What’s happening in Room 5        Term 3 Week 2 Update
Maths	We are all working on fractions for the next week or two. sharing equally, reading symbols for fractions, finding fractions of groups, using repeated addition to solve fractions eg 3+3+3+3=12 so ¼  of 12 = 3 Know the symbols for fractions and what they mean, Order fractions with the same denominator, use addition to solve fractions, know proper and improper fractions Find fractions of whole numbers eg ¾ of 24 = ? or ¾ of what is 21? Compare fraction sizes with whole numbers, 37/7 = 5 2/7 (improper fractions) Ratios 2:3
Writing	We are looking at simple poetry forms to help us build on our knowledge and use of figurative language. Figurative language is things like metaphors, similies, alliteration, onomatopoeia. We then move into speech board.
Reading	We are all working on comprehension activities. We are working our way through a variety of texts looking at all the strategies we use to help us when having to find information in a text. We have been talking about skimming, scanning, pictures, labels, thinking about the five w’s who what where why when and how. The key word.
Inquiry	Te Whenua (The land) we are beginning by looking at our school and personal pepeha. T This is helping the children to understand their connection to Toko or where they are from and why home and our place is important.
Kia Kaha	Every Friday at 11.45 Johno the Police Education officer will be in to run the kia kaha programme with the class. It is an anti bullying programme and you are more than welcome to join the sessions. PLEASE if you have any concerns about your children feel free to pop in and see me or if you prefer an email. As what I observe may not be the whole picture.
Technology	A new app is being trialed in the class. It is an online reading app. It is free for educators to use in the class so children should only be able to access this when at school. If you would like them to use it at home I can add your email to our class link and then it is free for you at home. Otherwise you can sign up to the parent one at home but that one costs you. I just haven’t give the students the choice of using it at home because it then means another security pin they have to remember, and most students have plenty of books to read at home.
Sports	This term is the school x-country so we will be out training most days. Sometimes it will be a run and sometimes we will play games that encourage fitness skills. X-country date is set for Friday 31 August. Rural Schools X-country is Thursday 6 September.
Production	The teachers are in discussions and negotiations around the school production. All will be sorted this term ready for rehearsals in Term 4.

Pepeha

Mrs Oliver's Pepeha

Ko Taranaki te maunga

Ko Urenui te moana

Ko Everett Park te awa

Ko Saxton Road te Kainga

No Inglewood au

Ko Megan Oliver tooku ingoa

We have been working on our Pepeha and Mihi during the holidays as part of our te reo learning. We have had a great professional development day building on our knowledge and understanding of Maori culture, tikanga and language.

We will be working with students to learn a schoolwide Pepeha that they can use when representing our kura (school).

Animal Reports

We have been working hard to finish our animal reports. We have been experimenting with different ways to present our information.
This is some of us hard at work on our ideas.

Rescue Chopper

Finally we are able to get photos on our site...Yay! Just a bit late but here it is.

Welcome aboard flight 505.
Destination Toko School.
Your flight crew today are Captain Leah and First officer Samara, and the cabin crew on board todays flight are Ella, Madison and Hayley,
We hope you enjoy your flight with us today. We have clear sunny skies ahead and a destination flight time of 6 hrs.
Sit back, relax and let the staff here at Air Toko take care of you.

Book Week

Here we are looking gorgeous for book week. It was so cool to see all the different costumes and the wide variety of characters from their favourite books.

Today we had to work with Mrs Oliver to complete our plan for our next piece of writing.
We were then given the opportunity to choose from a range of literacy activities. The whole class decided to make their mum's a card. Some students found some creative and interesting cards to make, others found some interesting verses they could use.
Would love to share the photos of us hard at work....but the computer won't let me. Waiting for I.T genius to sort it.

Room 5 Term 2

Room 5 Toko School STAR day

Welcome to term 2 in Room 5.

Thank you for my warm welcome to your school. It has been an awesome week getting to know your children and you.

Feel free to pop in and see us at any stage. We love an extra pair of hands...

It takes a while to set up a new class and get things up and going. Hopefully we will all adapt quickly to the changes, and be off and running. Please feel free to communicate through the homework book or email me.
meganoliver@toko.school.nz