Shelter in Fiji

A traditional Fijian house is called a bure.

 Bure is a Fijian word meaning a hut made of straw and wood.  It is usually made out of any available plant material.

 

A mat made out of coconut leaves used as floor coverings.

Modern Fijian Houses

These are usually made of wood, corrugated iron or concrete. Fijian houses have to be very strong because they get a lot of hurricanes!

Sota Tale (see you again)

Bula Vinka

Bula, Ni Sa Bula or Bula Vinka all mean hello in Fiji.

Some Facts about Fiji:

• it is an island so is surrounded by water
• there are more than 300 islands 
• native people from Fiji are Melanesians
• lots of tourists like to visit Fiji because the weather is hot
• it is a Pacific Island

We have been learning about different types of foods people eat in Fiji.

They eat a lot of root crops like yams, cassava, kumala and of course dalo or taro.

They also like to drink coconut water, cook food in coconut cream, boil green bananas, breadfruit and eat fruit like mangoes and pawpaws.

A lot of seafood is eaten.  You can also see them sucking on sugar canes.

Fijians favourite cooking method is doing a lovo (an underground oven) which is same as hangi.  They also like to boil and steam their food.



We shared our findings with other classes in our syndicate and found out that most of the foods that people eat in Fiji is very similar to those in other Pacific countries.






Next week we are going to find out about different types of shelters people in Fiji use.

Ni Sa Moce for now ( that means see you again)

Room 6 Cross Country Representatives

Our runners who represented the 7 and 8 year olds from our class after winning places in the school cross country finals.

Fakaola, Tristan, Andrea, Dora

Congratulations Dora

Dora won the New Zealand Post Award 2014.  She was selected as the best writer for year 3 and 4.

Spring to Our First Class Assembly

It all started as an inquiry learning topic, the study of 4 seasons and ended up as part of our first syndicate assembly.

As we are in the spring season, we decided to go for a hikoi around the school to see what signs of spring we could find.  The blossoms on the trees were the most obvious ones.

We also found out that baby animals are born in spring, the weather gets warmer and the days get longer.

Next came the art, we had to paint a tree with blossoms.

Then came the assembly.  We presented our art, sang proudly and took charge of the whole assembly.  We did really well!!

Now our art work is displayed proudly in our classroom.