Reflecting about 2018 !

WALT: Reflect about 2018

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!,
As you all know, I am a year 8 student here at Tamaki Primary/Intermediate school. This means that I will be leaving next year, for college.

To describe 2018 in 3 words I would call it ;
Crazy, Fun, and Difficult.

Term 1 : Becoming a student leader is something I am most proud of. Getting to take a part in caring for the school and the students at Tamaki. Although, I learned that becoming a student leader means t to build positive relationships with others in the school and that it makes me capable of doing tasks for teachers/guest. I learned how to interact with all the peers in my class. But something I didn't enjoy, was refreshing my mind and learning more things.








Term 2 : Participating and overcoming my shyness during class time would be an achievement I am most proud of. Some students in my class may haven't noticed, but I wasn't able to work well with others unless they were really close to me. But in term 2, I am most proud of me starting to work and get to know others well. I learned that if I overcome my shyness at school, I am able to work with others I don't usually hang out with. Though, something I didn't enjoy about this term was, seeing 1 of my friends leave.

Term 3 : Natural disasters around the pacific is something I mostly enjoyed during this term. Being apart of the Samoan cultural group made me think that I could be apart of more islander cultural groups. I enjoyed taking part in another cultural dance and act. But I am mainly proud of myself, speaking in Samoan and learning about their culture. I learned that if I keep researching and practising, it will be easier for me to pronounce different languages or learning in my area. I enjoyed every part about this term, and there isn't even one thing I can think of, that I didn't enjoy about this term.

Term 4 : Lucky last, term 4. I enjoyed making myself some new friends, who will forever be by my side, never leave me alone or leave me out on something special. I enjoyed making the most of this term with them. But something I am most proud of, is going to dine and dance. To spend my last grooves with all my friends and teachers.
I will always remember the good times with my friends and also the times I got in trouble from the teachers.

I am not getting cheeky, but my favourite highlight throughout the whole year, would be getting in trouble from the teachers. This is because, it has helped me get an understanding of how big of a growling I would get in college.

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Besides all this,
I enjoyed spending time, with not just 5 people, but nearly the whole class !
Monita, Arizona, Bianna, Mary-Jane, Akanesi, Cerenity, Leilani, Kensington, Toma, Tevita, Amon, Demetrius, Grace, Lydia, Hevani, Aja, Aletheia, Patience, Alo, Timeus, Perenara, Mahara, Kaleb, Stephney, Faa'fiu, Akih, Edith, David, Fe'ao and also myself.

These people listed above, are those who I mostly enjoyed hanging and spending time with. They are also the students who have made a positive impact in my life.

(Message from me)
Pii Nice to heveryone and chust Pii Nice no mader what.



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DINE AND DANCE 😉❤️️ : Memories I will forever remember.

AND ME : 😂😂 (Because I'm the best)

Memories. 

If you have any further questions like,
Will you be back? or If I will always be the best (?),
comment below in the comment section.

I hope you enjoyed my blogpost !

Athletics Reflection

IALT: Write a reflection based on the T.P.S athletics day.
Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog!
Friday 16th November 2018, it was athletics day at Tamaki Primary school.
Athletics is like a tradition in our school, where people race, get together and to also see which house is the winners of the year!
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We have four houses: Tobruk(Red), Alamein(Yellow), Benghazi(Green), Tripoli(Blue).
Can you guess what house I'm in ? .
(It will be revealed at the end of my reflection)

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Before our athletics day started,
each group stood up and chanted their way around the field, to get to their house tent.
I was one of the leaders for my group!
Although, My group had the best chanting and the best organised tent, so we got 20 house points.

Sorry, I didn't explain ; Each house gets a house points, for example : Because their house chants were loud, they got 20 points. When you get points, at the end of the day we total the points up and which ever house has the most house points wins a shield! This year _______ won the shield.
Keep reading to find out who won the shield this year!



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Besides that, at Tamaki Primary School athletics was placed on the field. Five events and racing lanes. The events we had were - Standing Jump, High Jump, Long Jump, Shot put, and discus. Out of these events, my favourites would be long jump and discus. I enjoyed these activities because I learned that I could jump far and that I have so much power in my arm, that I am able to throw a discus long distance. I also enjoyed these activities because I came first in the 12 y/o girls and also because I was interacting with all the peers around me.
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After the field activities we then had morning tea (A break). My morning tea was boring, but if you would like to know what I did during my break, I am more than happy to explain.

I hung out with some friends, then teachers, and finally got bored. So I thought to take a walk around the school but suddenly decided not to, because the day was too hot,  I wasn't bothered to walk anymore. I went to the Benghazi house tent to rest with my friends. While under the tent, we ate and laughed while watching people waste their energy running, before the real races ! Other than that, I did enjoy my break.
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After morning tea, the races had finally come. I was a helper for a teacher- My job was to gather all the people of a certain age from each group, to race. My legs got sore, I was tired and before I knew it, my race was next. I was to exhausted from the running I had made, that I still did my race. My house group needed to win, so I did everything I could to do something for my group! I ran, and eventually, I  CAME FIRST! YAAY! After coming first, I felt so confident I wanted to win again! And I won again, I came 1st ! . Sadly, in the middle of the day I left, because their was an interview I had to attend to!
I had my little mad moment but got over myself, because at least I ran and came first in my two races.
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Lets not forget to mention, the values I showed throughout the day was - Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga, and Ako..
I was showing Manaakitanga by encouraging people to do their best during our field events.
I showed Whanaungatanga but interacting with the peers in my group for the field events and also but communicating with my house team.
Lastly, I showed Ako by learning how to do certain field events. For example : I learned that to make a discus travel a far distance, your whole body needs to move and your arm needs power to throw the discus far.

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Overall, I enjoyed athletics and I can't wait to do more of these in the future!
Honestly, I am a bit nervous for athletics when I go to college, as I am use to racing in intermediate! ..

Besides this,
I did make a promise (Not really), but I said that I would tell you who won this year and what house I am in !

Are you ready ?

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I AM IN TOBRUK (RED HOUSE).
Here is a video of us chanting!!

CLICK THIS LINK

And the winners of this year is !!!

BENGHAZI (Green House)..
Congratulations Benghazi !

.... CLICK THIS LINK FOR BENGHAZI'S CHANT !!
And yes Benghazi did copy our chant tune, but that's all good, because
BENBRUK ALL THE WAY !!!!

Thank you for reading my blog post and I hope you enjoyed my reflection!

Te Tuhi Reflection

WALT: Reflect on our experience at Te Tuhi gallery
Hello and welcome back to my blog!

Today, half of the Kia Manawanui syndicate went on a trip to Te Tuhi gallery. This was to learn and create our own abstract art. Our learning focus today, was learning about abstract art and what it looks like. To create is art piece, we used different colours, shapes, patterns and scales to create our abstract painting, which was inspired by technology. We also used stencils to help us create our abstract art.

During our lesson, I learned that abstract art is made up of different colours, shapes, patterns, textures, scales etc. etc. and is not necessarily realistic. This means : What you think the art piece is, is what you think it is. Because there is no right or wrong answer. Here is an example :
 
 ME : I see leafs. Like its autumn. Because in autumn, when the leafs fall off the tree, they have a nice yellow,orange,green texture in the leaf.
But, we all see art differently ! What do you think this art piece is? , leave a comment below.

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Technology is obviously important to creating an art piece. Without technology we wouldn't be able to create any artwork. For example, a pencil is used to help artist sketch their work out before painting, bolding, etc. etc. The technology in the example I used was a pencil. Which obviously helps to give artist ideas of what to create, by sketching their work out.

To make something abstract :
1. Pencil out any four simple patterns/objects around the paper. Make sure they are all over the place.
2. Draw lines going down portrait and landscape. There should be 4 lines.
3. Go over every line and shape you drew with a vivid.
4. Colour/paint the shapes any 4 colours. Make sure the colours ain't next to the same colour. Example : IF you did one box yellow, the next bow won't be able to be yellow.

Have a try!
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Something I really enjoyed about our experience at Te Tuhi, was exploring the different exhibitions around the gallery. 2 exhibits I enjoyed visiting was  the - Siliga David Setoga and Jasmine Togo-Brisby exhibitions.

SILIGA DAVID SETOGA:
I enjoyed visiting Siliga David Setogas art because there was an art piece/ photo that shared a story about a Maori lady who walked from Auckland to Wellington. From what I've been told from my grandfather, this lady 'Dame Whina Cooper' took the courage to walk from Auckland to Wellington as I told you before. Although, there were cameras, cars and people around who asked her if she wanted a car ride, but she said NO. Because how much courage she had, made her walk a far distance.


Name : Dame Whina Cooper
Sunrise : 9 December 1895, Te Karaka
Sunset : 26 March 1994
New Zealander - Maori Women
Dame Whina Cooper was a respected Kuia, who worked many years for the rights of her people and to improve the lot of Maori women.

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 JASMINE TOGO-BRISBY:
I enjoyed visiting Jasmines exhibit because share designed a sugar art piece that spelled out 'JESUS'. She used sugar because her family used to work at a sugar cane farm, and also used the name JESUS because back in her days, they always use to talk about JESUS. She is also a christian who comes from both countries New Zealand and Australia.


This is the art piece she had created.
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Before visiting the exhibitions in the gallery, we all created our own abstract art.
I will be sharing with you the process of how I created my own abstract art.
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The technologies I had in my art work were : A game control, Television, Pencil and a computer.
Firstly, I stenciled the technologies listed above, everywhere around the paper.
Next, I drew lines going up portrait and also landscaped.
Then, I started to bold the lines using vivid.
After bolding my lines, I then started to pick 4 light colours that matched each other.
I started to paint in the lines using different colours in each triangle.
I also made sure that two of the same colours weren't in the same triangle.
I then let it dry!
After it was dried, I went back over with a vivid.

YOU ABSTRACT ART IS NOW COMPLETE!


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Sorry,
but this now brings us to the end of my blogpost!
Please, if you've learned anything comment below!
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I hope you enjoyed reading my blog!
For more information click the link below to explore more about Te Tuhi art gallery!

TE TUHI 

Leadership Program - 2018

IALT: Reflect on what I've learned about in our leadership lesson today.
Kia Ora everyone, and welcome back to my blog!

Today, I will be reflecting on what I've learned about in our leadership lesson. Today's leadership lesson was based on 'Balancing Responsibilities'.
Balancing responsibilities is to prioritise your responsibilities. Organising or sorting something out from most important to less but important things to do.















To balance responsibilities you need to :
* Utilise others
* Prioritise
* Focus on the objective.

An example.
Stand up and take one leg off the ground/floor.
Next, take someone's shoulder and lean on them so that you don't fall.
Now, this is an example of utilising others. Your in a good balance because someone is there helping you to stay standing without falling. Utilising others is like, telling someone to do this or that and also sharing your responsibility so that your not doing something all by yourself.















Now,
you are taking your hand off that person and holding yourself up.
This causes you to prioritise. How? When your by yourself half of your body starts to lean maybe left, and you are prioritising by making yourself balancing as you move your body the opposite side. Prioritising means to organise and to sort or time things out.




Are you still standing?
If you are, you will now start focusing on the objective. Before I say, close your eyes you will leave it closed for 5 seconds, listen to the people around you. 3,2,1 Close your eyes! YES! You did it. You may haven't noticed but you were focusing on the objective, as you were focusing on the voices or noises around you.

This game or example had shown you how to balance responsibilities. By what I said, did you know that you showed balanced responsibilities!
WOW!


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Something I enjoyed during this lesson, was getting to understand what balancing responsibilities mean.
To balance responsibilities, you need to utilise others, prioritise, and also focus on the objective. This is something new that I've learned today.

During this lesson, I've learned a new word 'Prioritise'. As I explained before, prioritise means to organise and put time into things you need to do.
Example : The first important responsibility I always do after school, is take my siblings home safely. Secondly, as I get home I babysit for a little while, and so on and so on.



I wouldn't say that anything was challenging ! But, I did find one part of the lesson struggling. I don't know how to really explain it, but in our lesson book, we had a responsibility and 3 questions :
Who can help me with this responsibility?
When is this responsibility my highest priority?
and What is the aim at the end of this responsibility?

I found this struggling, because at first I didn't understand what the last 2 questions mean't but as the lesson continued, I started to understand what the whole process of how the responsibility questions meant.

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This brings us to the end of my reflection! But I hope you learned something new today and that you also enjoyed it !
THANK YOU!