MATARIKI CELEBRATION DAY

M A T A R I K I

Rory Working with Whaea Carol making his Matariki Lantern

Making Matariki Lanterns

Working with Room 22

We had fun walking around seeing what other classes did for Matariki.
This was the lovely Room 11.

Listening to Room 22's presentation

Our final displays of our Matariki Lanterns made with Room 22.

Rowandale School

...then we joined Rowandale School for their awesome Samoan Celebration Day too.

We performed a Samoan Medley

with Miss Manuele and Mrs Lokeni

We went with the lovely Room 2.

Samoan Language Week

We had an awesome day viewing and learning the importance of the Samoan head pieces worn by Samoans. Malo lava Tautua mo Tupulaga.

WHERE WE'RE AT WITH OUR READING GOAL!

WEEK 1       13 books read
WEEK 2       32 books read
WEEK 3       14 books read
WEEK 4         2 so far...

61 Chapter Books read so far leaving us with 39 more to reach our goal.

Our goal is to read 100 chapter books this term, but we hope to read more than that - because we can.

OUR READING GOAL FOR TERM 2.

Fiafia - Show time!

FIAFIA NIGHT FEVER

Room 7 performed a Tahitian dance to the song 'Te Tama Ma'ohi'. We tried something new this term. We had a live band play our song while some danced.

BAND: 

Christopher - Bass Guitar

Miss Magaoa - Lead Guitar

Joshua - Drums

Shalin - Tambourine

Gemini - Singer

Angela - Singer

Mafile'o - Singer / Dancer

And our lovely dancers were:

Sela, Leah, Glenda, Heseti,Meliana, Yasmine and Ovalau...

not forgetting our boys that joined us in the final hour:

Waitaha and Robert-John