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

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.

Sea Turtles

Did you know that sea turtles can not put their head in their body’s like land turtles? If you guessed this then you are right, not all turtles have the power in their limbs to hide in their shells. Sea turtles have four life stages: the egg stage, baby sea turtle stage, young adulthood stage and the adulthood stage, but the first stage is the egg stage.

Egg stage:

Did you know that sea turtles have lived on earth more than 150 million years, sea turtle eggs are ping pong size balls. The female lays around 1000 eggs. They lay the eggs past the high tide mark and dig a hole for the eggs and then rushes back to the ocean. They will not hatch until 2 months. Turtle eggs can be hard shelled or relatively soft depending on the particular species. New laid turtle eggs feel like leather eggs. 1000 are laid and then hatch. You will see the baby sea turtles squirming to the water but it gets a lot harder for them. Only 20% will not hatch.

Baby Sea turtles:

As the baby sea turtles are rushing for the sea they face many challenges like crabs, seagulls, raccoons and dogs. Approximately 400 make it to the water but there are challenges that still await them in the water. They have to face sharks and all the other predators. Sea turtles have to face many challenges to survive. Sea turtles may be carnivorous (meat eating). As they grow into young adulthood, when they grow there comes more protection for the turtle.

Young Adult:

Growing up there comes more protection for the sea turtle. Sea turtles sleep with holding their breath underwater. They eat the reefs, it takes time for them to digest the food and it takes a long time for them to get the food into their mouths.

Adult:

The female adult lives in the sea for a while then goes back to the beach where they were born and rushes past the high tide line and digs a hole and lays the eggs. The sea turtle will go back to the ocean.

Now that they are adults they have new enemies like great white shark and big whales. After a few years later they will mate and be able to carry on the life cycle of a sea turtle.

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 she/he doing. la is a pronoun for both he an she.

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

My Mother

To My Mother

 MY HAND PRINT

Here is my hand print,

 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 will 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 Farther in heaven.