..+*Weekend Reflection*+..

 -Weekend Reflection-Week 4-

Something I found Challenging this week probably our All Saints Presentation, Since it is November and we had All Saints day on the first of November. For this Task we Had to make a copy of a slide prepared for us with some questions and then we had to decorate it and fill in the questions about our chosen saint, the Reason I struggled with this would be because  I couldn't find any Saints! there were just too many. 

We learned a lot this week, we had gone over some of our math, with median, mode and mean.

We also learned how to stitch! that was really fun.

Something I enjoyed was Probably the sewing we did! we are making a collage, first we got to choose a colour fabric and cut out a hand print, then we got to choose a square fabric between the colours of either green, or blue. Then the our teachers helped us put the thread  in the needle and sew the hand onto the square, THEN we also had to draw a picture to cut out in fabric that represents us. The stitching was probably the hardest to do, because the threads would pull out and get tangled. For my Picture I had drawn a budgie, (because I like budgies,) We often poked our fingers by accident with the needle. It was really fun and I enjoyed it a lot so far.

Something I feel I have succeeded in is probably When me and my Friend Tiana made scones at tech! it was really fun  I think it was a success. The scones were really easy to make and easy to travel back to school with. 

Something I am looking forward to is.. Whatever next week has to bring! its going to be very sad because one of our teachers is leaving. 

-Aroha-

this weeks value is Aroha, Meaning love.. we try to be kind and caring towards our friends and family and to those around us.

..+*Rap//Song*+..

 -Song-

We had a task where we had to get into groups, and write a song!

the lyrics would be based off of Aroha, after we made the lyrics we would have to go onto a site where we can make a beat with out song. the people in our group were

-Therese

-blake

-Indi

-kade

and me.

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The lyrics were quiet hard to do, and we had to try and decide on what to say so it can tie into with the theme (Aroha). it was really hard to try and not make it cheesy or cringe, but we decided we would write about our love for each of our pets, Therese's Part would be about cats (because she loves cats.) then Mine would be about budgies, (because  love budgies.) Blake had done his about house animals (like cats & dogs.) Indie worked onto the beat, and kades was going to be the ending about all animals!

Blake made the beat in the end and I had written everyone verses except Blake's (he wrote his is own verse.)

and Therese sung the entire song!

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Beady eyes like the colour of amber feline fine Oh-but you better watch that cat's temper, Wakiń round like she owns the place, So cute with that cat face. 

A - is for the  attention to your cats…..

R - is  for the respect you get…..

O- is for the outside adventure you love …..

H- is for how happy you get…..

A- is for the aroha that they give….

“ Dogs, dogs are man's best friend, they stick with you ‘till the very end.

Cats, they’re really cute, they are fluffy, cuddly, they are a beut.

Budgies, cuddly and cute,

Fluffy and friendly

Very pretty, but watch out for that poop!

Colourful feathers, and beauty so ever Precious,

Such a cute! 

    A - is for how we adore you

R - is  for how resilient you are

O- is for how outstanding you are

H- is for how hilarious you are

A- is for the aroha that they give…

 Animals, just like us but a different,

Like yin and yan we still chill´n

Together on this earth, we show affection. That's the key to building a connection.

..+*Weekend Reflection*+..

 -Week 2: Term 4-

Something I found Challenging this week is Probably the feelings wheel, the feelings wheel is where we had to draw what we think looks like a certain emotion in these triangles that all turn into a circle. I struggled with this because I had re-done a lot of my pictures because I wasn't happy with how it looked, I also didn´t   have the write colours to do the pictures, I may of found it easier to do if I  tried and do it with some paint, though painting is hard, you can have unlimited access to what ever colour, I could try it digital on the chrome book but then its harder to add small details. Another thing I struggled with was rap//song we had to write in a group, our group struggled because the lyrics couldn't help but be embarrassing and I couldn't bare the thought of recording myself singing

We  Learned lots of things, we learned more about  Paratene te Manu, a famous Maori Warrior who´s family and himself got Evicted from their home island Huataru, Now known as little Barrier island. Our other teacher has read us a book about Paratene te Manu  and we have written a letter, pretending we were Paratene te Manu´s Nephew writing to the Government about  why Paratene te Manu shouldn't leave his island.

Something I Enjoyed was writing the letter we did (which I had explained about in the last paragraph) because We were all really Passionate about arguing  for him to stay on his Island. and it really fun pretending to be a lawyer. I also enjoyed Mahi tahi, for those who don´t know what mahi tahi is, its where the year 8s, 7s, 6,s and 5s join together and complete a crafty task, this task we did was were we had to get into groups (as always) and we had to tape some balloons so the all stack up but they have to be free-standing, the tallest balloon tower wins, we were doing pretty good but it the height  of it didn't count since it leaned to the side, making it shorter.

Something I feel I have succeeded in is some of my Emotions wheel, I haven´t finished it just yet though.

Another thing is probably my letter, I do want to add a bit more but i´m not sure what else to add, so for now I think it is complete.

Something I am looking forward too is.. what else we will be doing next week, Hopefully  I can get more things finished. I also am looking forwards to finishing my drawing in tech, I really hope I can finish it and hopefully I can succeed in that as well, we have been using a burn tool to draw in stuff on a small piece of wood, and now we are ingraining another drawing we did in some copper. 

-Aroha-

This weeks Value is Aroha, A way I have seen Aroha shown is in the playground where some people were helping these little children across the monkey bar. that is showing Aroha because they were helping and caring for others by making them feel safe so they can develop the skill of doing the monkey bars.

..+*What is Media*+..

 -Media-

for cyber smart we did a task where we discussed what media is, we made a copy of a slide and filled out the questions leading us to get a better understanding of what media is.

then we had made a DLO Relating and explaining the difference between the following media.

-Print media: News Paper, Magazines etc.

-Broadcasting media: TV, live shows etc.

-Online media//Social Media: apps, digital devices, etc.

I think media is like a group or a system, informing others about a certain subject, like when you sign up to order a magazine daily, that´s a type of media.

this was quiet quick to do because I had already written down my definition of each of the things, so instead of re-writing them, I decided I would just copy and paste my original definition from my slide onto the DLO. 

||=Weekend Reflection=||

 -Week 1: Term 4-

it is our last term! we have been very busy this week since of athletics coming up and have been doing that nearly every day, (athletics Is a school event where there are different thing to partake in, -Sprints, High jump, Long Jump, Shot putt, discus.) and we have the rosary since it is October (the month of Mary.) every morning we go outside or into one of the spare class room which is empty and do whole school rosary there. one thing that is really cool this term is that we have another teacher joining in with us in class! 

One thing I found Challenging is probably athletics, I´m not very good at anything in sports really.. I really don´t like high jump and I am bad at it without the excuse of being short. I can´t sprint either.. and I don´t really understand the  shot putt, long jump is okay, but I´m not good at that either. Another thing I have found challenging is finishing my work on time, I take really long and I try to fit in art into as much of it as I can. 

One thing that I learned was  in maths, we  are currently learning words relating that are often used in maths. We also are reading about a Maori Warrior and some of things he´s been through and who he is.

this last term we are really focusing on all of the learning we´ve done before and making sure we are all on the right track and we have been clearing things up so everyone can hopefully be on the same level before we leave.  

One thing I have enjoyed Is.. R.E doing the rosary is really peaceful and quiet, and enjoyable when you understand what you´re saying and what it means. I sometimes enjoy doing Athletics?.. I know I´m not good at it but there has been times where I have surprised my self with thinking that I wouldn't make it over the high jump bar but then did, when you successfully jump over the bar its really quite satisfying, and especially today where I thought I had made it quite far, and I didn´t think I was going to make the jumps but I did, once it got too high and everyone started to sit down, then I did. But I gave it ago and tried, hopefully I can try harder and maybe even do better. 

One thing I feel I have Succeeded in probably some of the times I had done Athletics, like just before I had talked how It was challenging and I didn´t like it and then I talked about how sometimes I actually had fun doing and the only time I had fun doing it was when I felt like had done well with it, therefore I felt like I had succeeded in it couple of times. 

Some things I am looking Forward too are more arty stuff we could possible be doing later this term, I hope that we year 8 can step up and get a start on stuff we like to do, for me that would be art, I am hoping there can be more drawing and art involved so I can be more productive and hopefully have fun and do well in it. I hope I can post more blog posts about my learning (and hopefully art).

_.-Aroha-._

this weeks Value is Aroha, meaning love. love can be in friendship and other positive interactions with others, Love can be shown in what you say, what you do, and what you think and how you treat others, love is enjoying being around someone or something, or admiring another thing or person. Love can be caring for others and can be shown through support and positive words. 

..||Tree top Trouble||..

A new Term, time to reflect on a moment in your holidays!  

(I have chosen to write about when I had gone to adventure forest with my friend)

 We arrived at a forest on the side of the road, the trees were tall and thin, and the grass was covered in ferns and twigs. There were ropes and wooden bridges all hanging across the trees, two people greeted us and  one of them helped put on these harnesses that hung by your hips, there were hooks that the people soon explained how to work them, the main hook was a big metal one that had a little slit which was used to attach the hook to the wire, you couldn't take the hook of the wire since the wire was thick and the slit in the hook was thinner thats why when you attached it you had to slide the hook across a thin metal slab then it would lead onto the wire, where you would but your backup hook behind the Main one, they showed us and let us have a try on the ground with the very low wire, then once we had completed the practice we all went on to the different activities up high in the tree. Me and my friend went to the first one (we had to do the activities in order.) we climbed up the ladder and slid our hooks onto the wire and did the first obstacle, the obstacles were like tight ropes or wooden plank and tunnels and much more different ones, I was shaking lots, once you've finished a obstacle which would lead you to the next tree and then you would slide your hook to the wire connected to the next obstacle, the first one was quiet freaky but fun at the same time. I would not stop shaking and I could feel the cold sweat all over me, but really, if you fell the harness would just catch you, but the height of the obstacles were quite freaky. 

After me and my friend finished the first activities filled with obstacles we went on the next one, it felt so nice to touch the ground again. So far, things were going good, we finished the next activity and are now going on to the third one.. The third one was when it got hard, it had a sign on the tree before the ladder saying that this is a difficult one. That was a bit of a worry since i'm not very strong so this would be very challenging. We climbed up and completed the couple of obstacles and then it came to a tightrope one with little wooden trunks to walk on.. But the ´´tightrope´´ wasn't so tight, I held onto the top wire and walked across, it shook like crazy.. Balancing was very hard and the rope with the wood trunks on it that I was standing on  swung side to side leaving me to fall of and struggle to catch onto the wire again, that was the first time I fell off the obstacle, soon it was finished and we moved on to a couple of next obstacles but then we were met with what I thought was the hardest one for me… there was a trail of ropes with some logs on the end of the ropes to stand on, just like a swing so I stepped on the swing and as I held on to the ropes on the side and then attempt to step to the other swing, but since all the swings were not attached they parted and I ended up doing the splits, I had to use muscle and pull my legs and arms together to get back in place, I tried so hard throughout this particular obstacle but I kept on doing the splits and my ´´Ḿucsles´´ hurt from trying to get back up, on top of that I was shaking but it was quite funny at the same time, it was really hard to get past that obstacle, Finally I was at the last swing, it was swinging back and forth as I held onto the wire at the top instead of the ropes on the side since that was too hard to switch to the other ropes, finally I was at the end, my arms hurt a lot, once we zip lined down, I checked my arm to find rope burn from my arm rubbing against the rope as because of how I held onto it. 

these activities were really cool, you'd climb up the top and slide your hook across to the wire attached to the next obstacle, then once you´ve completed that obstacle you would stand on a small wooden platform on a tree and slide your hook across to the next obstacle, and that's how it was run. It was a really fun day, I didn't go on the other really high and hard ones, but I ran and watched my friend do two more harder ones.

It was really cool because you can't really get hurt on the obstacles, but there are really fun and fill you with such nervousness and danger.

_.->> Venerable Suzanne Aubert<<-._

 This week On Friday we are going to be Celebrating Venerable Suzanne Aubert!

(Aubert Pronounced-Aw-Bear)

One of our House Groups is named after her and this Friday we will be Celebrating her and all the amazing things shes done!

 for this Task we had to make a slide or google drawing, and then we had to write down the facts we have learnt about her, I had done some facts and a little blurb of writing giving a small description about her.

here is the my work

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´´To Love God above all things. to give ones heart and soul, mind and strength in order to make others better and happier: that is life, that is happiness, justice and truth.´´

-Quote from Suzanne Aubert