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Wednesday, 30 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 3 :Summer Tastes!

 


Hi everyone, it's me Finau and today I will be doing a activity for the SLJ. This is my fourth one I've done this week. This activity is called "Summer Tastes". We had to make a collage of favourite foods we like to eat in the summer. These are some foods my family like to eat in the summer, (we also like heaps more drinks and foods). I hope you enjoyed this post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 3 :Nanogirl Super Column experiment (video)



 Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and today I will be doing an activity for the SLJ. This is my third one I've done this week. Like In said I've done some of these experiments before. One of my favourites was the super column and the seesaw. I hope you enjoyed this post and the video. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 3 :Ultraviolet



 Hello everyone, it;s me Finau and today I will be doing another activity for the SLJ. This is my second activity for this week. We are learning about Ultraviolet. I was really happy with the idea because last year I learnt about it in my extension class. For this activity we had to design a wearable UV light sensor and a UV sensor that you could put in your home. Here's a link to 1 and 2. I also did a video even though it said not to but I wanted to share my learning on video. I also did the kick start and step up. I hope you enjoy this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Monday, 28 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 3 :It's Cool to be Kind


Interland:

Positive comments:


 Hey everyone, it's me Finau and this activity that I will be doing is called It's cool to be kind. This is about positive comments. We had to play Interland. After that we had to screenshot some comments. If you look at the picture with the grey background, then you are looking at the right one. The first comment was from Alamoni who commented on my blog, the second one is me writing a reply. Finally that last comment was me publishing it. I hope you  have enjoyed this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Saturday, 26 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 2 :We wish you a Merry Christmas!

 Hi everyone, it's me Finau and today I will be going another activity for the SLJ. This is my 6th one I've done this week. We had to sing a song with our family and I did one with my siblings. It was kind of hard because my brother Keni was not listening but the other 2 that was listening was Catherine and Vaha. I hope you all enjoyed the videos and this post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey:Week 2 : Te Huarere/Weather


Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and today I will be doing another activity for the SLJ. This is my 5th one I've done this week (week 2). This was about the weather and we had to try say it in Te Reo Maori. This was super fun because I did it with my sister Catherine. She made a mistake in the video (which was the step up activity). I hope you enjoyed this post and the activity. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 2 :Kiwi Jingle Bells

 Hello everyone, it's me Finau an this is my activity for the SLJ. Sorry that I hven't been posting a lot for the past 3 or 2 days? It was Christmas and I couldn't do any posts. This is called Kiwi Jingle Bells. For the task we had to make up our own jingle bells but NZ version. I hope you enjoyed this blog post please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 2 :Pigpen Cipher

 


Hey everyone, it's me Finau and today I will be doing another activity for the SLJ. This is my third one for this week (week 2). This was all about pigpen cipher. In the 18th century the Freemasons used it to keep the records private. WE had to use it like a code (kind of). We had to write our favourite beach. Can you guess what it is? You have to look at the image and use the Pigpen Cipher to find out. Also, on the second to last thing or whatever it is called this is a dot on the top left. Comment down below if you know or just to leave me a comment on my blog. I hope you have enjoyed this blog post. See you guys soon, Bye!

Monday, 21 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 2 :Hana Kลkล

 


Hi everyone, it's me Finau and this is my second activity for the SLJ Week 2. For this activity we had to read the story Hana Kลkล. It was about a Dad dressing up Santa Claus but in a way of his culture (hope that makes sense). We had to create our own and I created mine. I used an idea from the video, just one. I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 2 :Nanogirl Xylophone experiment (video)


Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and this is my SLJ Activity for week 2. This one is about Nanogirl and doing one of her experiments. It is the Xylophone experiment. I already did this like 4 months ago (for our school holiday blogging). Here's a link to it. I made a video to show you what the slideshow looked like. I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Friday, 18 December 2020

Our Christmas Tree!

The pictures on the right are the decorations we hanged. You can't really see them on the tree.

My Brother Keni just took over this video.

 Hello everyone, it's me Finau and today post is about my Christmas Tree at home. As you all know Christmas is very soon so we have to set up our Christmas trees. My family and I did it a couple of weeks ago. We had this tree for such a long time. I'm almost it's height. I love the decorations of the tree. It has lights, those small balls you hang on the tree and candy canes! Sorry you can't really see it. We don't have our presents yet because my Mum and my cousin Mele are surprising us. Thank you (to my Mum and Mele)! I hope you enjoy this blog post and video. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Tฤnerore & Kowhaiwhai Patterns

 



Hey everyone, it's me Finau and today I will be doing another activity for the SLJ. This is my eleventh one I've done this week! This is about Tฤnerore and Kowhaiwhai patterns. The first one I did was a koru pattern and the background was a idea from Julianna. The second one is one I saw from google was a kowhaiwhai pattern. I hope you enjoy these pattern. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Summer Haiku Poem


 Hi everyone, it's me Finau and today I'm gonna be doing another activity for the SLJ. This is y tenth activity I've done this week. We had to write our own Haiku Poems about summer. I thought this activity was a great idea. I had to so much fun doing it. I hope you enjoy my poem. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Optical Illusions



 Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and this is another activity for the SLJ. This is my ninth activity I've done this week. It is called and about Optical Illusions. I had to create my own even though it was really tricky but it looked really cool. I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye! 

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Which one doesn't belong?

 Hello everyone, it's me Finau and I will be doing an activity for the SLJ. This is my eighth activity I've done this week. I think this activity might be maths. It's called which one doesn't belong or what some of you guys call (including me) Odd one out. This activity was super duper fun but also tricky. On the last page I have my own and I hope you figure it out. I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Thursday, 17 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Te Reo Maori What are you doing

 Hey everyone, it's me Finau and today I'm will be doing another activity for the SLJ. This one is a about Maori and we are learning how to understand and pounce the Maori language. This was quite hard because I don't understand much Maori but  got through it. Yay! I hope you enjoy my SLJ activity. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Song Chorus

 


Hi everyone, it's me Finau and today I'm going be doing another activity for the SLJ (you probably already know what it means know and if you don't scroll down but I'm still gonna write the whole name). This is my sixth activity for the SLJ. We had to make our own song chorus. I had to much fun doing this activity. I don't have a tune for this song so you can make it up if you want to. I hope you enjoy my song. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye! 

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Art Colouring Book (Part 2)



Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and today I'm gonna be doing one of the activities for the Summer Learning Journey. The one that I will be doing today is the Art Colouring Book. That was the first activity I did this week but O said that I would try something more challenging and indeed I did. The first one is called Women combing her hair and the second one is Under the wave off Kanagawa. The ones of the left is my one and the ones of the right are the original ones. I'm actually proud of my artwork. I hope you enjoy this blog post (and the art). Please leave a positive comment on my blog.

                                                                                Bye!  :D

 

Summer Learning Journey/ Week 1 :Treasure hunt with Nanogirl!

 



 

 Hello everyone, it's me Finau and today I am doing the fourth activity for the Summer Learning Journey. This activity is called (and about) a Treasure hunt with Nanogirl! We will have to be doing a lot of experiments and the things in the video are the thing you really need for the experiments. I hope you enjoy this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Quality Blog Comment

 

Before comment:


After Comment:


Hey everyone, it's me Finau and I'm doing another activity for the summer learning journey. This is my third one. It is about blog commenting and how to write a quality blog comment.  The first photo above is the one I first (Sulia) did but I had to watch the video first, oops! So then I did another one. The second photo is my second comment that I did on Honey's blog. 

Why I think my blog comment is a quality blog comment. 

I greeted them nicely and said something nice about the work. I was being positive. I was then trying to think if that was something I knew or did and tried to make a connection. I also asked them a question and gave then some ideas and advice they maybe would need to make their work successful. Finally, spelling, proofreading and making sure that the comment makes sense.

I hope you enjoy this blog post and learn how to write a quality blog comment, Bye!

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 : Fishing False Teeth (literacy)

 


Hi everyone, it's me Finau and today I am doing the second activity for the Summer Learning Journey. For this activity we had to read a article and then watch a video. They weren't talking in the video, so we had to make our own comic and try to what they were saying. The part I liked was the video. It was sad at the start and funny at the end. Overall from my comic I'm proud of it (because I like it and it's funny). I hope you enjoy this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Summer Learning Journey/Week 1 :Art Colouring Book

 



 

Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau. It's the holidays so everyone can have fun by sleeping in or going on holiday or doing the Summer Learning Journey, (it's like holiday blogging!). I'm doing it and here are one of my first activities. This is called Art Colouring Book. You have to pick a image on colour it in. This is a famous painting but I don't know what it is called but  I really like it. I hope you enjoy my image or drawing. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye! 

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Extension Reflection Term 4 2020

 

5 & 6 Extension:

Secret Santa:

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Ambassadors:


Kitchen Science:



Hello everyone, this is my reflection for Extension term 4 2020.

This year has been an awesome year. Me stilling being in Extension with Covid and lockdown, Wow! When lockdown happened we got to still do google meets and contact each other and to work with each other. As soon as we got back to school I was so happy to see my friends again. 

One of my highlights from extension was Secret Santa (which was this term). We Gathered up together and had shared lunch. We gave everyone our gifts and ate and ate! We danced and sang to Tik Tok Songs. Hehe! Secret Santa for 2020 was a blast!

My second highlight was performing a dance in front of extension group. Kiarah, Angelica and I did a South American Dance. I was a bit shy but I stilled did it. I thought our dance was pretty cool as well as the others. Everyone got a good mark! Yay! 

My third highlight was Kitchen Science. I audition for their Tv show. I got the part. It was super fun. I did some science experiments with Nanogirl. Here is a link to it. I hope you enjoyed my reflection. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

A.F.J Photographers Art Alive Extension Research

 Hey everyone, it's me Finau and this is my research for Extension. Julianna, Aye and I researched about photographers. This was for Extension and the theme for term 4 was Art Alive, so we researched and did stuff about that. I hope you enjoy my research task. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Friday, 4 December 2020

Art Alive Art Exhibition


 Hi everyone, it's me Finau and this is my art project. We had to draw patterns about Maori, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and Cook islands. Here are the meanings. I will tell you something we did today.




Maori:

Koru: The Koru means new beginnings and harmony and growth. How that means to me is whenever it is like a new years eve, my family and I stay up together and celebrate new beginnings.

Kaperua means all things doubled. People say we look alike and that we are twins (we are not).



Niue:

Hiapo: The Hiapo design looks kind of like the designs we do on our tapa cloth or ngatu in Tonga.

Frangipani: This means devotion to someone. What it means to me is that in Hawaii we always were flowers like that to special events and yeah.


Samoa:

(Tusili'i) That means coconut leaves. In Tonga we use coconut leaves to build roofs on the houses back in the day.

(Fa'a moa fai) It means a flower blooming. On the 4th of July in Tonga we celebrate a festival called the Heilala festival. The festival is named after the national flower of Tonga called “Red Blossomed Heilala or Heilala flower’’.


Tonga:

Manulua is another Tongan pattern. It is one of the oldest designs in polynesian art. Manulau is a bird in Tonga and it is similar to a flower. It also means bringing 2 groups of family together. I think that is important to me because my family and my niece’s family love spending time with each other.

The Dove is on the Tonagn sila. It means God’s peace and how that means to me is that I love going to church and learning about god.

The Stars are on the Tonagn sila. It means the 3 main islands of Tonga, Tongatapu, Vava’u and ha'apai.


Cook Islands:

Ra is the Sun. It means a source of light and clear direction. How this means to me is (I hope you understand) like to feel like I have a clear future in front of me.

Tiare Flower means queen of all flowers and I would love to be the queen of flowers so I can smell and have flowers.

Matau Rua is a fish hook. It means love and in my family I have learnt to love everyone.


So now that you all the meanings I can tell you what we did today. We had our art exhibition at our school. We walked around all the other kid's classrooms and saw there artwork. One of my favourites was Team 2 (year 2 & 3) and Team 5 ( year 7 & 8). There ones were really creative, colourful and just awsome! Overall I loved everyone's art and it was supper fun. I hope you enjoy this blog post. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Tuesday, 1 December 2020

Duffy Book, A Twisted Tale

 


G'day everyone, it's me Finau and this is my Duffy book I got last week on Friday. My boom is called "A Twisted Tale". It is about Mulan (how I knew that was because the small sentence at the bottom). It was from Dominion. I know that I'm gonna really enjoy this book and when I'm done will maybe write and do a reflection about the book. I hope you enjoy, please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Real Life or Not?


Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and this is my reading task for today. It is called real or not? This meant about the story like if the story could happen to you or not. I hope you enjoy my reading task. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Maths Quiz (2)

 

Hi everyone, it’s me Finau and I have made a Maths Quiz. This is my second one. Here is a link to my first one. This quiz has 4 questions (as you all know because you participated in it). It you got them all right, then you are a superstar, if you some right then well done and if you got them all wrong I hope you get better and to more studying about maths. Thank you for taking part in this quiz. I hope you enjoy my maths quiz. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Shipwreck! (Creative Writing)

 

Bermuda Triangle.. Ummm… Have you ever heard that? Well it’s like this dangerous place in the Atlantic Ocean. No one wants to go there but some people did go there. Don’t tell your kids or other children, they will cry and cry and cry! Lots of people go there and they never come back. That’s why it’s scary and dangerous. The 3 main countries that form the Bermuda Triangle are, Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. Now you know a few things about the Bermuda Triangle let me tell you a story about a few survivors who went on a boat from Florida to Bermuda.


 One of the survivor's names was Jerold. 4 people (including him) went on a ship to Bermuda and they were in Florida. They knew that this was a risky move, you don’t know if you die or don’t come back. It was such a difficult choice to make because they weren't gonna see their families ever again. They agreed to do it. They had to travel to Bermuda because that was on their bucket list for all the countries they want to visit. They thought they were crazy and indeed they were but they just did it. They hugged and waved their families goodbye. They all cried and cried. The ship left.


They traveled and traveled. It was very far and they felt like regretting this decision but they were already on the ship. All they did was just lay down and sleep and dream. They dreamed about them on this journey and about their families in Florida. Jerold had one crazy dream.


He thought that they were gonna die and his family was gonna end up on the streets. He only works and the mother stays at home and does work at home. He almost had a heart attack but his mates got seawater and tipped it on him. He woke up and told them what he dreamed about. They were scared and wanted to go back home. What were they gonna do? Oh no!


Jerold ran up the stairs on the ship and tried to turn the wheel but instead they went backwards and it hit a big rock. Opps! The ship started going down. They all tried to get up high and find things to float on. One of Jerold’s friends. Chad brought a phone and lots and lots of life jackets. Jerold and his other mates thanked him.


They all take one life jacket each and put it on. They were still holding onto a log or wood from the ship. Gary (one of Jerold’s mates) stored a tiny camera in the ship. They tried to connect it to Chad’s phone. They finally did and saw what the shipwrecked look like. They were so grateful that they survived but there was one more problem, they were cold! One way was to get as close as to each other to get warm (real thing and one of Jin’s ideas. Jerold's friends).


Jerold thought and thought. He was wondering about how they would get back home but suddenly a big gush of wind and I mean a big one blew all 4 of them away. They went in this strange direction. They kept on going to the left, then to the right and then straight. They got back in 4 days. That was weird because when they went out in the first place, it only took 12 hours but now that it has been 3 days, that’s shocking. 


All 4 of them gasped and were in sweet relief. They weren't stuck in the sea anymore. Yay! They walked for about 30 minutes until they found a bus stop. They waited there just for a bit and a bus finally came. They walked home for like 15 minutes. Their families heard something and opened the door. It was Jerold, Chad, Gary and Jin! All the kids, wives and relatives hugged them and welcomed them in. They were so happy to be back at home.


There is no better place than home. 

Sweet, sweet home.




Hello everyone, it's me Finau and this is my writing task for today. We wrote about a picture that was a shipwreck. I wrote up to 679 words. I hope you enjoy my writing task. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Spy Kids! (Creative Writing)

 

Who do you think is better at fighting crime, kids are adults? Well I would say they are both very, very good but I think it would be…. Kids! Kids are very active and creative. There are actually 2 real siblings who actually fight crime. Carmen and Juni are the greatest kids spies in the world! 


Carmen and Juni were just enjoying their afternoon until they received a call. They answer “Hello Carmen and Juni. This is Agent JN. There is a villain that broke out of Jail. He wants revenge from everyone, especially you 2 after you put him in Jail (Carmen and Juni thinking it is). Yep you guessed it, Wicked Ron. He is thinking of building a robot to destroy you guys and the headquarters. You need to stop him”. Carmen and Juni were all like yeah we got this and we are so ready. Soon they suited up. It takes about like a minute or so?


Everyone knows you can drive until you are 16 and up but Carmen is 13 and Juni is 8. They actually have their own car but it controls itself. The car is only for spies and man it is SPEEDY! They found the location of Wicked Ron’s HQ. If you were there you could hear so many things.  Things to do with building cars but he (Wicked Ron) was building a mega and huge robot.


Juni kept on bragging and saying he could break in but there were 2 big, strong bodyguards at the front door. Carmen said “So what were you saying?”(in a cheeky way). Juni is like umm… never mind. What were Carmen and Juni gonna do? 


Carmen is the smart one and Juni is the funny one. Carmen thought and thought and thought until she had one of her brilliant ideas but it was simple but smart. She got a big trash can and threw it on the other side of them. Bodyguards are strong but some are not clever. Juni doesn’t care but thanks Carmen. 


They sneak into Wicked Ron’s HQ. It was like a maze because Carmen cautcalet or found out there were 53 rooms. What! Is what they both would say but Carmen and Juni were acting like it was easy and actually it was. They guessed a number, 10! They ran to room number 10 and there he was. He might be a villain but not a clever one. 


They needed a plan but nope, Juni ran into the door but Wicked Ron already opened the door so then Juni ended up tackling Wicked Ron to the floor. Carmen was so surprised. It was like her life flashed before her eyes! She picked up Ron and gave him a fist bump. She only does that when she is happy. Juni gave her a fist bump and a big smile. :)


They found his robot. OOOO… this was really good because they found it. All the other adults and leaders from the HQ (Carmen and Juni HQ). They took the big, mega robot to their HQ. Juni thought they were gonna destroy it but they kept it safe and didn’t use it. No one knows why they do it but the job was done by the Spy Kids!




Hey everyone, it's me Finau and this is my writing task for today (well yesterday). I had to wrote a story about a picture and the picture was Spy Kids! We had to write up to 500 words! I only got up to 544. I hope you enjoy my writing and the story. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!

Term 4 Art Plan

 Hi everyone, it's me Finau and this is my term 4 art plan. This week we are having a big art exhibition at our school! This slideshow is that art I will be showing at the art exhibition. I hope you enjoy my art. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!