Matariki Celebration

Its a new year!

Talofa Lava Bloggers! Today I will be blogging about Matariki. This Thursday our whole school celebrated Matariki in our classes. Matariki is the Maori new year. A special constellation comes for about a week every year. In the Maori culture its best to harvest around this time. Our school celebrated this in our classes. The seniors did three different activities they were stop motion animation retelling a Matariki story with Miss Daly. Also Maori kites called Manu Tukutuku with Mrs Law, and delicious Fried Bread with Mrs Jones. My favourite activity was Fried Bread with Mrs Jones. 

First we made the dough with Self Raising Flour and water. Then, we divided the dough and split into groups and cut the dough.  After, we went and fried the bread with a teacher and then put some toppings on top like Golden syrup, Nutella, Butter and Jam. We ate it and it was delicious!!

I had such a fun day and am sad I won't be here next year to do it again.

Hope you enjoyed my blog post! Did you celebrate Matariki? If you did what did you do?

If you have any spare time please comment below! Blog you later! Here are some photos!

     

                       

 
          

Cross Country

Talofa Lava Bloggers! Today I will be blogging about my awesome day yesterday! Yesterday we had a School Cross Country. It was so fun. In the start of the day we set everything up and then got ready. Once everyone was ready we started. The leaders and house captains lead 4 - 5 different games. My game was a blindfold game. My partners were Ruta, Demitrius, and Izumi. I had so much fun and got a little frustrated. My game is simple you get a partner, one of you wears a blindfold and the other lead them to the other side. You can't touch them if you are leading you have to lead vocally and on the way to the other side you have to help them pick up something like a beanbag.

When we had the last two groups we were exhausted. People managed to make our game confusing!! We ended up playing tidy your room. We relaxed because in this game we didn't need to do anything. I had fun bu the end of the day was coming and the best part of the day was soon. The RACE! It was so fun. I would do it again. I came first! Jaimie on of my best friends came second and Rael came 3rd. Brittany came fourth. I had so much fun that day. Hope you enjoyed my blog post!
Here is a video of our day!

Personal Response

Chicken Sunday

Talofa lava bloggers! Today I will be blogging about my personal response. Yesterday we did a personal response on a book we read called Chicken Sunday! If you don't know what a personal response is its a document. On the doc it says what you liked, disliked, confused about and some others. We write at least 2 - 3 opinions on what it was. 

We did it on this book because its about discrimination and religious racism and acceptance. We have been looking at this topic for the last three weeks! We have read about the incident on George Floyd. This book is all about how you shouldn't and should treat each other! The book was about kids wanting to get something for their Grandma and they try earn money but something unexpected happened. I won't tell you everything there is a video below reading the story. I really enjoyed this and I hope you enjoyed my blog post. If you have any free time please comment down below! Here is the link to my response and the video reading the story!

Hope you enjoy!
Link to Response                   Video of Chicken Sunday

Reading Choiceboard

Reading Choiceboard

Kia Ora Bloggers! Today I will be blogging about our class reading Choiceboard. For the past 2 weeks we have been doing a different choiceboard. Before we had to choose out of around ten tasks now we only have four. Its really fun because lately the topic for reading has been Racism. The marches and talk about George Floyd has inspired most of our reading work. We have done different poems on race and Racism. Its also fun because the tasks are easy and fun. I really like doing choice boards! I love doing reading! How about you? Please tell me in the comments down below! I hope you enjoyed my blog post! Blog you later!

Toolkits

Toolkits!!

Talofa Lava Bloggers! Today I will be blogging about my day yesterday. On the 18th of June we had toolkits. This year it was different. Normally we would go to Hay Park Primary School, but this year we had to do it online. We had 6 Google meets going at once. Google Meet is like face time, many people could go on at once. Toolkits is where you get to learn new things online. Last year was fun but this year was like an obstacle. 

Two people or more will present their screens and show everyone something new. When you're a presenter you show people something they probably don't know and they can show what they learnt to their friends or class. It was an obstacle because people wouldn't respect the presenters or they would use the chat and say 'Hi' a lot. Some people would also not mute their mics so it was so loud. Lots of people got in trouble. I think the cause was friends would go on the same one and talk and go on the chat. It still was super fun! We had three sessions and it went on all day. 

First, we had a big meeting with all the teachers from the different schools all around Ako Hiko. It was hilarious because the internet wasn't working properly and Miss Daly's computer kept on glitching! Then she got mad!  I think it was more frustrating and she had a tantrum and yelled. The mic was still on and everyone heard. 

After I had my first session it was fun! I did Digital Portraits! It was sort of hard but I got it in the end. My second session was the best! I did Scratching games. It was like scratch Junior but you code a game then you can post it for the public to play. The last one was super easy to understand. I did Piskel. Its like a pixel art app but it you can make it move! It was so fun. At the end of the day we filled in a reflection on a slideshow and then did a form. If we completed the form and sent it in then we would get a badge on our blog! I had so much fun and I hope you enjoyed my blog! Blog you later!

My piskel Art

 

Week 8 Post Lockdown Creations!

Hey Bloggers! Today I will be blogging about my new creation slideshow! This week has been so cool and fun. Today I have done fun things like a paper form with Hosanna and a 20 minute workout. We do a Post Lockdown Creation slideshow so that we can reflect on our work and day! For example today I reflected on what I liked disliked and something funny! It is easy to do and really fun. My favourite thing that we did this week was the 20 minute work out. My friends and I kept on slipping in our socks and Brittany got hit in the face about 3 times! It was so funny! I really hope you enjoyed my blog post! If you have any free time please comment down below and be sure to look at the slideshow! Also here are some photos of this week! Blog you later Bloggers!

Fitness

Pizza/Photo Bombing in the back

Me and friends eating Pizza

Week 7 Post Lockdown Slideshow!

Week 7 already!

Talofa Lava Bloggers! Today I will be blogging about this weeks Post lockdown Slideshow! This week has been awesome and fun. Today we did different things like google forms, Lockdown Smackdown and so much more! In my other blog post about my old Lockdown creations slideshow I explained what we do on it and how we do it! Its very simple and easy! My favourite part is doing my daily reflection! I like it because I get to write down what I did and how I feel about the day and what I liked and didn't like! 

This week has been cool. On the slideshow we add 3 things we did that day. Its more likely that it says Reading, Maths, Writing or an extra we do like blog or a Kahoot! This week on the Post Lockdown Creations I added my art. For art we did foot and hand print art. I decided to do a brown bear! It definitely did not turn out the way I thought it would. I learnt to not try do the same as your friends and just change the colour! This is because Hosanna my best friend wanted to do a polar Bear and I said that I would do a Brown bear! This week has been a blast! 

Here is my Post Lockdown Creation Slideshow