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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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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!
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!
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!
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.
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. :)
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!
G'day everyone, it's me Finau and this is my reading task for today. Today I did the task which was Characters Feelings. It was all about how the characters were feeling. I hope you enjoy my reading task. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!
Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and this is my reading task for today. My book was called (the book my group is reading) Kia Maia. I looked for words in the book to make this Journal Word Find. Use the clues to find the words. I hope you enjoy my reading task. Please leave a comment on my blog.
Top tip 1: When you get onto the ferry hold onto your hat all else it will fall off board. That happens to loads of people but it will maybe (%5) land on top of the edge of this white thing? If you are wondering why that happens, well because people play and swing their hat around. Plus when the boat goes very fast there is a whole lot of wind and water. SO just WATCH OUT!
Top tip 2: Once you get at the campsite start stretching and all that stuff because you will have to walk up killer mountain. It is so steep! At first you think it’s easy so you run but don’t because it's actually really tiring. Soon we reach our destination. Take a break and don’t play around (if you want to) because you will have to walk back the hill.
Top tip 3: At times at camp we will have to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner. Come early to line up and sit up so your team can go first. Also, smile! :D If you don’t know what time to come then ask your teacher then they will tell you the time. Just for a bonus
Top tip 4: Whenever you do water activities please listen or also something will happen (it will also be LOL). If there is something like “Tilar to the sail!” then do it because some boats tipped over and people fell out. Hehe! Peter, Erin (the people you will meet if you are going to the year 6 camp next year), Mr Somerville and Mr Goodwin do most of the water activities.
Top tip 5:At night you might play in the spotlight. Don’t bring a torch or else Mr J will make you stand up and he will take it (but he will give it back). Lso stay close to the deck because you need to get back in time and watch out for little Wekas in the bushes. You will get into mega trouble.
“With these Top 5 tips you will have a great camp and there will be no problems. Tell your friends so that they won’t annoy you and so they won’t have a mental breakdown”.
Hello everyone, it's me Finau and this is my writing task for today. This week we went back to our normal classes. Yep, no room 678 but sometimes we will be that. Anyways I had to write 5 top tips fro camp. These are for the year 5s going camp next year. I Hop you enjoy my maths task. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!
Hey everyone, it's me Finau and this is my art work for Extension. Let me tell you about what my art is about and what it represents.
The background represents where I am raised in, New Zealand. The same goes for the big tall mountain. There are a lot of mountains in New Zealand and I only climbed up 2. The tree with the Pohutukawas all over is something we have in New Zealand. I just love the Pohutukawas and there is some in my neighbourhood. The slippers on the sand have the New Zealand Flag on it. Lots of our clothing in New Zealand have stuff about NZ like kiwis or the flag and much more. The waka (boat) has a Tongan pattern on it. That represents my Tongan culture because the pattern, just like the one up in the sky (in the picture). It is called a Manulua and Tokelau Feletoa. The Kiwi hiding in the bushes is a native bird to New Zealand. The flower it has on its ear is a Heilala flower. That is a special flower in Tonga. Finally Bernard the bee. It was a popular toy back then in New Zealand but it still is (maybe).
I hope you enjoy my artwork and description. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!
Hi everyone, it's me Finau and this is my maths task for today. It is about shapes and nets. I hope you enjoy my maths task. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!
Hawaiian History:
Highlight the correct answers
About Hawaii:
1. Hawaii has eight main islands - which one is not part of Hawaii?
a) Niʻihau b) Kauaʻi
c) Oʻahu d) Savai’i
2. What is the capital of Hawaii?
a) Wellington b) Maui
c) Honolulu d) Moloka’i
3. Native Hawaii before and after European contact produces?
a) petroglyphs b) wood and stone carvings
c) siapo d) kapa
4. The designed feather cape or helmet is solely for?
a) teachers b) alii
c) kings d) chiefs
5. Kia manu would collect incredible --------------------?
a) 20,000 birds b) feathers
c) hair d) chicken feet
6. True or False: Kapa is made from colourful dyes ?
a) True b) False
7. By using wauke or paper mulberry plant they ---------- to form a Kapa?
clean b) buy
beat d) hammer
8. Sculpting in Hawaii they use ------------?
a) bone b) stone
c) wood d) teeth
9. A hand-tapping needle piercing the skin is used for traditional Hawaiian Tattoo?
a) True b) False
10. What is one of the processes of Kapa?
→It is beating the wauke (paper mulberry) plant.
Kia ora everyone, it's me Finau and this is my reading task and Q&A for today. It is about Hawaiian History. I hope you enjoy. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. Bye!
