Tongan Language Week 2014

Malo!

The theme for Tongan language week is: Fakakoloa ‘o Aotearoa ‘aki ‘etau Lea mo e Hiva Faka-tonga which means Enriching Aotearoa with Tongan Language and Music.  

What are you going to do to celebrate Tongan language week? I know that I am going to learn as much Tongan language  as I can from the awesome Tongan students in Room 14! Who is up for the challenge to teach me?!

Tongan language week also got me thinking about the trip that the teachers took to Tonga a few years ago! We were treated to lot's of singing and dancing when we visited schools. Here is a photo collage I made showing a few good memories from the trip. The little girl in the top right corners name was Fa. I helped her to write a story and she was really happy! I hope that she is still doing well with  her learning :) 

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Peace like mine

It's Peace Week and we decided to send these postcards to the United Nations. This was to show our support for peace in Gaza especially for the children. We are lucky to live in New Zealand which is a peaceful place where we can be free. We wish that children all around the world can be free and live in peace like we do.  Here are some of the boys rugby team who played at the zones on Tuesday. It is hard to imagine that some children in the world do not have these freedoms.

Origami Morning

Today we worked with our buddy class Room 1 to learn how to fold some origami! We learnt from our sensei (teacher) how to make a sailing boat and a cute little fox! Mrs Moore knows lot's of Japanese and she taught us some new words and a little bit about the culture. She looked beautiful in her kimono too.

Interviewing the Sports Stars!

This week we did some research about our favourite Commonwealth games sports stars. Here is an interview that the fabulous Emalata and Ivorn did about Maria Tutaia. She even came in to answer our questions! LOL just joking! We had fun pretending to be her as we acted out the interview!

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