Samoan Language Week Learning - UMU TIME

Today, we had a Samoan Umu at school. Mr Faalili and some other men, Mr Malo and Mr Asiata came and set up the umu on our courts. 

They heated up the rocks before cooking any food. 

They cooked taro, green banana, chicken and pig. A WHOLE ENTIRE PIG! Everything was wrapped in tin foil. The layers of the umu are 1. Hot rocks. 2. Tin foiled food. 3. More hot rocks. 4. Wet cardboard. The wet cardboard keeps the heat inside.  

Mrs Faalili and some of the Senior Samoan girls made chopsuey for the whole school. 

After lunch play the whole school met on the courts and watched the umu open. The senior boys helped take the rocks off and the food off the umu. The girs helped serve the food. 

It was DELICIOUS! 

Samoan Language Week - Koko Alaisa

Today we learnt about a traditional Samoan breakfast. KOKO ALAISA. 

We watched a video to help us learn about the samoan dish. This is Veni and he is a vlogger. We watched how he made Koko Alaisa. We then had to write the instructions based on the video. 

Mrs Faalili, Ava-May, Uheina from Room 9 and Moe and Nadal from Room 8 made koko alaisa for the entire syndicate. That's about 70 students altogether. 

Ingredients: Samoan Koko, Rice, Water and sugar to taste. 

It didn't take very long to cook. And by the time it was ready to be served, Mrs Faalili forgot all about the ipad and we missed out on the photos of all of our team enjoying the deliciously hot koko alaisa. 

Lesson with Mr Victor

Today at 11:30, we had a lesson with Mr Victor. We talked about photography, angles and different types of shots. Our task from Mr Victor is to take photos of what we are doing in lockdown. It can be of family or our pets. This is a weird time we are going through and it will be something that we will talk about for a long time - so we're going to capture moments in time. 

Strong Connections

This week we get to celebrate all the strong females that we have in our lives. This might be your mum, your nana, an aunty, a cousin and even a sister. Check out our padlet below as we start brainstorming for our writing this week. Our padlet is called 'A letter to my mum'... 

Who are the strong females in your life? Comment down below.  

Matific Leaderboard

It's only 3 days in to Term 2 and we have been working hard! Check out the leader for Matific below! 

TOP 10 Connections

This week we've been learning about CONNECTIONS and identifying the people that we connect with. If we connect with a person, this means that we have a relationship. It can be family, friends and pets. Have a look at some of our TOP 10 CONNECTIONS 

Monique's Top 10 Connections

William's Top 10 connections

Maia's Top 10 Connections

Welcome back to Term 2

We are back and we are rocking and rolling! 

This term we start by continuing with learning from home. Check out these beautiful faces!!! You'll be seeing more of them so be on the look out and keep checking in! 

A moment in time

Here is Drevyn's piece of writing today describing this moment in time

2:15 check in!

We are 8 days into our distant learning and in Room 9 we like to have fun, especially after a hard days work. Check out the funny faces below 

Animal Town - by Mrs Faalili

For work on writing, one of the activities is to use pobble 365 and write about the picture. Here is my writing. 

Animal town

Gareth the Grizzly bear grouchily waiting for his meal

Gizelle the Giraffe gazing gleefully out the window

Zane the Zebra zig zagging across the crossing

Otis the Orangatang oh so lonely 
Mia & Micah the meerkats magically awaiting their friends

Peta the parrot peacefully keeping watch 

Lazza the Lion looking, lying, leading.