King is born

Scripture from the bible: 1 John 5:1 :Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him.

What I enjoyed about this art work was how I was the only one who did a unique style of having o holy night. My next step is adding more creatures.

JESSE TREE

WALT: research information and describe what a Jesse tree is.

Our class have been working on advent and Our teacher decided that we should do a slide show about the Jesse tree and this is a little pit of what a Jesse tree is. The thing I found very hard was researching because they all have different meanings behind it. The easy thing about this is how the images look so cool because I searched them up. 

Three safety rules

We are doing one of the summer learning journey activities and this is one of them.

What I find easy is just writing the little information.

What I find hard about this is nothing at all.

SINA AND THE EEL

WALT: use descriptive writing in our picture books. We had to write a picture book but my picture book was based on a myth was rewritten and I hope you enjoy  reading it.

What I found hard in this was probably drawing because they are complicated.

What I found easy was drawing the eel because there isn't that much detail in it.

Advent

WALT: describe what advent means to Catholics and how we celebrate it.

So advent was coming up and we had to do a DLO about advent and this is my DLO and I hope you learn something new from it. What I found hard was trying my best to put the information into my own words because we are not allowed to copy and paste anything from any sites. What was easy was how the slides were designed. 

ENGLAD

We had to right down facts and information about the chosen country in 15 minutes and I chose England and here  is the poster that I made. I found it very hard to do because it is very small. and found the pictures easily.

Te Reo (classroom elements)

WALT: describe the location of the classroom objects in Te Reo.

What I found very easy was the images that I did, and what I find very hard is speaking because it is just hard. what I'll work on is speaking clearly.

The Tsunami

The waves sweeped everything that was in the way, every living thing lurked to it's spot as the waves
continues it's work. Before all this happened  God was annoyed by what the civilians have done.
So he shaked the living land until it woken up the waves and that is how everything has gone completely
rage. Tears went my cheek as my chest tightened itself up. The waves have receded and the wind
cease, all that was left were wrecked houses and bodies on the street. Tears swelling in my eyes as I
crossed the street with silence… to be continued…


WALT: use show not tell

In our class we are learning to use show not tell for writing and for this we had to chose and emotion
and write a paragraph about using show not tell. This was a hard thing for me because show not tell
is something that I am not good at, so I tired and I hope you like it.

My question is what emotion do you think I was implying in this paragraph?

The suitcase

WALT: Use appropriate language features for a pick a path story.
What I found really hard is how I have tried my best creating a pick a path story using google form.
What I found easy was creating this new pick a path story. And I will surely work on doing next time is  trying to make it more better because I am very bad at using google form.

The Ngatu

This is about Tongan tapa, or ngatu as it is called in Tonga.

Tapa making has a long history in Tonga. Europeans first heard about it when James Cook visited
Tonga in the late 18th century, but it had begun many years before that . He must have been impressed,
because not only did he write about all the different ways in which it was used, but he also collected pieces
to show people in his home country, England, what it looked like. Not only that but I am going to tell you how it's
made and all the other things.

In the old days, tapa was used for many different purposes such as bedding, sheets and towels, but now
that cotton materials have become available, tapa has been replaced to some extent. It takes skill and effort
to create tapa cloth and it is now used mainly for special occasions. Tapa is given as gifts or offerings at funerals,
weddings, and jubilees(anniversary) etc. As well as being used as a decoration, tapa may also be worn at weddings
and other similar joyful celebrations. The giving and receiving of tapa binds Tongans together and helps to retain
cultural values of honor, obligation and respect. Fortunately the tradition of creating and using tapa is still very
strong in Tonga, and many women are skilled tapa makers and decorators. As you walk around
Lapaha( a place in Tonga) the sound of tapa being beaten is frequently heard from dawn to dusk as the
women are busy making tapa.  Making tapa brings women together, as it is usually done in groups. They still make
tapa in the traditional way, but over time new patterns have been added. Villages, and often families, may have their own
distinctive patterns.

Tapa is a living art form.  To understand what tapa is about, you need to know about the Tongan way of life.
You also need to know how Tapa is created, what it looks like, and how Tongan people use it and the value of it.

What is a Ngatu?

A ngatu is a tapa cloth is a barkcloth that is made in the islands of the pacific Ocean. This tapa cloth is mostly
known in the Islands and how this was known throughout the world from the one and only captain Cook, because
off cause it says that on the top.

How is a ngatu made?

In Tonga men take care of the growing and harvesting of hiapo (paper mulberry tree) to make ngatu, but the
preparation of ngatu is carried out only by women. A woman may have her husband or brother grow hiapo
for her or, today, she may buy it at the market. The process of preparing the bark from hiapo takes a long time
and a lot of skill!Firstly, the cut stems of the hiapo are set aside for a few days to allow the main wood of the stems
to shrink away from the bark. The woman will then make a notch with either a knife or shell, and pull the bark away
from the inner wood. Then she pulls the layers of the bark apart with her hands, separating the outer layer of the
bark from the white inner layer called tutu. It is now about as thick as a piece of cardboard. She then winds the
tutu around her hands, ties it, and leaves it to dry in the sun for a few days. Next she rolls up the dried strips,
ten pairs at a time, and stores them. When the tutu is ready to be beaten, a woman will soak the roll of dried
strips in water for a few hours (depending on how old and therefore how thick the tutu is), then scrape the strips
to remove any bits of outer bark or other debris that may darken the tutu. She then puts the rolls of tutu back in
the water to soak.Only two tools are needed for actually beating the tutu. The tutua (a sort of anvil) is a piece of
wood shaped like a log. It is a usually a few metres long and about 20 cm wide, which means a number of women
can beat tutu at the same time. The tutu is hit with an ike (hardwood mallet). An ike weighs about a kilogram and
is four-sided. One of these sides is flat, the other sides have grooves going down them. After pulling a strip of tutu
between her fingers to get rid of excess water, the woman places the strip on the far side of the tutua and pulls it
towards her, beating it with the ike. Once she has beaten the entire strip of tutu, she turns it around and starts
again. She does exactly the same thing with another strip, then joins the two together by folding one strip over
the other. She then repeatedly beats the combined 10 cm wide strips with the ike. Any folds in the tutu are tapped
with the flat side of the ike. Eventually she creates one piece of barkcloth now nearly 50 cm wide called a feta'aki.
The feta'aki is then set out to dry and flattened. And how is it flattened? Put under a sleeping mat and slept on!
Now the bark cloth is ready to be decorated, and when they say decorated they are meaning drawing pictures that
 have meanings behind them for example the manulua; the manulua means the two birds or the group of two birds
that comes together which means that two families or groups come together to form a new union.

The Value of a Ngatu; Well in the old days the value of the ngatu was using it as bed sheets and towels again
just like it is said on the top. But now that we have cotton and all the materials that we have these days Natu
is now used for special occasions such as weddings, funerals and much more. But only that they are used for
special gifts to give to the high leaders.

Cell Phones these days

Should cell phone be banned in Schools

Honestly, to me, it makes a lot of sense for student not to be able to use their cell phones during school hours. Cell phones should be banned from  school because they distract students and allow them to cheat in school.

I'm a student at ST Bernadette’s school and I am a person that goes online too, but there's a certain place where you can use them and that's not in class (talking about phones). if you need to call your "mom" (or so the excuse goes) use the office phone. if you need to talk to someone, talk to there face not through text or email or at least talk to them voice to voice. Use your time not the teachers time I mean she takes time out of her schedule to teach you. so why can’t you take time out of your day to text or call someone, it’s not that hard to wait until you get home to text your friends. Say to yourself did my grandma do that, what about my mum did she, well guess what they didn't have electronics those days I mean the spent their time working using pen and paper and when they get home the study but these days a lot of electronics have arrived and more people including teens and children have them. Cell phones should not be allowed in schools because if the students get bored, they might use them to play games or do other activities that distract their attention from learning. In case of family emergency, the teachers have a cell phone and the parents could call them.

EDUCATION

If we saw the past of our parents or our grandfather or grandmother we found that  they have a great memory along with calculation and knowledge but today if we get a 4 numbers digit calculation we are used to take the calculator or mobile phone and the other thing. Today if we get any number of someone we don't memorize it we feed it into the mobile phones even we feed also the birthday of our friends and free from everything. if the mobile phone lost we think everything is lost. Well that is not our fault it is your fault for feeding things into your mobile phones but not in your head! So next time you feed it into your mobile phone feed it into your head first.

AN EXPERT’S VIEW OF POINT

So I went on an website and these experts were questioned this question about why phones should be banned in schools and Daniell einstein a psychologist said “First, mobile phones are too easily used at the expense of face-to-face communication. Teenagers can message, avoiding a more challenging conversation. Second, smartphone apps and messages prompt dopamine release, creating addiction. Third, the mere presence of one’s phone consumes attention even when it's not being checked. It's been shown we have reduced working memory capacity and fluid intelligence when our phone is upside down, silent on our desk compared to when it is in another room. Finally, the introduction of smartphones has led to a decline in people’s ability to cope with uncertainty. Research shows being uncomfortable with uncertainty is associated with students feeling distracted and tense during NAPLAN and other tests. The more uncomfortable young people are with uncertainty, the higher the number of co-occurring psychological problems they report experiencing. Smartphone use is associated with the current epidemic of anxiety and depression”

CYBERBULLYING

These days cyberbullying has started all because we have devices, devices such as phones, these phones should be banned from school because it has not only cause cheating but also caused cyberbullying. This has happened a lot in school times. I don’t like cyberbullying and if someone hurts my friends feelings by teasing them and calling them names that will make me very annoyed so I will interview someone about how they felt when they got were bullied online.  Here is what he said” I felt sad and disappointed because it isn’t only wrong but has a big affect of people, some people get so depressed they turn away from the right and think negatively and do things they regret, I felt depressed and then I began hurting myself, I regret doing all those things and I feel that phones should be banned.” This is the reason why cell phones are bad for us especially in school.

To Conclude my Statement, I surely believe that  Cell phones should be banned because it distracts students from education and they use it for cheating. Not only that but also makes a lot of problems such as cyber bullying. So that is the reason why cell phones should be banned. Thank you very much and I hope you have a great day.

Posted

For this term our class have been reading a serial story called posted by John David Anderson. And each week we have a task that we do, given from the teacher and we have to complete it before the end of the week. so this is just part of it and there will be more to it, each week. 

The seven sacraments

 WALT identify every sacraments and draw its symbol.

I have learnt that every sacraments have a special meaning behind this and it is all got a category that they come from and that is healing initiation and service.

What I found very difficult is trying to make my drawings perfect but it isn't because nothing is perfect. 

What I found easy and fun was of cause drawing because I love drawing. 

Converting Fractions Decimals and Percentages

WALT: use a range of multiplicative strategies when operation on whole numbers and fractions.

What I really like about this was how I did the image for the last bit of my slideshow.

What I found really hard was like doing everything myself. And what I will work on next time is putting more pictures in the slideshows.  

Ordering decimals

WALT: use a range of multiplicative strategies when operating on whole numbers and fractions.

What I found hard was trying to make an interactive DLO.

What I found easy was  making my presentation good.

Biwa

WALT: explore how different cultures produce music.
What I found hard about doing this was trying to find a good video to go with my D.L.O.
What I found very fun and easy was drawing pictures.

The seven sisters

WALT: to study about different countries and how they celebrate their day

Matariki

WALT: Learn about Matariki and what it means and how it is celebrated.

I found very fun because I love making D.L.O's about Matariki.

What I found hard was when I had to put the videos on the slide because I forgot how to do it.

Respect

WALT... Reflect on and evaluate whether we have been showing C.E.R.R value of Respect.

I am doing this because I have been following others and not be a good leader. also I need to use my manners a lot more. I have been a sinful child to everyone and I need to have less sins then I have had.

Fun day

The Fun Day

On Thursday 26th of April 2018 My mum,dad,Lui and I were going to the movies on a beautiful morning.

My Parents wouldn’t give a hint about which movie we were going to watch, They Stated that it will be one of our  Favourite movies, I watched them pay the tickets until they gave us a great big hint…It was a movie that has a Gigantic Gorilla, me and Lui knew straight away that it would be… The Rampage. We jumped up and down until we got to Cinema 4 The not on the door Says ‘ Please wait until cleaning is over’ we waited for about 10 minutes and when the cinema was open everyone was in it was a full house the cinema lights went off and the screen went on.  It was a sad and a very funny movie some of the highlights were inappropriate and it actually made the audience laugh.

As we headed home, the car raced through the plane road, skipping car after car.

I felt scared so my mum told my dad off for speeding,  when we reached our destination we hopped out and into the house changed and my mum was tired so she stayed home and me dad and Lui went to Lui’s training. Training took ages it felt like I was stuck in prison for one Month. Finally we were at home and we had dinner( I actually forgot what we had for dinner)

After dinner we headed to the sitting room and watched teenage mutant ninja turtles and I was watching Tv until 11:00pm and I went straight to sleep.

I loved that day and it was because I got to spend more time with my family and have fun together as a family and I will always remember that day in my heart.  It will be a treasure to remember. Hope we could do that another day.

We have finished our holidays and we wrote a recount about what we did and here is mine I actually didn't find anything hard. What I found easy was writing my epic recount. Enjoy!!

Refugee

For term 2 we have been reading a book called Refugee by Alan Gratz and we had different activities for each week and here is some of the things I have been doing I will also update it each week. What I found hard was looking for the information for my refugee activities and what i found easy was drawing some of the pictures.

Babysitting

We have been doing keeping our self's safe (K.O.S) and we had to do guidelines for babysitters and here is mine what I found hard was information and what i found easy was making a book shape.

The happy Snowman

Happy Snowman

Planning

There once was a very happy snowman

Who was cool as a hit man

Who was loved by all the boys and girls

And he was more than a string of pearls

He would watch them run and play

With each passing day.

One day the sun was so bright

the snowman knew something wasn’t quite right

He hoped each day

That he will not defrost away

If only he could last until night.

But the snowman will never ever get frostbite

As the day became warmer and warmer

The snowman knew he was in danger

He said his goodbye

As he looked in their eyes

then said “I promise I’ll see you again”

then melted at ten.

The next snow day

The children came out to play

They worked for hours together

to get their friend back to them as the day got better.

They put on his black hat

with covering him with a bath mat.

Before the end

They all had their friend.

The happy snowman joined them once again.

And they called the snowman Zen

It ill be okay if he is melting away

Because there will be another day.

for the last few weeks we have been learning about ballads poems and we had to write our own ballads, and this is my narrative ballad. I worked hard on this It was fun because I had heaps of ideas and it was hard because I ha to put figurative language.

Hope you enjoy it.

Angles

WALT: identify angles such as right, acute, obtuse.

What I learnt was naming all the angles.  

What I found very hard was trying to put my effort into it.

What i really love was doing my Quiz.

BEN HALL

This week we have been learning to write a pallard poem and this was one of our activity.

What i like was drawing Ben hall what i found hard was the designing.

Diamante poem

The last two days our teacher has given us a task to write a diamante poem, and we only have to use nouns verbs and adjective. a diamante poem is a poem that is shaped of a diamond and in that shape you write in the nouns verbs and adjective. were were actually writing about The ANZAC.

St Maximilian

In our class we given an activity to do with a buddy and we have to choose out of St Maximilian or father Francis Douglas. Me and Simon(buddy) wanted to do St Maximilian because He gave up his life for others and of course I don't think anyone would give up there life for a stranger. I loved this because to be honest St Maximilian is actually my favourite saint and I love studying about him. What i found really hard was trying to get the sorry about on the internet. I hope you enjoy reading about him.

Poem firewoks

Onomatopoeia Fireworks Poem

Bang boom kapow Bang boom kapow

The sounds of fireworks being shot

Pew woosh pling Pew woosh pling

As we hear the fireworks singing

Pop sizzle boom Pop sizzle boom

I hear fireworks making a beat to a song

WALT: use onomatopoeia in our writing, and to understand how to use it

The list of the games that will be competing

WALT: watch a video called welcome to the greatness, and we have to write down the games that will be part of the common wealth games that you saw.
What I learned was that i had to remember what was in the video
What i found hard was that I had to try and get appropriate photos 

Borobi

WALT: describe what the 2018 Commonwealth game mascot.
What I learnt was that Borobi was the only Koala that ever surfed
What i found hard was getting the information from the internet.

Commonwealth games medals

WALT: Describe what the medals look like and who designed them.
What I learnt was how pronounce the artist name.
What i found hard was putting the information into my own words.

Commonwealth Games

WALT: write facts about the commonwealth games.
What I learnt was looking for the facts
What I found hard was putting some of the information into my own words

The core values

WALT: write the core values and to reflect on it.

Usain Bolt

WALT: Write a biography about the person that will be participating in the common wealth games

Commonwealth games

WALT:  name all the games that will be part of the common wealth games and to study one of them
I loved doing this because I enjoyed writing some of the information about my favourite commonwealth game sport. What I found hard was trying to remember some of the things about it and to try and put it into my own words.

Transformation

W.A.L.T understand the meaning of the words and show it.
Hi there I have loved doing this Transformation because I used some animation in this and I love putting pictures together to make a person or a thing. What I found hard was trying to get my super man done for the presentation of my work. 

WINTER OLYMPIC

What I learned: to identify what the question meant
What I enjoyed: was finding the information

Shrove Tuesday

WALT: to find facts abut Shrove Tuesday and to write the information and put it  into our own words.

What I found hard was reading the information and putting it into my own words

What I found easy was writing the facts that I knew.

What I could have done next was add more image to make it a better powerpoint