I am grateful for... - Inquiry 2020

Task Description
Taha Hinengaro. This is all about having an healthy mind. I learnt many ways to deal and relieve your stress personally, interpersonally and societally. One way I relieve and help my mind be in a positive mindset is by listening to music. I learnt that there is always someone that can and will listen to your problems. You just got to keep searching. And if that doesn't work then going to people with more skills and control like an therapist, nurse/doctor or teacher is someone who could help take things off of your mind/chest. Just like our physical health, our mental health is just as important. We must learn to communicate and discuss how we are feeling and why we are feeling certain emotions. And to this day many adults are still learning that helpful skill!

My task was to write down 3 - 5 things I am grateful for and why. Writing down positive things distracts you from something that is bugging you. To be happy, you must accept your emotions. Check out what I am grateful for and why!

We are the world!!!🌏 - Inquiry 2020

We are learning about the earth systems and the 4 spheres. Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere and Atmosphere. I recorded my thoughts and questions. What happened at our home class meeting, my questions about life on earth. I also filled out a K - W - L chart - What I already know, what I want to know and what i've learnt. Enjoy!

My Hero - Writing 2020

MY HERO

A member of my family who I think is a hero is my beautiful mother who wishes to remain anonymous. I believe she is a hero because she has not only done a lot for me but also for my family. She wakes up at 6am in the morning to get ready for work as well as pack our lunch and get all siblings ready for school. She then returns home 6pm at night and cooks our dinner. For those of you that do not know but I am the middle child of 6 kids. Thats a lot of people that she has to look after and also clean after everyday. She does all of this with a smile on her face and hope in her eyes, never once have I heard her complain and thats one of the many reasons why I think she is a hero. She may not be famous or have super powers but that doesn't matter to me because the greatest gift ever gifted to me is to have her as my mother. 

Task Description 

Our Create Task was to write about a family hero and explain how they are a hero to you. This is my explanation. Enjoy! 

Book Summary Chapter 2 - Reading 2020

Chapter of the book "How I didn't straighten my hair (And other life lessons)". There is also a boy who was introduced in the story. His name is Ethan, same age as Dora and lives next door to her Grandparents house. While her mom and sister were gone to a ballet event, Dora is left with her homework lingering on her mind. She thought of a brilliant and eye-catching information poster about Rainforests. Theodora still hasn't managed to find her 'thing' but it seems like she has another goal that she is desperately wanting to achieve.

Will she achieve her new goal? Who knows. We'll find out soon!

Book Summary Chapter 1 - Reading 2020

Chapter One of the book "How I didn't straighten my hair" is all about the main protaganist Dora explaining the dynamics of her greek family. There is a sense of jealousy/sister rivalry between her and her older sister who's still yet to be named.  My guess from this chapter is that the main reason for her jealousy is because her sister is the complete opposite of her both in looks and personality. Her sister has found her thing which is ballet dancing but Dora is still yet to find something that she enjoys and succeeds at and from what I've read so far it is not greek dancing,karate or hip hop. Hopefully in the next chapter we can see Dora explore more possibilities for what her "thing" could be.

Purpose of School - Writing 2019

What is my purpose of school?

Have you ever thought about why you go to school? Maybe, it’s because your parents just
forced you but for me there are different reasons. To gain the skills and education to live
successfully, Have a decent career pathway and to strengthen our socializing and
communicating skills!

A major part of school is to gain knowledge. We go to school to learn. We learn these skills to
live a happy life. Learning new things so we can have a life that our children can enjoy.

Going to school can expand your thinking and that can lead to having a decent career pathway.
If you study the subjects you need in life at school, you will definitely get your dream job.
Schools hold these opportunities so you can have the future you want!

Lastly, School can strengthen our talking skills. Talking to our classmates can develop the
child’s vocabulary more. Communicating with more people can help with boosting their
confidence. Having good communication skills can lead to new adventures and opportunities
to place that you will never imagine!

I think it’s safe to say that school is an amazing place and helps us grow in different ways,
whether it’s through learning, talking and more, we’re all able to learn. We all have different
purpose for going to school. What is your purpose of school?

Smart Relationships - Cybersmart 2019

Task Description
Mrs Collins came to Room 3 Home Room to teach us about some Cybersmart things. We focussed on Smart Relationships. Here is my groups Brainstorm!

Immersion Assembly

WALT- Write a recount

Today is the first day of Term 2. We are back from our two week break. We had just came back from watching the Immersion Assembly. We had to watch 5 items from the teachers.

This term, our Topic is. . . I like your Latitude! But for our team which is Team 5. We are mainly focusing on the Inquiry Question 'What Longitude and Latitude are you in?'. Keep reading to find out what that is about! Let's move on!


We started the Assembly off with a Karakia and Mihi. Instead of doing the National Anthem we just went straight into it. The first item was from the Associate principles and the principle himself. They were talking about how Coding and technology are so advanced that we can tell robots where to go with a remote and they will do it. They showed a robot from Star Wars. They used this robot to show their proof. The Robot was doing all sorts of things, he even poked Mr Burt(Our Priniciple)! It was very funny and cool, but the best part for me was when we found out that the Robot was actually created and was Mr Jacobsen(Associate Priniciple). The next item was from Team 1.

Team 1's item was next. They had prepared a movie for us that they filmed during the Holiday Break. Their Movie was based in the future. It started off with some children eating 'Fake Fruit' and talking about if they had seen a real fruit. It also was showing a video of how our bee's are becoming extinct from the disease CCD A.K.A Colony Collapse Disorder. They had to use directions to trace and find the last bee. They eventually found the last bee from all the directions a GPS(Global Positioning System) told them. So they are most likely to learn about listening and understanding the words that a Google Map says and knowing where to go by listening to the directions.

Term 2 had a fun time that was shown by a movie. They had a Easter Egg hunt! Now you may be wondering, ' What does that have to do with Longitude and Latitude?' Well let me tell you why! They had to find the chocolate eggs in all sorts of directions. They had to look up, down, right, left, over, under, around and look everywhere to find the chocolate eggs. They also get to create a Treasure Map for their buddy to find the treasure! They are definitely gonna have a great term!

Team 3 teachers also created a movie for us. They are going to be making pick a path stories where you have two choices. You have to pick Right or Left to go to the next place. This was similair to what we did last year in Mr Goodwins Class. Miss King(Team 3 Leader) also said that she got this idea from Mr Goodwin so that was cool to see something that I could relate to. They are also gonna have fun creating their Pick a path stories because I know for a fact that creating those types of stories are really enjoyable!

Team 4 had a really funny movie. It was a task to the the Team 4 teachers(except for Mr Goodwin) given by Mr Goodwin. They met at Pak'nsave and had to find their way back to School using the tools that were used back in the days. That included a compass,map and the sun if they know what they are doing. Mrs Sio was really funny because in this one scene she lead the rest of the teachers and she looked like she knew where she was going. She was using the technique from the movie Moana and put her hand up to the sky and walked in G.I. The funny part was that she lead them to Great Tong, which is a Fast Food Takeaway. Anyways they made their way back to school to make it on time for their meeting. They are learning about Navigation using the other tools excluding technologies like GPS or Google Maps.

Lastly, the best item which was from Team 5 A.K.A the best team( Not Biased At All!). The teachers from Team 5 had prepared a small act/play that is about Virtual Traveling. Mrs Tapuke was deciding on where to go with her family and so she decided that should go on a Virtual Travel Agency. She got to go to any Continent and visit them to see which one is best to go to. She visited most of the 7 Continents and was still not sure. It was a funny play and had a good topic to learn about. Our Inquiry Question is 'Where in the Longitude and Latitude are you in?' In my opinion, I love this because we are learning about Geography and once we go into College it will be easier because we will have more experience than others. 

Overall the assembly was long but it was worth it. We had a lot of laughs now and then and still rolled with it when a few things were different. My Goal for this term is to learn as much about this topic so I can be prepared for College because I think taking Geography will be fun even though it won't help me much in my career I want to pursue. Other than that, Let's just hope that everything goes smoothly this term!