SAMOA

To continue with out study about Samoa.  Yesterday Mika's mum Bex came in with some fantastic food from Samoa.  Wow!  

First Mika told us all about how to collects coco in Samoa with his family.

  

Bex mixed it with rice and water and created a beautiful meal for us.  Some of us were not so keen on the strong taste while others went back for seconds.  Can you tell from the photos who liked it?

 

Bex had also made some Sapasui for us.  This was a real hit with most children heading back for seconds.  Lucky for us she had made lots.

  

 

"Yesterday Mika and his mum bought Samoan food because we are learning about Samoa.  She bought Samoan chocolate and rice but my favourite was the noodles and beef".  By Keira

"Thank you for the Samoan food.  I just with I lived in Samoa for my whole life.  Can I tell you something? Can I have more of the food?" By Kaito

"Thank you Bex for letting us try the sapsui and coco.  Can you please tell me the recipe for the sapasui?  Sorry I didn't try the coco.  It didn't smell really good.  I also liked the stuff Mika brought in especially the maui hook". By Oliver H

"Thanks for coming over yesterday  I lived the food.  Yummy.  Those pots were pretty cool.  My favourite was the noodles.  I liked the coco" By Ethan

"Yesterday we had noodles for lunch and something else.  It had coco beans in it.  It was kind of nice but the noodles were nicer. Bex made it". By Harlem

"Thanks for the sapasui.  It was so good.  I loved it but the drink was a little bit bad but i still liked it". By Jacob

Once again a big thank you to Mika's mum.  We loved the experience you created for us.  

Thank you!!!!

TE WHIRINGWHA

Today was a pretty special day in Piako Rua.  The teachers and Pa Jack talked to us about Te Whiringawha.  On a Marae, there are four different roles that people play.  They are:

Ariki

• Leader

Tohunga

• Expert
• Treasure

Mangotoa

• Defender
• Protector

and finally...

Aronui

• Adminiatrator
• Carer

The teachers explained that we are made of parts of each of these.  Some of us have more Aronui for example, than others.  When we grow, we might change but in the meantime we had to have a think about what colours we thought we are now.

We each were given a stylised picture of a person that we had to colour in.  We needed to think about how much of each colour we think we are.  The teachers were amazed with how well we knew ourselves.

You might like to talk to us about this at home.  You will be pleasantly surprised with how well we can articulate what we talked about today.

TIE DYED MILK - SCIENCE

We had a blast at our Science opt in workshop today. 

Adding food colouring to milk looks great.  

But look at what happens when Shyloh adds dish liquid to the milk. 
The colours all move around and create some amazing patterns.

 

You could try this at home!

STATIC ELECTRICITY - SCIENCE

Our static electricity Science opt-in created a lot of interest and fun today.  Check it out!

We borrowed LC 14's Plasma Ball.  We thought it was fascinating when we touched the ball.  The lights went towards our hands!  It was pretty cool!

  

 

This is how it works...

DINOSAURS!

Quinn G, Zachary and Oliver W presented their Dinosaur challenge to us.  We had to make or do something based on dinosaurs.  They came up with the Success Criteria for us and told us how we will know if we are successful.

First we WONDERed what we could do or make about Dinosaurs and then we went into the EXPLORE phase of Te Ako Ritenga.

We had to attend the Checkpoint REFLECT station so that we could prove that we were ready to move to ACT

Then we planned what we were going to make in the ACT part of our challenge.

                                       


 The final stage of our Inquiry process, is REFLECT.  This is were we stop and check if we have met all the success criteria.  We had a big sharing session in the afternoon and everyone got to show off their fabulous creations.

CALENDAR ART

We have been buy this week making our art for our calendars.  Here are a few photos of us...

SCIENCE SHARING SESSION

We had our sharing session for our Opt-In workshops.  This was a great way to finish up this term's Science learning.  We have discovered that we are now thinking like Scientists.

We took the opportunity to share with our friends all our learning.

BALLOON BOAT MAKING CHALLENGE

Wow!  What a day we've had.  A huge thank you to Zac, Oliver and Lloyd for creating our Make It Monday challenge.

The boys HOOKed us in with the The Gingerbread Man story and left us with the challenge of creating a balloon powered boat to get the Gingerbread Man safely across the water.

There was a lot of WONDERing going on in Piako Rua today.

We EXPLOREd in Wonderland... we needed to find answers to all our questions.  We are still learning about 2D and 3D shapes.

Soon it was time to ACT...

  

 

Our REFLECTion today included some interesting discussion about why cardboard boxes wouldn't float and why Mrs Kenyon couldn't use the hot glue gun to glue balloons onto boxes.

Thanks Zac, Oliver and Lloyd!