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Posted by Aganu'u Fa'asamoa 101 on Monday, February 1, 2016

Happy New Year!

Talofa lava and Happy New Years greetings to all the children, families, whanau and aiga, of Aoga a le Teuila Preschool.

We pray that you have had a safe and enjoyable festive season and are excited about the NEW year at Aoga a le Teuila Preschool

This year we are pleased to announce the exciting new services we are offering in 2016:

• FREE Cooked lunches!
• 30 hours free for 3 - 5 year olds! 
• Planned Educational excursions every term.

We look forward to seeing your beautiful children on the first day back at school on:

Wednesday 20th January from 8:30 - 5pm.

Please feel free to contact our administrator Ria (e: aogaaleteuila@gmail.com) if you have any queries.

Soifua ma ia manuia,

Lealofi Setefano (Centre Manager of Aoga a le Teuila Preschool)

Aoga a le Teuila visits the Auckland Zoo 13 November 2015

Friday the 13th November was our planned centre trip to the Auckland Zoo. It was a beautiful day to visit and explore the zoo animals. Our children & parents were very excited.

Our children were all geared up, hats and good walking shoes, calling out which animals they wanted to see.

"Talofa Burma!". "Talofa Anjalee!" Visiting the elephants.

Alligators, Red Pandas, Hippopotamus and  Giraffes!
There is so much more animals for us to see!!

What a great day for Aoga at the Auckland Zoo! The children (& the parents) enjoyed visiting the different animals.
A successful day in the sun enjoyed by all!
Thank you parents for joining us for our final trip for 2015!!

Aoga a le Teuila's participates in "SHAKEOUT 2015"

Aoga a le Teuila's faiaoga and tamaiti for the past few weeks been talking and discussing
about what to do when an earthquake occurs.

We have also been watching the video on being "Turtle Safe"

Yesterday (Thursday 15 October) at 9.15am we participated on the nationwide "SHAKEOUT" earthquake drill.

Our children and teachers "DROP"

"COVER"

and "HOLD".

Although there were a few tears from our younger children we were happy to see that most of children knew what to do.
Malo le taumafai tamaiti!

Fiafia tamaiti e FAITAU TUSI

Our tamaiti love to explore our books in the literacy area. 

They enjoying reading and looking at all the colourful pictures. Pointing out pictures that they recognise.

"The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go"
Dr Seuss

Aoga's fundraiser for the Cancer Society "Daffodil Day" 2015

Aoga a le Teuila has supported the Cancer Society and this week we hold our fundraiser and our children participated in various activities.

We made Banana cupcakes and had them for afternoon tea.

HHhhmmmmm Manaia Tele!!

Our children also made their very own daffodils in our arts & crafts corner.

Friday 28 Our children & Staff all dressed up in YELLOW/LANU SAMASAMA in support of the Daffodil Day. We held our coin trail all week. We had a special lunch with all funds going towards our fundraiser!!

Thank you to our aiga & children for supporting our fundariser to help the Cancer Society!

"Please don't the MUSIC....."

¯There is never a dull day here at Aoga. Epecially when the music is on full blast.

E fiafia tele tamaiti i mea fai faili.¯

The children love to sing and dance. Sharing in the singing and dancing and even getting all dressed up!

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Cook Island Week continues at Aoga 5 - 7 August 2015

Kia Orana!!

The celebration continues at Aoga.

We continue the tie dying, and ei making (flower garlands)
Music and dancing flowed throughout the day!!

We also had a special visit from Mama Tere & Rangi who we invited to share their knowledge of making Cook Island doughnuts at Aoga!!

Thank you Mama Tere & Rangi! The children really enjoyed eating their Cook Island doughnuts! Meitaki Maata!!

Cook Island Language Week 2915 - 4 August 2015

KIA ORANA!!
What a wonderful week celebrating Cook Island Language.
We also visited our friends at Apii Potiki!!

Such a beautiful welcome from our friends at Apii Potiki!

We were able to participate in a variety of activities tie dying, ei making (flower garlands) cooking and cook island doughnut making!

Lots of music and dancing throughout the day!

Thank you Apii Potiki children and staff for inviting us to help celebrate the Cook Island Language Week!! Meitaki Maata!! Fa'afetai Tele Lava!!

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori - Maori Langugae Week

Aoga have celebrated Maori Langugae over the last 2 weeks. We have enjoyed learning new words and pharses and new songs!

We were lucky enough to have one of our mothers Mel Hoto come and show us how to make Maori fry bread.

 Mel showed us how to cook Maori bread in the oven. Our children watched Mel knead the dough.

Then we helped Mel make another batch to fry! Hhhmmm YUM!
Thank you Mel for coming into the centre and making Maori fry bread with us!

The Transition children also learnt parts of the body in Maori!
We throughly enjoyed learning Te Reo this week!!
Ka Pai Tamariki!!

Visit to Auckland Museum

Today 19/6/2015 we had a centre trip to the Auckland Museum.
The children and parents were excited to go exploring through the museum.

We enjoyed looking at all the different areas of the Museum.
The beautiful artifacts of the Maori and Pacific.

The variety of different animals of the land and sea!

We had such a great day exploring the Auckland Museum.
Thank you to all our parents and helpers who joined us today!

BOOGIE NITE - ISLAND STYLEZ DISCO

OH! what a night! Thursday 11/6/15 Aoga held a
DISCO ISLAND SYTLEZ fundraiser.
It was truly a night of dancing and beautiful attire worn by our tamaiti as well as our parents!

Our music was on beat and our children continued to dance the night away.
The children especially enjoyed watching some parents do the Limbo!!

Our Disco fundraiser was such a success!We would like to thank you all for supporting our fundraiser and supporting our children & aoga!
Fa'afetai..fa'afetai lava!!

Sisiga Fu'a

O le aso muamua o Iuni i tausaga uma, e fa'amanatu ai le sisiga fu'a o le saolotoga o le malo o Samoa.

O galuega fa'atino o lenei vaiaso e fuafua lava i le sisiga fu'a.

Fa'amatala le uiga o lanu ma fetu o le fu'a o Samoa

Valiina o la latou fu'a

Ta'aloga - Tu'uga Va'a

Ta'aloga - Se'i Ponaivi

 Masi - Fu'a o Samoa

Mea'ai Samoa - Fa'apapa

O le fa'aiuga o le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa sa faia ai le fa'apapa a tamaiti.

O se tasi lea meaai e fiafia iai tagata samoa!

Siva ma Pese

O le Aso Tofi (28/5/2015) sa asiasi mai le aoga fou o Glenbrae Kids i le matou polokalame o le  Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa.

Ua fiafia matou tamaiti e pepese ma sisiva i luma o matou uo fou!

"Tama ma Teine fa'alogo mai, sei fai atu la'u tala.
O le Aoga a le Teuila e fa'ataua le gagana.
Hei hei hei o la'u gagana e fai mou sei
Ho ho ho ia teu mau i lou loto
E ta'u atu i lau tautala o oe o le Samoa moni lava"

We had so much fun sharing our songs and dances with our friends from Glenbrae kids!
They even shared their Samoan song with us!
Oka se manaia le pese!

Galuega Taulima - Eleiga

O le Aso Lulu 27/5/2015 sa asiasi mai le aoga Cook Island o Apii Potiki Glen Innes Community Preschool, i le maimoaina o le faiga o le elei Samoa.

E mata'utia foi le latou va'ai i le fa'atinoina o lea foi galuega taulima.

WOW! Look at the bright colours that our children used to do elei printing!
Our children enjoyed having their new friends from Apii Potiki over for a visit during Samoan Language Week.