Matariki Day

Happy Matariki day!! If you don’t know what Matariki is, well In Aotearoa it means it is Maori New years. Matariki is also the maori name that represents a group of seven stars. Before I carry on with my writing I would like to fill you in on what Matariki actually means. Matariki doesn’t just mean the Maori New years but It also has two meanings, they both refer as the cluster of stars. So Mata Riki means Tiny eyes, and Mata Airiki means eye of god.

Now let’s carry on, to what happened last week on friday at Pt England School. At Pt England School we had Celebrated Matariki with fun activities for the whole day. There were all sorts of activities like Cooking, Arts and Crafts, Sports, and Movie Making. The whole School was split into either one of those four groups. I was in the Sports Group, With Tyson, Miss Va’afusuaga, Mr Moran and Mr Wiseman. We were split into three groups. One of the sports was Ki O'Rahi with Tyson, and Dodgeball with Mr Moran and then Cooking with Mr Wiseman.

My first rotation for the morning was dodgeball in the hall with Mr Moran. I was so excited to have dodgeball as my first rotation. He first had to number us off and whatever number we get we had to put our bibs on, I was in the green team. Before we played we he gave us some rules, and when he finished that when we began to play. Unfortunately I got out, but it was close to morning tea so we had to stop and have our break.

After Morning tea we continued on with our rotation, our second rotation was Ki O’Rahi with Tyson. It was my first time playing Ki O’Rahi and it was a really fun game, I really suggest this game to you all. We than had to move on and go onto our last rotation, and that was Cooking with Mr Wiseman. We were cooking Funfetti rice krispie treats. It was really sweet but still nice.

We had so Much fun at sports, It was a really good experience getting to know, not just a group of students my year but also students younger than me. I hope you all had a good Matariki day!

A few more chapters of Holes

WALT:  Inferring - I connect my prior knowledge to help me make meaning when I infer across several related clues in the text.

Matariki Problem

WALT: Collaborate and share our maths Thinking.  

Stanley gets use to digging hole at camp green lake

WALT: Predicting - I form and test hypotheses as I confirm or refine my predictions during and after reading. 

Nearly to the end of the book Holes!

WALT: Connecting - I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world

The story continues about holes

Samoan Language Week

Talofa lava It’s Samoan Language Week! Today would be the last day of Samoan Language, and we ended it with an item from the Teuila Kindy and also a group of students from the team 5 block. Although I am not Samoan, I also love learning new words in different language not just Samoan, but also in other different languages.

Before we started with all the performances we had our Usual Karakia and Mihi, and also our National anthem. Our first performance was from the Teuila Kindy. There first performance was the Samoan National anthem. After there Performance, we had another amazing performance from Eden Tuala. And our last Performance was performed by the year 7&8 girls. They were performing to the song La'u Samoa.

The Theme for Samoan Language was Alofa atu nei, Alofa atu taeao.  Which also means Kindness given, kindness gained. So when that comes to my mind I think when someone is being kind to you, you should return the favour of being kind back, That way they will know how kind you are! I hope that this theme has given you some idea of what it means to be Kind towards other people. Happy Samoan Language week!!