Lions by Jerome

Samoan Week

We learned some Samoan songs. We learned the alphabet song. Samoans have 14 letters in their alphabet Here is another song.

Friday Samoan costume day

Mrs Foli our Samoan learning assistant worked with the junior classes to share her language and culture through songs and stories. To finish the week children with Samoan connections were able to wear clothes that showed their heritage.

Mary Grace Learns to Record her Reading

We have been using our iPads to read and record. We have been reading and recording from our reading books and also our own writing.  We are learning to read quickly, and make it sound like talking.

Alilia's KieKie

Room 6 started a One Minute Sharing Session last Friday. We are presenting topics that are important to us and also learning how to record our presentations with video.

This is Alilia presenting for the first time. We watched the video and looked for what we were proud of and thought about what we will do better next time.

Here are our ideas:
Alilia was proud of her confidence and knowledge about her  uncle's Kiekie that she is wearing.
Next time we will record closer to the presenter or use a microphone so the volume is louder. Also the presenter needs to stay still on one spot. Patrick was behind the camera and thought he needed to keep the iPad steady. We will borrow Mrs Grant's tripod next time.

Here is Alilia sharing about wearing her uncle's Kiekie on Fakame. We are very proud of Alilia especially as this was her first time presenting. Also we are proud of Patrick for creating a video of this presentation, when Mrs Mitchell had just said, "take a picture". We are so glad he used his initiative.

Blue Whale by Alilia

Blue whales are interesting.

Killer Whale by Patrick

We have been learning to record our voice using the information we learned about whales.