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 maths 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

🐢Sea Turtles🐢

I am learning to inform my audience through explanation

Sea turtles are reptiles and have been around since the late Jurassic period. All sea turtles can not put the head, arms and legs inside their shell like normal turtles. There are three stages of the life cycle of sea turtles egg, babies and adulthood.

First is the egg stage, the mother will lay around 100 to 110 leathery ping-pong ball size eggs. A month and a half later the surviving sea turtles will hatch and 20% of them will not survive. Each one is small enough to fit in a palm of a hand and now the sea turtle has to scramble to the water.

The second stage is the baby sea turtle. While scrambling to the water there are fierce creatures awaiting them like crabs, pitfalls, racoons and they are a perfect bite size meal for seagulls. When the surviving sea turtles reach the water they have a whole new world ahead of them and a lot more predators awaiting them like fish, sharks, dolphins and sea birds when the young sea turtles come to breathe.

Once it is bigger it has some protection of size. The only furious predators now are the bigger sharks and the occasional killer whale. Around 10 sea turtles will survive to breeding age without human interference. Only 1 sea turtle will survive to breeding age with human interference because of nets, plastic refuges and oil. When they are around 20 years old the female will climb back to normally the closest beach and lay those leathery ping pong ball size eggs.

In conclusion sea turtles have three life stages. They are very rare animals and humans need to make them have a nice and happy life.

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.

Room six's 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.

Love Mum

My Handprint

Here is my handprint,

Five fingers in all,

Outside they are short,

But the middle is tall.

You will find them on the 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 handprints will be missed,

Of that, I am sure.

So here is one now,

that you can't wipe away,

My present to you,

This Mother's day.

Religious Education

The Ascension of the Lord 

In R.E 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.