Look at our pictures from motat.
We had funny playing with technology....past and present.

MOTAT Trip

WOW!!
That was such a cool trip Room 18.
MOTAT helped us consolidate our learning about flight.
Not only did we learn lots, we got to do some really cool experiments and also have FUN with all the hands on equipment.
A BIG thank you to all out helpers who made our trip possible.
Well done Room 18 on a successful trip.

Trash to Fashion

Last week in the afternoon block the "Fantastic Foxes" have been focusing on Trash to Fashion. We have designed different materials to create costumes using recycling and reuseable materials. Here is Alfred, Dizzan and Brooklyn K showing you some costumes we have been designing. We have been thinking of designing a "Greek God" for Friday. Check it out! =)

Alfred in his costume walking the grey carpet.

Dizzan in the "Greek God" costume, we are hoping to tweak it before Friday =)

Dizzan and Brooklyn K after they helped design the arm bands for the "Greek God"

Descriptive Writing

The Fantastic Foxes have been learning to look at a picture and describe the picture in detail. Room 18 has been focusing on using adjectives to describe the nouns we have been talking about. These are some of our descriptive writing google slides....

Maths Fractions- Robyn, Taylor and Jimmy

Jimmy, Robyn and Taylor saying simple fractions out loud

Samoan Langauge Week Thursday Challenge

Although we are very late to place this up for the Thursday Challenge. The Fantastic Foxes wanted me to put it up. We were late placing this up because of technical difficulties. I hope you enjoy. Well done to the Laughing Llama's for winning the challenge.

Procedural Writing-How to brush your teeth

Saunaleva wrote about how to brush your teeth. She did a great piece of procedural writing come and check it out!She has learnt so much when publishing her google slides! =)

The Fantastic Foxes- Saunaleva Wednesday Samoan Langauge Week

Today the Fantastic Foxes completed the third challenge which was saying your name in Samoan...

O lo'u igoa o ____

Saunaleva used Puppet Pals to say her name in Samoan!

Fractions Friday

On Friday the Fantastic Foxes used Foam fractions and materials to create quarters, thirds, sixths, tenths, and twelfths when creating a whole. Students in the "Pentagons" group knew that it takes twelve twelfths to make one whole.

Anahiiri, Taylor, Dizzan, Jimmy and Robyn can name these fractions

Anahiiri, Taylor, Dizzan and Robyn can name these fractions

Dante Tuiva creating two quarters. He knows how to make a whole using quarters. He also knows how to make a quarter and three quarters

Ezykewl and AJ know that it takes 10 tenths to make a whole 

Ezykewl creating a whole and he knows that twelve twelfths make a whole

Healthy Eating 22.5.15

Healthy Eating "The Fantastic Foxes"

Today the Fantastic Foxes created our own "Tooth" with healthy eating pictures on them. Most groups knew good and bad foods and could identify the good types of food on their "Tooth"

Check them out =)

Healthy Eating 18.5.15

Today the Fantastic Foxes looked at good and bad foods in Healthy Eating today. Many students knew straight away that red bull and "v" were bad drinks. The Fantastic Foxes could cut out pictures from the countdown magazine and explain why they placed them in the good and bad section.

                                                  Alfred knows some good and bad foods

                           Ellena labelled each good and bad food compiling some great pictures

                              Taylor showing he can place good and bad foods in his topic book

Reading- Google Slides Week 4 Term 2

The Fantastic Foxes have been reading a variety of reading books throughout the week. The Crocodiles were given a challenge to create a google slide from the junior journal "Midnight Snack"
There was some brilliant slides the Crocodiles group! =)

Robyn Created a google slide on Torty the Lucky Tortoise a story she read during the week!



Anahiiri and Pharelle created a google slide on "Thunder" a poem they read this week. Crocodiles are creating fantastic slides on their stories this week!

Descriptive Writing 14.5.15 Christian

Christian has created a descriptive writing piece on his favourite Character which is Spongebob Square Pants! Check out his google slide!

Octopus Reading Group- Jimmy, Ezykewl, Caroline and Osirus 5.5.15

Jimmy and Ezykewl created an amazing pic collage using an ipad. They have placed a tiger background and have wrote interesting facts about "Saving Tigers" a new springboard book. The Octopus group have been gathering great facts about Tigers. Check out this pic collage! Jimmy can email Mr Edwards now =)  

Healthy Eating 5/5/15

Today Serenity and Robyn created a google slide on vitamins and minerals and food that is healthy and unhealthy to eat. We have been focusing on good and bad foods that we eat.

Rowandale School Goal Sheet 4 May 2015

Rowandale School Goal Sheet

Many of our students have been creating goals today. This is an example of some of the goals they have come up with =)

Learning Area	What am I good at? What can I do really well?	What do I need to work on? What area do I need to focus on?	How will I improve on my area of need? What do I need to do to get better?
Reading	I can read fluently. I can sound each letter out when reading.	I need to point to each word when reading	I could use my finger to point to each word.
Writing	I can write a brainstorm	I can try to edit after I write and re-read my story	Read over my story after I have written it
Mathematics	I can count to 100 I know numbers before and after from 1-100	I could try and know numbers from 100-1000	Write numbers from 100-1000

Healthy Eating 4.5.15

Today the Fantastic Foxes celebrated Healthy Eating. In the afternoon we placed different fruit and vegetables in the good section and other items like coke in the bad section. Tomorrow we will talk about why they are good and bad.

My Favourite Restaurant...Some students published their story 1.5.15

Serenity and Pharelle created a Google slide on their story Mokomoko. They wrote facts about the Mokomoko Saunaleva created a google slide on her favourite restaurant. Check it out.

Sofai's Writing piece on describing a fast food restaurant 28.4

Sofai wrote an incredible piece of writing on describing a time being at a fast food restaurant...

Slam Dunk 28.4.15 Reading-Google slides and Pic Collage

 Ellena and Sofai created a google slide on Slam Dunk a book they were reading in their group. They explained facts about the book Slam Dunk.
 AJ and Carl have created their own google slide on Slam Dunk. They have described some facts on Basketball.

                                Pic collage by Osirus on the story "Too many possums"

ANZAC ART 28.4.15

Today the Fantastic Foxes created ANZAC art using pastels. Each student used pencil to create their poppie. Then they used different colour pastels for their background. It was very impressive. Some of them are on the ANZAC wire in the classroom.

This is Dizzan's first time emailing Mr Edwards his pic collage. What a fantastic pic collage on Room 18's ANZAC art. Watch this space...I wonder if he can improve it tomorrow?

Dizzan's pic collage. He took pictures of some of the art work we did today.

This is what we were trying to go for  =)

Maths How many ways can we make 17? 28.4.15

Today the Fantastic Foxes came up with many ways to create a number from 1-20. Sofai used 17 and she came up with so many ways to get to 17. Check it out!

Sofai creating so many ways to make 17

Serenity creating a google slide for Kimberly to answer maths questions using the slide.

Class Dojo Certificates

At the start of Term 2 the Fantastic Foxes have been enjoying using Class Dojo to make positive changes in the classroom. Class Dojo is an application on the computer where each student gets their own "monster" which makes positive choices in the classroom. Some of these positive values are keeping your hand up, keeping our hands to ourselves and managing yourself. Each student gets a point on their "monster" if they make positive choices in the classroom. There will be 3 certificates handed out at the end of this week for students achieving the most points on Class Dojo.

ANZAC REMEMBRANCE 24.4.15

On Friday Rowandale School had a Remembrance Day to celebrate and remember the ANZACS that have past away in World War 1. It was great to see so much parent support as every class placed a wreath on a fallen soldier in the Manurewa area. The Bugel sounded and Rowandale School listened to the ANZAC Ode.

THE ANZAC ODE BY ELLENA AND CAROLINE 22.4.15

Ellena and Caroline created an amazing google slide on the ANZAC ODE. Check it out!

ANZAC ODE 22.4.15

Today we looked at the ANZAC ODE and we thought about what it meant. "Age shall not weary them" Some students said that because the soldiers were dead that age couldn't affect them and we discussed this as a class. After that we placed the ANZAC ODE in order. Many of us placed our ANZAC ODE sentences in  the right place.  

Serenity and Robyn created a google slide on their book Wheke-Check it out!

Wheke Sharks- Reading Group by Dante T and Dante H

Today Dante T and Dante H have created their own google slide about Wheke a book they were reading during the week.

ANZAC DAY- Pic Collage-Ellena and Selela 20.4.15

ANZAC DAY    20.4.15

Selela and Ellena created this amazing pic collage of our ANZAC title pages and our ANZAC word wall! 

ANZAC DAY- Google Slide 20.4.15

Serenity is creating her own google slides on the computer about ANZAC Day. This is just the start of her google slides. She knows how to get pictures from google images and place them on a google slide!  =) 

Don't forget to look at Room 18 (The Fantastic Foxes Blogger)

This is the link to check out all the amazing learning we get up to in Term 2!



http://rs15thefantasticfoxes.blogspot.co.nz/

Room 18 Welcome Back

Welcome back to the start of the new term. This term there will be a big focus on ANZAC day especially at the start of the first two weeks. I hope you have been reading over the holidays =)
We are going to try and create posters about Anzac using pic collage and also google slides this term. There will be some exciting facts about the first world war and amazing stories told by soldiers. I hope you've had a great holiday and you're coming into school with a positive attitude towards your learning.

Mr Edwards

This is an example of an ANZAC Poster using pic collage

Maths and Reading in Room 18 The Fantastic Foxes 30th March 2015

Today the Fantastic Foxes Retold a short animation clip called " Ride of passage"

Students placed each picture in order from beginning to end. Then they described what 

would happen in each picture

In maths today we looked at doubles. Like 1+1= 2, 2+2= 4, 3+3=6 for a quick warm-up. Next the Triangles and Hexagons focused on using the largest number first then they added on. The Circles and Pentagons focused on adding tens. We used happy hundreds and our number cards to help us. 

Reading in Room 18

Today the Fantastic Foxes have been using pic collage to order and retell our story. Jimmy and Ngakiri took pictures of their story "using leaves" and they placed them in order from start to finish! 

 The Fantastic Foxes playing maths games!

Made by Ellena and Serenity as they show you what we have been doing... Numbers before and after!

The Fantastic Foxes

How to make a Lava Lamp- The Fantastic Foxes

On Friday we placed different materials on the table to create our very own lava lamp. Vegetable oil, water, food colouring and berroca are just some of the materials we used to create our amazing lava lamp. Many of us had a go at placing the berocca in the bottle as we watched bubbles go up and down creating molecular polarity!

Watch this clip of the Fantastic Foxes creating a Lava Lamp!

Food colouring added with water and oil

       Is that a jar of jam? I dont think so.....thats our lava lamp!

Discovery 12.3.15

Today the Fantastic Foxes created different patterns for our Discovery. We really enjoyed it. Come and check out our fantastic patterns!

Maraetai Beach Day

Maraetai Beach Day

Last Tuesday we went to Maraetai Beach. Rowandale School had so much fun getting into the water and enjoying exciting activities. Thanks to all the parent support. It was a fantastic day.