Gingerbread house

Waiwera

On Tuesday the 9th of December the year 6,7 and 8,s went to Waiwera hot pools.
There are 8 slides- the kids chute,short and sharp,bobs mistake,squeeze,gutbuster,
black hole,double slide and the twister. My favourite was the black hole.
by Louis

Wonderful Waiwera

Yesterday 9/12/08 Room 1 and 6 went to Waiwera hot pools for a end of the year trip. We went on slides like Short and Sharp, Bob's mistake, Gutbuster, Blackhole, Speed Slide and The Twister. We all enjoyed swimming in the big pools. We had an awesome day and thanks to all the parents that helped.

Waiwera

On Thursday the 9th of December room1 and room6 went to Waiwera hot pools. Every one really enjoyed it. There were 9 awesome pools to play in. There were heaps of slides to play on. I didn't bang my head once. It was a really fun day.

By Rory McKay

Waiwera

Year 6,7 and 8 had a great time at waiwera hot-pools. there were 7 slides:
The kids chute
Short'n'sharp
Bob's mistake
The gut buster
The black hole
The twister

Also, all the pools were heated there were 9 pools

by Jode

wiwera

On Tuesday 9th of December Rooms 1 and 6 from Tomarata School had a trip to Waiwera hot pools. The pools were all heated except for the children's pool. We departed from school at 9.00am and left the hot pools at 1.40. Waiwera is 5 mins from Orewa. Many other schools came to Waiwera as well. The slides were a big hit for people that were interested. There's a moive pool, an adults pool,a lava pool(45 degres)and other pools that people can enjoy.

Cricket

On Monday the 8th of December Daniel,Trent,Jamie,Rhys,Joanna,Aimee,Briar, Sarah and I
went to Warkworth to play in a cricket tournament. We won our first game by 34 runs.
We won are second game by 6 runs and we lost the third by 2 runs but we still made the final because other teams also lost a game. In the final we lost by 13 runs so we came second.
By Louis

Trip to Waiwera

On Tuesday, 9th December we went to waiwera. It was fun. There were lots of pools like:

1. The Selby pool


2. The Seal pool


3. The movie pool


4. The opal pool ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 'The selby pool and the seal pool


5. The Sapphire pool


6. The lava pool


7. and the kids pool

My favorite pool was probably the selby pool because it was big and only warm, it wasn't cold or hot it was just warm. It also had a Shallow side and a deep side but the only bad thing was all these older people that kept pushing each other into the pool. One of them mistook me and pushed me in too.

Then there was the seal pool. The seal pool was just a smaller version of the selby pool but it didn't have a shallow side or a deep side. It was sort of half way. It was about 3 or 4 ○C warmer. It was next to the selby pool.

The movie pool was about 6○C warmer then the seal pool and about 10○C hotter then the 27○C selby pool. It was called the movie pool because there was a HUGE Tv in there. It had Mini waterfalls coming off into a pool above it that had another 2 waterfalls going down into the movie pool.

I dont know much about the opal pool because kids wern't alowed in it. But the sapphire pool was about 40 -45○C! It was undercover as was the movie pool. I didn't go in it much though. And then there was the Lava pool. I probably spent more time in the opal pool then in the lava pool because it was a hot 50○C! (I did go in the opal pool for a while and then I realised it was Adults only. I don't see why, it wasn't that hot.)

The Kids pool was shallow and cold. Like it was Actually cold. It wasn't warmed up or anything. It had a frog waterslide and 2 fountain things that squirted out cold water.

Overall I enjoyed it and would like to go again sometime.

Sean

Cricket Day

On Wednesday the Year 4 to Year 8 students went to Centennial Park to play cricket. Tomarata had nine teams. The other schools that were there were Pakiri, Tauhoa, Mangawhai, Tapora and Living Way. It was really fun but the bad thing was that it was really hot.

William

Cricket day

Yesterday we had a cricket day. Our school had 9 teams. It was held at Centennial park in Wellsford. There were 4 games. They were 1 hour each. Cricket was fun. My team, Tomarata 3 won 3 of 4 games. Charles's team Tomarata 4 won none of its games unfortunately. The day was successful and really, really hot.

Sean and charles

Cricket

On Wednesday the 3rd of December Rooms 1,2 and 6 and some of the year 4 people from room 3 all went to a cricket day at Centennial Park. There were 9 Tomarata teams. Each team played 4 games against teams from Living Way, Tapora, Tauhoa and Mangawhai.The games were set up on the athletic grounds and the rugby club field. There was about 13 games happening at the same time. The day was enjoyable and i hope they have another cricket sports day next year. Some of the down sides of the day was that it was too hot. Hopefully next year it will be much cooler.
By Bree-Anna

Cricket

On the 3 of December 2008 we went to to cricket at Centennial Park. There were all kinds of schools there including Living Way, Mangawhai, Tapora and Pakiri. We won 3 of the 4 games we played. I thought we did ok. We had a lot of fun as well. But it was too hot.

Golf

On thursday we had golf it was practice we got to hit as far as we wanted to. We hit differant kind of golf balls. We had a contest of who could hit biggiest. we had a game it was called win a millione dollars you had to chip the ball into the hoop and you win a millione dollars.

Golf

On Thursday 27 novenber we went out to the fild to have a golf lesson. In that golf lesson we lernt
how to stand in frunt of a tee. Grip and swing a golf club.we had 5 balls to hit 2 tennes balls 2 golf balls and 1 big rubber ball.It was eser to hit golf balls then the big rubber ball.
by Louis.

Golf At Tomarata School

On Thursday 27 2008 Pam came to our school to teach us how to play golf. It was so much fun. When we had a game to see who could hit it the furthest I did out of all the girls in my glass and Sian got second. I hope next year Pam can come back.

By Morgan

golf

On Thursday 27 November we had golf on our field. Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 6 participated in this event. It was a great day learning how to play golf. Our furthurest hit was close to the trees. At first we didnt have a clue on how to use the golf club. Pam was a very good teacher and we learnt alot from her. We hope that Pam will come back next year and that we can do better. We learnt how to hit far distance and short distance.
All together it was a great day and we loved it...

By Briar and Joanna!

Golf

On Thursday 27th of 2008 the whole school got some new skills in golf. Pam was teaching the new skills. Some people got the balls past the goal post. The balls that we had were
big and small. There were only two golf balls per person and they are really soft and easy to hit. Most people had a lot of fun. I also had a lot of fun too.
By Daniel

Golf

On Thursday we went to golf. It was lots of fun, I thought it was hard. It would be a cool activity to do on the weekend. A lady called pam came and helped out. We learned lots of new skills, for me it was hitting a golf ball and having it actually get airbourne. We didn't actually have golf balls we each hade 2 tennis balls, 2 balls that looked like golf balls but were squishy and one big version of the squishy golf balls. There was one big ball that was green, all the rest were red, yellow and pink. I got the green ball at one point but then Rory stole it off me just because he knew i'd put effort into getting it. Anyway thankyou Pam for coming to our school and teaching us golf

Sean

Active Learning Classes

Every Thursday morning, Mrs Williams holds an Active Learning Class. This term we were learning how to write really good stories, both fictional and factual. She helped us put more adjectives and good language features into our stories. She also taught us about repeating, and what repeating is good and when it starts to make the story boring and confusing. We all learnt lots about story writing and we wish to contribute these skills into our stories. Thankyou to Mrs Williams for a very enjoyable learning term.

By Aimee

Tomarata School Golf

On Thursday at school Pam from North Harbour Sports taught us how to play golf. We used a big soft golf ball, two tennis balls and two soft golf balls. We played games like you had to hit the golf balls into a hoop. Another used cones. You got 1 point if you hit it past the first cone, 2 past the next
and if you hit past the last cone you got 3 points. Mr McNaughten hit the tennis ball over the trees at the back of the field.

By Finn and Rhys

Golf

On Thursday Pam from harbour golf came in to give us a golf lesson. We all learnt alot of golf skills. It was lots of fun. Most people thought it was going to be hard but it turned out really easy. You had to hit 5 balls. 1 was big and squishy. 2 were tennis balls and 2 were golf balls.
By William & Rory

Great Golf

Terrific Thursday was the day we had golf. We had an excellent time learning a great golf swing. Our instructor Pam had travelled to many places like Singapore, America and Australia. We had a whole lot of games seeing who could hit the furtherest distance out of the boys and girls. Golf was fun and everyone enjoyed it.

Cross country

On the 19 of November Tomarata School took two buses out to Pakiri to compete in cross country. Every year Mangawhai, Living way, Tapora, Tauhoa and Tomarata compete to win a bag with a drink bottle a tube of sunscreen. this year Nathan, Kathleen, James and Larissa all came first. The people that came second, third and first get a ASB certificate.
By Jamie & Scott

The year 5 6 7 and 8 had school camp last week. We enjoyed the kayaking, lazar tag flying fox, Burma trail, water slide, the orienteering and the air rifle shooting. It was a very fun week. Mr McNaughten went down the water slide as well. On the Burma trail the parents tried to scare us but they weren’t very scary. Mr Brockelsby was in a tree with a big stick and Finn and Scott took his stick off him.

COOL COLOURFUL CAMP

Last week the three senior classes went to Mangawhai Camp. We did a whole lot of activities. One of our favourites was the flying fox. It’s a long thick wire, which you attach your safety harness to and then launch off and fly down! Our next favourite activity was kayaking in the sea. We saw sting rays flow on past underneath the blue kayak. The funniest part was flipping the kayak and running along all the kayaks! Last but not less was the dark scary Burma trail. Actually it wasn’t that scary. It was more fun than scary. The parents would find good hiding places and try and scare us! Overall the camp turned out great and we had an awesome time!
By Kimberley and Rebecca

ben sleeps in

It was morning on Pool Road. The birds were chirping. My alarm clock was ringing. I reached and slammed the button and stopped the screaming noises and immediately went to sleep again. Seven-thirty I woke-up with the sun in my face. I suddenly fell out of bed. I race to my clothes on, splashed water of my face and went down to the kitchen for breakfast. I ate breakfast sleepily while mum was washing the dishes. I packed my bag, got on my bike and zzzzzzzoooooooommmmmed down the road. I arrived at school late again. I ran to my class room and opened the door. Everyone`s head turned and looked at me suspiciously. The teacher said " Where have you been? You're late again."


By Charles Shadick

Calf and lamb day

Does anyone watch Shortland Street? Well if you do, look who came to our calf and lamb day. Renato Bartolomei aka Craig Valentine. As you can see, he presented an award to Kimberley and Jamee for having the most obvious pets. Well done guys.


By Danni and Morgan.

calf club

Calf club was all happening on Friday two weeks ago. We all had to do our own stall for a fun raiser for school camp. There were calves, lambs, scarecrows, gardens and caged pets.
In the classes we could do vege creations, vasaline saucers, junk jewellery and mini scene.


By Scott& FiNN

cool calf club

On Friday we had show day. me and my friends Kimberley, Madison,Rebecca,Tiare did a stall called Sweet Tooth we sold heaps of things like toffe apples, marshmello cones, lolipops, biscuts, coconut ice, fudge, brownies, apple pie and heaps more. Our stall raised $210.20 and our classroom raised $640.

Holiday News from Trent

Hi guys its Trent. Here its been 2 and a half weeks of FUN!!! On the plane we watched a lot of movies. It was a very long flight straight from Auckland to Vancouver(it took 13hrs)overnight. Next we went to Edmonton in an airbus. It took 1 1/2hrs. We stayed for a week, visted some old friends, went to the zoo, and to the world's biggest shopping mall. They have a waterpark there - it was awesome - it was like Waiwera except it had a pool that made waves. At the mall they had everything, even sealions. Now we are in Calgary staying with some more friends. Went to Drumheller to the dinosaur museum and got a shark tooth. We also got a fossil of an ancient squid. We've been watching a lot of ice hockey. Today we went to a space center which tells you everything about space - you even get to fly to mars and then drive on it(well a simulation anyway). Can't wait until we get to Disneyland. It's been great here. Hope you're having fun with calf club and everything else.

Response from Room 1
Wow sounds like you are having fun. Calf club was great but the weather was rainy. We are now concentrating on our camp. OUR CLASS ALONE MADE 640$. Camp sounds really good. We are going to do heaps of activities. It was a great idea talking to us through the blog. Hope you have heaps more fun.
ROOM1!

Choco Holic

Who likes chocolate??? If you do, and you didn't come to show day, you missed out. Choc-A-Holics was a stall for all the chocolate lovers out there. We sold cookies, muffins, afghans, chocolate mud cake, and lollies in bags, chocolate flavoured of course!!! We also did the all popular guessing game- how many lollies in the jar, except, they had to fit in with the chocolate theme, so the game was changed to how many Jaffas in the Jar. All together we made $65. 40c, which was a pretty good effort.

Posted by Aimee Stevens and Joanna Brown

Scavenger Hunt

At calf club Gemma and Bree-Anna made a scavenger hunt stall. The weather wasn't the best but we managed to get a few games in. We also did a Quiz and "Guess how many pegs are in the bowl" People had no idea how many pegs were in the bowl. They had answers from 19 to 90 but the real answer was 82. We had a range of hard questions from WHO INvENTED ThE POPSICLE?ROME
to DO ESKiMOS GAMBLE?NO. The goody bags had all sorts of things inside of them like stuff and things. It was hard organising all the prizes and games in such short notice since the school holidays had just started. :)

HOLIDAY

In the holidays people did many fun and interesting things like shopping and going to the beach. Some people went to a friends house, had a friend over, went to the zoo, saw the circus, went bowling, went to the movies, saw their family, went swimming, fishing and much much more. We know we had a great holidays and hope you did too.

by Madison And Sian.

What i did on the holidays

I had a great time on the holidays! I had the 1st Saturday,Sunday,Monday and tuesday a bit boring....But then my friend from wellington came up! So we started building a hut. By the end of the day it was made. We went inside for a bit, not long after my cousin walked in the door! We went down to show him the hut. He is a scout so he helped us improve it. The next day we climbed a vine tree but it only lasted a day because all the main branches had snapped....hehe....a few more days later another friend came over for my mums birthday! My friend left back to wellington. And not long after it was back to school. I was really sad.

BY JODE

pivot water cycle

I lost all my pivot files so this is all i have to show

Netball Prizegiving

On Friday 19th of September the Tomarata netball players held a Prizegiving at the Tomarata Rugby club. In Tomarata 6, Brianna got player of the year. In Tomarata 5, Briar and Olivia tied for player of the year. In Tomarata 4 Kimberley won the trophy, and Sarah took it out for Tomarata 3.
Tomarata 5 tied with Wellsford 1 for the Best Attitude cup.
A big thankyou to all the coaches, managers and organizers, and a special thanks to Anna and Tracy from Aimee, Joanna and all the team. Also a thankyou to the parents as well for driving us in every Saturday, and cheering us on from the sidelines. Where would we be without you?

By Aimee and Joanna

Congratulations Aimee

Room 1 students participated in an online intersactive story during Library Week. The beginning of the story was written by Bernard Beckett who is an author of books for children. Each day other participators contributed with the next part and one was chosen. Aimee's part was chosen on the last day. The judge said that Aimee was "able to pull together all the threads of the story and give the book an ending which worked extremely well with the introduction." He siad she should be highly commended as this was a difficult task to do. For her achievement Aimee received a package of goodies including 5 books and a small book lamp. Well done Aimee. The full version of the story can be viewed online at

http://www.libraryweek.org.nz/Library%20Week/Information/competition

Mr Willy Wonka appeared at our Roald Dahl character parade.

Roald Dahl Day

Oompa Loompa (Jamie), Mike Teevee (William) Mr Twit (Trent) and Fantastic Mr (Ms) Fox (Aimee) took up the challenge and came in character for our Roald Dahl Day celebrations. A class vote resulted in Mr Twit and the Oompa Loompa claiming the candy prize.













Our school was involved in Roald Dahl Day today. Some of us dressed as characters of Roald Dahl books. William is Mike T.V from Willy Wonka, Aimee is Fantastic Ms Fox, Jamie is an Oompa Loopa and Trent is Mr Twit.

Diving Disaster!!!

Netball Prize-giving

On Saturday 6th august 2008, the girls who played netball went to the overall teams prize giving. Before the prize giving began, all the teams had a short, 5 minute fun game. When the prizes were given out, Tomarata 4 came second in their grade, and Tomarata 5 tied for the “attitude of the Year” trophy with Wellsford. That trophy will be presented at the Tomarata netball prize giving (held on the 19.09.08). Well done to all the people who participated in a Tomarata team thins year. Two thumbs up.

Posted by Aimee.

Long Jump

There once was a girl doing a jump,
She landed with a great big thump,
She got a big bruise,
Because she didn't wear shoes,
She broke her leg,
and ended up in a peg,
So she never did the long jump again.

By Sarah

Last Day Of Clubs

On Tuesday 2nd September we had our last day of clubs. I was in journal making. On Tuesday we finished sticking our pieces of paper into our journal. If you finished your journal you could glue on photos stickers and anything else you want to stick on. Heaps of people had fun in the clubs.

By Sarah

Saturday FUN!

Every Saturday Tomarata has four teams entered in the Rodney Netball Club. We had a great year with our team coming second. Hooray for us. My team won a silver shiny trophy. We were so delighted because we beat the senior team. The other team just below us got the best attidude trophy tied with another school. It's good how well a little school can win two trophies.

BY KIMBERLEY AND REBECCA!!!

Netball Prize Giving

On Saturday 6 September Netball people had one short game and prize giving. We had a 10 minutes each way game. Then we had the prize giving. We all sat down in our Netball teams and listened for our team name to be called up and we received a trophy. Our school waited to hear for any of our teams names to be called and then suddenly we heard our netball team name "Tomarata 4 please come up" We all ran up and shook hands with the people giving out the trophies. We lined up with our trophy and had our photo taken. We got the runner up trophy for grade B. We sat down and and then we heard Tomarata 5 and they got a trophy for "Attitude of the year". We all had a great day and the trophies will be given to the teams at the Tomarata Rugby Club on Saturday 19 September.

Posted By Morgan

Rugby Prizegiving

At Tomarata rugby club we had prize giving. Finn, Trent, Daniel and Jamie had a pretty good year in the under 11s. Terry got the player of the year, Cullen got most Dedicated, Micheal got the best forward, Ryan got best back and Denim got most improved.
The under 11s came 2nd over all. Ruawai came 1st and Maungatoroto came 3rd.

Rugby and Netball day

Yesterday some of the rooms went to a rugby netball day we had teams with some year
4s in it we had teams with year 5 and 6s we also had teams with year 7 and 8s. In rugby heaps of people got really sore arms and legs. It was a great day and heaps of people had heaps of fun.

By Sarah Sharp

Touch Rugby & Netball Day

On Wednesday September 3rd Years 4,5,6,7 and 8 had a touch rugby and netball tournament at Centennial Park. Lots of other schools around came to play too. The kids got to choose to play either touch rugby or netball. The netball people had 5 games and the touch rugby also had 5. We all had a great day.
Morgan

Rocking Rainbows End

On the 31st of August Year 7s and 8s from Tomarata school and many other schools went to Rainbows End with Blue Light. The rides there are the pirate ship, fear fall, power surge, cork screw, log flume, gold rush, dodgems, bumper boats, motion master and much more.

Cool Cooking!!

Every Tuesday the year 7s go to the Rodney college to do Manual. We are now doing cooking. Last week we made banana milkshakes and pizza snacks. It's cool because we all get our own kitchens. When we get into our kitchens we have groups of 4 or 3 in each kitchen. Once we are done we have to clean up our kitchens. The teacher comes and checks the kitchens and tells you if you need to clean anything better or if it is good. This isn't the best part but it is still fun because we get to work as a team.

Rainbows End

What a way to spend a Sunday for $10. Year 7&8 students from all sorts of schools from Taupo up visited Rainbows End for a whole day. We started by hopping on a bus at Wellsford School.There were lots of kids from Tomarata and a few from Wellsford. We left at 8:00 am. It was 1 hour drive down to Rainbows End but it was worth it. When we arived we had to get a green paper tag on our wrist saying RAINBOWS END so we could get into the rides. The first things we saw were Rain and Bow. They are Rainbows Ends mascots. It was funny because they were break dancing. Before we could go on any of the rides we had to have a roll check and a time we had to get back to the gate. Then we were free.The first ride I went on was the pirate ship.The pirate ship is a ride that sways back and forth and you go realy high. My favourite rides would have to be the fear fall and the corkscrew. The corkscrew is a roller coaster that goes upside down, up high, around and around and best of all FAST!!!The fear fall is a 18 story pole. What you do is you're put in a seat and strapped in. Then you are lifted up the pole. When you get to the top you can see all of Auckland and before you can scream you're zooming down the pole at 80KM per hour. You're going so fast that your legs stick out and it feels like your head is going to fall off!

Stacker Cups

This year our school purchased several sets of stacker cups. They are great fun and apparently improve your hand eye co ordination. We have videoed a demonstration for you. Danni, Morgan, Aimee and Briar

High jump

There was a man named Gump.
His favourite game was high jump.
He's very good at it.
And he was always strong and fit.
He was famous.
And never shameless.
It was Gumps game of high jump.
He starts running.
He jumps the high jump bar.
He made it.
He made it far.
Everybody in the crowd cheering.
Some of his fans have trouble hearing.
He waves his hands to all his fans.
Walking across the watery sand.
He collects his trophy and takes it home to keep.
Cause after the long day Gump needs a long sleep.
By Tremaine.

Pivot is a free animation program you can download from the internet. Here is my olympic movie.

Room1

Room1 is full of colour from all we that us kids have done this year. Our teacher Mrs Salt is cool and makes a great teacher. She does lots of things with us and has ordered lots of fun games for us to play with. We have a wonderful art teacher that have helped make our class colourful. Thank you.
Morgan

Running race

There once was a guy in a race,
Who had an extremely slow pace,
He had a bad fall,
He is very tall,
He ended up flat on his face.
Danni and Briar

Manual

This week at manual the Year Sevens did cooking. We made Pizza Snacks and Banana Milkshakes. For the Pizza Snack we put Salami, BBQ sauce, Cheese, Ham and some spices on them. For the Banana Milkshakes we put Bananas, Ice-cream, Milkshake syrup, Honey and Milk in it. They were nice!
Danni

Journal making

Journal making is a lot of fun. I've made my own journal and its really cool. I've made it in clubs it is really easy to make. I'm going to tell you step by step how to make a journal of your own. First you get some cardboard, cut it up into two even pieces and one strip of card to make the spine. Secondly pick a wall paper to wrap around your book. Third if you want you can use vaseline to stick some soft tissue on the side of your book. Fourth with the rest of the paper that you used for the wrapping cut it up so it can fit into the book. You can get your book in all sizes. Fifth use some string to tie your paper into your book. Use some tough string so the paper doesn't fall out. You can also cut out pictures to stick onto your book in the front or stick photos in it. Once you've done all that then you have yourself a journal to write in.
By Tremaine

The spirit of freedom

A beautiful creature galloping
The breeze dancing in the air
Darting, Soaring, Bolting, Leaping
Living without a care
Hurdling with the eagle
That’s flying up above
Jumping, Dashing, Sprinting, Racing
A horse, a creature to love

Now gliding through the deep blue sky
Over the long white cloud
Hovering, Flapping, Flying, Screeching
The call of the gull clear and loud
Plummeting down to the ocean
Trying to catch a fish
Swarming, Soaring, Diving, Fluttering
To be a bird, my only wish

Sneaking in the grasslands
Round a hollow tree I creep
Roaring, Searching, Seeking, Stalking
I spy my prey and leap
The antelope got away
But now a tigers worst fear
Running, Ripping, Scampering, Speeding
For the tiger poachers are here

Swimming through a river
Dancing with the trout
Darting, Dodging, Swimming, Gliding
To where the sea comes out
Now I’m in the ocean
That leads out to a stream
That’s exactly what occurred to me
Before I woke up from my dream

By Aimee Stevens

Magical Manual

Every Tuesday the year 7&8 kids go to manual. At manual we do all sorts of things like wood work, metal shop, fabric, cooking, graphics, horticulture and much more. After every manual we take our work home.

New Zealand maths week

From the 10th to the 15th of August it was New Zealand Maths Week. Our class entered online and played some fun maths games to earn maths week dollars and bid on things at the auction. Sarah, Kimberley and Sean all won posters and I won a torch. We did very well to win four things, because 40,000 kiwi kids entered the competition.

Aimee

Warm Fuzzies

Our class has a reward system that uses warm fuzzies. They are a piece of coloured paper that have a small fluffy creature on it. You get warm fuzzies by acting good or doing your home work. Then you put your warm fuzzy in a small container. If your name gets picked out you get half an hour of free play!

The Radio Station Visit

Homework: Week 6

Reading: Be able to share a short book review about the book you are reading at home. We will choose the most interesting to post on our blog.
Maths: Complete the work sheet.
Daffodil Day: This Friday is daffodil day. Create your own daffodil using whatever media you like and use 5 words that describe your thoughts about what daffodil day means.
Our school are participating in a gold coin collection to raise funds for the cancer society. Bring a coin on Friday.
Work on your Olympic athlete research assignment.

Motorbike

Starting up the engine
Going through the gate
Mud flying everywere
Thats one thing I hate

Getting in the cows
Following them up the race
They're going slow on purpose
At this crazy pace

Now I'm having fun
Cows I follow no more
Here comes a jump
Now through the air I soar

The mud is really slippery
Like a waterslide
Zomming round the track
My heart filled with pride

Speeding through the bush
Dodging all the trees
Like a multiplying army
The sky I can not see

Sliding round the bend
Hope I do not crash
Look out for that bump
Before I know it smash

By William

Flooding poem

Dark brown murky water rushing like waterfalls
50 year old trees snapping like match sticks
Fences bending in seconds
Wind like a giant tornado
Highways become waterways
Buckets of water pouring down
People evacuating like tiny ants
No roads in sight
Waves like Tsunamis
News crews coming in by the dozen
Rivers flooding their banks
Amazing sights all-round
Creeks become raging torrents of fury
Civil Defence helping
No power anywhere
Cows huddling
Garages ripped up in Milliseconds
Mini tornados forming
Flat farmland becoming lakes
A ducks paradise

Sean

screen printing

For clubs I'm doing screen printing. To start off we have to draw our picture and trace onto plastic. Then we have to cut out the picture with a knife. Then we paint our picture on to a t-shirt or a pillow case. Now you have to wait until it's dry Then we have an attractive new t-shirt or pillow case.

Bree-anna

Science Club

The science club involves making things. We made mosquitos using fishing line, dowling and film canisters and cardboard. We learnt how to make a noise like a mosquito.
Finn and Rhys

Rory William and Jodes ICT Project

Active Learning class

Each Thursday 5 people from each class learn about poetry, art and drama with Mrs Williams.We learn poetry from william Shakspeare and many other famous poetry writers. We also learn famous stories like Romeo and Juliet and after the story we normally do a play. My favourite story thats been made into a play is a story dated back 500 years ago and how they used to think witches and wizards were true. The play was about two aliens driving a spaceship. They spot a witch and the witch tricks the aliens by giving them a ride on her broom stick. She casts a spell on them and they orbit around the sun while the witch is enjoying the comfort of the space ship. It was a fun play to act out. I am really enjoying the classes.

Bree Anna

At the start of the term Room1 wrote some poems to enter in the Rodney Library compeition. Briars poem called freedom.



Freedom



Free spirited,

No responsibilities,

Trust her and she will trust you,



Walking, trotting, cantering, galloping,

Freedom, fabulous freedom,

She sounds like thunder

as her big feet pound against the ground,



Silky black body shines in the bright sunlight,

Long black mane as soft as a pillow,

Shiny tail bright in the moonlight,



She needs to be loved like your very oun treasure,

A horse is an animal to love.



By Briar and Sarah

Jamie's Poem

Jamie won the Rodney Libraries Podcast Poetry Competition this year and is the proud owner of a new MP3 Player. He already has 98 songs loaded onto it. Here is his winning poem. Rugby Ice-cold, rain, damp Players escaping from the club rooms Playing on the sloppy field Try scoring maniacs Courageous Kickers Kicking off the grotty ground Spectators screaming at the top of their lungs GO! GO! GO! Going home Having the goose bumps Having a sweet steaming hot chocolate Another sprig mark on my arm But a good game of rugby. By Jamie Trent and William had poems that were highly commended. Well done boys!

Journal Making

Yesterday we had a great time in clubs. We are doing journal making. The people in our group are Aimee, Joanna, Daniel, Alexia and Caitlyn. So far we have stuck the paper on the cover of our journals. We just started to fold the paper up in the shape of the pages. Next week in journal making we will probably stick the paper in the journal.

By Briar Woolley and Sarah Sharp

Our Olympics Study

All of term 3 so far we have been doing a study on the olympics. So far we have made poems and had to design a machine that could throw a shotput further than Valerie Vili. Schools all around NZ are competing because if you win your school gets $10000.00 cash and you get to fly to whereever she is to compete because the winners design will really be made!!!. Also we are doing an assignment on an olympic athlete.

Sean

Clubs

Tomarata School has clubs every Wednesday. In clubs we do lots of cool things like Spanish, ICT, Science, Journal Making, Paper Craft, Wall Hangings, Printing, Screen Printing, Exercise\Movement, Scrapbooking and Clay Work. These are all the things that the teachers and some of our parents have done. We have lots of fun doing them and we learn new crafts and skills. Thank you parents and teachers.
Morgan

Scrapbooking

Every second year we have clubs in the third term. This year we had a choice of doing Scrapbooking, Spanish, Screen printing, Journal making, I.C.T, Printing, Wall hangingws and Clay making. Of course we are in scrapbooking. We are using paper, photos and some decorations to make some cool pages!

Mathex

On Friday 15 August several students from room 1 went to mathex. Mathex is on every year. You go in teams of 4 and compete against other schools in the districts. Over 30 schools compete every year in the categories yr5&6, yr7, yr8, yr9 and so on. In year 7 there were 2 teams of people from Tomarata School. One came 5th and the other came 1st. In the year 8 team Tomarata came 1st too.

Sean

Mathex

Mathex was really fun. Some of us went with Mrs Young. She drove Scott, Daniel, and Louis to Bream Bay College on Friday afternoon. Our team came 5th out of 35 teams. It was a very fun day at mathex.
Scott

Competitive Netball

Every Saturday we play netball for Tomarata School.There are four teams entered. One junior 7,8,9 year old team, another 10 year old team, two senior teams 11, 12 and 13 year olds! We are in one of the senior teams and we are coming 2nd in our grade.We won against the older Tomarata team who is also in our grade and are coming 3rd! HOORAY FOR US!!!
Kimberley, Madison, Tiare, Sian, Riley, Morgan, Danni and Pheobe

A few of our class participated in the Red Wednesday this week with Little red Riding Hood complete with her basket of food winning the free lunch for Room 1 this week. Well done Aimee.

We had a visit from the Hon Mr McClay who came to congratulate all the students who participated in the World Vision 40 hour famine and raised an enormous lot of money. Kimberley accepted the framed certificate on behalf of those who went without food and found lots of generous sponsors.

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