Gumboot Friday!

Hello everyone, it is good to be back at school for the last term of the year. As this is the third week and is the week of mental health we wanted to celebrate it by learning about Gumboot Friday. Gumboot Friday is a good subject to talk about because our mental health is a very important part of ourselves. We have to be careful about what we say to someone because it can result with someone taking their life. Overall we need to realise how special and important this is.

Sadly, many families have had deaths of their children. Childrens lives are being taken by their own selves. When they pass,their families experience a feeling they never should. And it’s very sad.

Have you ever experienced something like this? If so I’m very sorry.
Take care!

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Thank you!

New Zealand Locations – Cybersmart

Kia Ora!
Today for Cybersmart we were learning how to use Google My Maps. This term we’ve been learning about all the New Zealand towns/cities and their landmarks so it was a perfect example to use for the session. Here is what I have learned –

What do you know about New Zealand?

It was very fun to learn about Google My Maps and how it works, if you haven’t tried it, you should!
Thank you!!

Samoan Language Week 2022

Manuia le aso,

Hello everyone.  As you may know the week before last week was Samoan Language Week. We celebrated Samoan Language Week with  a  Samoan umu. An umu is a way of cooking food, mainly used in the Pacific Islands. We learnt that the umu uses ‘thermal energy.’ On Friday we went to school in our own cultural clothes and started it with a Samoan prayer. After that we took a group photo, checked on the umu and then had a very competitive game of kilikiti! Kiliktiti is Samoan cricket. First someone has a bat and the feild team will throw the bal at them. Once they have hit the ball they will run to the next corner in hopes not to be hit by the ball. When the person who is batting runs the feild team will have to try and get the ball and eventualy hit the batter with it. If not, tough luck. The next batter will hit the ball and then the first person will run to the next corner without getting hit. Once you have made a full run (which is the whole feild/court) your team gets a point. And those are the instructions for how to play Kitikiti! Anyways after morning tea ended we decided to split up (boys and girl, boys with Matua, girls with Miss. Nees Kairua) and learn a dance. The boys learnt a fire dancr and the girls did another one. When we split up us girls tried to find the dance that we learnt in 2020 that some of you may know of (for our new school opening), but unfortuanetly we couldn’t so we learned a new dance – Siva Samoa dance.

One thing I learnt was a new way of cooking and the rocks used for the umu were volcanic rocks. I enjoyed representing my culture with my outfit and ‘ei katu (flower crown). 

One question, what did you do for Samoan Language Week and if so did you enjoy it?

Thank you and enjoy you week!

Smart Footprints

Today for Cybersmart we have took a freeze frame of different scenarios. It was quite hard to keep a straight face because I can’t take my friends seriously. But in the end we made it. This scenario was about two people recieving an email that was a scam. When they clicked on the email link they realised they had made a big mistake. On this “game” site it asks for private information and things you shouldn’t really share to strangers. Here is a photo of what it would’ve looked like –

Let’s go back in time to see what they should’ve done instead.

Here they rejected the email and decided to move onto what they wanted to do.

Here I hope you have learnt what you should do when you face a problem like this.

My Poster

Through out the week we have been learning how to take care of our netbook and how we should share out information. It was hard for me because when I need to find what I like I can’t find it and when I don’t need it, it pops up in my head. Anyways here is what my poster looks like –

I hope you like it!

Kawa of Care Posters

As you may recognise the name of this blog, today I learnt how to look after my netbook. I’ve done mthis before but we did it to memorize how we should look after our netbooks. First we started with a poster which we had to fill in the missing spaces with the right answer. Of course I got everything right. One of the questions were “If you are ___ you have to make sure no wires are on the floor.” and the choises were – table, floor, charging or food or drink. What do you think it is? Anyways we moved onto the next poster which was the same thing. However the third poster was something else. We had to upload a sensible photo of ourselves and use it to accept the Kawa of Care conditions.

If you want to see how I did here! –

This is No. 3
This is No. 2
And this is No. 1

How do you think I did?

I challenge you to try it yourself!

If you want here –Kawa of Care – Cybersmart Challenge #1

Thank you!

Portrait Poster of Me!

Today we did an activity using our drawing skills. Instead of using colouring pencils/crayons we decided to make a potrait of ourselves using sketching pencils. Sketching pencils are used to shade and sketch.

  • First we sketched our lines of symmetry.
  • Then we tried our best to draw the shape of our face, ears and shoulders/torso.
  • After that we drew lines of where we think the features (eyes, lips, nose) of our face would go.
  • Once we figured out where they went we actually drew them using our imagination and a refrence photo.
  • Lastly we shaded and made it look perfect!

Here is what I have made –

The hardest part was having to make the perfect face shape and eye shape because the refrence photo was a bit hard to communicate with. I tried my best and I am proud!
One thing I found easy was shading. It was east to understand where the light was coming from and the 3d parts!

I challenge you to try your best to make yourself using lines of symmetry!

I hope you like it

Mountain & River/Beach/Lake

The last two Friday’s we have been doing art. The first Friday we did Digital Art (Ko Wai Au/Bling my Blog). And then last Friday we continued art but instead we did Drawing and Painting. Which leads to today! Where we continued from something we did last Friday. It was a drawing of a mountain that we know and a beach/rover/lake that we know. On Friday we added patterns inside and then we went over it with a Vivid. Today we coloured it in with pastels and we coloured the background and blended it into this –

I am satisfied with my art!

I challenge you to use your creativity and try to make one of your own!

Thank you!

The Green Sports Day!

As I just posted about St Patricks Day I didn’t include this. Well on the same day we had a little sports tournament including every year group. We were all split up and every two groups had to verse eachother. It was pretty fun. There were five activities for us to switch around playing the games. We had our soul friends with us while we played all the games. It was a nice time to get out and stretch and play with our friends.

The Importance of Sports for Children - Mother Fit

What if your favorite sport and why?

Also I challenge you to make up 3 fitness challenges and try them out!

Thank you!