Cross country

On Tuesday we had school and interschool Cross country and we all enjoyed it

Stop hurting our planet!!

We are studying our earth and its problems. So we made posters on the problems and solutions. Here are some. 

Tech Challenge

On Friday Tumeke Tawa took part in a tech challenge with other schools and had to submit the entries.  See their work and the results at the  link below.

http://rotorua12.wikispaces.com/Tech+Challenge

Ball games

While the year sevens went to manual we went with Miss A and helped her with Room Kauri. We helped them to throw and catch and made puppets movies on responsibility using the iPad. We thought it was fun.

This was us on the astro turf throwing and catching.

20 Hour Famine Sleepover

On Friday night Miss Andersen organised a sleepover for the year 6 to 8 students who were doing the 20 hour famine.  We started the famine after eating our lunch and went through to 8am.  19 students stayed over including 2 of Miss Andersen's nieces.  We ate a lot of barley sugars and drank gallons of juice.  After school we got to have free time on the ipads, which we never get.  It was a lot of fun playing around with them.  We played a lot of games too in the dark.  Sardines was a favourite and Miss Andersen actually got to be a sardine by finding the people early.  We also played go home stay home in the dark.  Before it got dark Miss Andersen told us that our dinner was on the playground and she had made a barley sugar hunt for us.  The last activity we did outside was night orienteering, Mr Moyle had made clues and we had to figure out the clues to find the letters around the school.  When we found the letters we had to unscramble them to find out the message.  The message said I AM SO HUNGRY!  Ha ha ha Mr Moyle.  When we all came inside we got ready for bed and Miss Andersen put Madagascar 3: Escape to Europe on for us on the big screen while we snuggled up in bed.  It was really cool.  In the morning we were all packed and ready to go home for breakfast by 8am.  We hope that we raised a lot of money for the people in Bouganville.  Our 20 hour famine sleepover was a lot of fun and I hope we can do it again next year.

LIFE Education Thoughts

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Toondoo Comics

In Tumeke Tawa we found a new website that helps to create cool comics with ease.  We have tried them out to make bookmarks to help us learn some Chinese and Maori conversations.  We have learnt how to ask each other what our names are, what our ages are and how old we are.  We can also reply in both languages.  We are very proud of them.

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Leon's Homework Challenge

Leon brought his guitar to school for his homework challenge.

Maths

Mr Moyle taught us fun facts today.

09/04/13

We had fun reading, writing and watching the awesome road safety show on the 9th.

Respect

Room Tawa had lots of fun taking pictures of staff at school and using be funky. All the teachers got a copy of the photo to put up in their classes. Come and see them all in Room Tawa.
By Amy

Maths

Mr Moyle was teaching us about percentages today.
By Amy

Reading

When the year sevens are at manual we do cool reading with Room Kauri.
By Amy

Day One at Camp

Today we have had an awesome day at waimarino kayaking and playing in the adventure park. We also pitched our tents at Mclaren Falls. It has been an amazing day.

Tabloids Afternoon

What a lot of fun the students in Tawa had at the tabloids, the house colours were flying proudly and house chants echoing all around the school. The Tawa students were amazing role models for the younger students and encouraged them to give everything a go. Lets hope the house captains organise another event like this soon.

Buddy Reading

Year 6 students buddy reading with Room 1, we read with them every Thursday.
We buddy up with a child and read them Winnie The Witch and other books. They also read their books to us. By Cole and Sean

Desert fun

We have been making post card about the desert, they are finally finished. By Corban and Cole

The Tawa Shake

Postcards from the DESERT!

Today we made postcards pretending to be from the desert.

How do YOU like them?

Chinese dragon making.

We made Chinese DRAGONS! Out of nothing but paper, glue, scissors and stickers!

Maths PAT Testing

Today we had our maths PAT test and we certainly all enjoyed it! (Mostly)

Narwhal topic study

Tumeke Tawa is learning about the narwhal as part of our topic study of the Arctic circle. For a short movie about the narwhal watch the link below.

Tumeke Tawa's terrific reading

On Tuesday 26th February Tumeke Tawa did some terrific reading. The novels we are reading are the Silver Sword, Chinese Cinderella, Sea Robbers, The Cay and Fantastic Mr Fox. We have fun activities that make reading cool!

Photos

Today we had lots of fun taking great photos and making sure that they met the set criteria.

Animals

We had lots of fun learning weird and wonderful facts on different kinds of animals.

Chinese

Today we had our first chinese lesson. We learnt a bit about China and some language.

Topic Title Page Judging

Tawa had judging for topic title pages today. Well done Stevie who got awarded a gold award, Gene Silver and Caitlin and Lilly who shared bronze. It was tough to cast votes with all the outstanding pages.

Fantastic faces

Tumeke Tawa created amazing art of their faces with their names in the background. These are some of the finished creations. What do you think?

Tumeke Tawa Class Code

Guidelines we can all live by, written by the students of Tumeke Tawa. Thank you
Emma for the completed poster to use.

Beginning Our Portraits

This term we are working on portraits. They are still a work in progress, check back for the finished products later!

Welcome to Tumeke Tawa 2013

What a great start to the year we have had. We have put together a puzzle to find out our class name. We also learnt that if one of us is missing in Tumeke Tawa our class doesn't work; we are all equally important pieces of the class puzzle.