So much excitement having 6 more kits for us to use. These kits are like massive lego or mechano building kits - they have aluminium pipes, joiners and screws. In small groups we followed a plan to construct a pulley system that had to be at least 1.6m tall. Some even managed to get their pulleys working! Huge effort to think, collaborate, co-operate and build a design.
The photos say it all - everyone was busy and proud of their work.
Squeals of joy and laughter could be heard from all activities run for Gumboot Day. We had "Toss the Gumboot", "Target Practice" and "Over - Under with your boot" activities and we rotated round these activities with our buddy classes. It was hard to get quality photos with all the gumboots flying!
Gumboot Day is a National day to raise funds for children that need counselling to have this service for free. In our country there are many children struggling through life. So like wearing gumboots in mud can be hard work, these children struggle to cope with learning.
Our school raised $136.
We started off with fun games to warm up and boy did we need that as it was very frosty when we had our football sessions with Karen. Once we were warm we were put into teams to have mini games. Lots of fun.
This week is international Samoan Language Week.
We are lucky to have a couple of Samoan students in our class and they can help us with some of the words or phrases in Samoan.
Talofa lava = hello
Fa'afetai = thank you
Mālo = well done
Afio mai = welcome
In class we looked at some Samoan art and then designed our own using traditional patterns. Here are a few of the finished art works.
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