Polyfest Trip!

Skipping, Dancing, Running, Laughing….. Sounds interesting right? These words describe what we did at Polyfest (Well we didn’t exactly do laughing, but let’s just say we had an incredible time!). On Wednesday the 13th of March, Team 5 went to Polyfest to watch some items dance but what we really did was play games. The first activity that we played was this skipping game. We had to get a partner and try and skip with one skipping rope at the same time. After that we had a competition where we had to pick one partner to skip for the longest and it was INTENSE!  The last ones skipping was Me and Daliz and we were skipping for ages….. It felt like an hour! Unfortunately I didn’t win because I got way to tired so I stopped and Daliz won. The worst thing about it was that I jumped for like an hour just to get NOTHING! I enjoyed the activities but I didn’t like how we didn’t get to watch anything, I kinda got hyped at Polyfest though? My group (Santana, Rosaleen, Christina, Petesa and Daliz) and I went walking around buying some stuff and getting free stuff. I bought this ice cream & watermelon thing that was $7 even though we had to only spend $5. Polyfest was really fun and exciting even though we didn’t actually get to watch any dances but at least I did get to watch a  Tongan speech. My favourite was the dance thing that the two girls taught us! If you ever get to go to Polyfest you should go because its so cool and fun!

Who Am I? What I Want To Be?

WALT - My Shield About Who I Am And What I Want To Be?

Task Description - 

Kia Ora, My name is Trendy and this picture that you see right here is my shield that tells you who I am and what I want to be? The 4 corners of the shield is - Interests, Skills, Values and Qualities. My Interests are Music, helping others, eating, playing piano, playing softball and drawing - My Skills are cleaning, drawing, maths and breaking things - My Values are family, culture, friends, making others happy and helping others - Last of all My Qualities are loving, generous, thoughtful, appreciative, respectful, crazy sometimes, weird and always HAPPPY! 

What I want to be when I grow up is either a Doctor or a Photographer because I love to help people and i've always wanted to be a Photographer. How much money does a doctor and photographer get paid? Doctor gets paid $198.000 or $289.000 and a photographer gets paid $30.00.

My support crew? Meaning people who help me and support me with my learning and life. The people that I chose was my mum, Mrs Tele'a, Naomi, William & Josh, Santana, My Father and everyone who surrounds me. I hope this isn't to much writing for you to read but this is who I am and what I want to be!

What Are My Favourite Things To Do At PES!

Sleeping, Non-learning…… These are my favourite things to do at school (well I wish I could do those things) but unfortunately that’s not aloud at school, so I will be telling you some things that i’ve enjoyed throughout my years at Pt England School!

Year 6 camp! In 2017 all the year 6’s (well most of them) went to Kawau Island for the whole week. It was awesome and everytime I think about it, I just wanna go back. The reason why I loved Kawau Island was because we got to do a lot of fun activities like Abseiling, Kayaking, Sailing,  Mr Jacobson’s Obstacle course and some sports. If you ever get to go to Kawau you will love it except for the ‘Killer Hill!’.

Tech - COOKING! I love to go to Tech (Tamaki College for Year 7&8’s) only if it’s cooking. Why? Well because I get to cook and once i’ve finished cooking it…. I get to EAT IT! And OHHH it tastes delicious. E.G Most of the times we just make pasta but when we get lucky we get to make CUPCAKES or PANCAKES!!!

Sports tournaments! At school we get the opportunity to play sports for our school, we get to go somewhere and verse other schools. I’m not a sporty person but I do like to play some sports for the school like Softball, Netball etc. We just played softball not long ago for mix and girls and we all won, now we’re waiting for Auckland Champs!

Here’s 3 things I love to do at Pt England school. Coming to this school was no regret for me, I made so much funny and nice friends and they give you so many opportunities to do fun things. I hope you wished that you came to PES because this is the bestest school ever!

How To Be A Good Role Model/Leader!

Leadership, Courage, Yourself…. These are the key things that I believe that make you a good role model. If you keep reading this and I guarantee you’ll become a great role model

Looking behind the person…. A good role model always has people following them. A speech that our principal said to us is “Look behind the person who is walking and if no ones behind him/her then him/her is not a leader!”.

Be Courageous, Be like a lion and take your rightful place. Be the king and lead your people to the place they belong. Being a leader/role model takes courage and strength, you need to be strong for the people around you, you need to be that one person who takes responsibility and looks after everyone.

Kindness/Generosity! If I were to become a role model, the one thing I would concentrate on is being kind and caring for my whanau who surrounds me. Being kind to people can make your life change into something new, something better! Things you can do to be nice is helping them with their work, giving them things that they might not have or you could just give them space. Some people need space because they have hard times with their life.

Being yourself. This might not seem like the greatest idea but if you think about it, being yourself is the most important thing to being a good role model. Explaining being yourself is kind of weird because you should know how to be yourself so all I can say is…. Be Yourself!

Demonstration is good for little kids. Explaining things to kids can be complicated so demonstrating it’s easier than explaining to little kids. An example - you could be explaining something to kids but they’ll just look at you confused, if you demonstrate it they’ll understand easier.

You could do many things to become a good role model or leader. Sometimes you don’t actually have to do all these things to be greatest leader, you could be the quiet one but everyone follows everything you do!

Man And Sea - Test Practice

WALT: Test Ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests!
 

Task Description - 

This is a test practice for our reading test. It wasn't that hand because I already did it last year.

Book Review!

Walt - We are developing understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts!

Task Description -

We have to get a book every Wednesday from the library and read it until class is finished. My book was 'Diary Of A Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules'. I hope you enjoyed my book I read!

Unreal - Lighthouse Blues

Today in Room 3, Mrs Tele'as class, Mrs Tele'a read a book called Lighthouse Blues. First Mrs Tele'a read chapter 1 and 2, then we had to go and predict what would happen in chapter 3. This is my prediction of what would happen in chapter 3
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Stan looked depressed. He walked away without saying another word. Anton slowly followed Stan with confusion. Anton finally got into the house and jumped into bed. He stared at the ceiling wondering why did Stan walk away from him, then suddenly…. He heard music coming from outside but the music didn’t sound like the same from before. He listened carefully to see what was different about the music. He could hear a violin! His eyes widened and his mouth shot open. He was in such shock he swung off the bed.

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Task Description - We had to predict what would happen next on the third chapter?

Reflection of 2018..... 2019 HERE I COME!

List all the things you have been involved with this year:

Fiafia

TC Tech

Cross Country

Athletics

Kiwisport

Team 5 performance

Rainbows end trip

Choose 2 which you thoroughly enjoyed, explain why - I loved Rainbows End because we got to go on so much rides and it was so much fun. I also loved athletics because we got to do so many activities while we were competing each other. 

Choose 2 that you didn’t enjoy as much, explain why - I didn’t really enjoy cross country because we did to much running and the worst part was we had to do 2 laps around the pt england reserve. I couldn’t think of anything else I didn’t like because 2018 was really fun.

4. Special mention/thanks?  Do  you have specific people or groups you’d like to acknowledge from your time in Pt England - I would like to mention five beautiful teachers that taught me how to be smart. My thanks is to Mrs Tele’a, Mrs Ilaoa, Miss Sio, Mrs Salu and Miss Tuia because they’ve taught so much throughout this year and my learning has been expanding a lot.

5. 2019: What are you looking forward to next year?   What are you anxious about?  What will you do to help you get through difficult times in the class, playground, with your peers - What i’m looking forward next year is being a year 8 and being a leader to the whole school. What i’m anxious about is  that if I get picked for prefect I won’t be good enough to take care of people. What I will do to help myself is either talk to an adult or try to figure it out myself.

6. Sign off: What’s a neat sentence or phrase you’d like to sign off with?  One of our Team 5 sayings?  Mr Burt Korero -  Well this is my reflection about 2018, I’m so excited for next year and I can’t wait to be a year eight. One of my favourite sayings that i’ve heard was from Mrs Salu, the saying was ‘Kindness given, Kindness you may receive’.

Rainbows End Poster!

Task Description - 

The year 7's went to rainbows end and had an amazing time there. We went on so many rides and some of us really sick that we puked. The scariest ride there for probably all of us was the stratosfear even though I didn't go on it. Well hope you like my little poster!

Language Features

WALT: Poetry. We are learning about the language features that are present in poetry.
 

Task Description -

Throughout these two weeks my class has been doing language features. We have learnt a lot of things about language features and I hope you learn more about them looking at my slides.

Fact Or Opinion?

WALT: I will read across texts and media to form my own opinion on the current teacher strikes
 

Task Description - 

In our groups we had to do a fact or opinion about the teachers strike. We had to answer some questions about what we think about the strike.

The Wonder Tree?

I found an unordinary tree that was all alone. I stared at it for a while and noticed something about it. All of its leaves were falling on the ground, like it was crying. I walked up to it and held one of its branches. I felt cold and sad inside so I swung my arm away from the branch.

‘That was weird?’ I felt normal again. As I was just about to leave I had an unusual feeling inside of me. I felt nauseous, sick, I couldn’t see properly. I fell to the ground and started to see things from the past. I saw the tree but something felt different about me, I looked around and saw many other trees.

This big machine with axes connected to it charged for all the trees. The machine chopped every single tree that was around me except for the one tree. I woke up looking at this black, tall figure. My eyesight was blurry so I couldn’t see what the figure actually looked like, at that moment something happened…..

Task Description -

Well this is my story about a tree. I only had to do this for two days so I wasn't able to finish it all but I might continue it later in the future. I hope you've enjoyed this writing about my mysterious tree.

Inference

WALT: Test Ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests

Task Description -

This and last week we have been reading lots and lots of stories. We have been reading stories to build up our reading level and understand more about what we say. For this slide we had to read some stories and answer some questions that was about the reading.

Man And Sea!

WALT: Test Ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests
 

Task Description - 

This week in reading each group has been reading a different book. My group read Man and Sea which is about a samoan boy named Tataua who killed this black octopus named Uliuli.

What & Why I Love Immersion Assemblies?

Te Wa Toi is a meaning of ‘Time For Art’. This term we are going to be learning about what artists think and feel about their art. Immersion assembly was different this term, usually Team 1 - 4 makes videos but instead they showed us on what they think of art?

Being eager to learn more, today immersion assembly really touched me, what I mean is that every single team expressed on how they see art. Every person has different thoughts and words about what art means? For example, Ms King thought that some paintings shown in some museums were weird. In her mind I think that she has a different meaning of what art could truly mean!

Why I love Immersion assemblies is because it’s hilarious, it’s satisfying and heaps of other reasons why but I can’t think of any. I love the fact that the teachers from each team shows and explains on what their team is going to be doing. What I like about Immersion assemblies, they explain what their learning in a way that gets us children hooked to listen more about.

Team 3…. Well I can’t even describe it because it was really crazy. Mrs Carruthers, Mrs Scanlan & Mr Moran were dressed into a white paint suit. At first I thought that they looked like the Ghost-busters, Ms King and Ms Eadie had pallets of paint with some paint brushes in their hands. Music played and the teachers started dancing while Ms Eadie and Ms King put some paint on Mrs Scanlan, Mrs Carruthers & Mr Moran rolled all over the big, white paper that was on the stage floor. The funniest part that I loved was when they showed us their art and started doing an auction and most of the kids put their hand up and it was SOLD!

Team 4 had a paint-off but instead all the teachers (except for Ms Parrant), painted. Ms Parrant had picked a volunteer which was Mr Moran, and he had to do poses for the teachers to paint. Once they were finished they showed their art and explained what their inspiration was. My favourite was Mrs Sio or Mr Wiseman because Mrs Sio looked just like Mr Moran and Mr Wiseman was a black hole to describe his mind.

4 reasons on why I love Immersion assemblies is because teachers don’t just explain what their doing but they also make videos or show kids what their doing, other reason is that it makes you laugh and thinking that you want to learn more about it. 3rd reasons sometimes teachers (including the principal), are dressed up into hilarious clothing that looks ridiculous on them. My last reason that I can think of is teachers do weird dances and make fun of themself but they don’t care what we think because their happy that they make us laugh.

Task Description -

We had Immersion assembly which was the best, we had to write about what & why we love immersion assemblies.

Our Wonderful Performances

My group and I have been learning a Niuean dance for the past few weeks to show the whole of Team 5 & 3. We did a Niuean dance because we thought that we should do something cultural for the Team.

Before we performed we obviously practiced and practiced until we thought that we’ve accomplished it. Our practices wasn’t easy at first but once we got into it, we knew all the moves off by heart. I would say that we got a 8/9 when we were practicing only because some parts we were kind of mucking around.

Our performance went better than I expected, meaning that it went way better than I thought it was gonna go. Everyone cheered and applauded as we danced to the music. I don’t know what rate that we got but I would give it a 10 because we smiled and enjoyed dancing with each other.

If I were to judge myself, I would say that I did pretty well and my group also did pretty good. The whole class was amazing today and I can’t wait until next time we do something similar. Every single one of us from Team 5 did a magnificent job and i’m sure that everyone had fun.

Task Description -

After our performance that we have been practicing for the past few weeks, we had to write about what happened. Just some things were that my group wore lava lava's, flower lei's, A's (which is like a flower crown) and we had our hair out.

EYELASHES THAT ARE 5CM LONG!!!

WALT: Self as a Reader - I know what genres I like reading, willingly explore new genres and recommend texts to other readers
RECALL -

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article - Muin Bachonaev

2. What was the key event from the news article - Muin’s eyelashes are 5cm long.

3. Where did this event take place - In Russia

4. When did this event take place - September 23, 2018

THINKING -

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article - ‘I live like everybody, there is no reason for me to take special care of my eyelashes’.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article - Muin Bachonaev has the record of his eyelashes 5cm long.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place - This event took place in Russia, Russia has 27 other languages.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future - This took place somewhere in Russia and I think that Muin’s eyelashes are gonna grow longer when he grows up.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place - Only because it’s a world record and people like knowing stuff like this.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article - I can’t answer this question because I couldn’t find the dictionary.

Cross Country Day!

WALT: Writing for the audience of my peers and whanau

Body aching so much, don’t think I could heal from it….. CROSS COUNTRY IS OVER YAY!

Last week we had Cross Country and everyone was wearing different colours to support their house and people. Some wore costumes, ribbons, wigs, lei’s and other wacky things. Before we started everyone was nervous, everyone was shaking and when  Mr Burt said “On your marks, Get set, GO!” we were off.

When we were running it was muddy, it was tiring and we were all breathless. All girls were huffing and puffing to the end of the course but each one of us tried our best and kept going until we finished the entire race. I finished the race, calves stiff as stone, body aching so much and throat drying up in the hot sun, breathing heavily as I grab a water from the teachers and sit down to catch my breath.

I came in the top 15’s and i’m proud of myself, my goal wasn’t to come in the top 10’s or 5’s, but my goal was to finish the whole course by trying my best! My favourite part about cross country was people encouraging others who were struggling to run, they kept persuading them to keep going because they knew that they could make it to the end.

Task Description -

This week for writing we had to write about Cross Country but before we started that we had to brain storm. What we had to do was name things that happened in cross country and put them into groups, we had to use those words we came up with and use them to help us write about cross country.

The Great Kereru Hunt Begins!

RECALL -

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article - There is no people in this article but there is Kereru’s.

2. What was the key event from the news article - Scientists need information about Kereru’s.

3. Where did this event take place - This event took place in New Zealand.

4. When did this event take place - September 23, 2018

THINKING -

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article - There’s no quotes in this article.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article - People around New Zealand have been asked to count Kereru’s if they see them.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place - It took place in NZ, NZ is a country that has a lot of native animals dying.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future - This event happened in New Zealand and I think that in the future Kereru’s might be extinct.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place - It took place because scientists need to know how many Kereru’s are still living in this world.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article - Where is the Dictionary because I can’t find it?

Marathon Record Broken

RECALL -

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article - Eliud Kipchoge, Dennis Kimetto & Gladys Cherono.

2. What was the key event from the news article - The Marathon.

3. Where did this event take place - At the Olympics.

4. When did this event take place - September 18th, 2018

THINKING -

1. Find a quote from the main person in this news article - There is no quote in this article.

2. In your own words describe what happened in this news article - Eliud Kipchoge set a new record for a marathon run.

3. Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place - This took place at the Olympics and the olympics is a place where people set records and do physical stuff.

4. Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future - Well this happened on Olympics day and I think in the future someone will beat Kipchoge’s marathon record.

5. Explain in your own words why this event took place - This event took place because people around the world challenge each other in sporty stuff and they get medals for winning.

6. Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article - There was no dictionary in this article.