Languages Learning Story

Languages Learning Story

My language class teacher is Abby, she teaches us Cook Island language on
Tuesdays at 10:30 am. Cook Island language is important to me
because if we don’t speak cook Island anymore then our language will die.
I feel 95% confident about my language because it’s easy to say and
because it’s similar to Maori and its easy to speak Maori

In Cook Island language I learned to do this year was all the colors and days in Cook Island language, The days are Monite Monday, Ruirua Tuesday, Ruitoru Wednesday, paraparau Thursday, varaire Friday, manakai Saturday and sapati is Sunday. The colors are muramura red, vareau purple, rengarenga yellow, tea tea white, kerekere black, tarona pink, matie green, auika blue, Makara orange, and reureu is grey.

My favorite parts of Cook Island language this year is
when we were learning the days of the week and when we played
fun Cook Island games, we played tic tac toe but to play tic tac toe,
Abby writes down cook island words in each square and we all get into
two teams x’s and o’s. We both get a go at guessing the Cook Island words.
If we get the words right then Abby puts a x or and o for whoever
gets the word right.

My Poetry Writing Learning Story

My Poetry Writing Learning Story

In Term 3, I was learnr to write different types of poems. 
The poems we learned about have special features. 

One of the poems I learnt about was a Quatrain Poem.

It’s special features are. A quatrain is a four-line poem
and there are four lines because the ‘Quat’ part in the
’Quatrain’ means Quarter

I tried to write my own one.  

Here it is.  

Slithering through the trees

And into the city

I see a store with lots of cake

Look over there! a slithering snake!

I want you to notice how funny this poem is because of how the
snake comes out and scares everyone because you know how
when you scare someone sometimes you laugh at them.

I got some feedback on my poem which was that
Whaea Vicki said that she likes the use of the
word ‘Slithering’ in my poem but she
thinks I should try to make City and Trees Rhyme.

I then tried to re-work my poem and now I’ve got this.

Slithering through the trees

And past the bees

I see a store with lots of cake

Look over there. A slithering snake!

My Polyfest Learning Story

My Polyfest Learning Story

“Smile, sing, dance! Look to the front!, not good. Do it again!''
Says Ms Collins and Ms Sophia.

“Man...Cook Island Polyfest is hard!” I say.

“Shh..ZIP IT” Says, Miss Collins. 

Boom!, Goes the drums as Fuli, Tangaroa, Aka, Tea and Abby bang
the drums as hard as they can.

“EVERYBODY DANCE!” Said Abby. 

Boom, Goes the drums again. “GUYS!” Said Abby,
“DRESS REHEARSALS ARE ON WEDNESDAY WE NEED TO GET THIS
DONE!”

“Guys, guys, guys, Here are your costumes” Abby said.

I think to myself “Guys?! I'm a girl!” I said. 

“AHHHHHHHHH!!!! POLYFEST IS TODAY!!!!” I said
“What Will I Do!?!?!” I don’t even have black shorts!!!

“MUM HURRY UP WITH MY HAIR!!!” “Shut up Teana
I’m almost done gawd” My Mum said. “Oh no Mona  is
here to pick us up!!!” I said before going to Hosanna Church.
“Oh wait nah sorry we’re gonna go pick up Hopi tell mum to
take you there” said my aunty. I heard Journey moaning for my
Mum to come then he started a tantrum. 

“Okay we are at Hosanna Church right now but how do we get in
and where is everyone else?!” Said Kastro. “Oh nah! They’re at
cannons creek eating fish & chips!” Lexis said.  “ONLY KIDS ARE
ALLOWED INSIDE THE CHURCH PLEASE WAIT PARENTS” Miss Adele
Shouted.

“Oh, there go to Miss Adele” Said Lexis. “HAVE FUN MY MUM SAID”.
“Hey Guys Mona’s here” said Journey. 

During Polyfest

“IEREI, SHERYL, ZAYLIN, POKO, TEANA, WE ARE NEXT!!!” Said
Kymani. “I’m so scared!!!” “No, Isn’t the Tongan group next?”
Said Upoko, “no WE are NEXT” I said. Then Caleb comes walking in…

“Hey you guys are on soon, get ready” Says Caleb.

“SEE UPOKO I TOLD YOU!!! WE ARE NEXT” I said.

We all go to get ready to go on stage and we are giving the
Tokelau group high fives as they go and get ready for Kapa
Haka or they just get changed.  It’s our turn next. Oh my God,
I was so scared, and here we are singing Kuki Airani and then we
end with a drum dance.
At the end, I felt proud of myself for taking a
risk of not being a shy person like miss Trish sometimes is, I also felt
happy after the dance because after was Kapa Haka.
When I remember about Kapa Haka that I got nervous again
and as we did Kapa Haka none of the boys listened to Matua
Todd, They did the Haka way too fast, so I felt embarrassed.
I said to myself, “That was the best night ever, I hope it happens
again”.

Teana's Reading Learning Story

Term 3 Reading 

I have been building my skills as a reader.  

I’m going to share about how I know I’ve been
successful as a reader. 

This is what helps me be a good reader

• My Teacher by teaching me how to read a book

because without the teacher, I can’t be able to read

a book.

• My Mum by helping me read a word or sounding

out the word. 

• Sheryl when she helped me figure out a word which it

• My bookmark because it helps me to go back and think

about the sentence that I'm saying when I am reading

my book.

• Try and Infer a word.

My book is called Sandstorm

and the author’s name is Judy Cumberbatch, 

My book is a Narrative book.

I was a good reader when I didn’t know a word because
it is written in Arabic so I used google translate but
then I thought it was wrong so I asked Ahmad because
it’s his language. It means “good morning”

This helped me because I needed to know the word so
I could say the whole sentence and, I used a variety
of strategies to help me work out what I needed to
know to understand the book well.

My Procedural Writing Learning Story About How To Make A Light Bulb Work

We have been learning to describe a process.

When I write, I need to think about the ideas, structure & language, organization, vocabulary, sentences, spelling and punctuation I use.  

Ideas	Structure and Language	Organization	Vocabulary	Sentence Structure	Spelling	Punctuation
-Write using a range of ideas, experiences or items of information -Confidently shape my ideas for effect -Create content that is concise and relevant to the curriculum task -Support my ideas with precise detail -Uses ‘show does not tell’ when appropriate	-Deliberately choose a clear, controlled and logical text structure to suit the audience and purpose -Show creativity and innovation when creating texts for my audience -choose appropriate adjectives, verbs, nouns and adverbs.	-Write in structured, well-developed paragraphs that flow well from one to the next within the text -Use linking words and phrases to link paragraphs for effect -Use a bullet point or number to separate the different steps	-Maintain audience interest through content, humour and language choices -Use language that is suitable to the topic and purpose, and discuss these choices with others -Deliberately use written and visual language features when appropriate to enhance my writing; e.g similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, rhetorical questions and diagrams -Use a range of precise vocabulary to communicate meaning	-Use a variety of sentence structures, beginnings and lengths to give effect -Use complex sentences that are grammatically correct -Use some conjunctions correctly eg: FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) -Use complex sentences.	-Write all basic sound and spelling patterns and use spelling rules to write unknown words -Spell words correctly by drawing on knowledge of how words work	-Use all basic punctuation independently -Attempt more complex punctuation (eg semicolons, colons, parentheses).

Here is a piece of writing I did this term.  

I was writing to describe the process that enables a lightbulb to turn on.  Notice how I used feedback to improve my work.

Here are the items you need to make the

Light Bulb work

-Light bulb

-Battery

-Wire

-Switch

So how to make a light bulb works is with the battery, but not just any kind of battery.  You need A USB rechargeable torch, that can be of particular use if you have access to a power source or portable power bank. What made the light go on? Electricity does! Electricity as in a circuit.

A circuit is a form of electricity, that goes round and round in circles. When you press the switch to go off the circuit will cut off, because the circuit needs its power to keep going. If you press the switch the circle won’t be a circle.

Either way, sometimes the circuit will cut because your battery has been used and the battery will turn off.

Electricity flows through a thin tungsten wire in the light bulb called the filament. This resistance, the filament heats up and starts glowing, converting electrical energy to light energy.

Teacher Feedback: Go back to re-read your sentences to think about where commas need to go to separate out the parts of a sentence, or the beginning parts from the end.

Buddy feedback: you used lots of science words that I can’t even say but overall good job.

Teana> Thanks (:  Maybe you could make some paragraphs. >Teana> ok

My next step is to support my ideas with precise detail but I also need to know how to do it and find out what it means, because if I don't know what something means or is it means I will obviously not have it in any of my writing.

My Fractions Maths Video

Mindfulness learning Story

In Room 4, we’ve been learning to be mindful.

Being mindful is helpful for me because it helps
me to be calm because I think that when I’m just quiet,
I think it makes me feel calmer and not angry.
When I’m calm I can control my feelings, myself and anger so
other Red Zone feelings don’t take control of my feelings.

There are different ways to do mindfulness.  
We can do mindful moving, mindful eating or mindful breathing.  

The best way for me to do mindfulness is to stay sitting
up and not lying down.

this is because when I lie down it makes my back hurt
and it's uncomfortable.

On this page of free resources, I recommend you try
Happy Heart. I recommend Happy Heart because
when I did Happy Heart with my class I was mad but after
the mindfulness, I was just happy and I could control myself.

Thinking about Justice and Injustice

Room 4, we’ve been thinking about things that are just and unjust.

We’ve been reading a book called ‘Dawn Raids’ by Pauline Smith.

We’ve been thinking about what is just or unjust in the story.

I think it was fair when the Nana smacked the Dawn Raiders because of the
Dawn Raids woke everyone up in the house, even the old people!
Also, it was fair because if I was old and someone shouted at me to wake up,
I would’ve smacked them.

I think it was unfair when Alex tried to attack the cop but then the other guy
tries to stop Alex from attacking a cop, but then the cop turns around and
thinks that he tried to attack him so the cops put him in the patty wagon.

We’ve also been learning about the treaty of Waitangi.  
We’ve been finding out about promises that were broken.

I think it was fair when Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata were just living
peacefully in their land.

I think it was unfair when George Grey bought the treaty to New Zealand
but he broke the treaty. The Treaty said that they would bring Maori good
stuff and leave them in peace and they could keep their land,
but George Grey broke the promise because he was a Double-Agent.

I was able to make some connections between these things and my life.  

In my life, it’s fair when I get to be in peace and my parents aren’t bossing
me around.

In my life, it’s unfair when I get in trouble for things I didn’t do, Like how
I always have to clean up every mess in the house like I’m the maid in my house,
Or when my parents growl me and tell me to clean my room just after I
cleaned my room.

When that unfair thing happened, I yell at my sister and tell her to clean her
messy room for once.

Swimming learning story

Swimming Learning Story

I have been learning swimming at Cannons Creek Pool.

In swimming, I’m really good at

I can kick on my back for very long but either way, I still need to check
if I’m about to hit the edge.

I’ve been learning to do backstroke and make my tummy stick up,
I also have been learning how to do a Dolphin Dive and Rocketship arms when I swim.

Something I’d still like to learn is how to do a backstroke properly.

Photos of me

    

        Me trying to kick on my back
My free time in the pool

Padlet Learning Story

We have been learning about a new tool
to show our learning.  Our tool was a padlet.
You can make arrows that connect ideas or
pieces of information.
You can add pictures to show your idea or information.

We have used a padlet to communicate our ideas about
the stories we've learnt about Porirua.
We've been thinking about how knowing our
past helps us prepare for our future.

I made some connections on my padlet.  

I connected Te Rauparaha to Te Rangihaeata because
Te Rangihaeata is a Maori chief and so is Te Rauparaha.

I connected Kupe to Te Moana O Raukawa because many
years ago Kupe was living at Te Moana O Raukawa.

I connected myself to Ngati Toa Iwi because that is my
iwi.

My Writing About Kapahaka

Hi I am Teana and I'm Writing about Kapahaka

At kapahaka, I learnt the Haka easily.
At first, I was in senior Kapa haka but then
I moved to Teina Kapa haka because I was a year
4. I’m a year 5 now so I can go to Senior Kapahaka
and learn more about my culture.
Next hui of term 2 2019, the Senior Kapahaka
group is performing. We are performing 4 or 3
songs.

At kapa haka, I learnt the song E Nga iwi,
I never knew my whanau knew that song.
We also learnt a song called Te Temepara.
We are performing Tu Mai Ra too I like
Tu Mai Ra, and the song No Te A Pauri.
I don’t want to perform in front of the whole
school because I’m I scared I might forget the
moves.
If I make a wrong move I will just keep going
just like I did at production and poly club
performing.