Net-book Reflection

This year I have enjoyed the year with my Chromebook. I have liked it because we have Google Docs instead of pencil and paper. It helps me with my learning with movie making, writing and maths. The one thing that have learnt this year is knowing how it can change your life. It helps me access the sites that my Teacher (Mrs Lagitupu) let me view. I am still learning how to use it properly but I'm getting there. Typing is a hard thing to do but you can get really fast if you get use to it. 

I am solving out maths questions so that I may achieve my goal. For example 1/4 as a percentage would be 25%. The most special thing my teacher has taught me this year was to not be naughty in class and remember to finish it off properly. I have been learning a lot using my Chromebook and using sites like Math Whizz and Xtra-Math. They help me in maths and other sites help me in other subjects. 

The subjects that I like is maths because Math Whizz and Xtra Math they make my maths learning easier then what my learning was like with these sites.Thank you Mrs and Mr Burt for getting these Chromebooks for Pt England School.

ACTION WORLD

ACTION WORLD!!!!

Getting of the bus outside of ACTION WORLD. The year sevens all walked into the entrance. We all waited for the man from ACTION WORLD to come and tell us what we were going to do next.

We sat down on the tables in the middle of everything.Next the man told us the rules for the day. We had to take of our shoes and socks.

We had to get into groups. My group was room 21 and 22 year 7 boys.After the instructor told us the rules we all went of in our groups to the activity we had to do.

We went on the JUNGLE SWINGS first to start of the day.

My Mihi

Kia ora tatou
Greetings to us all

Kua hui mai nei
Who gathered here today

Ki tenei kura
To this school

Ki te mau mai
To bring

I nga whakaaro pai
The good thoughts

Ka nui te hari
Greats is the happiness

Mo to koutou kaha
For your support

Ki te huihui mai
In assembling/gathering

Ki te hapai
To uplift

I nga take
The matters/ subjects

E pa ana ki tenei kura
Concerning this school

No reira tena koutou, tena koutou, tena ra tatou katoa
Therefore greeting once, greetings twice, greetings again to us all.

Dapper Man

Dapper Mann Year 7 Boys from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Birthdays Happen

“Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Levi, Happy Birthday to you” The whole family singing for a celebration “ohh It’s my birthday today” I remembered with surprise. I’m twelve years old and almost a teenager. Isn’t that awesome???? I think it is. Twelve is a big number if you ask me. “Hurry up Levi and get dressed nicely because you are going out” Going out with my granddad and grandmother to Pukarua Plaza and went to different malls for things like clothes, toys, and my best bit is the food. I got myself a control jeep from the warfare (warehouse). Eating food like sweet and sour pork, noodles, egg  foo yong.On the way back to the car I felt that I had been spoiled like always.

Future Aspiration.

Future, Future, Future I wonder what I will be in the future? Am I going to be an All Black to score tries or maybe a firemen to help people? I know a Rock Star!!! Nahh. What do you think you want to be but before you know it you should dream it. Dream and dream big, when you may never know that it might come true.

All these questions where going through my mind while I was listening to the Future Aspiration speakers who came to Point England on Thursday. There were five speakers on that day and they all had good futures and they also dreamed big dreams and carried on with their future ahead.

Mosa was a very young man who followed his dream and he gave out coins to who ever got the question right. He told us that his life was not good and he two bedrooms but 12 people in the house. He had to work hard and still dreamed his dream and it came true. His message was you follow your dream but catch it.   

Waka Ama Story

       Waka Ama

“Set them up!!!” I heard “Hoy!!!” again. I wonder what that sound is? Paddling, Steering. That is what Waka Ama is for. Do you know what Waka Ama is? I know the answer!!! The answer is Waka Ama is a summer sport where you paddle a canoe and it is good workout. Waka with a Ama is called Waka Ama. Other names for Ama is Outrigger, and Kiato and that is what keeps the Waka from tipping. In recent years, waka ama racing, introduced from Pasifika Nations into New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s.

Feeling the wind so strong that it made me realise the challenge that seagulls face every day. It made me feel that I was apart of this bite of the sea. It was a challenge to get the Waka out to the sea. Do you know how it felt to carry the Waka to the sea? and how it feels like to be in one? It is very heavy to take to the sea at this weight, and it is hard to paddle but very cool to be in one. Do you know how much a Waka weighs? I don’t know because it has no information.

Wondering what place we might come so I look ahead and see that only one Waka is in front on us so we must be coming second and that is a good place for our first time doing Waka ama in a race. Do you know that at the start we were coming last and then we pulled our heads together and that is how we came second. My team was called “Ngati Tu Choice” Do you think that it is a great name?

I would just like to say a big thank you to Tamaki Outrigger, Aaron(Couch), Shannon(Manager), and to the Team for their effort, Team(Anthony, Frankie, Isara, Auri, Uili and Me Levi).