Having Faith In Me

 LI:Having faith in me 

Somebody who has faith in me is someone I will not give up on

Somebody who cherish me is somebody I will keep until they give up on me 

Somebody who supports every decision I make whether it's wrong or right is somebody who has my full attention

Somebody who loves me no matter how wrong or right I do them is somebody who has my full protection 

Somebody who walks beside me,behind me,in front of me as I slowly walk into the right path to my future is somebody who i'll give my all to 

Somebody who will help me dodge a bullet is someone who i'll take the bullet for 

Those who respect me is the ones who i'll die for 

Those who help me at my lowest is the ones who i helped get to their highest 

The ones that put a smile on my face is the ones god bless me with 

The ones who I lost throughout my life is the ones god removed from my life because he heard things I didn't

Those who hate me for different reasons are those who broke faith between the bond we shared

Somebody who believes me when no one else does is a living blessing god sent you to heal your wounds.

Sombody who has faith in me are God himself and the blessings he sent to

I respect the ones who have faith in me not come and and go

This activity was about what you say about the faith people have in me.Something I learnt about this activity is listening and seeking tho ones who have faith no the oppsite.I believe that people who dont have faith in me is because their wounds of hurt isnt healed with peace.

Who Inspires me to drive to the better

 LI:To write a letter about someone who drives you to the better.

In life the person I want to thank who drives me to be better is my mother.

My mother has lifted me up from my lowest and nothing is better than being able to experience the special kind of love a mother has.

When I Slowly reach my successful destination it is like the help of my mothers arms who lifts me so I could reach my final destination.  

My mothers strong words have inspired me to be the best I can so I can make my mother proud.

If there was anything I could do for my mother it would be to give her the life she always dreamed of. 

In my past and present people blame my mother for the wrong I do.My mother has always raised me to be a successful person but I do wrong on my own so I tell people don't underestimate my mothers parenting because of the wrong things I do on my own.

All the wrongs I have chosen in the past and till the day I still stand are my decisions not my mothers. They try and help me drive to my successful path but instead I always choose to do wrong but every decision I make whether it's wrong or right my wrongs always turn into lessons.

This story is about someone I would like to give all my apperciation for helping me drive to the better.My mother is someone who always gets all my apperciation for doing everything she can do for me to have the life I have upto this day.Doing this activity helped me realize my success I reach is because of my mum.

10 words

 LI:List the 10 words you think are the most important to desribe the event.

1. Nonviolent

2. Peaceful protesters 

3. Leadership

4. Forgiveness 

5. Respectful

6. Grieving

7. Unstoppable 

8. Sacrifice 

9. Risk takers

10. Honourable

These 10 words are the most important words I thought would describe the event that took place that is known as The Mau Movement.Something I found intresting about doing this activity was using my knowledge I knew that would make a describtive word painting wiritng.This was a little bit hard for me because I try using words I knew instead of searching words up but these are 10 words I could think of.

List Poem

 LI:Write a list poem to describe the events and the feeling/actions of the people involved

The feelings behind The Mau Movement

Grieving souls mourn in pain 

While other children and women still remain

Children are screaming in the mist of helpless air

While dying souls are starring in the glare of the lord's prayer 

The overtaking control of many human beings

Are like the surroundings of bangs pleading for scared feelings

Forgiveness is so hard to give to those who are hard to forgive 

But us Samoans are the arms of God so we forgive the negative that people give to those that still remain here.

Many years have passed and souls still grieve but the question is above all the darkness that is still wandering in our golden hearts,why do we Samoans and Pacific forgive so easily?

The answer is that God said to always forgive not because they deserve forgiveness but you deserve peace.

Our people of Samoa, people of the Pacific should not drown in the past but lighten up to remain back in the future.

We should dance and flow with peace that God gives to us and not let the past interfere with the peace.

This is my poem I have written to describe the feelings/actions of peom involved in The Mau Movement .

Soemthing that is important to always remember is that forgiving isn't something that someone sometimes deserve but because you deserve peace after all the pressure.Something I learnt about The Mau Movement that impacted on me is that such ruthless Germans/New Zealanders fired and took peaceful protesters away from their homes and their loved ones.Because they wanted to achieve their independence for the ones who come and through new generations and to always remain in peace.

Cinquain Poem

 LI:Using your skins character to write a cinquain poem to describe them and their reactive styles.

This week is about posting our work that still awaits to be published.This activity is about writing a cinquian poem to describe your favourite skin character.I chose raven because his kind is something I have intrest in,Ghostly character's.Something I found intrest about this activity was writing a cinquain in your own creativty ideas to write a cinquain poem.

Teel Paragraph

 LI:To write a paragraph describing what you would do if you were standing in this season of the game.

This activity we have done during our distance was about Exploring Online Gaming.I have written a teel paragraph about how I would describe if I was standing in the season of the game.This activity is something I have expericenced  about but not the background and history of it.Something I found Interesting about this activity was being able to know about the Online gaming so much people are so into these days.

Writing words

 LI:To solve the problem to find out how many narritive words were written in week 4.

This week our focus is about blogging out fantastic work that we left wandering in our google drive.This DLO explains how I worked out the solution to how many narritive words Mele wrote in week 4.My thinking of how trying to solve the problem is the clues are Mele wrote a narrtive 6000 words in it.In the first week 657 words were written,in the second week 493 words written.In the last clue that left us was 1183 were written in week 4.If you add all the number clues togetehr it give us a total of 2333.If you add 367 our total gives us 6000.Something I found interesting is if you are solving a problem with number use the clues that were left then put them together to create a solution.

The Mau Movement Presentation

 LI:To create a presentation about the history/event you are recently researching.

The Mau Movement

photo by wikipedia

photo by emaze

This week for distance learning is history.I have chosen to research more about my pacific side and I came across Bullets on Black Saturday,Black Saturday was always known as The Mau Movement in Samoa.My presentation is on the link above,the link will take you to my presenation I did on The Mau Movement in Samoa.That will hopefully take you step by step of understanding the backgorund story of The Mau movement in Samoa.Many things impacted on me when I started researching more about what happen in Samoa.The Mau Movement was about a nonvolient movement for Samoa independence.Years later Samoa got an apology and acheived their independence.Something I found Interesting about researching about The Mau Movement is having the apperciation for my people in the past generations who scarfice their lives to give Samoa what they have today and every other day.

The Mau Movement Teel Paragraph/Pacific History

 LI:To create a Teel paragraph that tells us what your time/event in history is.

Photo by SamoablackSaturday

The Mau was a nonviolent movement for Samoan independence from colonial rule during the first of the 20 century. Mau means resolute or resolved. A tragedy then happened during the Mau movement in the capital of Apia in Samoa on the 28th of December 1929. This day is known as Black Saturday in Samoa. Black Saturday is a day that commemorates Jesus lying in the tomb until his resurrection on Easter day.

The worst circumstance in New Zealand's relationship with Samoa occurred on Saturday 28 December 1929. It was caused by a noisy disturbance that exploded during a Mau parade along Apia's waterfront to welcome home two members who had been forced to leave their home and to never return back to New Zealand. The military police were also sent to target the unarmed and peaceful protesters of Samoa by Stephen Allen. The New Zealand military police started to fire on the peaceful protestors because first the Samoans didn’t trust the police and decided to throw stones at them. Then our brave confident leader who everyone looks up to, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi lll, went in front of the crowd  to stop the people who were throwing stones and to say we have come in peace. Eventually one of the military police officers shot him then shot many more who came to try and comfort the dying soul of our Ofisa (Chief) Tupua Tamasese Lealofi lll and men who were a part of the Mau movement.

The shooting went off for many hours until the clock struck 6:30pm, then the screaming of frightened children and widowed women (those who lost their brave husbands or spouse to a bullet wound caused by New Zealanders military police) had stopped. The day after that the 29th of December 1929 Tupua Tamasese Lealofi lll has fully lost his life along with many other men and children due to the incident that happened during the Mau movement. Sunday was an even terrifying day after the death of many men including the chief Tupua Tamasese Lealofi lll, where the Soldiers of New Zealand were raiding Samoan homes and killing men who were part of the Mau movement who were still alive. They never stopped looking for the men but the men were gone before they even knew it. Many more died during the search for the men of the Mau movement by the military soldiers confusing themselves by thinking they were about to attack but they weren't they were scared and looking for safety.

Many years had passed along with many men who were leaders themselves were set to rest and return to our heavenly father Jesus. To remain in peace and happiness. To pass on the beautiful words Tupua Tamasese Lealofi lll said before his final breath,

“Samoa filemu pea, ma si o’u toto nei ta’uvalea, a ia aoga lo’u mo lenei mea”( My blood has been spilt for Samoa. I’m proud to give it, do not dream of avenging it, as it was too spilled to maintain peace. If I die, peace must be maintained at any price.). 

70 years later Helen Clark the Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2002 gave a full apology on behalf of the government to admit their action and taking families away were wrong. Now from today Samoa is still keeping Tupua Tamasese Lealofi lll’s word. Peace is still being maintained and forgiveness is still hard to give to those that have taken away their loved ones but they forgive to forget.

Anime/Manga Character Profile

 LI:To create a character profile

Our challenge was to choose our favourite anime/manga character. Our next challenge was to draw the character on our chromebooks or on paper. I chose to draw my character on google drawing because I wanted to work on my patience of taking my time and drawing about a task that is given.Our final challenge was to write a paragraph that describes our character and explains why this character is your favourite.I enjoyed this activity because since I don't watch Anime or anything to do with Animation I chose to use a character that best describes my intrests so I chose Kuribayashi Shino.

Recreating Famous Artworks

 LI: To use Google Draw to recreate a famous artwork

LI: To use your knowledge of colour and colour mixing to replicate the colours used in the artworks.

This week we have been learning about famous artworks and colour mixing. The artwork I chose was the girl with a pearl earring by Johannes Vermeer. This artwork was painted in 1665.It was painted because the girl was asked to clean the marsters studio and Johannes Vermeer asked if he could paint her.Today it can be found in Mauritshuis museum in the Hague.Did you know the background sotry behind the girl wiht a pearl earring represents a young women in a dark shallow space, an intimate setting that draws a veiwer's attention exclusively on her.Unlike the mona lisa the painting of the gierl with a pearl earring isnt a potrait but a tronie.

Manga Artist

 LI:To read for meaning and understaing.

Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to create a DLO in our own words that tells us about the life of our favourite manga artist or a well known manga artist.A fact I found interesting is learning more about a popluar creator work and finding more information about their background history. That is my interesting fact I found interesting because I never knew much about the Anime History until i researched.

The History of Manga

 LI:To read for meaning and understanding.

Our challenge today was to complete a reading comprehension about the history of Manga to show that we are reading for meaning and understanding. Our final challenge in this activity was to create a DLO to share the information we found out.A fact I found interesting is since I dont really watch Manga or Anime and I don't know anything about it, until I researched about the history of Manga I was inspired of Osamu Tezuka work and it made me want to learn more of Manga and as I will.Osamu Tezuka work should be known throughout every generation that is being held no matter what happens Osamu Tezuka work should be known and kept alive until every knows about his independant work he created with such a wonderful and creative mindset.

Costomized Shoes

 LI:Creating a design of customized shoes of what u woould do if you were to customized a pair of shoes.

This week we created a pair of shoes.the reason why I chose to design my shoes like this is because I thought about the article of Rangi Haira Jaxon Greening about the shoe desgins he does that expressed his Maori Culture.Well this desgin of shoes I made is me expressing the love and apperciation I have to be apart of my Samoan Culture.I enjoyed this activity because I got design a shoe of my choice of  designing

 because I was inspired from Rangi Haira Jaxon Greening.My shoe designed is based on about my love of my culture and being the leader of following my beliefs.

Summary DLO

 LI:To explain in fewer words what the text is about.

This week for reading we focused on Rangi Haira Jaxon Greening, and his very amazing shoe customizations. Rangi Haira Jaxon Greening is a 44 year old man, and he customizes shoes, but not for his passion for art and sneakers, but to show the world what his culture is and what it represents. Something I found interesting about reading about the Article of Rangi Haira Jaxon Greening is him expressing his Maori cultrure designing on desgining amazing shoe designs.

A letter to my future self

LI:To create a letter to your futre self. 

Hola,Malo Lava and last but not least Kia Ora Future self,I am proud of where you are today and also proud of who you are.I know many ups and downs blew out your flame but you always found a way to light it back up.You may be still going through it all but I know you always find a way to escape.You have changed so much since the last time i've ever seen you succeed.Remember God has a plan for you no matter what and he is always there for you even when you don't want it .I see you've learnt to do you before doing others but especially learnt to try and reach your succeed when your on your own.Remember people come and go,here's a prayer i want you to remember and pass on

I asked for strength and God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.

I asked for courage and God gave me a struggle to overcome.

I asked for favours and God gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted but I received everything I needed.

I know you feel everyday you make multiple mistakes but God forgives you and helps make them into lessons.Not every time you will succeed but remember to keep the negativity out of the way and make sure nothing but a positive mindset is stable enough to keep your Hauora walls standing up.Things are going to be better you just have to be patient,have faith in me and trust in me.I look forward to seeing you grow into the beautiful,strong person you were raised to be.

Slam Poetry

 LI:Write a slam poetry 

I am something that may cause a lot of damage,so be careful to use the right language.

I can be easy to find, but also difficult to be kind.

You may see people you love who may fight,because my heart left nothing but unfixable pieces behind

You might hear the loud cries of grieving souls up high,but it's because I always end it with a goodbye.

I am something that may break a lot of bonds,just because people don't use me in the correct way

I am what people find hard to accomplish 

I am the thing that people never want to let go 

I am something that can turn somebody’s bright world upside down due to my mood swings 

I can be nice when used properly but also difficult to handle when things go the wrong way when unexpected

I can be somebody’s saviour when put in the right situation.

I bring up and downs 

I bring peace when i am happy 

I bring terror when i am feeling angry 

I bring faith when light is shone upon the person hands i am currently in,who blesses me with nothing but happy feelings

I am something that comes and goes due to my mood I want to be in 

I bring peace when accomplish 

I am Trust

This is my slam poetry about trust.This poetry explains how trust in my predicition would be if handled right or handled in a wrong suitation.Something I found interesting about doing this activity is that I got to use my knowledge about what trust would be if we could see it , hold it , touch it , feel it.

Water Saftey Swimming

 LI:To learn how to be safe in water.

This week we have been taking water saftey lessons to help us be safe in water weither its shallow or deep.Taking these lessons every Thrusday is something that helps us build more on water saftey.There is two groups split throughout our half an hour session , shallow and deep side. The deep side is for students are really confident in deep water and the shallow medium side is for students who are less confident to swim.Something I found intereting about taking water saftey lessons is that it help build my confidence in water saftey.

Ancient Olympic Games Presentation

LI: To skim and scan to find facts about the Ancient Olympics and make notes in my own words.

We used our reading time this week to find out about the Ancient Greek Olympics. Once we had made our notes and reorganised our information we collaboratively created a presentation.I found out what during the five days of the Ancient Olympics while held.I enjoyed this activity because I got find out more about Ancient Olympics and found out more history even some that I didnt think would exisit.An interesting fact about the Ancient Olympics is that if married women were caught sneaking into the Olympic games they were thrown off Mt Olympus.

Hauora

LI:Create a diagram about Hauora

In order to be able to perform at their best athletes need to have a four walls of the whare tapawha standing. We created this poster to show what each wall represents and why it is important.I found out by learning and hearing others opinions what they fought the atheletes felt when they one a medal or if the athelete did'nt succed in the end.I enjoyed this activtiy because I worked colloboratly with Liane and because I felt confident sharing what I knew or had.

Hauora For everyone

 

Athletes need to have both body & mind physically and mentally stable for them to be a good athlete. Me and my parnter Liane worked colloboratively to combined both our ideas to explain a statment using our knowledge of Hauora.

Athletes at the top of there field train mentally and physically because it both the body & mind that need to be strong to have balance as an athlete . It is important to enjoy and celebrate the sucess you earn but it is equally as important to embrace the unsucessful times. It is the lessons you take from loosing that makes you stronger & wiser .Even when you hit a negative midnset you still need to learn to remain calm in stressful situations . It is having a self belief in yourself and the support of you whanau to keep you motivated.

- Liane and Lily

Coding with Python

 LI:To see and understand the connection between the written code , the block and the flow chart.

This is the comparison between the Python coding , the blocks and the flowchart for making the Microbit act like a dice.Something I found interesting about expericing the Python coding is being able to understand the written codes and asking for help even when I am not confident.Something I learnt about Python coding is to understand the simple codings its trying to tell me to do.

Mindfulnesss Reflection

 LI:To remove the negativty from your mind 

the mindfulness bell is treated liek a toangaThis week LS2 focused on mindfulness. Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling right now.Mindfulness is about focusing on the present and leaving the past behind.LS2 than sat in circle facing the opposite direction of everyone and loosen their stomach,hands on our knees and focused by breathing in and out slowly so our body and mind can relax.As the bell rang each one us breathed in and out while our mind was slowly approaching the green zone.As I body was relax our mind was wandering in calm position.Mindfulness helps our mind proceed towards the green zone so we can slowly escape from the red zone.Something I found interesting was knowing about the mindfulness bell is treated as a toanga and everytime it structure it is a sign of a relaxing postion.

Everyone goes into the red zone which is negative emotions. To change the red zone into green zone,

we used the mindfulness bell to change the mood into calm and relaxed.

 

Provocation

 LI: To use provocation to understand both sides of the story

A provocation is a act or speech that triggers emotion in others.

Our provocation that we were given was It’s costing Japan 15.4 billion dollars US to host the Olympics. Should host countries have to spend so much money on building Olympics venues? I worked collaboratively` together with Juel and we both formed our own opinions on what we think about the provocation.

We both shared the same opinion that we are against the provocation and that they should not be spending that much amount of money on the Olympic venues of they are going to be left and are going to be run down and not going to be used again.

Something I found Ineresting about doing this taskwith my peers,Is being able to learn from the and work with them them.Expercining Juel's thinking help me learn more about olympics and reading.

Robotic in the Stars

 LI:To try and get the mbot to draw a star shape for Matariki 

Matariki Harvest

 LI:Create a DLO about food that is harvest in Matariki.

Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition.
To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities.I enjoyed this task because I got to use my researching skills to find out the food harvested in Matariki.Something I learnt about harvest foods in matariki is all the different foods harvest throughout the session of Matariki.

Matariki

 LI: To strengthen our connections to Matariki.

Matariki is the Maori new year celebration. It takes places each year when the cluster of stars known as Matariki are seen in our skies. The new year is a time for new beginnings and is a time to embrace tradition.
To strengthen our connections to Matariki we had a choice of research activities.

I found out why does Matariki disappear in May and reappear in June,July.
I enjoyed this task because I revisted my knowledge about Matariki and learnt from my group and worked together.

Ancient Greece posing

 LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.

Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. 

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this posting activity, we first pick five Gods or Goddesses and pick an image from around the world or the God or Goddess and write a caption for the post.

I found this activity interesting because we got to use this task as an instagram post but of the goddess.

The post that I found most interesting was Hera because one of the captions we used was It is hard to be the goddess of marriage when normally everyone usually cheats on everyone!.

Organizing and Researching

 LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology.

Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. 

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about Greek Mythology vocabulary and identify Greek places on the map.

I found this activity interesting because I got to use my researching skills of ancient history to find out the places.

The word/place I found most interesting was Olympus because Zeus the god of the sky and his wife Hera the goddess of marriage.

Identifying Comprasion

 LI: To use our smart searching skills to expand our knowledge of Ancient Greek Mythology

Today David shared the next reading challenge with us. It is all about the Greek gods and helps us to practise the skills we have been learning in our reading lessons with our teachers. 

David created this task as part of his CARE award challenges. In this smart searching activity, we used our comprehension and research skills to learn about the difference between Athens and Sparta.

I found this activity intresting because I got to identify the different comprasion between Athens and Sparta.

The fact I found most interesting was … because …