Tongan - First Language Group

Last Friday the Tongan children got together to work on a resource booklet for our teachers to use during 'Tongan Language Week'.  They are going to teach the teachers some Tongan words to use in their classrooms. 
The children are all excited about taking part in our very first 'Tongan Language Week' project.

Green Hat Thinking - 'How to Catch a Star'

How to Catch a Star

by Oliver Jeffers

We read ‘How to Catch a Star.’ Then we put on our ‘Green Thinking Hats’ and tried to think of some creative ways  we could catch our own stars. Here are some of our wonderful ideas.

• Get a long, long ladder, the longest ladder in the whole world.
• Put rainbow lollypops in a mouse trap and catch it. Stars should like rainbow lollypops.
• By riding in an airplane.
• Build a rocket ship shaped like a star and the star will think it’s a star and be tricked.
• Go up in a rocket  ship that never ever runs out of petrol.
• Climb up a rainbow to reach the stars.
• Go in a rocket ship way up to the stars.
• I am going to wish a star and I won’t tell anyone incase it doesn’t come true.

Here comes the sunshine...

On Thursday we made a mosaic picture of the sun. First we decided what colours we would use. Then we cut the paper from magazines and advertising mailers into little pieces. 

Next we used our glue sticks to glue the paper into a big circle.

We used red, yellow, orange and dark brown to make our sun because we wanted it to look like a fire.

Yellow Hat Thinking

We put on our yellow hats to help us think about all the good things we know about the sun.

Here are some of our thoughts...

• The sun makes us nice and warm.
• The sun helps us see things without lights.
• The sun makes the day time.
• The sun makes things grow like trees and flowers.
• The sun makes me happy.
• The sun makes our washing dry.
• The sun makes things more fun.
• The sun helps flowers grow.
• It makes things nice and warm.
• It would be really really cold if there was no sun