During Discovery we made pancakes, We learnt the the pancake bubbles when it is ready to be flipped. Thanks Mrs Manuel for helping us. 

 Here is Kleshay's salt dough face. We had heaps of fun molding the dough into different shapes.

 This week we planted our IA garden. We planted kumera, beans, brussel sprouts, carrots and cauliflower. We hope to make a soup out of the vegetables later in the year. 

                 Meet our new friend, Jade. She is year 4 and joined our class last week.

On Thursday 9th May we had an exciting visiter to the school. They were called Rhythmic Beats. 
We each had a drum and we learnt two tricky beats. It was so exciting. We had to persist because at times it was really hard. We had to listen really hard to the beat. 

We are really good at Managing Impassivity 

We had a WOW moment listening to them

Take a look at our video

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Term 2

This week we have gotten stuck into our Reading and Maths and write a beautiful story about the life cycle of a butterfly. 

Take a look at some of our Maths groups working on Place Value.

Using place value with money 

 Using place value with counters 

This Term we decided to use kind words with one another. So when you are star of the day you get your special moment. Take a look at what we through of Sonia and Israel. They are so lovely. 

This term we are looking into Maori Culture. Today we started to learn our Te Pepeha. Try practicing your at home. 

Ka tangi te tītī, ka tangi te kākā, ka tangi hoki ahau, Tihei Mauri Ora!

Ko _name_________ tōku ingoa.

E _____age_______ ōku tau.

Ko _____creative kiwis______ tāku akomanga.

He tau _year___ ahau ki te kura o Rowandale.

Nō reira, tēna koutou, tēna koutou, huri noa te whare, tēna koutou katoa.

Well Done to the Rowandale Choir for such a fantastic recording. 

Have a listen 

Stars of the week this week were Makaia, England, Andraeyos, Viliami and Lilly.

This week we made a Habits of Mind music video. 
Take a look:

Star of the day today was Jovan

Today we had the most amazing listening discovery time. 

First we talked about what listening looks like and sounds like. We thought is sounded like nice words, please and thank you, soft voices and Shylo modeled it by saying "I like your idea lets play together". We thought it looked like sharing and letting everyone play together. 

Here is what we did 

We listened and drew what we heard 

                                  We blind folded someone and directed them to build a tower.

                                                  We had to listen for direction to finish the maze.

                               

Star of the day today is Faafetai.

Today we went to the sandpit and we made teams of three and four. We made sand castles and we dug tunnels. "we put sand in buckets to make the castles" Said Faafetai. When it was time to go back to class we had fun busting down our castles. We all helped to pack up the sand.