The class are going full steam ahead with their Science Fair investigations and entries. There are some fabulous topics under investigation - do homemade fire starters work better than store bought ones, which washing powder gets your clothes the cleanest, which battery gives you the most bang for your buck - just to name a few.
We are also busy creating some works of art that could potentially end up on the Toko Hall wall. Each child has taken a photo of rural life and then printed and enlarged it. They have then made a grid and on an A2 piece of paper drawn another grid. This is to help them transfer their photo into a scale sketch before turning it into a painting.
All Year 5 - 8 children are participating in this art activity. The Toko Hall Committee will then judge the pieces and select their favourite ones to be placed on the outside of the hall.
We are also flat out writing debates at the moment. Our topic for the cluster debate at Pembroke is: Children should be allowed to climb trees at school. Students are working in teams to plan their debate. On Friday we will be sharing the debates at school and from those debates we will pick our Year 7 team and our Year 8 team to represent Toko next Wednesday.
As well as having Jones Cup yesterday, we are involved in a Rippa tournament tomorrow (Wednesday) at Yarrow Stadium. Hopefully I'll have some good photos to share later in the week.
Next week we will involved in a Mystery Skype Challenge where we are matched up with another school somewhere in New Zealand. The challenge is to ask yes or no questions and race the other school to find where in the country we are. The students use google maps and all have a role to play on the day. As part of this a photo scavenger hunt is underway with all the kids taking photos of 10 different things. I'll share those next week too.
As you can see, with only a week and a half to go, it's all on - no winding down for end of term here!
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