Exploring and Samoan Language week

Talofa lava!

What a great day we had exploring today. The children in Room 24 and Room 25 had a blast!

This week is Samoan Language week so we included some provocations (inspiration) around the samoan culture.

Tapa and art prints – Some of the children used paint and pre-cut sponges to create beuatiful art work today. We used some images of tapa to inspire us. Here are some of the tapa or siapo images we found.

 Here are some of the paintings the children created...

Lei - Today some of the children made leis using cupcake cups, straws and wool. They looked very cool. Some of the children were inspired to used the equipment to make beautiful island flowers like Shardaye who created a hibiscus flower.

Foosball and construction - Today the weather was horrible - lots of rain and wind. We knew in the morning that we would be stuck inside which didn't make Levi very happy. He wanted to get outside and practise his soccer skills. So Mrs Fulford suggested that he create a foosball game (he he couldn't play the real thing at least that would still be fun) We found an image for Levi and he was off. It also inspired Tekau and other children too. Lots of cool construction was going on. Boats were also still very popular. 

 

   

Alyssia made a bed boat so you could sleep and float!

  

Harlym made a tank with room for everyone. Mrs Fulford thought it was very cool but suggested that it needed wheels to move around. Harlym went straight back to work and made some cool looking tank wheels (we learnt after that these wheels are called continuous track)

Gods of Olympia - As part of Room 25's learning the boys got very excited about becoming their favourite Grecian God. We had ...

Zeus - boss of all the gods

Poseidon - God of the sea

Hades - God of the wealth and riches

Ares -  God of war

Hermes - the trickster and messenger of the gods.

 

Leaf boats - Today at reading time Joseph and Sarah read The leaf Boats.

 

We used this as inspiration to make our our (especially since it is autumn and there are hundreds of leafs all over our school. The children created their our leaf boats and tested them out. Tekau found that his hole in the middle was to big so he problem solved and used the hot glue gun to cover the hole. Great idea! Quanitah worked really hard to figure out a way to sail the leaf boat so that it did not tip and let water on board. She was so excited when she figured it out.

Samoan food and playdough - Today some of the children were at the playdough table creating delicious meals for their teachers. Seiaemoe and Olivia made Mrs Fulford's favourite - panikeke and palusami. They also made some supa sui too! Yum Yum girls! 

When the girls moved on Tekau and Dayton came over to make the most terrifying monsters they could. 

Drawing - several of the boys were very focused on creating beautiful drawings today. Makaira spent his whole time doing a very intricate pattern which he still needs to finish. His plan is to vivid and then paint with bright colours.

  

Other exploring...