Science - observing skills

In Science we are learning to observe closely - to notice details, such as body parts, jointed legs, antennae...

Science - Classification and Candles

In Science so far this year, Room 10 have looked at the Material World; where we explored the 3 States of Matter and found out what a candle needs to burn and some of the changes that take place during burning.

Now we are learning about the Living World and Classification. (Taxonomy is the science of classifying things.)  We have learnt how the animal kingdom is grouped and we are now focussing on Arthropods - Spiders and Insects. 

Here we are observing a variety of  exotic creatures and deciding whether they are spiders and insects by their specific features: 

Greek Mythical Creatures - Information Reports

As part of our Reading and Writing this first half term, Room 10 learnt how to write Information Reports. They each had to select a Greek mythical creature to write about. Information was gathered and put into their own words, myths were retold, all using the correct structure for an Information Report ....here are the finished products.

Ko tatou Room kotahi tekau

In November Room 10 will be going to stay at Papa O Te Aroha Marae - so they have plenty of time to learn their pepeha and a whakatauki to deliver there...


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McDonald's Tokoroa

We are very luck at Tokoroa Intermediate to have our weekly awards sponsored by our local McDonalds branch. A Big Mac gets awarded in each class - each week. If you do the maths that works out at $1320 worth of burgers. We appreciate it Mr and Mrs Byrne.

The Social

The first school social for 2015 is on tomorrow night - if you've behaved well and had good attendance over the past two terms you get an invite.
Good music and good fun and some dancing too...

The Social has been and gone - a great turn out Room 10, 23 of you attended and you all seemed to have a pretty good time too.

Gallipoli Diaries 2015

Over the past 6 weeks Room 10 have been learning about Gallipoli and the events that took place there 100 years ago. They have written Diary entries to show their understanding of the landing and life at Gallipoli in the days that followed. 

Room 10 also learnt that Diary's contain both factual information and thoughts and  feelings and their diary entries had to include these.  

It was fitting that Hunter's family shared a WW1 Diary and  Army pay book with the class too.