ELJ- Day 2- Activity 1&2: My Flag Of Hope.

Task Description: Here is Day 2 and activity 1&2 is one task, what we had to do is create a flag that represents hope to all of New Zealand, and to also let everyone know that there is hope in all of us. Also we had to do some words describing our flag and so I did a word art. Next up what a brief explanation about our flag and what is our design, and also what inspired us.




Here are some words that describes my flag of hope.

What inspired me? This inspired me to spread the word of having faith in each other, to love one another, and always having hope in yourself no matter where you are in the world.

What is it? On the New Zealand flag I have recreated a new one and it has three special symbols combined as one, they are faith, hope, and love. The first symbol starting is faith, then leading to an H or L is represented as hope, then the last one is a heart and it is love because hearts are always love. So all of it together means faith, hope, love and it is a symbol for all people to know that this is a good thing to have as part of your life.  

ELJ Day 1: Activity 1- Mihi.

Task Description: This Easter Holiday Team 5 has started a Easter Learning Journey and we have 10 days full of activities and we also have to earn pint for each one. Now each day has 2-3 activities and you have to complete them but also publish it, and complete a survey for each one. This is my 1st activity and it is about what I would take with me while traveling around Aotearoa, so I would call my special object, it is my book and I'm explaining it in the next paragraph.

Object - David Walliam Bad Dad book.

Photo - Myself.

The reason why I picked this book is because I think it is very interesting and funny, but also long. This book was for Christmas and I think it will keep me occupied in reading through the whole way but not too much, also it would be a very good idea to learn along the way.  It is very important to keep on reading everyday to keep up your reading skill and you never know what could the book bring to your day. That's why I have this brilliant book by my side and it would be a very good time to read even though it is not school time.

ELJ- Day 1 - Activity 2: 3 Facts about New Zealand.

Task Description: This is our 2nd post of the day and we had to pick 3 facts from this New Zealand Facts Site and read out aloud so we understand it and know more about it when the times come to speak about this. Hope you enjoy reading them and I hope you could have a check up on the site.

The two World Wars saw heavy losses inflicted upon the male population of New Zealand.   But it also saw commitment to your peers and mates become a respected social interest. Today this value is still seen on the field in sport.

Rugby football is New Zealand's most famous spectator sport, with the great All Blacks winning the Rugby World Cup most recently. The sport still has a club, though

Kiwis have developed an interest for the outside and a Kiwis have been exploring and inventing things ever since Sir Ernest Rutherford broke the atom early in the twentieth century. Some of these designs were made in a backyard literally.  While our most popular kiwi creations are frozen beef, the Hamilton Jet boat and bungy jump, also many other things.n in activities that benefit from both the beautiful landscape for the same reason that many people come to New Zealand.

Wk 7 - Taha Tinana Poster.

Task Description: Here is our inquiry for our home class and we have done a poster about what taha you would like to do. I chose Taha Tinana and I have done 3 things about this Taha, I have done healthy food, fitness, and sports.

Wk 7 - Analogue Clock.

WALT: Learning to say the analogue time instead of digital.

Task Description: This is our maths work the  day and we have been learning how to say the analogue and been knowing what the 100's are to the right time. 

Te Whare Tapa Wha - Poem.

Task Description: For our inquiry we have been learning about Te Whare Tapa Wha and we have been making up a poem that is all about 2 taha's. Taha Tinana and Taha Whanu are the 2 that Delijah and I have decided to do. Our poem rymes and I think we have done a great job with it!.

Don't Let Go.

WALT: Write a narrative using dialogue.

Task Description: This week for writing we had to write a narrative called don't let go and use this picture to guide us through. We have been learning about using lots and lots of dialogue to our writing so it can make our writing more better.

It was a dark and stormy night when Amelia was having a cup of tea and sweets. Her mum and dad didn’t live with her, it was only her Aunt Precious and her secret animal friends. But there was an interruption when she was having her supper, someone knocked at the door and the princess was confused because no one comes at this time of the night. She went and opened it and there was a lady with a black hood and a walking stick. The lady gave her a blue stone that was glowing white. She didn't know what to do but take it, the lady said once a full moon everything is permanent. So basically it was a wishing stone, but it was weird how the lady came to her door late at this time of the night.

The next morning it was very sunny and Princess Amelia got up, got ready, and headed down stairs for breakfast. Aunt Precious was making pancakes with orange juice on the side. Amelia couldn’t stop thinking about the stone, she would love to have a ball in her very own castle, she thought. But it can’t happen in my caste she thought again, maybe she would wish for an invitation to a ball from the royal prince.

In the afternoon she went to her secret garden with the stone, and sat on her swing. As she was looking and looking at her ‘Blue Glowing Stone’ she said I wish. . .  for an invitation to a ball. As the stone began to float and everything was just frozen for a bit. Once it had stopped everything was normal, and the Princess went to look around and there was nothing.

When it came to the evening of the day there was a knock at the door, and there was a man with a scroll. The man gave to her and she read it out loud,

“You are invited to my castle ball which will begin at 7:45pm, so don’t be late, Yours sincerely Prince ----” the princess was surprised.

So she closed the door and went upstairs to get ready, her Aunt came with her to see what she was doing, 

|“What are you doing Amelia” 

“I’m going out for the night so I won’t be late”

“All right then, don’t forget to be back by 9:00pm”

“Ok” she replied back

Finally it was time to go, but when she got her purse and went out the door, she forgot to order a ride. But then she remembered that the stone could wish her anything, so she grabbed the stone and wished . . .

Te Whar Tapa Wha.

Task Description: Here is our presentation of what is Te whare tapa wha and we have been learning all about for this past term. This includes the 4 sides which is Taha Wairua, Taha Hinegaro, Taha Whanau, and Taha Tinana each taha is very important and they all show the meaning of each of the things in your life.

Wk 6 - Word Cloud.

WALT: Identify the authors purpose.

Task Description: Here is a task from the week and we have been learning about the identity of our selves and our story book. This is an all about me word cloud and it has my favourite hobbies, what we identify in our selves and much more!.

Wk 6 Vocabulary-Identity.

WALT: Understand the theme of 'identity' across a range of texts.

Task Description:  This week for reading and have been doing tasks all about our identity, and this task is based of a girls identity from a book called Mata I pusi ( eyes of a cat). We had to do a vocabulary task and do the meaning each word, and also do a sentence for it too.

Writing- The Young Detective.

WALT: Write a narrative

Task Description: This week for writing we started off with a narrative. Mrs Moala gave us a picture to guide us and an example of what we are writing. The blue writing on this narrative is Mrs Moala's writing and she has started us off with a good introduction. Then the black writing is the writing that we have to do on our own, so we had to finish off the story. I hope to some time finish writing during the rest of the week.

Pobble

It had been three days since it had gone missing. One minute he had held it in his hand, the next it had vanished. How could it just have disappeared? It had been right in front of his eyes!

He had been warned about what would happen if he lost it. His mission had been to guard the key with his life, ever since they visited him last summer.

Adam had always had a detective’s instinct. They had told him as much. He had been chosen because he had certain skills, and he would need them more than ever now.

Only one clue had seemingly been left, which was sat on the living room table.

Holding the magnifying glass up to his eye, Adam began to investigate… 

It was only him who would be able to find it and he who lost it needs to find it. But again he has the skills of an investigator so he might find the key and get all the answers he could possibly get. As he looked around the house with his magnifying glass his mum called out “Adam time for bed”, “Ok mum” Adam replied. He hopped into bed and couldn’t go to sleep because he was still thinking about that key, the wind was howling and the trees were swaying. In his bed Adam was tucked in tight and suddenly fell asleep.

The next day everything was about to come to an end, Adam got up, got ready, and grabbed his magnifying glass. He went to the living where he last saw the key and looked around for it some more. While dad was on the couch reading a book, he looked at him and started to think what in the world he was doing. 

Dad got up and asked him “son what are you doing”, 

Adam replied “dad, do you know the key that I got from the librarian on Sunday”, 

“Yeah, the magical one”

Adam said “ yeah that one, well I lost it and now I can’t find it, I looked everywhere where I left it but nothing”.

They stopped the conversation and dad went to help him look for it around the house. When dad stopped and thinked for a moment he just remembered that they had a mouse come in a while ago. So there was a high chance that the mice took it or something else, because if there’s  one thing that can carry and move things it’s either us humans, or those creepy mice. Finally Adam and dad found a clue, tiny footprint even tinier than a pencil rubber. So it must have been them but they'll find out very soon . . . .

Cockles CREATE Task.

WALT: Identifying and resolving arising from completing information in text.

Task Description: Here is our CREATE task for the week and Lillyana and I worked on this together, but Lilly did most of the work and I helped through it. Anyways we wanted to this create task to an year 8 standard and we did a poster, presentation, and a video. Everything is all about cockles and there where information, facts, food and a Q&A video.

Dmic Algebra.

WALT: Solving Dmic questions as a group.

Task Description: Here is our maths group work from our dmic with Mrs Tele'a. We have been learning algebra and we had to solve a safe lock which first was easy for us to go across and then down, so we can unlock the code.

My Visual Mihi

Task Description: This year we have started off by doing some art, and we have transformed our art onto hyperstudio to work on our visual Mihis. 

First: Top left corner- I have music at the top and I love music so much, I love to listen, sing, and maybe play but I don’t know if that’s happened before.

Secondly: Bottom right corner- This represents family and I love my family so much, and I think that’s the very important one to me because my family is beautiful the way it is and I appreciate them all the time.  

Thirdly: Top right corner- Here I have my culture which is Cook Island and I am proud of my culture and my family is too. I connect with my language very well and all the different things that we Cook Islanders do too.

Last but not least Fourthly: Bottom left corner- Our Jesus Christ the one who sacrificed his sins for us and also created the earth and everyone in it. I have Jesus because I do go to church and he takes a very big part in my life and helps us all and that is why I have drawn it right there.

I hope you enjoyed reading all about my visual Mihi and I also getting to look at my finished drawing of my visual Mihi in pictures.

Being a Good Point Englander.

WALT: Independently writing and explanation.

Task Description: This is my explanation writing task about Being A Good Pt Englander, and we have been writing explanation and been getting ready for our test, but also actually writing about our school and seeing what it takes to be a good Pt Englander.

Do you know what it means to be a good Pt Englander? Well, here at Point England we are all good students and I am going to be explaining how to be a good Point England for our school. Some ways to do that are to be respectful, show kindness, using your WITS, and being helpful.

Being respectful is one way to be a good Point Englander and showing what awesome looks like towards everyone in the school. Also when you have visitors walking around the school you respect them and lead the way along with showing them around and not being disrespectful towards them. For example if you have a reliever in your class, and you don’t respect them and you respect your other teacher, then you are being very disrespectful instead of respectful.

Showing kindness is another way to be a good Point Englander and I think we need to show a bit more when people are feeling down. Like when people have an accident and they feel sad, we just need to be a good friend and help with whatever is going on. For example if someone gives a present to you for something and you want to be even more kind, then you can give back and that's how you be kind to others.

Another way is to use your W.I.T.S around the school and remembering to walk way, ignore it, talk about it, and seek help. When you are in a fight or something goes wrong then that means you have to walk away from it (W), ignore what's happening around you(I), talk to someone about(T), and seek a teacher for help(S). Like when somebody gets real mad at someone and they are not feeling well, then you can give them the korero about using your WITS and showing them how to use it.

Being helpful is one of the ways to be a good Pt Englander, and by that I mean helping others when they are struggling with their work. Like when people need help and you can see that they need it,then you can go up to them and ask or just help straight away by not even asking because you are already being a good Pt Englander. For example if someone is carrying heaps of things to a class room and they drop it on the ground, then you can go and help them pick it up and be a good Pt Englander along the way. 

Now there you have it, 4 ways on how to be a good Pt Englander. 

I hope that you can take these reasons and use them to be a good Pt Englander just as great as you are. Also I hope that these will help you through the years when your a Pt England student.