Term 3 Week 7

Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei everyone! To start off Tongan language week we had our opening ceremony led by some of our beautiful students who also shared some amazing facts about the island of Tonga. 

 

Our Tapa (Ngatu) patterns

In Tonga, tapa is known as Ngatu, and it is of great social importance and is often given as gifts during times of celebration.  The Rising Stars looked at sketching some of these patterns found on ngatu and here are our pics...

Apoua

Zac 

Angelina

Timothy

Audrey

Art: Olympic Silhouettes

In Visual Arts we have been working hard on completing our Olympic silhouettes pictures. First we selected a sport and looked at sketching the silhouette onto the centre of our white paper. We then created our background of random lines and coloured in our silhouette using a black marker. From there we selected a colour of our choice and looked at using shades of that colour in pastel to fill in the background. We were so happy with the results...check out some of our work...

Term 3 Week 6

Kia ora whanau! Wow we are already in Week 6 of Term 3 and what a busy week it has been. On Thursday the Rising Stars relocated to Room 27 where we will be staying temporarily while work in Room 17 is being completed. The Rising Stars did an amazing job during the move and we are loving our new classroom.

Olympic Athlete Study

As part of our inquiry studies we wanted to also focus on finding out about some of the athletes that participated in the Olympics. So we selected an athlete that we were interested in and went through the inquiry process and completed our posters on what we discovered. Check out our posters....

Chickens and Pigs Duty

This week the Rising Stars had the opportunity to feed the Pigs and Chickens. Take a look at some of our photos and read Maddison and Anahera's story about how we used the eggs from our school chickens.

Student Blog Reporters: Maddison and Anahera            

Our Amazing Cooking Day

Today after morning tea Miss Turu chose us to bake Room 27’s rainbow cookies...well not just us...she selected 6 of us altogether to do some baking in the hall kitchen. When we arrived in the hall with Miss Falwasser, we got the keys, opened the kitchen and placed all the ingredients on the bench and took a photo. Next we got a bowl from the staffroom and the eggs (laid by our school chickens) and got started on doing our baking. We were so excited!

First we looked at the back of the rainbow cookie box to read the instructions. Once we understood what to do, we added the dry mixture into a bowl, cracked in our eggs and put in the softened butter. We then began mixing all of the ingredients together and it formed into a cookie dough. After that we rolled the dough into small balls and pressed them down slightly. Miss Falwasser then gave us the m&ms to press into the cookie dough, then we took more photos of us with the cookies. Next we put the cookies on a tray and then into the oven on 180 degrees for 15 minutes. Mmmmm….the yummy delicious smell drifted through our noses and we couldn’t wait to eat them. While the first lot of cookies were cooking we made the next batch of cookies and did exactly the same thing. After all of the cookies were made we accidently put them in the sun and then they started to melt so we put them in the shade. Later on as time was ticking by we decided to have a try of the cookies...just to test them.

So when we were finally finished, we walked around for a while in the hall and waited for Miss Falwasser to come back from the office. She said for us to go and deliver the cookies to Miss Turu who was very impressed with our baking and that was our exciting day!

Hiwi Kiwi Show

Student Blog Reporter: Margaret

This morning at Rowandale School the Rising Stars had the chance to go and watch Hiwi the Kiwi with all the classes in the school hall. It was a very entertaining show with singing and dancing and we learnt lots of things like never getting on a boat without a life jacket and when we are fishing we have to make sure we don't take fish that are too small. We also were reminded to make sure we don't litter in the sea otherwise the rubbish could kill some of the seabirds because the birds will try to eat anything in the water.

Term 3 Week 4

Bring a Can Mufti Day

This week we had our bring a can mufti day to support our local community at the Manurewa Marae. The Rising Stars were very keen and excited to contribute and support this very worthwhile initiative.

Feed the Need

On Friday it was the last day for our Feed the Need programme.   We are very grateful and appreciate the delicious hot lunches this amazing organisation have provided for us over the past few months. Here are some pics of us enjoying our last feed the need meal and the special thank you card we made.

School Assembly Award Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who received awards at our school assembly....

Empathy Award- Paige Neueli

Duffy Award- Paul Peautagi

Netball Awards- Harrieta, Audrey, Anahera, Ofeira and Robyn

Term 3 Focus Wall

Our focus wall is up at the back of our classroom and this informs us about what we are learning about during the term in all areas. 

Topic Inquiry Study

This week in our inquiry study we wrote on post-it notes about what we knew about the sportswear and sports equipment athletes use at the Olympics; and worked on forming some questions that we could investigate.  We looked at the difference between closed questions and open ended questions and built up an understanding that open-ended questions would be more suitable for our research investigations.  Open-ended questions require a more in-depth and lengthier response compared to closed questions, that usually require a one word or single sentence type answer.

Mayo

On Friday we were super lucky to have Mayo come to perform for our school at a special assembly. Mayo is the stage name of 21-year-old hip hop dancer Seantum Rapana from Pukekohe who has mastered the art of liquid dance.  It was awesome to have him at our school, to watch his dance numbers and to listen to him talk about the fact that we all have gifts and talents, even though we might not realise what they are; and that we should follow our dreams.  

Go Brooklyn!

Olympics

Our Olympics opening ceremony on Friday was absolutely amazing and each class had the opportunity to wave their flags and present some interesting facts about their class country. Here are some of our pics...

Topic Inquiry Study
We have already begun our inquiry study about the Olympics and have been looking at the first stage of exploring, defining and planning.  We have brainstormed what we know about our topic and will be creating questions that we would like to investigate around our technology focus area: Sports wear and sports equipment at the Olympics.