ride - from the riders' perspective!  Amazing views and action!

Tokomaru School Trail Bike Ride 2012

The sun was shining for our annual trail bike ride.  Check out the photos of our day:

Cricket Cameo!

Manawatu Cricket Club representatives came to our school today to teach us some cricket skills.  They will be teaching us every Friday for the next few weeks, so keep an eye out on our blog for more photos and videos.

Cricket Cameo! on PhotoPeach

Thinking about the skills you practised today, how will you use them in a game of cricket?

Tokomaru School House Captains

It was a pleasure to listen to the speeches delivered by the students running for House Captains today.  I really enjoyed the way that all of them spoke about the privilege it would be for them to be a House Captain and that they would be there to "cheer you on".

A big congratulations to all those who took the time and put so much effort into their speech, and to those that are now House Captain/Vice Captain for their house:

Rata:

Captain - Mikah

Vice Captain - Faith

Tawa:

Captain: Grace

Vice Captain: Caitlin

Kowhai:

Captain: Liam/Jonathan

We hope you enjoy your new roles and we are all here to support you in your responsibilities.

Self-portraits - Modigliani Inspired Art

We have been working on self-portraits over the last week, inspired by the Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani.  Check out the results of our efforts in the slidehow below:

What do you like about your self-portrait?

What features of Modigliani's art inspired you the most?

Tessa's Trip Across the Ditch!

Tessa's holiday included holding a koala called Tinkerbell, seeing sea dragons, and crocodiles!  She told us all about her exciting trip and brought photos along to show us:

Tessa at Underwater World and Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Ella's Around New Zealand Trip!

Ella shared news about her trip around various parts of New Zealand.  Check out the map of all the places she went and the awesome 'summer-tubing' photo.  We had not heard about summer-tubing before so we were very interested to hear about Ella's experience.

Ella 'summer-tubing' at Lake Tekapo

All the places Ella travelled.

Where did you go over the holidays?

Did you do something you had never done before like summer-tubing?

Coleus Plant

Annabelle has gifted a Coleus plant to the class to put in our reading area.  She says the leaves feel "hairy on the darker part of them".  We will have to remember to water it!

Welcome to Room 1!

We would all like to welcome 3 new students to Room 1 - Eli, Ella, and Sean.  Welcome to our learning land - we hope you enjoy your time here!

Fishing Game

Shayde brought in a fishing game that he and his family had made at home from paper, magnets, rope, and some amazing artwork!  What a great way to start off our sharing time this year! 

Shayde was able to tell us about all the different sea creatures: red snapper, eels, lobster, squid, angler, catfish, and many more.

New Learning Links

A few new links for you to check out - enjoy your learning! 

Which one is your favourite?

Geronimo Stilton

Grammar Ninja

Bookworm

Around the World in 80 Seconds Maths

Tumbleweed Maths Maze

Penguins from Antarctica

Shayde brought a poster to school for Room 1 from his dad. It was a to say a special thanks for keeping in touch with him while he was away in Antarctica. We have put the poster on the wall and we are writing stories from the perspective of a penguin in the poster. Check them out next week after we have published them...

Tyler and Shayde with the penguin poster from Shayde's dad.