Onesie Day

Onesie Day!

A big thank you to all of the Mighty Ducks who dressed in their comfy Pj's and Onesies to help celebrate Onesie Day!

It was a super comfy and fun dressed in our pyjammas. We had a relaxing morning, enjoying the disco and sausage sizzle.

What a great way to head into our holidays.

Busy Bee Cafe

Busy Bee Cafe

In Week 6 the Busy Bee classes had a fund raising bake sale.  The Mighty Ducks decided to make Lolly Kebabs! 

First we watched a video on how to make them.  It was neat to see the different lollies and shapes you could use.  

Next we wrote a procedure to make sure we followed the right steps.

Then we gathered our ingredients and materials.

We were very lucky to have Mrs R, our teacher aide, help us.  

Our Kebabs looked great.  They were very colourful.  They also tasted delicious!

Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei!

Tongan Language Week

For Tongan Language Week the Mighty Ducks were to make a class tapa to add to a larger Rowandale School Tapa.

We were excited to get started.  We first looked at some examples of Ngatu, Tongan Tapa cloth.

We especially liked the Fata'o Tu'i Tonga.  It looked very interesting and we needed a ruler to help make the pattern.  We also liked the Manulua.  It is meant to look like bird wings. The Hala Paini symbol was also neat.  It represents the Norfolk Pine and has pointy tree branches, plus the sun and moon are apart of the design.  Another popular choice was the Ikale Tahi.  This bird shape is like a sea eagle in flight.  Lastly, some students chose to work on the Fetu'ufuka, which is a symbol of a comet.  

Everyone worked very hard on their chosen symbol.  We used brown, black and yellow, oil pastels to colour our patterns. When we were finished creating our designs we then used brown dye over top of the pictures to make them look more like actual tapa!

Our work was put together and added to the school tapa, which was placed above the stage in the hall for our special assembly.