Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa

Samoa Language Week is here! What's on? Heaps...in the library and online!

LOOK!
We have a display in the library with a beautiful siapo design. What does it mean?

This link might help you...

http://www.siapo.com/design-elements.html

PLAY!

Have fun with this interactive activity. Click the link in the caption to play!

http://www.wicked.org.nz/Interactives/Pasifika/Pasifika-Patterns

READ!
Our books in gagana Samoa are going to fly off the shelf - but that's ok because you can read these e-books any time! Click on the titles under the pictures.

The Magic Seashell (in Samoan and English)

How Fire Came to Samoa (in Samoan and English)

LEARN!
Getting started – Words and phrases that you could try

• Tālofa lava: Hello (formal)
• Mālō le soifua: Hello/Good health
• ‘O ā mai 'oe? How are you? (to one person only)
• Manuia fa‘afetai: Good, thank you
• Manuia le aso: Have a great day
• Tōfā soifua: Good bye (formal)

Are hens allowed in the library??

I think Butter Chicken and Turbo are probably best kept in their funky new coop!  

And is this where Room 21s frogs ended up??

What do you think?

World famous in New Zealand!

Check out the cool poem by our very own Ridha in the latest Upstart magazine!

You can check out Ridha's poem in the library...and check out our other issues of Upstart as well. Its a pretty cool magazine with lots of Kiwi content, especially reader contributions!

You too can contribute to Upstart right here!

http://www.upstartmag.co.nz/your_voice/contribute/index.htm

Inspiring and empowering!

Check out some of these amazing new books in our library!

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai showed that one person can make a difference. In Kenya, the land was being wrecked by people, so to make it healthy again and nourish people instead, Wangari Maathai - "Mama Miti" - encouraged women to plant trees. 

This is her story.

WATCH and LISTEN to Wangari Maathai talk about the Green Belt Movement she started.

Another true story about a woman who's bravery meant people still had access to books and learning, even in the middle of a war. There is sadness in this story, but also hope, and encouragement from Alia Muhammed Baker's strong conviction about the value of reading.

LISTEN

Sometimes people don't look or behave in the way we expect, but that doesn't mean that it is wrong. This book is about one child's way of expressing himself that is a bit different, and how his friends and family just let him do what feels right to him.