Visiting Harold and Anne in the Mobile Classroom

Today Team Toru visited the mobile classroom.  Anne greeted us at the door and then we went inside.  We learnt about what our body needs to stay healthy.  Harold had gone for a morning walk and gotten lost, so he arrived a bit later on.  We are looking forward to visiting Anne and Harold again next week!

Art - Fireworks

On Friday we watched the fireworks from the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.  We noticed that the fireworks exploded outwards.  Using paint, we created our own fireworks.  Team Toru are looking forward to seeing the Opening Ceremony for the Rio Olympic Games.  I wonder if they will have fireworks too?

Welcome Back for Term 3

Tena koutou Team Toru whanau!  We have had a super first day back for Term 3.  Our brains are switched on and ready for learning.
Today we had a look at the new set-up of our room and chose our new seat for the beginning of the term... then the learning started!
We will be learning about what makes an Olympic attitude - how does someone get to the Olympics?  What characteristics do they need to be an Olympian?  But for today, we just thought about what we know about the Olympic Games - a new thing for all of the class who were not old enough to remember the games from four years ago!!!  Mrs Gempton had a huge torch in the middle of the room... I wonder what that is for?
We also did some fabulous mathematical thinking around number for our hotspot.  Check out the suggestions of how to make 12 on our board that we came up with :-)
Bring on the term!

Our Torch

Super Mathematical Thinking

Thinking maths with our buddies

A Reminder :-)

Hi Team Toru tamariki and whanau.  I hope that you are having an awesome holiday!
Just a reminder...

REMEMBER TO BOOK YOUR INTERVIEW FOR WEEK 2! 

These are happening on Tuesday 2 August and Wednesday 

3 August!  Visit the website now and book your time :-)

Here is the link for this...

www.schoolinterviews.co.nz 

Enjoy the weekend and I will see you on Monday!!

Happy End of Term 2 from Team Toru!

What an amazing Term 2 we have had in Team Toru!  Thank you to all of our whanau for supporting us in such a busy term.  

Have an amazing holiday break and we will see you all again in 2 weeks time!

Today we said goodbye to the wonderful Miss BT.  Have a wonderful time in China :-)

Hi there from Team Toru!  

 

A Super Hip Hop Group Visit Mahora

Today we had The Company NZ Dance Crew visit our school.  There were five members of the 30 strong group at our school today, who showed us some of their awesome Hip Hop moves.  This fabulous group of dancers are heading over to the World Championships in August over in Las Vegas.  Team Toru thoroughly enjoyed watching these wonderful dancers.  All the best for the World Champs later on in the year :-)

Sesame Street: Healthy Teeth, Healthy Me: Brushy Brush PSA

Te Wiki of Te Reo Maori

This week is Maori Language Week.  Team Toru are focusing on Maori Legends and today we read the story, Maui and the Sun.  The tamariki drew gorgeous suns... look at these :-)

Stem Day

We had an awesome day on Friday.  It was Stem Day... which means a day with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.  Team Toru moved around Team 2 classrooms in their FMS groups.  Some of us created tents, others made helicopters, others created codes, whilst still others made bridges.  Lots and lots of discovering!  We also made our own lunch... wraps with either chicken or ham, and carrot, lettuce and cheese.  Yum!