Samoan Digital 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.

Fa!

Beautiful Samoan

Today we were learning Samoan but this time we did an animation, the animation was about simple Samoan greetings ( Having a simple conversation between two people). Here are the meanings if you can't spot them in the animation. If you didn't know Samoa is a Polynesian island located in the pacific ocean about 4 hours away from New Zealand and has a population of about 200,000.   

Tālofa - Hello

O ā mai ‘oe? - how are you?

Manuia fa’afetai - well, thank you

Ae ā ‘o? - How about you?

Manuia fo’i fa’afetai - I am fine also thank you

Manuia le aso - Have a good day

Tōfā - Goodby

How long can it fly?

For Inquiry this week/ last week we were making parachutes and the one that took the longest to land.on the ground won. To build this rocket you had the materials of. 

Paper, tape, fabric, bubble wrap, glue and string. This is the digram of our initial design and our final one too only made with some slight changes      

For our initial design, we got a piece of bubble wrap and a yellow cloth stuck them together using tape,

but then we realised the design was too heavy and would fall to the ground in a matter of seconds but we still tested to see how it would float. For this design, we were going to add 2 additional pieces of paper to put on top so they could steer the parachute in a pretty even direction but we ran out of time and never got to build it. For our first test on this parachute, we got 1.25 seconds.

For our final design, we used everything in the photo above and since the nuts were too heavy we deiced only to use a light piece of blue fabric. The size of the parachute was made larger due to the fact we had a much larger piece of fabric. We did not change the parachute in any way or made any additional changes. Our final performance was great our score wasn't as great as many others but we did come out with 1.88 seconds. I would not change anything only make it larger if we did this again.                     

Have a great day 

Yours ~Olivia ~