As part of Kaupapa Matua this term, we have been focusing on taking ‘action’. We have been learning what to do in situations where we may not feel safe or somebody around us feels unsafe. 

We met the local education officer Jeff, he has taught me what to do in situations where I don’t feel comfortable around people, that it is never the victim’s fault for what has happened, different types of abuse. The short time officer Jeff has been here has taught me stuff that my class, friends and family should do in different situations. He also taught us what a trusted person is, it’s a person that will listen and reassure you, will believe you, won’t tell anybody who doesn’t have to know, and will tell you some key things to do if it happens again or if you come across him or her again. 

The different type of abuses are sexual abuse, sexual abuse is where you get touched in places you know isn’t right, where you don’t feel comfortable for them to touch and where you do not give them permission, that would be statutory rape because even if you give them permission and you or somebody else giving consent under the age of 16 is Illegal.

Physical abuse is when there is somebody hitting you or somebody that is near you, physical abuse you can physically heal, but mentally healing from physical abuse is very hard and it could take years to heal from. When something starts acting up because they are intoxicated it is best to hide, call close family, or if you can’t call for help go to a neighbour and ask for them to call 111 or a close family member’s number. But if you do get abused physically it is never your fault and to always report it.

Emotional abuse is when people use their own words and sometimes their Insecurities. When somebody is emotionally abusing you then the best thing to do would be to tell a grown up especially when you’re at school during break time it would be best to tell a teacher that is close or a class teacher. 

Neglect is also a part of abuse because when you’re ill and your parents or caregivers don’t give you the right treatment that you need is neglect, not showing you the help you need. Or neglect can be like getting treated like a prisoner, keeping you away from your friends, not letting you go to the bathroom to shower or use the toilet, making you eat at certain times or not giving you your daily needs. 

Family violence can also be a type of abuse. When your dad is hurting your mum, or your mum is hurting your dad that is family violence and the best thing to do while all that is happening especially when somebody is intoxicated is to tell a family member to come over and sort it out and straight after that call the police, having a older family member to take care of you and possibly siblings. Staying out of violence and taking care of everything else except for violence and letting older family members or the police is the best or a trusted neighbour.

Cyber bullying is also abuse because online you are getting bullied or lies are getting put up about you, family members or a close mate of yours and impacts teenagers and kids mental health. People getting cyber bullied at a young age is very common now and happens quite often. It is not good and telling a family member you trust or a grown up you trust would be best to deal with it then that would get them to stop.

Today my class and I learnt about simple, compound and complex sentences. But before we had to do any work we watched a few videos about what simple, compound and complex sentences look like. Then we had to do a slide show with what simple, compound, and complex sentences are and what they look like judging by photos. Fan boys in like the nickname for all of the conjunctions for all the sentences like simple, compound and complex. Fan boys stand for ‘for’ ‘and’ ‘nor’ ‘but’ ‘or’ ‘yet’ and ‘so’. 

Simple is when there is one noun in the sentence and one verb, it’s a complete and independent thought. 

A compound sentence has two simple sentences that are joined together. Example : Ducati liked to read books, because reading gave him knowledge about a certain subject. 

A complex sentence includes the dependent and independent clause. It consists of one clause that makes sense and one that does not. Example : The children were protected, but they were still worried about getting hit.

Heres the link to my work.

This term we have been learning about action. This subject is about peaceful protesters they used flags tables and speeches for human rights and for their land to be given back  I will be writing about famous protesters.

Did you know that Dame whina cooper walked all the way from Te Hapua within around five thousand people To wellington and she was a Maori chief she was also the age of 79 and she was doing this for Maori rights. Dame Whina Cooper’s birthday was the 9 of December in 1895.

Martin Luther King Jr was a protester for black rights because of the rasic people, tons of white people were rasic so he spoke up apon all of his people and got his rights. Born 15th of Jan 1929, passed away 4th of April 1968 at the age of 39 years old. In my opinion he died pretty young.

But I hope you learnt a thing or two from my work.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Dame Whina Cooper.

For a little while I made a google draw to write facts and everything that had happened with Dame Whina Cooper, and Martin Luther King Jr. When writing about them I learnt so much, I ddn’t even know how much Dame Whina Cooper walked before I did research about her. And for Martin his name when he was first born was Micheal, I didn’t know until I had done some research recently. I have learnt so much things about them and what they stood up for, in my opinion if they hadn’t had done that it might’ve not changed and it would’ve been so different right now if they didn’t stand up for themself and others.

Dame Whina Cooper work.

Martin Luther King Jr work.

Today we wrote about cause and effect, we matched sentences identifying the cause and the effect. Once we finished doing it on our book we drew about it on a Google draw. Then we used a venndiagram to compare and contrast about elephants and kangaroos.

Heres the link to my work and also a photo of my work.

Talofa Lava.

This week is Samoan Language Week, in class we have been learning some basic greetings in Samoan.  

Heres the link to my work! Here.

tofa faafetai mo le faitau

Kia Ora. This term in our Action Stations we have been learning how to write a song.

I really enjoyed writing our own songs and being able to write what I want to. I didn’t like how we  weren’t able to find some of the right things such as good beats that go with it or the right rhythm because we didn’t have enough time, but if there was more time then it would’ve been better and I would’ve wroten more.

If this was offered again I’d love to do it again, it was a nice experiment.

My song was about Rawhiti school, I wrote stuff like when it was made, the schools before and the whakapapa of the kura. I learnt a lot of things about the school, I’m glad that I did write about Rawhiti because it’s a great school and has lots of history.

Today my class and I got the chance to do an experiment with skittles. We worked with Whaea Caroline and it was really fun. We used cold and hot water to see what one would work better, I think the cold one was cool and nice. But the warm/hot one was also cool, overall I think the cold one was better and I’d prefer the cold one. My hypothesis was that the water will take the color out of the skittle because it was in the water. The results of the skittle experiment was how the colors from the skittles came out looking so cool. I think the purple and red colors mixed was my favorite because it stood out from the rest of the skittles. The warm/hot one was also cool but I didn’t like it as much because it just melted the skittles and didn’t look as pretty. I didn’t dislike anything about it. We used 2x plates, hot and cold water around 50 mils, and placed the skittles on the outside of the plate. 

Thank you for reading my blog. Hope you learnt a thing or two!

Have you tried this before?

Yesturday my class and I got tested by Whaea Jasmine to see how much Maori we knew and to see if there was words that we didn’t know about there was Maui, matau, whahine, Tama, kapua, ki ronga, ki raro and more. But there were some words I had forgotten such as ripeka, that’s a cross. There was also more words that I had forgotten but then I got a little help to remind me what they are, I can’t really remember what the words were. We had to draw a picture and see if it’s the same as Whaea Jasmine. My favourite part to draw was the Tama because I thought it was cool and also pretty fun to draw. The part that I didn’t like was how people kept talking so I had to ask Whaea to repeat a few times. Although I’m not the best drawer it was fun to do and I liked it.

Here is Whaea Jasmine’s work compared to mine

This week my class and I have been working on Maori who changed the world. We all got different Maori people. I got Billy T James and we had to find out information about them. We had to find out their date of birth, where they were born, who they are or was married to, plus more. I found out a lot about him like how he was a musician and how he died from heart failure. I’ve finished my facts on him and here the link to the facts about Billy. We also made a Whakatauki about/for Billy.

Do you know Billy T James??