Afio mai 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.

MAORI verbs

In room 6 we have been learning verbs in Maori ( action verbs. ) The question is " kei  te aha ia ? " which means what he or she is doing. Ia is both a pronoun for he and she. We have matched verbs up, filled crosswords and played Simon says.

The Amazing Life Cycle Of Sea Turtles

Sea turtles are amazing reptiles and have been on earth for 65 million years and can live for a century.
There are many species living like the Green sea turtles, Loggerhead’ and the Leatherback

Stage one : Life cycle starts when a mother lays 1000 eggs identical to ping-pong balls. Most females will wait for the cover of darkness before leaving the water to crawl up the beach to find a suitable nesting spot. Once a spot is chosen, the female carefully and methodically digs a nest with her rear flippers. Once she finishes laying her eggs, she will cover and disguise the nest before returning to the water. When the nesting season is over, females return to foraging grounds, not nesting again for two to three years. 800 hatch 400 make it to the water. The other 400 are eaten or killed by crabs, birds and other predators.

Stage two : 20 have to survive perils of the ocean as young sea turtles. Stage three : Two make it to adulthood. Once sea turtles are adults, males & females will leave coastal areas and migrate hundreds or thousands of miles to breeding areas where they will mate and begin the reproductive stage of their lives. Females will mate with multiple males, storing sperm to fertilize multiple clutches of eggs that will be laid over the course of a couple of months, and so the life cycle begins again.

Green Sea Turtles
Green Sea turtles are one of the world’s largest species of turtle weighing around 65-130 kg and measuring between 1-1.2m. They have a strong, teardrop shape shell, called a ‘carapace’, which covers most of their body, except for the head and the four flippers. Their carapace can include shades of different colours, including dark brown, green, olive, yellow and black. These cool creatures are named for their layer green fat that lies under their shell. Scientists believe green sea turtles get the green fat from their veggie diet, unlike other sea turtles, green sea turtles love marine plants like seaweed and seagrass.

In conclusion these amazing creatures are heading towards extinction we can not let what happened to Tasmanian tiger and the dodo happen to the sea turtles. Lets save these amazing creatures together.

Room 6's assembly

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all schools around NZ made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind.
Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.

Mothers Day Poem

I'm happy you raised me, I'd rather have you than anybody.

Your the best at helping he through hard times,

Your kindness is the best.

The Ascension of the Lord

In R.E we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee Jesus told his share his gospel to the world. He promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned, In glory to his Father i n Heaven. We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to Heaven.