Category: Hanga | Create

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??

This term for technology I have been doing sewing, we’re making a bag for ourself or another person. We bus to Te Aratai every Thursday morning with whatever teacher we get, normally we have Jane. There’s food tech, plastics, robotics, wood works, sewing and digitech. For making the bag all we need is a cool design, get it printed, and if we want then we can draw it. The thing I like about sewing is that we can print our own designs and  it’s just fun there, nothing bad about it. 

If you went or go to tech do you fund it fun? If so what’s fun about it?

Yesturday my class and I learnt about how to save money, what to spend my money on, and if  I should spend my money or keep it for other reasons when I really need it. Get Wi$e is a financial literacy program for students all ages. Get Wi$e is sponsored by ASB, ASB stands for auckland savings bank. I learnt how to save my money more and to spend my money wisely. I enjoyed playing a would you rather game and this shopping game. I didn’t enjoy calculating my money because I mess it up and restart over and over again. I would like to know what influenced people to make money.

Do you spend your money wisely or just buy whatever you see and touch?

On Tuesday we learnt about budgeting and like what it means and stuff, sometimes it can be like rip off one or a cheaper one. We played a holiday game to go to Fiji, we got given $1,800, some teams spent less and some went over. My group and I spent $2,000, we thought the game was fun and stuff but our name we much didn’t like because we couldn’t sort it out. We got insurance just incase we needed it and if something bad happens. We paid for food, taxs, flights, activites, accomodation. It was really fun and I didn’t dislike any of it because it was fun as. Heres a phot of us togeather with the teacher,

Today my class and I did a science experiment, we used milk and food dye. Ruby and I worked together, we thought it was cool. We used blue food colouring for the food dye colour, Ruby and I’s hypothesis was that it wouldn’t do much, but it separated and turned into a light blue. But yeah that was our science for today, it was fun and I also liked it.

Today my class and I did action stations and I did song writing with Matua Travis, Paige and I worked together to write songs, we wrote about Rawhiti school and we’re gonna put the words and facts that we have down into a song. We worked with Tane Mahuta, Twm and some other kids from Tangaroa. We all wrote about different subjects and added different things. We got to work in pairs or we got to work by ourself, our choice. Most of us choose to work in a pair because we didn’t know what to write about alone, I thought that writing songs would be easy but it wasn’t. It was harder then I thought, I really liked writing about songs and I’m happy I picked song writing with Matua Travis.

This term we are learning about science and today we learnt aboout what particles solid, liquid, and gas. To get solid to liquid you must melt it & it will separates into liquid. If you want gas instead you have to boil it & then it will turn into gas. If you want solid again then then you’ll have to freeze it. Solid particles are normally pushed all together and connected. Liquid particles are a little bit more apart then solid. Gas particles is mostly apart from each other.

This term my school did action stations. I did Kiorahi with Whaea Jasmine and when it would rain we would watch a old time video of how Kiorahi was done back in the days. After the video we would have to make a animation and I worked with Aj, Kingston amd Travis. Here is the link to my work.

Yesturday my class and I went to go see Harold and we learnt more about peer pressure. Sometimes peer pressuring is good but then sometimes it can be bad, we also watched a short video about what peer pressuring was.  why could peer pressuring could be good or bad? The bad outcome afterwards some wouldn’t like, because it’s either getting told off or more. The good outcome though it nothing could happen, as long as it’s something kind then yeah you wouldn’t get told off.

Harold cracked some jokes here and there aswell, such as ‘What’s a line of barbies?’ ‘A barbie-que’ get it? Like a big line and what not.

and what could happen afterwards. Like once I asked this person to go get my chromebook and my tote tray because I wasn’t bothered, later on we found out that it was peer pressuring. I did end up getting told off, so from now on I’m not gonna ask someone to do something for me without me saying ‘Please’ at the end of my sentence.

Then one time I got peer pressured to buy someone lollies after school because I had some money, sadly I brought them a lollie. When I got peer pressured I didn’t really mind because I had kinda a lot of money, but when I peer pressured someone I just ended up getting told off. 

Have you ever been peer pressured ??

This terms foucs is action and how to stay healthy. We have learnt a lot and do a lot of work around it. Lately we have been working around what vapes and smoking does, I learnt that smoking can make your brain grow slower and you can get addicted. Same for vaping, I’ve learnt a lot more things but I’m sure everybody would know. But if there is anything else anybody would like to know just comment and ask! I’ll answer as soon as I can. Did you know about any of these?

So far my class and I have been learning about peer pressure. Sometimes it can be negative but sometimes it can be positive, negative can sometimes be like forcing somebody to do something that they don’t want to do or arenn’t comfortable doing. Positive can look something like telling the truth about whatever you have done. Some people experience a lot of negative peer pressure and sometimes they’re the one saying for another person do to it. Sometimes just saying no or walking away from the situiation can make things better so you don’t get told off.