This week we have been learning about the parts of a body, face, Kitchen and a house. I learned some new Maori kupu.

Kitchen

face

body

house

As part of kiupapa matua this term, we have been focusing on taking action we have been learning about keeping ourselves safe if something went bad.We were taught all the abuse like neglect, emotional, physical, family violence Is where your  family can like hurt you,cyber bullying is where someone can say something on the internet,sexual abuse is where people touch you inappropriately  , verbal abuse. All abuse you should be reported and it’s not the victims fault. We met the local education officer Jeff, he taught us how to stay safe in a bad place.

We go to tech on Thursdays and we get there by bus, we need 3 buses. We go to Te Aratai college, the teacher who teaches me is Mr Davidson.  The subjects that we have are robotics, cooking ,woodwork and sewing. We go  with the year 7&8 and the  subject I’m doing is robobotics is what you do for  Coding and you have to build lego.. Would you rather pick cooking or robotics?.

Today we made a vision board. We put all of our goals, dreams and sports.

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This term we have been learning about Peaceful Protests. We learnt about Martin Luther King Jr, Mahatma Gandhi and Dame Whina Cooper. We are learning about their protests. We made google drawings about the 3  people that protested and why they protested.

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MAHATMA GANDHI

DAME WHINA COOPER

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

Today we have been learning about computing and conscience & cause and effect. We put two circles in a Google drawing and we had to mix them together and in the middle there is like what they have in common. On the outside of the middle is what they don’t have in common.

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Talofa lava this week is some moon week. We have been learning some greetings.Here is a link. Tofe.

I choose dance full action stations with Talei. We started with a hip hop dance that was super duper hard.

When we learn the heel and ton polka. We had to dance with a partner and swap partners as we danced.

I learned different styles. My favorite dance was the 7 rings.

Today we had the whole day to do the Maori who changed the world. We had to compare when the day was back then to now. We had to talk about the famous Maori person and we had to make a Whakauki.  They had to walk everywhere compared to cars. Here is a fact he died after a long battle with cancer and when he died was 54. His name is Dalvanius Prime. My work about my Whakauki.  Here is my link to Maori who changed the world.

For the last few days we have been learning about get-wise. Get wise is sponsored by ABS. Make sure you check your bank account before you leave your house. I would like to know how to pay bills and pay off the stuff that I got from my parents. Are you good at saving?. We got to play a holiday game and my team and I won and another team did. We had 300 lift over and the other group did too. The is where you have to save a lot of money and you have enjoyment points. The R.I.S.E value was success because we saved over 300.