SLJ WK 1 Bonus Activity

Bonus Activity: Musical Festivals – Matatini

In New Zealand, a huge festival is held every two years, called Te Matatini. This performing arts festival celebrates the tikanga (culture or customs) of Māori. Kapa Haka groups from around New Zealand are invited to attend the festival and each group gives a 25-minute performance. The performances are judged and the best teams win prizes.

The gold medal winning team from this year (2017) was Te Kapa Haka o Whāngārā Mai Tawhiti.

Here's what I think:

1. Te Puku o Te Ika

2. Te Iti Kahurangi

3. Tamatea Arikuni

First of all all items were beautiful. They sang, danced and told a story very well! Let's start with Tamatea Arikuni. Tamatea Arikuni was pretty good. Although I they they just needed more Kaha during there Item. It sound more like soft and got to be honest boring. 2nd Te Iti Kahurangi had alot more power then Tamatea Arikuni. They were very loud and outstanding! They sang very well and I enjoyed there performance. Finally Number 1! Te Puku o Te Ika stood out the most to me! They were louder and had lot's of Kaha! I loved how they dedicated the performance to a man as they held up a photo of him. It was a really heartwarming item to see. I thought they did AWESOME! Well that's what I think leave a comment down below on what you really think! Were they good or not really good?

SLJ WK1 D4 Activity 1/2 Hitting a High Note

Activity 1: The Waiata - A Song in Your Heart

In the past, Māori would often use song as a way of sharing information or communicating emotions.  A waiata is the name given to a traditional Māori song. One of my all-time favourite waiata is Kia Paimarie. What about you?

Actually I have 2 all time favourite waiata's! It is Tutira Mai Nga Iwi and Tiaho Mai Ra. I liked both songs because they have strong meanings. A student that attended Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Nga Mokopuna in Wellington. There she composed the song for her brother that she saw as a brother having trouble. The other Tutira Mai Nga Iwi is a very strong song it's all about standing together as one team and working hard. Both songs are very strong and has a good meaning to it. 

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Activity 2: Playing Games

Hundreds of years ago, young Māori children were taught to play a number of games, including Poi Rakau, Ki O Rahi, Koruru Taonga and Poi Toa. Read about each of these four games on the Rangatahi tu Rangatira website. Have you played any of them before? Isn’t it cool how the games have been passed down for generations?

The name of the game I chose it called Poi Rakau!

The aim of the is to try and get the other opponents stick before it falls on to the ground and you OUT!

The rules of the game are you will stand in a circle each holding a pole. When the caller yells left or right but in maori Maui or Ratau you will move to that direction and take the other opponents spot.

I've played Poi rakau before but this was back in 2016 when we had Maori! I would definitely like to play again!

SLJ WK 1 Bonus Activity

Bonus Activity: Special Meals!
Rachel's Favorite meal below
Back in the 1800s, most Māori ate a simple diet. They ate foods that they could catch in the water (eg. fish) or grow on the land (eg. kumara). They did not have access to a supermarket to buy food for their meals! Speaking of meals, what is your favourite meal? Mine is wood-fired pizza. Yum!

For this activity we had to post a picture of a favourite meal and talk about it.

Shepard's Pie!

!This is not my photo!
My favourite meal is Shepard's Pie! Shepard's Pie is a big pie that has layers of potatoes, vegetables, mince and of course CHEESE! It is my favourite meal because when I first tasted it when my cousin's made it was a YASS from me! So I decided to go for 3rd's! The layers inside was delicious but my favourite was the mince and potatoes! I think that this is an awesome meal because you can share it (only if you make a big batch) and enjoy the mouth-watering pie! When my mum and I make it we just eyeball the ingredients and it turns out amazing. But if you'd like to try it out here's the recipe on how the make Shepard's Pie the Professional way! Click this link.

SLJ WK1 D2 Activity 1/2 It’s All in a Day’s Work

Activity 1: A House or a Home?

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In the 1800s, most Māori lived in villages called pa. Each village had many buildings – kauta where people cooked, pataka where they stored goods and wharepuni where the Māori slept. A traditional wharepuni had a thatched roof and walls made of timber, fern, rushes and bark.
For this activity we had to compare the wharepuni to our house. This is my compare and contrast below showing the differences and the similarities between my house and the wharepuni.

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Activity 2: The Rules Of Engagement

During the early years in New Zealand, men and women would often marry at a young age. Women were expected to have babies and remain in the home caring for their children. Few, if any, left home in search of work. Men, on the other hand, were expected to work outside of the home. These days, we don’t have the same strict expectations about work. Girls and boys can choose their own path in life. So for this activity we had to draw yourself doing our dream job. Here's mine!

When I grow up really want to become at teacher. People like my teacher and my mother inspire me to become one and I love working with other kids it makes me feel in a happy and safe environment!

SLJ WK 1 Bonus Activity Waka Ama

For this Bonus Task I had to watch a Waka Ama race. After watching this video I have to write on my blog if I would like to participate in this sport or not. If would like to watch the video click this link.

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I would like to participate in Waka ama because I have never participated in sports including water (besides swimming) Looking at the video I felt like it took a lot of training and team work to complete the race. I also want to join Waka ama because I want to know how it felt when the settlers arrived in NZ. It was probably nerve wrecking. I would also like to participate in Waka ama because I have never done this sport before and I would like to see myself improve on how far I go and how fast I can paddle. Watching the video it looks quite challenging because we have to go in straight line! I think that would be challenging because I might go in circles. But yeah I would like to give Waka ama a try!

SLJ WK1 Activity 1/2 Arriving in Aotearoa (NZ)

Activity 1: The First Settlers - Welcome to my first Holiday Blog-Post! I am participating in SLJ
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For this activity we had to create read a short story about one of the famous men in Maori mythology (Maui) Here is my three facts that I had learned from the story and Maui. If you'd like to read the story yourself click this link.

First Fact: Based on the story I read about Maui and the Giant Fish, Maui was a brave man he did not listen to the comments his brothers made and he kept on moving on.

Second Fact: It is said in Polynesian Mythology that Ancient Polynesians used the stars to find a way to there destination. According to myths I read the navigators followed the stars that formed the shape of Maui's hook. In other legends and myths about Maui he used his hook to stop the sun from going fast and how he pulled the giant fish.

Last Fact: The story I read about Maui and the giant fish (Te ika a Maui) Sorry If I spelt that wrong! The giant fish that he pulled from the sea became the north island of our beautiful land New Zealand. That was what the Maori mythology said and what most Maori's believe.

I have also read a story that is famous in Maori mythology with is Maui and the sun. 

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Activity 2: Setting Sail

It must've been very braves of those who travelled to Aotearoa. So for this activity we had to imagine that we were on board on one of those waka's, and we have to write a letter to a friend about our trip to NZ! Here is my letter.

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Hour of code Certificate!

Today we got to hang out with OMG Techs. We talked about Coding and how we can make our own  brand new technology in the future using coding.  We also got a chance to do the Hour Of Code Challenge! I decided to do the Minecraft Coding. I have just completed the task. Here is my online certificate I have been given! If you would like to do the hour of code click this link! You will have lot's of learning how to code. Thanks Heaps our visitors who came along to have a talk about coding!!

Incy Wincy Spider

Amelia Incy Wincy Final from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: Our theme for the term is musical madness. So for our animation we had to create a animation on a nursery rhyme. We had three options to choose from and after we've chosen our nursery rhyme we had to animate it. The three options were Incy Wincy spider, Tirama Tirama and O le pepe. I chose Incyy Wincy Spider and here is my finished project. Hope You Enjoy! 

How Does A Guitar Make Sound?

Walt: Create an animation on how does a instrument make sound.
Amelia EXT Movie 2017 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: This is my animation on How Does A Guitar Make Sound? This is my extension project finished. We were first put into groups of musical instruments and which ever group we were in we had to create an animation on how does the musical instrument make sound. I was in the Guitars. I first wrote a down on a doc and got some info about Guitars and how they make sound. I then shared with the other people in my group. We also had to create a soundtrack to go with our animation, You will hear my soundtrack in my animation. I also added a voice over to my animation to make it more appealing. Here is my animation finished! Hope you enjoy!

Amelia EXT and Team 4 Space Animation

Amelia EXT Animation from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Task Description: Today I had to finish off my animation from Term 3. As you guys all know last term the school theme was about Guardians of The Galaxy. We had to create an animation about earth being polluted and people can no longer live there. Now people rely on two trained astronauts to go outa space and search for a mew planet. Then I added my extension animation as a part 2 and how people have adapted to live on there new planet!

Holiday Blogging Award!

Kia Ora Blog Viewers! This is a late update but I'm just gonna tell you anyways! Yesterday in our Team 4 assembly we were handing out holiday blogging awards. If you visited my blog in the holidays you would've seen blog-posts of me participating in the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge. It was a great blogging challenge I got to create my own shoes, do origami and even clean the house! Back to the awards! We had a special person hand our little bags and it was Mrs Burt! Mrs Burt is like the mother of the school blogging challenge, so one of our teachers hooked her up to come and hand out the prizes. Prizes were given for: The Most Posts, Audience Appeal, Entertaining the Burt's (Mr and Mrs Burt), Quality of Posts and last but not least for going the extra mile. I was given my prize for the Quality of my Posts. I stood up proudly as my friends cheered me on!Overall it was a great morning we even took a photo with the beautiful Mrs Burt. STAY TUNED 4 MORE BLOG POSTS GUYS!!!!!!!! BTW: THANK YOU MR GOODWIN FOR THE CHALLENGE!

Musical Madness!

Walt: use adjectives to improve our descriptive writing.

WALT: use exciting language in a recount

Have you ever seen your teacher sing before? Well today at our school Immersion Assembly, lot’s of music was happening in the hall! I’m looking forward to how the term is going to be!

This term our school topic is based on Music, and it is called Musical Madness! Team 1,2 and 3 was all about how music changes our feelings and how different beats can make up one song. Team 5’s crazy act was all about different beats to music! The Assembly was hilarious but my all time favorite act was Team 3’s little movie they made a mini Songs in Real Life video. It was an incredible video that  made me laugh the till the end.  

Finally it was Team 4’s turn! Team 4’s movie was a little car pool party! All the teachers from Team 4 were having fun singing in the car enjoying the music (but some of the music was boring because they were old school). The little movie was like a commercial for our school music. It was kind of like the commercial’s that Apple does for there music. This Term our Team is looking at making our own music, and even making instruments!

Since the Term is all about music I am dying to learn to play the Guitar! I also want to learn to play the drums and I think our Team Leader Mr Somerville will teach us because he is fantastic at playing the drums! Those are the instruments that I want to play but I’m also hoping to learn to play the piano along with other instruments too.

Overall I think that the Term will be awesome! I love music and I’m sure other people in the school do. I think that school and music goes together because her in Pt England we make up songs and sing to other songs too! In fact we already got school song already up called Musical Madness! I think that Term 4 will be great!

Holiday Blogging - Bullying - STOP NOW!!

Walt: Spread an Important message.


Task Description: Today me and Leilani made a presentation on Bullying. We were just watching a video about bullying and something just clicked! Leilani asked me if I wanted to do a presentation about bullying so I said sure. We decided to make make this presentation to stop the bullying. There are still lot's of people in our world who are getting bullied. Some have committed suicide because of bullying, and losing loved because of that is really sad. I also want to spread this message because I have been bullied too through email. So remember to STOP BULLYING AND STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!  

Be Sure To Visit Leilani's Blog!

Holiday Blogging - Descriptive Writing!

Walt: Write Descriptively.

Task Description: Today I created my own presentation all about Descriptive Writing. I got this idea from school as we would do Ailen Descriptions, Monster Descriptions and more! I did a mix of Character Descriptions and Setting Descriptions. I picked out four images from google and wrote a Description about each one. I did one about an Ailen, Shark, Beach and a Spooky Haunted House. I really enjoyed this task because I got to think very hard and think about detail in my writing. I hope to do this next holiday's because I think that it will improve my writing!

Holiday Blogging - Making my own Beat (Task 8)

Walt: Share our creations. 

Listen to my beat here!

Today task is all about creating our own beat! I created my own beat. If you would like to hear the beat just click the image above this writing! I have created a beat using a site called incredibox.com. It is an amazing site that helps you create your beat. It's kinda like acapella. I have created cool beat using beats, effects melodies and voices. I chose this beat because it has pretty simple. My brother also enjoyed the beat and was amazed. Remember to stay tuned for more blog-posts!

Holiday Blogging - How To Make Your Own Shoes! (Extra Task)

Walt: Provide step by step information.


Task Description: For this Extra Task we had to make a presentation on How To Make Your Own Shoes! Just simply follow the steps that I have written down. I am not quite sure what the name of the site was where I created my shoes but I think it was the The Nike Shop. I hope the steps inside the presentation is good! I really enjoyed designing these shoes and that's why I made this presentation so you can try it! Comment down below if you enjoyed it or not. Until then Goodbye!

Holiday Blogging - Making my own Shoe! (Task 7)

Walt: Design Shoes.


Task Description: Today's task we got to create out own shoes! We created this using a site I don't know what it's called but you got to try it out! Here's the link. I created my own shoe and it costs 100 dollars! I know right. I really want to buy them but I gotta have to save up money and ask my parents. It was fun creating my shoes. This presentation above shows my shoes in different angles. I thought that the design that I made was pretty cool. I loved the options on the site. This was a fun task!

Holiday Blogging - Flying Paper Planes! (Extra Task)

For the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge yesterday's task was all about Paper Planes! For the Extra task we had to Have a competition with our family playing with the paper planes we have already made and blog about the results! So I decided to grab my brother we can play. These three video's below shows how me and my brother fly the planes! It was pretty fun. Hope you enjoy!

Holiday Blogging - How to make your own Logo! (Extra Task)

Walt: Provide instructions on how to make your own logo.


Task Description: For today's Extra Task for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge I have made a How to make your own logo! We have been doing a lot of How to things so I find these tasks very easy! I made a google presentation and provided steps on how to make your own logo. I also used my own images I made and I placed it beside each instruction. I wrote almost a paragraph on each step and I tried to make it clear so readers can understand and have a go on making a logo! I hope you enjoyed the presentation and try make a logo using these steps. Comment down below if there helpful. Stay tuned for more Blog-posts! BYE.

Holiday Blogging - Team 4 Logo (Task 5)

Walt: Create a logo

This is my logo I have designed for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge! I've decided to keep the logo nice and simple, instead of crazy colours everywhere! For the font I just kept it red because it is the colour of our school. As you can see I have put the word Team 4 Holiday Blogging. Below it I have added Learn, Create and Share! I have put that there because it explains what we do in the blogging challenge. For Example: We learn new things in the holiday's and reading articles. Create means us kids creating presentations and fun things like this task how we are creating a logo. The last word Share is all about sharing our creativity and learning that we have done to the whole world! I've also I have also included four images is spice it up a little bit so it's not just boring plain! I think that this is a good logo for the Team 4 Blogging Challenge because it's nice and simple. It also is very easy to read represents team 4 and the school also very well! I think that this will be a great logo for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging challenge!!

Task Description: Today for Task 5 of Team 4 Holiday Blogging we are creating a logo for the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge. We are doing this task because the Team 4 Holiday Blogging Challenge NEEDS a LOGO! If we have a logo then we can have badges on our blogs. If the Teachers like our design then they might actually turn them into a actual logo. After making the logo we had to write a description on about the logo and why is it a good one. This is my logo I have created. I hope you like it!