We're Back!

Welcome back everyone and welcome to 2016 in Room 1 at Tokomaru School - yes, we are Room 1 now!

It was great to see everyone this morning and hear about what everyone got up to during the break - with all this great weather it is no surprise so many people spent time at the beach and while we're not right by the beach, we did spend our afternoon cooling off in our school pool!  Make sure you bring your togs and towel every day to continue enjoying it...

Birdhouse Building for Ag Day

As part of our inquiry, we are making birdhouses to sell at Ag Day.  We started making some last week with our awesome parent helpers, Dave and Ronnie, then this week we have Wiremu's Poppa and Conner's Grandpa and Nana helping us.  We are so lucky to have so much help!

Wiremu and Matthew help each other 

Ben adds some detail to his plan

Wiremu looks to nail the wood together

Reilly has her plans ready for action!

Nicole has her wood prepared.

Molly starts to saw.

Wiremu's Poppa helps with the 'tricky' bits.

Conner's Grandpa and Nana measures up.

Roland drills his wood together - he said he hadn't done this before, but he was great at it!

Wiremu makes sure Poppa is doing it right :)

What is hard about making a birdhouse?

How much do you think we should sell them for?

Chalk Art

Conner

Madisyn

Alphie

Matthew

Reia

Reilly

Conner fighting above lava.

Wiremu with his sword.

Ayjae and a whale.

Bob riding a dinosaur.

Nicole surfing the waves.

Molly the butterfly.

Patterns

We are learning to make a repeating patterns using shapes.  

Check out the planes we made following a pattern too.  We had to do lots of good problem-solving to achieve the final result:

We see patterns every day.  What patterns can you find outside?

Thursday Afternoon at the Movies...

This afternoon we watched the recording of our production of Peter Pan.  With popcorn and Fruit Bursts on hand, we enjoyed watching ourselves - super stars at Tokomaru School!

Watching ourselves on the big screen.

That finale song gets us on our feet every time!

What Are We Making?

What will our next step be?