This weeks lockdown work

Hello bloggers!! This weeks work was a bit different now that were going back to school. So here's what we have to do for school work at our school...

For people who dont come to school does the school work that has been put up on the site, and for the people that comes to school, doesn't do the school work on the site because they will do something else.

We also have work books we have to work on from home like our new homework book. There's a homework book, a science book,  and more. We also have passports (Not real passports) that updates us on what we've learnt in the past, then we cut out these pieces of paper and glue them on a box showing us where to glue it.

So basically we do the work in our work books when were not at school and when were at school we do something different. Anyway, This weeks lockdown work was great. Have you ever played Blooket?

Well, Blooket is a game where you answer questions about animals, the past, and it's kind of like a game about recounts. There are two game modes, one Gold quest, and Crypto.

When you get a question right in Gold quest, there are 3 chest and you have to pick one. There's, Double gold, Triple gold, 10 - 50 gold, -15% - -50%, Take 15% - Take 50%, and the best one is, Swap. Swap is when you swap your gold with whoever you choose.

When you get a question right in Crypto, there will be 3 green locks in front of you and again, you only get to pick one. and it's similar to the gold quest except its crypto instead of gold. And instead of swap it's Hack. Hack is when you have to guess what the password is for a specific person, but you don't get to pick, because it does it for you. There's also a play factory in blooket.

That was all for today's blog, if you wanna check out blooket click on THIS link (click on THIS link to sign up) and enjoy!

Thank you for reading my blog! Stay safe, stay well and blog you later!

My narrative writing

Hello bloggers! Today I will be sharing my narrative writing with you. My narrative writing slideshow is going to be a little similar to the fables I shared with you all last time. So first we had to create an animal using switchzoo.com. The animal I created was mixed with a spider monkey, a cheetah, and a werewolf. We also had to give our creatures a name so I named my creature, Mr.Beast. I chose this name because I thought it would fit the beast and it did! If you would like to read how I created my narrative writing and the final product click on THIS LINK that will take you to the writing slideshow.

Thank you for reading my blog and slideshow. Stay safe, stay well, and blog you later!!

What I know about fables part 4 (Final part)

Hello bloggers!! This is my final part of what I know about fables. This is probably the most I have blogged in one week, but it was really fun sharing my knowledge with all of you bloggers.  Please click on THIS LINK to take you to my slideshow....

Thank you for reading my blogs and my slideshow. Stay safe, stay well, and blog you later!! 

What I know about fables part 3

 Hello bloggers! Today is the second to last part of, "What I know about fables".

You will be reading a story called, "The 3 billy goats graph" I will be also showing you the settings in the same time.... 

First paragraph: (Introduction of characters and setting) 

Once upon a time there were 3 billy goats graph. The 3 goats were all brothers, they were happily eating grass until…. “Brother, there is no more grass!” said the youngest billy goat. “Hey look over there on the other side of the bridge!” replied the middle billy goat. “Let’s cross the bridge.” said the eldest billy goat.

Second paragraph: (Main story)

First went to the youngest billy goat… “Who is that crossing my bridge?” The youngest goat was confused until he looked up at the huge troll, the troll asked if he could eat the him, but the billy goat said that there was another goat coming that was bigger than him so they agreed on it. The middle billy goat came across the troll too. The troll asked the middle goat the same question but he replied with, “Sorry but as you can see I barely have any meat at all. There is going to be a very big goat though, with heaps of meat to eat!” and so the troll agreed immediately. 

Third paragraph: (takeaways, moral lesson) 

The eldest billy goat crossed  the bridge with really loud creaks under his hooves. “Who’s crossing my bridge?!” shouted the troll. “It is I, the biggest billy goat graph!” replied the eldest billy goat with confidence and pride. “Mmmm, you look delicious. May I, eat you?!” questioned the troll. “No you may not!” and all of a sudden… BANG!!! THE TROLL WENT FLYING IN THE AIR AND FELL IN THE WATER!! The troll drifted away and all the billy goat graphs ate happily ever after. THE END. The moral lesson of this story was, “Never throw away what you already have.”.

This was just a draft, so the next blog I post will be the last part of what I know about fables. This blog was short but I hope you enjoyed reading the story. Stay safe, stay well, and blog you later!

What I know about fables part 2

Hello again bloggers, and welcome back to what I know about fables, part 2!! Today I had to explain how a fables is used. And now I will tell you. The blogs I will be posting until Friday will be a little short.

Anyway lets jump right into the subject. So first is how to I should plan to teach the moral lesson, so first I would introduce the characters in the story and where it takes place, than add in the main story where I have to describe what happens in a big paragraph, and for the final conclusion I would round the story up and teach the reader what the moral of the story is, and explain it.

For example the movie, "Over The Hedge". The moral of the that movie was, don't be greedy. Some of you may not understand because you haven't seen the movie yet, but you can watch it on Netflix, but it's still not out yet for some reason. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this short blog, stay safe, stay well, and blog you later!!

What I know about fables

Hello bloggers! Today I will be blogging about fables. Some of you won't know what a fable is and some of you will. So today I will be talking about how much I know and have learnt about fables. I will also be blogging for this whole week, Tuesday - Friday. So basically I will be updating you on what I've learnt about fables. For example the story of, "The Tortoise and the Hare". 

So basically fables mean, that a short story has a setting (start, middle, and end, and also has a moral to it), and also that the animals in that short story has the characteristics of a human such as, talking, walking, running, and all that. In this story you could see that the moral in the story was to take things slow and steady, otherwise you won't finish. Well I hope you've learnt something new from this blog, remember I will be updating you on what I've learnt about fables. Stay safe, and well! Blog you later!

Lockdown Creations

 Hello bloggers! Today I will be presenting to you my, "Lockdown Creations Slide Show". You might be wondering, "What is a Lockdown Creations Slide Show?" Well, The LCSS (stands for, Lockdown Creations Slide Show), is where we (Me and Te Waka Ako), put all our work on that we have done in the lockdown. (Fun Fact: The blog post your reading is part of my LCSS work!). If you would Like to see my slide show, click on THIS LINK.

Thanks for reading my blog. Kia Kaha. Stay safe, stay well, and blog you later!

My favourite work pieces of work in term 3

Kia Ora bloggers. Today I'm going to talk about My favourite piece(s) of work. OK so my first favorite pice of work would probably be the trick shot. So first of all I could do any trick shot, and my trick shot was to shoot the ball form outside in the trampoline into the white bucket inside the house, but that didn't happen instead of just shooting it past the doors and into the bucket, it bounced of the side of the door, into the kitchen and bounced off the chair and into the bucket! Here's the clip....

 (if the link on the image doesn't work, click on this link).

Did you think that was cool? Yeah, so did I. Anyway, I also wanted to show this piece of work I also did in term 3. The piece of work that i'm about to show you is about covid, and I wrote a poem about it so here it is.....

(if the link on the image doesn't work, click on this link). I hope you enjoyed that poem and that trick shot, If you want to see more of my term 3 work you can click on the image below.....

 (if the link on the image doesn't work, click on this link).

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you all stay safe and well. Kia kaha and blog you later!!

Rugby prize giving

HELLO BLOGGERS!! Today i'm here to talk about me and my little brother's rugby prize giving. I have to apologize first if I sound like that I'm bragging too much about myself but for real I am over excited, so lets get right into it! OK so first of all, it was obvious that we couldn't go to the original place where we do the prize giving ceremony because of covid and lockdown, so we had to do it all internet on zoom meetings. And because there are lots of teams of juniors in our Rugby Club, they have to but the zoom meetings into groups. The first awards ceremony were for 9 years old and under, which was my little brother in that carter-gory as he is 6 years old. His team is Under 6 Eden Tigers. 

You might be wondering what my brother got. he got the title, "BEST SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR" And we were all surprised. My parents told me, "Can you beat that?" First was the best tackler of the year (which wasn't me), then the best sportsman of the year, (which wasn't me again), and it was all down to the best player of the year, everything was silent, until.......

"BEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR" "ROS-ALAN UEPI"

My parents cheered and was very proud of me and my little brother. And then we went to celebrate. Well that's how it went and, now I really want to play some more rugby, but I don't think I can due to the lockdown. Some say that the lockdown might even extend to Christmas, or even next year!! 

ABOUT COVID

But really, why can't covid just leave us alone, because to be honest, covid just gets stronger by the day. 43 cases in like a week or 2. The only way to stop it is by wearing masks, washing your hands (sanitize to), keep distance, and stay in our homes until we are given the all clear. We can unite against covid and finally put an end to this nightmare. So all we can do now is stay inside our homes (but you can still go on walks to keep healthy). Just remember to give a smile and believe in yourself and others that you can do this and fight against covid, because we haven't lost all hope YET.  

Well this is all. I hope you all stay safe. Blog you later!

Lockdown has finally come to an end!

Hello bloggers! Today is Friday the 1st of October (or at least this is when I publish), and i'm relieved because lockdown is finally coming to an end. In about 2 - 3 weeks we'll all see each other again but there will still be some rules like, keeping distance, and always sanitize your hands/wash your hands. During the lockdown we all spent time with our family which was good. We were more creative with our surroundings and devices. Some might've created something new without even noticing, who knows? But anyway, next week is going to be school holidays for 2 weeks and lets hope that, the corona-virus will finally leave us alone and there would be no more cases! You've all done really well staying inside your homes for 7 weeks! I hope to see all my friends back at school in level 2 for the first time after 7 - 8 weeks of lockdown.

The moral of this blog was just to check up on everyone through lockdown so I wont be writing that much but I hope this will help you or at least cheer you up a bit. Thank you for reading my short blog, I hope you all stay safe during the school holidays. Blog you later!

The Friday dress up

Kia Ora bloggers!! This Friday the 24th of September, Te Waka Ako dressed up for this Friday's meet. We had to dress up starting with a "L". I  dressed up as a label and my sister dressed up as a leaf. Our dad helped me and my sister make our costumes. For my sister's costume we used, cardboard leaves, and sewed it to her clothes. For my costume (I just needed a mask and a hat) we used, a mask, cardboard paper, and coloring pencils. I wrote all the words in color then my dad stuck them on the hat and mask using tape and a pin. If you want to see some of your costumes please click on this link.

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you enjoyed it. Stay safe, and i'll blog you later! 

Tongan language week

Malo e lelei bloggers! Welcome to this years 2021 Tongan language week To start off, the theme of this weeks Tongan language week is,
 "Faka Koloa 'o Aotearoa 'aki 'ae AKO lelei" (Enriching Aotearoa with holistic education).
The key word is AKO educations. The first school for a Tongan child is home of course. In the early child hood of a Tongan child the first class room is called, "KALILOA": KALI refers for a piece of wood that had been carved and smoothed to a shape of a little stool just high enough to use as a pillow. And that's where the Kaliloa came from. Kaliloa is the arm of your Mother mostly can be your Father and sometimes the Grandparents. 

Back in the days, Tongans didn't know how to write, the history was passed from generation to generations by stories, that's why before bed time the child would be laying down onto the Kaliloa (Mum or Dad's arm) and the parent will tell stories about where you come from, your family, your heritage, what runs in the family, what your allowed to do, and what is TAPU, or not allowed to do, and where you go to whe you look for food when your hungry, and where you taking your first fruit to on the harvest time. Normally your mothers family her brothers is your fa'etangata or MotherMan called, uncle there houses are the houses you go to look for food in and the houses of your Mehikitanga your fathers sisters is where you take your fist fruit to. And also they start teaching "The 4 Golden Pillars" Which holds the main principals of the Tongan culture.  

a) Faka'apa'apa (Respect). Faka'apa'apa between brothers and sisters. It's a Tapu for brother to go near where the sisters are associated, or socializing, or sleeping area, or sisters to go to where the brothers are associated, or socializing, or sleeping area.

b) Tauhi vaha'a or va (Reciprocation). Women held the highest rank in the Tongan extended family Nofo 'a kainga. The eldest sister of the father or the eldest Mehikitanga (eldest auntie) is known as the Fahu the most repectful rank in the kainga. When the father harvest his first plantations or animals, the first inasi which is the best of his fruit or crops, he will send it to his Mehikitanga or his eldest sister. When the his Mehikitanga or the Mehikitanga of his children received his gift they will prepare some mat or tapa clothes, and send it back to his wife (if he's married or just for him if he's not) as a piece of new clothes, "Pulu'pulu" which is like a cape or a new blanket or clothes, just to show their apretiation of the gift they received.

c) Mamahi'i Me'a/Mateaki'i (Patriotism). As one of the Tongan moto is, "Tonga mo'unga ki he loto"

(The Tongans mountain is their heart) It's a very poor island, mostly people live from their own plantation and from the ocean if the people want to do something for their nobles, or their king, or the church or anything in the community, they will go for extra miles until the job is done with not a single penny being asked for.

d) Loto To (Humble).  Tonga knows who there King is, they know who there noble is, they know there Fahu and 'Ulumotu'a he is the eldest man in the kainga 'o famili. When you appear infront of the king or the noble of your village no matter how big your crops are or how successful you are, you still refer to them as a Me'avale, or kainanga 'oe fonua (common person or lower in the society rank). In the funeral the Liongi are the maternal sides or the mothers familiy sides of the death including the children will wear a huge ta'uvala (mat) that will cover them up to their head. And their roles in the funeral is the kitchen to cook food for the people while the paternal side or father's family side of the death which is the Mehikitanga of the dad is the Fahu that will sit right in front of the dead person and the 'Ulumotu'a the eldest brother of the dead bodys father are directing and making decisions for everybody what to do, and he normally coordinate with the children of the father.

The next will be church, majority of the Tongans are Christians. And the Sunday school teachers, the Setuata and the Faifekau, and also your parents at home teach you about your religion, they give you the spiritual teaching like from the bible and your belief, and that's your spiritual teachers.

The next will be school teachers at school give you knowledge, like how to read, write, multiply, how to use technology, and gives you all the knowledge you need for the future. 

Now the children are growing up he/she is not sleeping on the kaliloa anymore but the AKO is moving up to Faka loto fale (Fofola efala kae talanoa) Now I would say it's complete the 4 golden pillars, Faka'apa'apa (respect), Tauhi vaha'a (reciprocation), Mamahi'i Me'a (Patriotism), and Loto to (humble). Which underpin my Tongan moto of the Tongan shield "'OTUA MO TONGA KO HOKU TOFI'A"

(GOD AND TONGA ARE MY HERITAGE)

                                             

Now the Kaliloa is done the ministers are done, the teachers are doing their best, i'ts for me and for you Tongans to use all the goods that we pick up from the kaliloa, from church, and from school, put them all together and FAKA KOLOA AOTEAROA with it, ENRICH AOTEAROA with it. Stay safe and happy Tongan language week, BLOG YOU LATER!!

My Paralympic rap about Andrew May

 Andrew May

Andrew is sailing on the sea, growing up with a yachting family.

In the Diamond Harbour in Lyttelton,

the view is great, but the name reminds me of Wellington.

Andrew began sailing in Optimists and P’s then moving into two handed classes.

Damn, look at him go! I’m glad my guy ain't wearing glasses!

He won the Phoenix class National Championships the year before a car accident at the age of 17 that left him as a paraplegic.

Let’s show the man some love and respect, don't call him pathetic!

Spring (Poem)

 SPRING

Loud and thunderous lightning,

how very tremendous and frightening!

Very hard storms, and very bad rains.

Good grief, here we go again.

Such strong rain, and wind,

and now we can't blend!

All of a sudden the sun came out! 

Coming out of the grey and blue!

Could it be? Spring is that you?!

The sun glimmering in the sky,

wow it's never shone so bright and high!

Now there's flowers, and daffodils sprouting.

Yay, now there's no more lightening!

Rainbows appearing in the sky,

right before our very eyes.

Spring gives you hope and joy, 

takes your mind off from corona, and now, 

were just looking forward to having a great season, Oh boy.

Lockdown 2.0 (poem)

DELTA

EVERYBODY! CORONA IS BACK!!!

WHAT?! 

Yes it’s back, we’ll go into lockdown again, the virus is now more fierce and strong,

Where did we go wrong?

We can’t seem to fight it back,

It has a name, a name called DELTA.

Well if we stand, and be strong,

We could walk over this virus

And stop all that went wrong.

Be brave, be aware, be smart everywhere, 

Corona or not, we still have one more, SHOT.

My reading DLO

Kia Ora bloggers!! Today I will be blogging about my reading DLO. As you know "DLO", it stands for, Digital Learning Object. Now let's jump right into the programme! At first I want to apologize to my teacher in advance. Because what i'm going say is something that I just thought about it totally outside the classroom. Last week we watched our awesome New Zealand team at the Olympics. And I was so amazed about later on that we totally forgot about the nasty epidemic corona virus.                            

The world was covered by a big stormy cloud that holds the corona virus, people were crying because there father's mother's auntie's uncle's brother's and sister's are dying because of the corona virus. But all of a sudden, there was a bright light shining through the clouds, HERE COMES THE OLYMPICS!!! 

Once the Olympics arrived, everyone was cheering on for their country, competing against their strengths, and congratulating each other. Everyone was so happy with the Olympics, we had forgotten all about the virus! Even I forgot about it! Eventually, the Paralympics had finally came. This was all about encouragement, and inspiration because, there are some people swimming with only half of there body, and people playing playing basketball with no legs. You could also click on this link that will take you my reading DLO...

...Did you learn some interesting facts? Because I definitely did! Were you surprised about how much more you've learnt about the timeline of the Olympics? Did you know that the Japanese use cardboard to make beds? It's really good for the environment because then you could recycle the bed! You might be thinking that Japan has heaps of technology, but Japan could also be very environmental.

Well, Tokyo had the burning torch for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but now, it's France turn to keep the flame going. I hope you've learnt much from the information I've gathered, and I hope you all stay safe in your homes, I also hope to see you later!

My Olympic DLO

What to blog about

Hello bloggers! Today I don't know what to blog about, so i'll just blog about me thinking of what to write on my blog in the holidays. Every time I start a blog in the holidays I don't know what I should blog about. It seemed much harder than it is back at school, because we know what to blog about in 5 days. 

At home (in the holidays) when i'm about to start a blog, I would press + NEW POST but before I start i'm always thinking,'What to blog about, what to blog about, what to blog about?' Once I come up with an idea of what to blog I start writing. Eventually I can image what my blog is going to be about, then I start writing freely as if I was full of ideas just waiting to share my ideas with people across the globe. 

This blog here is more of something creative. I like being creative, writing stories, drawing some art, making useful tools, and so on. The main thing about this blog is about how I come up with ideas, and thinking, what should I blog about? That's why I created this blog here although i'm not sure if your still reading or not but anyways, whenever i'm blogging at home I sometimes listen to music whilst i'm writing. 

When ever i'm listening to music, I don't know how but it helps me focus on writing, then (sometimes) I create a little clip in my head related to the music, I don't know if it's funny, or special but what I do know is what to blog about today. 

I enjoy blogging, and being creative. but what I enjoy the most is writing my stories to you fellow bloggers. I hope you all enjoyed your holiday, blog you later!

My winter poem

 The Winter poem 

Winter is cold

Winter is bold

Warm clothes, hot drinks

Cold snow, a snowman! WINK!

SNOWBALL FIGHT!

AH! A TERRIBLE FRIGHT!

Dress smart, dress smooth

Dress right in the mood

With your collar shirt and your tie 

Your waistcoat, overcoat, gloves and shoes

Moon walking on ice like Michael Jackson! COOL!

If you liked this poem give it a WOOHOO!!

 

How to write a procedural text

Hello bloggers! Today I will be showing you how to write a procedural text. You have to be very specific, cause you'll end up mucking it up, so be specific and read between your lines. As you read through, you'll notice what I did, if you read carefully.

Step 1. Select a sport, activity, game, or something you would want to teach, for example I did culture games and wanted to teach Aussie rules. Create a new doc then pick some bossy verbs for the start of each step. Pick a title suitable enough for the subject you wanna teach, and write a quick explanation on how to play, or use something. 

Step 2. Write a goal on what you want to archive during the process, then write all the equipment you need, now start writing on how to play the game.

Step 3. Pick a game or a activity, then first start off with how many people you need and start writing with how to play or use the activity, Make sure your reading your lines carefully and not just writing step after step without going over it.

Step 4. Now that you've finished, you have to read it out loud, and use you procedural to see if it make sense, this is the best way to do it, to see if you actually told the readers how to do it the right way.

Step 5. Put some diagrams and photograph's in to show the readers the positioning of the equipment, or people. This will help the reader understand what you said.

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you understand how to make a procedural now, and enjoy writing!  Blog you later!