Congratulations to all our Prizegiving winners

Congratulations to these beautiful children for receiving the awards at Prizegiving today. They have displayed a lot of the school values through their attitude and their approach to their schoolwork.

These winners are

Participation: Donnell Rungarunga

Respect: Minoneti Leha

Integrity: Cassius Luu

Determination: Jessie Tanoai

Empathy: Gardeeniah Makatoa

Overall Achievements 1:

Jayden Sanford-Banfal

Overall Achievement 2:

Caira-Jem Smalley-Huch

Overall Achievement 3:

Rawiri Stoutly 

Also a big congratulations to all the rest of the Clever Kiwis who have worked hard this year as well.

It has been a privilege to be teaching these children.  The commitment and positive attitude they apply to their school work will see them Soaring towards Success. I wish them all the best for 2016.

 

Fruit Kebabs

The Clever Kiwis and Awesome Owls spent the afternoon making fruit kebabs. This encouraged patience, vocabulary "sweet, soft, sour" and using our five senses. 

Trong's mouth full of fruit "mmmmm" said Trong.

"I like the marshmallows" said Minoneti

"It was hard getting the banana on the stick" said Dakota-Lee

Zyon waiting patiently for the grapes to come his way.

Cassius cutting up the strawberries before it went on his stick.

Kahurangi enjoying a mouthful of strawberries.

        Caira-Jem showing her creation 

       "Look at my One" shouted Devon

         Nala enjoying he fruit kebab

Musical Showcase

      Today was the showcase!!

We got to show the school what we had been learning in the past five weeks. We used sticks to dance and create beats and most importantly we had fun on stage.

Black out Day

We celebrated Black out Day by wearing BLACK to support the All Blacks on Friday.

Duffy Award

The Duffy award goes to Minoneti for being a clean KIWI making sure that the class learning resources are put back in their right places.

Well done Minoneti 

Mindful Award

The mindful award for participation goes to Jayden for joining in on all class activities and moving to level 3 in reading.

Well done Jayden I am very proud with your positive attitude towards learning and having a fantastic start to your school life.

Niuean Language Week

Fakalofa Lahi Atu

This week we have been celebrating Niuean Language Week. To celebrate this we weaved a mat where in Niue this is part of their life to create mats and hats from flax. Instead of using flax we used paper.

    Over and under was the technique we went with to create our mat.

It was a struggle at first however that didn't stop us.

Lincoln, Jayden and Rawiri are busy weaving.

      Jessie and Cassius working hard.

            Presley using blue strips.

Trong, Crystal and Jorge all busy weaving their strips over and under.

            The finished product

Happy Onsie Day

Today was Onsie day we got to dress up and come to school in our Onsies. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

The children dress in their onsies came as a lamb, tiger, leopards, Spider-Man and tinkle bell.

            With the rest of the class

Buddy reading

The Clever Kiwis and the Laughing Ilamas have been buddy reading. This week the Kiwis got to read their books they have been taking home this week to a buddy. The Kiwis had to remember what they had to do before, during and after they read the story.

   Mary retelling the words in her words

Rawiri remembering to use his pointy fingers during reading.

Chante looking at the pictures with Ofa

Charlie asking Yzraell questions about the book.

Presley making the face of the Kind Bird in the story.

Lincoln and Compton both brothers talking about the pictures in the story and Lincoln remembering too low down while he is reading.

"This book is too easy" said Emma

Junior reading the book "bubbles" to his buddy "the bubble popped on the hedgehog" Junior concluded

Gardineeniah reading "Kitty Kitty" and using her personal experience talking about cat at home.

Mosilee really focused on sharing his  book with his buddy Tam

Jorge and Adrienne reading "I can Write"

Mary-Jane had the courage to read to her buddy. Very proud of you Mary -Jane, your buddy said that you read that story with ease.

The Clever Kiwis enjoyed reading with their buddies it enabled them to see what correct reading behaviours looks like, and also connect and build a relationship with the senior students of Rowandale.

    

Duffy Theatre

The Clever Kiwis thought that the Duffy theatre was funny and they had really funny costumes. 

We were listening and focused on the play. 

"They are funny" Yzraell giggling away during the play.

We got to meet Cleopatra through books that Duffy was reading. We learnt that that they write differently instead of using letters they draw pictures also known as hieroglyphics.

We met Sienna who doesn't like reading or writing at all and preferred watching movies on television and playing on her IPad. In the end she discovered that her favourite book Harry Potter was first made a book before it was movie. She began to enjoy writing because she got to write about her favourite books, and she discovered her own passion in the end and wanted to become a horticulturist. 

They played our favourite book called "Maui and the Sun"

Kites

As part of our topic this term we have been exploring flight. As part of flight we have been designing our own kites.

We have been watching you tube clips about the different types of kites that we could make. 

Materials we used to make our kites were string, paper, Popsicle sticks and Sellotape. Creating and thinking about how our kites were going to look like.

Mosilee and Mohammed working together to add support to their kite because they didn't want it to rip in the wind or "flop" when they flew it outside.

Emma was so excited "I can't wait to fly my kite"

Once we finished our kites (2 days later) we took them outside to test if they would fly.

Above: Mary flying her kite up in the sky

The children flying it from the top of the playground and seeing if they flew and by Yzraell's shouted "it floats"

We had a lot of fun making and designing our own kites. 

What next? From our inquiry we are excited and decided that we will try other types of materials to make our kites. 

FMS Fundamental Movement Skills

Today we are learning the skill of side galloping.

Looking at where we have to side gallop too that is to the white line.

On your marks..... Get set..... Go

We are persisting to stay on our side to side gallop to the line.