Personal Narrative Board

Ni Hao Everyone,

This term ( Term 1 ) we are learning about Ko Wai Au who are you or who am I. Firstly the teachers were given a task ( mind you this was last year at the end of the term. They were told that they needed to be creative and come up with a way to do a personal narrative ( Which is a bit like talking about the main points in our life. So they set up a gallery of their work and presented to the classes that would be doing the same thing that the teachers had done.

Then a few weeks later we started to create our boards. But of course we needed to make a plan on where everything was going to be placed on the cardboard. So we created a plan for where everything was going to go.

As you can see I planned on doing a cross in the middle and then some pictures of my country flag, bible, cross, me, my family etc. Then I was planning on doing some writing then put the images in the same place where the writing was on. So firstly we needed some cardboard to display our writing or images. Then after finding some cardboard we had to paint it and most of the students decided to paint their boards blue and make it only one colour. But some people chose to do their separate colours. After that we had to print out our writing and something that we needed to have on our boards were our pepeha’s. Before we needed to glue our images and write on our boards we had to make sure that we had a border at the back of the writing and image to make sure that they pop out and stand out. And this is the final result of my Personal Narrative Board. I will add a photo of my board down here for you to see 🙂 .

If you are able to see I changed things around and you can see the brown border which makes it pop out. But overall I think that this was easy but hard to do and make.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day / week and remember to spread the gospel  🫰!!

Nga Mihi – Sala 👋 🙂

 

Painting On Plastic DVC Tech 25.

WALT: Recall what we did at Technology.

Assalamualaikum Everyone,

This week for Tech we did some painting on some paper it was like laminate paper. It was a bit like stain painting that you can see in the church at the top. I will put down a photo so that you can see what it looks like.

We did something like this but not on glass it was on plastic. Firstly we needed to make sure that we had a design we could choose if we wanted to copy a design that the teacher had printed off or whether we wanted to do our own designs. We did our designs straight onto the  plastic and if we made a mistake we needed to take a whiteboard pen and then go over the mistake and then erase it off and it will come off. I chose a rectangular border and it had a flower design in the middle. I decided to paint the flower pedal red and then I painted it a light colour and dark to make it stand out when the sun shines on it. When we wanted to paint we needed to  put Mod Podge on it.

This helps the paint to stick to the plastic and makes the paint more liquid and makes it more able to stick onto the plastic. Something I learnt from DVC or Technology is that sometimes when we mess up we can just erase it but sometimes it can’t be hard to erase.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala 🙂

Positive Communications Kiwican 25.

WALT : Positive Communications

Hola Everyone,

This week for Kiwican we were learning about Positive Communications and what it means. Positive Communications means Teamwork makes the ( Try to finish this famous saying ) …….. Dream work. Our theme for this term is Positive Relationships this means playing in safe and thoughtful ways with others. Our country for this week was Argentina. Some facts about Argentina is that they have a famous player that plays for Argentina called Messi, On there flag in the middle of the colours they have a yellow sun that just stands in the middle of the flag, They have a dish called Asado which is like BBQ ( Barbecue ) and lastly they have money which they call it Pesos.

Then we moved onto our Energizer was called hoop + hoop. The main idea of the Energizer was that we had to try and get the hoop over everyone in the lowest time. Then we came back down to the mat and then talked about how we showed Positive Communications in the Energizer. After we discussed how we showed positive ways we did our activity which is our main game but our Energizer is a short little game to keep us awake. Then we came back on the mat and made a circle because after discussing what we did positively in the game we did GKQ ( Which means General Knowledge Questions ). Basically the way it goes is that we have a GKQ Master and they stand in the middle and they get to pick which way they would like to go. So the first person stands up and listens to the question the Kiwi Can Leaders they will ask a question and the two people standing up will answer the question first one to guess it right will be the new GKQ Master and will do the same until everyone has a turn. And then we end with the catchphrase and then do our ending thank hand thing and then finish.

I learnt that Positive Communications is speaking with good manners and  not using bad manners or bad language to others and disrespect others with the same mouth that we use to speak in front of our parents because we know that we wouldn’t say those types of words in front our parents. I will now add a photo of positive communications so you can see how to communicate properly.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala 🙂

 

Key Chains DVC Tech .25

Malo E Lelei Everyone,

This week for Tech we made some DIY Key Chains from the beginning. Firstly our DVC Teacher told us we had to make some Key Chains from scratch. Firstly we needed to sketch out some ideas or patterns that we wanted to print out onto our real papers. We needed to make sure that we make the patterns closer so that we can make more Key Chains. So we needed to think of some patterns to draw on our draft paper and then transfer it to our paper that shrinks and makes the Key Chain small. There was two different types of sides on the paper. We needed to draw our patterns on the side that felt like paper. I had made about 2-4 Key Chains at DVC Technology. I made a Hyperpigmentation, Tuvaluan Flag and some others which I forgot what I made it into. So now I learnt how to make Key Chains from scratch. To colour it in we needed to use coloured pencils for the colouring because if we used felt then the colour would be gone. We needed to put the Key Chains in an oven so that it would shrink into mini Key Chains. And that was what we had done for Technology this week it was hard but easy.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala 🙂

 

Overlapping Painting DVC 25.

WALT : Overlapping painting 

Bonjour Everyone,

This week for technology we were still using clay for DVC which means Design Visual  Communications. We had made clay modelling last week for Tech and I had made a basic pottery pot and it was a bit cricked when it had dried.  We had to  paint them into patterns we wanted to make it look like and we also had some inspiration which we could turn our bowls into a fruit looking pattern which can make it look fun to use. But our DVC teacher said it was not good to eat out of it it was not toxic but it is not for people to eat out of.

When we painted we had to use a pattern that we liked and wanted to replicate. I chose to replicate a kiwi bowl and it was kind of good but it still needs some practice to perfect it. We needed to make sure that we made it look a bit realistic to what we were trying to copy. My kiwi was not that good because the seeds were about too big and the bowl that I  made was a bit unsymmetrical. I finished but then I  decided that I was going to add a face on both sides to make it look a bit more interesting. I do not have a photo of my pottery because I did not have anything to take the picture on and I broke it today in the morning.

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

Positive Relationships Kiwican 25.

Nihao Everyone,

This week for Kiwican we had a new theme called Positive Relationships. Positive Relationships means working and playing in safe and thoughtful ways. I understand this because to me it means that we do stuff in a kid and respectful way so that others can follow you and you  are showing leadership and self determination because you are showing that you can lead and take the wheel and be a leader. Our country greeting came from China and some facts that I had learnt was that their national animal is a Panda, The stars on their flag represent leaders, There are 2 republics of China and they had Chinese new year and their name for their money is Chinese Yen and lastly their Capital City is called Beijing. And we are learning about Positive Communications and what it means. And the value was Whakawhanaungatanga  which has the same meaning as the positive relationships and that is what we did for Kiwican.

I will put down the link for the slide down below for you to see our Kiwican leaders and our values.

Kiwican Slides

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala 🙂

Explanation Writing Favourite Dish .25

Malo E Lelei Everyone,

This week we got given a task by our teacher ( Whea Lorraine ) to do an explanation writing on our favourite dish that we love. We chose which dish we wanted to write about to our teacher and why we chose it. I had to plan what I was going to pick and I decided to pick Kopai. I picked this dish because it came from Tuvalu which is where I come from and so is this dish. Kopai is a dish that has a lot of soup and its colour is white and it has bread that goes into the soup and you would think its raw but actually it is cooked perfectly. But we needed to make sure that we had questions to answer otherwise our explanation writing is going to be boring and maybe not that descriptive about the food we are talking about. Then we had to create a doc and then explain why we chose this and the 5 w’s ( Where, When, Why, How, What ) but we also had to ask other questions.  Here are some of my questions.

  1. What is your Favourite dish ?
  2. Do you eat it often?
  3. Why did you choose it?
  4. What Island / Country did it come from?
  5. Is it sweet or salty?
  6. What are the ingredients to make these??

These are my questions for my favourite dish. I will add my work here. There is also a picture on the doc that shows you what it looks like.

Favourite Dish

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala 🙂

YR 8 Leadership Homework .25

WALT: Understand what Leadership looks like as year 8’s

Talofa Lava Everyone,

This week our teacher gave us a task specifically for the year 8’s to write about leadership it was about how we wanted everyone around us  to be remembered as. We only had to write one page of what we wanted to be remembered as and we had one day to finish it but then that had extended to a whole week because our teacher was not in class for two days so that is how it was extended for one whole week it is now due today. The punishment that was given to us was that we had to stay in for lunch time and work on our piece of writing.

We had to make sure that we finish this because this shows our teacher that we are independent and mature enough to do things as we have been told. Most of us have shown this to our teachers and students that we can follow these rules and that our teacher can rely on us to do the job when she / he needs it. I want this writing to inspire others of what we want to be known for and that we can be what we want to know for. I  want this piece of writing to show everyone that we are able to be that person that we think we can be.

I published all my work onto a doc to showcase what Leadership looks like.

Sala’s What Do You Want To Be Know As

Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

TECH DVC 2 .25

WALT: Recall what we learned during TECH.

WHAT: When we can identify the main highlights.

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Kia Orana Reader,

For the first two weeks of Term 1 we have been going to Technology this is where we get into 3 groups with the mix of year 7’s and 8’s. Then we were in a class which was Food Tech, Hard Materials and DVC ( Which means Design Visual Creations).

 

A Highlight that I had a TECH was that we got to use the clay. Why was this a Highlight? It was a highlight because we are practising the basics of modelling the clay. We were making refrigerator magnets to stick onto our fridge. Firstly the teacher had to cut the clay into a small handful of chunks and then we passed it down until everybody had a piece. After we got the clay we squeezed it in our hands to make it soft so that when we crave out the shapes or what we wanted to carve onto our clay. Then we had to roll them into smooth balls and press them down so that they were about one centimetre and if there were any cracks on the side we had to put water which makes the crack dissolve back into the clay.

But we had to make sure that we had a space at the back to put the magnet on. I couldn’t think of ideas so then I looked at other peoples work and then I thought of making a bunny head and that would be good cause then I could stick the magnet at the back of the bunnies head. So I started carving out the bunnies ear and head. Lastly we had to put it onto this rack so that it could dry and it will be stable enough so that we can use it to use as magnets on our fridges.

 

And that was the process of how we did our clay modelling. This taught me to be respectful to other peoples stuff and that we have to respect other peoples rules. It has also taught me self control if we can continue to control ourselves then this tells our teacher that we can move onto more challenging stuff or something fun.

Thank you for reading my writing I hope you enjoyed reading it and have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala

News Slides Reading Response T4 .24

Talofa Lava Everyone,

Last week for reading we have been looking at some stories that had approximately two journals and one poem. So the first story was called The promise it is about that some kids are trapped or well they trap themselves in a room because the outside world was dangerous and the kids all knew about each other. They were all trapped in a room which was like an underground bunker because it had a wheel thing like a lock thing on the big metal door. Then after we had to do some activities that relate to the story and then after we did that we had to read the poem which was called  shrinking violet. Then we just had to do one activity for the poem because some of the poems are short and this one was short too. Then we had to read the last story and then complete the activities that were provided.  I will add the slide down here for you to see and if you have any feedback feel free to tell me in the comments.


Thank you for reading my blog I hope you have a good rest of your day and remember to spread the gospel.

Nga Mihi – Sala:)