Senior Camp Recount

 The deep cyanic water was mesmerising and cold , there was a tumultuous up-roar of laughter and chatter among the children who were in the pool, my skin looked wrinkly and ancient from swimming in the pool for so long. It was the last day of Senior Camp. We were tired yet excited because for the whole day we were going to be swimming at the pools. I remember when Senior Camp was first announced. We were originally supposed to camp at Houhora Heads Holiday Park but due to supposed weather conditions, was cancelled and we had to have an “In School Camp”.  Primarily I thought that the “In School Camp” was going to be fun and interesting plus it would also be a different experience. On the first night which was probably my favourite night there were parents helping us. The ones I remembered were Mr Richards , Mrs Mullholland, Mr Ty and Mr Dickinson and as expected all the senior class teachers. The first activity we did was sports rotations. My favourite sports rotation was Softball. I remember when it was  my turn batting, I batted and they caught it on the fall. I was so  disappointed l. On my second turn batting I did a perfect hit, the bat swung with a swoosh and hit the ball thump, as soon as I heard the thump I sprinted to first base, safe I heard Mr Richards say (Mr Richards was the parent referee for the game). My face blushed red with pride, my heart pounded merrily unluckily that did not last for long. When it was the next batter's turn to bat he batted successfully and I ran to 2nd base and he then ran for 2nd base I was pushed to third he ran to third base where I was pushed to 4 I then got out on last base I was gutted.But I got over it pretty (Well if you call  thirty minutes quick). The next most interesting thing that happened that night was playing spotlight in the dark (spotlight is a game similar to hide and seek but played only in the dark with a torch and when you find them you have to shine a torch on them and say spotlight and  their name). I was not found once in spotlight every time I hid. It was always in the same spot near the P.E shed and every time when I knew almost all other kids were found I ran to the back of the field to be even more hidden. When spotlight was over we went to bed. First we watched a movie called SpongeBob: Sponge On The Run 15 minutes later I was fast asleep. The next day we went to Maitai Bay. The first thing I wanted to do was swim in the water so I quickly put my togs on and dived into the water. The water was freezing yet I persevered and swam after an hour of swimming later I got out and got changed. After I got changed it started raining and I quickly hid under the gazebo. My bus was the last bus to come so I was wet and cold.The next day we went to the movies. The movie we watched was The War With Grandpa. I had already watched the movie. When we went inside the theatre there was still a while until the movie started. So we entertained each other by standing up on stage and booing each other off. Then after the movie ended we went home. After we came to school we immediately went to the pools, the deep cyanic water was mesmerising and cold , there was a tumultuous up-roar of laughter and chatter among the children who were in the pool. The deep pool was opened so bombs were done every 5 seconds after 4 hours of swimming in the pool we came out.  My skin looked wrinkly and ancient from swimming in the pool for so long. After that I went home to my family and that was the story of my “2020 In School Senior Camp.

Maths Scores

 Today in Te Kahu class we did a maths game and we screenshotted our scores. Here is my score.

Maths Scores

 Today in Te Kahu class we have been doing a maths game to show how good we are at our times table. Here is my score. 

Evaluating Media

 Today in Te Kahu class we have been doing our cybersmart lesson. Today we have been learning to evaluate media here is my work.

Catherine McAuley

Last week in Te Kahu class we have been doing a slide deck on Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy. Here is my work.

Weekly Review : Week 4 Term 4

 

• What did I enjoy this week? One thing I enjoyed this week is stitching my part of our class quilt. It felt so satisfying to pierce fabric with a needle and it was fun to create a little square representing who we are as a person.

• What was one success I have had and why? One success I had this week was in creating my Saint slide deck. I had fun learning and finding out facts about Saint Gregorios Mar Geevarghese of Parumala. A saint in which no one in my class knows about .

• What is something that I found challenging and why? Something I found challenging this week was doing my part of the class quilt. It was my first ever time stitching but my finished project looks so cool.

• What is one thing I have learned? Something new I learned this week was how to stitch a piece of fabric on to another piece of fabric.

• What is something I am looking forward to next week? Something I am looking forward to next week is creating my newspaper article on the film festival.

• How have I shown the value of Aroha this week? I have not particularly show the value of aroha this week but that does not mean that I Have not been kind.

All Saints Day: Saint Gregorios Mar Geevarghese

 This week in Te Kahu class we have been learning about different Saints. One activity we did was creating a slide about our chosen saint. I chose Saint Gregorios Mar Geevarghese. Here is my slide hope you learn something new.

Radical Raps

 This week in Te Kahu class we have been creating songs/raps. We did this task in groups, the people in my group was Cordell, Fynn, Raidon and me. The most  challenging aspect was coming up with a beat because there was no beat we could find that matched our song but at lats we chose a beat made by Cordell. The most fun part was singing our song it sounded awesome. Our song turned out exactly as planned from every lyrical note to every beat it was perfect. My group worked well with each other we collaborated nicely we talked and communicated and we thought outside the box. Now without further ado here is our song. Unfortunately I cannot upload the song directly so here are the lyrics and the beat. 

Fashion Collage

 This week in Te Kahu class we crated a collage of different Fashion outfits. My favourite fashion accessory is sunglasses. They make you look cool while protecting you from the sun. My favourite type of sunglasses are aviator glasses they just look so cool.  

Term 4 Week 2

 

What did I enjoy this week? One thing I enjoyed this week was having Miss Lawless run the week. It was so interesting having a different teacher and doing things different for a change.
What was one success I have had and why? One success I had was my emotions wheel. It was an interesting activity to do. I worked super hard on it and it looks wonderful.
What is something that I found challenging and why? One thing I found challenging is doing the lyrics task( a task where we literally make lyrics for a song). I have pretty good idea's for a song but what makes it hard is that I have to work in a group and everyone in my group has different ideas of there own
What is one thing I have learned? One thing learned this week is how to make a Bar And Whisker Graph. It is super easy and Miss Lawless revealed to us that... creating a bar and whisker graph is what a level 5 would do which is a whole level higher than what we are supposed to do.
What is something I am looking forward to next week? Something I am looking forward to next week is doing more cool and interesting contract activities.
How have I shown the value of Aroha this week? I have shown the value of aroha this week by all round loving and caring to others and being caring to my friends.

Term 4 Week 1 Reflection

 What was one think I enjoyed this week ? The thing I enjoyed most this week was training with Whaea Morganna. Yesterday Whaea Morganna came in and taught us a bit of athletics skills I had so much fun we even played a game called planes. In planes the are four corners two people go to one corner each corner and try to hit the others with who are in the centre of the four cornered square while one person calls out different movements the others have to do. If the people in the middle of the square is hit then they have to go to corner that the hitters are not in and stay there for the rest of the round.

What one success I had and why ? One success I had was in my recount narrative "The Art of a Splash War" if you want to check it out it is on my blog. I worked hard on it. It took me three days to write and in that three days I put so much effort into it.

What is something I found challenging and why ? This week I found nothing challenging  It was a smooth running week the only thing that probably was hard was that fact that this week flew by like a race car which made me work faster and made me stressed.

What is one thing I have learned this week ? One thing I have learned this is about the Māori culture. A few facts I learned is that Māori is not what Māori originally called themselves they originally called themselves Tangata Whenua meaning "People of The Land" Māori actually means "The People of Enlightenment" and was given to them by Pakeha. In fact Pakeha comes from the word Pakehakeha which were also called "People of The Mist" which came to Aoetearoa before any Māori. The Pakehakeha came out at night but sometimes they came out in light but only if there were some fog to hide them.

What is something I am looking forward to next week? Something I am looking forward to next week is learning more fact about the Maori people from Miss Lawless. I want to learn all about the people of Aotearaoa and the history of the land which I stand and live on.

How have I showed the value of pono this week? I have shown the value of pono this week is by being honest and true to myself and others.

The Arts

For this term our main focus will been on the arts. The task Whaea Danni gave us this week was fairly easy. The task was to give our own definition for each and every art on the following slide.Here is the slide.

What is Media?

 This week In Cyber Smart we have been focusing on media. My understanding of media was news and that was all I really understood but when Whaea Donna came she told us about the three types of media. For the activity we did a slide deck all on media here is my work.Now I have a question to ask you,what does media mean to you? tell me in the comments below.

The Art of a Splash War

 This is a recount of a major event in my holiday enjoy.

On Wednesday I woke up before anyone else in my house with great reason to do so. Since the penultimate week of school my family have been planning to go out of town. The original place we were going to go was Napier. The main reason being that there was a water park there called Splash Planet.

But that was not really the reason why I woke up so early the real reason was to go to the Library. So on the first Monday of the school holidays I went to the local library to feed my latest book fixation, Des Hunt books. As I got my book I noticed a piece of paper with a black background filled with bright red rockets and little yellow stars. On it was a date, and it had two arts and craft activities. The activities were a rocket corner bookmark and a melted crayon planet. It piqued my interest. Both of them were on a Wednesday.

So on Wednesday I woke up to a cloudy and brilliant blue sky. I set out by bike to the Library where I was surprised to find out that it was only two people doing the D.I.Y. I was also pleasantly surprised to find out that we would also be doing origami. After the rocket corner bookmark D.I.Y session I went home to find that my family was not even ready for the trip yet. 

After forty-five minutes of getting ready, we were out of the house and on the open road. We took the Kerikeri route (the longest way) because the Mangamuka route (the shortest route) was closed due to landfalls. The scenery through the was Mangamuka was usually the best but there were still some excellent sites at state highway 10. There were cows with white skin and galaxy-like black spots grazing on green grass, mooing merrily without a care in the world. 

But there was one thing that made that trip bad: my employment dilemma. The dilemma I asked myself was what I wanted to be when I grew up and what if I failed to get there. When I wasn't thinking about it I was sleeping and I was asleep more times than I was awake, lucky me.

When we got to Whangarei we immediately parked at the Whangarei Aquatic Center which was the number one thing me and my sister Evania wanted to do. I wanted to go there to go on the water slides but sadly they were closed. When we got to the pools I quickly changed and then speedily stroded to the main pool. Where I greeted the others I then put my goggles on my head  and my swim bag in a cubby. The water in the pools was a clear crystal blue. I then went to the heated kiddie pool. I had some complications with my goggles so I gave them to my dad and then hopped into the cold big kids pool then I swam to the whirlpool pool only to get punched in the face. 

It happened very suddenly. I was wading through the clear blue water heading to the whirlpool pool when I reached the pool. I was then blinded by the splash of water in my eyes then I felt the heavy and powerful fist in my face. I then fell back. An 11 year old girl had punched me in the face and in defence I splashed her with water. She went ballistic and she said that you should not hurt girls and started smacking me with water and telling her siblings to do the same. So in the spirit of war I splashed them to clash with their splashing so that I would not be blinded by the water. Which obviously made her combust. She yelled at me “how dare you hit me and my young siblings who do you think you are? I am only 9 ! ” Yeah she lied about her age. She then slapped me and waded away. 

Later I went to the spa pool where to my luck she and her annoying siblings were there and as soon as I got in she told me to “get the heck out” she swore at me. She was incredibly rude and of course I denied her rude request. So then they started splashing me water again then to my fortunately I heard a voice saying to them stop. They poked their tongue out at me and then swam out. The person that spoke was a boy named Aston. He and I played for the next hour or so together. Soon me and my family left. On the way to our friend's house which we were going to stay at, I had a realisation of how lucky I am to have two great parents that care for me. I then went on to have a good holiday, well mostly good because the next day I hurt both of my wrists but otherwise it was a great holiday.

Blog Post Analysis

 This week in Te Kahu class we have been learning about graphs. For this week of school we have been doing an activity were we record how much posts we made on our blog. Here is my work.

A Short History Lesson On Suzanne Aubert

 This week in Te Kahu class we have been learning about Suzanne Aubert. For this task we created a timeline of her life. Here is mine.

 

Venerable

 This week in Te Kahu class we are learning about Suzanne Aubert. For this task  we did a frayer model on the word venerable here is my work.

Suzanne Aubert

 This week in Te Kahu Class for R.E ( Religious Education ) we are focused on Suzanne Aubert. Who is Suzanne Aubert  you ask ? Well she is a french missionary who came to New Zealand now here are 12 facts about her. 

Week 9 Term 3 Review

 What did I enjoy this week? Something I have enjoyed this week is finishing my contract before everyone else and creating a Te Reo Maori Kahoot it was so fun to create and even more fun to host the game.

What was one success I have had and why? One success I had this week was creating my Maui Pixel Art at first my original one was deleted but then I had an idea and that idea was my coolest success this week.

What is something that I found challenging and why? One thing I found challenging was doing my Maui Pixel Art since it was deleted once but in the end I persevered and turned it into a success.

What is one thing I have learned? One thing I have learned this week is how to make a Stem And Leaf graph and how to make a Back to Back Stem And Leaf graph at first I was confused but Miss Cook helped me and I learnt how to do it.

What is something I am looking forward to next week? Something I am looking forward to next week is like always learning what new and interesting things are on our contracts next week.

How have I shown the value of Pono this week? I have shown the value of ponoby being honest to myself an others.

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori

 This week in Te Kahu Class our contracts have all been focused on one thing Te Reo Maori. We selected 4 tasks from a variety of tasks to do this week. Here is what I have been doing this week.

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Cybersmart

 This week in Cybersmart we learned how to deal with different cyber scenarios and we did this all on a slide we also made our own forms to ask what would you do if you had a cyber scenario. Here is my slide.

  

Week 8 Term 3 Reflection

 What did I enjoy this week? Something I enjoyed this week with getting my Duffy books now I don't know if you know this about me but I really really really like books and getting my Duffy books it was just so exciting for me.

What was one success I had and why? One success I had was in writting my poem the Gale In The Green I had so much fun writing it and in my opinion it came out really really well.

What is something I found challenging and why ? Something that was really challenging was getting my contract finished in there was just one specific activity it was the social justice week slide I thought the slid had too much work on it but soon I finished it and it felt easy.

what is one thing I have learnt? Something I have learnt today is the fact that  that there are 16 types of poems I discovered that this week  there are so many different types like Odes, ballads and  free verse and my mind was blown.

What is one thing you are looking forward to next week?  One Thing I am looking forward to next week is finding out what new and interesting things we are going to do on our contracts and also doing STEAM  that we were supposed to do this week but we did not have enough time.

 How have you shown the value pono this week? This week I have shown the value pono by being true to myself and others ad genuinely being kind.

Social Justice Week

 This week in class we have been learning about Social Justice Week where we did an activity on a slide all about social justice here is my slide please enjoy.

Free Verse

 This week in Te Kahu calls we learned about different time of poems. I chose to work on free verse poems here is what I did.

Spoken Word Poems

 This week  in Te Kahu class we are learning about poems,the poem I chose was Brown Brother by Joshua Iosefa which is a speech about the stereotype of a pasifika and a brown person, this task was fairly easy but what really made me stressed was the fact I thought I could not complete it in time, what I learned from this task is that a spoken word poem and a speech are very similar. Anyway here is my work. 

Incredible Italy

 This week in Te Kahu class we have been doing a task were we basically plan a holiday. The location I chose was Italy and now here is my work. 

Weekly 7 Term 3 Reflection

 What did i enjoy this week ? This week I enjoyed doing the activity about travelling it was such a fun activity to do. I did it in my old class and it was incredibly fun. My most favourite part about the activity was the brochure part I feel like my brochure about Italy is looking wonderful.

What was one I had and why ? One success I had was doing my  brochure about Italy I feel like it's coming out really good and I'm really proud of it.

What was something I found challenging and why? Something I found really challenging was completing my work, so the only work we really had to do was the independent learning work something my problem was that I I couldn't finish it until I was really stressed out but it turns out that that stress was just a waste of my energy.

 What is the one thing I have learnt this week? This week I haven't really learnt that much memorable things but one thing I have really learnt about is how to plan a holiday.

What am I looking forward to next week and why ?  Something I am looking forward to next week is finding out what we had to had to do this week since this week was very short some of the things that we had to do this week was  moved to next week so I'm very excited to find out what we were supposed to do.

How have I shown the value of pono this week ? This week I have been honest to myself and honest to others.

Priests, Deacons And Bishops

 Today in Te Kahu class we have been looking at the sacrament of holy orders and we created an info graphic on Priests, Deacons and Bishops. Here is Mine.

Week 6 Term 4

 What did I enjoy this week? The thing I enjoyed most this week is winning the Far North Speech Competitions I can proudly say I came first and is one of the proudest moment of my life.

What was one success I had and why? One success I had was in Far North Speech competition 2020 like I said it was a proud moment of my life and I practiced really hard for it.

What is something  that I found challenging and why? Something I found challenging this week was completing my contract because I was away winning the speech comp on Thursday but likely I can easily complete them from home.

What is one thing I have learned? One thing new I have learned is how to better my speech for the future I know the things I need to work on and improve like speaking louder and acting more confident.

What is something I am looking forward to next week? Something I am looking forward to next week is learning about math next week I am sure we are learning about graphs and I am excited to learn this new thing.

How have I shown the value of Pono this week? I have shown the value pono this week by being honest an truthful to myself and others I have also been genuinely kind too.

Senses Poem

 Today in Te Kahu class we made senses poem. Here Is mine.

 greenish blue tint of the ocean

mouth watering smell of fish and chips 

 satisfying and comforting crashing of waves coarse but warm sand 

crispy golden skin of a well fried fish and the the gorgeous taste of fries 

 I have officially arrived in heaven 

The Importance of Detailed Instructions

 Today in cyber smart class we did an activity were we got a partner and together created images out of shapes. In my opinion me and my partner Ryan did wonderfully. What we had trouble with though was naming shapes and where to put them without grids here is my slide.

Week 5 Term 3 Reflection

 The thing I enjoyed the most this week is doing art both pop art and RE collage art were very enjoyable and I am very proud of the art I did. 

One success I had was winning the speech finals it was both very exciting and very suspenseful at the same time, on the 27th this month I am going to Far North Reps wish me luck.

Something I found challenging at first was my RE collage art at first it was difficult I even lost my original paper ta one point so I had to start again but my new and better piece looks wonderful.

One new thing I  have learned this week is cool amazing facts about the brain like did you know that the average human brain weighs 1.4 Kg.

Something I am looking forward to next week is doing daffodil day art I want to know what  art we are creating and helping the cancer foundation.

I have shown pono this week by being honest in my actions to self and others and generally being honest and truthful.

The Normandy Landings: A Personification Story

 Today in Te Kahu class we have been doing personification writing here is my piece.

 Normandy

Sacraments

 This week Te Kahu we had a project where we created a DLO (Digital Learning Object). Here is mine hope you enjoy.

The Rusty Green Table: A Personification Story

 I am sturdy, old and a bit rusty but I am supportive, kind and caring. As the late evening sun glistened in  the sky, the children left I felt lonely, depressed and not needed, I enjoy their smiling and kind faces of the children they bring me joy. As the early morning sun tiredly smiled upon the rough court I opened my eyes to see the children lined up outside their faces filled with joy and merry without a care in the world. As they approached I felt wanted and needed their company filled my heart with joy. Now as they learn new things and create new things on top of me I feel loved and needed.

Week 3 Term 3

 The thing I enjoyed most this week is doing cross country I had so much fun running the track was long but exciting, and everyone cheared me on.                                                                                                      One success I had this week is with my creative writing I finally finished it this week and it is looking great.                                                                                                                                                                Something I found difficult was believing that I could complete my creative writting I thought it was going to take a long time but I eventually finished it.                                                                                        One new thing learned this week is about graphs  I learned what a graph is and how it is in algebra.            Something I really look forward to next week is printing and reading my creative writing book to the juniors.                                                                                                                                                              I have showed the value Pono by being true to my self and others being just and kind.

 

Week 2 Term 3 Reflection

The thing I enjoyed the most this week is doing the Hildegard of Bingen Animation it was incredible fun and I got to collaborate with my friends.

The biggest success I had was doing the build a Skeleton my group and I collaborated awesomely.

One of my challenges this week is doing the skeleton activity it was very hard because our bones sometimes were hard to distinguish.

 The fun thing I have learned this week is a whole bunch of interesting facts about the human body like did you know the thigh bone is the most powerful bone in your body.

Next week I am looking forward to collaborate with different types of people in group activities.

I have shown the value pono this week by being honest to myself and others and have only done good action this week.

Hildegard of Bingen

Today we learned about St Hildegard of Bingen. Here is my work below.

Comments

In Cyber Smart we are  learning about  posting good comments. First we chose a partner I chose Ryan and then we got to work this is what we created.

Weekly Reflection: Week 1 Term 3

The thing I enjoyed this week is doing creative writting because it is always fun to unleash my creativity.
One of my success' was the holiday recount I wrote it with a sizeable amount of effort and in my opinion it was great, the only feed forward I got was to shorten my sentences and that was from the principal.
One of the things I found hard this week  was cross country I am not a great runner and on one day I did  not know it was training and did not have enough time to put my shoes on so I ran through the course barefoot.
Something new I have learned this we
ek is Te Reo Maori in one Te Reo Maori task my group finished second and slowly but surely  I am starting to learn it.
Something I am looking forward to next week is finishing my creative writting and then reading it to Piwi class.
I  have shown the value Pono by being truthful everyday this week in and out of school.

Prayer

Today in Te Kahu class we are learning about Creative Prayer here is my presentation.

The Arcade

This is a story of one of the things I did in the Holidays

Once upon a time on the holidays, nearly three days before  school started, we were going away. It was a beautiful afternoon. My family, which includes my Dad, Mum and sister, went to Whangarei for my mother’s appointment. Why she needed an appointment was not my concern then, nor did I know why, but later it was stated in a conversation back home that this was a follow up appointment to one that happened a long time ago. Anyway, we packed the things we needed. My mother told me to pack an extra pair of clothes just in case something happened. The clothes were not necessarily needed. Anyway, we were supposed to pack and go earlier but my family woke up late and took some time to pack.

The journey was normal, we arrived at exactly 2:50 pm and which was ten minutes earlier than I expected. Then we  immediately went to Actionzone to go bowling with the friends we were staying with, but they were a bit late - due to having a newborn baby with them. When we entered, immediately I spotted the prize booth and found a Justice League funko pops for 350 tickets. Straight away I knew I had to get it! We ordered some food and started without them, the food was so crisp and delectable. Two and a half rounds later they arrived. 

Soon I started to lose interest in bowling. I started thinking of ways to get the funko pop. We had the loose change, so  all I needed to do was to  find a game that could earn me enough tickets to get it. Luckily they had Deal Or No Deal - an arcade game all about earning tickets. The next hour or so I spent so much time on Deal Or No Deal, barely even bowling, but in my head I knew it was going to be worth the effort. The highest amount I got was 107 tickets and the lowest was 1 ticket.

 We stayed at Actionzone until it was closing time. At the last minute we counted my tickets, but we did not count them all. I decided the cashier will be able to count so we rushed to the booth with my mountain of tickets. Luckily I had enough and a little bit extra so I bought the funko pop and two lollipops for my sister. The hero I got was Cyborg. It was cement grey with white spaces on the eyes and below the nose. To me it was all I could ever want! We left Actionzone and arrived  at our friends house  which was beautiful and majestic to enjoy the rest of our trip.

Cyber Smart Reflection

In Te Kahu class we are doing a reflection on Cyber Smart Class, Cyber Smart class is a class where we learn about cyber safety and how to properly and responsible use our Chromebooks, we where asked two and only two questions as a reflection, here is my reflection.
Something I enjoy about Cyber Smart is the learning and how fun it is, I learn something new everyday something that is always interesting and useful.
Something new I want to expand on is coding so I can create more interesting and fun presentations using Scratch.

The Last Post of The Term

In the last post of the term I want to do a end of term reflection.

What was the highlight of the term ?
The highlight of the term for me was the matariki breakfast on Wednesday I got to eat a delicious breakfast and chat and bond with friends.We were served bacon, eggs, spaghetti, Toast, sausages, Milo and Juice. We each had to donate 2 dollars to the breakfast there was so much food that Kakapo had to finish it of. 

What was your biggest challenge ? 
My biggest challenge was getting my contract finished in time I stressed about it  way more than I needed to but I always finished it sometimes with some lucky coincidence. One of the harder tasks was the self portrait task I am not gifted in art but I pulled it of.One of my favourite tasks was the Manutukutuku task where we made a Maori Kite It was hard at first but I am proud of how the kite turned out.

What was your greatest success? 
My greatest success' were always in STEAM specifically the engineering part of STEAM it was a skill I never knew I had and it was fun to do succeed in STEAM for once. When I first found my skill it was in the Egg-Drop STEAM challenge where I worked with my partner Fynn we both worked really hard. The task was to build a contraption that can hold and protect an egg from falling and our contraption was a success.

What Is Something You Have Learned?
Over the term i have learned a lot but something i never knew was the two other stars of matariki 
Hiwa-I-Te-Rangi and Pohutukawa Hiwa-I-Te-Rangi the star of wishes and Pohutukawa the star that connects people to the dead.I also learned about converting measurements but I still have not mastered it just yet. Something else I learned is a trick on how to divide three digit numbers but like with conversion i still have not mastered it.

What are you most looking forward to this weekend? 
I am looking forward to relaxing because in lock-down I still had to work, Going to Whangarei and seeing the cool sites and tourist attractions and visiting my Uncles family. I want to relax because it has been and extremely fun term and I am exhausted with the amount of work I did. Even though  Uncle's family lives extremely close we haven't visited often because my family has been extremely busy with our own activities.

Matariki Goal Setting

In the last week of term we had a matariki breakfast and in that breakfast we did some goal setting here are my goals below.

Matariki Planting

In Te Kahu for the last week of term we did some matariki planting  and we learned about the Maori gods of uncultivated  and cultivated veges and fruit. I made my D.L.O (Digital Learning Object) with three other people in my group Heavenly,Piper and Tiana. Her is our D.L.O.

Weekly Reflection

A big highlight for me this week is my mythical creature the Malagolitan.
A success for me is my going deeper activity which I worked very hard on.
A challenge for me was doing the synthesis activity because I thought on e of the books was boring but it was actually interesting.
Something i can work on is algebra because the algebra activity in the maths contract was hard.

Nga kai

Today in Te Kahu class we learned about maori words for food. Here is my work below.

Fun facts

In Te Kahu class we are learning about creative writing. On google earth we studied about different countries. Here is my work below.

Creative Writing Synthesis

In Te Kahu class we read different creative texts and we did synthesis on the texts here is my work below.

Settings

In Te Kahu class we are learning about creative writing. As one of our tasks we made settings for fairy tales I chose the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Here is my setting.

Character Challenge

In Te Kahu class we have been focusing on creative writing in this specific task we made a character description.

The Malagolitan

Today in Te Kahu class we were learning about Creative writting, as a part of the activity we made our very own mythical creature. Here is my mythical creature below.I call it the Malagolitan.

The Malagolitan  or known as The  Beast of  Nazaroth originated in Great Britain when the great sorcerer Nazaroth the Powerful  was travelling through the Great Forest of Melekian and was attacked by a bear he cursed the bear and deformed it but  realising it was just trying to hunt for food showed mercy by turning it into a powerful and fearsome creature he allowed no harm to come to it by taking it in and treating it as a friend. There are three types of Malagolitans Blood Fires with the body of Polar Bears the rarest and powerful of all Malagolitans ,Poison Fangs with bodies of Sun Bears and Electronaughts with bodies of Panda Bears. There are only  about 150 Malagolitans left due to poaching. They have the lifespan of 120 years. They are valuable to poachers as they have golden wings and their fur are softer than any other material.

Cool Creative Language

Last week in Te Kahu class we learned about creative writing. I personally enjoy doing creative writing because it is super fun and I can unleash my inner writer. 

Radical Robotics

Last week in Te Kahu class we did robotics. We were to take a video of us using our chosen robots doing a maze but unfortunately I deleted the video.We could chose from different robots I wanted a robot called Cue but there were only two left and unluckily those two were already chosen so I chose Photon instead, I really enjoyed this task and recommended  this to everyone.

Manu Tukutuku

Manu Tukutuku is a Moari kite in Te Kahu class in celebration of Matariki we made Manu Tukutuku of our own here is my work below.

Amazing Creative writing

Today in Te Kahu we watched a animated video called the Lighthouse and then we were asked to do a few questions on it he is my work below.

Matariki

Today in Te Kahu class we made presentations about matariki specifically the story of matariki. The version I focused on was The Eyes of Tawhirimatea here is my presentation below.

What Does That Mean?

Yesterday in Te Kahu class we learned about what Kings Judges and Prophets are for Religious Education (RE). Here is my work below

My Time in Lock Down

This Monday we had  a special teacher named Whaea Donna who teaches us how to use our Chromebooks. On Monday she taught us how to add audio on a slide. We were asked to create a slide showing what we did in lock down enjoy.😀

Jack The Egg

Yesterday in Te Kahu class we did a challenge we had to work in team of two to make a parachute put an egg inside it then drop our parachute to test it the activity was modelled after Jack And The Beanstalk. In the original activity we had drop time but in the activity we did we had to make sure our egg did not crack. My teams parachute succeed.

End of Week Reflection

In my first week back I fond it hard to deal with a friend  turned bully who is forceing me and my actual friends apart. Something I enjoyed was playing with my friends and seeing them again. The highlight of my week is winning a game of capture the flag. Something I achieved was becoming the richest person in my class if you did not know there is a point system in my class called Whaea Danni dollars. Something I want to work one is converting measurement and that is my first week back reflection.

My Pepeha

Today in Te Kahu class we were asked to make our own pepeha but instead of writing it we made it a videogame enjoy.

Edward The Elephant

This week in Te Kahu class we were asked to make an animal out of clay I chose to do an Elephant and just like the title suggests I named him Edward. The clay colors I used to make him are white and light blue. Here is Edward below. 

Hooking a Listener

In Te Kahu we have been learning about speeches and what is a good hook for the listeners down below there are a couple of ways you can hook them. The top hooks are the best ones and the bottom ones are the not so great ones.

Density

Today in Te Kahu class we have been learning about density so we tried an experiment the experiment is beautiful if you use more than two colors here is the learning slide and experiment below.

Lockdown

In Te Kahu class we have been asked to answer some questions about our experiences with lockdown and here they are.
What was your favourite part?
My favourite part of lockdown was spending time with my family and sleeping in.
What was the most challenging part?
What I found most challenging was the boredom it was extremely boring but that is not all we were planning a trip to Roturua but we had to cancel it.
What are the things you miss most?
The things I missed most is hanging out with my friends at school.
What are you excited about most when things go back to  normal ?
The thing I am most excited to do is ride on the new equipment in the town park and to see my friends face to face.
And that is my reflection of my time during lockdown.

Venerable Catherine McAuley

Today in Te Kahu class we were asked to make profiles of our house group representatives I took it further and did a biography. So there are four house groups in our school Marcelin, Channel, Aubert and McAuley all named after different saints  I am in McAuley where the official  house color is blue. Here is my biography on Venerable Catherine McAuley.

Symmetry

In Te Kahu class we have been learning about symmetry. For this task we were given a slide of shapes to draw the line of symmetry on here is the slide below.

Pixels

Today in Te Kahu class we have been learning about reflection. The tasks were reflecting an image, creating minecraft versions of ourselves and to also create our own superhero by that I mean taking an existing superhero and create it in the pixel format. I judged this tasks to soon I thought it would take hours and was a pain to do but was I wrong I completed the 3 tasks in one day and I really enjoyed doing it.

X Marks The Spot

Today in Te kahu class using our new found knowledge of direction were asked to make a treasure map showing a screenshot  of the treasure and writing down the instructions here is my treasure map below.

Smarty Pack: The Knowledge is in The Pack

This week in Te Kahu class we have been focusing on persuasive writing in ads. We were tasked with creating our own ad to persuade people into buying our  pretend product. Here is my ad below. Some trouble I had with this task was shooting it all but that was also the thing I enjoyed doing the most. I would like to thank my Dad and my uncle's family for making this ad possible thank you so much. Would you buy this product if it was real ? tell me in the comments below.

Coordinates

This week in Te Kahu class we are learning about coordinates this was a follow up task because in the last vtask some students struggled with it I was one of those students I found the follow up task very fun.The follow up task were multiple tasks on a slide here is the slide below.

Buy One Get One Free

Advertisements they're  incredible annoying but there is a lot to be learned from them they are actually a very good example of persuasive writing  for example the title of my  blog  in itself is a way advertiser sell their products down below there are a bunch of advertisements and the types of tricks they use.

Never Sadden Wondering Elephants

Never sadden wondering Elephants is a rhyme for north, south, east ,west to remember them easier anyway so today on our maths contract we learned about direction more specifically about compasses like how they worked ? and why we need them ? and then our task was to complete an information slide on direction.The task was very fun my favourite part was the Zoo Puzzle. Here is the slide.

Te Kahu challenge

This week in online learning we did not do our normal contracts we did the Te Kahu challenge. So we had a bunch of challenges and only two challenges were must do's and for every challenge you complete you get 10 Danni dollars there were two tasks which were competitions and if you win the competition you get 100 Danni Dollars here are the challenges I did down below. Let's talk about my favourite, my favorite challenge was Extra Extra Read All About It in this challenge we had to make our own newspaper company and write down our own news story the reason why I liked it so much was because I could design and name my very own newspaper and create my very own News article.The things I found enjoyable about the TK Challenge was that it was a brand new and interesting way of learning it also is not bad that every task you do gets you 10 Danni Dollars.The things I found tricky and an obstacle were that I forgot to record my Got Talent activity ( Got Talent is a activity where you take a video of you doing your talent and uploading it to the Got Talent slide) in the day the way I overcame this was by record the video in the freezing cold night without a jacket  luckily the activity I did involved a lot of movement but that did not stop me from having a runny nose the following day another was for the Got Talent activity too this time the problem was that I could not record the video on my chromebook because my chromebooks camera only takes selfies and doing that for any video or photo is going to look terrible trust me I speak from experience so the way I solved this problem was by taking the video on my dad's phone and then emailing it to my school account the next obstacle is similar except that this time it was a photo of interview exact same solution.Anyway here are the five TK Challenge activities I did enjoy.

The History of Aotearoa

In last weeks contract we had an activity on our contracts that we also had to do this week we had to watch a show called The Aotearoa History Show here is a link.the link Any way while watching the show we had to take notes and with our notes we had to write our very own document on the history of New Zealand.The task was very fun and enjoyable down below will be my document but I only took notes for episode 1 to 8 and there are 14 episode so I have not covered the first world war,Boom and bust,the second world war,post war New Zealand,decades of change and modern New Zealand but you can watch those episodes using the link.History can be brutal and saddening at times especially New Zealand history so read on if you would like to face the sometimes saddening truths but still enjoy. Here is a link to the Document since when I try to post it by embedding it goes very terribly.The History of New Zealand

Shapes around my House

This week in our digital contracts, we had to take a photo of  10 different shapes around our house and labelle what shape they are. At first this task was tricky but soon it was a piece of cake I found avarity of different shapes here are them below they have poor quality but it is the best i could do.

The Net of a 3D Shape

This week on our digital contract we are learning about nets not fishing nets but shape nets a net is geometric terms means what you get when you unfold a shape for the activity we had to make a net of our own and make the shape too here is my net and shape the shape i chose was a Triangular Prism.

ANZAC Day Tasks

On this weeks digital contract we had to do 4 tasks on ANZAC Day plus another task i will do in another post.The 4 tasks were to write about the Maori Battalion do a character web on a war poem state the different impacts  and the similarities impacts of the war  between The Soldiers and the people who stayed at home and to do a synthesize of different war stories  the tasks were fun and enjoyable here are the tasks

Poppies

On our digital contract this week we had to make a poppy for ANZAC Day. The reason why the poppy is significant is because poppies grew on the ground were the dead soldiers laid  it was also because of a poem called Flanders Field by Canadian poet  John McCrae i goes like this "In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throw The torch yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

        In Flanders fields". any way he is my poppy and a like to the  website that taught me how to do it The Website

2D and 3D shapes

This week in Te Kahu we took knowledge quiz on shapes I got a few of them wrong but it was still a fun task  

Integrity

On our digital contracts this week there is an activity the activity is on integrity what it means to you and to create an example of integrity what does integrity mean to you and what is an example of integrity ? put your answers in the comments below  remember to check my other posts for cool stuff and to check out my friends blogs  too.

The Wonderful Language Of Te Reo Maori

On our digital contract this week we had a  task,the task was to name 5 things around our home in Maori.That is take pictures or take picture from the internet and put there Maori names on them. The objects I chose were our  TV,washing machine ,fan,computer and bed and the document I made will be down below but since this post is short, I will be mentioning some up and coming posts, since friday is ANZAC day this week for those of you who have no idea what ANZAC day  is it is the celebration of the lost soldiers in ww1 any way the class has an activity on our contract involving ANZAC day so be on the look out for those Anzac day posts and check out my friends blogs too.