Samoan Language Week Activity!

Happy Samoan Language Week!

Today my social-science teacher had given us activity where we assigned to use Prepare, Travel & Gift but also translate these words into Samoan. Here's my paragraph I have written, Hope you enjoy!

My family & I had planned a trip to the beach as a family day out. The beach we were specifically traveling (Malaga) to was a few hours outside of Auckland. We had prepared (Tapena) the food a few hours before we had actually arrived at the beach so we were able to set up the barbeque & cook right away! We had also prepared (Tapena) the night before so we didn’t have to worry about what we were taking to the beach such as, clothes, towels, tents. Etc. The gift (Oso) I personally got out of this whole experience was the memories we all had made as a family, was a big gift to me as I value time with family.

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 2

Today in our online session for social studies, Ms. Robertson had assigned us a task to describe our whole "Lockdown Holiday" experience! So here it is..


My two week lockdown holiday has overall been interesting, I think this whole ‘lockdown holiday’ has been a different experince than usual considering the fact that the whole of New Zealand is on lockdown & is practising social distancing. I am not necessarily enjoying this whole lockdown holiday but I do understand the whole reasoning for this entire lockdown & I do appreaciate what the givernment has done to protect our nation & their effort to try & prevent the coronavirus from spreading.

Made In Taiwan - Storyboard

Chain Tag

                                                              ~ Chain Tag ~

Chain tag was one of the first ABL activities by class experienced. The aim of Chain Tag was to link arms with your team mates & tag everybody else that are left on the court. I feel as if the activity was to introduce us to each other & bring us more closer & just get use to each other in general.

Adventure Base-Learning

~ Adventure Base-Learning ~

Over the past 6 weeks, we have had 8 practical sessions & 4 theory sessions. Adventure Base Learning has been a fun influence on our PE sessions. I hope to do ABL in the future & it was really nice playing each game that the ABL influenced on our PE sessions.

Mat Volleyball

~ Mat Volleyball ~
Last week Friday my class & I had our last A.B.L (Adventure Based-Learning) with Mr. Cunard. The activity we played was "Mat Volleyball" the aim of the game was for two teams to have a mat each & each person in the two teams had to bounce the ball off from the mat over the line & over to the next teams mat. Basically this game is exactly identical to Volleyball the only difference is your not able to touch the ball with your hands but, with the mat your team was given.

Made In Taiwan!

~ Made In Taiwan ~

Made in Taiwan is a documentary dedicated to the people from each Polynesian Island, Oscar & Nathan start their adventure off by travelling from Mahi, New Zealand then they visited Rarotonga,Samoa, Vanuatu & Finally Taiwan. Through out their journey they discover their origins & their DNA results, they also learn more about the Pit people & where the Pita people originate from. 

My personal thoughts & opinion on this documentary about Oscar Knightley & Nathan Rarere visited five different countries to discover & get an understanding on where the people of 'Polynesia" really descended from. My personal thoughts on this documentary is honestly all good thoughts & positive feedback! I think that it's awesome that their wanting to go back from generation to generation to discover, where the first people of Polynesia really descended from. I feel as if not many Polynesians get this opportunity to explore & really get to feel where we (Polynesians) supposedly descended from. You really do get to learn more about our cultures & the similarities between us all. I think its really amazing that their wanting to share this with the rest of the Polynesians that are just as curious as themselves, so I really appreciate & love this documentary! I really do recommend this to all the young & old people that have Polynesian decedents!