Making ooblek

Today we made ooblek. Do you know what that is? Do you know what it feels like? It's kinda gross, but really cool! Our learning focus is using more interesting words in our writing. We came up with heaps of great ways to describe it! Ioasa said it was like boogas! That made us all laugh. Here's what some of our learning aiga had to say about it:

It felt like boogas. It was like a big booga in a big container. It was so yuck. It was so so yuck, it was disgusting. It was yuck because I was going to puke when I touched it. It felt soggy and so weird. It felt like liquid. I felt embarrassed when I touched it.
By Niira

The experiment was messy and fun and it smelled like dog poop. It was very smelly. I could feel the powder when I picked it up. The gloop was melting in my hand. It looked smooth but it was not smooth, it was hard because Tino put more cornflour in it. Then she put food colouring in it and then water. I punched it and it did not stick. I kept playing with it because it was very fun to play with.
By Akenese

We got some cornflour and a container and some water and we put food colouring in and then we mixed the water and the food colouring. We put the water and the food colouring in the cornflour and we mixed it up and it was cool. I touched it it felt funny and it felt gross. The pink was like zombie blood. It felt sticky. It smelled like old popcorn.
By Yaraldi

We poured the cornflour in the container. Then we got some water and poured in a little bit of food colouring. Then we poured it in the container of cornflour. And then the fun part, mixing it and feeling it. It felt like alien gloop!
By Kapiolani

Swimming like sharks!

For the past 2 weeks we have been going swimming. Check out some of our writing about our experiences.

Today me and my friends went to the Arena pools. My group was orange. We didn't get in the wrong way, we got in the right way. After that, we put on our goggles. First we did some backstroke. My favourite was survival backstroke, walking in the pool, jumping in the pool and doing survival backstroke for a whole length.

By Iulio

Today we went to the swimming pool. It was called the Arena Pool. On my first day it felt scary and then after that it wasn't scary anymore. My favourite skill was going on your tummy and rolling on your back.

By Siu

#squadgoals

Check out the next level swag of our learning squads! These are the squads that we work together with for a lot of our learning. We are learning to work together as a team - using active listening, respect, alofa and also having fun!

Bus life

Thanks to Te Pahi Community bus we get to ride to swimming in style!

Happy birthday Tino!

We surprised Tino by singing her happy birthday and giving her an awesome card and present! We may have over counted our claps though, because she definitely isn't 40!

Welcome to the Family

On Friday we had our welcoming mass for all of the new students. We are very lucky to have 3 new students in our Learning Fale - Akenese, Korouea and Yaraldi. Welcome to Holy Family! We are really pleased to have you as part of our aiga 😊

All about Mr Theobald

This term we are looking at our own stories and stories about other people. We were very lucky to have Mr Theobald come and tell us his story. We saw some funny photos from when he was little and he told us that even if you're scared, you should still give things a go. We asked some good questions like "What do you like about being a principal?" "Do you ever want to take a break from your work?" "What inspired you to be a principal?" Thank you for coming to see us Mr Theobald! We really enjoyed learning more about you.

Happy birthday Iulio

Today was Iulio's birthday. We sang happy birthday and prayed for him. We hope you had a great day Iulio and wish you lots of love, laughter and blessings.

Love from your Learning Fale Aiga

Our first ever fitness

Learning focus: using more interesting words in our sentences.

Before fitness I felt nervous because I thought it would be very hard and I would be sweating hard out.

During fitness I felt very very tired because the fitness was hard.

After fitness I felt exhausted because of the hard fitness Room 1 did. We had lots of fun.

By Celina

Day 1 done and dusted!

Our first ever Learning Aiga photo! Today was our first day together in your Room 1 Learning Fale and overall, it was a really great day. We are learning about the expectations of our Fale and our Learning Coaches and getting our brains working again after the holidays.

We're all looking forward to an awesome year together, so watch this space!