Athletics

Last week on friday we had a very fun day , which was athletics. On monday we got our colours and we got into what color we wanted to be in. I was in red with Jack, Jayden, Anug Naing, Joel, Taheesha and I. The colors that were this year was, blue, red, green, and yellow. The activities we did was, egg and spoon, long jump with the cone, getting the frizbie  into the net and see how many times you get it in, rest zone/dancing, shot put, and the last one which was surf life savings. The first activity we started with was egg and spoon, we got 2 rounds for each teams and the team that won was green, then red, then yellow and blue. We enjoyed doing that activity and everyone moved onto their next activity. The next one was getting the frizbie in the net and the team and got the most was the winners, but the safety rule was we have to wait for everyone to get it in before we grab it again and keep it going until the next team versing each other. After that we did different more fun activities and enjoyed it so much. The last thing we did was the sprints which was the last part of the day. We had different students that wanted to race and placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

Montagues & Capulets

This week we learnt about the story Romeo and Juliet. We watched a short video about the story to learn about it. After watching the story, we chose a scene. Haylee, Taheesha, Sakina and I chose the scene where the Montagues and Capulets slaves fought. Then we wrote a play of the scene in our own sentences using the Shakespearean translation. After writing our scripts, we presented it to the class. We created a DLO to show the montagues and capulets fight in pictures.

Pair Of Shoes

As I glared at the new shoe box my owner opened, I was devastated to find better and shiner improved shoes in front of my old owners eyes I could see the joy in his face as he got his new shoes. As I could feel him pick me up and looked disappointed as he threw me in the bin I felt sad and I could smell and feel old cans of food, diapers and left overs for a matter of fact, I felt like a left over. It was very dark in here. I thought I would never get replaced but I guess my biggest fear came true. 

This week we got another lesson on writing, we did personification as if we were the pair of shoes and pretending that it had humans 5 senses. I was working with Taheesha. We were both thinking about if we were the shoes and she/he will be trying us on and writing a story about the pair of shoes. This was a challenge that we were going to face today, we needed to get our device and face back to back and share a DLO to each other and write our story for a pair of shoes, and we had to try and not talk to each other about it. I really enjoyed doing this even though it was a bit of hard challenge to do, but Taheesha and I think that we did a really did a good job. 

Reading Presentation

For the past few weeks we have been learning about different history topics. My group was doing the great plague, and the rest of us did a different history topic. The great plague started way back in 1665 when a rat got infected by the bubonic plague jumped off a ship from Holland on the docks of London and went to the over crowed places where the poor people lived and they got the disease from the rat that got infected and had fleas. If one of your family members got the disease the watchmen would lock you up in your own house with them and made you get the plague and painted a red cross on your door to let others know that someone in your house has the plague. When the king knew he moved out of London and left the poor people to die. I was working with Nidhi, Neveah, Angelene, Taheesha, Ellenora and I. We created a DLO to show you facts and information we wrote in our own words and got a image from google and attributed it. I enjoyed learning this and knowing new information about the great plague of London and working with my group.

Transformation

Today we were learning about the vocabulary of transformation. Transformation in Geometry describes the changes made to shapes when you rotate, translate, enlarge, and reflecting. We made DLO'S to help us understand what each transformation looks like.

Food Print | Michal

Yesterday we had a visitor come to our school to talk about her business, which was Michal. She talked to us about her business and also growing up and thinking what business she wants to do. Her business is about food, she has a app which is called Food Print. It has lots of variety of many different foods but they don't have fast foods on there app. How it works is they have 2 cafes which has those foods and she hires people to work for the cafes. First you download the app, second you go onto the app and see what your wanting to get, then they make it for you and you go and pick it up from the cafe. Because its way different from uber eats, and if they deliver it to you they get payed also for bringing it to you. That's what the app is all about and how you could use it. Michal has been working on her business over 2 years planning and she just opened it 6 months ago. Facts she told us was 20 million loaves of bread was wasted in a year in New Zealand. There is 250 cafes that supply the food to meet customer demand. She was promoting/advertising/marketing, and needing to grow your own business by hooking new and new people to capture there interest. She also told us about when she gets more money she might maybe do another company for the poor people who can't afford food, clothes, etc that they might be wanting to have. We really enjoyed her telling us about her business and the app where 100,001 people have been using.

Maori

This week for Maori we did another fun lesson with Whare Odie. We used the poi to do some dancing with it. A poi is a ball with it inside or something and has a long string. We used the poi to do the e rona e dance with Whare Odie. We used our left and right hand to do some hand movements. We enjoyed doing this and having fun with the poi, and learning how to do movements with it. First we got a poi and stood in a circle and copied some movements that Whare Odie was teaching us to do with the poi. After doing some pretty simple movements with Whare Odie. We watched a video of St Josephs Girls Boreding School doing some dancing with the poi, we watched it and saw that one of the poi's were to fat to hold and it was just making so much mistakes with using the poi. After a few minutes watching that video, we stood back up and used the poi to dance to e rona e. We copied the movements and hand signs that Whare Odie was doing with the poi. On the half of the day we were learning tricks that were hard and easy to do. I had so much fun, learning how to use it and having fun doing movements with it and playing with it.