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Cook Islands Language Week Challenge 2

Brain Time!

Last week we made a lot of Pic Collages showing what we did during Brain Time. Here are a few of the ones we made:

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This week was also the Kapa Haka assembly. Some of our students were performing. Can you find them in the video?

Listening

This week we had a challenge from Barry the Brainy Bee (http://barrybrainybee.blogspot.co.nz/). He asked us to make a blog post showing our learning with he Habit of Mind Listening.  This is what we made:

Pasifika

This week in Pasifika, Mr Siilata and the older children taught us some new dances. The boys learned a  Samoan Faitaupati (a slap dance) and the girls learned a Samoan Siva (please, if this is wrong, correct me). Have a look at the older children teaching the younger children. Remember this is their first try at doing this.

Shapes!

Mr Davidson told us to make pictures with shapes. We could use triangles, rectangles, circles, hexagons, ovals and squares. Have a look at the videos we took talking about our pictures:

Brain Time!

Here are some Pic Collages from Brain Time that we finished today. Have a look at all the Creating and Innovating we've done with the Lego!

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Samoan Language Week Challenge #4

This last challenge had us using all the words we learned this week in one conversation. Have a listen to what two of our boys said:

Patterns!

Today, Mr Davidson asked us to make a pattern using anything we could find in the classroom.  We used Lego, puzzles, lids, rocks and shells, numicon shapes and Bee Bots. Can you make a pattern yourself?

Have a look at the patterns we made. Can you figure out what the pattern is?

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Pasifika

Last Friday we went to our cultural groups again. Mr Davidson is in the Pasifika group and he took some videos of the song and the sasa we're learning. Have a look at how good we've become. We have a guitar and a drum playing with us!

Pasifika Cultural Group

Today the Busy Bees and The Fledglings started cultural groups. Some of us, including Mr Davidson, went to the Pasifika group, run by Mr Siilata. Have a look at what we did:

Here are some videos of the Sasa that the older children were teaching us:

Discovery

Today the Magnificent Monkeys and the Brave Bears did Discovery on the Teddy Bear's Picnic. We had a picnic outside, made some bear masks, built a bear house and dance to The Teddy Bear's Picnic. Here is a Comic Life of what we did:

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Jackson is our Friend

During Discovery today, we got to hold Jackson, our class pet. We listened to Mr Davidson. We had to hold him on the tail near his bum and be very careful. He was not too scared of us. See the pictures of us holding him:

Putting Halves Back Together

Today the Toucans were learning how to put halves back together. Have a look at the shapes that they fixed: