What a great week for Samoan Language Week. We have enjoyed learning about language and life in Samoa. Here is our last video. Fa'afetai 

Day 3 of Pacifika language week. We had to say My name is ______, in Samoan. 

It was tricky and we had to say it to Mrs Sheridan- Smith. We used our Habit of 'Taking Risks'.

Well done everyone. I hope we win. 

Talofa lava

Today was day 2 of Samoan Language Week. We are really looking forward to winning! We can't wait to meet the Vodafone Warriors. Today we had to practice saying "'O a mai oe?- How are you? and replying "Manuia Fa'afetai". We had to persist as we found it hard. Mrs Tollestrup found it very hard but we found humour and helped hot to practice. Well done team.

Tafa

Today Alex did his narrative writing in chalk outside. Take a look ..... 

Great story Alex 

To celebrate Samoan Language Week, the classes at Rowandale have been set a series of challenges. There will be a different one each day. The winning class gets to work with a Vodafone Warrior. Challenge one was to use 'Talofa Lava' in a creative way. Here is our video. 

We are making our own animals because we are heading to the zoo soon. Check us out.

Landon is making a tigers

We are now going to describe out animal 

Here is Compton's story 

My animal  got a algatu  tall  on the bak .he got a log tith and log. By Compton

my spidor bat  has red weinhs and  2 eieys he has red feet hes got a blow tauin hes  got a  gren. maohf   hes got  a     graehy   nowhus  hes  naem is  bat spidor   he is  7  yehers old  he euts  met   hes big  he kan maek a big weinb.liek a spidor   he  kan  fly liek a  bat    he  kan  wohik  liek  people  he  livs in  snow  hes  cool hes  stroin  he kan  look he kan  play.
By Blair

Today is wheels day for road safety week. Check us out. 

Road safety

We learnt to not park on yellow lines. They need to park on the black road so we can be safe.

Today we have policeman Sarah, she is teaching us about road safety because it is road safety week.

We should not work on the grass verge because there might be glass in the grass so we need to work on the path closet to the houses. 

Talofa Aiga

Remember that there are learning conversations going on right now !
Please pop in tomorrow between 3-7 if you have not already seen me.
It would be so lovely to catch up and tell you how amazing your child is. If you can't make it I will pop by this week sometime.

It was so lovely to see those parents who came tonight. Its so nice to see how proud you are of your children.

Manuia le afiafi

Anna Tollestrup 

Well Done Sandra For getting a Mindful Award this week. 

You took risks in your writing and it paid off. Well done. 

Parents, remember assembly is now in the morning on Friday. Please come along. 

Today we had Strike Percussion come and preform some of their cool as beats

Here are some videos of our time with them. 

Check out the link for more videos:

Mrs Tollestrup and Mrs Taylor with Strike

"They were cool as" said Compton

"You were a cool dancer and drummer" said Latrell

"My favourite part was when Mrs Tollestrup had to go on stage and drum" said Chrysela

"I like the fire" said Charlie

 We were finding WOW

 They persist

 They had to strive for accuracy to be this good. 

 Here are some people taking risks.

 They were very creative 

 They played music with fire - WOW 

This week we were so lucky to get our new furniture. 

We now have more space and our classroom looks colourful and tidy. It was very exciting. 

We then designed the new layout of the class. We all decided to try new things everyday to see what works for us. 

We have 2x tall tables- These are for when you want to stand up and work.

4x  moon tables- these a sit down tables.

And 1x kneeling table because some of us like to sit on our bums or knees and work. 

Take a look at our new classroom ! 

"Welcome back everyone" said Compton

 Today we made a bubble mixture for writing. We each had a turn and we created the most amazing bubbles. We had to think flexibly because we used string for the wand and that did not work. Ella came us with a amazing idea to use rubber bands. 'It was so cool" said Blair. 

 Compton and Te Tawhao thought it was a great idea to use filters. It worked really well. 

 Lesieli's bubble went really high

 We had a treaty tree. We each did a autumn leaf to represent us. Our new rules are:

To respect each other and our classroom

Say Please, Thank you and Sorry 

Do not bully

Use your Habits

Focus on learning and manage yourself 

Be positive and mindful