Our Class Assembly

This week was our class assembly. We were given the job of showing the school one of our values: Consistency, so we made a short video to tell everyone about it. We did some amazing acting and added some cool stop motion effects (and some even cooler effects on the short introduction videos that we had at the assembly). A couple students got awards today, but Mr Davidson forgot to take a picture. He'll sort that out next week so as to not ruin the surprise. Have a look at our video:

Newsletter

Here is the newsletter that was sent home today. I'm working on a way to have these all available for download somewhere on this blog, so watch this space (or the space to the right of this space).

I just want to comment on a few things in the newsletter:

1) Congratulations to both Trey and Mu for coming to school EVERY DAY of Term One. Amazing!

2) Don't forget Park and Walk Day on Monday. Meet at the church or the park and walk with a huge group of people (and also get some Hot Chocolate when you arrive at school).

3) If you got the paper copy of the newsletter, don't forget to fill in the slip at the back and return it to school. Your child(ren) could win a prize!

UPDATE: Sometimes I even surprise myself. I've shared the newsletters (the last two at least) on the sidebar, underneath the categories and above the Rowandale School Calendar).

FMS Sport

This week we had our first FMS sport lesson. We learned how to side step. Have a look at the Pic Collage we made of our time.

Making Fourteen AND Fifteen

This week some of our groups were able to make Pic Collages showing all the ways we can make both 14 and 15! They had to be very clever and work together by taking different jobs. Well done. Have a look at all of our work:

Te Kupu o te Wiki

This week's word is manu . Do you know what that means? If you're the first Meerkat to comment with the correct answer will get 5 house points. Every other Meerkat who comments will get 2 house points. Good luck!

Sustainable Coastlines

Today the whole school went to the hall and we learned what happens when rubbish goes to the sea. A man named Ryley (a different Ryley from the one in our class).

First Ryley showed us pictures of rubbish at the beach. We saw plastic bags, drink bottles, gloves, lolly wrappers and sticks.

Then we saw the pictures of a dead bird and a turtle. The bird had lots of rubbish in his belly and the turtle had small plastic ring around him. His shell was squished in the middle.

Next Ryley told us that we could help thes sea creatures by picking up rubbish. Even the land creatures can eat the rubbish. He told us the rubbish gets to the sea through the drain.

So, when we went back to class, we picked up rubbish. We even looked in the drains.

We thought the rubbish was yucky. Seeing the sea creatures made us feel sad and sick because rubbish isn't food. 

Making Thirteen (Part II)

Here are the Pic Collages from the last two groups. We made 13 once again. Can you see all the different ways we made thirteen? Which number do you think will come next?

Making Thirteen (Part I)

This week we continued making our teen numbers. We're up to 13 now. See all the different ways we made the number. We are getting better at it. We started working as a team and used lots of materials.

Ryley's Video

Natalia's Video

Paris's Video

Short and Long (and Tall)

Last week we started learning about measurement. On Wednesday we talked about what long and short mean. We all got long and short objects in the class. Then we finished the lesson off by building a tall tower in our groups. We only had a few minutes and we had to work together. The rule was that we could only get one block at a time. Have a look at our winning tower, by Paris, Koringoa and Asafo: