Cook Island Language Week

Today we had Tuakana/Teina time with our buddy class Room 8 and we made Cook Island 'ei's! An 'Ei is a floral headband or necklace that is usually worn during celebrations. We made the headband kind. Our buddies helped us decorate flowers and glue them onto our headpieces. We love tuakana/teina time!

Samoan Language Week

Room 2 has been learning Samoan this term with Room 1 on Mondays. We have been working hard and we have learnt how to say lots of things in Samoan!

Hello - talofa, talofa lava

Teacher - faiaoga

Goodbye - tofa

Thank you - fa'afetai

How are you? - 'O a mai 'oe?

Fine, thank you - Manuia fa'afetai

We had Samoan Language Week and had our special assembly. Room 1 and Room 2 sang Savalivali for assembly.

We also had buddy time with Room 8 this week and we made a Siapo together. A Siapo is a traditional fabric of Samoa. We looked at different Pasifika artwork and patterns to get lots of ideas and our Room 8 buddies helped us with our art. We used vivid, red dye, brown paint and crayons.

Chicago's art work

I'olani's art work

Danielle's art work

We presented our Siapo with Room 8 at Assembly!

Picking up rubbish at the creek

We went back to the creek with our buddy class and this time we went to clean up the creek and pick up some rubbish because when we went last time we saw lots of rubbish.

Before we went we tried to guess what kind of rubbish we thought we would find the most of. Then we went to the creek and picked up all the rubbish we could find.

Picking up rubbish at the creek

Then we went back to school and sorted our rubbish into plastic, food, food wrappers, glass and other. We counted them all and our buddies showed us how to make tally marks to show how many of each thing we found. 

Sorting the rubbish we found

Stephney and Lolita found lots of plastic

Creek Visit

This term our Inquiry is Te Taiao o Tamaki which means The Environment of Tamaki. We have been learning about the environment. The evironment is everything around us. This week we went to our local creek with our buddy class.

We saw lots of different things and our buddies looked after us and told us about pollution, which is when things that are not good for the environment is in the environment. We walked around the creek and talked about things we could see, hear, feel and smell. We also saw some rubbish and Miss Park found a driver's licence! We decided to come back and pick up some rubbish next time.

We have been writing recounts for writing and we wrote about our creek visit. Here is some of our recounts about going to the creek.

I went to the creek. I saw water. - 

I went to the creek and I saw a driver's licence. - I'olani

I went to the creek a driver's licence. - Chicago

I went to the creek. - Ralphina

I went to the creek and I saw a tree. - Delontaye

I went to the creek and I felt grass. I saw a tree. - Danielle

Buddy Time with Room 8

This year our buddy class is Room 8. We went to meet our buddies and have tuakana/teina time. Our buddies helped us to work on our buddy books and also to make a slide about ourselves on their netbooks. Our buddies are very good role models and they are going to help us with our learning and we are going to help them with their learning this year.

Prophecy and buddy

Sofele and buddies

Delontaye and Faka'ata

Leeanne and buddy, Ruby and buddy

Hamish and Dontay

Carra and Danielle

Arizona, Azariah and Taonga