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

The life cycle of a sea turtle

What reptile can live over 100 years of age and has been around since the dinosaurs that still lives now? If you thought it was sea turtles your right. Did you know that sea turtles can’t pull their head into their shell. There are four main stages of a sea turtle's life cycle. The egg stage, the baby sea turtle stage, the growing up stage and the adulthood stage but you are about to read the egg stage.

Eggs
A female sea turtle swims to the beach that they were born and digs a deep hole, lays her eggs in it and covers the hole. Then the eggs face their first challenge, the eggs stay in that hole for usually six months until 80% of them hatch. Sea turtle eggs are the same size and colour of a ping pong ball but rather quite leathery.

Baby sea turtles
Once the 80% of baby sea turtles hatch from their egg, they will need to face their next challenge getting out of the hole alive. Then the surviving ones that managed to wriggle their way out of the hole are usually the size of the palm of your hand and have
to face their third challenge, a really hard challenge which most baby sea turtles do not survive, they need to squirm to the surface as fast as they can as well as dodging seagulls and crabs.

Growing up
The baby sea turtles who made it to the water swim in groups underneath piles of seaweed facing a very tiring challenge with small predators like large reef fish, which most sea turtles in their third stage get too tired and can’t catch up to the others then they sadly fall back and that usually leaves four sea turtles alive.

Adulthood
The four adult sea turtles now at this stage usually decide to have their own lives and live by themselves in the deep, now their predators like some of the large sharks and the killer whale. The female sea turtle breeding age is usually the age of 20 the beach they go to is the same beach that they were born on to breed.

I think others should think about how a sea turtle has it’s challenging life. So I believe sea turtles are a miracle.

Happy brithday 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.

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. 

To My Mother

My Handprint

Here is my handprint, 

Five fingers and all, 

Outside they are short, 

But the middle is tall.

You will find them on the windows,

You can find them on the walls,

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.

The Ascension of the Lord

The Ascension of the Lord

Friday 11 may 

In R.E. we learnt abut 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.