LAST YEAR AT TAMAKI PRIMARY

IALT - reflect on my year at Tamaki primary.

If I had to some up my whole year with three words I would say it was FUN, CRAZY AND AMAZING. I chose these three words because my year was really fun because I went on fun trips with friends, it was crazy because it was really busy. And it was amazing because everyone around me made it amazing.

I think the biggest achievement was my learning, because somehow I keep a good learning status and things like that but another achievement was growing on my confidence. 

Something I discovered about myself was that I can be very confident at times I am still not a very confident person but my confidence has grown.

A skill I have developed is again confidence because confidence was something I really strangled with it is still something I haven't fully developed.

The five people I have enjoyed time with is Bianna,Monita,Arizona,Constance and Aja. I chose these 5 people because they have always been there for me no matter what even if we got angry at each other.

The people who have been a positive impact on me is Arizona, Constance, Aja, Monita, Lizzy and  Bianna, they have always there for me no matter what, we have never been really mad at each other and we have always been there for each other and things like that and I wanna say thank you so much for being my friends this year.

In this blog post I will be talking about my year in the 2018 Kia Manawanui syndicate. I will be telling you guys what I liked about every single term and what I didn't enjoy and things and that. 

Something I enjoyed about term 1 was that my best friend Lizzy was here because she always put a smile on my face. Another thing I enjoyed about term 1 was doing self defence with Julie, I really enjoyed doing self defence with her because she taught us good defence for serious situation. Something I didn't enjoy about term 1 was that there was a lot of learning and it hurt my brain.

Term 2 was a really good term because we went to camp raglan because I went with all my friends and nearly everyone in my class came and it was really fun, I also enjoyed doing all the activities there even though it felt like my legs were gonna die and snap off. Something I didn't enjoy was camp ending because it was toooo fun to leave.

Something I enjoyed about Term 3 was doing Tai Chi with Mr Gordon, one of the reasons why I liked doing Tai Chi was that we did it with Mr Gordon because he was really funny and always treated us with respect. Something I didn't enjoy about term 3 was that my best friend Lizzy left Tamaki Primary to move to Otara. 

Term 4 was a very fun and trip active term, something I enjoyed the most was that we went to Parakai pool. The reason why I enjoyed going to the pools was because it was a long drive there and we were playing music and singing and having fun. I also enjoyed going down the slides and things like that, something I didn't enjoy was that at the pools someone pushed my friend down the slide.

Are Electric Cars the Future? Do you disagree or agree? Why or Why not?

I do believe that Electric Cars will become the future, I think the main reasons they will become more popular and the future is because they are really cheap to run and they are combating climate change. 

Let me list some reasons why, the first reason is because they are run on electricity not fuel this also means that there are no fossil fuels coming out because there is no fuel or gas. Another reason why this is a good car to have is that they run smooth and quiet. 

It's good to have a smooth and quiet car because if you have a quiet neighborhood you won't be disturbing anyone. ANOTHER reason is because its causing less air pollution and things like that because again it's not producing any fossil fuels cause it doesn't run on gas or fuel.

Something that might be a miss is that Electric cars are expensive to by but they are a lot cheaper even though you might think "it's cheaper just to buy a fuel powered car" but really it isn't because you are having to put in gas at least 1-4 times a week if not more and not to mention gas powered cars can cost a lot of money as well. 

Another miss might be that people think that they are really ugly and look all futuristic but you can find really good car brands like Tesla and BMW that do electric cars. Yes you might see a few ugly or bad looking electric cars but a lot of them are nice. Another miss might be that they can take up to 6-8 hours to be fully charged, but you can drive them when they are half charged and things like that, you can also charge your car overnight and things like that.

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Last blog post??

This will be my last blog post at Tamaki Primary............In this blog post I will be talking about all the things I have enjoyed at Tamaki Primary and how I feel about leaving this school for college.


I think the most thing i'm grateful for this year or throughout the years at Tamaki Primary is meeting the friends I have today, Bianna, Arizona, Aja, Nita and Constance. I am so very grateful for meeting yous and I don't know who and what I would do without you guys.

Another highlight from being at Tamaki Primary is going on all the trips and things like that, we always went on fun and interesting trips usually ones that related to your inquiry. One of my favourite trips was probably going to the Zoo because it was really fun, I got to see a lot of different animals and I learned new and interesting facts.

Something I enjoyed was dine and dance because it was really fun and me and my friends (Monita and Bianna) were late and we were walking around the street waiting for the time to be 7:30pm. And it was really fun and funny, and when we went inside we saw all our other friends and it was really fun.

Another highlight at Tamaki Primary was going to the year 7 and 8 camp, I really enjoyed this cause I got to step out of my comfort zone. I also got to build relationships with my friends and other peoples but my favourite thing was to spend a week with my close friends and things like that.

ANOTHER thing i'm grateful for is my teachers, Ms Komor and Ms Aireen and all the other beautiful and amazing teacher I have had because they have been very supportive and very very amazing teachers. I really enjoyed being a student in their class because they really did improve my learning and things like that.

Something I didn't enjoy so much being at Tamaki Primary was that I wasn't always present at school, if I could I would go every single day but I have been really sick and things this year. Another thing I regret or didn't enjoy this year or at Tamaki primary is when I slammed the door on my finger when I was 5 and it nearly fell off so I had to go to the hospital.


I don't mind going to college the only thing I can say i'm nervous about is that there is going to be a lot more new people and things like that and that i'm not going with any of my friends. Another thing I can say i'm nervous about is that colleges are a lot bigger so its gonna be hard for me to get to my classes especially because its sooo big. 


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Freestyle Writing

WALT - Freestyle write about an image.

Today our Teacher (Ms Komor) asked us to write a story about a picture. This is what I wrote. Tell me your opinions and what you think about it in the comments. I did enjoy doing this because it was relaxing knowing that you could just write any way you wanted, I didn't dislike anything because I just really enjoyed writing the way I wanted to write. My next steps will to be re reading it out loud because some parts of my story didn't make sense.


MY STORY ...........

The wind rushed through her hair as she descended the mountain at great speed. For most children this would be an exhilarating, even a terrifying experience. But for lucy  it was just an ordinary journey to school.

Lucy was about 15 years old, she lived high up on a very green mountain in a thick forest in Vietnam. She went to a small and very nice school in her local town/village, she was a very smart girl she topped nearly all her classes except math. Her school was like mine small and local but her school had a bit more students.

Lucy woke up at 6:25am every morning to get to school on time, she had a lot of chores and things to do before going to school. Thursday morning Lucy woke up a bit later than usual instead of waking up at 6:25am she woke up at 6:39am, once Lucy woke up and realized the time she rushed out of bed and quickly went for the fastest shower she had ever had. Her mother shouted out at her “LUCY QUICKLY YOUR GONNA BE LATE!!” Lucy shouted back “I KNOW I'M TRYING!!”.

Lucy quickly finished her shower and threw on her uniform and ran down the stairs, threw on her shoes grabbed her things and said to her mother “I LOVE YOU GOT TO GO NOW BYE!!” her mother replied “I love you t” but Lucy had already slammed and ran out the door. But she remembered she had to get the bag of crops so she slammed open the door and ran in and grabbed the crops her mother smiled and waved bye to Lucy.

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Lucy ran down the steep mountain track through the forest as fast as she could without slipping over, she saw her zipline and quickly but on the harness and zipped down the line, she loved going down the zipline because it gave her a breathtaking thrill but as she liked to call it “a horrifying eye popping thrill”, but Lucy loved going to school like this because it was fast and fun.

By the time she got off the zipline it was 7:19am she jumped off and ran down a small hill, she quickly jumped on her yellow bike and peddled as fast as she could to school, it took about an hour on her to bike to her school, she arrived at school at 8:34am she put her crops in her locker and quickly found her friends before walking into her class.

It was 3:10pm and the end of school bell rang, Lucy hugged her friends good bye and waved she quickly grabbed her crops before going into town to sell them. In her bag she had fruits and vegetables like bananas, cabbage, potatoes that her and her mother grew while her father was out working to support them.

She got into town at 3:23pm and pulled out a sheet to put her fruits and vegetables, she sat there for hours trying to sell all her fruits and vegetables she sold some but she did have a lot left over.    

She biked home at 5:51pm and got back home at 7:12pm, she gave her mother the money she got a very good amount of money 18 dongs and 15 dollars 240,000 dongs her mother was happy and satisfied because it could pay their power and get them food for the rest of the year.

What's your favourite type of writing?

ENJOY!!

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Writing Reflection

This week for writing we have been working on persuasive writing and the topic was 'Electric cars are the future'. I really did like doing this topic because I made the people in my group agree with me when they all didn't agree with me. Another thing I enjoyed was arguing with other groups that disagreed with me. I do personally think that Electric cars will be the future because they are a lot cheaper to fun and they are combating climate change and air pollution.

Something I didn't enjoy about this was that you had to make sure everything you were saying was backed up by something else or another idea or key point, but other then that I really enjoyed it because it was just really really fun.

My next steps are going to be actually thinking about what I say because last time I was arguing and trying to persuade people I was just saying anything that came to my mind and some of the things I couldn't backup and thing like that.

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Maths Reflection

On Monday for maths we were trying to solve and change fraction in percentages, the group I was in was very lost and we didn't understand much about it. Something I enjoyed about this lesson was that we all tried really hard to solve and figure the answer out.

Something I didn't like or found challenging was a lot of it but mainly trying to figure out what the percentage was because it was really hard and I was really really lost and it didn't help no one in my group knew what they were doing and things like that.

My next steps are going  to try harder and harder because I do remember that I was so lost that I didn't really try so much because I was to confused and I basically had no idea what I was doing and things like that. Another thing i'm going to do next time is to talk a bit more as well because I feel like that would help as well.

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Reading Reflection

WALT - To use  ANALYSING skills to identify key ideas.

In this morning block we have been working on reading, this week or this morning for reading we have been reading and focusing on task about the book called 'Turning Old Into New', what this book is about is pretty much turning old rubbish into new things like or recycling things into new things. 

The activity that we focused on and that we have started was a questions and our answer and opinion, here are the questions that we got told to answer. 

Author’s message What does the author want us to think about rubbish and recycling? What does she want us to do about it? How could you condense this into one sentence?  Do you agree with the author? Why? Why not?  Do you think other people would have different opinions?

And here is mine and my buddies answer -I think the author wanted to prove that recycling is very important and if we don't recycle things like pollution and other bad things will happen. I think she wants us to recycle more. If we could change this into on sentence I would say, recycling is very important for many different reasons, it helps us with daily needs and stops pollution and climate change. Yes we do agree with the author because  she has stated very good points and opened a lot of people eyes on recycling. Yes I do think other people would have different opinions but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Here are some of the other question we answered -

Let’s review suggestions about what else can be turned into something new...

• At the start, the author suggested that “the answer might surprise you”. What was her question? What was the answer? Were you surprised?
• Now that you have read this article, have you recalled any other things that can be recycled?  Do you have new ideas of your own?

Our Answer -

I feel like her question was did you know that these things would have been made out of bottles and other things like that. The answer was yes I was surprised because I never knew some of these things like I didn't know you could recycle 1 PET bottles into clothing and thread. I know that different bottles can be recycled into different things, not I do not have any ideas.

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Reading and Questions

WALA- pests, biosecurity and our native bush and animals

What sorts of animals do we have here in New Zealand?

We do have quite a lot of animals not as much as other countries but enough, some of these animals are kiwis, tuis, tuatara lizards, king fishers, snapper and other animals. These are some native New Zealand animals some pests or non native animals are Rats, Possums and Stoats and more.

What do we mean by Native Bush? Do we need to protect the Native Bush, if so who's responsibility? 

What you mean by native bush is plants and trees that are native or originally come from or are from New Zealand so plants like Kowhai, Kauri and ferns and other. I think it is important to look after our native bush because you can't find trees and plants that New Zealand has in other countries, I think it is everyone's job to protect and care for our bush I feel like that the closest community should look after the bush area.  

Which animal species were introduced to New Zealand? Why were they brought here?

A lot of animals were introduced to New Zealand some of these animals are Rats, Stoats, Possums, Hedgehogs, Cats and Dogs and a lot more. I am not exactly sure why they were brought here but I feel like some of the reasons are because they thought that these animals would be good for this country and another reason is that some of these animals like rats must of just jumped on the boat and came to New Zealand.

When did the damage begin? Why are Stoats especially dangerous?

I feel like the damnage started when they arrived because once they arrived all our lovely native animals started to die out and go extinct. Some of the reasons Stoats are dangerous are because they are dangerous and eat bird eggs, they know how to swim and climb so there isn't really a way to stop them from eating our birds eggs not only that but they carry a lot of diseases that can pass into our native animals.

Do we value other animals more then others? Why is that?

Yes I feel like we value Cats and Dogs more then any other animal even though they are considered pests and things like that because they also kill and hunt our native animals but we do have to keep in mind that they are killing and hunting other pests as well. I think they are loved and valued more because humans keep them as pets.

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Life Education Reflection

Throughout this week we have been going on the life education bus, which is were you learn all about the body and thing like that. Some of the things we learnt on the bus was about the brain, nutrition and how the other parts of the body work.

Something that I really enjoyed about going into the life education bus was that it was a good time to go out of class and have a little fun break but another reason why I really enjoyed going to the life education bus was that we learnt a lot of new things like did you know if you pulled out all the nerves in an adult body and laid it all out it would be 70 km long that like from auckland nearly to hamilton.

Another thing I enjoyed was that I hadn't been on the education bus in a long time and it brought back so many memories like from when I was in the junior class especially seeing harold the giraffe. Something I didn't enjoy was that it was a lot of sitting down and talking but overall I still really liked it.

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Writing Relfection

This week we haven't been doing a lot of writing except reflections and and free writing from when it was hailing a few days ago. The most writing we have done have all been on reflections about other topics like inquiry, maths and other work and topics.

Something I enjoyed about this week's writing is that it was really easy because we were just reflecting on what we did in and on other topics, the thing I enjoyed most about this week's writing is that we did a free fast writing about the hailing that happened a few days ago or on Tuesday. 

Something I didn't enjoy about this week's writing is that we didn't do a lot of writing like we the most we did was again the story about it hailing on Tuesday, as I know maths and other topics are important but writing is just as important and I do feel like we do need to do a bit more writing because we haven't done as much this time.

My next steps for writing is to probably write in my own time a bit more since we aren't doing as much writing this term, and I do feel like if we don't write then we will probably start to see some of our vocabulary start to fail. Another next step is to read more books and things like that.

What's your favourite thing to write about?

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Maths Reflection

Throughout the week we have been working on a Maths assignment where we have to pick one of the Maths topics (Decimals, Division, Fractions) the one I first started off with was decimals, the question I chose was there was 15.4m of rope and she cut them into 2.7m,2.8m, 1.9m and 1.8m.

If you minus 15.4 and 2.7 it epauls 12.7 and 12.7 - 2.8 equals 9.9 and 9.9 - 1.9 = 8.0/8 and 8.0 - 1.8 equals 6.2, after we found out the answers for your question then we used screencastify to explain how we got our answer and why we think its that answer.

Something I enjoyed about doing this week's maths is that it was a little easy it did take a while to figure out the answers but it was really fun because it did give my brain a little challenge but overall I really enjoyed it. Something I didn't enjoy was that when I was doing my screencastify people was interrupting my talking even when I was outside and people were stomping and talking and I had to keep restarting.

My next steps for maths is to try and do harder questions because these were really good questions but they weren't hard and they did challenge my brain but not enough, another thing i'm going to do for my next steps is practice maths more at home just so it becomes a bit easier.

Can you figure out these questions?

The Hailstones

WALT-describe the hailing from outside using figurative language.

I hear a CrAck CrAck coming from the window, I see nearly everyone's heads turn towards the window mine turns as well all we see is a small hail storm form, small little opaque balls of ice hitting the roof it was so loud it sounded like someone was stomping around on the roof. We all watched and listened to the CrAck and sTomP of the hail hitting the roof.

The hail got louder and Louder and LOUDER and even LOUDER CRACK AND STOMP! But from it being LOUD it went Quieter and quieter and we all thought it was over BUT then it started to rain and hail over and over again BUT this time there was a BIG RUMBLE! From that a small thunderstorm had started with the rain and hail storm.

The storm is very off and on, it starts hailing and raining and then it slowly gets quieter and quieter then it STOPS and after it stops its starts up again maybe even with a bit of thunder this time. It stops maybe for good this time?

Why I wasn't here on Athletics and What I heard about Athletics

Why I wasn't here on Athletics day -

I didn't go on Athletics day because I was getting sick and we had family meeting and practice for Christmas, the first thing we did was go to a family meeting out South (South Auckland) to talk about practice for a dance (Cook Island). In the meeting the adults mainly talked while the kids sat there waiting for it to finish, I personally thought that it was boring because the things they said weren't interesting to me.

After all the talking was done the girls and boys got split so they didn't get distracted and because the girls and boys both have separate dances, the boys went off to go practice drumming and their dance and the girls went to go practice theirs. Me and my sisters went with the girls but we didn't dance because I don't know we just got told to come watch so me and my sisters sat down and watched them practice.

After a while of watching the girls dance some of our aunties told us to come help with the food so me and my sisters went and prepared food before the dances were finished, some of the food that we cooked were banana poke which is coconut cream and banana, mianese which is a pink potato salad with egg and more. I liked cooking and doing the food because it was fun to make huge plants and bowls of food. When the dancers and drummers were done they came out to eat before going to practice again, I enjoyed this part because I enjoyed eating all the good food there and after we all ate everyone went back to practicing. After a while I got bored and went for a walk around the halls and went and watched the boys dance but then I got bored again and went to go eat before walking around again, when I was walking around I got lost because its a big place but luckily my sister found me and we went back to go eat some more then we went back to the girls practicing.

When it was over it was around 9pm and the practice originally started at 10am so about 12 hours of practicing, the thing I enjoyed the most watching everyone dance and eating.

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What I heard about Athletics day -

I heard a lot of things about Athletics day some of the things I heard was that it was really fun, some of my friends came first and that Benghazi won for this year and when I heard that I was so happy because that is my house and of course im gonna be happy because now we have bragging rights.

The thing I think I would have enjoyed the most was running with my friends and seeing everyone run but also watching my team win as well because who doesn't wanna win Athletics.

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Technological World Inquiry presentation

WALT - discover the changes in the technological world.

Throughout the weeks we have been doing an Inquiry presentation about the technological world, in this presentation we got some questions given to us from the teachers but me and my group added some extra questions just to give it some detail. 

The topic/technology we chose to write about was phones and how they have changed our lives and our they have changed throughout the years, something I learnt about doing this presentation was that phones were originally made in 1876. 

Something I enjoyed about doing this task is that I actually got to learn about how phones have changed so things like when there were no phones families went out and kids went outside to play and have fun, when phones came people still preferred to play outside and sometimes talk on the phone but NOW kids are always on their phones, they barely get out in the sun. 

Something I didn't enjoy or found challenging was finding out weather the inventor was scottish or french but I did a lot of searching and found my answer.   

How do you think phones have changed?

Do you know any technology that has changed? 

Maths Reflection

WALT - add, subtract and finish decimal problems.

In the middle block we have been working on maths, this terms maths is mainly focused around decimals and how to solve them. This morning maths we were finishing off the worksheet we had been given from our teachers, these worksheets have a lot of decimal questions ranging from adding and subtracting to word problems etc.

Here is a few questions I had done.

1 - 5 one + 4 tenths = 4 ones + 14 tenths.

4 ones + 14 tenths is the same as 5 ones and 4 tenths because 10 tenths are the same as one whole or 1, so 4 ones + 14 tenths = 5 ones and 4 tenths.

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- 2.4 =

1.2

So the reason the answer is 1.2 is because starting from the right side .6 - .4 = .2 and moving over to the whole numbers and go 3 - 2 = 1 then add 1 + .2 = 1.2 giving us our answer.

Something I enjoyed about today's maths is that I got to do it with my friends and we were all focused and we all wanted to succeed in our maths today. One of the things I found challenging about today's maths was that I found one of the questions a bit hard and it was the first question I gave you guys, I didn't understand it until it got properly explained.

What is 4.5 - 12.3?

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Banding pest in New Zealand (My response on someones Opinion on banding pest)

WALT - give our response and have a voice with someone's opinion on banding pest.

Today throughout the first block we have been learning about pest and how they affect us with the very lovely Ms Treena, in this conversation there was a lot of debate with an opinion  by a person named Nature watch, their opinion was "Animals that are called 'pests' should be treated with more respect.

In the conversations there were a lot of disagreeing and agreeing but what I found was that even though people were agreeing with each other people's opinions were still different to the person who thought or agreed with them. Some peoples disagreed because they thought that pest didn't deserve to be in New Zealand, some were stuck in the middle and slightly disagreed saying that they want every animal to be shown respect but they are attacking our natural wildlife and some people completely agreed saying things like every animal deserves respect and they shouldn't be wiped out.

My opinion was in the middle because I do feel as that everything and everyone deserve respect but these animals are killing our native animals. 

My opinion - "I slightly disagree with you because I do believe everything and everyone deserves respect, but you do have to keep in mind that these "pests" are killing a lot of New Zealand's native animals and remember when these native animals are gone you can't exactly get them back. I understand that you want all animals to be shown respect as do I but these animals haven't been showing OUR native animals respect at all and if you personally think that cats eating our native birds is respect then i'm going to have to disagree with you. I do think everything and everyone deserves respect but you do have to keep in mind that New Zealand's wildlife can ONLY be found in New Zealand and if these considered "pests" continue to get shown respect then we are more likely to see our wildlife and environment die out and then New Zealand wont be the amazing and unique place it is."

 Something I found enjoying or fun about this is that I felt really entitled to my opinion like I really felt like I had a voice in a serious topic because these is a big dis cation in New Zealand right now. Something I found challenging about writing this is that because I did agree with them but I also disagreed with them and it was a bit hard to put that in a nice way,  my next steps are going to be writing and giving my opinion in other things not only in this topic.

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