Pepeha

On Wednesday we did a Pepeha. We had to use the information that we found out like, what mountain we are, river and lots of other things. I drew Mt Paku because we go there sometimes in the holidays, my family and me at the bottom of Mt Paku. Next I drew the sea because I like playing at the beach in the water. Then I drew the school logo and the New Zealand flag.

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Tuakana Teina

Tuakana Teina is a thing we have on a wall. We also have Tupu. Teina means you are learning to do the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, and you are not trusted as much as Tuakana. Tupu means you can make the right choices but you don't do it all the time and you are not an expert at lots of things. When you are tupu you work towards Tuakana as well! Tuakana means you do the right thing, in the right place, at the right time, and you are trusted more. When you are Tuakana you can do lots of other things like listen to music, learn in more places than just the set spaces and lots more! I am Tupu because sometimes to do the right thing and other times I don't but I am working towards Tuakana!

The Marama Way

 One of my drivers for school is having a growth mindset. If you don't have a growth mindset you will say I can't do it, insted of I can't do it yet! To have a growth mindset you need to eat brain food and have a good night sleep. Not having a growth mindset you will give up and not use the learning powers, but if you do have a growth mindset you will complete more thing and use your learning powers.

One Word

My one word is Being Me because you have to be your self and not someone else when you are doing your at school and not at school.

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The Treaty of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on the 6th of February 1840. The Treaty of Waitangi was an agreement for the Maori and British/English for buying land privately. It was signed at the Bay of Islands and that is where the British boat came in. 39 Maori Chiefs a copy in Maori, 540 signed a copy in English and 50 Maori chiefs signed it on the 6th of February 1840. We don't really call them treaty's anymore.The more modern day treaty would been written on a computer or sometimes handwritten. The treaty in modern day would be like a contract or to apply for a job. 

Multiple Intelligence Test

Today the year 7's took a test on a Multiple Intelligence test. I have discovered that I work best outside. I like to work with animals, grow plants and looking after the environment. The one that had the least percentage was Interpersonal. My strengths are Naturalistic (92%), Musical (81%) and Logical-Mathematical (44%).  I will start to work outside more often, with plants and animals.

Term 4 Reflection

What have you enjoyed this term and why?

• Impact because I got to do some mosaicing and I learnt how to mosaic.
• Starting Swimming  because we start to do lengths and sometimes have free time.
• Jazz Band because we have been learning two different songs to play at the end of year assembly.

What has been challenging this term and why?

• Impact because mosaicing is just like a puzzle and the pieces need to be just right.
• Athletics because I have been having a sore heel when I run.
• Homework Project because it was hard to stick the cotton on the llama.

What are you looking forward to next year? Year 7 camp because we will get to do lots of diffrent thing. Tech because we get to go to the college and try new thing that we might not have done

Homework Project Update

On Monday the 20th our teachers gave us a homework project instead of basic facts math sheet. This will be our 2nd homework project, for the first one we had to make something out of polystyrene and now a milk bottle. My idea is to do a llama sitting on some grass. I am up to putting on the ears, tail and legs. When I tried putting on the legs they fell off so I am trying a different way now. Here are some photo’s.

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Calf Club

On Wednesday last week we had Calf Club. I brought my calf called Wisteria Moo! She is mostly black but she is full jersey. She got me lots of ribbons. A 5th for obstacle, leading 2ed and a reserve Champion that came with a trophy. Rearing 6th and dairy type 4th. She is the best calf I have ever had and my favorite. My friend Ella got 2 champions for leading and obstacle. I did not dress my calf up. But my friends did.

Learning in the making conference

On Friday we had the learning in the making conference. First we had someone speak to us on skype about our learning and the conference. I had yoga first it was fun we got to do lots of different poses. We did upward and downward facing dog and lots more. The second thing I did was hotdog pasta we got to eat it for lunch and it was really yummy. The third thing I did was team building we had to work as a team to do all the tasks. We completed all the tasks we were set. The last one was the best it was making caramel slice it was really easy to make. After we made it we got to eat it and it was yummy and we got to take some home.

Holiday recount

In the holidays I went to do my calf at the Pirie’s farm. My calf is called Wisteria moo. She is jersey but she is black and she looks like a cross breed. Most of the days on the 2nd week of the holidays with Summer and sometimes other people. My calf is really soft but she is bad at leading. On the driveway she leads really well and sometimes she starts to run. We gave her a full body wash and it was her first time. Wisteria Moo keeps herself clean most of the time but sometime she does not.

In the first week of the holidays I went to Elizabeth’s house and stayed the night. I saw her kittens one of them scratched me. The first thing we did was go to Thames. We went to Computer Geeks because their computer was not working. There was this little puppy in the corner and it kept on jumping up and down. Then we went shopping for some food. We got a frozen fanta and some chips. We saw a face painting thing  and we got our faces painted. I was a bunny and Elizabeth was a cat. We made two things a chocolate brownie and cumin seed cheese they were yummy. For the rest of the time we played outside and with the board games.

Homework Project

On Monday week 3 we got a polystyrene cylinder and we had to make it into something. We had 2 weeks to finish it and on Friday week 5 we we brought our one in. I did a cake with real icing. I got the idea because we found old cake things. I got a little help from my Mum because cuting it was a bit hard. First we had to cut out the shape of the cake it had 4 layers. Next we had to make the icing and put it on the cake. Sometimes the icing kept falling off. Now it was on to decorating. I put strawberries, lollies and sprinkles. I think it looked really good at the end and I think I had put a lot of hard work into it. When I saw everyone else's I thought they all had put a lot of hard work into them. My favorites were Elizabeth’s Chicken and Isabella’s caterpillar. The hardest bit was the cutting or the icing. My favourite bit was the decorating. Here are some photos my cake.

Cross Country

On Monday we had Cross Country but I could not do it because I hurt my ankle. I hurt my ankle at soccer so I am not allowed to run. I could not do Cross Country training either. A few weeks after I hurt it we went to the doctors and the doctor said I had to get an x-ray. The next morning we went to the hospital to get an x-ray. They said that nothing was broken. A few weeks later we went back to the doctors because it was still hurting. For 1 more week I was not allowed to run and I had to have some tablets everyday. The tablets helped a little bit but it still hurts.

My goals for the term

My maths goals are:

• Solve a word problem involving writing an equation.
• Working out algebraic equations. Solving word problems using a given rule.
• Understand place value of decimal numbers.

Some of my literacy goals are:

• Use the correct tense.
• Use language features e.g similes & onomatopoeia; and visual language features e.g. illustrations and diagrams.
• Independently choose a ‘hook’ for my audience.
• Add and delete punctuation.

One of my personal goals is to get a 1st place ribbon in calf club. I am on track to achieve my goal because I do lots of brushing on my calf and I will soon start leading it. My favorite part of this year has been iDrive. I am look forward to Impact this year because we are giving the art room a makeover.

The Olympics

This year the Olympics are being held in Rio De Janeiro. It is summer in Rio so it will be the 2016 summer Olympics. The opening and the closing ceremony will take place in the Maracanã Stadium. Maracanã Stadium is found in Rio and it has held lots of soccer games. This year there are 56 sports that are represented. These are some of the sports swimming, boxing, athletics and lots more. The sports we don’t really do in New Zealand is handball and water polo. I am looking forward to watching the gymnastics, swimming and most of the other sports that are in the Olympics.

Holiday Recount

In the holidays I went to see the BFG in Hamilton with my Mum. It was a really good movie and it is like the book too. My Nana, sister and brother went to see Finding Dory. We did some shopping too. We got to have a ice-cream after as well at Mcdonalds. We went to Hamilton to do some more shopping. After to a museum and it had lots of cool things like. different types of paintings that were painted in the 1990s. On Friday I went to the doctors to see what I did to my ankle. The doctor said that I have to have a X-ray. The day after I went to the doctors I went to Thames Hospital to get the X-ray done. She said that it was not broken but I can't run on it for a month. After we went to get some food.

PMI for the week about our Learning Powers.

Resilience, Being Me, Curiosity, Connecting and Creativity.

Our team was called the Crazy Minds!

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This week we did something different. We used all our Learning Powers in one week. 1. I liked this week because we got to do something different to normal. 2. We got to work with different people and not just our friends. 3. That we win points and at the end of the week the team with the most points gets a prize.	The stuff I did not like was... 1. When people didn't get along very well when they didn’t listen to their ideas. 2. When some of the people in the team are not being positive. 3. When they keep on arguing with other people because they thought i was not work.	The things I found interesting was… 1. That we could pile lots of balloons on top of each other and it would stay for some people. 2. That we could build a boat out of recycled things and it would float in water. 3. How we get to know more stuff about the people in the group and how others react to the people in our group.

Ice Skating

Last week most of us went ice-skating on Thursday at school. I went at 1:00pm-2:00pm. On the side of the rink there was inflatable walls that we could hold onto and there was bunting above the inflatable walls. There were three groups because the rink was to small for all of us. For ice-skating we had to wear gloves and boots. At the start I fell over heaps but I got better at the end of it. When you fall over some of the ice got on you. I had a great time there.

String art

For the last six weeks we have been working on string art. The silhouette I did is three hearts in a row. First we had to plan what we were going to do. Second we had to find a photo of what we are going to do. Third thing we had to is get a piece of wood. Fourth we had to nail in the nails on to the piece of wood. Fifth we had to put the string to do. The thing I found challenging is putting the wool on because sometimes it fell off. The thing I found the easiest was choosing the silhouette because I had something in mind. Here are some photos: