Afia Mai To Samoan Language Week

Afia mai to Samoan language Week
The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.


In room 6 we have been exploring the
Samoan Cultural with general facts
. We searched for our fact card around the
room and collected information
for our Jigsaw Reading Hunt.



Next our Samoan experts in class gave us a lesson on greetings and phrases in Samoan.
Then we moved onto counting to ten in Samoan for math before finishing our math session with a clapping game in Samoan.


Selo-zero
Tasi-one
Lua-two
Tolu-three
Fa-four
Lima-five
Ono-six
Fitu-seven
Valu-eigh
Iva-Nine
Sefulu-ten

Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.

Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

Life Cycle Of A Sea Turtle

Sea Turtles

What has been around since the late Jurassic that spends most of their lives in the water? If you guessed sea turtles then you are correct, did you know that sea turtles can’t put their head in their body like land turtles do because of their species.There are three phases, the egg stage, the baby sea turtle stage and the adulthood. First is the egg stage.


Well to start off the female turtles swim to the beach where they were born and find a great spot to dig a hole,then the females lay roughly around 110 eggs the size of tiny leathery ping pong balls. After they lay their eggs they cover the eggs with sand using their flippers. It takes about 70 days for the eggs hatch. After two and and a half months the eggs hatch but 20% don’t hatch. When the eggs hatch they come out as baby sea turtles.

Baby Sea Turtles
When the eggs hatch they dig their way out and make their way to the ocean. When the turtles hurry to get to the water they will face predators like crabs and stuff lying on the ground. About 50% reach the surf.When the baby sea turtles reach the ocean they meet more predators like fish,sharks,and sea gulls, as the baby sea turtles come up for air. Roughly 50% that reaches the ocean will perish. While the baby sea turtles starts to grow up, Their size gives them more protection and have less predators they now only have to watch out for sharks and killer whales. When they grow up they will become adults and they just need to look out for these predators.

Adulthood
When they are adults they swim to the beach where they were born and around two sea turtles make it to the beach. Normally the female sea turtle goes above the high tide line and digs a deep hole that holds approximately 110 eggs and continue the life cycle of the sea turtles.

Assembly

Lights, Camera, Action

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3.

In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink

PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success
and we all had fun.

Maori Verbs

In room 6 we have been learning verbs in Maori (action words) The question is 'Kei te aha ia?' which means what is s/he doing.  Ia is the pronoun for both he and she

We have matched  verbs up, filled in crosswords and played Simon Says

To my mother

Here is my handprint,

 Five fingers in all, 

Outside they are short,

 But the middle is tall, 

You will find them on windows,

You can find them on the wall,

They can make a big mess,

For something so small,

One day I will grow,

And leave them no more,

My hand prints will be missed,

of that,I am sure

So here is one now,

That you can't wipe away,

My present to you,

This Mothers Day.

The Ascension of the lord

In RE we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world he promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned in glory to his Father in heaven. We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to heaven