Whakatauki o te wiki - Matariki

WALT make personal connections to a given whakatauki.

This weeks whakatauki was based on Matariki since it's coming up in a few weeks.

The thing I love about this task is that we always get to find out the more depth things about our culture but something I think I need to work on was making it more critical and more depth.

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Te Reo Maori - T2W7

WAL Maori words for different kai!

This week for Te Reo Maori we were learning and researching about the different type of Kai in te reo!

My favorite part about this task was finding the different names and meanings for each Kai. Something I didn't enjoy much was that I got confused a little on 'Retehi' but after I had actually watched the video did more depth researching I had lifted myself back on track and finished.

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Tukumarie - Our Poem!

WALA: The value Tukumarie and how to make wise choices.

Today both Room 9 & 10 learnt more deeper into the meaning of one of our values "Tukumarie"(Tolerance). The definition of Tolerance in my mind is to respect other people's differences and beliefs, and accepting your different peers for where them and their family/ancestors originate from. Something I enjoyed about the task and discussions we had today was that it kind of brang both classes closer as peers and also this has helped me think deeper and harder about the decisions and choices I've been making lately and I'm starting to rethink the goals I've set myself. Something I didn't really enjoy was the parts where our teachers had shared with us that peers from my classroom were being bullied and picked on because of their ethnicity. I enjoyed today's session and hopefully we could come back on it and recap on everything we've learnt and discovered.

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The Bone Tiki - Multistructural, Week 6.

WALT: think and reflect on some things that the main character in this text we're reading has done.

1.  Write about a choice the main character had to make this week. A choice that the main character, Matt, has had to make this week is whether or not he was going to follow the steps of some random girl that practically saved him from seeing heaven. I think he made the right choice as she's the first person throughout the whole story who has frightened Puarata and I'm thinking she knows what she's doing and maybe, just maybe she knows where she's going and what she's doing. It sounds that this random girl is pretty, and has a great bubbly, caring personality inside of her.

Hopefully Matt has made the right decision of following the strange girl.

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The Bone Tiki, Unistructural, Week 6.

WALT: write a plot summary about the parts of our text we've read so far.

It's now Week 6 and I'm up to Chapter 5. As I keep reading and reading the story is getting better and better. What I've discovered so far is......

Matt returns to his home and Puarata is waiting for him and Matt had been napped. Puarata viciously strangled Matt then out of nowhere some mysterious girl comes out on to the street and suddenly frightens Puarata, in fact she frightens him so much he runs. She tend to help Matt and he follows her to some out of it place that I haven't read up to yet. On their journey to their final destination, Matt starts seeing random things and he doesn't recognise anywhere they're going or where they are, and yet it's his hometown. He starts feeling strange things and starts worrying more about what's going to happen to Rikki when he arrives back at his whare or back at the Marae where both their raging fathers are.

That's all I've read for this week but I'm sure to tell you that it's getting more interesting.

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Reflect on Tech!

TECHNOLOGY REFLECTION!

WALT reflect on previous sessions.

Today in technology, we started drawing and planning on our clock designs.  My favorite part about today's session was being able to research and choose different images and designs that we could use to help us create our projects. At the beginning I started off with 6 different designs and 6 different clocks and when I had completed the draft copy I finally selected my final design. My final design I've chosen to create this term in Graphics, Technology is a 'Analog 'Chanel' clock'. Something I struggles with today was fitting the designs I had chosen into the selected clocks but as I got used to it I started finding it easier and easier after every design. Next time I can improve on planning quicker and maybe finding and researching different designs.

I'm proud of the work I've completed today, Next time I hope to finish drawing and colouring my hard copy.

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The Bone Tiki - Prestructural, Week 6.

WALT:write and explain our predictions about the novel we're studying.

I haven't had much time to catch up on my studies but I've finally completed my predictions for this week....

WEDNESDAY 7TH JUNE, 2017.

This week, my predictions are short & simple. I’m predicting that Rikki gets caught and that he snitches on Matt which will lead him into a big pit of danger. I’m also predicting that when Matt gets to Taupo puarata and his guards will be on a search for him and the pounamu. I hope that Matt gets to Taupo quickly and that he and the bone tiki are all safe and I’m also hoping that they have enough time to plan their net destination so they know where they’re going to next. My personal reading goal for this week is to FINISH 3 CHAPTERS!! I haven’t had much time on my novel studies this term and I’m hoping I can get more reading done!! I’m also hoping to achieve the goal I set myself last time because as I said I didn’t have enough time to achieve it last time.

Thanks for reading.

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Reflect on Tech!

WALT reflect on previous sessions.

Today was my first day back at tech for a while and I've finally been moved to a new class. 

I enjoy my new class, I enjoy the environment, my new teacher and also the new projects I've been set.

This term we're making clocks and I'm interested to see what happens throughout my journey!

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Client Likes - Technology Clock Project!

WALT reflect on previous sessions.

I have just completed the third part of creating my clock for graphics this term.

I have created a DLO of things my sister, Courtney enjoys doing by using images that represent those things. She enjoys going out, sports, active things, designer brands, family occasions and netball. I enjoyed this task because not only did I get to know my sister more but I guess I kind of made a DLO that represented both of us, since we love doing the same things but I found it a bit hard to fit everything in, so when I realized it wouldn't work I cut some images out and my final out comet is above!

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My Design Brief - Technology Clock Project!

WALT reflect on previous sessions.

As you may know, this term for technology we're creating clocks for a person in our lives and this is the design brief I've used/created to help me choose the person I'm going to be creating my clock for. I'm going to be creating a clock for my 21 year-old sister. Reasons for this is because it'll help her wake up on time for work every morning so she isn't late and isn't in a grump. Something I enjoyed about this was listing things my sister liked, she's a really active and out-going person and I love explaining that. But I got really confused on who to choose, but I thought about it and realized I know Courtney more so I decided to do her since it'll make it easier. 

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Technology Clock Project!

WALT reflect on previous sessions.

Today in technology, I was finally moved into a different group/subject. I will now be in Graphics for the next 12-13 weeks. For this term, we're learning and creating clocks for a person in our lives and the first task I was set to was creating a DLO of the different types of clocks all around the world from different times. Something I enjoyed about doing and completing this task was I found out new things about clocks I didn't know to exist but something I struggles with was fitting everything in. 

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