Voyaging

Since Week 9-11 last term, to now, we have been learning about voyaging. To help us with this project we had the privilege in going to Opua Warf and looking at Ngahirakamaitawhiti. So a few weeks later (week 10 or week 11) our teachers gave us the task to do a couple questions and after you have about 5 questions you choose 1 question that you want to focus on. My question was How did they survive on a long journey ? (sleep, sickness, eating, toileting ). Out of the one question you should about 5 other Questions from the one question. So my other questions are, How did they get there food ?, What did they do if they got sick ?, How did they go toilet ?, How did they sleep ?, How did they shower ?. Once you had your 5 other questions we had to do a plan page to get the information. The moment you have all your information you had to present it in a creative way without Google Drawing. I decided to use Glogster. Hope you like it :)

Sorry I didn't Know how to put it in as an image so here is the link instead. It may not work, if so, I'm really sorry.

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My Holiday (20 Minutes Free Writing Term 2: Week 1)

My Holiday

To start of the term, our teachers wanted us to get straight back into our 20 minutes Free Writing. If you don't remember what that is, it is when our 2 classes, after Taumata every Monday Morning, we go onto our blogs and write about whatever we want. This week I chose this one part of my Holiday that was exciting. Hope you Enjoy :)

Today I will telling you guys about the day my Mum, Dad, Flo, and I had our training. So the day started of with a normal morning routine, wake up have breakfast, get dressed. When getting dressed my mum told me to get into her togs underneath, and then she texts my aunt to tell Flo to put togs on as well.   After all that my mum decided to ask my aunt (Flo's Mum)if Flo would like to come with us for training, my aunt obviously said yes. So my mum, dad, and I got dressed and headed out to Moerewa to pick up Flo. When we arrived to her house she was all ready to go, she had a jumper on, skins, and a top underneath her jumper. We sat around a little bit for our parents to catch up and talk. After there adult conversation, us 4 (my mum, dad, Flo, and I) went to the netball in Moerewa. We stretched and then got into the hard work... 1 hour later, our training is all done, Flo and I were all wet (sweat) that you would think we had a shower. After training we shot to the pools at the Bay Of Islands College for a swim after our training. We stayed there for only an hour and went to go have sushi for lunch. After Sushi me and Flo went with our Nan and did grocery shopping with her. Our day ended with a nice relax when we got back home for grocery shopping. That was my favourite day in my Holiday. Hope you Enjoyed :)

End Of Term 1 Reflections :)

End of Term 1 Reflection:

Term 1 this year I will say was better than my Term 1 last year. For me it went really well, had a few growling for talking but I will say that it was a great Term. My Highlights for this term are, the Bay Of Islands school Kapa Haka Fundraiser, Netball training, and the ANZAC ceremony that we had Yesterday. The one thing I didn't enjoy was Problem Solving because our groups never changed and we never got to see other peoples brains when it comes to Math. A few thing's I learnt this Term, is that women never and still doesn't have equal rights to men, and that women were very objectified in the olden days. Something I want to improve on next term is to not talk when the teacher says the roll. This is my term 1 reflection.

My Weekend (Free Writing)

My Free writing for this week is about my Cousins Eze's 5th Birthday. Hope you enjoy :)

My Weekend

On Sunday the 7th of April (Yesterday) It was my Cousins 5th Birthday. My cousin Eze was turning 5 and coming to school the next day (Monday 8th of April). We went to church and my dad gave him a chocolate for his birthday. After Church he went up to my nans cause he wasn't suppose to know about the party yet, so he went up to my nans and played with my cousin Daniel. Not long after my Nan took them into town so that they can be distracted while we go down to my aunt's house and decorate it. It was a nice plain Birthday not to fancy. While we waited for them to come back from town we were just setting and making games. When he got here his face lit up and all he had was a smile the whole night except when we played touch. For dinner we had, Mayonise, Chop Suey, Chops, Chicken Skewers, etc(I forgot the rest). After dinner the big kids had a lolly hunt while the little kids were doing the pinyata. For the big kids, we had to find lolly bags that were hidden by one of my uncles (Uncle Rich) while we were at church. I found 1 bag, Desiree found 1 bag, Maria found 2 bags, Noah found 2 bags, and TeHura found 1 bag as well. After the lolly hut we all had a little break and had some dessert After dessert all of us had a pass the passel. After pass the passel we had a little tidy up and took the trash to the dump and then we had a game of touch. For touch it was the adults against the kids. The kids weren't going to well so my uncle Whare came on our side. The touch of game finished off with the adults with 8 and the kids with 5. On the adult team there was, my dad, Uncle Rich, Uncle Andrew, Harry, Eze, Daniel and Angela, and on the kids side there was, Me, Noah, Desiree, Flo, TeHura, Shanya, Maria and Uncle Whare. Yesterday was the best 5th birthday I have ever been too. 

So that was my weekend!!

School kit Notely

A few weeks ago, our classes did a activity where you get an object our of the school kit. There were 12 items, a spider, dinosaur, candle, key, teddy bear, compass, chess piece, boat in a bottle, puzzle piece, diamond rock, and a man sitting on a chair. Out of the 12 items items we had to choose one that we would describe by smell, touch and what you see. We had to have 40 words, 20 words that describe it and 20 synonyms for the 20 words. Once we had done that we had to put all of them into a Notely and and set it up like how you will see it in the bottom. When we finish setting it up, we had to go onto Anagram maker which was we took our name of our object and just chose one of the names in the list. Here is my Notely Project Hope you enjoy.

Maths with Whaea Dianne

Maths with Whaea Dianne:

Today we had Whaea Dianne come in and teach us some maths. If you don't know who Whaea Dianne is, she is a teacher that comes in now and then to teach us some hard ish maths and also show how the teachers should teach us maths. For a warm up she gave us about 15 or so numbers and told us what two numbers that relate some how. Some of the Number were 150, 300, 200 ,2, 10, 6.4, 3.2, 32, 64, and 15. For today's activity we had a hand call Harry's Hand, and with the hand we had to measure with it. We had to measured some letters that were on this paper which was called our map. We obviously in groups, of course, and well we had to measure with the Harry's Hand. While going through the maths activity there were stuff that we asked questions about. When going through she brought out different types of Harry Hands. Closer to the end she showed us equivalent fractions that could help us with our measuring. For me, I will say that the easy thing was just adding the whole number measures, but the thing I found hard was adding the decimal numbers to the whole numbers. Something I learnt was how to measure without a ruler. 

Kapa Haka Concert (Free Writing)

If you don't know, every week on Mondays we get to have 20 minutes of Free Writing. Free Writing is when we get to write about whatever we want. This Week I will be writing about my first Kapa Haka Performance since the Kapa Haka Regional's last year. Ichose this topic because I felt like it was a special moment for me. Hope you enjoy :)

Kapa Haka Concert:

Last week Thursday (28th of March) Bay Of Islands College had a Concert for their Kapa Haka Groups Fundraiser. They were Fundraising for Regional's  that was coming up. Horrace's (My kapa haka teacher) sister had invited Te Rau Pou Manawa (Primary Kapa Haka Group, also the one I am in) to the concert to perform as well. From After Morning Tea to the end of the day, Te Rau Pou Manawa had a practice for the concert that was happening that night. All day we just worked and worked and we had a lunch tho. Before we had a top drop we were told about who our kaias are gonna be, Horrace told us that Tamarah (One of the 8 maybe kaias) will be doing commands, Manu will be the boy kaia, and I will start all of the songs. So we did the top drop and then we got let go to go home. When I went home I straight away went into the shower and got dress into my Te Rau Pou Manawa Shirt and a long skirt. I had asked my mum to put my hair in a bun cause that what was required from the girls. Getting dressed I was getting more and more nervous, what i was telling myself was "It's OK cause you have performed in maybe 10x more than then the people will be there. So when my dad got home from work, he had a shower and then we left. We all had to meet at Bay College By the marae. When I arrived I started looking for all my friends. When it came to about 30 minutes before we perform, all three Groups (Kete Taonga, Te Roopu O Peowhairangi, and Te Rau Pou Manawa) into the Marae. Once everyone was quiet Whaea Jazz (Horraces sister and the head tutor for Peowhairangi) gave us a big hug welcome an thanked us for coming to perform at their concert. She Started talking to us about what will start happening, we were first so we had to go to the drama room first to start practising. When we got in there Horrace made us do some warming up stuff.... (10 or 20 minutes later). % more minutes to go and everyone is getting nervous, "Te Rau Pou Manawa your up" says the lady from Bay. My heart started racing and I felt like I was about to faint. Once I hit the stage all my nerves went away. So that was my first performance in a while. Hoped you enjoy :)

I felt like it was a bit hard, but aslo a bit easy to write about this experience. My next step I will say, is try and use more describing words. Hope you enjoyed :)