Samoan Language Week

Samoa is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean.  All week we have been celebrating all things Samoan.

There are two main islands Savaii and Upolo.  The capital city is Apia.

Here is a video of what we have learnt this week about Samoa.

Taro Taro Taro

Today we tried some taro.  Taro is a common vegetable in Samoan cuisine.  In Samoa the taro root is wrapped in taro leaves and often cooked in coconut milk and cooked in an umu - an underground oven.  Only Wade and Ava had ever tried taro before.  I was really impressed that 17 out of the 22 of us tried it for the very first time.  How brave!  Some people really liked it but some didn't at all.  There were plenty of funny looking faces in VH this morning.

Good on you for trying a new food!

Samoan Language Week

We had fun this afternoon learning a sasa - a traditional Samoan action song.  Here is a snippet....

We also had our first lesson on our school ukelele.  We learnt to play the chord C.

This week our school assembly song is O le pepe.  Have some fun singing this at home.

Click and sing along :)

Cross Country Fun

What a beautiful day - chilly but stunning sunshine for our 2014 school cross country.  What a magnificent morning.  The kids were so proud of how they ran!  Here are some photos of our efforts.

There'll be a whole heap more photos tomorrow!

Science Week and Friday's Alien Parade

It was a fantastic week learning all about science and space.  We had lessons each day about gravity and thrust.  Enjoyed watching Suzy's World Science videos about space too.  The alien parade was awesome.  Big congratulations to Ellie for winning VH best costume.

Here is a snip-it of VH class parading their fabulous costumes.

The kids had a great week.... here are some of their comments.

The alien parade was really cool.  By Jaxson

I liked learning about balloon rockets from Mr D.  By Dion

The alien parade was the best parade ever.  By Amber

I liked Mrs Packer’s lesson of science about gravity.  By Holly

The science experiments were really fun.  By Emma

I liked learning about thrust.  By Joel

I liked it when Mr D showed us balloon rockets.  By Daisy

Abby thought it was the best time of our lives. 

Science Week 2014 on PhotoPeach

Magnets, Mixing and Microscopes

Week 2 has been fun!  We've been writing about all the rain we have been having - check out our writing page 'It's Been Raining' to see some of our amazing acrostic poems.

This week we joined our reading buddies from RD class to share some fun stories.

We began learning about colours - primary and secondary colours.

We had fun making colourful, colour mixed clowns.

Today we had Discovery time.  Our theme was I am a Scientist.  Our focus was supporting and
encouraging each other.  Check out our fun!

Some wacky scientists

Colour mixing fun

We all love bubbles!

What can you see in the microscopes!

Fascinating friction

Bird feeders

Magical magnets

More wacky scientists

Big big congratulations to our first four students to reach 100 nights reading.  You are stars!

Welcome Back to School - Muffins with Mum!

What a busy busy week we have had.   Today we celebrated our cool mums by hosting Muffins with Mum.  It was so neat to have so many of you visit today.  We hope you had fun.

Here is a special video we made just for you!

Thank you so much for coming to share our fun!

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