Super Science

Kia Ora welcome back to my blog, I hope you have had a good week back at school. Its unfortunate that new zealand has new case's of covid-19 but we've gotten rid of it before and we can do it again. I really miss online school because I got so much done and got to do anything I wanted to do in the afternoon because I got all my work done.

For Literacy we are learning about science and Space. Yesterday in my literacy group we did an experiment. We are learning about how to write a proper science report, Here is my science slide. Every week I will add an experement to the slide. Here it is: 

(Sorry I can't upload the slide, so here is a screenshot)

My Super Siapo

Hello, Welcome back to my blog.

I have had an amazing week. I hope you have also had a good week.What did you do this week that was fun? I am happy that New Zealand has eliminated covid-19. Jacinda Ardern has done an excellent job at keeping New Zealand safe. Every wednesday we have been learning about Samoa and the Samoan culture.

One of the oldest and most important traditions of Samoa is the Siapo or Tapa.  It is a type of cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree.  It is very time consuming, because the bark must be harvested, stripped, separated, scraped, and beaten before it can be used.  It is then laid out in the sun to dry.

The artist uses natural dyes, created from items such as berries, bark, and nuts to make patterns on the cloth.  

There are 13 traditional patterns used on siapo that represent things common to Samoan culture such as nets, coconut leaves, shells and flowers.

My Amazing Scratch

Hi bloggers,

We are learning Samoan every Wednesday and over the last two weeks we have been learning how to count to ten.  I found this quite easy as it is very similar to counting to 10 in Maori.  Today we used Scratch to code a programme that would show people how to count to ten in Samoan.  Check it out!  Can you count to 10 in any other language?