Tongan Language Week

Mālō e lelei

It's Tongan Language Week!

Today Room 6 had a visit from Iunisi's parents, Mr and Mrs Takitaki. 

We learnt how to say hello and goodbye in Tongan. We also sang the Tongan National Anthem and learnt about the meaning of the colours and symbols on the Tongan flag.

We also learnt the sounds of the Tongan alphabet. It was a bit different to our English alphabet but we did really well.














Finally we looked at some of the beautiful mats and ngatu. They looked amazing and we could see how much work had gone into making them.

Mālō Mr and Mrs Takitaki. We loved learning more about your lovely culture and language.

Earlier in the week we had a go at making our own ngatu.  We looked at pictures of ngatu (also known as tapa, siapo and masi in some countries). They look fabulous on our classroom wall.

Daffodil Day

Friday was Daffodil Day, a day to raise money for the Cancer Society. The Riverhills children had a mufti day where they dressed in yellow. 

In Room 6 we stuck all of the money from the gold coin donations and sausage sizzle to our Daffodil Day chart. We used our skip counting skills to count up the coins and found that we had raised $45!

Room 6 have been learning about tessellation. Here is a slideshow about our learning.

This term Room 6 have been learning about the Pakuranga Creek, our local river. When we took a close look, our river wasn't quite as clean as we thought.

Check out this video about our learning.

Room 6 have been learning about verbs, which are action words. 

We have made a short video about action verbs.

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