TERM THREE - Week 5

First of all an apology on behalf of Mrs Aliifaalogo and Room 18, because we did not have a blog last week due to our teachers absence.  She was away and so our blog was away too!! 

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

Room 18, would like to wish all dads, fathers and male role-models a HUGE 'Happy Fathers Day' this Sunday.

What is Fathers Day?

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers / male role-models and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds and the influence of our fathers and male role models in today's society.

As part of our writing experience this week, we have been writing about a male role-model in our lives who has influenced us and has helped us grow.  So we wrote some paragraphs that describes what our male role-model means to us and how they have helped us grow.

It was an expressive writing task, that helped us describe and express how much our male 

role-model really mean to us.

It was an emotional task for us, because our male role-models mean so much to us.

Sorry we do not have everyone in our blog today, we have some students who are absent.

Male role-models are like fathers, grand-dads, uncle, cousin, brother, good friend etc.

We hope you enjoy reading what we have written, thank you to ALL male role-models around the world, especially those who are important to us.

From Rm 18

TERM THREE - Week 4

The Manurewa Diversity Festival of 2019

On Tuesday the 13th of August 2019, the Rowandale Choir had the privilege of once again, performing at the Diversity Festival of 2019, along with 15 other schools from the Manurewa district:

Manurewa Central

Waimahia Intermediate

Greenmeadows Intermediate

Manurewa Intermediate

Manurewa South

Everglade

Homai

Roscommon

Randwick Park

Hillpark

Manurewa East

St Annes

Manurewa West

Clendon Park

The Rowandale choir is made up of 30 students in the Year 5 & 6 level from Team Whakapono from Rooms 18, 20, 21, 23 & 24. The choir trainer is Mrs Aliifaalogo, supported by Whaea Lois.

Two painstaking terms of vigorous practices at school and Greenmeadows intermediate had finally paid off. We even had one of our very own students Essence Puha-McGrath from Rm 18, do a solo piece, the Karanga for the National Anthem.

Songs ranged from 'Isn't she lovely' by Stevie Wonder, 'Super Trooper' by Abba, 'Hakuna Matata' from the recent and ever popular movie the Lion King.

Also and oldie but a goodies 'Hats'.

It was a night full of children's voices, hard work, pride and participation. It brought unity in our community, showcasing the many talents we have here at Rowandale school.

A huge thank you to the Principal's of Manurewa for putting this together, band members, choir trainers, sound technicians, the m.c, stage manager and especially to Cathy Chambers (Principal of Greenmeadows Intermediate) and Felicity Auva'a who were again the key to a very successful Diversity Festival of 2019.

TERM THREE - Week 3

Cook Island Language Week 2019

TAKU RAMA, TAAU TOI: ORA TE REO / MY TORCH, YOUR ADZE: THE LANGUAGE LIVES

Rm 18, along with the rest of the school, had the previlige in participating in yet one of NZ's education diversity incentives, Language weeks. This week was the beautiful Cook Islands.

Our objective this week:

That students will participate in the celebration of the Cook Islands language, in class, around the school and even at home.

It was not only about the students, but that our teachers and staff show our community of love in coming together to acknowledge and learn about the Cook Islands.

We began our week with a reading on Tivaevae.  We were reading for meaning, to understand about a unique tradition of the Cook Islands.

The Margaret Mahy reading group researched further about the Tivaevae and created a little book with the information and facts gathered.

We then integrated Tivaevae into our maths programme, looking at shapes and patterns of the Tivaevae, also being able to reflect, rotate and translate shapes.

As you can see above, we also used what we found out about Tivaevae and the Cook Islands and created some acrostic poems for Writing.

We celebrated the end of Cook Island Language week with some performances 

and last but not least the FOOD!

We have had a great experience this week in being able to integrate the Cook Island Language week into our classroom programme of learning.