Kia Ora Whanau

Athletics has been our focus this term and for the past couple of weeks we have been learning the skills of High Jump. Thank you to our coaches who come in to teach us every week. Check out some of us in action.

Carmen giving it a go

Dante giving it a go

Juwayne jumping

Kenzo giving it a go

Poem Recital - Congratulations Dante for Winning the Finals (Years 1-3)

Ni Hao, 
Last Term everyone in our class had to choose a Poem that they enjoyed for the Year 1-3 Poem Competition. It was a very scary experience so our teacher prepared us by sharing the Marking Criteria and with a lot of practise. We even had our parents help us at home. Miss Manuele gave us the opportunity to  say it in front of the class if we were brave, which we all did eventually...before the actual class competition. Check out the criteria below along with our video of us giving it a go!

Poem Speech Criteria
1. Volume (Speaks at an appropriate volume)	Loud    Audible   Soft    Wavers	1    2   3
2. Pace (Speaks at a suitable speed)	Flows         Fast          Slow	1    2   3
3. Clarity (Uses a clear voice)	Clear      Slight Slur      Stutter	1    2   3
4. Pause  (Pauses for effect and emphasis is placed on certain words)	Dramatic    Breathy     None	1    2   3
5. Voice Expression (Speaks using an interesting voice)	Lots         Some          None	1    2   3
6. Eye Contact (Makes eye contact with audience)	Lots       Some     Looks down	1    2   3
7. Facial Expression (Feeling, mood)	Animated     Blank     Tense	1    2   3
8. Gestures (Hand moves for feeling, actions)	Too much   Effective    Little	1    2   3
9. Stance (Correct posture, doesn’t fidget)	Firm        Fidgets      Moving	1    2   3
10. Poem Choice	Excellent      Great       Good	1    2   3
Total Score
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From our class competition we had to choose 3 winners to go through to the Semi-Finals. They were Dante (Little Bo-Peep), Joshan (Jack and Jill), Evelynn (I'm a little Teapot). 

At the Fledglings Team Competition Dante Neilson Won and went through to the Finals along with Evelynn who came second. We were extremely excited when Dante was announced the winner of the Poem Recital for the Years 1-3 Poem Recital Competition. 

Congratulations to ALL the students who took part and a HUGE PAKIPAKI to Dante Neilson who represented our class and WON! You totally deserved it! 
Ka Rawe Dante!

WINNER of the Years 1-3 Poem Recital Competition 

Swimming Time

Malo E Lelei

The Incredible Two's really love swimming. For some of us, it is our first time in the water. 

At our first lesson we had to build our confidence being in the water. These are a few photos of us revisiting our skills from Term 1:
1) Entering and exiting safely 
2) Building our confidence in the water.

The Fledglings giving Athletics a go!

Malo Ni, 
On a Monday of every odd week, the Fledglings get together after lunch for Sports. This term, we are focusing on Athletic skills such as; shot-put, discuss, hurdles, standing long jump and sprints. The children are split into 6 groups. Each group spends 10 minutes at each station learning the skills. Ask your child what skills they have learnt and help them practice these at home. 

Niuean Language Week Challenge

Fakaalofa Lahi Atu,
The first week back at school we celebrated Diwali and the Niuean Language. As part of the Niuean Language Week Challenge, we had to learn the Niuean National Anthem.
Check out our video of us trying our best.

Oue Tulou...Incredible Two's

Learning a waiata for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

Kia Ora Koutou Whanau

This week we are learning a waiata called 'Te na Koutou'. These are our leaders who will be teaching the entire class. Thank you to Whaea Sonya for helping Joshan and Carmen with the correct pronouncing of the words.
Ka Rawe Joshan and Carmen!

Malo e lelei,
Uike Katoanga'i o e Lea Faka-Tonga. This week, is Tongan Language Week. We found it a challenge to use the greeting. Check out our video of us giving it a go. 

Mini-Beast Art Work

Hi everyone,

This Term, we are studying about Mini-Beasts. Here are some photos of our Spiders. The body we made out of egg carton with black paint and the legs we made out of pipe cleaners. Check out what we did for Art.

Maths Week - Daily Dollar question for Wednesday

Mahalo,
Below are today's Daily Dollar Questions. Can you answer these? Remember that each correct answer is worth $20. Put your answers in the comment box :-)

Maths Week - Daily Dollar Question for Tuesday

Talofa Lava 

Here are the Daily Dollar Questions for today. Give it a go and see how much money you make.

Maths Week - Daily Dollar Questions for Monday

Bula Vi Naka and WELCOME TO MATHS WEEK 2017

This week, is Maths Week. Miss Manuele will post the 'Daily Dollar Questions' every day. Each question is worth $20. Write your answers in the comment box with your name at the end.
How much money can you make from getting these questions correct?

Please encourage your child to give this a go.

Have fun...remember Maths is fun!

Here is an example of giving it a go - answer as a comment:
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5)
Miss Manuele

Award winners for week 3

Kia Ora whanau,

Congratulations to Daniel Paulo for winning the EMPATHY award this week. We would also like to welcome Daniel and his family to our class and school. Nau mai, Haere mai!

Congratulations also to Mark Bui for winning the Duffy Award. Way to go boys!

Happy Birthday Nico

Kia Ora whanau
We would like to thank Nico's parents and Nico for sharing his birthday with us by bringing in a cake. You are a blessing to our class Nico and we hope that you will continue to enjoy what life has to offer you. Here is a video of us celebrating in style!

Incredible Two's giving Cook Island Language a go!

Kia Orana,
Check out our video on introducing ourselves in Cook Island and our Tivaevae. Thank you to Whaea Sonya and our reliever for supporting us while our teacher was away. 
Meitaki Ma'ata

Listening to Sounds

Kiaora whanau
We have been learning to listen and identify sounds that we can hear. Everyday we practise using our ears to listen to sounds. We started off with listening to environmental sounds, then later moved on to listening to rhyming words from our poems and now we are learning how to listen to sounds made through body percussion. This week we had Joslin and Kim come to teach us different ways to listen. Learning is so much fun. Listening can be very challenging so we are still practising really hard. 

Listening to Rhyming words from our poem

Listening to the sounds using body percussion

Listening to the sounds through story telling

Weaving Portraits

Namaste
In Week 7 we learnt to weave using a portrait of ourselves. We learnt to follow a pattern and to make sure that our strips were the same size. Some of us found this a challenge but we all gave it a go. 
Here are some photos of us giving it a go. 

Celebrating our Support Staff

Kia Ora family and friends

This term we celebrated and acknowledged our support staff. In our class we are very lucky to have Whaea Sonia who supports us with our learning. We are very grateful to her for EVERYTHING that she does for us. We don't say "thank-you" enough and we know that she works just as hard as our teacher. Thank - you Whaea Sonia and to the rest of the support staff for coming to school every day and for looking after us. 

Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Keep your identity alive to thrive

Talofa Lava,
Samoan Language week was celebrated not only in our class but also at our school. 
In our class we have 6 Samoan students who were really helpful throughout the week. We taught the Fledglings team the song, "Vaai i le pepe", which is a song about a butterfly. During the week we had rotations where we got to meet our other class mates and teachers from our team. We enjoyed making our feelers, butterflies, weaving and making a 'ili' (Samoan fan). 

Our challenge for the week was to introduce ourselves in Samoan. We tried our very best. 

Here are some of the highlights from the week. 

Week 4 Adventure

Aloha,
This week we had a Moana themed Mufti to help fundraise money for the Niue Primary School and we also had a Bake Sale. Thank you to all our family and friends for their support. We raised just over $1700.

On Friday we were really excited when our name was announced at assembly for winning the Reading Eggs Trophy for completing the most tasks throughout the school. We had completed over 200 activities in a fortnight. 

Thank you parents for helping your child at home on Reading Eggs. 

This week we would like to give a BIG HIGH FIVE and CONGRATULATIONS to Joshan, Kenzo, Nico and Tuakoi for making progress in their reading. They are now reading at Level 10. 
 
Our goal as a class is to reach Level 14 by the end of the year. Miss Manuele would like to thank your parents for continuing to read with you every night at home. Keep it up!
Congratulations also to Chrisander for winning the PRIDE certificate and to Isaiah for winning the Duffy certificate.

Check out our video from this weeks adventures. We also had our first lesson on the Ukulele...it sure was a challenge. Please leave a comment on our page below. 
Mahalo

Niue Principal (Mrs Vaha) visiting the Incredible Two's

Fakaalofa Lahi Atu,
In week 3, we had Mrs Moka Vaha the Principal of Niue Primary School visiting. During that week we learnt how to say Hello - Fakaalofa Lahi Atu, Good Bye - Koe Kia and Thank-you - Fakaaue Lahi in Niuean. We were able to use it when Mrs Vaha visited our class. 

Fakaaue Lahi Mrs Vaha for visiting the Incredible Two's, we hope that next time you visit you will be able to teach us a Niuean song. We can't wait to see some photos of what school life looks like in Niue when our teacher visits in July. 
Kia Monuina

Assembly with our Buddy Class-Super Heroes

Kia Ora whanau,
In week 2 the Incredible Two's and the Super Heroes led Assembly for the whole school. We really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. Thank you to our whanau who came to support us on the day. 

Here is a video of our assembly for those who couldn't make it. 

Greetings & Road Safety Performance

Class Item

Bernard Manakahia visiting our School

Kia Orana, 
Our school was very lucky to have had Bernard Manakahia visiting our school. He shared with us stories of himself and his family. He challenged us in being able to achieve anything that we want. We were fascinated by the different types of dance styles that he performed. 
Thank you Bernard for sharing your talent with us. Thank you for your words of encouragement. 
Here are some photos and video of his visit.

Activ8 with Incredible Two's

Kia Ora whanau, 

We have Counties Manukau who come in every Tuesday's to run a programme called Activ8 for our Junior Team. This term we will be learning about Rippa Rugby. We started learning the skill of ripping tags off each other and seeing how it feels. It was really exciting. We look forward to it every week. Check out how active we are. Thank you Coach Gafa. See you next week.

Our Journey to the Past

Fakaalofa Lahi atu family and friends,

This term our inquiry is 'Where we are in Place and Time'. The Incredible Two's along with the rest of the Fledglings team got to go on a journey to the past. We visited the Howick Historical Village where we had an experience of how people in New Zealand lived in the colonial days from the 1800's.

We went to the old school house where we curtsied and bowed to the teacher. We sat at old wooden desks and wrote on slates. We made butter with Mrs white and even got to taste it on a cracker. We learnt about the olden day toys and got to experience washing using a washboard. There was a lot to see including some household items that the colonial people used which you wouldn't see in most of our houses today.

Our class inquiry question is 'How have our clothes and transport changed overtime?'

Thank you to all our parent helpers who came along, we couldn't have gone on this trip without your support. 

Take a look at our journey to the past...please leave us a comment below.

Fakaaue Lahi (Thank you)

Miss Manuele teaching us differently

Welcome to Term 2 family and friends,

During the school holiday, Miss Manuele went on a course with Yolanda Soryl where she learnt some new ways of how to teach Phonics using a Whiteboard. Our sound for the day is 'l, l, l'. Our word for today is 'like'. Here you will see us using the word in a sentence.  Our vocabulary is 'phoneme'. Do you know what it means?

Today we learnt how to say, spell and write the word 'like'. We also learnt how to check our work by looking at our teachers whiteboard and giving ourselves ticks. If it didn't look the same as Miss Manuele's then we had to rub off a tick. We had so much fun and guess what? We learnt to spell the word 'like'.

Keep checking our blog to see how fun learning is in our class.

Whole Class Writing Lesson.

Learning to read out loud what we had written.

Checking our work by ticking: started with a capital letter, end with a full stop and spaces between words.

As we wrote we had to say our words out loud.

Every time we said the word 'like' we had to spell it out loud and write the letters down at the same time.