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Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Year 7 & 8 Manual

Yesterday the year 7 & 8 students went to Manual in Ashburton. It is being held at the Ashburton A & P Show Grounds because the old Manual building is re-done.

The Year 7's (Thea, Olivia, Kate, Annabel and Joseph) are half-way through making their Pewter Jewellery with Mr. Browne and are nearly finished their Wind Sock with Mrs.C.

Zabina and other Year 8's are making Polar Fleece Hats with Mrs.C. She is also making a Wooden Photo Album with Mr.Browne.

Olivia & Thea

Monday, 30 May 2011

Book week

Last week it was book week. Well done to all the winners of our dress up competition. All the children had wonderful costumes on - they all looked very real. Team Toroa made Business Cards for our book character and put them on the wall.  We had to come up with a slogan for our character.
We hope all parents liked the parade that we put on for them. The best part about it was the cat walk.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Nicholas Johansen-Smith and Timothy Bassett    

          

Thursday, 26 May 2011

Dress up Day

On Thursday 26th May, Dorie School dressed up as their favourite book character.  Mrs Townshend dressed up as a pirate from 'The man whose mother was a pirate', Ms Reader dressed up as Casper, Miss A dressed up as Pippy Long Stockings, Ms Walls dressed up as the BFG and Mrs Benny dressed up as Harry Hobnail from 'Pungapeople'.  We had a parade in the morning to show off our costumes (and great modelling skills!) It was a fabulous day!!
Suzie

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Preschool Buddy Reading








Was your choice of picture book appropriate for the Preschool?
What made it appropriate or inappropriate?

Mrs T was very proud of you all Team Toroa!  You were great caring leaders!  Well done :)

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Cross country

On Tuesday 17th May Dorie and Rakaia school did cross country. Dorie mostly won all of the races. It was a fun day. The junior were lucky because they only ran around the rugby field and up the hill. 


By: Harriet Smith and Mohammed Faiz

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Super Speedy Dorie Runners!

Yesterday, Dorie competed against Rakaia School for Cross Country. All the Dorie students ran hard out - the training that they had done helped a lot.
Many students from Dorie got good placings in their races.  It was good to see Dorie people cheering for our fantastic runners.
Keep an eye out for us at the Counties...

From Zabina & Annabel

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Cross Country

We have Cross Country today!  All the best Team Toroa!!! Run your hearts out!!!
Mrs Townshend

Monday, 16 May 2011

Timothy and Clarks Prezi

Timothy and Clarks Prezi

Harriet and Faiz hard work

Harriet and Faiz's Transport Timeline
Hamish & Tomas's prezi

we have worked on this for ages and finnaly we have finished
horay, though the computer spoke at us and then a few minutes later it died

Tomas & Hamish

Suzie's transport timeline


I did this Prezi on my own.  I put two videos from YouTube on.

Prezi Transport Timeline

Kaitlyn and Georgia's Prezi Timeline

Prezi

The Year 5/6's are doing a great job at problem solving while using a new online presentation tool. We are presenting the most life-changing transportation modes in Prezi.  Keep an eye out for them on the blog...

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Smartwords

Smartwords Group J had some trouble today unscrambling sea creature words.  The rest of the class tried to help but we are still stuck on two.  Can you help solve these scrambled words?
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Learning how to insert photos

Team Toroa are practicing inserting photos into our blog!  Hopefully you will see more of our gorgeous faces more often :)

Monday, 9 May 2011

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Hook The Movie

Today in AVAILLL we watched Hook.  We watched a funny part where the Lost Boys teach Peter Pan how to fight and get his imagination back.  We had to read the subtitles and look for words that came after 'with'.  We got put into teams and we will find out soon which team won! Olivia was our special winner, (wild card) so she will be on the winning team no matter what!
By: Harriet and Faiz



Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Term two reading

This term team toroa is doing a new reading style.We watch a movie with subtitles then Mrs Townshend pushes pause and we have to remember the last subtitles that we saw. On Tuesday we had a practise, most of us got two - three out of five. That is pretty good. The movie that we are watching this term is Hook. We think it is very exciting.
Georgia

New iPad

The Dorie School have been spoilt and have now got a new iPad 2! Team Toroa are very lucky to receive the iPad and everybody is wanting a turn on it. It arrived in class on the 3rd May; and has many cool features, like a built in camera, and is lighter and skinnier. 

At the moment, Mrs Townshend is downloading other features and games, and is exploring what other awesome things she can use for teaching us. 


Written by Zabina & Annabel

Monday, 2 May 2011

The school holidays

We just had the school holidays. We had a exciting time. This morning we had news of what we did in the holidays. Some people went overseas and around New Zealand.  Some people went to their friends places. Mother and Aunties had babies.  We started our class routine already from the holidays.  This morning we got to have look at our homework and see what awards we go - gold, silver and bronze. 
Come and check them out in Room 4 - they are displayed on the walls.
 By Timothy Bassett and Nicholas Johansen-Smith