Last day of school!

I have organised a really cool activity for us to do on our last day at school!

I will tell you more on Monday....

Inclined Plane

Reporters: Joseph

Georgia's Photopeach

Georgia's Photos on PhotoPeach Reporters: Georgia

Meet Georgia

Reporters: Georgia

Snail Bob 2

On this game you have to get to the tunnel with out getting killed by caterpillars

snail bob 2

Rating 4/5

It get's harder so beware if you think it is easy because it will get harder

By Georgia

Friction

Reporters: Suzie and Kaitlyn

Robot discussions

Reporters: Tomas and Juan

Team piwakawaka Calendars

Team Piwakawaka on PhotoPeach

Team Toroa's Calendars

Check Out Team Toroa's awesome Calendar Art!

Team Toroa's Calendars on PhotoPeach

Room 2 calendars

Room 2 calendars on PhotoPeach

Ninja Painter

Ninja Painter

You should check it out and you must start on level 21 because it is harder.

You have to get the bottle of paint then collect the colour you choose.

This game is great to have some fun but sometimes it gets frustrating.

Rating: 9/10

Science Roadshow

By Tomas and Hamish

Elections

Team Toroa news report

Kate's Voki

Livi Live

Reporter: Olivia

Thea Times

Reporter: Thea

Agrikids 2011

Agrikids 2011 on PhotoPeach

Reporter: Joseph

Team Toroa's news

Annabel's Voki

Dress Up Day at Dorie

Dress Up Day on PhotoPeach Check out our awesome costumes!

Our Classes

Reporters: Timothy and Juan

Our Classes

Our Classes on PhotoPeach

Science Experiments: Bigger, Faster, Stronger!

Science Experiment on PhotoPeach Reporters: Harriet and Clark

Canterbury primary intermediate tournment

On the 11th -13th of November I had a tennis tournment in Lincoln. Well this is where it starts on Friday, I was supposed to have three games, but guess what it was to windy and the ball just went flying over my head all the time. In the end they decided to delay play until Saturday, so I only got to play one match and I won 9-3. After play was delayed, we went to the cafe down the road. I got a juice and a pie, it was YUMMY! On Saturday the 12th of November I got up early and guess what? They called it off because it was pouring down. I was so bored with no tennis. Then finally on the Sunday it was beautiful. It was really warm and sunny and I got to play four matches. My first singles match I won 9-3 then in the final I won 9-2. Then it was time for doubles, I was all ready and set to go! In the semi final we won 9-7 and in the final we won 9-8 (7-4). I almost forgot, my doubles partner was Erin Connelly-Whyte. We had a awesome time.

Jigsaw by Harriet

JIGsaw12 Please reset the puzzle when you have finished it. Reporter: Harriet

Science Alive

Reporters:Hamish and J.J.

What does Dorie School need most

Reporters: Joseph and Timothy

School Rules Quiz

Reporters; JJ and Clark

Meet Ms Walls

Reporter:Harriet

Quiz on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Reporters: Hamish and Lydia

School Photos

SMILE!!! Get your best smile on - ready for School Photos on Wednesday!!

Interesting places around the school

Interesting Places Around Our School on PhotoPeach Reporters: Lydia, Georgia

Tennis Teams

Reporters: Clark and JJ

The Band

Reporters: Hamish and Lydia

Meet Ms Reader

Reporters: Tomas & Timothy

Reporters: Georgia and Kaitlyn

Bigger, Faster, Stronger Quiz

Reporter: Suzie and Juan

Meet Mrs Townshend

Reporters: Kaitlyn and Georgia

Jigsaw by Lydia

jigsaw10 Guess what part of our school this is? Leave a comment below to tell us.

Please remember to scatter the pieces for the next person.

Reporter: Lydia

Olivia & Annabel's Jigsaw

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Where in Dorie School is this? Leave your answer below in a comment.
Make sure you reset the Jigsaw after you have finished!

What activity/day should Dorie School do next?

Authors: Olivia & Annabel

Be Sunsmart!!

Reporters: Olivia & Annabel

Swimming Safety

Reporter: Thea & Kate

Juan's jigsaw

                  

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Reporter: Juan

Jigsaw by Tomas

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Interviews

Reporter: Georgia

What is your favourite type of art to do at school?

Reporters: Thea & Kate

Agrikids

What does Dorie School most need?

Reporters: Joseph and Timothy

Car Safety!!

A strange find

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/5916913/Man-pays-off-mums-1954-parking-ticket Check out this strange article about this mans find of an 1954 parking ticket! By Olivia

Team Toroa's science Investigation

As part of our machines topic, Team Toroa has decided to do a science investigation involving pulleys. We are trying to measure how much force used to lift a 1 litre bottle of paint 40 cm off the ground. Then, we measure how much force after we change the amount of pulleys we used.

But we have had a little bit of trouble getting two pulleys to work...

Prize Giving

Reporter: Kaitlyn

Georgia's Jigsaw

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Jigsaw by Kaitlyn

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What is your favourite day at Dorie School?

Reporters: Harriet and Juan

How should our school raise money?

Reporter: Suzie

Jigsaw by Clark

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Jigsaw by Hamish

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What does Dorie School need most?

Reporter: Tomas and J.J.

Science Road Show

Reporters: Clark and Hamish

Teamwork

Author: Timothy and Joseph

Book Review, Gone

Gone by Michael Grant Gone is a story about a small town in California where one day everyone fifteen and over disappears. Without the BOOM! or the BANG! They just disappeared, POOOFED. But it's not all fun and games for the survivors. As a small but powerful group takes over the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone) the question is; is it for the right reasons? Gone is a MUST read series. A story where loyalties and responsibilities are tested. For anyone who loves The Hunger Games and Tomorrow When The War Began you will definately and completely love and admire Gone. Suitable for kids 11 and over. By: Thea

Puzzle 3

Jigsaw by JJ

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Georgia and Kaitlyn poll

What school subject are you best at?

Reporters: Clark and Hamish

Swimming Safety

Reporter: Thea & Kate

Car Safety

                                        by Juan.    3\11\11

Road Safety

Reporters: Tomas and J.J.

Leadership

Taking pride in... by Timothy

Taking pride in...by Juan

Taking pride in... by Clark

Taking pride in.... by Harriet

Glowtxt

Wow guys love the glowtxt! You did a great job on Monday with Carol :)

Taking pride in.... by Lydia

Taking PRIDE in..... by Georgia

Taking pride in... by Tomas

Taking pride in... by Hamish

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Athletics

On the 26th of October 2011 we are having Athletics at Rakaia school. We are all excited to compete and a little bit nervous. We are competing in Discus, Shot Put, Sprints, Long Jump, High Jump and Long Distance Running. We have been practising hard. In the morning we practise Discus, Shot Put, Sprint, High Jump, Long Jump and in the afternoon we practise Long Distance. We are also waiting eagerly for that day to come. Thea

Last Term!

The holidays have sadly come to a close and we are back at school again! But this is no ordianairy term, this is the last term of the whole year! It's going to be a rather short term though with only 7 and a half weeks! Our short term will include Athletics, Prize Giving and many other exciting events. The holidays have brought many exciting things including the winning of the Rugby World Cup 2011! Finally after 24 years the All Blacks have regained the Web Ellis Cup by defeating France 8-7. Hopefully this term will be as exciting as the last! Olivia

Liver Song

Term 3 Homework

Term 3 Homework on PhotoPeach

Random Riddle

What always sleeps with it's shoes on?

Guess Who

We have been writing descriptions about each other in Team Toroa. Can you guess who this is? This person is a new person in Team Toroa. He has recently moved to Dorie school. This person has short brown hair it has Lot's of waves. He has brown eyes he often wears a blue vest and he wears a bright blue watch and a bracelet. He has blue pants with white sneakers. He plays rugby in the winter he is quiet fast he likes sport. He is not from New Zealand he is from Argentina he talks different languages. He acts happy all the time. He likes to play on the computers like motor bike games and dune buggy or playing games. He is a great member of Team Toroa and often us come up with creative ideas.

By Georgia and Kaitlyn

Pet day

On Thursday the 29th of September we had a pet day. There were lots of kinds of animals there. There were sheep, lambs, calves, cats, chooks, rabbits, dogs, ponyies, and even Lego pets! There was also edible pets, flower saucers, and also pet photos! We had a b.b.q and they sold lots of patties and sausages and there was also a prize jar of lollies that you could guess and you could win the jar. There was 190 lollies in the jar.

Ice Cream

Ice Cream

After scooping the freezing ice delicacy it made my mouth water and want, no need for more. Feeling the antarctic iciness my mouth becomes a frozen igloo. It’s hypothermic temperature distributed to it’s sweet and tender flavour. It’s luscious colours not only blended but clashed, like two tidal waves becoming one. Tasting this upmost luxury is one of the most treasured moments anyone can have.

By: Thea

Ice Cream!

Ice Cream

I love gobbling down the sweet, creamy and freezing vanilla goodness. It drips slowly down my fingers and numbs my frozen teeth. I nibble on the sweet golden cone and try to savour every drop. The coolness gives me such pleasure on a scorching hot summer day. I draw the delicious flake out of its white fluffy dream and plop it into my watering mouth. This delicious treat is definitely the best ever snack in the world!

By Olivia M

Random Riddle

WHAT AM I?  Take me out and scratch my head.  It is black, but was once red.

Random Riddle

There was a cat in the middle of the road and there were no street lights on and no house lights on.  A car came whizzing down the road then swerved around the cat.  How did he know that the cat was there?

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official

We have started our new topic bigger, faster, stronger. This is another clip we have discovered, and is all started

by a simple push!

Kate and Suzie

Honda - The Cog

We have started our new topic - Bigger, Faster, Stronger.

Last week we watched this clip. It is a chain reaction started by one little cog. It has lots of simple machines in it.

How to add a photo

How to add an image from Google
Step 1:  Find an image that you want to import
Step 2:  Right click on the image
Step 3:  Save it to the desktop (remember to delete it later!!)
Step 4:  Click on photo symbol
Step 5:  Choose the right picture
Step 6:  Add picture
Step 7:  DONE and delete photo from desktop!

Random Riddle #1

What is the same size as an elephant but has no weight?

The Hunger Games

Recently, for reading the Yr 7's have been doing a literature circle to the book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Each Wednesday they have the Literature Circle meeting.This is when they share their work they have done about the Hunger Games. Each time we read a couple of chapters and then do the sheet. Each person has a job they do for example, Connector, Passage Picker, Discussion Director, Word Master, Illustrator and Summariser.

The Yr 7's are really enjoying the book and can't wait to finish the book and read the rest of the series.

Annabel

P.E.

Dorie school is now doing P.E. options. The options are: Skiing, Squash, Gymnastics and Golf. We do it every tuesday for 4 weeks.

The Skiers go up to Mt Hutt for either a day or half a day. Weather permitting of course!

For Squash they go to the Rakaia Domain Squash courts. They go for half the day.

The Gymnastics is up in Christchurch at the Olympia Gymnasium. They are up there for half the day.

The Golf is held at the school and then at the Rakaia Golf course. They do it for half a day.

We are all having a great time and we enjoy having the opportunity to have a fun day out of school!

Olivia & Thea

Listening Dock

Team Toroa have a new listening dock.  We are going to be listening to some chapter books at reading time!  We have a small adaptor that can take 5 headphones at once.  We all have our own set of headphones.  We are so lucky!!

Winter Tournament

Team Toroa are practicing really hard for the Winter Tournament, which will be held at Argyle park on the 11th of August.

We were split into 2 groups, one is the  year 7's team which includes Joseph, Annabel, Olivia, Kate, Hamish, Georgia and Thea. 

 The other one is the year 5&6's team where they have Kaitlyn, Tomas, Suzie, Clark, Juan, Harriet and Timothy. 

We are all nervous and excited about the up coming tournament. We all wish to win so I'm pretty sure that we're all going to do our best.

 

Thea

Holidays Are Over!

Over the holidays the students of Team Toroa got up to some very exciting things. Some people had a holiday in Hamner Springs or even went Sky Diving! Im sure everyone had something very exciting happen to them over the holidays, whether it was family visiting or meting up with old friends.

Lots of us are excited to be back at school and to see all our classmates again. Lets hope we have a fantastic Term 3!!

Olivia

Super Spellers

On Wednesday 6th July, the Yr 7 & 8s went to the Extra! Spelling Quiz at Timaru Boys High.  The two Dorie Teams were Annabel, Olivia & Zabina, and Kate, Thea & Joseph. 
The questions included fixing spelling, spelling words, mystery words, and other challenging questions.
 Some of the tricky spelling words were  words like raucous and synagogue - did you know how to spell them? 


Team One of Dorie (Olivia, Annabel, Zabina) scored 84%, and Team Two (Kate, Thea, Joseph) scored 83%. 


It was very much enjoyed by the Two teams of Dorie and the parents and teachers  enjoyed it too. 
A competition about Current Events will be coming up as well and Mrs T is keen on entering us in as well.
We would love to  go next year and maybe that time we could go for gold and get that gold medal...


Annabel

Sealed drive way

Fulton Holgan have been sealing and fixing the entrance and car park to Dorie School.  When we walk out to the bus you can feel your feet sinking into the dirt.  It has been compacted so it almost looks like concrete already.  We are waiting excitedly until it will be sealed - until then we will have MUDDY feet!

Timothy and Juan

Christchurch Museum Visit

Last Tuesday the Christchurch Museum came for a visit. They told us about the Charlotte Jane ship, and how they dressed up. It was really interesting learning about them. They also taught us about how fast sickness could spread on the Charlotte Jane, they had a real cool game about it. We had to pretend to be sick in a bucket and pass it on.
Tomas

Spelling Bee

Tomorrow the year 7 and 8s are going to Timaru for a spelling bee. They have been practising for the last month. They are going to compete with all the schools in Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury. It starts at 6:30pm  and goes till 8:00pm so they won't be home till about 9.30. 
Dorie school wishes them all the best for tomorrow and hope you get a placing.
Kaitlyn and Georgia

AVAILLL

At the moment for Availll we are watching Bridge To Terabithia. On the first day we did Take a dictionary to the movies. For that we are in groups and we have a letter each. The student assistants would pause the movie and then they would call out a letter. The persons who's letter was called out would look up the hardest word on the screen in the dictionary. The next activity was surprise subtitles. The student assistants pause the movie and we have to write down the subtitle we last saw on the screen.
We will be finishing Bridge To Teribithia this Thursday.

By Kate B

New library books

Today we got our new library books. There were lots of interesting ones. Mrs Townshend got them out for us. We each had to choose one book. I chose Sam Silverthorn, I still haven't started the book yet. There were lots of different types of books, funny ones, scary ones, serious ones, and lots of other ones.  We are all looking forward to personal writing time.
Tomas

Earthquake poster

We decided to make a earthquake poster when Miss Mac was teaching us on Wednesday and Thursday. We got pictures off the Internet - Christchurch looked very bad with the liquefaction. There was a picture of a mercedes suck in liquefaction. We feel really sorry for all of the people in Christchurch.
Georgia and Kaitlyn

On Shaking Ground

Recently, Canterbury has been feeling some more aftershocks. On Monday 13th June at 1.00 there was a 5.5 magnitude aftershock/earthquake felt by some of the students at Dorie School. At that time, the YR 7 & 8's were at manual and also felt the shake.
Following the 5.5, there was a 6.0 magnitude shake as well. The 6.0 was felt all in Christchurch and even  down in Dunedin & Invercargill. These earthquakes caused more destruction to Christchurch, and some of the effects were similar to the 22nd February.

Also, on the morning of Wednesday 15th June, there was another 5.5 magnitude aftershock, felt by some residents of Dorie.

By Annabel

Wheels Everywhere!!

Today is Wheels Day!! Everybody brought things with wheels, from suitcases to measuring wheels!! Everybody was split into 7 groups then given an activity to start with.


 Faiz and Annabel's group started with decorating a bike. You have 10 minutes to use items given (streamers, balloons, etc.) to decorate a bike of your team member. You had to decorate so it was creative and looked awesome! Mrs. Townshend then took a photo when you were finished. The winners were judged by either creativity or teamwork. 


Joseph and Harriet's group did the slot car with Mr. Lucas and had some very exciting races! The finals were very intense. We thank Mr. Lucas very much for bringing in his slot cars and slot car track.


Nicholas and Kate's group went to bike races and scooter races with Ms. Reader. Lots of people enjoyed racing others and showing how fast they can go.


Kaitlyn and Zabina's group started on making delicious pinwheels and cheese rolls with Miss A. We all had to make sure our hands were throughly washed before we started. I'm sure we all can't wait to eat them!!


Olivia and Timothy's group began the morning with tyre races out on the field. We all had very intense races with others in our group. When we had finished we all had cold, wet and grass covered hands!!


Tomas and Thea's group kicked off with hoops at the court with Ms. Walls. We had some very tricky warm up activities that all got our brains thinking. We then passed the hoops to each other and did other things with hoops.


Georgia and Juan started with the obstacle course which the seniors had set up earlier that morning. The obstacle course included 2 teams versing each other. You have to zig-zag between cones then go other some dodgy jumps. 


Overall Wheels Day was really fun and we had a great time. Lets hope we do it again next year, and we thank all the teachers for supervising the events and making Wheels Day happen.


Olivia & Thea

Topic of transport

For our topic we have been learning how transport can ship and truck around the world to transport objects that could be sold. We have been doing scenarios of what we would do if we had to ship and truck things around the world. So we had to print out copies of maps and search up the places where we need to go. We had six teams and there was a captain Geo, super symbolist  mishearing magicians and gadget cadet. So we will Sherie them at the assembly. From Timothy and Nicholas

Winter Sport Practice

Coming up soon is the Mid Canterbury Winter sports tournament. Every school around the district will compete in many different sports. Every Friday we have practice with our principal Ms Walls. We are going to put in teams for netball and hockey. The boys are angry that we don't get to play rugby and soccer.  Last year the hockey and netball teams got in the top five. We hope we do well this year.


Joseph and Clark

Holes

Team Toroa finished ReadWatching Holes today!  Some of us are keen to read the book now too!!

Leadership Day

On Wednesday the 1st of June the Year 7 and 8's went to a leadership day in Christchurch. It is a day where all the students from around Canterbury go to listen to many different speakers.
The first speaker we had was Pat Buckley. He talked about making the right decisions. Then we had Allison Mooney. She talked about how every ones personality is different. Our third speaker was Adam Hall who is a paralimpic skier. He talked about when he won his gold medal and how he achieved it.
The we had Christian Cullen. He said, you don't have to follow your friends. Then we had Jason Gunn, he was so funny and he talked about how he got his job as a television presenter.
It was an awesome day and we should go next year.

By Kate B

Wheels day

Next week on Thursday we are having a Wheels Day to celebrate the end of our topic. We are going to have tyre races and we also are having Mrs Townshend dad with racing cars and obstacle courses. We are going to send a form home to kids to sign what they are bringing so then we can have races. We had to come up with some good ideas then we write them up on the whiteboard and if we had some more ideas we had come to the board and write them down. 

Kaitlyn and Georgia

AVAILLL

Yesterday we started ReadWatching a new movie called Holes.  Our activity was called Next Word Hunt. We had to look for all of the 'my something' words and write it down.  We were put into teams and the winning team gets to get a few minutes extra break time.   Annabel's team won!  Zabina got 24 'my' words right!  We are really enjoying it - the activities are really cool and exciting.

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

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    

          

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

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 :)