Duffy Assembly

Giant Killer was our Duffy role model today at Assembly. He performed an awesome rap made up of words that he thought of on the spot.
We were excited about decorating our Duffy Box and couldn't wait to get our two books from inside. Thank you Duffy!
Congratulations also to Frelex Mikaele for recieving our class Duffy Award.
Here are a few photos of our Duffy Assembly.

Well done to all the teachers and students for the creative designs that we saw in decorating your Duffy Box. A big Kia Ora to Kungfu Pandas for being the winners!

Easter with our buddy class

It was exciting spending time with our buddy class doing some fun activities for Easter. We got to make some chocolate nests and Easter Baskets and we even got to take our buddies along with us to help with feeding the animals. 

Celebrating Easter

Ingredients for making Easter Nests

2 cups of Rice Bubbles

250g of Milk Chocolate

1/2 cup of Shredded Coconut

Milk Chocolate

Melt the Chocolate in a cup

Rice Bubbles

Method

1) Pour 2 cups of Rice Bubbles or Cocoa Pops into a Big Bowl.

2) Melt 250g of Milk Chocolate 

3) Mix the Melted Chocolate with the Rice Bubbles. 

4) Add the Shredded Coconut 

5) Mix the ingredients together

6) Use a table spoon and scoop a spoonful into a cup cake paper.

7) Put some M&M's or Maltesers or Mini eggs on the top

8) Leave on a bench to set or place in the fridge.
NOTE: Children make sure to have an adult help you when melting the chocolate.

Easter Basket making with our buddies

Proud of our Easter basket

Cutting out the baskets for our buddies

Easter basket making

Yay, 1 cup....1 more to go!

Yummy!!!

Check out more of our photos from our fun day together with the Proud Penguins.

Week 7

POETS WRITING GROUP

In writing this week the Poets have been practising to write simple sentences. 

They have been practising and challenging themselves to be confident with reading, writing and putting high frequency words into correct sentences. After they have written their sentence(s) they will then check their work to see whether they have included a capital letter and a full stop in the right place. They are being encouraged to fix their own mistakes and to use the words cards to check their spelling is correct. 

Check out the Poets in action!

Frelex feeling happy with his sentences.

Poets hard at work thinking about putting their words into a sentence.

Frelex wrote these sentences independently.

Dayton happy with writing a simple sentence.

Texas writing his sentences independently.

Alfred writing his sentences.

Alfred reading over his sentences.

Week 8

Feeding the Kunikuni and Heihei!

My class went to feed the pigs and chickens. I felt happy because we went to feed the pigs. I saw the pigs running around in their pen. We put the water in the bucket for the pigs and chickens. The chickens laid five eggs. We took these eggs to the staffroom. 

                              Written by Charlie Rigamoto

Cheeky Cheetahs enjoying the experience of feeding the animals

Feeding the two fat hairy pigs and the scary Chickens!

We jumped into two lines and zoomed like a jet to Hettie, Percy and the Chickens. I couldn't believe that my class was going to feed the animals. I felt so happy and crazy like a monkey at the zoo. I knew it was going to be a great experience feeding the animals. 

When I fed the pigs I felt excited. I wanted to let them bite my arm off. The chickens looked creepy. When they looked at me it almost seemed like they wanted to peck me instead of their kai. 

When we finished feeding the animals we had to make sure that we washed our hands. I didn't want to leave. I couldn't wait for the next feeding day. 

Written by Jodeci

Jodeci and Junior not wanting to leave

The Cheeky Cheetahs enjoyed feeding the animals at our school this week. We were lucky enough to have had our buddies join us for one of the feeding days as well. 

Thank you Ms Manuel for all your hard work with looking after our Rowandale animals.

Check out some of our photos below. 

Tie Dye Background Self Portraits

In Visual Art, we have been focusing on sketching, colouring one way, creating our own patterns and designs to represent ourselves and our culture. During our Self Portrait lessons we required a lot of focus, determination, motivation, encouragement from our peers and patience to complete our art piece. Our medium that we used included colouring pencils, vivid and dye. 

Check out our Tie Dye Background Self Portraits. Do you think we still look the same?

FOOTSTEPS - FUN DANCING

Footsteps is a group of people who teach students in schools how to dance. 

Early in the morning, a lady named Kate came to Rowandale School to teach us how to dance.
Bye, bye, bye was the name of the song that we were dancing to. We didn't have much time for talking because each session was only for half an hour. We were already late, so Kate got straight into teaching us.

Firstly, we had to find a space in the hall. Then we had to do a bunch of different steps one by one with Kate stopping us each time. At first, it was easy, then I realised it was getting harder and harder. I had to concentrate really hard. The moves continued to change and Kate talked us through each step before playing the music where I got a bit nervous about because it was a bit fast. 

Our time with Kate was too short. I wish she will come back to teach us and hopefully we will be able to finish the dance routine and learn it for a bit longer. I had so much fun dancing because Kate made it fun and it was easier to follow her.
Thanks Kate!

Written by Matthew Rowe

High Flyers having so much fun at Footsteps

 High Flyers giving it a go!

We had so much fun!

 High Flyers practising !

Look at us getting our groove on!

High Flyers listening to instructions!

ASB Get Wise (Financial Literacy)

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!

On Monday we had Jeremy from ASB Get Wise visit our class and school for the first time. He talked to us about money. His job is to go around to schools to teach students about saving money. 

I learnt a lot of information that morning about how to make money and different ways to save money. Some of the ways to make money included doing chores like folding the washing, washing the dishes or cleaning the house. Another way to make money is helping out in the neighbourhood, for example mowing the lawns, painting a fence or babysitting.

I found selling and trading an exciting way to make money. This includes things like having a garage sale, bakery sale or selling lemonade to family members. It is important to start saving now so you have some money for yourself when you grow up. 

I get money for doing chores and helping around the house. I now know the importance to spend some for me, and save some too. Thank you Jeremy for teaching me about saving money!

Written by Lialia Aii

Jeremy from Get Wise explaining to the Cheeky Cheetahs how interest works.

Do you know how interest works?

  

Second Week of Swimming

This week for swimming we learnt how to enter the pool correctly using the 3/4 turn. 

We continued our learning with using the flutter board and even got the chance to streamline without using it too. 

We really enjoy swimming and our teacher thinks we are getting better at it. Check out our improvement!

Week 6 Stars

Congratulations to the following students who have won awards for this week.

Well done to Ebby Diaz for being a responsible ICT monitor. It is great to see you taking your role seriously Ebby. Keep up the great work!

Well done also to Sandra Nguyen for always showing respect at all times. We appreciate you Sandra! Continue to be a great role model.

Rhythm Interactive

We are so lucky to have had the opportunity to have Rythm Interactive visit Rowandale School. It was a challenge keeping up with Johnny on the Gembe but we loved it. It was so much fun!

Check out our cool experience!
Thank you to Ms Thacker for organising this for our school.

Week 5

Check out what the Cheeky Cheetahs got up to in Week 5!

Meeting our Buddy Class - Proud Penguins!

We were so excited to meet our buddy class for the first time. Our buddy class are from the Fledglings team in Room 2. 

We did some buddy reading together. We really enjoyed reading with them and look forward to our next get together.

Margret reading with her buddy.

Our second get together was for Swimming with our Buddy Class

"We felt special and scared at the same time", said Junior Anae. 

"I knew I had to hold on to my partner and not let go", said Kyra-Jae.

"I had so much fun teaching my buddy and being responsible for him", said Matthew.

Here are a few photos of our swimming experience with the Proud Penguins.

Week 4 Stars

Congratulations to the following students from the Cheeky Cheetahs for winning an award.

Texas Harris - PRIDE certificate

Margret Patiole - Duffy Award 

The following students were also awarded their badges for the year. They have an important role to play within the school. 

They are our future leaders. We are so proud of them.

Peer Mediator - Tohoa Tangimetua


House Captain - Margret Patiole

What a great start to the Term!

All about me!

PATIOLE FAMILY

In my family there are eight members. My brother Pelite is the oldest child who works at Hirepool. He is twenty years old. The second eldest is my brother Desmond who is a father to my cute baby nephew Aaron. I have a gorgeous sister who attends Manurewa High School. She is a bit taller than me with short brown hair. My brother Junior goes to Manurewa Intermediate and he is quite naughty but sometimes kind to me. He is 12 years old. Then, there is me and my twin Tracey. We are identical and I am the oldest by 3 minutes.

We love playing sports as a family. My parents are kind, thoughtful, respectful and they love us very much.

My goal for this year in reading is to reach level 30 and in Maths I want to be at Stage 8. In writing, I want to write in paragraphs and to add similes to make my stories sound interesting.

                                      Written by Margret