Niue Facts

This week is Niuean language week ! I have learnt some facts about the island that I am going to be sharing them with you! Fact 1. Niue is a tiny country in the pacific ocean, a free country, but still not a UN member. Just like the Cook Islands, Niue is in free association with New Zealand, so it's basically represented by it. Furthermore, since New Zealand's the head of state is Queen Elizabeth ll, she is also Niue's monarch. Fact 2. The entire country is just one island, with an area of 260 square km and a population of 1200 people. That means that the entire country is only around 6 times smaller than london. Even more suprising is that 90 to 95% of all niuean ethnics in the world live in New Zealand, not Niue. Fact 3. Despite it's small size, Niue does have a capital, but it's not exactly a city, but rather a village called Alofi. Alofi has a population of less than 1000 people and it consists of two villages: Alofi north and Alofi south. Alofi is the worlds smallest capital by population, after Palau's Capital Ngerulmud. Fact 4. The famous James Cook was the first European to site Niue, in 1774. He named the island "Savage Island" because the people didn't let him land and appeared to be painted in blood. His name stuck for centuries, until the original name was reinstated, a name which means "behold the coconut" Fact 5. In 1885 Niueans wrote to Queen Victoria of the UK to willingly join her empire. but it was only in 1901 that Niue was brought witing the boundaries of New Zealand. In 1974 New Zealand restored Niue's self goverance, after a referendum in which most people opted for it. Fact 6. In it's entire history, Niue had only one political party: The Niue people's party. but even this party didn't last long, as it was disbanded in 2003. As of 2017, there a no political parties in Niue, only independent MP's. Fact 7. because Niue is a raised coral attol, it has geograghy and coastline like few other Islands. The cave systems are among the most spectacular and intensive in the south pacific. It's not suprising that niue is one of the most appreciated destinations in the entire pacific. Here's the link to the video If you want to know which one I got these facts from.

Marvellous Measurement

This is my presentation showing some of my maths from this week.

Measuring Tapa Cloth

Sir Newton Isaac

This week is maths week, so we are completing a series of maths challenges in our first challenge we learnt about famous mathematicians.

My opinion for our program

The Step Up Programme was fantastic! Over the three days the campers were gone, it was AMAZING to see how many of us could work with other people they have never worked before or haven't worked together in a while. The chance we were given to step up was a great thing to go through as a team together. And the moments we communicated made it more easier for our team. 

I feel like one thing we need to work on to improve is the cup stacking game is because when people go up they feel like they're going to get run down by others who are in their team and they don't feel comfortable going up because they might be too scared and their feelings will be hurt I guess...

Timeline

Fresh Fractions 1

So today we learn't more about fractions.

As I saw it...

So today, room 4 decided to investigate a cupcake that was given to Miss Stone that
disappeared somewhere. We found it then we lost it again so Miss has given us
this presentation to try and solve where it went.

The Croatian Myth

Today in our inquiry rotations, we learnt about the Croation myth. Of how the lake formed into a dragons eye shape

Cambodia - Myth of lightning, thunder and rain

Today we learnt about how the gods and goddess made lightning, thunder and rain

Greek mythology

This presentation Shows what we learnt from greek mythology, it was very fun and interesting to learn

My holiday highlight

My holiday highlight is ice skating because it was fun.

Polygons

Literacy class activity - Term 2 Week 3

Inquiry - The geosphere

This is a task we got given for this weeks inquiry.

Kei te pehea koe?

So this is a task/activity we have been given for this weeks Te Reo lesson. This is our first activity for this term and this one shows us having conversations with others using positive words, Enjoy :)

bar graghs

Task Description:

This is our Maths work that I did for this week.
We have been given this task to complete. Since we are in lock down, we have to communicate online where we see and talk to our teachers and our classmates.

The seeing hawk

This is a reading task my group got given to go through and answer.

Te whareTapa wha

This is my whare tapa wha we had to write what you can or would do. this is the Mental, Physical, Social/ Family and spiritual Health. 

Wind chimes