What my friends said about me?

Today we have been taped with paperson our backs. Then we had to write positive things on other peoples back.

All the students in room nineteen did it and ms Tito explain it to all of the students in her class and there were some that I wrote on and it was exciting game. After that everyone was walking around the class room to write positive things.

The thing I liked about the person that said was when they said thanks for being a friend of mine.

My Mystery practice

What event do you think I’m in? can you guess?

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I’ve been practicing drumming because I like it and it’s my first time playing them. I asked my dad what the different drums were called, he only told me two of them, they were the ones with one eye and one with two eyes. The two eyes were called the base ‘the fat drum’ in english.

What we do first to start the Drumming session is that we say the karakia because that’s what my uncle says to every drummer. We practice drumming in room 24 because my uncle is here to teach us some lessons so we know what to play and how it goes. The Tutors that we practice with are my uncles and they say not to play with them when they’re talking, I’m doing this because I want to show off to my family and I want to make them proud of me.

It’s really fun playing cook island drums but not easy as you might think, It is the hardest drum it’s the hardest drum that I’ve ever played.

Picking Harakeke (flax)

Kia ora, can you guess what Room 19 have been up to last week?  We walked to Omaru creek to pick harakeke (flax).  

When we first got there Ms Tito had to tell us what the rules were to do with harakeke. The most important thing is that we don't cut the matua, whaea and pepi and there were some accidents that happen about cutting flax of which one we cut . Ms Tito said not to chop them at night because they might accidentally chop the wrong one.

We walked back with our flax that we chopped and when we got back to school we had to walk into the streets and we had to sit in a circle so everyone can fit we then had to have a ruler each and so we started to weave our own harakeke and I did not have one so Lorenzo keni because he was listening and not participating.

Tuakana/Teina (Brother or Sister)

This term Room 19 is learning about Tuakana/ Teina. Tuakana means an older brother or sister, and teina means younger brother or sister. Every Tuesday we all walk over to the library to read with our teina brothers and sisters.

When we going to the library we stay with the teina that we have each week but some have been changed. When I wasn't here on Tuesday my teina, I had to be with Nanthanial from our class for last week.

Our teina come from Room 9, they are a part of our family at Pt England school that we read to. We read to them so we can practise the 3'P's and they are Partnership, Participation and Protection. Working with our teina helps to improve their reading and our leadership skills.

School Picnic

Before going to the picnic every class went to the hall and Mr Burt was first talking about food and lunches and about Safety. After that he was saying the prayer then he started to to tell us that the seniors had to walk first, and the class that he told to go first was room 22 then 21, 20,19,and then the juniors.

When we got to the reserve we all had to sit in our class lines and Mr Burt first said that we had to look for a place sit and have our lunch when we started moving to our places our was by the tree and the sands.

Some people were playing with some of the sports gear and the sports gear I was playing with was the softball when I first got there I saw people playing and there weren't much people playing then I started to go and join in and my position in softball was out fielding and being on the bases.

After that I went to my bag and got some lunches out for my lunch I had corn beef sandwiches and I gave some to na

Learning about Honesty

What is Honesty? This year Pt England School is learning to be “Better Together”- “Kia pai te kotahi”. In Room 19 we have been studying love, compassion, honesty and tolerance. Ms Tito (our teacher) gave us a task to select one of these words to write a definition and present an example of what it means to our class. The reason we are learning about these things are to help us understand ourselves and others so we can be a better person today and in the future.
I chose the word honesty to study about. here is my definition and example of what it looks like.

Cartel Honestly

I am a dancer
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