Sri Lanka

On Thursday Sayuni's Daddy came in for a visit. 

He showed us a powerpoint and answered all our questions about Sri Lanka. 

We are very lucky to have two people in our class who come from Sri Lanka; Sayuni and Anoji.

This is them in their traditional dress

Did you know that there are 3 different languages in Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Tamil and English)? Sayuni and her family speak Sinhala and Anoji and his family speak Tamil.

Here is Sayuni's Dad holding the Sinhala alphabet

He told us, that to greet other people in Sinhala, we need place our hands together, bow and say "Ayubowan"

Sayuni's mummy came for a visit too, she made us kokis to try. She had made them in the shape of Sri Lanka. They were sweet and crunchy.

Anoji's mummy also joined the party and brought us some Kesari to taste. It was yellow and was also nice and sweet. 

Here we are eating all our traditional Sri Lankan sweets (lot's of us went back for seconds ;-)

Thank you so much mummy's they would have taken AGES to cook and they were soooo delicious!

To finish it all, On Friday we talked about all the things we had learned. Here is our wall display that we made together. Can you remember what the Sri Lankan native bird in the picture is called?

Thank you so much to Sayuni and Anoji's families for coming in and sharing your culture with us. I say it all the time, but Team 8 is so very lucky to have such a supportive whanau like you.

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