Afia 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

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.

Sea Turtles

The Life Cycle Of A Sea Turtle
I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation piece




What animal has been around since the dinosaurs? You probably did not know it but it is a sea turtle. Sea turtles are reptiles. They are a miraculous animal. There are seven species of sea turtles but six are critically endangered. Sea turtles have been around for 220 million years. Sea turtles can see an extra colour that humans cannot. They have three main stages in life. The egg stage, the childhood stage and the adulthood stage. The first step is being born. All baby sea turtles start off the same and they start as leathery ping pong ball eggs.

The mother sea turtle comes to the high tide line and looks for a good place to nest. She usually lays her eggs in the same place she did last time. She lays about 50-200 eggs in a pit, and then goes back into the water, not able to see her eggs hatch. It takes approximately six weeks for the eggs to hatch and 20 percent of the eggs will not hatch. Once the sea turtles come out of their eggs they crawl to the surface. They are now baby sea turtles.

The baby sea turtles are about the size of your palm. After they crawl out of their pit they make their desperate dash to the water, but they have a lot of predators awaiting them like racoons, crabs and birds. There is also rubbish and holes that people have dug. 50 percent of the sea turtles make it to the water. With the sea turtles that make it to the water they face more dangers like big fish, sharks, dolphins and birds that will try and grab the sea turtles when they come up to the air to breathe. They will eat jellyfish and fish eggs and then they start to grow. The sea turtles will rest in beds of seaweed. 50 percent of the turtles that make it to the water will perish. The survivors will increase in size. It takes a sea turtle 10 years to grow to the size they will be when they grow up.

From a whole nesting site less than 10 percent remain. When they are adults the baby sea turtles are now 160kgs. The only things that worry the sea turtles now are the big sharks and also the killer whale. If female turtles breed 1000 eggs probably only one turtle will remain with human interference. If we do not do anything we will only have one species of sea turtle left.

Light's, camera action

Room 6 presented their learning of 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

In room 6 we have been learning about verbs in maori (Action words.) The question "Kei te aha ia?"which means what is she/he doing. La is the pronoun for both he and she. We have mached verbs up, filled in croswords and played Simon says.

To My Mother

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 will 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 this is one now,

That you can't wipe away,

So that's my presant for you,

This mother's day.

The Asccension 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 returnee, in glory to his Father in Heaven.