Poem called - The Rugby game.

Today we worked on poetry so I wrote a little poem called the rugby game.

The Rugby game.

As the ball is kicked

The boys will chase

He grabs the ball

And fends his face

He falls to the ground

With no one to protect the ball

“Get over their”

As the halfback calls

We scored our first point 

Waiting for the kick to go in

As his former player is

In sin bin

The game is tied

Onto golden point

As our captain got injured

In the joints

he goes to the sideline

In pain

His team will avenge him

Once again

The boys get ready

To give their best

He Bumps him off 

With his chest, 

Scores the trie and 

Wins the game

He hears people chanting his name

By Viliami.M

Marvel artists designs facemasks.

A Marvel comic artist has designed facemasks cover. It can be purchased on easy jet flights . He designed that mask to help kids feel relaxed on flights.
The face mask has been designed by an Irish illustrator that has wrote Spider man comics and star wars. The feature lions and pilots are to be worn over young travelers face mask.

The Benefits of making a winter garden.

Writing Viliami.Ma'asi . The benefits of making a winter garden. A winter garden is where you plant vegetables during winter, so that you make sure that your vegetables are not rotting. If you go on youtube you would find advertisements about winter gardening because people always Advertise during winter to help those who have their own garden at home. The kinds of veggies that you would mostly likely need to plant are Beetroot, Brassica’s, Broad beans, Carrots, lettuce and more. To make a winter garden you need preparation and a lot of thinking.

 The equipment you will need are gloves, Shovel and some bark to put around so you can keep the little insects out of the garden and stop them from eating the crop. People always use most of these to Plant vegetables. These tools help a lot because if you don’t have the right gardening tools then I think you are going to find it hard to make this winter garden. You must know what the tools are used for.

 A great time to plant your garden is during winter because, as your veggies are growing your vegetables won’t inherit any disease. You would have to find a good location for you and your vegetables to grow. The right time to be growing is June through September. Make sure you plant your garden in sunny sheltered spots. Winter can take care of pests but watch for snails and slugs.

 First you start by adding vegetable mix. Lay it all around and give it a good mix, so you can give your plants a good start to life. Then your selection of seed or seedlings is all up to you your choice on what you want to plant. Once you finish planting you then add pea straw mulch around your vegetables to keep the little critters away and once you have done all these steps then your plants are ready to grow. When you have finished planting, after a few days make sure to water regularly on dry weathers. To give your Plants a little boost you could buy liquid fertilizer. It will really speed up the process and help it grow faster.

Winter gardening can take care of the pest and disease but watch out for slugs and snails, if you have a problem with them just use quash. At the end just remember that you want to grow these plants so whatever spray you are using on the plants just check the instructions so you know what chemicals you are adding.

 The benefits of making a winter garden is that it saves a lot of money if you really think about and it also provides a lot of nutrients. Also during winter months it really helps ward off sickness, improve the immune system and keep the body running at an optimum level. It’s emotionally beneficial because it adds beauty and fragrance to the season.

Maths Activities - Taha

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This is one of the maths activities that had worked on yesterday,

and I found the answer, the answer was 7 over 30 because, if you look at the question it is 5/6 - 3/5 

first I timesed the two bottom numbers 6 x 5 and I got 30 then 5 x 5 = 25, and now the Denominator is the same, so I did the same strategy to the other fraction.

Tuhi mai Gardening

Yesterday My group Tuhi mai and I gathered our stuff from home

to start a winter garden at school, some of us brought carrots, 

Broccoli seeds, cabbage, spring onions and some tools. We first started to 

add soil to it plant the Bok choi in one container. After we  went to go

plant the Broccoli seeds at the school garden. I made a little video about what happen when we started our own winter garden. 

My Education is Important to me.

Te oro - Work station

Today the senior block and I got ready to go to Te Oro. We went to school and room 7 and half of room 9 already started to hop in the bus. We quickly settled down and the bus driver drove off to Te oro. When we got there we went inside and waited for the Work stations to start. At the start the leader had leaded us in the karakia, after the teachers introduced them self to us and we split into groups. Me and my group went to the clay station. We sat down and she told us a story about how the world was full of colours. Next we got straight into it and she taught us a basic drawing, called Piko. We then learnt how to draw a mangopare and then we did kaperua which means reflection. I also learnt how to draw a Moari myth, the ledgendary Taniwha. My one looked very  cool. We then started to work with clay, we all created our own taniwha my one was really funny because it looked like spongebob. After the work station we all gathered on the mat. I made a special thanks to the teachers. After We waited for a while for the bus to arrive and pick us up. As the bus arrive room 10 and the other half of room 9 came because it was there turn to work with the teachers. It was really fun and awesome.

Brain session with Mrs. Turner.

Today at school Mrs. Turner a science, she knows a lot about the brain and today she visited our class to talk about what goes on inside our brain. I learnt about Neurons and what they are. I learnt that the back part near the brain stem is called the Cortex and the place where the thinking happens is called the Prefrontal Cortex and it is located right behind your forehead. I also learnt about the Amygdala, it is basically a smoke alarm, it detects danger and if it goes off you might fly off, freeze or fight with somebody. We then watched a video about how kids fix their anger. After our session Mrs. Turner left before lunch. I enjoyed learning about our brain and the parts of the brain that I haven't heard before. So I can't wait for our next session with Mrs.Turner.

Home learning at home - Night study.

Today my family and I had our first Night study, we basically worked on our own things and it was educational. I worked on my explanation writing about how to make a winter garden and the benefits. We worked until 9:00.  My little brothers just did their own reading quietly while we did the digital stuff. After we finished we went to sleep early for school, little picture from our Night study.

By VIliami.

Math Dlo

Math

Math

Steps on how to make a winter garden.

Click on  the poster

Today I made a poster on how to make a winter garden. My friend

and I worked on it and it has all the steps you need to make a winter

garden.

Measurement - DLO

Today we worked on a Measurement here is the Problem :

Malakai's mother is making ta'ovala for all the boys in the Tongan group at school. Each boy needs 1 1/2 of mat and she has 30 metres. How many ta'ovala does she make?

My Strategy:

So basically we ad 1 1/2 20 times and we got 30 meters, since we added them in pairs we counted how many times we added them and we got twenty boys, so that means 20 ta'ovala for all 20 boys. 

Here is a little picture from when we shared in front of our

whole group, and other strategies that other groups used.

Group discussion with our teacher. How to make a winter garden.

Today my group and I, Tuhi mai worked with our teacher Mrs. Tofa. We basically talked about what we were planning to do next week. We all worked on the planning sheet, we wrote down what we need in order to make this winter garden. We need the roots of the Vegetable, Ice cream containers, Trowels, gloves and potting Mix.  We were done with our discussion and ready to move on to Writing.

Measurement problem - DLO

Last week we worked on Measurement problems and this

was the problem my group Taha had to work out.

Hope you learned about the strategy that I have used.

Bouncing back Video

Today we learnt about bouncing back and we also learnt

the acronym of what Bouncing back stands for, hope you enjoy

me and my friend video about Bouncing back.

Chris Ryan Pick a Path quiz

Maths obervation with Mr. B in Room 7

Today we had Mr. B who came and observed while we work on math. We first looked at the problem and we tried to understand the problem. We then shared what we understood about the problem. Mrs.Tofa had put us into groups, I was the leader for one of them. Problem was 3/4 + 3/8 = 36/32. 36 over 32 was my answer along with my group. Here us a picture of our strategy we used.

Today we learnt how to add fractions with unlikely denominators

Kawakawa Quiz

Adding fractions

Today we learnt how to add fractions using  more complicated strategies. 

Pick a path Quiz - VILIAMI!!!

Today I made a little quiz using google slides. it is all about me. It only has a few questions so make sure to get them right.

Kawakawa plant fact sheet.