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Thursday 16 November 2017

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Connecting with others.

Talofa lava my name is Paige and this film is all about connecting with others.
Connecting with others can be presented in all sorts of ways, but we decided to show yous that connecting with others can also be shown by forgiving the people who have disciplined you in many ways.


Thanks to Juan, Brooklyn, Anika, Nadia, Cherish, Evelyn and especially Miss Siale for helping us throughout our Manaiakalani journey through filming, editing and for all your guys great acting skills and support.


So I hope you guys enjoy this film that we've created and have a good day :)





Friday 8 September 2017

Synonyms & Antonyms.


In class we were all learning about Synonyms & Antonyms. Some of us knew what they meant
and some of us didn't which was a good experience. Maybe you could learn something too, just
like how we did.

                  


Why do people need to drink water ?


Today, we are learning about why people like us need to drink water, and what water
can do to help you through out life. Why do you think we need to drink water?


The girl and the fox..



It was a snowy day, the fresh breeze was flying around making it cold! A young girl appeared and came across to a terrifying state! She looked down slowly and saw blood on the snow, along with a innocent dead bird lying peacefully, on the snowy pale ground. Looking mysteriously around the bird she was thinking, who killed it?


She looked around the bird and saw evidence that was left behind! There was strange paw prints leading all the way to a unusual dark forest. She couldn’t resist but to go and find the killer that was somewhere in the forest. She held her coat and gently pulled it over her head!


The wind was blowing her scarf, as she was staring at the forest with furious. She zoomed straightly into the, dark forest! With the lantern in her hand holding it tightly with her glove. She jumped above a little tiny snow mountain, and landed on the ground like a cat! Then started seeking for the creature who, killed the bird.


The killer was nowhere to be seen. She took one step, looked down and saw a, grey fur or feather that was lying on the ground. She picked it up and looked at it closely thinking who could this feather belong too? She looked right in front of her and saw a bush that was shaking as if it was an earthquake! She went closer and closer trying to get near the bush. SWOOSH! She leaned back just as the fluffy grey, fox jumped over her. It ran up a little tiny mountain took a glance at her and swiftly ran off into the woods!

The ground was white and pale. Soft and fluffy but lying in the middle of nowhere? Was a lantern with the light shining bright! It was so mysterious. Running swiftly through the trees, and bushes the fox slowly stopped. Peeked through the bushes while looking around and saw the lantern. That was strangely left in the open! The fox was focusing on the lantern while being distracted and popped his head out of the bushes.


Took one step out into the open and swoosh! The young girl came out of nowhere and jumped onto the fox. Pulled out her sharp knife and held it up against its throat threatening it! With a furious face she looked at the foxes innocents eyes and she couldn’t kill it. As she gently let go of the knife the fox glared at her, for five seconds and ran off!



As the fox took off the young little girl walked slowly through, the freezing cold woods. The sun was setting down and it was starting to get even more cold! The young girl couldn’t walk anymore so she started walking like a zombie. She tried to walk fast as she could to get home! She suddenly, collapsed onto the snow fluffy ground and her eyes slowly closed. The big fluffy fox found her after she collapsed and realised that she was freezing cold. It lifted her body up and snuggled up against her trying to keep, her warm and cosy through the frosty cold night.


The sun rises high in the sky while the sunlight, gazed down at the fox and the young girl! The fox opened its eyes glared at her and ran off quickly before she noticed. The young girl woke up and noticed that the fox had left but there was two shadows that she saw walking towards her. She looked up and saw her beloved parents run to her with relief! She opened her arms wide just as her mum held her up. They walked back home slowly along with happiness and the young girl was happy. But as soon as she looked back the fox came back and looked at her normally! The young girl looked at it and the fox dashed back into the woods!

Thursday 24 August 2017

What do comments have in common ?


Today in class, we were learning about quality blog comments, and how to write a quality blog comment. Above these sentences we had to write down our ideas, about what comments have in common. I only wrote some, but what do you think comments have in common ?

Thursday 3 August 2017

My Pepeha..


Right above this writing, is my Pepeha. My Pepeha shows me who I am, things about me and where I come from. 

Thursday 27 July 2017

Student Led Conference..

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After school we had a Student Led Conference. Student Led Conference is where, you bring your parents in or family and you show them, what you've done in class and what you do during learning time. When we arrived at my school my teacher introduced herself to my mum and took a photo of us, so I could post it on my blog. It was a good experience for me as it was my first time. 

Tuesday 25 July 2017

My goals for term 3 !!

 Today in class we are writing our goals for this term! This term we are going to try our best to achieve our goals for maths, reading, writing well for everything. Achieving our goals will help us when we are in college and when we get older!

Saturday 22 July 2017

I am.. poem !!

Screenshot 2017-06-15 at 10.03.50 AM.png I am poem
            Paige

I am Paige
I wonder if I’m going to have a successful life.
I see people hurting other people's feelings.
I want people to stop thinking negatively
I hear the things that I don’t wanna hear.
I am Paige

          I pretend that I’m not scared of anything but I am
            I feel that I can push harder to achieve my goals
I touch other people's shoulders when there feeling depressed
                  I worry about my family and my future
                  I cry when I’m hurt or when I feel alone
                                      I am Paige
                I understand that life isn’t always easy
               I say stuff to people to make them smile
                       I dream about random stuff
                          I try to achieve my goals
                       I hope I have a better future
                                       I am Paige

Inquiry Research !!



In term 1 the theme for the term was about rodents and streams! In class we had to create and design a poster that had to include our sub questions, and 1 main question that was suitable to rodents and streams! When we were all done our teacher "Miss Siale" had to pick a few students from our class room, to represent our class room by showing our posters and designs that was at "Te Oro". And the people that got pick had the opportunity to go down to "Te Oro" and look at what the other schools created and did! And I was one of them which was so fun!

Role Models !!

Why my parents is my role model
Remember the T.I.I.C structure.
T
Title - What you will be explaining
I
Introduction - Tell your audience what the topic is about and what is to be explained.
I
Information - Explain the elements or steps in a logical sequence
C
Conclusion - Final summarizing statement, an evaluation or comment about what you have explained.

Title
“My Role Models”
Introduction
My parents and my sister are my role models. So in this explanation I will be writing why they are my roles models, and what makes them one. I hope one day when I grow up that kids will look at me as a role model!
Information
1st element
My mum is one of my favorite role models. Why? Because she cared for me and loved me like a mother should. She was there for me since day one, and she means the world to me. She is hardworking just like my dad because she cooks for us, she cleans the house for us, she cleans up the mess that I made even though I should be cleaning it up. She will do anything for me and my siblings and she will clean up things and do things without being asked to. My mum is a women that is courageous, caring and mostly everything in many different ways.
Information
2nd element
My dad is also one of my favorite role models because he works hard in many different ways, and he wakes up in the early hours just to provide for food and money for our family. He is courageous and loving, he does everything for me like my mum. For example if there is no one by my side I know that my dad will always be with me all the way. He never wants to go work but he still goes because he’s doing it for me and my siblings.
Information
3rd element
Its shocking but my sister is also one of my role models as well even though she is mean to me half of the time. She helped me when I was little all the way up until now. She has done many things for me without being asked and I would say that she’s like second mum. If I’m showing disrespect to people she would always teach me to do the right things, instead of the bad.  
Conclusion
These are the reasons why they are my role models.



Dreaming..

            Planning:
Scene/Setting:
Characters: Martina/Martinez/grandfather/Parents/Jaden
Problem: Martina casted a spell that he was unaware of and freed the bad wizards
Solution: Martina learnt a difficult spell that would lock all bad wizards.




                Dreaming...

Long ago a child got given birth and the baby was a boy. His parents took a glance into his eyes and, they were bright green. The color of his eyes were so beautiful and it reminded his parents about his grandfather. So the baby's mother decided to name him after his grandfather. “Martina” was that the baby got given. Martina’s parents wanted him to have a better future, but there was a huge history behind Martina’s grandfather's past and what happened to him didn’t have a happy ending.


In the year 1986 Martina’s grandfather got given the name “Martinez”. His eyes were exactly the same color which was bright green. But he was born with the powers of a wizard. They always had to move to village to village but wizards kept on casting spells on the village, either making the houses go on fire. Or killing animals or people, and humans thought that wizards were a threat to them, but it was actually bad wizards that kept casting those annoying spells on their beloved village. So Martinez did a spell that only he knew, and locked them up far, far, away. Someone saw Martinez do the spell and assumed that he was one of the bad wizards so they snitched and sadly Martinez died. But his last words were “Don’t free them” but no one knew what he meant.


While Martina was growing up he was deeply interested in wizards, magic, and the history behind it. He read all sorts of books about wizards, drew pictures of it and to Halloween he wore a wizard costume as well. Martina was a huge fan of wizards and wished that he could be able to meet one while growing up. His parents were really strict about him and worried about him 24/7 and made sure that no one found out who he really was. Martina’s friend “Jaden” came over to his house. They were both reading books about wizards until Martina came across a book that said “Wizard's secrets”. Martina and Jaden were deeply interested in the book and came across a spell that said “Do the spell on your own and don’t free what you don’t know”. They were so confused but Martina decided to do the spell. He closed his door and the windows and started repeating the spell over and over again but it kept on failing. But nothing worked so Jaden said “Pfft this is just a stupid book I’m going home”. Martina glanced at the book and threw it across the room and went fast to sleep. But what Martina didn’t know was that the spell he casted, freed the bad wizards and their village was not safe anymore.

Martina went to the library and said “Hi I’m here to return your book back and these ones”. The librarian then said “Uh thank you but this one is a mistake”. Martina looked confused and lost and said “Uhh yes it is when I issued these books this book was with it”. The librarian said “Uh no it wasn’t I haven’t heard or seen that book ever in my life”. Martina thought he was dreaming so he tightly pinched his arm, just in case he was dreaming. So he said “Oh uh um.. I’m gonna go I’ll come back next week..”. Martina walked off strangely looking at the book wondering why it ended up in his room.

The sun went down and the moon was rising slowly. The light of the moon shined through his open windows and the fresh breeze blowing the curtains. Until he saw his grandfather's spirit in the light of the moon. He was blinking 50 times every 5 minutes but his grandfather's spirit was still in front of him. He said “Which spell did you do Martina?”.

Martina replied and said “Uh umm this one it says do the spell on your own and don’t free what you don’t know”. His grandfather said “Martina where.. Where did you find it? This is a trick do you know what you unleashed?”. Martina said “Uh I don’t know I just said the spell and my friend was with me”. His grandfather then said “Time's running out.. You need to do another spell to lock them in now”. And slowly his grandfather's spirit was fading away.


Martina was learning a difficult spell and was searching through, every page looking for the spell to lock the bad wizards. Since he didn’t find the spell he started writing his own and it took him days to figure out that perfect spell. Martina was crying so bad because if he didn’t do that stupid spell, he wouldn’t be in that much stress.

He heard sounds of people screaming, shouting, crying and begging for help. He wiped away his tears picked up a feather dipped it into black paint and began to write. He wrote “Lock the bad wizards in and die within” as he was making small galaxies in his hand and he kept saying the spell and it was becoming more powerful than ever. But the bad wizards power were stronger than Martina’s but he kept saying the words over, and over again until they were gone.

The bad wizards were hurting people and their homes but Martina shouted and said “LOCK THE BAD WIZARDS IN AND DIE WITHIN”. The bad wizards powers were getting weak and weaker and Martina’s powers were getting stronger than ever. All of the good wizards came and swooped in and helped him build up his power. And the bad wizards were gone like flash and Martina nearly died. His parents rushed to him and sprayed him with a memory loss spray. Martina woke up in 1 month and heard his mum say. “Martina..? Martina..? MARTINA wake up please..” and Martina was like “AHHH WHAT HAPPENED??!!!”.

Martinas mum then said “Woah you’ve been sleeping for ages”. Martina was like “I’ve been sleeping uh..”. Martina was left speechless and he was so confused, then Martinas mum said “Uh yeah I’ve been trying to wake you up for ages but you wouldn’t so uh get up buddy get ready for school”. So the mum shut his door and walked over to her husband and said “Don’t you ever tell him what happened no one can know who he is and not even him..”. So Martina wasn’t dreaming after all. His parents just didn’t want him to find out who he is because they didn’t want to lose their beloved son.

Exploring other kids blogs !!


In class all of us were exploring other peoples blogs from different schools! here is what I found out and saw that was on her blog!

Faded !!

Monday 13th February 2017



Anika & Paige

Key Questions
     1.Why is everywhere empty and derelict?
  • Everywhere is empty and derelict because he got separated from his family and ran away to an Abandon House with nothing but broken walls.

       2.   Who is the man in the mask? Is he trying to keep his identity hidden?
  • The man in the mask is a teenageer struggling he is a orphan looking for his family. No-one knows him.

3.What is he thinking as he is looking at the photograph?
  • When he was looking at the photo, he realised how much his family meant to him.

4.Where is he going?
He is going to search up and down to find his family’s house. He wonders what his home would be like.

5.How do the lyrics link with the moving images?
  • The lyrics link with the moving images because it represents of what he feels and where he’s going because the lyrics say “ Where are you now.”

6.After he has set off- Where do you think he is going? Why?
  • He is going to look for his family’s house, where he used to stay before he was an orphan.
  • Why? Because he is trying to look for his family that he was separated from.

7.How do the character’s feelings change throughout the film? How does the director show this?
  • The character’s feelings change because in the beginning the orphan feels abandoned and worthless. But during the end he feels free and lets his mind lead him to places he has not been before.

8.How does he feel when he sees the house?
  • When he sees the house that he has been searching for he feels, like he has accomplished what he, was looking for to try find his family.
He feels delighted and shocked at the same time.

9.Whose house was it?
  • The owner of the house was the orphan’s parents house. He is destroyed inside because the house is nothing but he will carry on searching to find his real parents.

10.What happened there?

  • What happened was that the family had sold the house to a friend of there’s. The friend’s family decided to burn down the house. One day they would come back to keep the land.

11.Why does he drop the photograph?
He dropped the photograph because when he found the house, there was nothing there except for broken walls, that was tumbling down into pieces and no one was there to be seen.



Thursday 6 July 2017

My revolting recipes!

( Worm meat balls  )
                             :Ingredients
  <> Mud <> Giant can of Worms <> Can of Maggots <>
<> Frog slime <> Cup of Blood <> Salt <> Black Pepper <>
            <> Hot water <> Uncooked spaghetti <>  
                        
                             :Material:
   <> Pan <> Pot <> Bowls <> Plate <> Teaspoons <>     
        <> Wooden spoon <> Cup <> Sift <> Spatula <>
                                {} Method {}
Reminder: Grab all your ingredients and material but don’t forget, to wash your hands before starting!

1 ) First you wanna grab your pot, put it on your oven and pour water into the pot and, start boiling it. Add a teaspoon of salt into the water to give the pasta a tasty flavour!


2 ) Add the uncooked spaghetti and start stirring it. If you think it’s done taste it just incase. Then pour your spaghetti into your sift so all the hot water comes out. Then pour it into a bowl and put it in your microwave!


3 ) Then grab your pan put it gently on the oven, and pour oil into the pan and boil it. Get your worms and maggots and pour them in and start cooking it with, your spatula. Then leave it on the side!



4 ) To make your meatballs grab your mud and start rolling it into a small ball. For a bit of sliminess add frog slime along with black pepper, and salt! Then leave it in a bowl and leave it on the side!


5 ) Heat up your spaghetti just in case it’s cold, then once it’s heated up grab your worms and maggots and pour all of it in. Put your meatballs on the top and for the sauce grab your cup of blood, and pour it all over the meatballs and spaghetti. For sweetness salt it and done! Enjoy!

F.I.R.E !!


At Glen Taylor school our school is on F.I.R.E. Not exactly on Fire but it's our school values. Which stand for fun, Respect, Integrity and Excellence. Fun means that we have fun at school. Respect means we will show our Respect to anyone at all times. And Excellence means we will be Excellent! 

Attributing an image :)



Today Mrs Grant came into our class room to teach us how to, Attribute an image. Enjoy !

Friday 30 June 2017

Memory Plaque!


Today in our reading groups we had to create a memory plaque for a character in the book we were reading for this term. We designed it by using google drawing and it was fun to create! 

My role model!

This is my drawing I designed on google drawing and we did this in term 1. As you can see my role models are my parents because they've helped me with a lot of stuff through out my whole life! Who's your role model ?