Matariki Day

On friday the 26th of june, we celebrated matariki here at school. For this day, we had different workshops, for different choices that people had chosen. There were four choices, arts and crafts, cooking, movie making, and sports. For my first choice, I chose arts and crafts and I ended up in one of the arts and crafts groups. My teachers were Mrs Moala, and Ms Tipene. We started by doing drawings of Korus. After colouring those in, we moved onto watching a movie while layering paper to make cool patterns.

This day was fun because it wasn't too busy, and everyone seemed a bit relaxed (maybe just because it was a friday.) We had an assembly at the beginning of the day. That assembly was quite normal, except for the senior Kapa Haka group performing. At the end of the day, we also had another assembly, but this time it was about showing everyone's work, and how much fun everyone had. The assembly at the end of the day also included the junior Kapa Haka groups performance.

Maths Equal Fractions T2W11

Task Description:

This task included knowing facts about fractions. If you don't, then there are things in this presentation to refresh your memory, otherwise, we had to answer questions, amnd problems about fractions. Here is what I did.

Black Lives Matter Writing

   Black Lives Matter Writing:

If you didn’t know, right now, there are lots of people protesting (mostly in America,) to
get the message black lives matter. Why, you ask? Well, there were already protests, and
judgements about it before, but it got worse when a person called George Floyd passed
away. Again, how do you ask? He passed away because he was killed by four cops. I
know, that sucks, and that also created more and more protests, and warnings all over
the world, and social media.

I see lots of people fighting in their own way around the world on social media. Including
a teacher in auckland. She posted a video on instagram of her teaching her class of 6
year olds about racism. It was a very cool video to watch, and it was also quite inspiring.
In the video, the teacher seemed very calm, and it was pretty obvious that she knew her
class, and what to say.

I wonder what the next step is, or when they will finally listen. You shouldn’t judge
someone, or talk about them just because of the color of their skin. I know a movie
called T.H.U.G (The hate you give). It’s pretty similar to what’s going on right now.
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the garden heights
neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she
attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she
witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend (Khalil) at the hands of a police
officer. Facing pressure from all sides of the community. In the movie, we also find out
that she also witnessed her other friends pass away (Natasha), when someone shot at
her. Starr must find her voice and decide to stand up for what's right.

In the movie, Starr says “how many of us have to die before y'all get it?!” This line was
a quickly said line, but a sentence to make you think (or maybe just the police.) I recently
rewatched this movie, and it is just one of those movies to make you cry. I see a lot of
people protesting these days, even kids! We also have protests here in New Zealand. In
NZ, people are fighting against racism too, because some people just don’t understand.

Overall I know lots of people that have opinions about this, and all of them said (not exactly but,) what happened is unacceptable, and especially during the effect right now of the virus. From what I know, the cops had absolutely no reason whatsoever to do what they did. Those cops should go to jail, I agree that black lives matter. Every life matters. Whether the color of your skin is dark, light, brown. Whether you live in a rich neighborhood or not. You matter. Every life matters. I also think that, at the end of the day, everyone is human, and we all have the same color blood, so no one should be having to fight for justice. What do you think?

Grateful

Task Description:

This task included writing/putting pictures of things/people we are grateful for on a google drawing. This is what I did. This drawing includes pictures of things or people that I am grateful for.

Comprehension Questions T2W11

Task Description:

This task included reading a text called 'stand up, and history of protests in
New Zealand'. Then we had to answer these comprehension questions. Here
is the answers that I have written, with knowledge from the text.

Venn Diagram Protests in NZ T2W11

Task Description:

This task included finding the differences from two protest from the past, from
the text 'stand up, a history of protest in New Zealand'. Fort his task I chose to
find the differences and similarities from these two protests.

Vocabulary Task Protests in New Zealand T2W11

Task Description:
This task included looking at the words from the text, and understanding the meaning of the words, and what sentence they came from in the text 'Stand up, a history of protests in New Zealand'. This text was about protests in New Zealand. and how they ended up, and other information like that.

Special Assembly!

Today we had yet another special assembly. This assembly was a surprise for all of the students, and it was a very cool surprise. The assembly went on as normal, but the surprise was a person. Can you guess who? Joseph Parker. If you don't know who Joseph Parker is, he is a New Zealand professional boxer. He came to our school today, and he was the special part of the assembly. He played the guitar, said a few words, and gave out some duffy certificates and welcome to Pt England school kits. But it was just Joseph Parker that came to our school, the other person who also came along, and who helped plan it, was his sister, Elizabeth Parker. 

It was a very cool assembly, where we practiced our Matariki song for next week, and lunch box heroes, and he said he liked the korero, and gave us one for next week. Two cool messages Joseph Parker gave us were, Believe in yourself, and nothing beats hard work. Those are two very important messages to hear. Especially when you're trying to work towards something. He said that these are what helped him throughout his career.

What is the Biosphere

Task Description: This task included watching two different videos about Spheres, and Biomes for inquiry this week. We had to write a description of the biome of our choice, and explain what kind/type of animals live in that biome, and more facts or information about the biome. We also had to write down what we knew, wanted to know, and what we learnt from the first video in the slides/presentation. I wrote what I learnt from the video, and what I already knew. Here is my work.

Different Weights

Task Description: This task included getting/learning information about measuring, so that we could share this learning on our blogs for other people to leran too. This is the poster that I have done for the maths create task this week.

Matariki

Task Description:

This task included reading texts, and answering questions about Matariki, and reasons why we celebrate
it. Here is the slide that I completed. In this slide, it also shows what I knew about Matariki before I
read and answered questions about it. I also did the create task assigned for everyone on the last slide.

What is Matariki?

Task Description:
For this task we had to create a poster that would be suitable for a 7 years old. In this poster, we had to explain what why and who Matariki is. Here is my work/poster.

Celebration Assembly

Today we had an assembly dedicated to our lovely principle, Mr Burt. Mr Burt was given an award from the Queen, and we are very very proud of him. The assembly started normal. We said a prayer, sang the national anthem, gave out certificates, did lunch box heroes, and the quiz. Then the year 7 & 8's stood up and sang a song. One of the prefects then said a speech and lots of people gave him lays. 

Next, the year 7 & 8 boys, and some girls, and some of the support teachers did a Haka for Mr Burt. I
think that the Haka brought tears to some people's eyes, because I could see people wiping their tears.
I am very happy that we were able to celebrate Mr Burt's great achievement, and I am also happy that
he got an award for being such a hard worker. Thank you Mr Burt, and congratulations on your award!

Air Pollution

Task Description:
This task included watching a video, writing down what we know about pollution, and if we're really on-task, create a google drawing picking a country, and showing what the effect is on that country. I chose china, and placed pictures in the google drawing to show the different. You can also find the google drawing in this presentation.

Venn Diagram

Task Description:
For this task, we had to fill in the diagram with things that Me and Si'aula have in common , and things that we don't have in common. This is what I have completed. It show both what we have in common, and what we don't.

Reading mata i pusi Task

Task Description:
For this task we had to create a person like shape, that would be ourselfs. This is me, and where I come from, my favortie things, and hobbies.

Ko wai au?

Task Description:
This task was fn because it included creating a colage about myself, and what makes me 'me'. It also includes a video, and some questions to answer about the video.

Taha Hinengaro Challenge T2W8

Task Description:
This task included a buddy, and an interview. My buddy was Amira, and I interviewed her about important personal values.

Mata i Pusi Vocabulary

Task Description:
This here is the task that we had to coplete, after reading the text 'Mata i pusi.' This text is about a girl named Si’aula. She is samoan, and palagi. She has green eyes, and is confused/embarassed about who she is. Here is the vocabulray I did about the text.

Taha Tinana T2W8

Task Description:

Here is me trying to stand on one foot, for one minute, with my eyes closed. The reason why I did this, was because of the taha challenge today. Which is taha tinana, all about health/physical well being. Also, here is a question I had to answer when I had finished Could you keep your balance

in both poses? Kind of..