2021 REFLECTION !!

 This year has been a crazy but fun year for us. However, we were able to do a lot of fun things and make a lot of memories that we will treasure for the rest of our lives, such as year 8 camp, sports, vacations, Fiafia, and much more. Here are two of my favourite moments from this year.

Year 8 Camp:

As it was the last year, year 8 camp was a lot of fun and provided a lot of opportunities to bond with the other year 8s. During camp, I was able to gain a lot more confidence, as well as the ability to function as part of a team. It encouraged me and my friends to step up and out, and we learned a lot about each other as a result. Ax throwing was obviously one of my favourite activities. It was new to me, but I eventually got the hang of it:)

FiaFia:

FiaFia was undoubtedly fantastic. We were able to have our families watch us perform, and each of us students was able to demonstrate a few of the various traditional dances.  Like Tongan, Hip Hop, Fijian, Bollywood and many more.  I had the good fortune to be a member of the Tongan Girls. I was able to witness how others danced and learn a lot of new moves from all of the sessions, which was a lot of fun.

I had many memorable moments during my time at school, but these are the ones that I'll remember for the rest of my life. Despite the fact that Covid-19 disrupted several planned activities, we were able to complete the year with plenty of memories and friends.

Literacy Planet

Over the past few weeks we've been using Literacy planet. Literacy Planet provides a lot of fun things for us to enjoy. Literacy Planet is sort of like Maths whizz, we have to complete a decent amount of task and however much question we get right our prize is Gems and points. 

Gems + Points: Gems and points help us to do more tasks, and get a bit competitive aswell. Our teacher has access to see how many points we have and how well we did on our task. It's really cool because we all want to get first place, and to do that we need to do more task. 

Comprehension: Literacy provides us with heaps of tasks. Comprehensions being one of them. Literacy Planet will give us books for us to read, and 12 questions to answer. It really fun because we usually do is get one of our classmates to do the answers first, and submit answers that way we can see the right answers and get 100%.

Spelling:This site also gives us a decent amount of spelling tests along with a couple of games like Code Phrase, Battle Rocket and more. We each have to hear what word the person is saying and try to spell in correctly. I usually get it correct which is why its fun.

Grammar: Some of task gives us a focus for example Direct Speech, Metaphors, Question/Interrogation and more. It gives us questions like ' which is the only true statement ' & match the first part of each sentence with the second, its really fun.

More Task: These were just a few task Literacy Planet provides us with, theirs also Sight Words, Arcade Game, Phonics and we even get to design our characters which is fun. It also provides us with levels, for year 1's all the way up to year 11. Literacy has helped me with my grammar and more.

Attitude Talk !

 Today Team 5 were lucky enough to have a few people come and talk to us about Puberty. Jannah talked to the girls while Robbie and Charlie talked with all the boys. Jannah talked about how and when our body's develops and why it does. She also gave us a few tips on how we could prevent Bio and smelling weird. This was a very helpful talk as we are growing up and heading into our college years. We also played a few games, wrote questions on a piece of paper, just in case some of us were to shy to ask.  She also provided us a few things that may come in handy.

In The Zone

This is the school korero for the week. In The Zone. This includes, speak at the appropriate level, staying on task, my space my place, and in the zone online. And the Prefects and House Captains came of with this idea as well. Above this text and a few photos about each statement and piece of writing beside it.

Literacy Planet

This is what I've been upto during the past 2 or 3 weeks. Literacy Planet. This is a very fun educated site to go on, it helps with your reading, metaphors, punctuation etc. Already I've learnt a lot from this task. Basically you get your teacher or parent to set your account up. They then unlock task for you to master each day. If you get all the answer correct you get gems. In my class we see who is winning, so we make it to be like a competition which is fun but we do get competitive at times. I'm currently in 2nd place with 158 points and 234 gems. 

105 Year Old Running Breaks Record

This article was quite surprising, even the title "105-year-old runner sets world record" seemed strange. This was a fascinating essay to read. In a timing of 1 minute and 2 seconds, Julia Hawkins set a new world record in the 100m. This time was extremely nice to some people, like myself, but Julia was disappointed because she hoped to finish it in one minute.

If you're interested in reading more articles like this, click here for the LINK and have fun. Enjoy

New Zealand Couple Grow Worlds Biggest Potato

Because lately most of my blog posts have been about Te Reo and Maths, I decided to challenge myself and do a bit of literacy work. Because I wasn't able to join the literacy meets due to Extension classes, I chose to pick a few articles from Kiwi Kids News site. I got this article from the odd section of the site. This was about a couple in New Zealand who grew the worlds biggest potato in the world. I learnt that they weigh of there potato came up-to about 7.59kg. Enjoy

Here is the LINK to the site if you want to see more articles like this one.