Super Samoan Classroom

 Talofa bloggers,

Since the start of the year we have been learning Samoan.  This is my virtual classroom where I have put all my learning for you to also learn from.  If you hover over items in my classroom, a hyperlink will pop up for you to click on.

In my classroom you will learn about:

• Samoa as a country

• Link to a traditional dance video

• Basic greetings

• The alphabet

• How to count 1-10 

• Information about Siapo - how it is created, some examples

• An animation showing a simple conversation in Samoan

I hope you enjoy my classroom and I would really like to know what you enjoyed the most.

How to play E hia

 Kia ora bloggers,

Over the past 4 weeks we have been learning about some Moari games, the first two were learning the games and the next two we got put into groups and got one of the games we learnt, and had to make a poster with a QR code.

I was with Harvey, Jack C, Jack B and Mckenna. I created the poster while the others planned what we were going to do in our video, this week we filmed our video and finished off our poster. Here it is finished: 

Have you ever learned a Moari game? if so what game?

Samoan Slide Animation

 Hi Bloggers,

This Wednesday we looked at the Samoan greetings and had to make an animation using some of these greetings. We could use either scratch or google slides, I chose google slides because I find it easier to navigate. 

I used a Samoan beach as my background and used two little people as my characters, one is teaching the other the Samoan greetings. Here is my finished animation:

Let me know if you have any feedback! 

Paper Parachute

 Kia Ora Bloggers,

For inquiry, we are looking at rockets and on the last two days last week we looked at the parachutes used, our next task was to create our own parachute using paper, fabric, tape and string. I was in a group with Brooke, Isaac and Oliver.

Do you have any feedback for us?

Here is our slide explaining our designs:

Weekly budget shopping

Kia ora Bloggers,

This was the first week back at school after the holidays and I am happy to be back because I missed seeing everyone. Are you happy to be back at school?

Every Wednesday we have technology, this year because we have so many kids we had to make two groups, an morning and an afternoon but both groups complete the same tasks when not at tech. This weeks task was to make a shopping list of everything we would need to feed a family of four for a week, I found this task quite easy but the next task was a bit harder.

The next task was to go onto a supermarket online shop and make a shopping list for a family of four but we had a budget of 170 dollars, but to make it even harder three of them had allergies. The dad had none, the mum was dairy-free, the daughter was vegan and the son was gluten-free. 

I paired up with Billie-jo for this task and completed it on a slide, and have a slide for each day. It includes breakfast, lunch and tea, sometimes they may have had to have different meals. This is our slide:

Amazing Aurora

Kia Ora Bloggers,

In Maori, we have been looking at Matariki and the southern lights/ aurora's, today we started a piece of art to do with these lights. Here are some facts we have learnt:

The name Aurora comes from the Latin word that means sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn.

An Aurora is a natural light that appears in the sky, usually, the colour is green but can sometimes be either blue or red.

The natural light usually occurs in the 'aurora zone' near the arctic poles, the north and the south.

Aurora is caused by the collision of energetically charged particles with atoms in the high altitude thermosphere within our atmosphere.

Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

For our piece of art, we started off by ripping a piece of paper to make our hills, we taped that on hand flicked white paint onto make the milky way. Next, we used chalk pastels and drew on the white paper in a pattern with our choice of colours. Afterwards, we used different fingers to spread the pastel to create the lights, after everything has set you use light yellow paint to create the Matariki stars and you are done!

Here is how mine turned out:

Marvellous Matariki

Kia Ora Bloggers,

Over the last few weeks, we have been looking at Matariki and had to do a create task about it. I paired up with Jessica and we created our own Matariki story on how they became stars. 

We used book created to make our book, it is made for little children and is filled with pictures and is fun to read. 

Did you do anything for Matariki?

Here is a link to our book: Matariki Book