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 maths 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

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.

The Life cycle of a Sea turtle

I am learning to inform my audience through explanation

Sea turtles are a miracle. They have lived for roughly 150 million years and are still here today. With five species been seen in our waters, seven still alive and six endangered we need to take care of them. During the decades humans have been making it harder and harder for sea turtles using oil and plastic but also having to survive with predators and currents in the ocean. We all should know the life cycle of a sea turtle to save them so this is the life cycle of a sea turtle.

Eggs
It begins with a female sea turtle. It breeds multiple times, mainly at night and leaves leathery ping-pong ball size eggs laid on a high part of the beach. Even though about 100 eggs are laid roughly 20% will never hatch. After about 45-80 days depending on the species, the remaining eggs will hatch and they will try to squirm to the open water.

Young Sea turtles
At about the size of your hand, baby sea turtles squirm to the ocean's surface. They face crabs, rubbish, humans, birds and raccoons and about 50% of them will not reach the surface of the ocean. The sea turtles that make the surface will face even more dangerous predators.

As they grow from the size of your hand to a dinner plate moving so they can find a patch of seaweed to stay under. Now their predators are dolphins,sharks,types of fish and birds. Roughly 50% will not survive due to currents,predators and other reasons.If they survive they will move into the next stage, Adulthood

Adulthood
Now the reptiles grow from a dinner plate to a dinner table. Their predators are bull,Tiger and White sharks following along with the occasional killer whale. At about two decades of age they will be able to breed themselves.Roughly 20% will survive to breeding age without human interference 1% will survive with human interference.Only 1% will survive because the sea turtle will get stuck and will feel overwhelmed and perish.

In conclusion Sea turtles are great to have in the ocean but they are endangered. To help you, don’t use plastic bags when you go to the supermarket instead use reusable ones from home as a replacement. While I was writing this explanation piece I realised that they are truly a miracle and you should realise that too.

Room 6'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. 

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 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 hand prints 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

Friday 11 May 

In RE 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.