*Sigh* Today is the first day of Term 3. Our theme for this term is "A world of difference!". This morning I entered school and said Haii to a whole bunch of my friends that I missed. The VERY first person I said Hi to was my two older cousins, Alison and Jarreka. Once the bell rang we had to sit in the street and listened to our teachers greet us. After all of that was done, we went into the hall with all the other students. We said the school Karakia (Prayer) and listened to Mr Burt.
He said he LOVED collecting hats from different parts of the world that he's been to. We also got to learnt that Mr Jacobson is part Scottish and he was wearing his grand-father's clothing that he wore in the war. The patterns on his bottom clothing were for people to see what village he's from. It was nice of him to share something quite personal to his family. He even told us that his kilt was a family heirloom from his grand father and more generations.
Then we got fascinated learning that Mr Somerville's family was a whole generation of knights. He was a third generation kiwi that moved to New Zealand. He even showed us his family crest that he's pretty sure was on the knights shield. He also showed all of us where they were living before and that someone from his family were friends with someone else from Scott land. So it's most likely that either way Mr Somerville and Mr Jacobson were meant to be friends.
Then we started with team 1 for what they were learning about, like always. The teachers of team 1 made a video about them wanting to know more about how different children come to school, what they eat, how they manage with their inventor time. They showed some disturbing lunches, but they were very fascinating. Then Ms Hockley showed us how to say our theme in sign-language.
Team 2 were showing a video a video about Dora the Explorer. They were travelling the whole of New Zealand and said they were learning about the main tourist places in New Zealand. They said they were also looking and learning about famous landmarks here in New Zealand. I think they'll have a really fun time learning about those things.
Then we watched team 3's video. It was all about "The Amazing Race". They had to travel the whole world and complete different but small activities to find their next destinations. Sadly, I can't really remember the different places they had to go to, but I know team 3 will have an amazing time learning about these different places around the world.
Second to last was team 4. The start of their video was making me hungry because they were eating really good looking food. Plus, Miss West was using google to find out where each of the different foods they were eating came from. When Mr Goodwin came in it made me laugh because he was trying to sound smart by knowing where his food came from. But Miss West corrected him to where his food actually came from and Miss Tuia corrected him on the actual pronunciation for his food. Then he got angry and took a harsh bite into his food. So basically they were learning about the different foods around the world.
Then last was team 5. The teachers were acting out the Samoan Myth or legend of Sina and the eel.Mrs Ilaoa acted as Sina and Mrs Tele'a acted as the Eel. It was such an emotional love story. The Eel was a prince and he was getting demanding for the Princess to love him, but sadly she didn't feel the same way. She was getting to frighted that she ran to her family and her cousin who was played by the beautiful Mrs Tapuke went a cut the Eel's head off. As his last wish, he wanted Sina to plant his head into the ground and create a coconut tree. Now when Sina took the coconut his face was on there. The three holes for his eyes and his mouth. Then every time she drinks from the coconut, she was basically kissing him.
At the end, Mrs Tele'a told us the different things we could do with the coconut. We could use it as a drink, as for Cook Island people, they use the coconut as a costume, but they clean it first. People can also use the coconut as a Island Oil and more stuff. Once we all left the hall we got to say what we did in the holidays. All i did was stay home, babysit and more fun stuff.
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