A significant place of Mine

The Auckland Museum 

The Auckland Museum is significant to someone because it provides a comprehensive and enriching experience, offering insights into New Zealand's cultural heritage, acting as a solemn war memorial, and serving as a valuable educational resource, all within one iconic and historically meaningful location.

Cultural Heritage: The Auckland Museum is significant because it preserves and showcases New Zealand’s cultural heritage, including Maori and Pacific Island artefacts, providing insight into nations diverse history and traditions.

War Memorial: It serves as an important war memorial, honouring the sacrifices of New Zealand’s servicemen and women in various conflicts, fostering remembrance and connecting generations to the country’s military history. 

Education and Research: The museum facilitates learning experiences for visitors of all ages, offering educational programs and resources that contribute to a better understanding of New Zealand’s past, present and natural history, while also supporting research and scientific knowledge.  

                                                    

Waitangi Day

The Treaty of Waitangi

3 facts about The Treaty of Waitangi                       

- The Treaty was signed on 6 February 1840 at Karaka Bay, Auckland.                                                            - Hone Heke & Captain William Hobson signed the Treaty first.                                                                      - The Treaty was created in English then was translated in Maori.

3 different point of views:           

Maori Perspective is Positive. They say that Waitangi Day brings people together as well as being filled with joy & laughter. This allows people to fellowship, socialise & acknowlege their past ancestors & chiefs who came to a conclusion to make an agreement with the British Empire. 

Pakeha Perspective is Negative. Mike thinks that Waitangi Day is a waste of time and says that there is no point in celebrating. This is because it is filled with abuse, anger and ignorants. In other words, Mike also said that if he became Prime Minister that he would be tempted to flag Waitangi Day.

My Perspective is Positive. I think that Waitangi Day is not a waste of time and should be acknowleged throughout New Zealand. This is especially because New Zealand is not our land as this land was orginially owned by the people of Aotearoa. This means that students should be educated about this day & be taught more information about it. 

Why is it important to learn about the Treaty?                                                                               Waitangi Day should be celebrated because this is an important day for the people of Aotearoa. This should not be taken lightly as Waitangi Day was the day that Maori Chiefs & British empire came to an agreement about taking care of Aotearoa for the future generations to come.                                     

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DLO about Climate change

 Kia ora Bloggers, I apologise for not being active and posting much but this week I've learnt how to find a pattern of a number even if its 2 different digits. I also learned lots about climate change, how people need to pay more close attention to it, the causes and effects and the worst situations that can happen.

Here is my DLO about climate change, please sit back and enjoy !

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I hope you all are save and covid-free :)

Changing Improper Fractions to Mixed fractions !

Kia ora Blogger, I hope you all are safe and covid-free. 

Today, I wasn't able to join the online call due to difficulties but I managed to complete every online school tasks. One of the tasks I learnt today is how to change improper fractions to Mixed fractions !

Let me quickly teach you how to do it, I found my own way that helped me by knowing my times table instead of using paper and drawing the amount of circles, squares and more. 

To be honest, I have a better understanding than I had last time.

so lets start with the first question: 7/3 

3x2 = 6 ( It is the closes to 7)  now as you can see there is 1 left in 6 to make 7. Now its 2 1/3. 

I apologise if my explanation is not good but they're are many ways to work out mixed fractions :)

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Chop Suey - Technology

Today my group & I made chop suey but a healthier version, to be honest I think the healthier version tasted much better! I really liked the food and enjoyed making it with my partner. Cooking teaches me different techniques, skills & teaches me to try new food and to alter my ingredients. It also teaches me the importance of cooking, cooking is not only fun but we must be careful for hazards and many more. We have one more week of cooking then we rotate, cooking has been very fun and has given me many amazing opportunities. 

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Earth Science Form

 This semester my year level & I have moved onto a new subject, our last subject was pacific & native plants our new topic for this semester is Earth Science. I find earth science interesting as we learn the layers of the earth, the movement of the earth (Tectonic plates) in which I find most interesting  and the disasters that occur such as lava, volcanoes & more.

New Zealand Olympics

 

Tokyo Olympics 2020 has been very interesting and very successful. 

Because of COVID-19, the organisers were very cautious . They used with cardbox beds, isolated rooms and separate eating areas. They use cardboard boxes as beds so they can re-use it for good purposes.

It's pretty amazing on how they postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics to 2021 as this is the first time they postponed Olympics it also comes to my shock that Laura Hubbards was the first to be able to compete transgender in the Olympics. Due to covid and many reasons to keep the Olympics successful they couldn't have spectators as it only allowed participants, referees and coaches.

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Cooking - Technology

 Kia Ora Bloggers, 

Today my class and I went to tech as usual, went to our groups and completed the tasks that needed to be completed. We made vegetable curry with lentils, green beans, spinach, chicken breast, carrot, onion,  garlic and curry paste. 

Instructions :

Dice your onions, thinly cut the carrots, cut the stalk off the spinach and cut thinly after that thinly cut the chicken breast into bite sizes.

Prepare your pan to 1/2 degree, add 1 1/2 oil then add your onions into the pan.

Once the onions are nice and brown, add your chicken breast onto the pan as well as the garlic then let it fry.

After its fried or close, count in the lentils, green beans, spinach and carrots stir for 10-12 minutes then allow it to set.

Next, add in the curry paste and mix once you've mixed it let it settle for 15-20 minutes check on your food just in case it gets over cooked then take it off the pan onto a plate and enjoy :) !

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(Example) - Vegetable curry :)

Matariki Art

My class and I had to create a matariki art to present to our school about. Matariki is 'New Year' in Maori and is indeed very important to the Maori culture. Matariki has 9 stars, Waipuna-a-rangi, Ururangi, Matariki, Tupu-a-rangi, Tupu-a-nuku, Waiti, Waita, Pohutukawa and Hiwa-ite-rangi. As a 'newbeeie' to Matariki, I'm very interested in knowing the 9 stars and their meaning.  

Our teacher made 4 activities we had to choose from, the whare made with ice block sticks with stars surrounding it, the star which you draw and write meaningful words around it, Acronym about matariki and art painting silhouette. As you know I chose art because of its wonderful sunset and surrounding.  

Back to my art, I'm not that creative but I loved the sunset and the silhouette that I wanted to try it so bad and so I gave it a go. It was very fun and turned out better than I imagined, there were some tricky parts like making the colour blend, trying to rub off our mistakes without making a whole and spreading the white paint everywhere. To be honest it was especially hard because we used dye instead of paint, the only colour we used paint for was white because our teacher said it'll look much better and easier. 

The art I created with a few of my classmates was very outstanding and better than I expected. I can't wait to present this to the rest of my classmates as well as students around the school. I hope you also like my work and decide to leave a kind and thoughtful blog comment! Thank you :)

Visit to Te Oro

 Kia ora bloggers.

Today my class & room 10 went to Te Oro to learn about matariki and Maori art. We each had 3 groups for 3 activities called Harakeke, kowhaiwhai,Tuhituhi. I was in kowhaiwhai with Matua Logan and whetu, they were very kind and thoughtful.

They also encouraged us to be creative and to leave all your negative thoughts outside and to also think outside the box. Obviously before that all happened we took our shoes off and lined up as we enter Te Oro. Once we entered Te Oro we were surprised with an amazing introduction by the teachers and their whanau. After all that Matua Logan asked us simple questions about Matariki and questions such as 'what's the god of the oceans name?' (Tangaroa) as we answered the questions correctly Matua Logan gave those who answered the questions a lollie which was surprising because no one expected anything. 

As we move on with our groups, some year 8s from last year already went through this but luckily we went into a group we haven't done last year and so I went into kowhaiwhai. It was very fun and interesting as we had a white plain paper, folded into 4 squares already served to us. In those four boxes, in box 1 we had to draw a koru, in box 2 we drew a hammerhead shark also known as Mangopare, In box 3 we had to connect the Mangopare on box 2 with box 3 but drawing it on opposite sides & last but not least we drew waharua kopito. (If you are new to these Maori patterns feel free to use google) After all that Matua Logan and Whetu gladly gave us good amount of wood that was painted white before given to us, they also put painting pallets with the colour blue, purple, gold, black and green.

Using those patterns we drew earlier, we painted with the colours that make us who we are, but of course we had to plan our work with a pencil on our piece of wood and then colour it over using paint. I would say this adventure was pretty amusing I had lots of fun with my friends as well as learning new things.

 

   

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EasTTle - Strand Results

 Today my class & I had to complete another test which was maths strand. As you can tell by the following images I earned a 4B, to be honest I'm not sure if I'm happy with my score or not. I feel like it's good but not good, because of this it encourages me to try harder,work harder and earn a 5B or 4A. This test was a little tricky but I managed to get through it. 

(Test Results)

Ngatu - Keeping the tradition alive

Malo e lelei Bloggers.

Today a good amount of students got chosen to work with one of our student teachers and I was one of them. Our student teachers name is Miss Myers, she is a lovely and caring teacher. 

This session she taught us how to find the main idea in the story, how to create a ngatu, what were the importance of ngatu and the Tongan vocabulary. I learnt new vocabulary such as Tutu - the bark used to make ngatu, koka'anga - the way of making ngatu, ike - wooden tool for beating the ngatu and more. 

It was an interesting session with Miss Myers. As you may or may not know, to be a complete teacher you must go through 3 years of getting experience from different schools, learning off teachers and students. Miss Myers is on her 3rd year of training, which means she is going to be a teacher in 6 months! from my experience with Miss Myers I think that her new class and students will love her. 

Back to my class session reading Ngatu. I also learnt the difference creating a ngatu in Tongan and creating a ngatu in New Zealand because creating the ngatu in New Zealand they use flour and glue but in Tonga back in the Islands they used half cooked potato as a glue to stick the parts that had holes. 

I had an amazing time with my group as well as Miss Myers and learned a lot of interesting things about making ngatu. I hope to have another reading session like today with Miss Myers wishing her all the best with her new class.

Etc. Ngatu 

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EasTTle - Number Results

 Today my class & I had to complete our EasTTle maths numbers test. As you can see by the image I received 5B which means I went up 2 sub-levels. It was a tiring session but very worth it, I was very excited and happy once I saw my score. I am definitely happy with my score but really want to try harder and better next time. If you read my all about me blog post it says that I want to reach 5B which I gladly did, so now I want to keep it up and continue going up step by step.

(Test Results)

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Popcorn chicken & wedges !

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Today my class & I had technology in the morning on Tuesdays as usual, today we made popcorn chicken and wedges as you can see by my title. 

This task was very creative and innovative. I had an awesome time making popcorn chicken with my partner, we both liked it very much and thinks it taste amazing. I definitely had a good time with my class & I and looking forward to seeing what we will be cooking next week.

Ingredients : 1 1/2 cup of flour, 1 egg, 1 1/2 bread crumbs, canola oil, chicken breast

Cut the chicken breast into small square pieces. 

marinate the chicken breast into the milk and lemon.

Get your pan out, cover it with foil and spray a good amount of canola oil.

Dip the chicken breast into the flour then the egg into then bread crumbs after that put it onto the pan and repeat the same process.

Once you've completed that process, make sure your oven is on 180 degrees and then put your popcorn chicken inside the oven and let it set for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes is completed take your pan out and turn the popcorn over then putting it back inside the oven for another 10 minutes. (Make sure your watching your popcorn because in some cases it can burn up).

Wedges:

Put the amount of wedges into the oven on 190 or 200 degrees then leave it to set for 20 minutes or so.

etc. Popcorn Chicken 

  

Etc. Popcorn Chicken

Coconut Tree - Tree of Life

 Kia Ora Bloggers. Today my class and I decided to make a google form about coconuts, teaching you some interesting things about coconuts, the amazing different things that coconuts can create and its habitats.

Please feel free to complete my google form and comment your favourite question or what you liked/enjoyed about my google form.

Thank you :)

Family Tree

 

Today my class and I had to complete a fun activity, the activity was talking and asking your parents, grandma,grandpa what culture were their parents, trying to understand our ancestors and our past generations. As you can see by my family tree above, I am half caste, half Samoan and half Tongan from both my parents side. I got this information from my parents as they told me about my past generation and  ancestors because I have never met my grandparents as they had already passed before my time of birth. 

This activity is about getting us to know our past ancestors, generations and just trying to understand ourselves, where we are from and make us proud of who we are. I learned lots more about my past generations, what they were and more from my lovely parents.

Even though this task was very enjoyable it was quite a hassle creating the family tree and putting it in order but besides the hard-work I had an awesome time !

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Cooking - Term 2 - Week 7

 

This week's cooking recipe was mince with salad.

This weeks recipe was very delicious and fun, this recipe was not difficult at all in fact this was very easy and amusing. My favourite part about creating this dish is putting the mince into the pan and dicing the onion and carrots. Although the following images above is not the real picture, here is just a similar dish to what we've created today.

Recipe:

Ingredients: Mince, onion, carrots, stock cube, oil, lettuce, garlic and ginger

Dice the onions and carrots.

Set the frying pan halfway, check if its hot pour a good amount of oil. 

Then put your diced onions in the pan, let it set then add in the garlic and ginger.

Once the onions are nice and light add in the mince, stir and then leave it to cook.

(You will know when the mince is ready because there will be no pink parts, it will all be brown.)

Once it's nice and cooked add in the carrots, stir and then leave it to cook.

After that, add in your salad to your bowl,plate or container, turn down your stove and add your mince into your salad.

Finally, sit back, relax and enjoy :)

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DLO about Coconuts

 

Today, my class and I was set to complete an activity about coconuts. 

Although I knew what a coconut is I didn't know much behind it like the way they use the coconut, what each part of the coconut tree is used for, how old a coconut tree is and lots more. I had an awesome time completing this tasks with my class and I also had an amazing time learning about the coconut and lots of things its used for while writing my DLO.

Please feel free to read my DLO above.

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Chameleon - Word Art

 

Today, I've created a word art that describes me and what makes me proud of my culture.

This activity was a fun and very interesting activity as we had to write down all the things that we are proud of and things that make us who we are today.

Creating a word-art is very simple, once you click on the site you will be able to add any word you would like, your favourite sports, things, cultural subjects and more. 

As you can see my picture is a chameleon, chameleon is a colour changing lizard.  

If you want to create a word-art  feel free to press the link and give it a go !

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Cooking term 2 - week 2

Today GIS seniors and I had technology, for technology as you know we had recently rotated into new activities. 

This week we made fritters with salad :

Ingredients: 1 egg, 1/4 cup of milk, 1/3 flour - ( whisk ) 1 zucchini - courgette - (graze and peel )

1. Add the courgette into the egg,milk and flour and whisk.

2. Put a good amount of oil into a pan, then once whisked add into the pan any shape you want and amount you want on the pan.

3. watch carefully on your food & keep checking on it just so it doesn't burn.

This dish that we made was very delicious and nice especially with the dipping sauce (sweet chilli),  I definitely enjoyed this dish Milika & I created and absolutely had fun creating this dish with her and my class members, this was a successful day and can't wait to cook and update you again next week.

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