Charlottes Web reading

For reading We are doing Charlotte's Web and we read our favourite part so far working on putting in expression and interest.  We also had to say why we liked this part of the story.

Foot Binding

We are reading a book called Chinese Cideralla. In the book she asked her Grandmother why her feet are so small she said when she was a little girl her feet got but into a tight bandage and her feet got really small. So that she could get married. we wanted to know more about foot binding in China. By Milla and Isobelle

Tawa 2014!

What a lovely, enthusiastic, good looking bunch of people in Tawa this year! We are going to have an fabulous year together.

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.

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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