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.

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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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?

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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Mianese -

Banana Poke -

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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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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.

 3.6 

- 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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Manaiakalani Reflection

WALT - Reflect on the Manaiakalani film festival.

Today Manaiakalani school were invited to Sylvia park hoyts to watch the school movie that the schools and classes have made and presented to us.  

The first thing we did was pick our buddies from the younger classroom (Room 4), my buddies were Lynch and Jannet. After we finished picking our buddies we went out to morning tea before we hopped onto the bus.

We all walked to the buses and filled the buses up as much as they could, on the way to the movies it was kinda quiet a few songs being sang here and there but all in all I enjoyed the drive there. Hoping out of the bus was a nightmare it was SO hot! But as we walked to the hoyts I grabbed my buddies hand and walked to the cinemas in a line with the rest of the class.

We walked into the move theater just in time because as we walked in it was our turn to watch the amazing movies school had made. We sat there for a few minutes and then the light went down and we started to begin to watch the movies.

My favorite movie was probably one of our ones the T.E.A.M movie by room 9 and 10 because it reminded me of the good days at camp and it was in general a really entertaining video to watch. My favorite movie from another school was probably the rubbish monster because it was a good meaningful movie with a good reason to be putting rubbish in the bin.

On the way back it was very quiet cause half the people were sleeping but people were still singing and talking, I personally enjoyed it because it was a fun ride back because I could talk to my friends because I forgot to mention this but I didn't sit next to my friends it the bus. I really enjoyed this years Manaiakalani because every video had an amazing meaning and they were all entertaining.

Have you been to Manaiakalani?

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First Blog Post For Term 4

WALT: write a blog post about our school holidays.

Good Morning or Afternoon to whoever may be reading this, as some of you might know it is the beginning of Term 4 which is the last term before the long school holidays, which is the holiday that leads up to Christmas. In this blog post I will be telling and describing to you the most interesting/fun things I did in the holidays.

Something I really enjoyed and found fun about the holidays was going to a big family reunion on my dads side, I thought it was really fun and interesting because there was a lot of dancing, laughing, jokes and a LOT of food, but it did take a very long time to end even when we left it wasn't finished.

The things I liked the most about the family reunion was that there was a lot of cultural food and dancing. 

LINK TO CULTURAL DANCING 

Another thing that I enjoyed was actually watching a documentary, even though documentaries are usually boring this one was actually to me very interesting. This documentary was based on a man named George and a Lady  named Joy and the film was based in 1966 in Africa. George was a hunter and Joy was someone who walked around the bush and dry lands of Africa, George and Joy became really close and soon married each other. One day George went hunting for a female lion that had killed a person and someone cattle. He found the female lion and shot it but only when he had shot it did he realize that the female had cubs.

They searched for the cubs and they found 3 of them.  Joy and George offered to raise them but they could only take 1 so they talk a female who they named Elsa. As they raised Elsa they had plans of releasing her to the wild where she could run free, but Elsa didn't know how to fend and look after herself so George and Joy started finding was so Elsa could defend and hunt for herself. Some of these ways were putting dead carcases on the back of there truck and driving away so she could chase and run after them, after a small amount of time she knew how to be a wild lion and she was released, I am not sure what else has happened because I haven't finished watching it. 

LINK TO DOCUMENTARY#

I think the things I am most looking forward to this term is all the fun and exciting things we will be doing this term, some of those things are going to MOTAT, visiting Te Tuhi again and a lot more other things throughout the term. I'm not sure which will be my favourite because there is a lot more to come and I don't know if those days will be good or bad but right now I think it going to be MOTAT I just hope i'm with one or two of my friends so we can spend it together.

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Technology Reflection

Yesterday Morning we went to our weekly Technology, in this Technology we really had to catch up because we didn't go to Technology for the other weeks because they were busy with mid year exams and whole school day off and things like that.

The group that I am in for Technology is wood works or hard materials whatever one you prefer and the thing we are actually making is pewter necklaces. Pewter is a type or metal/steel that you can wear, and the pewter silhouette I have chosen was a Turtle and the reason why I first actually chose this was because it was for my best friend but she actually ended up leaving before I actually got to finish it.

The part that I am up to now is smoothing it and cutting out any of the parts that need to be cut so things like the area where it needs to be poured and things like that. I am also up to the part where I am shining it and polishing it up so it's got a smooth and shiny finish.  

Here is a video to demonstrate the process of making this pewter necklass.

VIDEO/LINK

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Maths Reflection

Yesterday for maths I started our worksheet task that we had been given from the teacher. The thing we were learning in Maths were improper fractions so fractions like 9/5 and 10/3.

Something I found difficult with this was that I haven't really worked on improper fractions so some of the questions are really hard or hard to understand and things like that, something I also found hard was that because I wasn't here I didn't know what to do exactly. Something I enjoyed about yesterday's maths was that I got to do it with someone I usually don't do maths with and it was fun to see how different we figured out the problem and the ways we solve them.

My next steps or something im going to do next time is if im really stuck I should go ask the teacher for help so that way I understand what to do and how to do it because I feel like it would be better to understand what i'm doing then just guess most of the answers, I somewhat understand what I was supposed to be doing and things like that it's just next time I have to make sure if I don't understand then I should ask but I other then that it was ok.

Here's an improper fraction question -

43/7 =

29/4=

13/6 =

Can you guys figure out these questions?

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Science Reflection

This morning for the whole block we did our Science about our inquiry topic which is natural disasters.

The natural disaster that we learned about the most drawing this block was the famous Earthquake and we also learned about the Earth and its Crust.

Something I really enjoyed about this was that I got to learn so much about the Earth and how it works but also all the layers of the Earth, what they are and things like that. One of the things I learned was that the Earth's Crust is made out of magnesium, aluminum, iron and a lot or other gases and minerals.
Something I found challenging about this lesson was that at certain points she didn't explain properly and she was talking really fast but I still somewhat understood what she was talking about.

Something i'm going to improve on for the next science lesson is to if i'm strugglin, not understanding anything to put my hand up and ask questions so that way I understand what shes talking about even though I might think that I know and understand but just so I can give me the best understanding I think that I should improve on asking questions for my understanding.

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End of week Reflection

It's the end of the week and I thought that I would do an end of the week reflection about how this week has been going.

Monday -

On Monday it was the Queens birthday so obviously its a public holiday and I wasn't doing so well because I was getting a cold. Me and my family didn't do much we all just chilled out and did our on thing throughout the day. 

Tuesday - 

I didn't go to school on Tuesday because I was still really sick and I needed to get medicine so I called recover and get back into school and start working again, just like Monday I didn't really do anything important or interesting.

Wednesday -

On Wednesday we had our normal well being program where the girls went to Tai Chi and the boys went to a different one and we did our usual Tai Chi lesson and moves, later on in the day in the middle and last block we did our writing and reading test I thought that the writing and reading test were kind of fun because they were interesting to do even though we get writing and reading test every year.

Thursday -

Thursday was a very fun and good day because we first started off with our again usual Thursday technology where we split off into our 3 groups (graphics, hard materials and cooking) but this week we changed groups my old group was graphics and now im in hard materials where I will be making something very interesting. In the afternoon we had our shared lunch and when I say we had a lot of chips I mean we have a lot of chips we still have chips leftover today.  The last block of Thursday was my favourite part because we got to either say in class and eat or clean or we could go outside and play basketball or play on the bouncy castle that was here for the day, I really enjoyed Thursday because I went on the bouncy castle with my friend Biana and we raced to the end and I won by 1 second.

Friday -

It's currently Friday the last day before we go off onto the weekend and I am writing this nearly at 12:00 pm this afternoon, we started off with our inquiry and camp reflections we also catching up on our blogs, now we are still doing catching up on our blog and camp reflections and later on today we will be having a whole school assembly.