R.I.P. Jonah Lomu

R.I.P. Jonah lomu

It was very sad on the day Jonah Lomu past away.

I hope you guys please comment on my blog please.

Thank You!!

Space Art

Today half of my class worked on a piece of artwork that

had to do with space and orbits.

What I learnt today about space and orbits is that our planets are on an orbit 

that we spin around on.

Please comment on my blog so I know what I have achieved and what I

need to work on.

Thank you!!

M&M Peanut Butter Balls

Today James & I worked together on this recipe of M&M Peanut Butter Balls.

I hope you comment on our blogs and please also

you can try this at home!!

Thank You!!

TRIPOLI CHANT

Here is the TRIPOLI chant.

Hope you like it!!

TRIPOLI!!!

Phases of the moon

WALT: explain the phases of the moon.

I hope you comment on my blog so I know

what I need to work on.

Northern and Southern Hemisphere

WALT:interpret additional information to clarify the text.

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to work on and what I have achieved on.

Thank You!!

Saving The World

WALT:think critically and creatively about our topic: Earth &Beyond.

Today me myself & I finished a poster that had to do with saving the world.We had 

put down ideas on how many ways we can save the world.One good idea to keep the
save the world is by chucking the rubbish away into the rubbish bin not the floor.

Please comment on my blog so I know what I need to work on and what I
have achieved on.

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Respectful Communication (Kiwican)

Today at kiwican we were learning about respectful communication.

WALT: reflect on our kiwi can session.

Today at kiwi can we learnt about respectful communication.We played a game (Tiger & Target) What I found hard was when we had to protect the target from the tiger we had to run away from the tiger so we could protect the target.It was fun and hard but still fun.We played another game outside which we had to form 4 groups in front of a cone and pass the ball to the other team.Which ever team did a bad throw was out and whoever dropped it was out.Today was fun and what I learnt today at kiwi can was that we have to communicate respectfully with others.

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and what I have achieved on.

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The Sun...

WALT: describe the sun

Today me myself & I worked on this DLO together.

I had to find some adjectives, metaphors and more about the sun.

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and what I have achieved on.

Multiplicative Questions

WALT: explain  our strategy for solving word problems.

Today me myself & I worked together on this presentation

to solve out the word problems.But before we finished we had to 

put down our strategy on how we got the answer.

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I have achieved on.

Thank You!!

Black Holes

WALT: think critically and creatively about 'Black holes."

Today Paterita & I worked together on this presentation about

black holes.We had to find out interesting facts about black 

holes and many more things.

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and what we have achieved on.

Thank You!!

Orbit Around The Sun

WALA: the orbit around the sun

Today Paterita & I worked together on

this google draw about the orbit around the sun.

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on and what we have achieved on.

Thank You!!

Orbit Around Mars

WALA: how many days it takes to get around

mars.

Today Paterita & I worked together on this google draw

about the orbit around mars.

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what we need to work on and what we have achieved.

Thank You!!

Halving Numbers

WALT: halve these numbers three times.

Today Paterita & I worked together to halve these numbers

three times.

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to work on and what we have achieved.

Thank You!!

The Sun

WALA: the sun

Today me and my buddies have produced this work about the sun on this google drawing there are interesting facts, The appearance, Size and Distance, Energy, Heat and light, and the suns daily movement.

Please leave a comment and I will get back to you

Thank You!!

Sun Poster

WALT:write facts about the sun.

Today Paterita Nita and I made a poster about the sun.

We put down some facts about the sun that we already knew about and

what we didn't know about the sun.

Please comment on our blogs so we know what we need to work on and

what we have achieved.

Thanks!!

Exploring The Stars

WALT: explore and learn about the stars.

Today Paterita and I have been working on exploring the stars.We had

to make a copy of this DLO and explore and write about the stars and

learn about the stars.

Please comment on our blogs so we know what we need 

to work on and what we already achieved.

I hope you enjoyed reading and learning about me and Paterita's work.

Sun Smart

WALT:be sun smart

Today me and Paterita created a sunsmart poster.

We need to keep sun smart

in order to keep safe from the sun.

Thank you for reading our work!
Enjoy!

Practicing Peaceful Play Spech

WALT:practice peaceful play.

Today we did our speeches one by one.

It was my first time saying a speech

in front of an audience.

Thank you for reading my work!

Enjoy!

Bloom's Taxonomy

WALT: use bloom's  taxonomy to critically summarize a current event.
Today me and Stanley worked together on this presentation about an article that we
chose together.
We had to answer the questions on the presentation about the article we chose.

Thank you for reading hope you enjoyed
reading it.

Please leave a comment!

Te Whare Tapa Wha Images

WALT: show how we think of these Te Whare Tapa Wha with images.

We had to show how we feel of these things by using images.

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Tongan Language Week

WALA:the tongan language.

Today we had to do a presentation or we could have done it on anything. We 

were learning about Tongan language week

and we had to put down like things in tongan like

what food do they eat and what are the greetings in Tongan.

Today we had fun doing this task but I hope you enjoyed 

my presentation!

Please leave a comment!

THANK YOU!

NEW GAME INVENTED!

WALT:design a new game.

Today we all described how to invent your own made up game that people will enjoy.

This task was confusing us a little but after all we found the right track.

Thank you for reading.

I hoped you enjoy.

Please leave a comment.

Mindset

WALT:differentiate between growth mindset and fixed mindset statements.

Today we had to pick a quote that inspires ourselves and makes

us think of having a growth mindset.

We had to explain what these quotes meant and we also had 

make our own quotes.

Duffy Assembly

WALT:recap on what we learned at the duffy assembly.

Things I learned at the duffy assembly was -

That reading is good for us.

Reading is interesting.

We can find reading books on the online library.

When you read a book there is a movie that is related to that book and is also about the book.

Why is reading important?

Reading is important because it helps you with your reading work and it can also help you with your spelling you can just keep reading then you'll be able to spell some of the words.

You can imagine what is happening in the story if you imagine in your head what is happening in the story.

Reading is good for you so keep reading and I hope you enjoyed reading my work.

Also if you would be able to comment on my blog just out a comment at the bottom link.

Thank you?

Family Day Out!

Hi today I have been writing about my family day out!

This google drawing is my family going to the zoo for

my brother John because every time he got a 

trip to the zoo he never got a chance to

go because he was always sick

and he'll always be angry

for being sick.

This is for my brother to have a chance to go 

to the zoo.

Thank you for reading my work and I hope you liked

reading it and please give me feedback and feed forward!

Writer - Nita

Division Wheels

WALT:use our division and multiplication facts to solve math problems.

Today Me and Raena had to answer the word problems and put in our strategies and 

how we did it.
It was awesome working with Raena and with Teharangi by our side
talking to us and looking at our work, but it was still fun and funny!

Thank you for reading our work!

!Please give me feedback and feedforward! 

!Enjoy reading!

Netball Reflection

Today we had to make a DLO about netball reflection on about when we went to netball.

On Tuesday the fourth of August 2015 we went to the AMI netball courts and 

had our netball tournament there.

We had so much fun!

Thank you for reading!

!Please give me feedback and feedforward!

Enjoy reading!

Changing Negative Phrases Into Positive Phrases

WALT:apply our knowledge of growth mindset thinking to fixed mindset phrases.

Today Myself and Paterita has been working on our DLO

about growth mindset and fixed mindset.

We had to create a DLO about negative phrases into positive phrases.

Thank you for reading my work!

Please leave a comment on my blog or just give me feedback and feedforward.

Enjoy reading!

Shapes In Life

WALT: show the shapes in life.
Today we had to find objects that are the same shape
as these amazing shapes.
My favorite shape was the cube because I like cube and because
it is colorful.

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Thank you

Shapes In Te Reo Maori

Today my class has been doing managing self time which is when we need to finish anything we haven't finished so I chose to finish of my shapes in Te Reo Maori google draw.

WALT: show what the shapes are in Maori.

Please give me some feedback and feed forward.

Thank you

Bad Sportsmanship

WALT:explain what makes up bad sportsmanship.

Today we had to make a google draw about bad sportsmanship.

We also had to do bullet points about what makes a good sportsman a bad sportsmanship.

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Thank you

Netball Acrostic Poem

WALT:create poetry associated with sports

Today we had to make a poem about our favorite sport and mine

was Netball.

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Thank you

Blog Commenting

Blog Commenting

WALT:respond to texts online.

Today I had to comment on a friends blog then comment on anybody's blog.

I had to give feedback and feed forward on some peoples blogs about their work.

Please give feedback and feed forward.

Numbers In Samoan

WALT: count the numbers in Samoan

These are the numbers in Samoan they will help you count in Samoan.

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Colors in Samoan

This is the colors in Samoan.This will help you know the colors but in Samoan.

Colors in Samoan

WALT: learn the colors in Samoan

Learn the colors in your own time anywhere any time.

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Character Study

Character Study

WALT:complete the character study document.

Today I have completed my work on describing my characters that I chose from the movie.

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Percy Jackson	Annabeth
CHARACTERISTICS - how would you describe this character? their personality? Brave Intelligent Talented Heroic Demigod	CHARACTERISTICS - how would you describe this character? their personality? Talented Brave Daughter of Athena Demigod Beautiful
ACTIONS - what key actions and events did this character take part in? He had a fight with Luke at the end. He challenged Annabeth to try and get the flag.	ACTIONS - what key actions and events did this character take part in? She challenged Percy for the flag. Annabeth went on a quest with Percy and Grover
HOW DOES THE CHARACTER CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MOVIE? The character changed in the movie when after Percy Jackson gave the lightning bolt to Zeus.Zeus thought that Percy was the thief but Percy told him it was not him.He told them the thief was Luke.	HOW DOES THE CHARACTER CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF THE MOVIE? This character changes when it gets up to the part when they have to fight against the hydra’s.The other thing that the character changed is when she challenged Percy then she tricked Percy and took his sword and told him to not get distracted.

Match the mythical creature with the correct descripion

WALT: apply critical thinking skills to complete movie study.

Today we are doing intergrated movie study about the movie Percy Jackson - the lightning thief.In the movie that we watched there are lots of mythical creatures there and we had to match these mythical creatures.

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Percy Jackson - The lightning Thief

Percy Jackson - The Lightning Thief

Movie Questions

Today the Kia Manawanui syndicate were watching a movie called Percy Jackson - The Lightning thief.

WALT: answer all the questions below with full sentences.

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1. What is the relationship between Zeus and Poseidon?Zeus and Poseidon are brothers.
2. What learning difficulties has Percy been diagnosed with?His learning difficulties is dyslexia and a Hydra.
3. Who is Zeus’s father?Zeus's father is Kronos.
4. What type of mythical creature does the substitute teacher change into before attacking Percy?Before the teacher was going to attack percy she turned into a evil  furry.
5. Why can’t Percy’s mum get into the camp?Percy’s mum couldn't get in the camp because she wasn't a demi god and plus she was attacked from a strange monster.
6. How are Percy’s learning difficulties related to him being a demigod?His learning difficulties are related because he can read greek and he get right answers.
7. What is the name of Annabeth's mom?The name of Annabeth’s mother is Athena
8. How did Percy’s mum protect him by being married to Gabe?Percy’s mom marry Gabe because all gods hate and they said he has a strange that why percy mum married him to protect him but didn't know that.
9. How does Percy look at Medusa without turning to stone?Percy never looked at medusa with his eyes behind the stone,So he got out his Iphone and saw her reflection on the phone.
10. How do the three heroes defeat the Hydra?The three heroes defeated the hydra by using Medusa’s head to turn them into rocks.
11. How does going into the Lotus Casino affect Percy’s Quest?When they went inside ladies were coming with flower cupcakes to make them hypo and forget about the mission and the security was setting them up with a trap.
12. Who stole Zeus’s lightning bolt?Luke the son of hiram stole the lightening bolt and hid it in percy’s shield.
13. Where is the entrance to Olympus?The entrance to olympus is at the top of the empire state building.
14. Who does Percy Jackson fight at the end?At the end, percy fights Luke.
15. How did Percy defeat his enemy?He defeated his enemy by using his powers.
16. What motivated Luke steal the lightning bolt?What motivated Luke to steal the lightning bolt was so he could defeat olympus.

Blog Commenting

WALT:respond to texts online.

Today for reading we were doing blog commenting we had to go on other peoples blogs and comment about their work.

Please give feed forward and feed back.

Blooms Taxonomy!

WALT: use bloom's taxonomy to critically summarize a current event.

Today for reading we were doing bloom's taxonomy we had to critically think about what we were going to put on this presentation.

Please give feed forward and feedback

Malama Honua Whakatau

I am learning to use the 5 senses.

On Wednesday the 25 all of the 12 manaiakalani schools went to Pt England beach to do 3 waiatas to welcome the Malama Honua Whakatau.

I had so much fun!