The lord is Almighty

The lord is Almighty

He is powerful

He is great, his creation made all the trees

and grass so we can all go play

He is the greatest man alive

He sacrificed his life for us

He thought about the animals and us which is why

he took the risk to go die on the cross

He showed us what love really means

So we should be grateful for what he has done

He helped us through all of our hard and rough times

So that we can go have fun

He is always in our hearts

He answers us when we call him

He’ll always be there to listen to us

Whenever we have a problem

He sends us his blessings from above

Whenever he notices that we’re giving up

He helps us to strive to succeed

So that we can stand strong ourselves

Play based Learning.

Play based learning 

In class, our beloved teacher Miss Tupou told us that we get to do play based learning for one whole block! At first we were confused on what that is, we were looking at each other with confusion. Until she told us that play based learning means that we get to do whatever we want for one whole block, but without no technology and we had to use the stuff that she gave us and we had to stay inside. In the middle block, on Thursday may 24th, we did play based learning. It was super fun, we played with items that we usually don't play with, like blocks, costumes and bunch of other stuff. 

My thoughts on the new edition that they added which is Play based learning. Its really fun for me, but not just me but for everyone else as well. Its good seeing people laugh and smiling followed by having a good time. Something that was enjoyable to me, was just having a good time with my fellow class mates. Laughter everywhere, it was really fun and good for us. I think what I'd like to do during play based learning, is to have the opportunity to like decorate the classroom more. You know. just to spice it up a little, but not just me like the whole class too. But I don't know, its just a little opinion of mine. 

The purpose of doing Play based learning in class, is to let the teachers know, what we can do with the items they give us to play with and how we use them in our point of view. It also gives us a opportunity let the kids, have fun and be free inside class. Even though its hard for the teachers to watch us make a mess! Hopefully next week, we get given more opportunities to play with. Something that we could do better is to actually put the items back where we found out, and to clean up our mess after we're finished with it. So that if someone else wants to play with it, they don't need to run around the classroom looking for it. 

We were learning how to play with items, that we usually don't play with, and without technology. It was hard for us, to play with the items as it seemed boring to play with. But it gets turned into something fun if we use our imagination. And that's what I think of Play based learning!

Height Measurements!

 For the past week, we have been learning about measurements. As a group we decided to do height measurements, so our task was to measure the whole classrooms heights and this is what we came up with.

On the left this is the whole of the year 8 girls heights.

On the right this is all of the year 7 girls heights

On the left this is all of the year 8 boys heights

Sadly we forgot to measure Davids and Luckys heights but this is some of the year 7 boys heights.
Below this piece of writing, I got to identify what their height was.

David: 146cm

Lucky: 149cm

Belts on, phones off, make it a habit!

For the past week, we have been learning about road safety to keep ourselves safe. We got given a task to do in class, and that was to make a google drawing about road safety making sure that the word "Belts on, phones off, make it a habit" is in it. Spread the word, to help keep our community safe!

Dawn Reids

The Dawn Raid

The dawn raid first started in 1970 and ended in the early 1980s, where the palangi people, and white cops came and raided the Polynesians homes to deport them back to the islands. The people that were involved in this tragic moment, were the white people, cops, the Pacific islanders, Maoris and strangers. The white people informed the Polynesian people to come and work for them, so they took that opportunity to work, to send money for their family to provide for them. But the thing was, they were only allowed to stay in New Zealand for 3 months. So they decided to overstay their visit, and the white people didn't like it so they drove over to where they were staying and tried sending them back to the islands, which was horrific. The palangis were racist towards us, because they thought they were like the kings & queens of all of us, they were racist towards our skin color and our appearance which made them treat us differently. The white people today, would probably feel ashamed of what their people did to us. Embarrassed, because they don't get given the treatment they want, because of what happened in the past. Depressed, because they probably think that whenever we see someone like them, we think of them differently. 

Anzac

Dear Mum and Dad,

First day on our journey, and theirs already explosions. People jumping off the boats and drowning due to all the heavy stuff their carrying.  Honestly, it's like a never ending nightmare. It haunts all of us.

Some people are too young to be here, there's endless tears running down from their eyes. Frustration and confusion filled in everyone's head, their eyes are searching up and down, side to side, wondering where the bullets are coming from. But here I am,  just sitting in the trenches surrounded by millions of dead bodies, knowing that we have to leave their bodies to rot in the dirt.

Someone was right next to me, talking about his little girl that he had to leave at home. He said he promised her that he was gonna come back, but turns out he had to let that promise go. Right in front of my very eyes, I watched him die and watched his blood scatter everywhere and then it reached my hands, they were shaking with fright and gulitness. And I sat right next to him, until he took his last breath and all I could hear him say was “I just wanted to go back home”.

All I could think about was that man, I didn’t even know his name. Until I heard heaps of men yelling at  me telling me to hurry up, and go with them to safety. My mind was miserable, I was speechless and as still as a statue. I couldn’t move my body nor my mouth.  The guilt that everyone had was unspeakable, we had no choice but to leave behind our teams dead bodies.

Anzac day research

For the past 2 weeks we have been learning about Anzac, and we've been doing some more research about it. Above this writing, this is what I found out about Anzac, and their info about it.