Today was prize giving for this year. A chance for all of the hard working students throughout the year to be rewarded for all of their perseverance and awesomeness!
The Titans got a good haul of prizes and trophies and certificates.
CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!!!
Here is the list of our winners:
For our value certificates:
Participation: Jodeci
Respect: Meleana
Integrity: Christian
Determination: Paris
Empathy: Unique
For our achievement certificates:
Kruz: For much improved behaviour and attitude
Precious: For working creatively
Tina: For always being amazing
Trophies:
Anaru: Academic Excellence (runner up)
Victoria: Overall sportswoman
Charlotte: Overall sportswoman (runner up)
Connor: ICT award
Rhys: ICT award (runner up)
Heremia: ICT award (runner up)
Raukawa: Outstanding contribution to culture (runner up)
Afizah: Outstanding creative writing (runner up)
Brianna: Performing arts (runner up)
Amy: Citizenship award (runner up)
Neha: Speech award
Sela: Contribution to sport
Tiana: All round achievement (runner up)
Ayush: Attitude and excellence
Sanford: Attitude and excellence (runner up)
Ella: Service to school
Natalie: Service to school
Mr Bryce - the BoT chairperson
Rush - SKIDS big kahuna
Kruz with his haul of prizes!
Sela and her Mum and all the trophies!
Victoria and her proud Mum
Deputy Head boy Ayush and his very proud parents
Christian and his trophy posing with Mum
Kakapo House Captains with their winning house trophy
Miss Neha with her speech trophy
Ella
Sela
Ayush
Connor
Neha
All of the house captains, head students and the tuakana/teina.
We have 2 challenges going on this week in our class. Well they are world wide challenges, but we are participating!
The first challenge is the hour of code. Anyone in the world of any age can log on and practice coding. You can make flappy birds fly, and do some minecraft.
The second challenge is for skoolbo. There's a world cup on at the moment between New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain and the United States.
Rhys working on coding
Brianna top of the Techno Titan leaderboard this morning
Jahvarn and Jodeci helping each other out with coding
On Monday we had a very exciting day at school. We rock climbed, and went to see the Great Wall of China, and the London Eye, and the Taj Mahal. We swam with sharks, and we saw the rice fields in Asia. Please watch our video to see how we did it!
Please comment when you have watched. The class with the most comments and likes on our facebook page will win a Google Cardboard!!!
Last week on Friday Rowandale School had a musical show and each class had to perform a music item that they'd learnt. We had done Jellybeans music over the term and learnt about rhythm and beats and playing the recorder and the xylophone. In class Miss J taught us a bit about reading music, and how to write some. We came up with a plan about 3 items we were going to perform.
1) a group got together on garageband and wrote a piece of music and mashed it together to make an original.
2) body percussion - we used stomping, clapping, and other noises to make percussion
3) bucket drumming - we made some patterns and beats and worked together.
* apples but not bananas
* daffodils but not roses
* skiing but not snowboarding
* running but not walking
* swimming but not water
* tennis but not squash
See if you can solve the pattern and leave a comment below with something else Mrs Tolley might like and not like. Don't tell us the pattern though - let other people solve it for themselves!
In R22 we are learning to be fantastic narrative writers. Today we used Morris the Mankiest Monster as our inspiration. He is going to be the main character in our narratives, but we can choose what happens to him. We read about Morris and how filthy and icky he is, and used the book and our prior knowledge and vocabularies to create a class brainstorm of descriptions. We learnt that the first part of a narrative is the introduction or beginning. This is where you introduce your main characters and describe your setting. Please see our first go at our beginnings. Feel free to leave us feedback on what we could try and work on! Here's a video of the story we watched:
One day there lived an ugly crusty monster.
His name was Morris. It was sunny. Morris is hot so he took his swishy, muddy
blanket off. He was so went outside for swim.
By Jodeci
The beautiful golden sunrays hit Roseville,
the small village north of New York. The sunrays were heading towards a little
old smelly poo house. As soon as they saw it, they turned away and vomited some
yellow sparkles. He woke up and a big grumbling sound came from his stomach. It
scared the lovely sounding birds away from the trees. Crunch, crunch, crunch. That was the sound of
somebody munching some crusty old boogers from their hairy, hairy nose. But who
lives here? That would be Morris - a yucky looking monster with warts on his
back and long sharp, black nails. He’s hideous.
“Hi I’m Morris,” he or what said.Oooo a big whiff of his stinky breath just
hit me and it feels like a slap in the face.
By Amy
Yawn, yawn as Morris slowly waked up in his
compost bed. He slowly stood up and put on his yucky t-shirt with holes and mud
stains everywhere. He went to his cupboard and grabbed a big jar of bogeys as
he put his hand in the jar and grab a big fat bogeys and chucked it in his
green smelly mouth. That bogeys must of made him strong for the start of the
day.
By Unique
Slop, slop. The front of Morris’ revolting
house was falling apart, but Morris didn’t care, he liked his house being
smelly and disgusting. Morris lived in Star Village, a beautiful place and
anyone who lives there has lovely houses but not Morris. His bed is made out of
compost, he has a billion fleas in his eyebrows and he also flosses his teeth
with slugs.
By Afizah
There once lived a monster called Morris.
He lived in a house made of dung. He stretched his hairy legs and opened his
mouth. As he went for a stroll through the Arggghh forest, he felt unhappy and
he went to visit his mother. As he huffed and puffed up the hill he saw his
mother. His mother lived in a small place called Manurewa. He walked for half
an hour. As he arrived at his destination huffing and puffing, he saw his
mother as clean as he ever saw her. His mother’s name is ____________. She is a
tidy person. When he entered her house he felt very tidy. Then he thought to
his self ohhh where’s my mother gone, what kind of monster is she as every tear
that dropped out of his bung eye, he left with a trail of mud and yellow oozing
wax falling out of his ears. His mother was shocked she had to follow it until
it came to a stop. Ohh does my son live here, ohh what have I done. The bright
shining light hit his window arghh I hate seeing sunshine yuck I really need a
bath that will make me better.
By Tina
There was a mankiest monster called Morris
who lived in a filthy house made of dung. The walls were filled with rusty old
slugs and windows cracked with caterpillars crawling out of them. When the
curtains light out threw the holes onto Morris’ bed, he opens his slimy old
eyes and eyes and yawns loudly. When he yawns you can see little bugs crawling
out of his mouth.
By Meleana
One sunny and shiny day, sun shined into a
little monster’s window named Morris he lives in a house full of dung and
sleeps on a bed full of old compost and he is so gross when he gets up he likes
to go in his bathroom and give his scabs a good pick.
By Paris
One day there was a monster named
Morris.The monster lived like it was
creek and his house smells like poo because he is paru and it smells like
sewage.
By Rawiri
The bright, shining sun glowing inside
Morris’ eyes. Surrounded by dirt and also compost over him. He tossed and
turned on his dirty bed with lovely bird tweeting at him but really the bird
are tweeting “your house stinks really bad, go live somewhere else”.
By Natalie
A few months ago the government had heard
that there was an ugly and filthy monster living in a dump that looked just
like a wharepaku. This monster’s name was Morris. M for monster, O for odour, R
for rugged, another R for rashes on his body, I for icky and S for silly
monster.
By Sela
900 years ago there was a monster called
Morris, he lived in a mud village. Morris was the only monster that lived in
that village. He had a disgusting and a filthy house. No one would even go
close to where he has been living in a house made out of cow dung and he wore
potato sacks and you could smell the dung from 600 metres away. He had showers
in the sewage pipes. He kept his clothes in the portaloo. He washes his clothes
in the toilet.
By Ayush
One shining and bright morning a little
cheeky monster lives in a disgusting, terrible and smelly house in Auckland.
The giant sound that was stomping around his house and everyone waked in the
city. No one even liked Morris in Auckland because is smells like a rotten egg.
He wanted to start his day very good but when he went to his mirror and yelled
“good morning” to everyone and everyone hear it in New Zealand in Australia.
By Neha
One hot summer’s day as the sunlight
struggled to shine into Morris’ filthy dung house. He would wake up and sigh,
who to share day with? No one to play with me - just me, myself and I.
By Charlotte
One sunny, hot day there was a monster who
was the most messiest, most disgusting monster you would have ever met. His
name is Morris and he is yellow and has some orange patches. Morris’ eyes are
very different, one eye is small and the other is huge. His house is just like
walking into a house full of rubbish, but to be honest Morris thinks that his
house was beautiful (it is so not beautiful). One day Morris’ mother, Mary wasn’t messy, she
was so clean, she had a sign on her door saying “no dust”. Mary expected
Morris’ house to be perfect.
By Ella
One day I was walking to the theme park
with my friends Jodeci and Rawiri. We
went on the Stratosphere, then we got off and we saw Connor our enemy. He
didn’t see us, he went to the back.
By Brianna
One dark and stormy night, lived a beast
called Chacho. He lived in the sewer and his house was made out of number 2,
also called poo. Chacho was green beast with hairy, snotty nose with freaking
yellow glowing eyes with disgusting yellow teeth filled with slugs and slimy
bugs. His bed was a water bed, but it wasn’t filled with water and next to his
bed was buckets of yellow and green water. Then one day the crocodiles heard a
huge growl but all Chacho can hear was his yawning and up he got of his number
1 bed.
By Tiana
There is the mankiest monster called
Morris. He lived in a village called Morrisville. He lived in a house made of
dung. Ding Dong someone is here. He goes to open the door, it was his mum for a
visit to came and see him. But there was a twist.
By Merekara
One hot day Morris awoke and didn’t feel
dirty enough so he bathed in sewage water inside his crusty old house. He lived
in a village called Morrisville. That’s because everyone is named Morris.
Morris is the most ugliest, most hideous, most stinkiest ogre in Morrisville.
He has potato sacks as clothes and has holes in everything.
By Sanford
One day a hairy, fat, smelly monster woke
up with a giant death sprea of it was called the yawn and it was the most
terrifying thing in the world but that’s not it, there’s more to come. He got
out of his lovely muddy bed and walk outside to his brown green swamp.But when he walks he leaves a trail of
death! You had to be 600 metres away just to be safe from his deadly stench.
By Christian
Once in a house made of dung there was a
little monster named Morris. One day Morris was bored so he took a bath in
sewage water. He still felt bored. Since he still felt bored he went for a
stroll through the woods but then… He tripped on a roof sticking out of the
path and fell directly into a crystal clear puddle and as he got up out of the
puddle to his surprise he was…. clean!
We have started a High Flyer project this term and we are going to do a lot of work on collaboration.
After a big discussion today we came up with this list of what we think collaboration is and what it could mean:
Collaboration means…
groups
everyone’s ideas made into 1
everyone working together on one thing
putting something together that the whole class (or group) did
working together and sharing ideas and coming up with something that everyone is happy with
compromise, teamwork, working together, patience, listening, taking turns
This was our maths today. We collaborated on some maths problems. It was trickier typing down our working out than we thought but we gave it a good go. We worked well in our groups of 2 and 3 but we all have something to work on next time. We used different strategies but decided that was ok.
This week we have had 2 projects to finish. One was retelling the legend of how Manurewa got it's name. We chose to retell it in the form of an iMovie.
By Ella, Sela, Charlotte, Victoria, Natalie and Tiana
Today the Year 6's went to Motat to help us with our Innovative Warriors unit on Flight. We started by walking around and having free time looking at the historical village. We then went on a tram to the hangar with all the planes. We had a session with Melissa who taught us a lot about flight, and we did some experiments with her. After lunch we had an hour to walk around and look through the museum and explore the planes.
Please look out for more follow up work coming soon!
Kruz: I learnt that planes need thrust to go forward, and lift and weight to help you fly. Ayush: my favourite part was going to the old village and I learnt that Isaac Newton was a scientist. Sanford: When I was in the old school one of the old rules was about not using Maori. I enjoyed walking through the village. Unique: I liked the plane that was also a boat and could land in water. Charlotte: my favourite part was when we learnt how planes fly and I learnt that a crop duster plane replaced a tiger moth and was built in 1950. Heremia: I learnt that there is a fighter plane that is painted black on the bottom to camouflage it in the night sky and green so when its on the ground planes in the air can't see it. Precious: I saw the pumps in the boiler room that used to push the water around Auckland. Brianna: I learnt about Keith Parker and my favourite part was doing all the experiments with Melissa. Sela: I learnt that Isaac Newton said that every force has an equal and opposite reaction. If you have lift you also have drag and it's equal. Afizah: I learnt how water pumps and other machinery worked in the olden days. Ella: I learnt that some planes can land in water and my favourite part was learning about how planes worked. Tiana: I learnt that in the olden days people used to bathe in little grey tubs and my favourite part was looking at the olden days stuff - from like the 1800s. Neha: I learnt that the solent plane was half plane and half boat. My favourite part was walking around the village. Merekara: My favourite part was doing the experiments in the classroom. Raukawa: I liked doing the experiments in the classroom. When I did the propeller I hit myself in the nose. I liked learning about the planes at the museum and how they got the planes into the building. Natalie: I learnt about the 4 forces - lift is up, weight weighs down, thrust sends you forward and drag holds you back. They have to be equal so the plane can fly. Victoria: I really enjoyed learning about the planes and looking for the clues. There was one called the mosquito. Jodeci: I learnt that they used a coding machine for talking to each other when they were in the planes. Christian: In the big plane that is a night fighter they are not allowed lights so the enemy can't see their position. Tina: My favourite part was going on the tram between the 2 museums. Connor: I learnt that some of the planes in the museum are really fast WW1 planes, and my favourite part was looking around at the planes. Paris: My favourite part was learning about the planes and I liked the big one that could land in water. Meleana: My favourite part was going on the tram and what I learnt was about how planes fly and the forces that keep them in the air. The plane that could land on water was called the solent.
Today we made a video explaining how we can show consideration in school by what we say and what we do. We had lots of parts in the movie and we wrote and directed. We are playing this movie for our team at assembly today to teach them about consideration.
* I learnt that the first Maori King was born where the airport is now (Anaru)
* I learnt that now only Maori people built the marae - there were lots of different cultures (Ayush)
* Taiahas used to be made out of whale bone (Merekara)
* We learnt about our ancestors (Brianna)
* Rowandale's logo is the kite that the two brothers flew (Natalie)
* The two brothers had to weave their kite string around the mountain (Charlotte)
* One of the ancestors had a moko of two birds hongi-ing each other (Victoria)
* Tane had no girlfriend so he made one out of dirt. The gods said he had to hongi her to make her alive (Jahvarn)
* The taiaha was from Manaia (Sanford)
* The carvings had a story (Tina)
* Tane separated his mother and father (Tiana)
* The backbone of the marae reporesents our cultures (Kruz)
* There were a lot of patterns from a lot of different cultures (Afizah)
* The pukana originates from arguments (Unique)
* We learnt the body parts about our Marae (Raukawa)
* Matua has been at the marae for 7 years (Neha)
* The paintings on the roof represented veins and blood (Amy)
* The ribs of the marae held them up (Rawiri)
* Carvings originated from the patterns in the wood that the bugs made (Christian)
* The marae fundraising began in 1971 (Meleana)
* The carvings remember the people that passed away (Heremia)
* The weaving stairs represent the stairway to heaven (Angelina)
On Wednesday 12 August, 20 Titans, 10 Marvellous Meerkats, Miss J, Mrs Lee and Mr Davidson went to the Google Kids Summit at Hobsonville Point School.
Miss J's group taught first. They taught the other kids about animation on google slides. It was cool because so many people wanted to go that it got moved to the library. The internet kept dropping out but we still managed to get our ideas across. It was awesome. Some people made some very creative animations.
Mrs Lee's group taught in the last session. They had heaps of people too in their session who were very excited about google cardboard. The photospheres were amazing and the cardboard apps were really, really fun.
When we weren't teaching we got to go to sessions. Some people went to writing ones, some people learnt about wriitng music and doing music videos. There was a good session called cool apps and we learnt how to do a powtoon. WE also went on a tour of the school. It was really flash and had no walls inside and the playground was pretty cool.
We won some good prizes at prize giving. Neha won a chromecast, we won some vouchers.
Make sure you watch out for our thoughts and reflections from the day!
On Wednesday 12 August we are presenting at the GEG Summit at Hobsonville Point Primary School. Anyone who wants to learn how to do animation on google slides is welcome to have a look. Please comment if you find it useful, or if there's anything we can improve on.
This week we celebrated Cook Islands language week at school.
We put together a research project as a class. We collaborated on google slides. We each chose something to research and contribute a page.
We worked together really well. We focussed on our research, not copying words off the internet and making sure we put it in our own words, making our pages easy to read by using good publishing skills.
On Friday 31 July we had a powhiri for our new teachers and new students. A few Titans had some very important roles during the powhiri. See if you can spot them!
The person leaving says e noho ra.
The person staying replies with e haere ra.
Today the Titans made a few videos to show what we had learnt. We had 3 ideas so we decided to do them all, just because we could! We are getting quite good at filming and iMovies.
The Titans and the Meerkats are raffling off a computer to raise money to get us to the Google Summit. This is happening in week 4 and it's at Hobsonville Point Primary School so it's a long bus ride.
Tickets are $2 and we are selling them every morning before school by the PE shed. Please come and see us if you want to be in the draw to win!
Miss J showed us a book today which related to our challenge for Maori Language Week. It's called Kei Te Pehea Koe? The illustrations are pretty cool. Here is a youtube video of the book if you want to have a look. It's a bit opera-ish and plinky plonky, but the story and illustrations are cool!
Our challenge today was to use tena koe, tena korua and tena koutou. You say tena koe when you are saying hello to one person. You say tena korua when you are saying hello to two people. You say tena koutou if you are saying hello to three or more people. Here is our video for today.
The race is on to fill up our reading at home chart in Room 22.
A good way to do that at home is to read books from this website. If you read a story and have told someone about what happened (or read it with someone) then write it in your notebook and get it signed and bring it to class!
Our topic this term is flight. We are specifically focusing on our kite and the story behind it, but there are also many other ways we could think about flight.
Have a look and see what we thought of. If you like you can add your own (but add your name so we can credit you with the idea!).
Today Miss J got a delivery of brand new basketballs, netballs, soccer balls and rugby balls. They were sitting in boxes and she needed us to count them to make sure they were all there. Then she tried to make us do writing - and well that wasn't as exciting as all the new PE gear. So we made a deal - as long as we finished our writing and publishing we were allowed to pump up all the balls. We had such a busy morning but we all finished what we needed to. Miss J let us play with the basketballs outside - just to make sure they worked properly!!
Kruz and Jahvarn working hard
Unique, Afizah and Amy finishing their publishing
Brianna, Meleana and Tina being productive
Victoria, Ella, Natalie, Tiana and Charlotte pumping
Ayush and Anaru
Testing to see if the basketballs worked...turns out they are awesome!
This week 42 Year 5 and 6 students headed off on a plane down to Wellington to perform at the Kapo Kapo festival. They have been practising all year, and now they get to show off all their hard work.
Here is the video showing performance #1 - prepared to be amazed!
We found out today that we might get a chance to interview Sir Graham Henry tomorrow.
Our first activity of the day was to discover who we might be interviewing. Miss J cut up a jigsaw for us and we worked in 5 teams to sort out the mystery. We discovered that it was Sir Graham.
We recognised his face but we didn't really know too much about him.
Our second job of today was to work together to find out all of the facts we could about him. Some of R21 had never worked collaboratively in google docs before so it was cool to show them what to do.
Today was the last day of Miss Anderson's practicum. She has been with us for 5 weeks. We made this video to show how grateful we are that she worked so hard for us!
Today we have been looking at animation using google slides. We worked in groups to produce one piece of animation. Please vote in the comments below and say which you like the best. Prizes for the winners :-)
