Ra Whanau Suzanne Aubert

In room 6 we have been celebrating Suzanne Aubert’s birthday by making flowers for the theme, “Always choose the little flower of hope.”

Suzanne looked after sick people, people with disabilities, children whose families couldn’t care for them, and the elderly. The work she started continues to this day in places like Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen.

Suzanne left her home in France and came to Aotearoa to support the Maori people. She honoured the Maori people, their tikanga, reo and rongoa. Suzanne loved God and always thought about what he wanted her to do, not what she wanted, even when that wasn’t easy.

The Life Cycle of a Sea Turtle

  I am learning to: write an explanation

Did you know that sea turtles have survived since the late Jurassic period? That was 150 million years ago. Sea Turtles are reptiles and they can not put their head hands or feet in their shell so they always have them poking out. There are three stages of a sea turtle, The eggs, baby sea turtles and adulthood. First it begins with the egg stage.


Eggs:
What looks like a ping pong ball and is white and leathery? Sea turtles eggs! We are starting off with the egg stage. The mother of the eggs would squirm to a spot with lower dunes to lay her eggs. Once she has found the spot she would dig a hole and lay her eggs. After she has laid her eggs it was time to cover it up with sand and walk back to the water. She would lay roughly 110-200 eggs. The eggs take about six weeks to hatch and they would be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. When the little eggs hatch there next stage is to survive being a young sea turtle.


Baby Sea Turtles:
This next stage is baby sea turtles.Once a baby sea turtle hatches it crawls out of the hole and squirms to the water but on the way there are threats and predators. The baby sea turtles try to make it to the water but 50% will die.Some of the predators are crabs, seagulls, raccoons and much much more. The ones who make it to the water will find a patch of floating seaweed and settle there. About 50% who rise to the surface will die and end there life cycle.


Adulthood:
At adulthood you would have lived for around 80 years and you have to wait another 20 to survive to breeding age. Roughly 20% of adult sea turtles will survive without human interference and only 1% will survive with human interference. After they have finished their life cycle they repeat it again.


Today lots of Sea Turtles die every year with pollution such as plastic bags, plastic containers, oils, food packages, plastic water bottles and much much more. There are only seven more species of Sea Turtles left and six of them are endangered. So if you have plastic, instead of throwing it into the water, throw it in the bin.

Lights, Camera, Action

Room 6 presented their learning about not being a bystander at their assembly on Friday week 3. In week 3 all school around New Zealand made a stand by wearing pink. PINK stood for Peaceful, Inclusive, Noble and Kind. Our assembly was a success and we all had fun.

Maori Verbs

In room 6 we have been learning verbs in Maori ( action words ). The question is "Kei te aha ia?" which means what is S/he doing. Ia is the pronoun for both he and she.

We have matched verbs up, filled in crosswords and played Simon Says.

To My Mother

My Handprint

Here is my handprint, Five fingers in all. Outside the are short, but the middle is tall. You will find them on windows, you can find them on the wall, they will leave a big mess for something so small. One day I will grow and leave them no more, my handprints will be missed, of that I am sure. So here is one now, that you can't wipe away. My present to you this Mothers Day.

The Ascension of the Lord

In RE we learnt about the Ascension of Jesus. At Galilee Jesus told his disciples to take his Gospel to the whole world. He promised to send the Holy Spirit to be with us always and then he returned, in glory to his Father in heaven.

We used crafts to show how Jesus went body and soul to Heaven.