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.

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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 ~

What did this week!

Kia Ora Bloggers,

I know it has been AGES since I have posted but anyway this blog post will cover most of what I have done this week. PS. These Holidays were so much fun! I have had a good brake and I hope you have had one too

 

Literacy 

This week of literacy we have been learning about different scientists My all-time favourite scientist/ astronomer  Galileo Galili so we had to fill out a template about him here is my version of it. To the right of my information is my poster about him to go with the piece of writing.

      

Math

For math, we have been learning about equations these questions here were Manley just recap questions so we could remember from the holidays. This and last team we had been leaning about equations/ Algebra, a queation could be like 2x – 4 = 2 .       

Science badges

I have finished my geology science badge after the whole holidays of working on that! Down below is the front page of my website!

Have a great week and weekend stay healthy and stay safe 

Yours ~Olivia~  

 

What are the Southern Lights

This week it has been a great last week, I Was only ate school for 2 days! Anyway 

Today we were learning about the Southern Lights here is my knowledge. First of all the Southern Lights or the Aurora Australis, Aurora comes from the Roman word Goddess of Dawn. The Aurora lights are usually the colours greenish but sometimes red or blue. The Aurora lights are formed by the sun bursting out flames of fire from the sun, they spray towards the Earth. But the magnetic field stops it, usually, there are flames that get through when they enter the Earths atmosphere they collide with the oxygen bubbles and create the light.

Here is my Aurora Australis  

I hope you like it, have a lovely day!

~Olivia~

Mysterious Matariki

Maori

In Maori for the last couple of weeks me, Zoe and Sophia have been working on a puppet show showing the story of Matariki. I do all the voices and most of the puppet movements this was very fun I would really enjoy doing it again! Me and Zoe planned the script and Sophia added the important bits. The video is about 1-2 minutes long, I hope you like It!

Have a great day! 

~Olivia~

Wonder the wonderful book

Hey bloggers,

for literacy today we were doing Genre we had to pick a book and write the different genre in it as you can see I chose the book wonder.  If you don't know, Wonder is a heartwarming story about a boy who is born with some skin problems and his face looks a bit different. He starts school and everybody is talking about him and makes fun of him. But he finds a friend and warms up to everyone. 

 This is my work,  

I hope you like it, have a great day!

~Olivia~