Month: May 2024

Keke Pua’a & Vaifala – Samoan Language Week

This week for Samoan Language Week, LS1 has been learning about the Samoan culture through research, study, and now – food!  We got to try keke pua’a, and a drink called vaifala.  As a group, we had to write down as many adjectives as we could to describe the look, taste, smell, and feel of a keke pua’a.  Then, a small group of us followed a procedural text to make Vaifala.  Here are two videos that show our experiences.

Keke Pua’a :

Vaifala made by CJ, Marwan & Donyal :

Instructions followed to make vaifala :

Hikoi Up Maungarei

This blog post was written by Amorangi.

On Tuesday, LS1 and LS2 took a bus to Maungarei for a school field trip.

First, we all got ready and excited as we boarded the bus. While driving to the mountain, we started singing Māori songs from the kapa haka bracket, which made the trip even more fun. After a few minutes, we arrived, and everyone was buzzing with excitement. We took photos and videos before starting our walk.

As we began walking up the mountain, we chatted with each other, but soon we started feeling tired and needed a break. Some of us were exhausted from the climb and even needed a little push from the back. Eventually, we made it to what we thought was the top, but we soon found out we were only halfway there. We still had to reach the summit, which was on a big hill.

Finally, we made it to the top! Everyone was relieved to rest. An elder shared a story about how Māori men used to hide up there from the British during the old days. After his talk, we spent some time taking in the beautiful views of the city and surrounding areas. Then, we started our walk back down the mountain. Before leaving, we took one last photo—first LS2, then LS1. We then hopped on the bus and headed back to school.

 

Paranormal Day

Today is International Paranormal Day which has to do with paranormal refers to things like telekinesis or clairvoyance that science can’t fully explain.  For an early finisher task we could write a short horror story that includes or refers to some type of paranormal activity.  Here is Darius‘ work :

Volleyball

This blog post was written by Jenesis.  Click here to visit his blog.

Wednesday week nine the entirety of the volleyball team I was in the year 5 and 6 team and this was all the team me (Jenesis), Ahea, Vaingalo, Loa and Eneasi and also my mum came.  Anyway we went to the volleyball interschools which was held at the Bruce Pulman park which was huge. It had volleyball set ups, netball set ups and even basketball setups you could play tons of sports at this specific place.

Next we had to actually play which was super scary for me since I’ve never actually played against another team before so this was a new experience for me and probably all my teammates and we had only five players and we had no subs.

After that we had to face the first team. It was really scary since there was the thought of us losing. It was really down putting for me. I don’t know about my teammates though. Anyway we ended up winning that game. It was so cool we celebrated and we went to the next game.

This second game was really fun since I was feeling really good after that first victory so we went on to finish that game and me (Jenesis), Eneasi, Vaingalo, Ahea and Loa emerged victorious once again which was really exciting.  We ended up going undefeated through the tournament.

‘Gravity’ according to LS1

LI : Understand that objects are pulled towards the Earth due to gravity.
LI : Understand that gravity affects the motion of objects.

This term our Inquiry topic is “Make It Work.” This has to do with different forces and making things like machines work. Our focus is on mechanical toys. We have started Inquiry this term by learning about forces. The first force we have learnt about is Gravity. In our table groups, we had to work together to research and answer the questions on this presentation.