School Certificate - Alofa

Well done Alofa, in your short time at Owairaka you have set a great example for others with your approach to learning. You are an amazing writer, you joined a Cultural Group at short notice, and you have made some great friendships.

What a great start!

Te Reo lessons at Nga Ringa Awhina

Room 19 have enjoyed their Te Reo Maori lessons this year. Thanks to Whaea Carol for your work to support our learning of the reo.

Special Certificate Winners

We had a special assembly during week 8 to recognise some individuals who stood out during their Cultural rehearsals and performances recently.

FIVE children from Room 19 were recognised by their group tutors. Well done to Danica, Carlos, Christian, Sal, and Cade.

Special congratulations also to Madalin, who was part of the Year 4/5 Girls relay team at the recent Eden Albert Athletics day. They placed second. Awesome!

Beach Ed @ Pt Chev

Tuesday was our Beach Education Day. We visited Pt Chevalier Beach and Park to take part in a range of beach and land activities.

We really enjoyed the free swim time, sand castle building competitions, musical towels, as well as the cricket and T-ball games that we have been learning at school.

Thanks to our awesome helpers: Mags, Laura, Warrick, and Taz. Thanks also to Mrs Mudgway for organising a great day out.

Cultural Festival 2019

Saturday was the Eden Albert Cultural Festival at Rocket Park. Congratulations to all of the children who performed in groups (every Room 19 child joined a group!) and thank you to all the parents and families who came along to support. 

Groups are performing one more time this year, on Thursday 28th, starting at 4.30pm.

You can see more photos at https://www.owairaka.school.nz/events/cultural-festival

Only Rain Down the Drain!

During Green Week, Room 19 had a visit from the Tread Lightly Caravan. We learnt about the importance of putting only clean water down our drains, and we thought lots about where our water goes. We made our own pledges (see above) to share with our families.

Check out some of the work the Caravan is doing at www.facebook.com/treadlightlycaravan

School Certificate - Ali

Tino pai Ali - you have been working really hard in your reading group this term. You have learnt lots of essential words, which is helping you to read fluently!

What a great example for your classmates. Keep it up.

Owairaka Athletics Day 2019

Room 19 and the other children in Years 5-6 had a great day at the local Lovelock Track this week, competing at the annual Owairaka Athletics Day.

Room 19 was well represented in the placings, and every single child entered multiple events. Well done for giving it a go!

Special mention to Carlos, Brianna, Madalin, and Dayton - who were our class relay team, and placed a close 2nd in the Puriri relay.

Caught Being Good - Danica

Room 19 learners have enjoyed our homework 'letter projects' during terms two and three this year. We have learnt so many new facts because of these inquiries into things we are interested in.

Danica completed her home project every week, and loves sharing with the class. Thanks for such informative fact sharing Danica!

School Certificate - Vihaan

Ka pai Vihaan - you have shown that you are  great learner because you have been listening, you have been asking questions to clarify your learning, and you have been sharing your ideas in class. 

We still have lots of exciting learning to go in term four, so keep up the good work.

Our first Garden to Table lesson

This Wednesday was Room 19's first lesson at Garden to Table. We had so much fun learning about Niuean food and cooking some delicious recipes. You can see what we cooked on the G2T blog.

https://odsg2t.blogspot.com/p/recipes.html

Garden to Table begins!

This term, Room 19 children will be taking part in the Garden to Table program, every Wednesday (times rotate weekly). If you or a family member are available to help, please let the school know. You can help every week or just once!

Here are a couple of skill videos to watch in preparation for our first lesson:

Know your knife

Chopping and slicing

Welcome to Term Four

Welcome back to Room 19. Here are a few of the exciting activities and learning we have planned for this term:

- Puriri team Athletics training begins (week 1)
- Garden 2 Table begins (Wednesday weekly)
- Orchestra Visit (week 2)
- Owairaka Athletics Day (week 4)
- R19 Community Gardens Trip (week 5)
- Eden Albert Cultural Festival (week 6)
- Family Fun Night (week 7)
- Beach Education (week 8)

Remember to keep an eye on our class blog for regular updates through the term.

Term 3 DISCO Day!

Happy Disco Day from Room 19! We enjoyed dressing up in LOUD clothes, to show our support for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Special congratulations to Liberty (best dressed Puriri girl), and Ina (best girl dancer), you made your Room 19 classmates very proud!

Caught Being Good - Byesion

Well done Byesion, you have been an awesome role model with your learning lately - always looking for ways to challenge yourself in class.

You have learnt lots about place value in maths, this will help with your problem solving for the rest of 2019!

Get ready for LOUD shirt day

The theme for our end of term discos is Loud Shirt Day.  Loud Shirt Day is an annual event held every September, and is all about getting loud and raising funds to help deaf children learn to listen and speak.  Money raised for Loud Shirt Day goes to The Hearing House and the Southern Cochlear Implant Programme so that deaf and hearing-impaired children get the therapy they need to listen and speak like hearing kids.

Owairaka would like to encourage everyone to start thinking about what bright coloured clothing they could wear to our end of term Loud Shirt Day Discos.  We ask that everyone brings a coin donation for the Loud Shirt Charity. Donations will be collected on Disco Day - Friday 27 September (the last day of Term 3).

Art Exhibition 2019

We hope you have had time to check out our awesome school Art Exhibition in the hall over the last two days. Have a look at just a few photos of artwork here, or go to 

https://www.owairaka.school.nz/events/art-exhibition for more.

Owairaka Art Exhibition is coming!

The Owairaka Art Exhibition (and 90th Anniversary) is coming. All children and classes will have artwork on display in the school hall, beginning Tuesday 17th September at 9am. Be sure to come and have a look, and bring interested friends and family too.

School Certificate - Brianna

Congratulations Brianna - our school certificate winner for this week. You are such a good person to have in Room 19 because of your excellent attitude to learning, school life, and your friends.

Miharo!

Caught Being Good - Barton-Junior

Ka pai Barton-Junior, you have been working extra hard in your reading group this term to figure out lots of new words, and you are getting really good at sharing your thoughts about what you have been reading.

Tino pai!

'C' homework by Rose

Rose worked super hard to complete her "C" homework recently. Unfortunately, she missed out on being able to share it at our Puriri assembly. So here you go, a blog post just for Rose!

Tongan Language Week

Room 19 celebrated Tongan Language Week by reading stories with some Tongan characters and themes.

We learnt about the important uses of ALL the parts of the coconut tree, and also what to do when your fishing expedition fails!

Ma'u ha aho lelei!

Book Week 2019

Happy Book Week from all of us here at Owairaka. Can you guess who some of the characters in these pictures are?

Thank you to our awesome Library team, who organised so many exciting and interesting activities to remind us how fun books are.

Caught Being Good - Liberty

Miharo Liberty! You have shown great confidence this term with sharing your ideas in your learning groups, especially with your thinking in maths. You have worked really hard to understand ideas about division and fractions.

Keep up your awesome attitude to learning!

Paper Marbling with Paula

By now your child will have bought home their very own marbled diary and bookmark.

We learnt about the art of paper marbling in class. We chose our own colours and experimented with different combinations. We think the results are pretty cool!

Caught Being Good - Sal

Ka pai Sal - your classmates value your increased contributions to our maths discussions. You have been working really hard on sharing objects in a set equally, and on understanding fractions. Keep up the excellent effort.

Some keen Room 19 Wednesday Walkers

Holiday Reading Champions

Congratulations to all of the super Room 19 readers who completed their Holiday Reading Logs, you contributed to winning this shiny certificate, and new books for our class library.

School Certificate - Marcella

Marcella and her family show Kaitiaki by walking to and from school most days - and it is quite a walk!

Marcella has also put lots of effort into her first two home learning projects this term. We can't wait to see what she decides to do for her next project!

Caught Being Good - Maia

Ka pai Maia - caught being good in Room 19 this week. We have been doing lots of talking in class about asking for help when you need it, and Maia has been really extending her learning and thinking, especially in reading comprehension group time.

You are a great learner because you want to get better, nice one Maia. Well done for your commitment to Puriri Netball this year also!

Drama time in our School Library

During our weekly library visits, the children in Room 19 have shown a keen interest in entertaining their classmates with drama. This week, it was the turn of Josh, Palak, and Vea. They presented the play "I Love My New Toy", a book in the series by Mo Willems.

Welcome to Term Three!

Welcome back to Room 19. Here are a few of the exciting activities and learning we have planned for this term:

- A brand new homework format (week 1)

- Green Week (week 2)

- Tae Kwon Do lessons (begins week 2)

- Choose Tuesday #2 (begins week 2)

- R19 Community Gardens trip (week 4)

- Book Week (week 6 - start thinking about a book character you can dress up as!)

- Owairaka School Art Exhibition (week 9)

Remember to keep an eye on our class blog for regular updates through the term.

Music Lessons with Mal

For the last five weeks, Room 19 has being going to music lessons with Mr Lakatani. We have learnt to use new instruments like the guitar, ukulele, marimba, African drum, and the drum kit. We have also learnt some new skills, including keeping a beat and reading musical notes.

Thank you Mr Lakatani for such exciting and energetic lessons. Mafola!

Room 19 enjoying our Duffy books

Caught Being Good - Rose

Ka pai Rose, you always give quality contributions to class discussions. You are a great role model with the 'talk moves' you use - like agreeing, adding on, or rephrasing what your classmates have shared.

Matariki Glow Show

This week the Puriri team took a bus ride to a special Matariki show! It was held in a real theatre and it was very entertaining. The show involved some skilled puppeteering with amazing puppets which glowed in the dark under special lights. It was a lot of fun. 

Thank you to Danica's mum, Laura, for helping to make our visit happen.