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.

You can check out what has been happening this term.

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