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?

Big Pumpkin Contest

We have entered the Mitre 10 Big Pumpkin Contest.  We planted our pumpkin plant on Friday after having a bit of a tidy-up in the garden area.

There is a prize for the biggest pumpkin so we are going to have to look after it to ensure it grows!

Room 1 and Room 6 have entered too - I wonder which class will have the biggest pumpkin?

Ayjae gets rid of some weeds.

Riley said "Mrs Bismark, do snails like pumpkins?"

Ayjae and Isabel worked together to clean up the leaves.

Everyone helping and working together to get the job done!

Madisyn prepares the pumpkin for the ground.

"Good work, everyone" said Madisyn.

What do pumpkin plants need to help them grow?

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?