౨ৎ⋆ ˚｡Kia Ora, Welcome back to my blog! Its Term 3 week 9!! almost the end of the term, This week my literacy class, has been learning about sharks. How its one of the biggest predators but however there’s alot of different types 1,250 to be specific and in New Zealand there are about 120 species of sharks that you would find . We discussed about should sharks be made extinct? personally for me I don’t think they should be extinct since not all sharks are harmful as the texts said ” you are most likely to die from a bee sting rather from a shark attack” because even if they bite you they wouldnt eat you whole, some sharks are harmless like the whale shark even if there big they are gentle giants and the nurse sharks! plus if sharks dont exist our complete ecosystem under water would fail no sharks would be more fish more fish the more corals would be eaten considering sharks are one of the biggest animals in the food chain.I hope this discussion gave you some thoughts ! Check the create task that me and my partners nunu made a sharktastic podcast about sharks!! what are your opinions? do you think sharks should exist?>>

౨ৎ˚⟡˖ Kia Ora, Welcome back to my blog! this term our theme was “Karawhiua give it heaps“. for our inquiry/DLO we had to do something similar to what Mr. Wiseman did for the immersion assembly, If you haven’t check that out… Make sure you have a quick check and leave a positive comment!! We are learning to Show control of our body movements when demonstrating a new skill, Persevere through the challenges of learning something new. so this term we had to pick a cool skill that we have to learn in under 4-6 weeks ( like juggling,staff spinning or cartwheels ). What did choose to learn?  I’ve decided in the first weeks I wanted to try or learn how to do a proper handstand/to hold a handstand, first we had to research and find methods, set goals on how I can successfully do the skill then after. In the first few weeks specifically in  Monday August 5th I started to learn my skill, it wasn’t easy in the start in fact I struggled a lot, I spent the day getting use to the feel of kicking up but my goal is to hold it. Mainly I think what’s holding me back is that i’m scared of falling or getting hurt, but in order for me to succeed I have to overcome this fear..Wanna see more about it? check out the video/link above and watch my documentation of me learning how to do a proper handstand!!

Reflection time: its the end of the journey in learning my skill, I didnt got as far as I wanted to,  I’m not efficient in doing a handstand, somehow sometimes able to demonstrates it by I often don’t feel confident..Also throughout the term there some days we didn’t have enough time sometimes to do inquiry for reasons,but what i should’ve done was to practice at home more, at the same time I’m proud of myself for overcoming my fear of falling, I’ve realised falling and getting hurt is part of the process in learning how to, every time I fell, it motivated me to try harder and never give up it gave me a boost of confidence that there’s chances that I will succeed in learning how to do a handstand. Although I did not succeed in learning I learned a couple of things that I can use next time overall this inquiry project made me realise its okay to fall and make mistakes all of it is a part of learning, Maybe in the future I’ll learn how to do a proper handstand!! 

ka kite ano, thank you for reading!! ( plus thanks to Kisa and Bonnie for helping me along the way!! )

౨ৎ⋆ ˚｡Kia Ora, Welcome back to my blog! Its Term 3 week 5!!, This week my literacy class, has been learning about the Olympics how its one of the biggest events but however there’s a downside on hosting the Olympics. We discussed about how the host countries make money from the Olympics and is the Olympics still worth it? check out this video above to watch me and my partners Benji and Carlos . I hope this discussion gave you some thoughts ! do you think your country should host the next’s Olympic games?>>

Kia Ora or KIA ORANA .ᐟ「Welcome back to my blog..!!」Did you know this week was cook island language week..!?yesterday the 8th of August was my first time attending Mana ako ( A homework club managed by Mrs Te’lea  )We learned about some interesting facts about the lovely Cook islands, did you know the Cook islands is named after the famous explorer Captain James Cook. If your not familiar with this country the Cook islands is an island  in Polynesia part of the Oceania in the south Pacific ocean, it consist of exactly 15 islands with a population of 17,518 and counting…Alone since 2006 the estimated population is 4,100  in Avarua ( The capital city ). Also here are 3 more fun facts before I tell you about my first experience in Mana ako : 1.The Cook island is the 2nd largest producer of black pearls world wide 2. Most of the people from Cook island migrated from Tahiti ( island 150km away ) in the early 6th century ad, lastly did you know The Cook islands appeared in the map in 1800s..

So far in I had fun learning some new facts and really enjoyed my time in Mana ako, In Mana ako we also learned about the tivaevae patterns and the ei katu ( flowers crowns: weaven leaves with colorful flowers mostly they use the flower Tiare, they mostly wear them in occasions like festivals or a part of the Cook island attire )  I  and I’ll definitely come back. That’s all thankyou!!

.✦ — Kia Ora, welcome back to my blog!!. This week and last week we are learning to identify factual information in a texts. We are learning about Arthur Lydiard who is a renowned New Zealand runner/athlete and coach, Whos  method in running is known for by many coaches and runners around the world use his ideas to build strength and speed. Fun fact: Did you know Arthur said that It’s important to start with lots of steady long runs to build stamina to help strengthens our lungs and heart to improve speed, If you want to learn more about him check the task above, it includes vocabulary and also a fact file I made! My highlight for this task was learning something new and my challenge was researching ( I have trouble with research it frustrates me sometimes when the sites don’t have any helpful information’s ). that’s all thankyou!! 

✧ Kia Orana, welcome back to my blog..!! This Tuesday week 3 of term 3, we are continuing to learn how to accurately measure length and easily convert between units . Today our task is about comparing our height to : people, tall buildings,mountains etc. Fun fact Im 1.5m tall and to be as tall as the sky tower you need 216 times my height!! My highlight for this activity was learning how tall some of the examples were, I learned something new today like how the Tane mahuta is 51m tall! The challenges for this task is calculating how many times my height need to be stacked. thats all thankyou!!

✧ Kia Ora, welcome back to my blog. It’s now the first day of week 3!! today in maths we are learning to accurately measuring length and easily convert between units like 10mm is 1cm or 1000m is 1km . I found the task really easy and but at the same time had to carefully think about the right units.My highlight is seeing my improvement on measuring length and easily converting since in the start I was really confused and lost, My lowlight I don’t think I have one. That’s all thank you!!