ABBEY WON 3rd PRIZE!

ABBEY WON 3rd PRIZE!

In the Rodney District Libraries reading challenge "Half an hour a day in the month of May" Abbey won 3rd prize and recieved a voucher for $50.00!!!

Well done Abbey

Soccer and hockey day.

On Friday it was soccer, hockey day.

Technology challenge - Make a board game.

Yesterday Holly googled facts about kiwis and Leah,Norton and Rhys put them on pieces of card board then when we had enough. Holly drew a kiwi then I coloured it and its feet in. We coloured the beak yellow. Holly put SAVE THE KIWI over top and they drew squares. Then Rhys cut the title out so we stuck the rules and the title on the back. It looked awesome. We drew, coloured and cut out people and stuck them on stands. Every one put them on. We went to Mr McNaughten's room and went home The next morning we played other people games then voted. It was awesome!

Crazy hairday

On Friday we had crazy hairday it was so crazy.

I dressed up as crazy girl and I had ponytails with

toys in them like petshops. Rosa my best friend

dressed up with bubble wrap in her hair.

Sam had an umbrella in her hair and windmills it

was crazy.Rafe just had a crazy wig.

Me and Rosa put some stuff in Nyah's hair and she ended up winning! The prize was a flashy light.

But it was so much fun and I loved it.

We raise over $100 for the St John's ambulance.

BY NICKY

Des Hunt Author

On Friday Des Hunt came to Tomarata school and told us about his writing. He is a famous new Zealand author and has written 10 books - such as Cry Of The Taniwha,Crocodile Nest,Shadows In The Ice,Codys Unexpected Catch etc. He also did an experiment and made something that looks like water turn blue and then back again it was realy cool. He was talking about writing when he was showing us the science experiments because he was showing us that you need suspense in your writing.

I think I will read some of his books in future years.

Rosa

Testing the stength of flax

For Science we had to test the strength of flax using the scientific method.

First we had to ask a research question. My question was "What is stronger flax, wool or string?"

Then we made a prediction. I prediction was that the flax was going to be the strongest.

Then we designed the experiment. We put the flax, wool and string on the wheels of the playground. Then we swung from them until they broke.

We found that the flax was the strongest.

The string was the second strongest and the wool broke straight away.

Our conclusion was that flax is a very strong fibre.

I liked testing and swinging our experiment.

Nyah