Tokos Tamarin

2010's Big Day Out

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We all went through to New Plymouth, 45 minutes drive north, for a great day at the Aquatic Centre. Mums, Dads, Grandmas and Grandpas, pe-schoolers and Aunties. we all had a super time in the inside pools with rope swings and hydroslides. The outside pools were used by the older children to formally show off their swimming skills. The diving pool was a favourite to the very end!!
Click over to our 'Writing' page to read all about the best bits of the day.

Term 1, 2010

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Term 1 has gone so quickly.
Swimming has been a big focus.
We had interschool swimming sports in at the Stratford covered pool.
We are going to the Aquatic Centre in New Plymouth for the day on Friday the 19th March. The whole school goes.

The Arts - Drama/Speech

2009-06-16T16:01:00.002+12:00

In June we went by bus to Midhirst to join four other schools in a "Junior Play Day". We saw the five, six and seven year olds from all the schools in plays like "The Three Little Pigs", "Maui and the Sun.
We put on our own play called "The Living Museum" We dressed up as famous people. All of us made our own speeches about the life of our famous person and what they were famous for.

We love to dance!!

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Room 1s School Garden

2009-06-16T11:04:00.003+12:00

In early Summer, we made a vegetable garden in the lawn area by our school hall.
Mr and Mrs Coupe brought us some 'hay manure' from their calf pen to help our veges grow.
Mrs Hinton brought us some old silage to dig in. Our soil was nice and rich!!
FIRST we planted potatoes, carrots, corn, beans, silverbeet and radishes.We planted Marigolds all around the edge.Everything grew like mad! We had 15 breadbags of potatoes. We each took some home.
Next we planted Winter veges.We have red cabbages, green cabbages, kale, silverbeet, celery, cauliflower and broccoli growing. We will take some veges home to cook and eat at the end of term.
Soon we will do Spring planting.

Cicadas

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We look all around us in the playground and find things to ask questions about.

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Bore da Cwrtnewydd School, sut ydych chi.

Writing in Room 1

2009-04-28T13:03:00.003+12:00

We are doing kiwi stories with sound words.
A kiwi goes eeeeeeek! by Alex
A kiwi egg goes krrrraaak! by Heather
A kiwi goes sssshhp! when it eats a bug.by Molly
A kiwi goes chchchch when its walking in the leaves.by Rowan

Alex made a movie of his own.

2009-04-28T08:08:00.004+12:00

Alex wanted to make a movie. He put on his green 'thinking hat' and planned the story. He brought his Lego men from home and used the writing sand tray as his background. He used the camera all by himself to take the photos just the way he wanted them.

Our topic "Save Our Seas"

2009-04-07T08:32:00.005+12:00

We have been doing an inquiry into the oceans and seas.We would like to share our experiences. We can talk about the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean. We like to talk about the tide and the creatures in all parts of the ocean.We can draw and talk about the water cycle.
We learned the song "Toheroa Twist". We would like you to see our dance.
The little character in our dance is called "Flat Stanley" He has come to visit us from America. We are going to send him back with lots of photos of the things he did on his holiday with us.

2009-03-31T12:02:00.002+13:00

On Monday we had athletics day. We had games to play to win by Julia
On monday it was athletics . I like the high jump. Rowan.

Monarch Butterflies

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The biggest thing we learnt was that they have a beautiful life cycle.
They turn into a caterpillar after the egg
It finds a place to hang on, then it sticks on a leaf with its BUTTON. It turns into a j shape.
They turn into a green chrysalis, then they go black and hatch.Then they put their legs up and hang upside down. They pump up their wings and flutter.
Eleanor writes I loved the beautiful chrysalis.
Heather writes My favourite bit of the life cycle is when the chrysalis cracks.
Alex writes I like it when the caterpillar pops out of the egg and eats and eats and eats.
Emma writes I really liked putting the Monarchs outside. You put your finger under its chin and put it out on a leaf.
Molly wrote My favourite bit is when the caterpillar goes into a chrysalis and then it goes black.
Maz wrote My favourite bit is when they spread out their wings.

February - The Swimming Month

2009-03-08T15:00:00.002+13:00

We swam every day in February. One day we were even swimming in the warm rain. It was fun.We have had our swimming sports at the pool in town to end the swimming season.

2009-01-28T15:27:00.005+13:00

We finished 2008 with lots going on. we took part in the whole school musical 'Rats'. We made papier mache masks of 'army rats' and sang and danced in them.
We took part in the Stratford Christmas Parade with a Toko School Float. The theme was 'Winter Wonderland'.
We looked after our school garden which has flourished and is now all ready to eat!!

Our School Garden

2008-11-24T13:14:00.002+13:00

This term we are investigating what it takes to grow the vegetables we see on the Food Pyramid.We have asked "What is a seed?" and looked at all different shapes and sizes of seeds through our digital microscope.We have asked "What does a vegetable need to grow well in a vege garden?" We have created a vege garden by the school hall. We've talked about compost and dug lots in. Mrs Hinton brought us some old silage from home to make our soil REALLY rich.

Camp Week

2008-11-23T12:43:00.005+13:00

For the next week all the Year 7 and 8s will be away on their camp. We will have the WHOLE playground!! But we will be doing lots of things outside the classroom ourselves. Starting with Monday - we are all off to Stoney Oaks in Inglewood where we will see lots of different animals and birds.We will be able to pet lots of them and feed some too.
Tuesday we are going to Earney's organic farm. We will make a slideshow of all the animals we will see. Donkeys and their babies, peacocks,pigs and piglets,all different breeds of hens and chickens,Molly the Fox Terrier, goats and kids,geese and goslings.
Wednesday we are going out to Tututawa to Mackie's deer farm to learn all about antlers and velvet harvesting.
On Thursday we are going to Weirs dairy farm and then to Smiths sheep farm. We will see cows milked and sheep shorn.
On Friday we will do all sorts of activities at Smiths farm. They even have a lake with kayaks.

Calf and Lamb day

2008-11-23T11:03:00.005+13:00

Calf and lamb day at the beginning of term 4. We do a lot of work at home feeding our lambs and really getting close to them so that we can do well in the leading and calling competitions

Hall of Creativity

2008-11-23T10:48:00.004+13:00

Each year on Calf and Lamb Day, we make art works to display in our hall. This year we are making salt dough wall hangings, Room 2 children are making Miniature Gardens,Room 3 children are doing Vegetable creatures and Room 5 are presenting flower arrangements in unusual containers. You can see more pictures of these on the school website.

Room 1 Computer Skills

2008-09-22T13:14:00.005+12:00

Every week in Room 1 we have special computer skills for an hour and a half.We learn to log in, use word, import, borders,fonts,saving. We really love working with Mrs Cole who shows us all the neat things to do. We all have a skills folder with all our things in it.Heather, Jaylee,Conor, Shaan,

Toko Kids Support Team

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Our mums and dads and nanas and grandads come to cheer us.by Charlie and Emma

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I went to cross country. I came 10th. Brendon came second. We had fun.We went on the
bus back to school.SHAAN and CONOR

Cross-country at Rawhitiroa School

2008-09-22T11:15:00.008+12:00

We went on a bus. It was a hot day. The 6 yr olds went to the line. I came 2nd.
and Rowan came 4th. It was a hard race. We went back on the bus to school. Brendon and Rowan.

The Crusty Demons by Shaan (7)

2008-09-15T11:59:00.004+12:00

We went to Camerons' house and we went eeling with Raymond and I was wearing Raymonds'
Crusty Demon clothes.

2008-09-14T19:29:00.000+12:00

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Our digital microscope.

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We can use our digital microscope inside and out. We look at all SORTS of things and make them come up on the computer or big screen. The best thing is live slaters and caterpillars because they move around like giants all over the wall of the classroom. We let them go when we've had a look. The microscope can come out of its stand and it is interesting to see what our gums look like when our baby teeth fall out at school!!

We take the microscope outside when we really don't want to disturb something, like the big weta that the Room 5 boys found in the bark. Its easier and lots of fun to draw what we see when its so BIG and up on the wall screen.

Magnets are fun.

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Science and technology

When we get the magnets or the digital microscope out we put on our 'white thinking hats' and share everything we know so far. Then we try to make up questions that will help us find out more.

We have boxes of magnets and we try out all sorts of things. We have learnt about their force and about their north and south poles. We make up lots of questions and make PREDICTIONS when we play.

About Us

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Room 1 is the New Entrant, Years 1 and 2 class of Toko School in Taranaki, New Zealand.
The school is situated 12 kms east of the nearest town, Stratford, on a road called 'The Forgotten Highway". The school lies in the Toko Valley between Mt Egmont and Mt Ruapehu.
We have 5 classrooms, a hall, a library and a wonderful adventure playground to play on. There are tennis courts and 2 rugby fields and an all-weather cricket pitch. We have a swimming pool with solar heating but we can really only swim in February! We bus into the BIG covered pool in Stratford for swimming lessons.
We have 16 children in our class. 7 girls and 9 boys.

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As each of us starts school here in Room 1, we work hard on the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet. When we know them all at random the whole class celebrates with a graduation cake.

August News

2008-08-31T14:16:00.006+12:00

With all the lambs and calves being born now, everyone has news of the ones they have selected for 'Calf and Lamb Day' next term. We will all be busy getting them ready to lead and to come when called.There is lots of art and floral work done for 'Calf and Lamb Day' as well and we will enjoy posting pictures of it all. The actual day is one of lots of laughs and fun. (often a bit of rain as well, but we don't mind) Here are a few pics from last year as we worked on floral exhibits.

July News

2008-07-27T14:53:00.004+12:00

We all had a good break over the holidays. We finished term 2 with community visits to Elizabeth R Rest Home and Toko Play Centre. We played instruments, said our poems,and showed pictures. The elderly people at Elizabeth R were very welcoming and asked lots of questions about school.We always love going to the Play Centre. we see friends and revisit all the activities we loved doing when we went there or to another Play Centre.
This term we are staight away organising for our Week 2 School Assembly responsibility.
We begin a Topic - Magnets. We will be learning all about 'White hat' Thinking.
Each week a different one of our fabulous school Learning Star characters will be larger than life in our room and will have a turn as 'Learning Star of The Week' so that we can really get to know each one up close and personal.
We begin the term with the letter 'Ee' as our first weeks focus for letter formation and sounds.
Come and see all the work we have done on 'Symmetry' as our first maths topic. We love creating shapes, butterflies, bears and our own self portraits using symmetry

2008-06-17T21:36:00.002+12:00

Kiwiana

2008-06-16T20:14:00.003+12:00

Our schoolwide topic this term has been 'Kiwiana'. We have looked at all those icons special to N.Z. Then, because the Olympic Games will start soon, we looked at the icons of China and compared the two countries.
We travelled to Midhirst on a big bus and put on a play about the N.Z. Olympic Team being in Beijing with all our Kiwiana on show.
At Midhirst the Juniors from 5 Rural schools all put on plays. They were all fun to watch.

2008-05-05T20:37:00.002+12:00

Sunflowers all grown up!!

2008-02-15T13:21:00.007+13:00

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2008 in Room 1

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We have all had a great holiday! We say goodbye and all the best to Morgan and Kerry who have moved through to Room 2.
We welcome Molly, Shaan, Julia, Joshua and Charlotte.
We have 15 people in our class
In maths we have made a pictograph to show visitors our numbers ( 8 boys and 7 girls )

Do you remember our sunflowers?
Watch the slider to see how they grew over the holidays.

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Our Mountain Walk

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We walked to Wilkies Pool.

We arrived at the Dawson Falls visitor centre and had something to eat and drink.

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Nathan from D.O.C. talked about all the birds and animals on our mountain.

Nathan from D.O.C. came to talk to us about the mountain.

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Our sunflowers have been planted.They are where the morning sun comes

Sunflower update

2007-11-07T12:58:00.002+13:00

Our sunflower plants are ready to be planted out. Watch this space for the 'Big Plant-out!!'

CAN YOU ESTIMATE HOW TALL OUR PLANTS ARE?

Harold Came To Visit

2007-11-07T12:37:00.002+13:00

We went into the Life Ed truck. We learnt about healthy living. Has the truck been to visit you?

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Having fun in our 'Tall Ship'

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We have enjoyed reading our "explorer" books and learning about their ships.

Explorers

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Explorers

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Our Inquiry into 'Explorers'

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We have begun building our ship 'The Explorer' We are going to fill it with all the things an explorer might have needed long ago.
Can you help us? What would an explorer have needed to take on board? What sort of person would an explorer need to be?

sunflowers update

2007-10-25T14:09:00.001+13:00

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Our sunflowers are getting really tall and bendy. They go outside during the day now. Soon they will be planted out into the ground. How will we keep them safe? What are all the dangers for a baby sunflower? We have learnt these words - seedling, nutrients,climate,cultivate,stake-out

Our Sunflowers

2007-10-19T08:18:00.002+13:00

Each week we are measuring our sunflowers. We are making a graph as we watch them grow.

Do you like sunflowers?

Our First Blog

2007-10-18T19:49:00.000+13:00

Hello from Room 1, Toko School in Taranaki. We are a class of 13 'Year 1 and 2' children, 4 girls and 9 boys.
Our school is on the 'Forgotten World Highway' which goes from Stratford across eastern Taranaki.
We are in the middle of beautiful, lush, green countryside with Mount Egmont/Taranaki looming in all it's glory over our playground to the west and Ruapehu looking majestic to the east.

We are growing sunflowers to plant out into the school garden. We have each put a seed into seedraising mix that has all the good things in it that a sunflower needs.