Dine & Dance

Well Yesterday night me and the senior syndicate had a special celebration called Dine & Dance It was all for the year 8 and im a year 8 last night was great it was cool kick back and peaceful and man the food was really delicious and the highlight of my night was taking a photo of my twin not actually twin just twin in cloths my twin was fa'amanu the man on the right and I'm on the left I had the night of my life and it was great people laughing and people smiling people dancing and people sing and just taking the dance floor and I think this is gonna be one of the best memories that I will enjoy at tamaki primary Im gonna miss this school.

My letter to Cathy

Well today me and my class has made a card for the staff members that worked at the camp that worked there when we went there for camp my camp letter goes out to cathy because i just like the way she had treated us like her own and she always was happy to see us and she always had compassion  and she always had a beautiful song or grace for us.

Camp Highlight

Last week me and my class room 10 and 9 went to a camp called raglan if you want to know more about of what happened you can go through my slide of highlights and It will tell some of the activities that we did.

Team Shield

Diamond Poem

           
                                                         FIFIA NIGHT
                                                              Stage
                                                     Nervous & Shy
                                                Waiting Laughing Giggling
                                                       Standing Smiling
                                                                Prize

Diamond Poem

                                                           
                                                                  CABIN
                                                                    Beds
                                                           Sweety & Filthy
                                                        Talking Snoring Sleeping
                                                         Exhausted and Weak
                                                                     Clean

Diamond Poem

                                                                   AIR RIFLE
                                                                       Guns
                                                                Cool  & Calm
                                                            Talking Laughing Shots
                                                               Smiling & Holding
                                                                       Bullets

Camp Before & After

Well last week me and rm 10 and 9 went to a camp called Raglan. Before camp I was shy and I was negative and I didn't want to do anything. I was too lazy and I felt everything was boring. When we were about to go camp I didn't want to go. I wanted to get a refund and go somewhere else and I was angry because I thought that it would of been a boring week and that it was not worth the $160 and it would be a boring camp with no fun activities.

But after camp and during camp it was really great. Because I got to do many things like go on the Flying Fox and do Air Rifles and Archery. This week was totally cool and I felt great about going and I wanted to stay there because the people were so generous to us and other meals were very delightful and I am so grateful that our teacher Mrs Aireen planned this for us and I really liked camp.

And last week I really learned somthing that don't think about the negatives think about the positives and maybe your really like it just like me I tried and hey look I really liked it and it was really great and now I have a really great mindset.

Celebrating me

Today we ... Learnt why it's important to celebrate, why is it important to embrace our achievements and our uniqueness.

I am worthy to be celebrate because.... I am a generous person and I have many differences and I have many cultures and many looks that make me worthy to be celebrate, I have many unique ways of doing things like playing ping pong while going on my phone and different other things.

My classmates described my strengths as being brainy in my learning and being good and being good at playing basketball and another one was that i'm great at being strong because I am able to lift up heavy objects.

It is important to recognize value in yourself because if you have no value in yourself you would not be able to recognize other people and even your own self your just be to blind to see what's coming because you're not recognizing your own self.

I feel very happy because i never thought that this much people actually cared about me and actually recognized me and I didn’t know that i cared to them and that they had feeling’s for me.

Class Camp Activity

Today me and my class buddy up with room 9 and we spoke about our camp trip, we are going to go to camp on the 22nd of November and and will finish on the 25th or 26th i'm not sure. But today we talked about how are we going to Participate and contribute, well some of the ideas were that we create opportunities for others, Being actively involved in learning, making connections with others, bonding together, balancing rights and roles and responsibilities, Contributing appropriately as a group member. and the other question was Relating to others some of the answers were cooperating in learning, Interacting effectively,Working together effectively, Remaining open to new learning, Working together with a range of people, listen effectively.

Celebration Information

Christmas Research

My Personal Goal

My Personal Goal

Diwali Celebartions

Today me and my brother Boisi wrote all about diwali and we asked many question like what is diwali about? and i answered that it is about the festival of lights and it is about good and no evil and its about peace and no angry emotions just happy emotions.

Halloween Invite

Celebration Poster

This is one of my celebration poster that I made this poster was all about of how much I know about celebration's well three of them are the most important one of them is my birthday then christmas the last not lease is new years i like these celebration because we celebrate it as a family.

Celebration vocabulary

Today we did our celebration vocabulary task we just but special activity and special words that suit celebrations ine of them were Birthdays and halloween I wrote about many things like Party, Food, performances and many more.

Celebrations

Today me and my class made a celebration brainstorm with different questions and we had to answer it with our information that we got from the internet one of the questions is that why do we celebrate? and I said well we celebrate to congratulate someone of doing somthing special or have somthing special like a birthday.

Halloween

Tamaki Halloween Party

Tamaki Improvement Brainstorm

Today we have done an activity about these 2 main special key idead and how we can improve on how we can make a better school.

What makes tamaki special ?
Tamaki is special because of all the things that they do for us like our learning and our other things I think it is special because of how the student leaders are role models for our pairs and how they to breakfast for the people that are here early and how we have lots of things like activities like kiwi sport, kiwi can, camp and different tournament and I do know that It is special because of how the teachers look after us and trust me if you had stayed here for 4 years like me you would never want to ever leave.

How can we make tamaki a better place?
Well I think that they could renovate a new hall because of how our school is becoming big and how everyday new student enrolls, we could have a senior park for us seniors instead of going on the junior park more sports equipment so when we go to tournament we have something to use and we could use a new guy for fitness if anyone has nothing to do they can go and work out.

One minute speeches

This week speeches have been great for my class some of us presented the same subjects my subject was about monkeys my other one was about church now today my speech is about mobile phones I talked about the negatives and the positives some of the negatives are that on facebook people can hack you phone and write bad stuff and say bad things to your family and ruin your relationships or they could start a roumier, the positives are that if you are on facebook or you have credit you can message your family and keep in touch from all around the world.

Where does Medicines come from?

Today our whole class got a book to read and my one was about medicines there are many medicines that come from around the world like the papyrus the ancient scroll of medicine from ancient Egypt another thing is that medicine can come from the most venomous snakes like the inland taipan snake one of the most venomous and deadliest snakes in the world another interesting thing is that laughter is medicine they say that if you watch a funny program you will eventually stop being saw or having problems one more medicine is that you can get your medicine from plants many plants like plants that you could fin in the amazon or in you country

Holiday Program

Maths

Today Maths was great because we were being supervised by miss Pine and by miss Sharma and each group got a problem each me and my group got a problem and it was that you had to share 8 bars of chocolate shared between 5 children so then we had eight whole bars that had five pieces then we took away 5 whole bar and then after that we had 3 bars left over then we divide them in to 5 pieces and then we shared it out so everyone had a equal share and the bars that they each got was 1 3/5 and the and the question was 8 divided by 5 and that equals 1 3/5 and thats your answer.

Swimming Summary

Narrative Writing

Tech Reflect

ANZAC POEM

Tragic Day

I sit here a wait with sadness and hate

For my father and mother have died of their chosen fate,

Blood slowly spills on the mud,

  I sit with silence and no sound as I watch my                parents lay on the ground,   

I pray for my parents and the dead for I think this could be the end,

I see people's blood splattered on the wall and people's organs on the floor,

I hear BANG BANG BANG and I can hear people getting stabbed,

Blood boiled black as the bullets penetrated their skin,

The guns bullets burst out like turning a light on and off,   

people souls gone to a safe place,

washed away for they can never live another day,

as the sun skips across the sky many more soldiers dye.

What Makes Me Confident

WALT Define confidence
This task is about things that make me happy and confident and one of them is important to me is called Peace it's important to me because it involves heaps of Love,  Kindness,  Generosity, Happiness. Another value is Love because people are full of Love and there is Peace in the air and no arguments and no fights between Families and Friends or in Public and mostly your Parents.

But one of them I need to work on is Self control because I can lose it when i'm in a argument or when i'm playing touch or when i'm playing different sports or when i'm being mocked by People for what I wear or what I do wrong.Another reason is because people get angry for me letting down their team.

The value that I have improved on is Faith  because I have been encouraged by my church and my teacher and when i'm feeling down I have a Faith in me that I can do anything that's in my way and I can be able to fulfill my life with positivity and to become anyone my heart desires like to be a Doctor or a Layer.

The value i'm good at is Pride I have Pride around my family and public and friends i'm proud to be Samoan and Tongan and I say it out loud i'm really lucky I am this culture I don't know what I would do if i wasn't i don't no what I would be doing.

The value im not go at is being Fearless no matter how i try to be confident I can't because i so terrified inside that I want to scream out loud till i can't no more because there's so many thing that are scary out there like many people or things or animals or things to do that no one can do or do risk their life but I will get there someday.

One more thing is company I like company because i'm able to make people happy like my family and i'm able to have fun with the people that I love and to bond with them to make a connection or to make them happy and have a positive attitude instead of making them cry or feel down in a negative way.

Another thing is that i'm realy positive when i'm around people you may not know me but when you got the chance to realize you will like me and I can make so many people laugh and have a great time and to make them have a positive attitude instead of a wrong and negative one.

When i'm with crowds I can be polite or when i'm with my family or in public or when i'm with my friends I friends I can be so many things like say i'm proud of my culture or to be happy that im a positive when it comes to my friend or when im at school I can show growth mindset to solve problems or when im feeling down.

Also I am able to put myself out there and i'm not afraid to put my team up and to always have self confidence so I don't lose myself in the game or when i'm playing another sport plus im always positive with other people in my team and im not afraid to show it and I always put my heart out there.

Another reason why im a positive person is because I love my whole family with all my heart and I because they have been so supportive to me and they are always positive around me and my cousins they help me with homework they help me when im struggling they help me when i'm feeling down or when im not having a great time.

When i'm at home I always show initiative to help my mum with work at home like to clean the lounge or clean my room or to help my brother with his learning and to make sure is reading progress is positive or to make sure my siblings are alright.

When im at school I get in trouble but I learn from it i'm always the person to get in trouble sometimes but i learn from that and i look up to my teacher because she hard on us because she wants to prepare us for college in case we fail and not get anywhere in life.

When im around the family I can be a goofy person but they love me for how I am and that makes me really confident and I love them back I don't know what I would be doing I could of have not gone to school have no job or have no career or a future so that's why I love my family and they love me  and that's why i'm the person that i'm today.

When i'm in public I show a good reputation like when im at church and im in front of the how church saying my testimony or when im at a basketball game I show many different things that light up some people and they can always seem to like me around like my friends and my family.

My Tech Reflect

My Technology Reflection

Freedom for all

This is a poem based on a game called Freedom Fighters.
I am proud of my poem because I am inspired by my Great Grandfather.

New Maths Learning

Today we were looking thougth our fractions and learning about the nominator and the denominator and we learned that a quarter means four and third means 3 half means 2 hole means 1 and we did a text of how we had to share the cake between 4 people because it was kate's 20th birthday and the answer is a quarter, then after that we had to share divide 20 candles into four cakes and the answer is five.

WALT:Solve problems Like this using fractions and how to divide stuff

observation with the teacher

WALT:Use inferring and visualising to understand the text that the author is talking about

Today we were learned about inferring and visualising and how it can help you understand the situation in the text and we got a task to do and we had to think of what the author was talking about 

Tero Maori Survey

Resource sheet 3A: Survey

Complete this table by writing in the responses of your classmates to the questions.

Ingoa:____________Andre Matekuolava___________________________

Pātai 1: Āhea koe wehe mai ai?	7.00	7.15	7.30	7.45	8.00	8.15	8.30	8.45
Pātai 2: Mā hea koe haere mai ai?	hīkoikoi
Pātai 3: Āhea koe tae mai ai?	7.00	7.15	7.30	7.45	8.00	8.15	8.30	8.45

Tero Maori Survey

Resource sheet 3B: Survey

Complete this table by filling in the responses to your classroom survey.

Ingoa		Pātai 1	Pātai 2	Pātai 3
1	Losana	7:45	hīkoikoi	8:00
2	Lj	8:30	hīkoikoi	8:45
3	Siale	7:30	hīkoikoi	7:50
4	Pio	8:45	hīkoikoi	9:00
5	Starylyn	7:00	hīkoikoi	7:45
6	Jennifer	8:00	hīkoikoi	8:15
7	Arohdyin	8:00	hīkoikoi	8:15
8	Retta	8:00	hīkoikoi	8:15
9	Paterita	8:00	hīkoikoi	8:30
10	Lyric	8:00	hīkoikoi	8:10
11	Daimai	7:55	hīkoikoi	8:05
12	curtys	8:00	hīkoikoi	8:15

Easter Poster

My Whanau Conference Presentation

Tamaki Primary Values

KWL Chart of Endangered Languages

Hotspot of endangered languages

Brainstorm about why we need language

WALT to ask why we need languages 

Tamaki College Technology

TPS Fun Day

On Thursday 25 February our school Tamaki Primary had a fun day First everyone had to go to class after morning tea to get there green band so that they know that they can go on the activities.After we got our bands we had to go outside and sit under the tree to eat our lunch before the fun day begins.Not long ago after we ate our lunch we had to go and wait in line for our sausages and ice blocks.

Then we went off back to sit under the tree and we had our sausages and ice blocks then miss Kelly our principal leads us of to do whatever we want to do there were six activities one was the bouncy castle, second was the water slide next was softball fourth was vollyball fifth was hug a tree and six was spongebob squeeze.

First I went to the slide and it was great and very very hot then it became cold and it was cool.Second I went and played volleyball and it was fun and a little boring then I went to softball and played for a while and then I went wild and squirted everyone with water.

After a couple of hours we went and sat under the big tree next to the garden then we went to the same place where we went to the tree where we sat in the first place then we got to go home.

Tamaki college Tech

Tamaki College tech was great because we got to see the example of the of the necklace that's made of pewter metal.It was awesome because we got to do our design my design was about my grandmama and how she loved to go church and how she like's me over.

Thankyou
Sincerely Andre.M

Tamaki Collge Tech

Wow technology was so awesome we were learning about the steel metal could pewter and its values the price of one bar of pewter was about 250$ and he was talking about who would we make a neck list for someone you admire, And i chose my grandma.

Thankyou

My Online Profile

Talofalava my name is Andre and im 12 years old I live in Auckland and I am for Tamaki Primary and im a year 8 in room 10.My teachers is Mrs Arieen and my teacher aid is Kelly.My favorite subject is Maths Reading and Writing.The sport that I like playing is Touch and Volley ball.My favorite food is sushi and hot food.My strengths are lots of thing like Writing Reading and Spelling.Im looking forward to Technology this year because we are learning at Tamaki College.People I admire are my Grandparents because they help me and my Parents.