Malo to Samoa language Week!

The cultural leaders opened the week with their national costume and dance.

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-tzero

Tasi-one

Lua-two 

Tolu-three

Fa-four

Lima-five

Ono-six

Fitu-seven

Valu-eight

Iva-Nine

Sefulu-ten

Happy Birthday Suzanne Aubert

Ra whanau Suzan Aubuert

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 am learning to write an explanation.
Do you know what reptile lives in the sea? If you guessed sea turtles, then you are right! They have been around for roughly one hundred and fifty million years! There are seven known species of sea turtles and six of those species are endangered because of human interference. The cycle of the sea turtle goes through the egg stage, baby sea turtle stage, and finally the adulthood stage. The first stage is the egg stage.

To start off, the female sea turtle goes onto a high piece of land and starts digging a deep hole to lay her eggs in. The turtle eggs are the size of a white leathery ping pong ball. After about a month and a half, the eggs start to hatch. Approximately 20% of eggs do not hatch. When the baby sea turtles have hatched they squirm out of their cozy warm cracked eggs. The sea turtles now have to be aware as they go into the sea because there are predators such as crabs, holes and seabirds.

Approximately 50% of little baby sea turtles make it to the water but as their body gets deeper, a whole lot of predators await them such as, various fish, killer whales and dolphins. For about several months the baby sea turtles will try to avoid the predators. The baby sea turtles will also try to be aware of themselves because they might try to eat themselves. They face challenging weather as they swim along the sea surface. For about another several months the baby sea turtles turn into adults.

The adult stage is when the sea turtles start to find somewhere to settle. The adult sea turtles range in size from as small as a dinner plate to as big as a dinner table. But because of humans only 1% of adult sea turtles will survive because of contagious chemicals that the humans are using as well as oil, fishing rods, plastic, and lots of rubbish. Also approximately 2% of adulthood sea turtles will be able to progress with breeding age but only with human interference. So sea turtles have a pretty hard time surviving through their life cycle.

To conclude, sea turtles have three stages in their life cycle however the more pollution humans put on earth the harder it is for these creatures to survive. We need to do something now or else these wonderful animals will be extinct.

Camera, Lights, Action!

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

                                                            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 he/she doing.
                                   Ia is the pronoun for both he and she.
                                   We have matched verbs up, filled in crosswords and played Simon says!.
                                       

                                     

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