Maori Language Week - Assembly -

WALT: express the Maori Language with everyone.

Today at school we had a Maori Language Week assembly. At the assembly this morning it was to show each other what the meaning of the Maori Language is about and to share stories. Some of the performances were amazing with everyone singing together and joining in with the classes performances. What I really enjoyed about this Assembly was that the some of the Room 9 students joined in to sing with the younger students performances.

What I didn't like was that it was to loud that I couldn't hear the song that the teacher was singing.
My favorite song that Miss Kyla sang was her own song she made up which is about Matariki and the title of the song is called "Te wa o Matariki."
I really appreciated the way that our school joined in to sing and participate in the games that were played during the assembly.

Fashion Design Drawing - Inquiry - Hobbies

IALT: create different types of clothing.

Today I will be blogging about our topic for inquiry. Our topic is 'Hobbies' for this term our teacher has told each and everyone of us to pick an hobby, the hobby I choose was Fashion design drawing. I am in a group of 2 and there names are Bianna and Faith. What we do is design dresses or other kinds of clothing,  we try and make differents styles and also different materials to make them.
We a focusing so much that we are trying our best to make this famous around our community. I hope you try and create different dresses or different designs. THANK YOU FOR READING
Here is our draft drawing I hope you enjoy:

Helen (Me)

Bianna

Faith

Tai Chi - Wahine Toa & Maori Ora

Danny Gordon (Our Tai Chi Teacher, Left) Chen Xiao Wang (Grand Master, Right) 

Today, I went to our 6th Tai Chi lesson and it was to practise a new strategy to complete our challenge for today. But I will tell later on. What our lesson was about is that we had to do our breathing movements, practise our horse stunts, tiger stunts and many more. What I learnt new was how to protect my heart from when another fighter tries and hits my chest. What I enjoyed from todays 3rd to last lesson was that I tried my best to keep my leg up high for the crane stunts. I was wobbling, but I enjoyed trying something new and different. So the power word for today is strategy, what it means about strategy is to have a plan before doing what you are going to do. 

Our challenge was about how we would go across the hall without stepping out of the hoop on the ground and to tryfit your whole group to get across to the other side. It was challenging because everyone was too shy to go first or last. But I am glade that I achieved something which is getting included in games.

Todays lesson was on point it had me thinking, if I want to be a vet person who wants to take care of animals, how would I try and achieve this goal, what will I need to study?

I hope you enjoyed and have a great day, I had a lot of fun trying new things and I hope you try some of these stunts and breathing techniques. 

Have I improved with my blogging?

Have I improved with my blogging?

I think I have. WHy do I think I have? I think I have because I have been adding more information and detail about what I am blogging about what I have been looking forward to and how could I achieve it. My blogging in the past was just 1 photo and 2 sentences of what I did. For example,

'Hi, here is my writing on sumdog and I have wrote a lot of words and when you finished the word you press space.'

What I know I improved on is my information giving more Ideas and more detail about what I know about what I am achieving. I know that I have done more than 2 sentences or less, and I know that adding just 1 picture I add enough for the readers to know what I am learning about.
What I needed to work on in the future is to get the reader to actually connect with what I feel about my work. I also need to ask questions about what they learnt and about what they enjoyed about what I learnt and I will always hope they learnt something new as well.

I really am happy that I have improved in my learning with my blogging. And I have really used hard work with adding more information. Have you improved your blogging?

Playing Cards - Maths

Faith (Right corner)
Today I will be blogging about what I played with the cards. Today I played the multiplication game, I played it with my friend Faith. You can visit her blog by clicking the link. Blog. 

How we played the multiplication game was by using the Kings, Queens and Jacks as the elevens and twelves. And after that we started challenging each other by seeing who could get the right answer correct. So say that I was the dealer and I had to flip 2 cards and say it was a 2 and queen (11), so then it will be 2 x 11 = then we had to equal it and the answer will be 22 and if you get the answer before the other person then you get the cards that have been flip and then you repeat the same thing but with 2 other cards.
If it is a tie then we you have to leave it aside and do another question and if one of you got the answer then you get the cards aside and also the current cards that you just answered.
I really enjoyed doing this game and I learnt most of my times tables.
THANK YOU FOR READING. I hope you have a try at doing this multiplication game for learning.

Tongan Language Week

Yesterday was Tongan Language day and we celebrated it with a lot of families supporting, students dancing cultural

 and eating a lot of food making our stomachs full. It was like a festival. Some of the teachers from my school joined into danced with the students for the tongan performance. All the teachers from my school are different nationality. It was the best day ever because, all classes got to have a feed down stairs in the hall. All students and parents bought food that was tongan and filled up the whole hall with people and also food. When it was my class (Room 9) and room 10, there was hardly no more food but unless we ate.

Here are some photos:

 Mrs Komor (Middle), Siale (Left) and Matthew (Right)

 Lydia

 Christine

 Room 3 Students

 Miss Ashley (Left), Nana (Middle) and Mrs Komor (Right)

Fashion Students (Room 4)

I really hope you enjoy, thank you for reading and looking at the photo.

Technology Reflection - Glass Work

Today at technology I am in a new group called Hard material, but what my group was working on was glass work.
What I did for glass work was practice how to cut glass with a glass cutter, what you have to do is use a wooden ruler and grab a piece of glass, use the smooth side so that you can cut a straight line so it can fit with all the other pieces that you have. How you hold the glass cutter is put the end of the glass cutter onto your palm and press down hard and scrap it down straight and when there is a straight line going down.
We had draw different designs of what we want to make out of glass. I choose a flower. I really enjoyed learning and also practicing how to cut glas.
GLASS CUTTER:

Marking of My Ancestors - Poem

Today I will be blogging about what I have finished and what I am really proud of.
I will be blogging about my Ancestral Poem. My ancestor poem is about what they did, why they did it and also what they I hope I could do in the future to remember them.
I really focused on this poem because it really came to my mind and it made me write word by word for me to wonder, why my ancestors left me to be me?
I really hope you enjoy and catch feelings about your ancestors. KA KE TE, HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Kiwisport Reflection - T3W7 2017

WALT: combine different movements in our dance routine in a group.

Today I will be blogging about what we did for KiwiSport this week.
We had to practise in our groups and make up our own dance moves and try and make our dance longer than the other groups. It was a competition, in my group it was Helen (me), Metui and Alo. When it was our turn to show our performance I was nervous, but I participated and at the end of our performance our hip hop teacher Jazmine said that it was really good and that we made her dance as well. The topic was about freestyle.

What I enjoyed was that I got to learn a different dance move, also that I contributed in the performance and I got the hang of it. One thing I need to work on is to become more confident in showing my moves and sharing ideas with my peers. My negatives at KiwiSport was that there were people laughing at other students performance. I had a great time at Hip Hop class today and I hope we learn different dance moves next week. MANY THANKS.