Matariki Daily Activities!

Talofa Lava Everyone! Today I am going to share with you what we did on Matariki day during school. Yesterday we had 3 rotations. The 1st rotation was making manu tuku tuku's (kites) out of paper, cord, bamboo, feathers, and decorative strips that the students made. The 2nd rotation was making Maori bread which is basically fried bread. All you needed was two ingredients which was Self raising flour and water, simple! The last rotation was the 3rd rotation which was Stop motion. If you don't know what stop motion is, it is basically taking pictures while moving something with tiny movement. The stop motion we did was based on the Matariki story the seven sisters or stars.

My favorite rotation was making fried bread because after we got to eat it with either Golden syrup, butter, jam, or hazelnut chocolate butter. It was delicious and the fried read smelt really nice. 

The kites were amazing and with all of the art stripes it made small ones and we made 1 big one for the wall. For stop motion I was with a buddy and we made a little man who moved across. We didn't get to finish it because we had a short amount of time. Next time I want to make a stop motion about me.

I'm  going to try and make the fried bread at home so that I can share it with my family and eat it. 

Yummy! 

Thanks bloggers for reading my blog post and I hope you enjoyed looking at the stars last night for Matariki! Here are some photos of what we did during the day. Enjoy your fabulous holiday! Bye!

 

Cross Country!

Talofa everyone!

Yesterday we had Cross Country and is was Amazing! The run was really long and it wasn't the most easiest. My legs feel really tired today that when I get home I might sleep until dinner! There were lots of activities like games, warm ups, runs, Tennis and a rest station. Some of the yr 6 were leading the games and the stations. The others would be on the course telling the little ones were to go. I was with 2 other leaders and 1 house captains. The 1st station was the Cross Country run which starts near the Te Waka ako. The 2nd station was the warm up station were you get ready for the run. The 3rd station was the blindfold game which I was leading. The game is really simple, you get a partner and one has a blindfold. The other one guides them and can't touch them, just by words. The 4th station was Handball and it looked like a lot of fun. There was lots squares and handballs bouncing around! 

Station 5 was Tennis and it got everyone moving. The last station was playground relay and it looked like the best one. In the morning the day started like a normal day except no school uniform and poles. Everyone was wearing house colours such as blue, red, yellow, and green. If they didn't have house colours they would be wearing their uniform or black and other clothes. 

    We had an early morning tea which was at 10:30 to 11:00. Our first group was the 0/1 yr girls and we had lots of other groups to go through during the day. When our last group finished it was our turn. All of the Yr 6's were going to do their run. I was really nervous when the boys already went.

When we started running the whole school cheered and roared across to backtrack. I was really tired and I wanted to keep going. The side of my hip started to feel really sore and everyone was a head of me. Some of them all ready crossed the finish line. We had to do two laps of the course and it was really tiring. I sprinted when I was on the drive way all the way to the finish line. I really tried my best and it was a fun day. I hope you like my blog post and here are some photos of the day!

Me in the yellow blindfold

Our teacher in red strikes a pose!

Me and my friend racing to the finish line

I had a lovely day with my friends and everyone else. 

I have something to say too....

Have a Happy Holiday! Bye!

Jane Elliot video

Talofa Bloggers! Today we watched a video about a teacher doing a experiment with her students. This was based on judging people and being racist. The students didn't know that she was going to do the experiment on them. The teacher said blues eyes are better than brown eyes, so she said blue eyes are allowed to play on the playground. The brown eyes couldn't play on the playground and in 15 minutes fights started happening. Then the blues did a test on how fast they could go through a card packet and it took them 3 minutes. The students with the brown eyes wore a collar. The next day it was the students with the brown eyes turn and they gave the collars to the blue eyed students. They said the brown eyes were dumb and now they say the blue eyes are dumb. They tested the blue eyes again and this time they got 4 minutes and 8 seconds. They got slower because they thought about the collar all the time. The next day they talked about what happened in those 2 days and they didn't like it. The teacher asked is it okay to judge someone by their colour and they said no. The experiment was based on racism and it's not okay to do that. The lesson is never judge someone from being different or thinking they're bad.

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Thanks bloggers! Bye!

Reading activity!

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I am going to share with you my reading activity I did this week. So for my reading I did read-works about a lady call Malala Yousafzai. She is a woman who was exposed to the importance of her education when she was little. There was questions about her and she was one of the best selling books and an international icon all over the world. After her recover she told the story and made a book about what happened. I don't know if the Taliban are still taking care of schools, but I think Malala was a really brave girl when she was younger. She was awarded Nobel peace prize. My Read- works was a good score and I got 6/7 and the rest was an answer I had to write. Read-works is good for you to improve on your reading skills. It helped me to understand hard questions and get the answer quickly.

Here is a link to my read-works score and answers:

Link

Thank you for reading my blog- post and if you want to do read-works ask your teacher for a code and then you can read and answer questions. I hope you have a lovely weekend and be happy! Bye!

Online Toolkit's 2020

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Yesterday some senior students did a programme called Toolkit's. It's a really fun programme at school and there are 3 sessions. So Toolkit's has 3 presenters from 6 schools and they present in front of people who chose to do their session. We had a challenge slideshow to fill in about the sessions we did and reflect on it. After we reflect we had to do a bingo card around toolkit's and fill it in to get a toolkit badge. I liked toolkit's because it was really fun and I got to learn new things that I didn't know I could do. I also like it because we got to do sandpit time which means we get to try out the new stuff and it was really cool. It was good to see everyone getting excited to do it. My favorite session was making a Comic and storyboard. I started making my own Comic and so far it's going good. We had to join meets before we do the activity. We joined meets so the presenters could what we had to do.

I didn't like the meets because most students didn't turn of their mics and it got all noisy and loud. The presenters tried to calm them down and tell them to turn off their mics. I also got frustrated when the internet slowed down and my screen froze when I was on my first google meet. I learnt how to make my own digital portrait by using only a google drawing, line curver, and colour. I learnt how to make my own comic and how to make a Newspaper bingo. I learnt lots of things at toolkit's and it was lots of fun.

They could improve by the teachers going over the ako-hiko rules and checking if the students mics are off. They can also improve by not interrupting the presenters speech by asking questions.

Toolkit's was really fun though and its good for people who don't know how to use sites or new things to them. Here are some pictures of the senior students doing toolkit's:

Thank you for reading my blog post! If you want to say something go down to the comments. I hope you have a lovely weekend! Bye!

Week 8 activity slideshow

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Today I will share with you my Week 8 activity slideshow. This May be the last slideshow I'm doing putting in all my fun activities. My slideshow has only 4 slides filled in because it was the Queens birthday on Monday, so we had a day off school. My favorite slide is Thursday because we had free pizza and ice blocks for the whole school! It was so delicious and we also did some gardening which included digging dirt and putting it in a pot. I really enjoyed filling in the slideshow and it was fun too.

Thank you for reading my blog post and if you want to say something then comment down below.

Have a pleasant weekend with your family at home.

Bye

Samoan post lock-down slideshow!

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Another week has been completed for school. Today I'm going to share with you my Post lock-down slideshow 4! I did so much fun activities this week which has made me so tired. In my Post lock-down

I have been doing Art, Reading, P.E, and a lock-down smack down. You may think what this smack down is and it is very fun. This task was basically a sharing task with a buddy. We shared something we learnt that was new to us digitally. It was so fun filling in the post lock-down creation slideshow 4 and adding all of my fun activities I did. My post lock-down slideshow was a Samoan language week slideshow. 

They had each week day on each slide and they were all the same. 

It was so fun filling in the slideshow to keep me busy at the end of each day. 

Well, Thanks for reading my blog post about my Post lock-down slideshow 4!

I hope you have a lovely weekend and an extra day off on the Queens birthday!

Don't forget if you want to say something then go to the comments down below and write what I should do next time. Tofa bloggers😄