dragon

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing some more writing.
The objective was to find a video that you find cool and interesting, choose a part of that video and describe it in the best way you can with powerful descriptive vocab.
I liked all of this because the video that I chose suited what I liked writing about.
I did well on knowing the correct language features for the piece of writing that I was doing but I didn’t do very well on knowing which part I was going to do though because I wanted to write the whole thing but I didn’t want the readers to read TO much.
I am also happy that I got a rubric 5 because that means a massive achievement in my writing and now I look forward to get my writing to a rubric 6. So I need to deliberately and consistently use precise vocab like Expressive, academic, descriptive, technical/abstract words for affect.
Hope you enjoyed my post and even if it’s not a school activity feel free to choose a video and do the exact thing I did.

also here is the link to the story

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NOT LET

on Thursday the entire school brought ourselves into the marae because someone called Nichole was going to give us a message with a little story about a character named Ned.
Ned’s letters (of his name) also had different meanings.
N = never give up.
E = encourage others.
D = Do your best.
I liked her message because a lot of meaning was in it and I think that whenever she explained it to people that had a complicated life it probably changed their behaviour.
What I did well was think very highly of the message she was giving us.
I hope she makes another story, with another character that has a new positive meaning.

science

in Te Ngahere we’ve been learning science.
The reason for this was because Paihia school was hosting our own science fair.
My group was Dezray and Darrius, as a group, we decided that our project will be to see what type of brand battery lasts the longest with a remote control car. I wasn’t very good at this though because I didn’t have much knowledge about batteries. What I enjoyed though was having fun with my group even though they were a bit disrespectful to the whare, for example they were playing base ball with the rakau. What I think I did do well was when we were testing I was doing some other work.

toku whanau

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to introduce our whanau in completely different ways. Unlike a pepeha we had to introduce everyone else in our whanau like my cousins, aunties, uncles and grandparents.
What I enjoyed about doing this was learning how to introduce everyone else in my family in different ways because I find it sad that I just know how to introduce my siblings, mothers and dads, when I need to know my other family members.
I think I could’ve done better in presenting it because at first I thought I needed to say Ko Girly toku whaea keke instead of Ko ia Girly te tuahine o toku mama whakaangi but what I did do well was know how everyone in my family was related to me.

CRAZY CHICKENS

Te Ngahere along with the rest of the school was introduced to some people who were musicians. They introduced themselves and started playing some songs. My best song was CRAZY CHICKENS, because it allowed everyone to play around and be crazy like a chicken. What I enjoyed about the concert was that I was allowed to act crazy when doing the crazy chicken dance. What I didn’t do well was keep track with the crazy chicken song but what I did do well was just have fun and do my best.

smile project

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we were learning how to smile and wave to other people in the school at lunch because we were doing a science project about making people happy. I liked this because I loved making the juniors happy. What I think I could do better was go to some more juniors because I didn’t do many people. I was so happy to make junior's happy because we gave them a reason to feel safe at Paihia School.  After lunch our teacher, Whaea Chrissy, was very pleased with us like she was about to give us a major promotion.

Technology

In Te Ngahere we went to Moerewa School for Technology. The year 7’s went to Mr E’s class which waswoodwork and the year 8’s, including myself, went to Whaea Dot’s class to make lasagne, which could give you a hint of what her class would be about.  We had to use different types of ingredients for the lasagne that were healthy but also delicious, but we  couldn’t do it by ourselves because it’s impossible for someone to get 2 jobs at once like trying focus on both the cooking and the gathering. My teammate was Darrius who’s basically my cousin. For our lasagne we had to have a writing book to glue 3 pieces of paper in to explain to us how to make a lasagne . Darrius and I chose some categories that were vegetables only. It took a couple of hours to cook but then I needed to make white sauce. I really enjoyed Technology and if you’re from Moerewa School and you’re reading thanks for the opportunity to let us do Technology at your school.