On the 9th of December we had a amazing performans by the Lucy Duffeild's drama group from wellsford.The play was called Erny's encredible eluceation. Everyone enjoyed. People thought it was funny when a resler had a fight with a Granma.It took everyone off there seats. It was the ecitiment of there day.

NEW TIME NEW PLACE

This year Room 5 and Room 4 were ready for an exciting new adventure at Martins Bay. The students were looking forward to this camp as much as past years. The teachers had been preparing the class with their S.A.P charts (safety action plan) and were all ready for the tasks that lay ahead.


Thanks to the Y.M.C.A we had a series of great activities, such as mountain boarding, initiative games and archery. Another thanks to Scott and Leon for organising the kayaking and sailing and bringing in a variety of new exiting activities.


Cheers to the parents who helped with transport and supervising with daily meals. A huge thanks to those who stayed in the camping ground over night. We hope they enjoyed it as much as we did.

Hugo.P and James.S

Martins Bay Camp on PhotoPeach

Medieval Art

The last couple of days room5 have been doing wonderfull art with Mrs Lomas. We used indian ink to create the art. We made it on shiny white paper. I will tell you the process. First we drew our designs on a normal piece of A4 paper. Then we copied them onto the shiny paper. After that we indian inked (that was really fun). I drew a queen sitting on her throne. She had black tied up hair and a gown on. My picture turned out really great. I really enjoyed the art. It was really fun.

By Holly

Medieval manuscripts

Room 5 has been learning from a great artist.(Mrs Lomas) We have been learning about the Middle ages, so we have done some medeival manuscripts on people that worked in the medeival ages. I chose to do a knight and a horse on its hind legs because they are brave and fight till the death. We used indan ink with bamboo sticks to do black lines. To fill in gaps we used crosshatching.
Cara

Guy fawkes

On Saturday night a dazzling display of spectacular fire works. They were amazing. We liked the screamers! There were 3 inflatable rides.The chipmunk slide was massive. There was one that had two long lanes and one person would go in in each lane. You would have a harness around your waist. You would have a certain amount of bungy cords attached to the harness and you would try to get to the very end of the lane to grab a rectanglar piece of velcro. It was extremeley hard.
For little kids there there was a small bouncy castle that looked pretty fun for infants. There was a huge selection of food. We loved the lollies and the raffles were great.
I wish though that some of the teenagers woud be more careful and considerate.

by Sean/Hugo/Remo/

Guy Fawkes

On Saturday the 6th of November we had Guy Fawkes. It was really fun. We liked all the rides but it would be better if there were more. A few people were doind flips and other stunts down the slides though so it was quite dangerous. The fireworks were Awesome, especially the colourful ones. All of the food was delicious but the lollies were the best. We wanted to buy one of the BIG glow sticks but once we got at the front of the line to get one they were all sold out. Next year we hope there will be more rides, cheaper rides, more food and more stalls.

By Jen and Olivia

Show Day Indoor Exhibits

Cool Slideshows

Our Musical Instruments Art Work on PhotoPeach

Our new library furniture on PhotoPeach

Visit to the NZSO performance

Nzso

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Auckland Trip on PhotoPeach

Timeline

Earthquake Disaster

At 4.30 in the morning, a tragic natural disaster swept over the silent town of Christchurch. The Magnitude 7.1 earthquake destroyed a portion of the historic brick buildings, and terrorized the people of the town.

Concrete was soon turned to mud, and water supplies are becoming a major concern. The Ministry of Health says; “Boiling water for at least three minutes is compulsory, as we yet have to face the fixing of the sewage pipes, along with other damage.”

The fear of other aftershocks forced affected residents to sleep at the Christchurch hall until at least Wednesday. Flights out of the area have been cancelled due to fear of damage on the runway.

Repair costs are estimated at an amount of $2 billion dollars. Heavy rains are also expected to hit Christchurch at 6.30 am today. Railway lines are bent by the affect of the earthquake.

By Rebecca and Shawnee
Picture by New Zealand Herald.

Beethoven

We listened to "Beethoven Lives Upstairs" and learnt a lot about Beethoven.

Book Character Parade

Library week video competition

Vote for Shane, Luke, Shawnee and Olvia's Library week video! Go to http://www.libraryweek.org.nz/- Click on Discover your library on the bottom right hand corner of the page and vote for the Tomarata Tours!

We Love Our Library

This term room 5 have been doing we love our library videos. The videos we have made show how much we love our library. I was in a group of four the people who I was with were Michaela, Rebecca, Cara and me we gave our audience a little bit of imformation and a tour around our wonderful library. We also made up a song about our library and it sounded really great. To vote for our classroom videos go to google and type in library video competition 2010 and it will just pop up when you are on the site you should find your way from there so could you vote for Tomarata School.

By Holly

(Vote for us)

Technology

On the last 2 days of term rooms 4,5 and 6 did a Technology contest. We had to create an interesting but fun board game. We all were in a group of 5. I was with Rhys and Leah from room6 and Claire from room4. We all dicided to make a Kiwi one. The hardest part was making all the questions but overall it was all fun. I learnt lots and lots about the interesting Kiwi and I am sure my team mates did to. My team worked really well with each other and we all made a fun but interesting game about Kiwis. I hope we can do stuff like this in the future.

By Holly

Des Hunt Author Visit

Matariki

Crazy hair day!

On the 24 of June Tomarata school had Crazy hair day. Lots of people came to school with crazy hair (even the teachers!). We did this event to raise money for St John's "Flash a light". The supporters of "Flash a light" were ASB. Peter Corry came in to our school and brought his Ambulance.   It was really cool. The winners were Nadia from Room 1, Nathan from Room 2, Rhianna from Room 3, Nyan from Room 4, Shanae from Room 5 and Briar L from Room 6.   Man did they have crazy HAIR! After they judged the hair ASB bank brought fruit for our healthy morning tea!
By Michaela

Crazy Hair Day!!

On the 24th of June the whole of Tomarata School had crazy hair day. Most of us came to school with  silly looking coloured hair but we didn't do this for fun.  We did it to raise money for St John flash a light foundation. The winners for each class room got a badge which flashed. AWESOME!. For crazy hair day I put fluro pink and yellow hair spray but it wasn't as crazy as Shanaes. Shanae's had everything you could think of. The winners were Nadia (Room 1), Nathan (Room 2), Rhianna (Room 3), Nyah (Room 4), Shanae (Room 5) and Briar L (Room 6) Well Done! Overall it was really fun and really crazy.

By Holly

Friday

On Friday we had Mrs Stevens teach us how to knit, weave, and plait.
I learnt how to knit, weave and I did some plaiting.  Michaela and I were the only ones that knitted. 

Disco

Disco
Friday the 11th of  June the school disco!!! It has a food counter that has lollies, drinks, and glow sticks!!! Finally the dancing starts!!!people jumping and singing around wow it is so fun.Little people chasing after each other. What a rush!!! The light flashing everywhere. Music up full volume!!! Kids everywhere, and finally everyone leaves.

Hoteo North Cross Country

On Monday which was Queen's birthday there was a cross country  by the Hoteo North Hall.
And I live just across the road from the hall so we just walked over there.  I raced in the
under 10's.  We ran about a kilometre and I was the only boy.  I came 1st and I got
a spot prize which was ten dollars but it was fun.

Soccer/Hockey day

On the 21st of May years 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 went to soccer/hockey day at port albert soccer club. Tomarata, Touhoa and Topora sorted out some teams for the events. First the year 7 and 8 teams played hockey. There were 5 teams that participated. After getting some bumps and bruises we finished all the games and went off to get lunch from the tuck shop. Then the year 7 and 8 teams swapped around with the year 4,5 and 6 teams. Now the year 7 and 8 teams had to play soccer. We were better at soccer than we were at playing hockey and we won much more games. Everyone was tired after all our games and we met up at the grand stand and went back to school on the bus. It was fun!

By Luke. 

Speeches!!!!!

This term years 3 to 8 do speeches. Your speech has to be either informitive, entertaining or persuasive. My speech was about a high achieving New Zealander and I chose a very high achiever his name is Sir Edmund Hillary he climbed the enormous peak of Mount Everest everybody knows him. My favourite speech in our class was Michaelas she did hers on the Golden Pheonix it had a very exciting begining and it was persuasive and very entertaining.

By Holly

Our friend Corey

Our friend Corey.
c is for corage because he always had it.
o is for an outstanding running he would win all the races.
r is for the rough times and he's always been there for us.
e is for all the energy he had at races.
y is for the yodaling and bep boxing he did in class time

Corey was a really good friend to us and we miss him terabley.

By Cara and Michaela






























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coreys funeral

On wednesday we went to coreys funeral at snapper rock road albany. We took holly with us.It took us a long time to get there. We saw coreys coffin inside the car that held the coffins.We sat down on the floor and waited for everyone to get there.A lady stood up and talked about corey. Then we watched a slide show about him with crazy frog music.It had funny pictures of corey. At the end we all had to sign the book and let go of a balloon.It was a sad day.

Technology

The Year 7's have started their 6 week block of technoogy at Rodney College.  This term they are learning to work with fabric and wood.  Kiarn, Shannon, Hannah, Ethan and Korbin show us some of their wood masterpieces.

Rural Schools Sports Day

Remembering Corey

Today we talked and wrote about Corey who was sadly killed in an accident last Friday.  He was a very important classmate in Room 5 and we have many great memories of our times with him.  He will be remembered for his cheerful smile and the pleasure he got from his successes. He enjoyed joining in with all the activities the class did at school.

MAKING PAPER

At school some people in our class made paper. The people in our group were Tamsyn,Holly,Rebecca and Michaela. The colour we choose to do it was Violet. We had to make the pulp from recycled paper and put it in a large container with more water.  We used the paper sandwich makers to pick up a layer of pulp.  We turned it onto some cardboard and left it to dry.  Our paper turned out grey.

Fire Wise

Last Week Fire wise came to our school to talk about fire safety. They did a competition to see if anyone from our school could earn themselves a certificate. You had to hop out of bed (three chairs) and crawl to the door the older kids did the best. They did a puppet show everyone enjoyed it. I enjoyed the story about his dog the most.

By Holly

Mothers day plan!

For Mothers Day

I would make mum one boiled golden egg from the Giant who lives up the Beanstalk. I would also cook up the The Three little pigs. I will need to climb up the Beanstalk and steal the golden egg. I would ring up Little Red Riding Hood and get her to kill the The Three little pigs. I will give Mum crispy bacon with the boiled egg in bed.
By Holly

Tripping around

Tripping around on PhotoPeach

Anzac day technology challenge

On Friday the 23rd of April years 4, 5 and 6 did a technology challenge. We had to make a poppy as wide, tall and good looking as we can with a small stack of newspapers, some scizzers, 4 a4 pieces of red and black paper, 10 metres of tape and a ball of green string. We got ourselves into teams of five and was given about 45 minutes to complete our poppy. Once all the teams had finished the judges went around and got us to talk a little bit about our poppy and how we made it. There were lots of different designs: some were as high as the roof, some were 3D, some were small but high detailed and some were tall and wide. The judges decided on two "highly recommended" and one overall winner. The first highly recommended poppy was made by Briar Lomas, Eru Craig, Kiarn Couling, Olivia Crookshank and Claire Keven. Their poppy had string for a stalk and the flower was 3D. The second highly recommended was made by Finley Savage, Shanae Woolley, Briar Woolley, Ethan Tischik and Kiarnen Dudding. Their poppy was about 1 metre tall but it was quite high detailed. The winning poppy was made by Daniel Richards, Aimee Stevens, Luke Stevens, Holly Danks and Nyah Railey. Their poppy was quite big and was the widest poppy there. They also cut out all the green they could find in the newspaper and taped it onto the stalk.

 By Luke.                     

                                     

Anzac day technology

On Friday the 23rd the senior syndicate classes held an Anzac day

poppy technology challenge

 first we were given the materials we needed then we paired up into groups with two people from each class.next we started to plan our design.we had our red paper and started to cut out our pedals.the poppy had to be as tall and as wide as possible, but it actually had to look like a poppy.we had half an hour to make it. once everybody had made their Poppy's we all went out onto the deck and the teachers were judging.the winning team was Aimee, holly, Luke, Daniel and Nyah.


By  Jen  and  Rebecca

Anzac poppies

On Friday the senior syndicate had a technology  challenge to build a poppy with 20 pieces of newspaper, 10 metres of tape, 4 sheets of orange paper and one piece of black paper and a piece of string.

All the people got in to groups of five.
We all went off and started to make our poppy
they were all different as you can picture in your head.
To win best poppy you need widest and the longest
and the most important thing it has to look like a poppy.
The judges were Mr McNaughton, Mrs Salt and Mrs
Dunn.
The group that won did  have the widest it  did not have the  longest but it looked like a poppy the most.

By Larissa D Larissa C

ANZAC POPPY

Room's 4,5 and 6's did a technologgy chalange.We had to make a big and wide poppy. All we had was 10 merters of tape,20 sheets of newspapper,4 sheets of red papper,sissors,1 back papper. First we choose our groups of five.In my group there were Trent,Alexis,Jack,Max and me.We tired our poppy up to a pole so did most other people.The winning group was Amiee's group.The judges were Mr M,Mrs Salt and Mrs  Dunn.

Waitangi Trip

It was an early start for the senior classes as we boarded the bus and some cars ready to head to Waitangi.  We needed to be at the Treaty Grounds by 11.30 for our tour.  Mrs Brown and Ngati Kawa welcomed us and we set off to explore.  We listened to Ngati Kawa tell us about the legend of Tane and the forest while seated underneath a large shady tree. We viewed the large waka under cover and learnt how it was made.  We sat on the tree stump that was left after the tree was felled to carve out the waka.  We learnt all about Mrs Busby arriving at the beach and being welcomed by the Maori women and children.  We looked at the flags that fly from the flagpole on the grounds.  We explored the Treaty House and played games that the children in 1840 would have played.  It was a very informative visit and we all learnt a lot. It was time to do some exercise so we set off and found the Waitangi Mangrove Track.  Two hours later it was back on the bus and off to Oromahoe Marae, our accommodation for the night.  Aimee and Alaxis responded to the karanga for us and Mr McNaughten replied to the powhiri.  Next morning we were up early to csatch the 9.30 ferry to Russell.  While one group had a tour through Pompallier House, the rest of us had a swim in the harbour.  We checked out the church with the musket ball holes in the walls before heading back to Paihia and home.  What a great trip!!

Bike wise!

This term we have been doing Bikewise with Mr Watt.
First we did a practical test where we had to go on a track that Mr Watt made. The hardest part was weaving through the cones.  I only got 4 out of 12 which is not very good.
In class we did a written test.  Lots of people did really well.
The last test we did was the practical test again.  Lots of people passed quite easily, I got twelve points wich is the highest score you could get.

By Holly

making hot cross buns

MAKING HOT CROSS BUNS
INGREDENTS:

To make the yeast mixture

1 tsp of yeast

1/3 cups of warm water

1/2 tsp of sugar

Other ingredients:

2 cups of flour

½ cups of raisins

½ of warm milk

½ tbsp of mixed spice

1 beaten egg

20 grams of butter

½ tbsp of cinnamon

Method:

1.) Combine yeast, warm water and sugar together. Leave in a warm place until frothy.

2.) Then get a big bowl and add the dry ingredients and fruit. Make a well in the middle and pour the warm milk, melted butter, beaten in egg and yeast mixture.

3.) Mix well then turn onto a floured bench and knead it for 10 min.

Divide evenly into pieces and roll into buns.

4.) Place on trays till double in size (1 hour)

5.) Bake in preheat oven for about 20 min

6.) Then you eat them (yum)

and they are yum

by Cara

Room Fives Camp Cooking

Today we made spagetti bolognese to take on camp with us.
The ingredients were:

canola oil

onion

garlic

beef mince

tin tomatoes

water

oregano

diamond spaghetti

celery.

 

I was peeling the carrots and Jen was chopping them.

We put the mince in the saucepan and stirred it until it was no longer red.   We added the tomatoes,water,stock,salt and oregano.then we added the carrots and the celery.we stirred the extra vegetables until they were tender and no longer crunchy.we stirred them until the delicious concoction was complete.

By Jen and Rebecca

MAKING SUSHI

Room 5 are learning about Japan with Mrs Williams.
We are learning the language and we sing as well.

This time when she came in we made same sushi.  It was heaps of fun. We made vegetarian, tuna and salmon sushi.  We learnt how to say the ingredients in Japanese.  These are the ingredients:

gohan-rice           kyuuri-cucumber
nori-seaweed      stukemono-ginger
ninjin-carrot        supuun-spoon
sakana-salmon/tuna  nafiou-knife
su-vinegar            satau-sugar

Eeling

One dark  evening my dad and I went eeling. We went down to a friends house. I got five eels with my new line and we put them in the bucket.  It was awesome when the eel was hooked.  It rolled around like a crocodile.  It was difficult to get into the bucket because it was too big.  At home we gutted them, dried them and smoked them.  I took some to school to share with the class. 
By Jayson

Making sushi with Mrs Williams

Last Thursday Mrs Williams came to make sushi with us. It was really fun.

Things you need:

Grease proof paper,
Seaweed(Nori) ,
Rice(Gohan) ,
 Vinegar(Su),
Carrot(Ninjin),
Salmon/Tuna(Sakana),
Sugar(Satou),
Cucumber(Kyuuri),
Ginger(Tsukemono),
A knife(Naifu),
A spoon(Supuun)

Method:

First you lay down a piece of grease proof paper on a chopping board, then you put a piece of Nori on top. You then you have to lay down a 1cm layer of rice but leave a small line for sealing up later in the process.Next you put on sakana,(unless you want to have vegetarian)kyuuri and ninjin.Only stick them on down one end and make sure you spread out the vegetables so that the person who has the piece of sushi on the end gets some too. Once all of your fillings are on you can start to roll it up.
To roll it up you grab the end of the paper and roll it.When rolling tuck the paper under then pull it out. Repeat that until you're almost done. The little line you left when sticking the gohan on should still be there so that you can get some water and then press it down. And there you have it SUSHI!! 

Weet-Bix triathalon 2010

On the 21st of March the Weet-bix triathalon was held at Narrow Neck beach in Auckland. Seven people that go to Tomarata School participated in it. We had to get up at 5 o'clock and we left the house at 5:40. After a long car trip we arrived at the triathalon. The park was crowded because there were 2200 kids participating: The biggest Weetbix triathalon in history. After a race breifing we went down to the beach to start the first leg of the race. We had to swim about 200 metres and then run to the next leg of the race. We had to bike about 2 kilometres and then tag the runner so he could start the next leg of the race.We had to run about 1 kilometre before running to the finish where we got our gold medals. all the Tomarata kids did very well and all got at least top ten in their age groups. After the races we had time to have a rest and get our t-shirts signed by some mayor athaletes including Anthony Borok, Tony Woodcock and Temepara george.Then we had a raffle and went back into the cars for another long trip back home.

By Luke

ATHLETICS DAY

On the 17th of  March Tomarata School went to Centenial park for Athletics day. We competed in all the activities.
Michaela enjoyed the sprints Cara enjoyed the high jump and Holly enjoyed the relays. Tomarata won all three of the relays. 
The five and six year olds did activities like egg and spoon races and running races. Tomarata School did really well and we think that the whole school enjoyed it.

By Holly, Michaela and Cara

Japanese words we know

We have been building up the number of words we know in Japanese every week and now know many greetings, instructions and numbers.

Mangawai Beach Ed

On the 3rd of March Room5 and 6 went to Mangawai Heads beach to learn how to be safe in the water and sun. We met Nick and Raquel,  two life guards from two beaches in NZ. They told us how to spot a rip.  This is how: look for calm bits in the water and sometimes it has foam. We played some games in the water and on land and we had a great time.

Guitar with Mrs Coop

We are having a lot a fun with our guitars at the moment.  We  are starting to learn some rock songs.  I like The passenger and the The Blues orientation. 

Most of the people at our class have been playing for a year now and are getting pretty good.

But one of my friends have been playing for only two weeks.
            



By Shane and Jason

                               ACTIVE LEARNING CLASS

Every Thursday some people in our class go to an extra class called Active Learning class.  Every year the subject changes.This year we are focusing on inventions.
We studied Thomas Edison, a famous man who invented the light bulb.
Then we got a piece of pumice and broke a piece off it.Then we tried to break particles up into smaller particles.We did it before we broke through the sheet.
Then we discussed the atoms, neutrons and protons.
    

KIWI KICK

Every Thursday during our lunchtime Adam and Candice come to school and teach us about Kiwi Kick.  Kiwi kick is Aussie Rules Football.  They teach us how to hand ball it, kick  and dribble it.
On the second day they handed out the school bags.  In them  they had... Fliers, Lunchbox, Drink bottle and a Rugby ball in them. We hope to have even more fun with them.
By Shanae and Michaela.

200 metre challenge

On Friday 18th of February some students in Room 5 & 6 ( Years 6,7 and 8) went to Tomarata Lakes for the 200 metre swimming challenge. We had to mark 200 hundred metres of water with a bouy.  We were sorted into groups  by our age and gender.  We had to swim out to the buoy and back, under the watch of the adults in the water. Everyone made it without help or having to stop and we were rewarded with ten minutes free time in the water. It was great fun and everyone enjoyed it.  Thanks to Mr Macdonald for borrowing the kayaks for us to help us keep safe.

By Luke, Sean and Remo.

The Worm Farm!!!

The Worm Farm!!!

On Tuesday the 16th of February the new

room 5 class cleaned out the worm farm.

It was gross.  It was slimy because the news paper was wet.                                    

I got to put the worms pee in the milk bottles.  It was fun.
The girls were doing all the hard work

while the boys were cutting  the vine off the trellis.
Now the worm farm is up and running so please only put food
scraps in the green bin.

☺☻by Cara and Jen☺☻

Art with Mrs McCracken

We have been doing art on with Mrs McCracken.  We are doing vertical bar sketching, (up and down, down, sideways) rainbow sketching, circular sketching, oval sketching and puddle sketching. We are starting to sketch pictures of possible carvings. The art has been fun but sometimes challenging. We have been progressing quickly. There are are still many stages to go though.So come back soon for our next update!!!!!!!!! ☺ ♣ ♠ ♥ ♦