Year: 2022

In Te Ngahere we had a new SLJ activity. For this activity we get to be a superhero for a day and we could choose 3 superpower with us. First superpower I choose will be invisibility because that make people can’t see me and I can do whatever I want. The second superpower I choose are super speed because if I ran fast enough then people cannot catch me. The third superpower I choose are mind control because if I use mind control I could control other people. If I get those superpower I would help people and save the world.

Have you ever imagined to be a superpower before?

Here is my own superhero sign:

In Te Ngahere we had a new SLJ challenge. For this challenge we imagined to be the principal of our school for a week and we have to write down 5 things that we will change. The first thing I will change my playtime into 40 minutes and change lunchtime into 20 minutes. For the second thing I will change our learning time into self managing but you have to make a different thing every block. Third thing I will change weekend time into 3 days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. For my fourth thing I will change Monday and Thursday into a fun day and change Wednesday into a music day. For last I will make parties every morning.

Have you imagined to be your school principal for a week?   

In Te Ngahere We had other new SLJ activity. For this activity we have to do some research and make a profile for “Lorde” (New Zealand famous singer). We had to find at least five interesting facts about Lorde. I learnt different facts about Lorde like Lorde was born on the 7th of November 1996. One thing I thought hard is that you have to find different interesting fact about Lorde.

Who is your favourite singer?

In Te Ngahere we had a new SLJ activity last week. For this SLJ activity we get to change our name, If I get to change my name I will change it into James. I got that inspiration from one of my favourite NBA players LeBron James. The reason I chose his last name because I thought Lebron is his own first name so I chose his last name. Also I would choose that because my original name starts with J and James also starts with J.   

Have you ever changed your name before?                     

In Te Ngahere We had another new SLJ(Summer Learning Journey) activity. For this activity we get to choose our favourite book and make a new book cover for it. My favourite book is “Diary of minecraft creeper Book 6 : Methane Mayhem”I made a new book cover for my favourite book and I added different details about what happened in the story. One thing that I thought is hard is that we have to make a new book cover without copying the original one and also we can’t use images from online.

Have you ever had your favourite book?

In Te Ngahere we Had a new SLJ(Summer Learning Journey) activity. Our new activity is called The Dancing queen. We watched the Royal family dance that was created by Parris Renee Goebel and then we have to write a review for it. Here is my review:

What a great dance to watch!!! All the action was so cool and the hip hop too. Their action and music fit together perfectly, people are doing their best to show people their dance. Their black and pink performance suit fit together very well but for the suit it sees a bit tight. I think is probably for show the act more clearly.  

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning perspective writing. For perspective writing we have to choose a character in a story that we have read and then we have to choose who’s point of view that we are writing. I chose to use the character the evil queen in the story “snow white”, I change the evil queen into a good character and then I changed dwarfs into bad characters. I thought it’s hard to write different character perspective because sometime you don’t get enough information about the character. I learned how to make a plan for perspective writing.

Have you learn anything about perspective writing before?

That’s what I wrote so far:

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning about Marine Life and Healthy Ecosystem. An Healthy ecosystem is made up of two parts, abiotic and biotic. Abiotic is non-living things like sand, rock and water. Biotic is living things there are 3 different biotics: Producer, Consumers and Decomposers. Producer are the plant that use photosynthesis to produce their own food, Consumers are animal that eat producer or animals, Decomposer are the animal that break down the dead matter. We also have been learning about different marine areas such as Coast, Estuaries, Fiords. In New Zealand there are two different coasts and they are rock cliffs and sandy beaches. Estuaries are a place on the coast where freshwater and seawater mix with a big mud flat when the tide goes out. Fiord is a long narrow inlet of sea. Fiord are made from freshwater above seawater. Rain water runs down the rock cliffs, absorbing tannins from plants and that makes fresh water brown. The freshwater lays above the seawater, it blocks the sunlight and that makes the seawater dark. I enjoined to learn different things about marine life and marine areas.

Have you learn anything about Marine life before?

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning how to keep our ocean healthy by watching VR videos with Thomas and Grace from Blake VR. The reasoned why their company is named Blake is because their company was named after Sir Peter Blake, the reason why they’re named after Sir Peter Blake was because he was in two American cup winning teams and he has traveled around the world in a race 5 times but unfortunately he died from a gunshot by a pirate. We learned that healthy oceans have seaweed and big fishes, also there are sea sponges and shell creatures to clean the seawater and they are called filter feeders. Unhealthy oceans have no seaweed and no big fish there are only small fishes, the reason it’s caused unhealthy oceans might be because two reasons, first reason might be overfishing because if we catch all the fish then the food chain will not work so the kina will eat all of the seaweed and then it will be unhealthy. The second reason was because pollution which is made of wastes, plastic and other unhealthy stuff. Also we have talked about how to solve those problem and the solution we got that everyone only can catch 3 fishes and we could get some lifeguard and cameras to check that they only catches 3 fish, for pollution we thought that if we use less plastic then we could have less pollution. We also learned that in protected areas we can’t to do 3 things and the first thing was that we can’t feed the fish in protected areas because if we always feed them then they might forget how to hunt, also we can’t go fishing because we are in the protected area and we can’t take shells and other stuff from the protected areas. My favorite part from the VR Video was to watched those wonderful fishes from the protected area.
Have you watch VR before?

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning about the Polynesian Panthers. For the Polynesian Panthers we had to read the text and we had to talk about what strategy we should use for the question and also we had to talk about the answers. We have learned that Polynesian Panthers were formed in 1971 and the reason that they were formed was because there was a lot of prejudice and racism  they wanted to stop it. The Polynesian Panthers were against the government who were conducting the dawn raids against the Pacific Islanders. We also have to talk about what some important words mean, for example: 

Racism: Unfair treatment to someone or somebody. 

Prejudice: Unreasonable dislike of someone because of their skin color. 

Economy: 3 main things, buy stuff, make stuff, sell stuff.

If I did it again I would use more detail to answer my question.

Do you know anything about Polynesian panthers?