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"