Letter to students

Dear Tautoru,

We are writing to you to let you know a little about ourselves and to find out about you.  We would like you to answer the questions within the letter after discussing them with mum and dad or anybody else that you have at home.

We are looking forward to new things in Tautoru. Our new inquiry is about change. Change is always exciting and sometimes a little scary but we are going to make sure that change is good and even sometimes fun!

Nicola is into running, tramping, gymming, travelling and getting outside. Scott likes making music or noise, collecting toys and records and spending time with family.  Chrissy enjoys Maths, shopping and travelling. She likes to keep fit by trying new things like Barre, Zumba and dancing in the dark! Shona likes running, walking, swimming in the sea, fishing, tramping, reading, cooking and spending time with family.

What do you like? What do you like to learn about?

Please tell us something that you are excited about this year.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely,

Nicola, Scott, Shona and Chrissy

Some of us will be responding to this letter next week. Please discuss at home. We are interested in what our students like, what they enjoy learning, what they find challenging and what excites them.

Assembly 19th February

Thank you to our wonderful presenters who organised our assembly.

Mahutonga shared their trapping stories.

Autahi shared their class treaty

Tautoru shared their "Beautiful" writing.

Principal Awards for thinking.

George's Blog

In Tautoru, we have a giraffe named George. He likes to go home with a different student each night. You can check out his blog at: http://georgethebluegiraffe.blogspot.co.nz/

 

Created with Padlet

Wow Wall ... Something beautiful

Here is some of our writing inspired from the views of Worser Bay.

The Magic Box

Some of us have been reading, "The Magic Box" poem by Kit Wright. We put our own ideas into our very own magic box. Watch the movie to see what our first ideas are...

The Three Little Pigs, By Logan

25.11.15

Dear  Logan

You know the story of the three little pigs?... well it's not like that!

The huff and puff thing was because I had a terrible sneezing cold, and the reason the first two houses fell down was because they were weak. The pigs were dead so I ate them so they didn't get wasted. When the newspaper pig reporters found out about the pigs I ate, they didn’t think a wolf with a cold sounded interesting so they jazzed up the story with all the big bad wolf stuff and took me to jail. I was framed!  

From

The BIg Bad Wolf

The Environment Group

We are learning about debates and as part of our inquiry, we want to find out about the environment. Our inquiry is called, "who should look after the environment". So far we have made brainstorms. We think that everyone should look after the environment.

Yesterday, we did Google Hangout with Room 10 at Kelburn school. They are near Zealandia. They are very lucky because they see lots of native birds such as kaka, tuis, sparrows, kereru and they even saw a shag fly over the other day. They are also interested in the environment and want to trap pesky rats and other pests. They talked about smart rats who managed to dodge the traps. They are designing different traps that will attract the rats. 

We also found out that Mahutonga have also been setting traps for the rats down the bank. The rats are not going for the food in the traps as they don't feel comfortable enough to eat there.

By Lizzie, Max, Ben, Mateo, Jan, Finlay, Izar, Liam, Zach and Theo B

Enviromment by Theo B

Care for the environment, oh please please please,

our future depends on us, it realy does please.

it’s for me, it’s for you

it’s for everyone on the globe

let’s keep our earth clean and very bright green

just care for it it’s now a big deal

if we did look after it a few years ago this would not

have troubled our poor mother earth.

Storyboards

Postcard writing from a different perspective

Sent from my iPad

Me on the map of the world...

In Tautoru we have been working on out community writing which is centred around "Me on the Map". We started with me, my room, my community, my city and my country. We coloured our maps and then drew a line to where we come from! 

Journal writing

On Tuesday and Thursday mornings we have started journal writing. This is an opportunity to write anything that we want. We can also choose who is allowed to read it. At the end of the term we will pick one that we want to publish.

We are all writers in tautoru! Come and take a look at our amazing writing about Wellington and New Zealand

Word Families

During Daily 5 I have been practising my an word family. I know that clan, pan, Dan, man, Stan, ran, fan, van, tan, are all part of the an word family.

Hangman

During Daily 5 I was doing work on writing. Today we were playing Hangman.
I was doing my Mum's name and it was tricky to get because it was only 2 letters but hard to guess.
I like doing Daily 5 because you get to choose things and do all of the choices around the room.

Dear Parents & caregivers,

We have made some changes to our writing groups in Tautoru because as we all know change is good and we all need to embrace it. 

Your child was told their new writing teacher in the last week of Term 2. We will remind them of their writing groups in the first week of term 3. 

If you have any queries regarding this, please do not hesitate to see your child's base group teacher.

Thanks,

Tautoru Team

Today's Assembly 26.6.15

Thank you to our fabulous presenters and people who shared their learning today at assembly

. We all loved the dancing! Well done to all of those children who received Principal Awards for persevering.

Amazing assembly from Matariki on Vimeo.

Assembly 12.6.15

Thank you to our amazing presenters, Jack, Milla and George. 

We all loved the assembly, you did us proud! Well done to everyone who received a principal award today for active learning and perseverance. 

We wrote beach poems using our senses. We edited, published and illustrated

My Extraordinary Day

On my extraordinary day I went to attack the dinosaurs. I tried to push through but that didn’t work. There were T Rex's and triceratops guarding me. I had nothing but my sword. I got my sword. Now it was a fight. I swung my sword. The dinosaurs moved fast, back and back. I saw my sword shining with silver. I was getting tired. The fight was almost over. I saw a tyrannosaurus. I had only one chance. I jumped on its back. It flew me back home. What an extraordinary day it had been. By Liam

Apple Corer Explanation Writing

Today we have written explanations about an Apple Corer. We used different apps on the iPads to help us with our writing.  We were very lucky to have some helpers from Mahutonga come in and help us with the iPads. Some of us learnt to use Piccollage and some of us learnt to use word Q.
You can read our writing below.


Apple Corer Explanation from Matariki on Vimeo.

Apple corers are things that make it easy to peel apples,they also take out the core. Apple corers peel the apple skin off in one go.

By Ben and Orla and Rico (written on word cue)

Apples are fun to eat because You can do stuff like silliness.
You can eat an apple faster by coring it using an apple corer. 
By Daisy and Milla  (written on Wordcue)