✊ Holidays in Lockdown Exprince ✊

 Ni Hao readers and welcome back to my blog. Todays blog post is going to be reflecting about my 2week holidays in Lockdown. I'll be talking about my two favorite things I did in Lockdown one of them was casually going online and talking to my friends and going on a ride to the beach. It was a casual cold night its suppose to be spring almost summer but anyways what happened that night, I was just chilling on my chromebook and just going through my socails (Tiktok and Youtube etc). I felt very bored I decide to face time my friends on google meets and we'd all stay up trying to connect with each other online and I've stayed up online for hours non-sleep, usually I went to bed at 4am and woke up around 12 or 1pm. (Yep really late), It was the holidays so there was nothing intersting to do but eat all these ice blocks my dad brought for us (For he works at Tip Top), I really like eating ice blocks I usually ate heaps and I get hungry and eat lots of food. During the Holidays some days we went on Night rides since we we're in lockdown I always was bored and we had to go on walks to the Mountian for example (Very tiring and annoyed). Another thing I loved doing in the holidays was binge watching all my asian dramas (Although I still do it during my freetime), I loved watching many things and I watched Squid Game, My name, I'm Not a Robot also some shows such as On my Block, Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diares  and stay up for hours watching really tiring but always worth doing because its fun! 

On my block :

Vincenzo :

🇳🇺 Happy Niuean Language Week 🇳🇺

 Fakalofa lahi atu ki mua and welcome back to my blog! It has been a really long time blogging and today I am coming back with another blogpost and its about celebrating and embracing this culture (as I'm not Niuean though), I like embracing everyones culture and this week I've been learning with Room 8, So many legends and myths about the small island and we've also played kahoot (Its this learning game) about Niuean language week. The theme of Niuean Language Week of 2021 is  Kia Tupuolaola e Moui he Tagata Niue means  May the Tagata Niue thrive. What did I learn from the Niuean culture is that its very simlliar to some of the Pacific Islands and its really easy learning. What I enjoy learning about this culture is just using my knowledge of other cultures to understand the meaning of words and learning so much about their myths and legends was really fun! I really hope everyone has a safe lockdown and Happy Niuean Language Week, Here are a few things that will help you learn some Niuean for the culture! 💛💛

Greetings :

Day's of the Week In Niuean

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Question of my blog : Do you like embracing other cultures? Because I do and why because I love learning about many things every single day, "Everyday is a new adventure".

Quote to self.

Mutolu kia

🦋 Reflection of Term 3 🦋

 Konchiwa readers and welcome back to my blog! Well todays blog post is going to be about my refelction on Term 3. So far to start I only had a few weeks with my class and we we're going on our ballet trip and ochestra trip. During the Ballet trip, it was discovered Covid-19 Delta has finally came to NZ, and once again the whole country became to be in lockdown and then it became only Auckland stuck in lockdown, so many cases but I'm going to talk about my learning. The few things I've learnt in online learning in Ms Ashley & Mr J's Classes I mostly learnt about Maths all the normal learning subjects I mostly do in classes. What I really enjoyed was being in Ms Ashely's classes and learning about Myths and Legeneds and being able to conect with the other students on the online sessions and summarise what we've learnt for five mintues. I want to work on alot of things because in my oringial class with Mr Jasne I always tend to be confused with maths, I really like maths but it sometimes hard when learning so much about angles and how to solve them also something about circle. I also enjoyed getting lots of feedback from Mr Janse, because it helped me strive to achieve all my goals. 

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Question of my blog : Do you like being in Lockdown and why? I don't because Lockdown is fustrating even though we have the internet I miss school, What are your oppions?

Thank you for reading my blog post :)

🙌 Infomation Report 🙌

 Kia Ora readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be doing a blog post about my Infomation Report that I've just been working on and it's about South Korea, I really like the history about the culture and how they do things so many places to see and a new langugae to learn : Heres my persentation :

Thank you for reading :)

🇹🇴 Happy Tongan Language Week 🇹🇴

 Malo E lelei readers and welcome back to my blog for today's blogpost is to the end and embrace my cutulre as you know I'm tongan I really love learning more about culture it gets me to exprince many other things here is the DLO, I've made :

Question of my blog : What do you think about Tongan Language Week in Lockdown? 

Thank you for reading :)

Paralymics Swimming

Konchiwa readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be doing a blog post about the parlamics we've recently been learning about them with our other class room 8, I worked along with this task wtih Jordan, and here is what our infomation we had found out about Paralymics Swimming, I honestly loved choosing this topic because Tupou neiufi is one of the best inspartional Paralmic Swimmer to look upto if you want to acomplish a dream of doing any type of sports ! Here is our DLO

Question of my blog : What do you think about Swimming?

Toki Sio

🩰 RBNZ Reflection 🩰

 Bonjour readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be doing a reflection about tuesday, this was before we knew lockdown happened, yet it was such a fun exprince of learning how to ballet and it was cool looking at others peform. 

17th of August it was a beautiful day and every student from year 4-8 at Tamaki Primary School we’re going on a trip to Manukau Vodafone Centre to watch a Ballet performed by Royal Ballet New Zealand. 

The reason we're going on this trip is because our inquiry topic is about Arts & Performance. During the trip we’re in this big bendy bus with Tala Muka O Tonga (The tongan class), Te Puna Wairua (The Maori class) & Room 9 (My classroom). It was so loud in the bus everyone sounded like animals and I was sitting there in silence looking at the roads and seeing how cars work. 

I was beginning to get lost in my own imagination until we had finally arrived at the Manukau Vodafone Center, our class was the last to get off the bus. As I walked in I could just feel the breeze of the loudness, as soon we had arrived to our arranged seats Lily, Lino & I decided to become friends with these students from Papakura Normal school (Yet we still don’t know their names), we introduced ourselves to them and started asking them questions until it was time to watch the performance the host of the show was talking about what ballet show we’d be watching and it was the Swan Lake. 

The Swan lake was based on the story of a Princess that had turned into a swan but at night she’d be human again and there was a Prince that found her beauty so naturally they danced and danced and the performance was ending with a good duet. I really enjoyed watching this performance because I learnt a lot about ballet after watching it. The host of the show said we could become performers too, so two students from other schools we’re taught some of the ballet moves from the duet. It was kinda cool to see other people perform. 

Later on, the ugly duckling show was coming on and Lino, Lily & I slept throughout the whole show as I could wake up and then fall back to sleep in my dream. I couldn’t understand the story behind the Te Reo Maori but it was cool. As soon as I could hear applause I knew the show had ended but there were a few things we had to do. There were some questions from schools they wanted to ask the dancers, some questions we’re kind of personal and others we’re just about their journey throughout ballet. 

Overall, throughout the trip I really enjoyed the bonds I had with my friends and it was quite funny during the bus being around Lino & Mariah on our way back, as we got back to school I was walking so fast on my way to school rushing for I was so obsessed to get a bite of food & as I was going back home it was when I knew it was when the news popped up that Delta Covid-19 had returned to New Zealand and here we are in Covid-19 Lockdown, I was so frightened for we had just returned from a trip that we could’ve had covid with us spreading or who knows what! I’m glad we have a lockdown and that it might get extended due to so  many new cases. 

"Stay Safe & Save Lives" :)

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Question of my blog : Have you ever done ballet?

Thank you for reading :)

💸 My Future Career Pathway 💸

 Kia orana readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be doing a blogpost about my career pathway, I've been thinking for a while about what I've wanted to become in the future and yet here I am going to show you a presentation about what I would like to become a Bussiness person is because I love leading and learning along the the way and its good for me to boost up more more of my cofidence into learning more about as a student! What would you like to become in the future? There are many reasons to chase your dreams and follow your own pathway because you never know where you'd land too! Here is my presentation :

I really liked learning more about being apart of bussiness and how adluts like to manage things and being their own boss has to deal with becoming friends with other people and showing off products! I want to design and create my own products that can resemble and symoblize about me and my cutural! 

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Question of my blog : What do you think about My Future Career Pathway & What do you wanna become  in the future?

 Let me know in the comments down below :)

Thank you so much for viewing my blog, Have a gud day 

IALA : 🌹 How to response text about The day of the dead 🌺

Hola readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be doing a blogpost about my response text about the day of the dead, if you are wondering what does the day of the dead means it's about honoring all the loved ones that has passed away, it is a tradtional thing in Mexico, it is celebrated on October 31st, November 1st & 2nd! During the day of the dead the families of the loved ones who have died always often visit them and clean and decorate their grave. Dia De Los Muetros. The decorations they like to use on Dia De los Muetros (Day of the dead) are Sugar skull Masks, Decorating lanterns, DIY Marigolds, Painted sugar rocks & Custom Skull mugs. A fact about Dia de Los Muetros is that its a mexicain version of Halloween and it's a celebration about the living and the dead. The celebration is celebrated all over Latin America with colourful calaveras (skulls) and calacas (skeletons). The skulls and skeletons on the day of the dead are repsented of a playful symbol life after death, many times repsenting those who have died engaging their favorite activites. 

I really liked learning about Dia de Los Muetros because it's a day to honour those who have died, It's really cool to learn about other cultures signficant about the day of the dead! I really liked this text that I've watched a movie called coco which has to do with Dia De los muetros, a really amazing movie & I recommend you to watch it!

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Question of my blog : what do you think about the day of the dead?

Muchas Gracias :)

🌬️ Reflection about Dogde Ball Twist & Ballet 🎭

 Malo E lelei readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be reflecting on about our evasive game, I felt so excited and I was happy going outside to play a game. The game was called Dodge ball with a twist the rules we're kind of like netball and yeah. First of all we got into two teams and we started having three rounds of playing dogde ball with the twist. The skills was to learn how to coumicate to each other and learning to trust each other along the way, one of them was also I needed to catch the ball to help my teamates surround around other people in a conrener to tag them! I enjoyed learning more about my teamates and trusting them more and buliding postivie realtionships with others in my class room! It was so cold but we still had so much fun running around and getting togther! After Morning tea, Room 9 went to the ballet workshop. We learnt how to do a plate and leap and lots of excersing skills, it was great fun :). What I loved about the ballet lesson was that I really liked the leap skill and palate (bend), ballet is from france and I really love the dancing skills that Loren (our teacher) taught us! I had real fun today and I got to laugh around with my friends and learn more about them! Overall I hope you liked reading this :)!

Question of my blog : What do you think about Dogde ball twist & Ballet?

Give me some feedback on the comments down below, Toki sio 👋

🤠 Week's Reflection🤠

Annyeonghaseyo readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be explaining this week's learning so far, I've liked this week because I got to learn exciting things and I  was so happy to come to school. So far it's quite boring and I get tired of having work! But at the end of the day it's quite fun, my favorite thing about this week was today's assembly was all about celebrating Cook Island language week, it was so exciting to see lots of students learning and embracing other people's culture. I liked the Juniors syndicate's dancing it was very entertaining and exciting because it made me happy seeing other people learning Cook Island stuff. Everything I've learnt this week was facisinating it made me realised that school can be boring with loads of work but its fun coming to playing touch with friends. I can't wait for more things to happen in Term 3 esspecailly since there's still more sports and fun activites and learning to bulid more friendships with others in the class!

Question of my blog : What do you like about the start of Term 3? 

💜 Biography on BTS 💜

Annyeonghaseyo readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be doing my own biography on BTS (Bang Tan Boys) , it was a research and I thought for one second and I've decided to choose my favourite k-pop group and I really love their cultural background where they're from which is Korea and not also that but they're very talented young worldwide group band that has been together for 8 Years which I'm quite impressed and I can't wait too see more for what comes ahead in their journey! Here is my DLO I've made of BTS : 

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Question of my blog : Who would you like to do an Biography on? Please comment down below your answers :)!

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✝️ LILY M & LILY U - DLO of 5 ways to kill a man ✝️

Namaste readers and welcome back to my blog! Today Lily M & I have finished off an DLO about the oem 5 ways to kill a man by Edrick Brock, we've explained about the first stantaza and it talks about Jesus Christ and how he cruficed himself for everyone's sins : Google drawing DLO :

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Question of my blog : What do you think about my DLO?

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🎯 LILY M & LILY U - 5 ways to kill a Man 🎯

Aloha readers and welcome back to my blog! Today Lily M & I have compeleted this poerty task that was about 5 ways to kill a man by Edrick Brock, I've learnt alot and in the first santaza it teaches sus about how Jesus had crufuiced for our sins it was really fun learning and I really enjoyed it, here is our compeleted task with the poem you can read some of our questions and answers. 

Five Ways to Kill a Man

There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man:

you can make him carry a plank of wood

to the top of a hill and nail him to it. To do this

properly you require a crowd of people

wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak

to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one

man to hammer the nails home.

Or you can take a length of steel

shaped and chased in a traditional way,

and attempt to pierce the metal cage he wears.

But for this you need white horses,

English trees, men with bows and arrows,

at least two flags, a prince and a 

castle to hold your banquet in.

Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind 

allows, blow gas at him. But then you need

a mile of mud sliced through with ditches,

not to mention black boots, bomb craters,

more mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songs

and some round hats made of steel.

In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly 

miles above your victim and dispose of him by 

pressing one small switch. All you then

require is an ocean to separate you, two 

systems of government, a nation’s scientists, 

several factories, a psychopath and

land that no one needs for several years.

There are, as I began, cumbersome ways 

to kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat

is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle 

of the twentieth century, and leave him there.

(Edwin Brock)

What is the event referenced in the first stanza? The first stanza is talking about the crucification of Jesus Christ. The method the soldiers used to totrue him and kill him was used as the word cumbersome. A whole crowd watched him being forced to carry a cross all the way to the hill where he was nailed to the cross and died.

What does the word cumbersome mean?  In the poem it was used as something big and strong that was supposed to totrue and kill Jesus 

What historical event is referred to in the second stanza? King Authur’s Journey 

What item is ‘the metal cage he wears’? Metal amour 

What does the word banquet mean? A formal meal for people to eat as such as a party 

What world event does the third stanza talk about? World war 1 

What does the phrase ‘dispensing with nobility’ mean? The quality of being a noble character. 

What world changing event is mentioned in the fourth stanza? Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaasaki during WW2. 

What does the last stanza mean? Describing troublesome ways in which to kill men. But the simpler and cleaner way would be to let them live in the 1950s, because mankind can destroy themselves.

What ways to kill a man might the poet mean as being ‘simple, direct and much more neat’? Poverty, Inflation, Hunger, Unemployment and malnutrition. 

Histiorical Landmark of Auckland Habour Bridge

 AUCKLAND HARBOUR BRIDGE

Lino & Maria - 

The Auckland harbor bridge was built in 1954 and was opened on the 30th of May. The Tools and things they used to build the bridge was,

Clever cantilevering

Steel Girders 

Concrete 

Tonnes of steel

6800 liters of paint

cubic of concrete

The Harbor Bridge is 1017 m long but they used 5670 tonnes of steel, The staff workers worked 33 m below sea level preparing the concrete piers. 4 men died due to a protest that happened on the Auckland Harbour bridge. The 4 men died because they were on the side 1 of the bridge so they have died by accident  

Mariah -

 Who wanted to make the harbor bridge? Freeman-Fox and Partners included the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 so the one who wanted to make the harbour Bridge was Freeman-Fox and partners and Auckland harbour bridge was officially made in 1932 and Since 1815, there were ideas to build the bridge in the Sydney Harbor. The background behind the harbour bridge in 1860’s an engineer named Fred Bell but the plan of making the bridge was too expensive with the gears and then in 1950’s the bridge was finally built and now it is a very popular historical Landmark to Auckland & New Zealand. 

 

 

Lily - 

What is Auckland harbour bridge? Auckland harbour bridge is located near the Northern way Motorway. The Bridge is operated by the NZ transport agency.  It is the second-longest road bridge in New Zealand and the longest in the North Island. Ever since the Auckland Harbour  Bridge has been built there are such things as traffic management happening for there was the bridge just in the motorway. In 2006, they decided to build lanes for cars with a limit of having only about 180,000 cars to drive in each lane. In March 2009 they decided to make a barrier machine since everything became more cars driving the harbour bridge. 

Maria - 

In May 1958 there was a 63-year-old man who came up with a plan to do a Bungy jump off the Harbour Bridge, and his name was A.J. ( Alan John Hackett ). The first jumps were made using a parachute harness, but Alan Hackett created an idea where the harness had to be tied around the ankle. They demonstrated it by actually jumping off the Harbour Bridge. Hackett traveled to Paris on behalf of New Zealand in 1986 and made the world's first public Bungy jump. He became famous after bungee jumping off the Eiffel tower, due to a brief jail sentence for an illegal feat.

🎊 Matariki Task 🎊

 Kia ora readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be blogging about my Matariki task that I've been working for a few days. Matariki is the celebration of the Maori's New Year, it is celebrated during the late of June & early July! Matariki and her seven sisters are always visible into this world and today I've finished my task that has to do with Matariki! I truly learnt alot and I found out new meanings of the celebrating Matariki and its truly great learning a new culture! Here is my presenatation :

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Question of my blog : What do you think about Matariki?

Thank you for reading :)

💐 Recount Current Events 💐

Kia Ora readers and welcome back to my blog, today I’m going to be writing a recount about my current event article I’ve searched up not so long so here is my story, I hope you guys enjoy it ! 

What is the new Hollywood movie? Recently it has been confirmed that the movie is called They are Us, it is based on the 2019 tragic incident in Christchurch that happened. The movie is about how New Zealand’s Prime Minister (Jacinda Adren) had been given the message of how to unite together and that tragic moments like this shouldn’t be happening in New Zealand. Jacidina Adren doesn’t want her story to be told because she says that it’s the community’s story and their families.

During the attack a victim’s daughter was saying that the movie shouldn’t be shot because there are many muslims that would be hurtful watching the movie (They are Us) because it’s going to give them bad memories. The reason why they thought it was a good idea to hear their voices but then the movie wouldn’t be shot for there are many tragic reasons. After the interview with the victims daughter the director that was going to shoot the movie at hollywood said that it was too early to start shooting a  film about a terrorist attack that has only been 2 years ever since the attack happened. 

In Conclusion, I think that they should not make the movie since it would bring bad memories to the mulsim people to what happened but it’s also good to hear a story that it can help everyone and spread awareness to this world! Awfully it’s best to listen to the community and their opinion because it’s their story not ours!

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Question of my blog : What do you think about realising the new movie they are us? 

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🙌 Diamante Poem 🙌

 Konchiwa readers and welcome back to my blog! Today I'll be blogging about my Diamanate Poem. What is a diamate poem? Is a style of potery  that is formed into a diamond that makes seven lines. The first line in the poem will cotian a noun (which is a meaning of a person, thing, place). Next lines would be describing two words of each subject and using a verb and adjective for two lines! Here is my example of an Dimante poem!

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🍀 SpAG Puncation 🍀

 Bula readers and welcome back to my blog! WALHT : Apply basic punctuation effectively, so what is SpAG? it stands for Spelling, Puncation And Grammar, its all about using the basics to help us with our Writing/ Reading, It really helped me understand my learning it actually pretty fun learning about all of these things, Here is a presentation that would explain more about SpAG :)

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Question of my blog : What do you think about SpAG?

Thanks for reading my blog, Hopefully you've learnt something of my blog :)

✨ Writing Term 1 ✨

 Heart broken in Winter

Winter was coming and the old man whose name was Peter, was sitting at the spot where he and first true love (Valarie)  met where he was holding her favorite dark pink rose crying because she had left him to become an angel. 

Life became very hard for Peter as he was left lonely with no love in his life, but one day as he went past the snow he met his best friend who was a dog and he decided to call him Snowy because he found him outside the cemetrey as he was visiting Valerie, Peter thought that Snowy was a sign from Valerie to show her love to him as she has become an angel. Snowy became Peter’s best friend who was always there for Peter to cheer him up and most of the time they would walk around together in winter so chilly. 

A few months later, Peter was diagnosed with an heart attack and he could only survive for a few days Snowy became a little bit sad that he always tried cheering up Peter to make him more happy but nothing worked, Peter was getting very ill that he couldn’t fight the heart attack and those few days passed by Peter died it was very sad for Snowy since he was his best friend. After the funeral service Snowy ran away and was found by a little boy named John near the village, and he became Snowy’s Owner for a while.

John became Snowy’s new buddy and they went everywhere together. John loved Snowy's company since his parents were always arguing over things he would be in his room or outside playing with Snowy during the wonderful season of spring. Spring started and John had woken up from his thrilling adventure dream he could hear his parents down stairs arguing that their bills were getting very high and things became more stressful, so then John and his parents divorced, as John heard them arguing to each other he decided he had enough so he left a note saying “Mum & Dad I’m sorry but I need time to explore somewhere very peaceful, remember I love you both”. His Mother started crying as she was running looking for her son in such a heartbroken winter, as John was running with Snowy they made it to their own happy ending and they lived Happyily ever after !