Thank You

Dear Parents, Whanau and Tamariki,
Thank you so, so much for a fabulous year of learning in Team Toru.  
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and an amazing holiday break!
Luv Mrs G

We've Been Elfed!!!!

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Team Toru are starting to get into the festive spirit!!!!
Here we are decorating our tree and creating some decorations :-)

Fun with Mo Willems

We have been reading Mo Willems' stories this week and having a great time celebrating his books!  Here is a wonderful website that your child may wish to visit...

A Special Performance

Today Team Toru went into the hall with the rest of Team 2 and 3.  We were invited to watch the Orchestra, the Choir and the Ukelele groups perform, led by Mrs Pearse.  Team Toru were super excited to watch these amazing performers.  When we got back to class we talked about all of the instruments we were going to play when we got a little older!
Well done to all of the performers and Mrs Pearse today.  YOU GUYS ROCKED!

Mask Story

Last week the Cat in the Hat's Reading Group read a story about making clay faces.  We decided that we would have a go at this activity, but use play dough instead... check out our wonderful faces that we made :-)

Poem of the Week

Today we read a poem about socks.  We love this poem!  We illustrated it and put it in our Poetry Books to share with our whanau over the weekend.
Here is Jade's wonderful illustrations!

Cape Kidnappers

We had the best time at Cape Kidnappers today.  Everyone had a wonderful adventure.  We loved sitting on the trailers behind the tractor, going into the sea and going over rocks.  Walking up to the gannets was hard work, but once we got there, we saw lots of beautiful gannets nesting.  They are huge birds :-)  Team Toru will never forget this exciting adventure!

Thank you so so much to all of those wonderful whanau that came along with us today and made our time so special!
You are AWESOME!!!!

Plus Ten

Another Maths Game to help you think about numbers to 100 :-)
Click on the image to go to the site...

What is the number?

Some place value fun for the weekend...
Click on the image to go to the site :-)

Problem Solving

Today Mrs Gempton gave us a mathematical problem that we had to work out...

There are 23 people at a cafe.  The tables sit either 5 or 2 people.  Each table is full.  There are 7 tables.

How many tables of 5 and 2 were there?

We worked with our learning buddies...
Check out our thinking...

Important Information!

Tena Koutou Team Toru Whanau.
We have our Community Consultation evening this Thursday 27th October.  This is an absolutely fabulous opportunity for all Mahora families.  Doors open at 5.15pm and our special speaker starts at 5.45pm.  
WE WOULD LOVE AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE TO ATTEND :-)

The speaker who will be starting the evening off at 5.45pm is Mark Osborne.  

Our Thinking

So what do we know?

 

Photo from Plastinography.org

People are not looking after the ocean.  Stevie-Lee

They are throwing rubbish all around everywhere.  Remz

Animals are dying because they are eating rubbish.  Jaz

Turtles can die by plastic because they think it is jellyfish.  Vintcent

People are leaving bags behind and are not putting them in the rubbish.  Jack

If this carries on, people won’t be able to go fishing.  Dylan

They drop their rubbish when they go to the beach.  Jaziah

Rubbish flies around and then it goes down the drains and into the river.  The river goes to the beach and then the sea and out to the ocean.  Jade

Rubbish is floating into the sea.  Brayden

It’s safe to eat fish now.  But if we keep doing what we are doing, the fish will die.  Vintcent

There will be no healthy food to eat.  Hemi

What do we want to know?

Why do people not pick up the rubbish when they see it?  Dylan

What if the animals have no teeth, how do they eat the rubbish?  Sammy

What happens if the animals eat the rubbish, but they don’t die?  What happens to them?  Ali

Why do the turtles think plastic is jellyfish?  Dylan

Why are people leaving their rubbish on the beaches and everywhere else?  Jaz

If people know about it, why don’t people go to the ocean and get the turtles that are very sick and help them live?  Ali

How does the rubbish get past the waves?  Dechlan

Where does the rubbish go if it doesn’t go to the ocean?  Dylan

Why do people put rubbish on the ground if they know it is bad for animals and they can die?  Ali

Why are the turtles not smart enough so that they don’t eat plastic?  Vintcent

Some wonderful wonderful thinking happening in Team Toru... some very clever questions too!

That Pesky Rat

We read "That Pesky Rat" by Lauren Child, which is the story of a rat that really wanted to be a pet.  Mrs Gempton set the task of creating a jumper for the rat... we had a class vote and these were our top 3!
Which one is your favourite?

By Jade

By Lucy

By Tom

We are in the Pink!

Welcome back for Term 4!  Team Toru are going to have a PINK MILK term!  We are learning about Lauren Child.  She is an author and is probably most well known for her Charlie and Lola stories.  Lola loves loves loves pink milk!  This morning we drank some pink milk and then talked about how we could have a pink milk term... our favourite and our best!  Each of us thought of some goals we could work towards this term...

Fun last day for Term 3 in Team Toru

Today was the last day of Term 3.  We have had an awesome term, and to celebrate, we decided to have a shared lunch with Team Wha!  Check out these happy faces...

Thanks for a fabulous term Team Toru tamariki... take care and enjoy the two weeks with your whanau :-)

Hastings Library Holiday Programmes

Check out these awesome activities happening at the Hastings Library over the school holidays.  Looks like fabulous fun...

The School Cross Country

Today we had the School Cross Country.  We were so very excited as we walked the track first thing this morning!  All of us had on our House colours and were ready to do our very best!  Congratulations Team Toru on a super effort today... Mrs Gempton is very proud of you all!