Afio 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-eight
Iva-Nine
Sefulu-ten

Suzanne Aubert

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.

The Life Cycle Of a Sea Turtle

I.A.L.T inform my audience about sea turtles using explanation text.

Turtles have been around since the late Jurassic period, approximately 150 million years ago. They are reptiles that go by the scientific name of Chealioldea. There are seven different species of sea turtles and six which are critically endangered. Sea turtles start in an egg then grow into young turtles followed by adulthood. Every year they come together to breed.

To lay her eggs the female turtle will climb onto a beach where she will dig a hole of sand and deposit 50-200 leathery ping pong ball sized eggs. Approximately 20% of these will never hatch. Once hatched the surviving turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface.They will then make a desperate dash for the sea. Along the the way they will come across predators such as raccoons, gulls and crabs. Which will claim about 50% of those that make it to the sand.

Those lucky enough to have made it to the water will frantically swim forward to look for a piece of floating debris, in this stage 50% of those that had reached the surf will be killed because of unfortunate weathers, currents or predators. Over time those baby turtles will increase in size.

Once the turtles have reached adulthood their predators change from gulls and smaller creatures to sharks, tigers, bulls, whites and killer whales. Only 10% of those that started on a beach many years ago less than 10% remain. But with the added pressure of pollution, nets and poaching the chances of a sea turtle’s survival drop to approximately 1% or less. Once a turtle has reached around 20 years of age they will be ready to continue to cycle and breed.

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.la is pronoun for both he and she.We have matched verbs up,filled in crossword and played Simon says.

Mothers Day

She is a Mother
She works 24 hours a day
She is a cook, a maid, a teacher, a nanny, a driver, a bodyguard, a comforter, an ATM.
She doesn't get days off, she works through the night and day and gets paid with hugs and kisses.

The Ascension

This is my model of the Ascension when Jesus rose up to Heaven.