2021 Tuvalu Lanugage Week: Vaiaso o te Gana Tuvalu

This week we celebrated Tuvalu Language Week by watching a video by West Auckland Tuvalu Youth (2019) and applying our new knowledge in a Kahoot! quiz. 

We found that there Tuvalu had some similarities to our own pacific island homes. 

The comments below are some of our findings in the manner of traditional dress, language, dance and food. 

"Something I learned about Tuvalu and my own culture is"

The material the girls use to dance in is similar to Samoa - DJ 

Pita asked if Tuvalu is like Niue. I can confirm our islands look very similar, some phrases also. Niue sits higher out of the ocean than Tuvalu. 

Malachi asked what it means to migrate, which is when people move from one country to another. 

WATY says that their Tuvaluan "identity is seen through your actions, tau gagana, iloga, tuu mo aganuu (culture and tradition)". 

Term 3 Week 5 at Level 4

It's no secret by now that you'll know we've all been at home the last few days. We're gutted but we're not gonna let that keep us down! 

Room 7 and Ruapotaka School's Home Learning officially kicked off today. After a week away from each other in class, it was really great to see ourselves in today's class Google Meetings. We're enjoying the sleep ins, staying up late, more time with family and change of pace. We all agreed that we definitely miss the face to face conversations with friends and teachers, and learning in a classroom. 

Kahoot! became a regular occurence in our last online meetings, so much so I forgot all about it! I was able to cue up a couple of games, and if you know us, we're Marvel fans ... the scores in our first game didn't show this though. We've got some sharpening up to do so I might need to assign a Marvel film study. 

Yes, Room 7, who is this??

This slide is the end product from our celebration of Cook Island Language Week a few weeks ago. I'm really proud of this because there are several examples of learning my class and I were able to utilise - Mr Goodwin's remove.bg lesson, Cook Island phrases, downloading and uploading images, formatting images to fit. Pakau - awesome! 

Our last Cybersmart session was with Mr Goodwin, who showed us how to create our own 8-bit art. Everyone had to create Mario first before making their own creations. We had some really cool examples from Hone, Jairus and Willie, just to name a few. The pic below is one Renei and I worked on together. 

"It's a-me, Mario!"

Terrifically, tantalising, tango Thursday 4 March check-in and check-out

Tena koutou katoa! 

Room 7 have been doing an excellent job of tuning for their home learning. For every day we're in Level 3, we have a morning check-in video call at 9.30am and a check-out call at 2.30pm. 

The check-in is our chance to switch on mentally and gives us enough time in the morning to make sure we're out of bed, had breakfast, done our chores - basically anything that we would normally do before school. It's also a great way to stay socially connected with each other at this time. 

The check-out gives us all a chance to meet again, share our achievements, challenges and have a bit of a laugh. It's also a good opportunity for us to "clock off" after a hard working day of home learning. 

We try to end each video call with a fun game. So far, we've played Kahoot!, Bus Stop and challenged each other with our basic facts playing Ace King Queen Jack. If you've got some suggestions for us, we'd really like to hear from you. 

Thanks for reading and take care! 

Mr N 

Today's check-out session. Two games of Kahoot! about Marvel's Avengers and General Knowledge about New Zealand. 

Monday 1 March: Room 7 Home Learning

Kia ora koutou! Wow, what a busy day of home learning it has been. 

The R7 Daily Check-In at 9.30am was an slow but entertaining start. We revisited what our expectations are for learning from home, especially about setting up our learning spaces. I was pleasantly surprised to see three of our classmates in their school uniform - solid effort from Renei, Willie and Ocyan! 

A reminder to the R7 students, keep up the good habits which allow you to make a strong and positive start to your day. What do you think some of those habits might include? 

The R7 Daily Check-Out allows all of us to meet online at the end of our working day, to celebrate our 'wins' and clock off from home learning. R7 were very lucky to have 10 students and Mrs Tidswell join us this afternoon, where we finished with a General Knowledge Kahoot about the weekend just gone, sports, school and Mr N. There are a couple of highlights posted just below. 

Looking forward to seeing my class once again tomorrow! 

Regards 

Mr Nevalagi :)