Zumba at Tokomaru!

Keeping active doing Zumba today - we loved the songs and the energy!  Thanks to Jess for the awesome leadership - we're looking forward to next week's session already.

Jump!

And slide!

Geometry - Shapes Everywhere!

We went on a scavenger hunt to find shapes around our classroom and school - look at some of what we found...

Ronon, Conner, and Wiremu find some shapes at the climbing wall.

Layton and Hayden capture a rectangle and a circle.

Reia spotted a square window...

then her and Isabel saw a circle on top of a table and got up to take a closer look!

Inquiry: How Can We Make a Difference?

Room 2 shares their feelings about our environment:

How can we make a difference?

Alliteration Ice Cream Flavours

In Room 2 we are focusing on using alliteration in our writing and poetry to create different effects.

What is alliteration?
Alliteration is when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first sound.  For example: "She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore" or "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers".  Aside from tongue twisters, alliteration is also used in poems, song lyrics, and even shop or brand names.

We watched a clip of 'Bleezer's Ice Cream' by Jack Prelutsky and noticed that it has several examples of alliteration.  After picking out these examples, we wrote lists of our favourite foods and came up with other foods and describing words that started with the same letter.  We loved the idea of making up our own ice cream flavours using alliteration so that's what we did!

                                                 

Here are our special flavours:

Madisyn 

Nevaeh

Ayjae

Reia

Wiremu

Isabel

Bob

Layton

Ronon

Roland

Hayden

Hollie

Matthew

Molly

Conner

Share some of your favourite flavours...

?? Question of the Week ??

As part of our inquiry - How Can We Make a Difference? - we have come up with several ideas that we want to do something about at our school.

One of the ideas is 'we need some recycling bins instead of lots of rubbish bins'.  This week's question is:
 

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Useful Learning Sites

Some useful links to some learning websites - have a go today!

Teach Your Monster to Read

Students have their passwords in their homework books for this site.  There are some great phonics and word activities in fun games.

Rabbit 2 - ICT games

Reinforcing the concepts of 'more than' and 'less than',

Fruit Shoot - Maths games

Addition and subtraction problems - click on the fruit that has the correct answer - fast as you can!

Tokomaru School Cross Country 2015

All our training paid off and we all persevered to finish the race!

Rippa Rugby

Over the past few weeks we've been learning ball handling, running and teamwork skills through Rippa Rugby training.

The photos below are from our last session today - some of us had never played Rippa Rugby before so we were excited to give it a go!

What skills did you learn?

What do you still want to focus on?

?? Question of the Week ??

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra: The Happiness Box

What a privilege!  We got to experience an engaging, interactive performance of The Happiness Box by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.  The music was a tribute to WW100 commemorations.

"Even if we have nothing else, if we have friends, if we are kind, if we are resilient and work hard, and if we use our brains, we can be happier than someone living in a king's palace"

What was your favourite part of the performance?

Which instrument would you like to play?

Happy Mother's Day

I hope that you are all enjoying your day with your families, Room 2.

What did your mum think of your special poems?  I know my mum loved hers:

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??Question of the Week??

What is the nicest thing a friend has ever done for you?

Double click on the green blackboard and add your thoughts - ask someone at home for help if you get stuck. Please pop your first name in the top so I know who responded...

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ANZAC Day

Today marks 100 years since ANZAC soldiers landed at Gallopoli and began a a very hard campaign in World War One.  Many soldiers from both sides lost their lives. 

Our Field of Remembrance at the front of our school grounds and our school service yesterday honours their memory.

Field of Remembrance with the names of soldiers from Horowhenua.

Singing the National Anthem at our Remembrance service yesterday.

Happy Easter!

I hope that you are all having a great start to your holiday.  I am looking forward to hiding some Easter eggs for Liam to find - he was too young last year to enjoy chocolate eggs so I might let him have one or two this year.

Here are some fun things to try out this weekend:

Easter Egg Hop Game

Easter Cupcakes

Looking forward to seeing you all back at school in a couple of weeks.