gratitude

I am grateful for my mum and dad for protecting me. I am grateful my mum makes me lunch everyday. I am grateful for my mum and dad buying my whanau clothes and shoes. I am grateful for my mum and dad for fixing my things that are broken.

End of year review

Here is my end of year review I made on kizoa enjoy :)

How to make a little Christmas tree

Yesterday we made Christmas trees out of

Materials

• 3x cupcake cups
• ice block stick
• glue                      

Method

1. Fold the cupcake cups into triangles.
2. Grab the stick.
3. Find the glue stick.
4. Glue the cups on the stick.

Athletics day

Yesterday we had athletics day, the part I like was long jump because I came second and the end we got jump for fun, the easy part was not touching the red line and the hard part was coming second,  I learnt how to support people and be resilience and how to show the 3 r´s, next time I should practice long jump more.

paying it forward

In the mid-1930 things began to get better in New Zealand,  People received balance pay checks and enough money to by another treats. If you or I can travel back in time to the mid 1930´s  what treats would you bring. I would bring lollies pop´s and and vegetables like karats, rewai and kumara, I will also bring a few clothing for the whanau.

Floating or sinking

last week we made our boats and tested them in the pool, my boat was made our of straws and strings, the easy part was making the boat and the hard part was holding  3 coins on my boat,I think  my boat sunk because my boat was only little and it had holes in the straw so can rise over it and sink my boat, I think next time I should use hollow things like plastic bottles or hollow wood.

Assembly

For our assembly I played the piano  on green screen here a video, the easy part was the song and the hard part was setting up the piano, next time I should some friends to help me set up so it won´t be hard setting up.

kapa haka fraction

kapa haka

On Saturday we performed at the ASB  kensington stadium for kapa haka at 4:00 pm, we performed for 25 minutes and 25 seconds,we came 3 rd and made it to nationals at Waikato Hamilton 2019, i will work hard and we win nationals and be on tv again.

Taumarere history

Taumarere is a locality in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 11 runs through the area. The Kawakawa River runs through Taumarere into the Bay of Islands. The town of Kawakawa is 3 km to the southwest. Paihia is 14 km to the north.

St. Andrew's Church originally stood on the site of the Church Missionary Society's Paihia Mission Station. In 1927 the building was transported by barge and bullock waggon to its present site.

Reading to the juniors

On Wednesday we finally opened our new library, we had to dress up as a book character but hardly anyone dress up but did, I dress up as a piano man,we had to bless the library and then all the seniors had to read to the juniors for book day.

My holiday

1. wrestling my cousins
2. drinking fizzy
3. playing on my P.C

On the holiday my whanau from Australia came over to visits for a week, when they arrived from the airport ,after they arrived they packed away their bags and drove over to our house, we had a party and my cousins and I were wrestling on the trampoline, My cousin Deegan jumped on my back and R.K.O me on to the tramp, after a while I won the wrestle and we had some fizz's and had played on my new P.C my dad gave me, we played fortnite, skate 3 and some 2 player games.when my uncle came back he brag Deegans PS4 then we played duos and disco domination together and we manage to get a victory royale on duos twice.

Decimals

Today and yesterday we were learning how to do decimals,A decimal is a fraction that is written in the form of a dot followed by one or more numbers which represent tenths, hundredths, and so on: for example .5, .51, .517.simple math concepts, such as decimals and fractions, our question were 45.66 + 17.09=62.75 the easy part was writing and the table and the hard part was solving the problem.

Drawing a grid

Today we are doing math, but we have to use a strategy called a grid,you can use this for timetables and multiplication, I use timetables and I got the answers right, but it's not about the answers it's about strategy, my problem was 63 x 39 and the answer was 4257.

Fun Run

On Friday we wen't to the UK Rugby club for the fun run,We got there by walking to the train station  from school and  catching the train to the UK,when we got there we all were excited for the fun run because all the seniors got to run were the mud is and the juniors got to run around the two rugby fields, when it was the juniors turn we watch them running and some of the older brothers\sisters got to run with them to help them, when it was our turn we ran slow on the rocks because we had no shoes and it hurt, when we got to the mud I quickly jumped in the mud and got my hole body dirty, then we reach to the biggest mud spot in the UK rugby club, we all jumped and saw the girls and had a mud ball fight with them it was super fun,we were in the mud playing for 15 minutes, when we had hop out we had to wash our self in the creek instead some people including me ran muddy as with Jahrome, Qaiden and I came a draw on purpose muddy and happy, together we came 2 st place.

Project island

Today we are asking questions about project island,my question was ¨how long did it take to trap all the pest on the island?¨ we we´re also learning facts about project island my fact was project island is a pest free island, because if there rats or mouses there they take and eat the kiwis eggs, the easy part was asking question and the hard part was learning the facts I now know.

Report writing on Giant sea turtles

last week we were report writing, I was writing about a giant sea turtles, The things you need in a report writing is Subheading, Title, Opening statement and a general statement, the easy part was researching and the hard part was writing it in my own words.

Matariki

This last week of this term  we were learning about Matariki sports, the thing that I learnt is that the game is for everyone and that you need good wairua and good sportsman ship.

Junior Lesson

This week Room 5 and 6 including the year  7 and 8 of NRR were doing a lesson and fun games with them, What we did first was reading, we were reading On beyond zebra by Dr,Seuss, It was fun and then we went to do drawing, They were drawing zebra, and after that we went to play a game, our first game was tag but we stopped because the junior didn't know how to play so tout them how to play, so we went to play duck duck goose, it was fun then Mrs Henare called  us and everyone over for release it was fun and kept us fit.

Math

This week for math we were problem solving,Our problem was Highest to Lowest, we had to make the highest and lowest numbers with these signs, Timetables, takeaways and more, we had to use four numbers using 123456, I used 1256, I didn't get a really high number but I got an low number Like -49786, The easy part was doing the timetables, and the hard part was using my powers.

Reading

This week for reading we are learning to think critically, thinking critically means asking questions of the info you read, The easy part was asking questions , there were no things I needed to work on and I was succsesful

reading

This week for reading we are learning how to think critically,Think critically means critical thinking has been variously defined as: "The process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion" "Disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence", I needed practice but I nailed it.

Writing

This week for writing we are doing explain writing, Explain writing is when you use fighting words you have to use a passive voice, A passive voice is using only explaining words, The easy part was writing three paragraph the hard part was using hard words.

Math

Last week for math we were learning to problem solve in groups, The problem was tea cups and saucers, The easy thing was to work as a group the hard thing was to try solve in 12 times.

Math

This week for math we have still been learning to problem solve, The easy part was working together and the easy part was to solve the problem, Problem solving helps you with your math, It helps you by warming you up.

Reading

This week for reading I have been reading a story in a school journal called wonderful water , I haven't encountered any hard words I was thinking critically, I ask a question saying "where is this stream and why are  you testing it" that's what I said.

math

This week we were learning how to problem solve in groups, the easy part was working as a group and the hard part was problem solve, our problem was teacups and saucers the rules are that you have four colors and four cups in each colors green,blue,white,red you have to use all four cups and you cant have the same color on the same column and on the same row.

Reading

This week we were learning how to think critically and evaluate the text, the easy part was thinking critically the hard part was trying to get to the evaluate text part but we could ed because we are still learning to thing critically,thinking critically means asking questions from all info you read of a book, I can think critically because i've been asking questions on the journal I'm reading.

Awa map video

reading reflection

My reading is good because I can reading hard words like feudalism the hard part was saying it the first time the easy part was sounding it out

math reflection

my math reflection is good because I have learned my timetables, interges and more , the hard part about learning timetables was answering them the easy part was learning them quick the hard part about integers was counting in miniseries  the easy part was answering them.

Blog reflection

I learned how to do integers

Yesterday we were learning how to do integers, integers is a number its lower like -6 is a number in minuses, if you were in Nepal and it was -39 degrees cold just like that ,that how integers work and that what I learned. 

Leaning journey

I have been doing the learning journey on my holidays and its gone well. I have got a certificated for trying it was so fun and cool. I learned so much stuff about waka ama and the beatles.

Reading goals

Today we are doing our reading goals these are our goals for reading goals. My reading goals are to learn more harder words and sounding it out.

First blog of the year

Kia ora my name is Ngapua I am 11 years old, I like math, reading, sports, school and running I am a grade 7 and I attend Kapa haka competition and I am in the school band also attend prefect. 

Hairy Maclary

I think the first sentence was ¨Hairy Maclary's Bone¨ that what think I liked reading this book when I was younger

Ready to roll

I the three videos of the bands were very popular and famous my dad knows them.

The Three Rs - Rugby, Racing and Running

I think when he was int in to running it took months to try and do then he was famous for his records.    

Rock n roll

I think it was interesting because one of the members was wanting catch up with family, sadly the girl was sent to the hospital and one of the police were cross from the everyone damaging the fence and motorbikes. 

Peace out

My favorite television from that time was BRO TOWN that the first New Zealander show made.

Snail Mail

Picket Fences

I think it is a good one because you should have that 54 cm and 3 different veg because it is good for your health.

Crossing the Tasmen

This is my poem about that story "Flying across the sea in the cold breez  can't see through the windsheild 14 hours in the cold air are we gonna make have no fair" Thank you

The Roaring 20s

I couldn't watch the video but i think that silent movies would be interesting to watch because you would have to think about what they may be acting about, so you would need to use your imagination.

Art Deco

I rate the painting 4 out of 5, i think it is a great painting for the 1920s the lighting and tones are great and the paint job is awesome.

In Flanders Fields

This poem give mixed feelings first I feel proud that I had some great granduncles that fought for our freedom, all my grand uncles did survive and came home. But i do feel sad that they had to see a lot of horrible things and to lose some friends.

The Right to vote

The women rights in Saudi Arabia are limited which I feel it´s not fair because they didn't get to express their rights for women.

A Period of change

Christchurch Cathedral, is located in Christchurch central city and was build between 1864 and 1904 and is surrounded by cathedral.