Ki Oranga

Cook Island Language week is this week
We are all entering in the language video challenge to win a Cook Island lunch and show.

We learnt that the Cook Islands are made up of 15 islands and there are no volcanos on the island. The island is fill off rocky caves, mountain and surrounded by beautiful clear sea.

Check out our day 1 Video

Ka Kite

Kia Orana Whanau 

This week is learning conferences and I would love to see you. 
Please pop in Monday or Tuesday anytime from 3-7pm, even if you do not have an appointment. 
Else feel free to come in in the morning from 8am onwards. 

Im so keen to share how amazing your child is with you. 

Talk soon 

Anna :) 

What a TOTALLY AWESOME DAY !!!!!!!!!!

Today we had our first swimming lesson at Manurewa Pools, We are so lucky to get free community lessons. Take a look at our day.

We got new gears from Kidscan, Thank you so much. We are now warm and dry and it has been a bit hard on us. Thank you so much to all that donate to Kidscan it is an amazing sponsor of our school.


We also  have two new class pets, Flash and Ruby. They are snails and live in our snail hut in our classroom. We feed them and give them water. We are excited to watch and learn from them.

 Taking risks in the pool 

 Snails, Flash and Ruby 

Thank you Kidscan 

This morning the IA's had our own commonwealth games.
We played tennis, basket ball, javelin, egg and spoon and races. We did not win but we had a great time. We then came back into write about how to play the different sports. We wrote an explanation of the sport so others can play too.

Danny and Freedym even got to take their writing to Mrs Sheridan- Smith to read. Well done boys!

 Tennis 

 Basketball

 The winners 

 Amazing writers 

What a great week 1.
We had a Powhiri on Wednesday to welcome Mr Vasau. We are very excited to meet him. Here he is on road patrol.

                               

We also welcome Tuko back to school. He went away for a term and we were so happy to see him pop back through the doors.

The commonwealth games started this week. We are researching Nigeria and will be rooting for them. They have already won a  bronze medal in weightlifting.

Its Maori Language week. The word of teh week is Apop. That means tomorrow in maori. I wonder what the word will be next week?

Take a look at our selfies with the Te Kupu o te wiki.

Talofa lava  Rockstars

I can't wait to jump into Term 3 together.

Who has been reading these holidays? I have been reading a book called' fault in the stars' and also have been watching movies.

The teachers have been in school this week and we have got some cool things planned for the term.

Parents and Caregivers, Please feel free to pop in and say kia ora next week, it will be great to catch up. We also have learning conversation in Week 3 and our powhiri next Wednesday to welcome Karl Vasau as the new principal of Rowandale.

Matariki kite

Today we are making matariki kites. We have worked with others and persisted.

We found humour when we did it wrong 

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