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                                                      Speech board the first time

Maths

We are doing decimals and percentages in maths

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Poster

We have been learning to create posters. We have had to research a poisonous New Zealand Garden plant. We then had to find out the features of a warning poster. We have created posters to warn people about the dangers of some of our New Zealand plants.

My Holiday

My Holiday

I was jumping around in excitement, we were on our way to Waipukurau. We were going down to Waipukurau for one night while Dad went to the sale. My whole family was going and that is Mum, Dad, Judah, Conrad, Joshua, Michael, Malinda, Samuel and I. On the way we saw windmills. They were tall like giants and as white as snow. A few didn’t move their spikey white hands. Conrad was scared when he saw them. It was a 3 hour drive to Waipukurau. We needed to go through Dannevirke to get to Waipukurau, so when we saw the sign everyone started to bounce up and down. It was going to be a good day.

When we got to Tukituki Motel where we were staying the lady showed us to our dorms. We got number 13 and 14. Judah, Conrad and Joshua got dorm 13 to themselves. After we had unpacked I looked around our dorm. We had two double beds, two single beds, two TVs, one portacot, and one sofa bed. It was cramped. It was awesome. For dinner we went to a pub called Breakers, We waited one hour for our food to arrive.

At the sale there was a lot of people. There were mini pies and I ate 4. It was really loud. Number Sixty got stuck behind the boards but she got out alright. When we got home I was really sleepy.                     

By Charis

Toko School Boot Camp 2018

I had been looking forward to camp for the whole of the year. Room 3 and Room 5 were going on Boot Camp and everyone was excited. Boot camp was based on the army so we needed to wear dog tags. An ear piercing whistle blew and a stern voice said" in your groups please and in marched Mrs Fergus and Mrs Stark." Stand in, attention", Mrs Fergus shouted over the noise ,please go to you first activity.

While we were at our first activity which was the damper making Mrs Stark and Mrs Fergus came over with a bit of string and a card that had your surname on it. They also gave us a little card that said: Toko School Boot Camp 2018. On the card it had four grades. They were Private, Sergeant,Lieutenant and Captain. All the adults got a strip of stickers to give kids who did something good. The dog tags kept on getting caught and then breaking. Every now and again we would have ceremony's for the people who moved up a grade. It was really cool.

When we got to TeWera we went Kyaking. The lake wasn't in the actual camp ground but it was owned by the same person. It was a really long walk to get to the lake, but we finally got there. I was so puffed so I layed down my stuff and waited till it was my turn. While I was waiting it started to spit but not much. Hank and Clint offered to be the parents watching us in the lake. I had been kayaking before so it wasn't new to me. When we went kyaking we needed to wear a life jacket. My life jacket was yellow. The lake was full of ducks and we saw a vase ell. We keeper on banging into the banks. After I had had my turn Tessa's mum said that she would walk a few back to the road. I went with her Tessa and Maddy. When we were walking back we heard Mrs Stark come whizzing around the corner so we decided we were going to be hitch- hikers. We put our thumbs up but it didn't work. She came to us  and wound down her window and said that we couldn't go past the cows because there were bulls in there. We finally got through the bulls and drove back to Te Wera camp grounds.

When we got back we had showers then went to our cabins. We were allowed 10 minutes talk until light out. I had two buddies in my cabin. My cabin buddies were called Leah and Karen. Our cabin name was the pukeko. The light in our cabin was flat so we needed ours replaced. There was a lot of rules in the cabins and one of them was that you weren't allowed to wear shoes in the cabins. We were in the cabins up the top. There was a bunk bed and a single bed in our cabin. The cabins were really cool but small. There was a punishment if we talked after light out it was that we needed to sleep with Mrs Fergus and Mrs Stark. We did room inspections on the first morning. I was really nervous. We got a sticker if our room was tidy. My cabin was really hot during the nights so we didn't sleep in sleeping bags.

It was really fun at camp,my favorite part was the kayaking and I am looking forward to going to camp next year.

Camp Photos

Camp Evaluation

 My first goal is...
To try a new food that I haven’t eaten before. I achieved my goal by eating a little bit of coleslaw on my burger.

My second goal is...
To not leave anything behind. I achieved my goal by double checking my cabin is clean before going down to the main hall.

Camp Goals

My first goal is to try a new food that I haven't eaten before.
My second goal is to not leave anything behind.