My goals at the start of the year were to get better at maths and literacy. I wanted to get better at my times tables and I can now! I can go up to 7x tables. For literacy I wanted to get better at handwriting. It’s a bit off but it’s getting better. Moving forward, I would like to keep working on handwriting. 

At the beginning of the year, I thought Celebration was just to celebrate a birthday or to celebrate a wedding or a special day to celebrate but I found out there’s more to that than just celebrating. We can discover and share our beliefs and share our favourite memories together, talk about history and we also made some sculptures about celebrating. What I learned is that celebrating is a very special thing to bring people together and share food and stories. 

I made positive stickers in Term 1! Mine was pretty blue, pink and violet colours.This activity was very hard and annoying but after a while i got the hang of it!

In Term 3 and 4, our focus was on the celebration of Diwali. What is the true message of Diwali? It symbolises the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma, light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. It basically says light is better over darkness. That’s what I’ve been learning about. Here’s the work I have finished over that term. I’ve learned about the dance of rama and sita. Let me show you! 

(Symbolism) Dance performances during Diwali often visually represent the core themes of the festival, such as the victory of Rama and Sita over Ravana, and the return to Ayodhya, which is celebrated with lights.The lights mean the victory of Rama and Sita!

I want to celebrate my achievements for being responsible for my learning and staying out of drama and trouble. I also want to celebrate my editing skills. I have tried a lot and I’m getting better and better and that’s what I want to be for my future job. I will work really hard to understand the concept! 

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M-dodgeball 40

T-Literacy 40

W-Pasifika 40

T-Inquiry 40

Rise – Empathy success

I played dodgeball on monday, this was really fun at the start because we were playing deathmatch, I got one ball and hid in a corner. I got a couple of people down but then the yr 8 boys started teaming on the corner where my mates and I were. But then after dodgeball I went home. (57)

TUESDAY: On tuesday I did literacy and I had to make a little story based on an image.  I wrote about the haunted train tracks that never stop.  This story so far is sketchy and scary and even so I still like it so far it has 576 words. (49)

WEDNESDAY: On wednesday I did pasifika, This was really fun. I’m one of the leads to sit in the front of the group and do the actions so they don’t get lost, and I got to try on some uniforms for pasifika!. (42)

Thursday:

On Thursday I had tech but I didn’t go because of a dentist appointment.  So I can’t really talk about Thursday because I didn’t really do anything. All I remember is Waiting in the library for my mum to pick me up! (43)

I showed Integrity in this because I Never gave up in anything I did without having a sook.

Kia ora, This week on Thursday on April 3rd my mate and I did Kapa Haka!, I’m one of the kaias for Kapa Haka there’s 4 people Royal Ellie Minniah and I! Minniah wasn’t here yesterday morning so Royal Ellie and I had to sing the song, the song was called Kotahi Kapua! This song is very nice I personally like the song! but I had a cold that morning so I couldn’t sing the waiata! my voice was having voice cracks! so Ellie and Royal Carried it for me!

Kia Ora, Today i’ll be talking about self defense! This year I’ve been taking classes with the year 8 girls  for 3 Mondays and 2 Tuesdays this activity has been fun we’ve learned about versus Johnny’s!   I really liked this Self defense class Linda was very nice!,

Some of the moves she used were holding your fist and then pulling it back then pushing your elbow back into there stomach and sometimes their groin.

There was this role play and this guy would sit next to you and he would say “I like you’re pants” But he would touch your leg then I said “thanks but don’t touch me” Then we’d cut him off! this was really cool because it would protect us in the future about that situation !

Kia Ora Ko Xaria toku Ingoa. Today on the 28th of march  I will talk about Technology  and how it was on the 27th of March

It was a bit weird at the start. We had to line up in lines when we got there. We had to line up in our groups not usually but it was okay. My group was named 8B I didn’t really like this group because of people.    My group went to sewing for the first activity for a whole term!

Her name was Nat or you could say her last name is Ms Shrimp. And some random who decided to act like a class clown🤡.

Said “hey miss can I have A Shrimp?” for some reason it was funny for other people My mate and I didn’t find it funny.

after like 20-15 Minutes He decided to bark. Yes bark. It was completely weird honestly but other than that it was an amazing technology day!

I finished the bag and it looks very cool in my opinion! 

Ms Nat couldn’t say my name properly which kinda got me mad she called me eggzaria?? like what then she proceeded to call me Zaria, My real name is so easy to say its literally just X aria.

I learned how to sew a straight line on the top then I learned how to clip  the bag, also the straps to hold the bag would have to be the  hardest. 

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This term I have been doing earring making! This activity was greatish….. Not good but not bad!

Anyways I made Maori earrings!

This week the year 7’s and year 8’s  In technology I made a bag The type of bag I made is a Maori one, this took me around 3 weeks to finish!

The fishing person

She’s fishing we’ll people are swimming. You may not think this can harm people so I’ll tell you!

1. When she is fishing the hook could injure someone!
2. If she caught a fish the fish could take her in the water!
3. The pole could rip out of her hands and leave scars on her hands!
4. And she could hurt someone with the hook and attract sharks with the blood!

THE MAN PUSHES THE KID

1.If he does push the kid in the lake then he could fall and hit his head

2. The kid was wearing a lot of clothes which could way him down!
3. He may not be able to swim!
4. There might be a kid underneath him!

NO JUMPING SIGN.

1. The little girl is about to jump into the water which is against the rules.
2. The girl is going to jump on someone!
3. She’s not wearing a life jacket
4. Also there is no adult supervision

THE GIRL JUMPING ON THE ROPE!

1. The Girl is about to jump off the rope but there is someone underneath her!
2. She has a headband on which could hurt her!
3. Her hair isn’t tied up so her hair could get in her face!
4. And she doesn’t have a life jacket!

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POOL SAFETY 

The guy holding the phone

The guy who is holding the phone is falling in the pool because he’s distracted and could fall in the pool which could seriously hurt him because the phone has electricity!

The girl pushing the kid in the pool!

The girl in the red togs pushed a kid in the pool which could hurt the kid. It might not be able to swim!

The lifeguard 

The lifeguard is sleeping and someone could drown on duty!

And he could fall into the pool

Also the kid could fall and need help but he’s asleep

Also he has clothes on!

The kid running 

The kid who is running could slip and fall

The kid could fall into the water

The kid could literally accidentally push someone into the pool!

The lifeguard is watching them!

The flags are red and yellow which are easy to see!

She’s got goggles
She’s wearing yellow and red clothes so it’s easier to see!

On Thursday Rawhiti school went to technology only yr 8s and yr 7s! I have sewing, sewing is not my thing to be honest just because of the people aka “the kid” Anyways we started making bags my bag is going so good so far literally amazing then my stomach had period pains it hurt so bad I thought my life was crumbling down like I was about to die inside but then Whaea Caroline gave me Medicine! then I felt better

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