Community Gardens 2

Our gardening adventures made the local paper:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/south-waikato-news/106957231/students-get-green-fingered-with-gardening-lessons?cid=app-iPhone

Narrative writing

The class have been writing narratives, they were challenged to include narrative features - an orientation, a complication and a resolution, to use descriptive detail, some literary devices and the correct use of speech.

These were published using Book Creator.

Here is some of their completed work, click on the links to read the books created:

The Tokoroa Community Gardens

This term some of the class have been fortunate enough to be involved in a project between Raukawa and the Tokoroa Community Gardens, thanks to Jared Kennedy the Health Promotions Coordinator and Robyn Wolfe who works tirelessly at the gardens and has a wealth of gardening knowledge.

Every Friday they are taken down to the gardens by Jared and there under the expert tuition of Robyn, they are learning to grow vegetables - later in the year they will learn to use these vegetables in cooking lessons... 
Lots of new skills learnt: - starting with clearing and fertilising a patch of land, planting seeds and seedlings, discovering stinging nettle does sting and how to treat if you do have a close encounter with a stinging nettle, rake safety and last Friday - finding out what Yacon is and tasting it. 
All are shown below: 

Great Opening Sentences

The class are going to be writing narratives - so first up; how do author's hook their readers in?
During our visit to the Information Centre, we looked at  the opening sentences in a variety of books:

A great site to help with your Maths skills

Today I was contacted by the makers of this site - some great resources here to help improve your maths skills and understanding at home:
Especially useful for different ways to practice the speed and accuracy of your basic facts recall.

https://www.dadsworksheets.com/worksheets.html

The Anzac Competition

Every year at Tokoroa Intermediate there is a competition for the Anzac Trophy, it is awarded to the student who submits a piece of work that best demonstrates an understanding of events the Anzacs took part in during WW1.
 Hannah not only created a realistic Gallipoli character with links back to her South African origins, and wrote a great Remember poem from the point of view of a Nurse on a hospital ship at Gallipoli, but she also carried out a great Inquiry into a real Anzac soldier as part of our Walking with an Anzac study. She started with an artefact  and her subsequent research told the story that accompanied the artefact - in this case, a series of telegrams.
Her winning entry:

Remember Gallipoli Poems

To finish our Anzac study the class wrote Remember Poems: