The Importance of Taha Hinengaro!

IALA: the different health groups of our body.

Have you ever wondered what your kids are talking about when they mention to you something about a 'Te Whare Tapa Wha'? Well here's what it is. Te Whare Tapa Wha is the maori saying for 'The Four Walls Of A House' and the hidden reason and meaning for this is basically the four different health groups in your immune system. The four groups are Taha Tinana (physical health) , Taha Whanau (Relationships), Taha Wairua (spiritual health) and your Taha Hinengaro (mental health). The group I'm going to be telling you about is Taha Hinengaro and the importance of it. The important part about your taha hinengaro is that you have to be aware of all the symptoms and emotions that are about to be thrown at you. There'll be many moments in your life where you may feel like your emotions are being twisted by some evil emotions eater but truth be told it's just how life works and the outrageous thing is, you never stop feeling things. If you're ever going through depression there's many sites you can visit to help get you through your situation. For example:

Depression 

The Lowdown

And more.....

We need to start thinking more about what may happen if our emotions and feelings aren't controlled right, it may lead to serious situations or major injuries.

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End of term reflection!

IALT independently reflect on previous moments & times.

As yous may or may not know, today was the last day of term 2 and our holidays have finally started. I'm looking forward to creating more memories with my loved ones and those around me. I wish you all a happy holiday and I'll see everyone on the 24th of July.

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Kia pai to po whanau xx

Whakatauki o te wiki - T2W10

WALT make personal connections to a given whakatauki.

This week the whakatauki we were given was ' Kia here au ki te rangi tuhaha kia tau ate au ki taku taumata' which in english means ' Let me soar to the heavens so that I may reach my potential'.

Something I enjoyed about this Whakatauki was it gave me thoughts about the decisions and goals I may need to start making and setting myself for the future so I'm all set for the harder things about to get thrown at me as I grow.

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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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