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Dear Jacinda Ardern

 Dear Jacinda Ardern, 

My name is Te Atawhai Moana-Pearl  from Wainui Beach School in Gisborne. We are writing this letter to you because we don't like how people are getting treated in New Zealand. I would like you to help the homeless and encourage people to not abort their children and stop people abusing their children. But you can help us stop that by focusing on these three things over the next three years as the leader of New Zealand.

First of all, I would like you to help the homeless more by giving them a safe shelter and a warm home. I think  of reasonable prices that they can afford in their own time. There are 41,000 homeless people scattered around NZ, maybe you could help them try to sturdy their life until they can get a job. 

Secondly,  I think that abortion should not be an option to any mother because if it is not going to hurt the mother or the baby, the baby should not NOT be aborted. I think that there should be a law if you want to abort , the mother should see three doctors before they abort the soon to be baby. 

Last but definitely not lest CHILD abuse.  I was thinking you could make a more NZ a safer environment for NZ children, we want children to feel safe. We want kids to speak and that they feel that they can be more confident/safe about speaking up.

Sincerely yours truly Te Atawhai Moana-Pearl  , thank you

Cool Places in The North Island

Find them if you can!

 

Hand Art

This is how mine turned out.

 

The first week back at school

 Hello  I'm Te Atawhai and i'm a year 5 girl at wainui beach school. This is the first week back at school and it's already been busy. Yesterday me and my school went to a  monarch butterfly show. We have also have be doing athletics training. Plus all of my priorities and that's a work load. So I have been trying to do my best. 

In athletes training we have to prates ball though, sprints, long jump and high jump. My favorite athletes event is long jump. I like long jump because  you just jump and it kind of feels like your flying because sprit up and then jump. I think my least favorite athletic event is sprites because they are all about the shart and I always go late. I also don't like it because its tiring. 

Third of all the butterfly show. I found it funny and entertaining because it was about save the monarch butterflies homes from a road work company. But there were only 2 people that played 5 people. They also did lots of gymnastics in there play. So that was cool to. I hoped you liked my blog.

My speech

 

INTRODUCTION  introduction: $10 note. Everyone knows what this is, right? It is a $10 note. But not everyone knows who is on it or why she is on it. My speech is about a woman and why she is on our $10 note. Her name is Kate Sheppard. Kate was recognised as the woman who led the suffrage movement in NZ. ‘Suffrage’ means the right to vote. Women's suffrage day was celebrated here in Gisborne on the 19th of September 2020. Flowers were laid for her by the suffrage monument next to the council. 

PARAGRAPH :  Kate got women to vote on the 19th of Sept 1893, 127 years ago, NZ became the first country to allow women the right to vote. What an amazing achievement for NZ. Kate also fought for the right so that women could run for parliament seats. Today we have a female prime minister because of her. Previous female prime ministers were Helen Clark, who entered parliament in 1981 as the Labour MP and Dame Jenny Shipley entered parliament in 1987 as the National MP. Now Jacinda Ardern. The mayor of Gisborne is also a woman - Rehette Stoltz. 

PARAGRAPH 2: Secondly, Kate Sheppard believed that women should be able to participate in ALL areas of society including politics. This included sport and physical exercise. For example she fought for the right of women to exercise like men could. Like bike riding. Back then women couldn't bike ride but men could. How unfair is that? And that is why she is on the ten dollar note. 

 PARAGRAPH 3:  My third point is that she thought women should choose what they wanted to wear. An Example of this was that Kate fought against the use of corsets. What is a corset you ask ? Well that’s a good question. A corset was a tight fitting under clothing to shape your body. Form the chest down to your hips. Did you know koka Ngaire wore a corset sewn in her wedding dress - I bet she looked flash though!

 CONCLUSION: America only let women vote in 1920 which is over 20 years after NZ. There's still countries that don’t let women vote like the Vatican city in Italy. And Saudi Arabia doesn't want women to vote so they make it very hard for them to. But Kate has fought for women's rights and helped nz, and that is why she is on the ten dollar note. Thank you

A Busy Week

Kia ora, this week is Maori week and at  my school we've been trying to incorporate that idea . So this week our priorities were based on activities that would help us learn more about the culture and language. But this week we have been very very busy and hectic because me and my class moved into our school hall while our classroom is getting renovated. And we went up to a frame for a day too. But in all the distractions I've been trying to learn about the Maori language. It has been a whole lot easier with the website that my teachers shared with me because it adapts to how you answer the questions.

The first busy thing I had to do was move into the hall with my class. I helped move things into the hall all day. Koka Ngaire said that we had to move everything in our classroom to the hall including all of our art work. At first I was really sad because I liked my old class but now I think I've gotten use to the idare.  Our new class is really big and it's way easier to see when one of my workshops are on because there's no walls through the middle of the room. I also really like our reading space because it has lots of room and alot more books.

The second busy thing that happened was that me and my class went to a farme for the day. The frame is called Pihitai Station and the William's own it. But when we went up to the some of the farmers from down the road came to help out. The Lands, the  Thouises and the Williams had 6 rotations for us and they were all interesting.  The first one was the vehicles they use on the farme. We also got to chase sheep around. Third of all the dogs rounded up the sheep then we got to see a drown. Then we got to look at traps for pests and my favorite was the cow because we got to shake the milk and it turned into butter.

LTP

 Hello I'm a year 5 girl at wainui beach school and I love it here. As you may or may not know My school does LTP.  The options were Cardboardnation, Makey Makey and Junky monkey plate constrations. And for this week they changed Makey Makey to Lose Parts.  I wanted to try it out and see if I enjoyed it.  I thought that it would be very fun because we could make whatever we wanted.  So me and my friends started to think what we were going to make.

Then my friend Alice had a great idea, she thought that we could make a hut. So we started to gather the things we needed to build.  We tried to put the walls up but they kept falling over because of the wind. And I    realized that it would be hard to play in and that it would take a long time to make. So I tried to think up another idea because I was getting bored. Then I had an amazing idea.

 My idea was that me and my friends, ( Alice and Charlotte) could build a theme park.  Now I was very very exited by the idea and I wanted go get started that very moment. The first problem we ran into was that to make our trampoline we needed the top of a rolly and a tyre but the rolly top was the problem. Then I remembered that I saw one in the playground, so I ran up and got it. Then we had our Trampoline made!!!

Going to the beach!!!

 Hello I'm a year 5 girl and I go to wainui beach school I love my school because its close to the beach anda on a Monday and Tuesday my cinderkit does LTP, (Learning Through Play.) In LTP we we have four options but this week since it was a hot day we went to the BEACH! I love the beach because there's so many things you can do. It's also a lot more fun with friends and since i'm at school I get to play with my friends. My school is so close to the beach that it would only take 2 minutes to get there.

On Monday I had a lot of fun. At first I didn't know what to do. But then I decided to make a sand seat with my friend Charlotte. I love making sand seats because when there finished you can sit down and look at the beautiful view of the beach and  even though it takes a long time to make the view makes up for it.  First you have to mark where your going to do it and then you pill on sand. I think the hardest bit to biled is the back resed.

On Tuesday me and my friends wanted to make sand balls. Sand balls are really fun to make but they're very very time consuming. In total their seven of us, ( Me, Charlotte, Millie, Tillie, Kayla and Nina. I thought that this would be really fun so we all had a job, Me, Tillie and Charlotte shaped the balls and Kayla, Millie and Nina got the wet sand. After a while we got a bit bored so we came up with a new game. The game was catch the sand ball, we through the ball around the cycle but if you dropped it you were out.

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Homeschooled for three days!!!

 Hello I am a year 5 at wainui beach school but this week I have been sick  Monday,  Tuesday and Wednesday. I've been doing my work from home. It was kind of like being in level 4 again to be honest.  But I loved lock down because I could wake up whenever I wanted and stay in my pjs however long I wanted as well. So it was pretty good if you ask me.  This is some of the work I've been doing at home...

First I wanted to get my quick writes done on Monday so I could have time to write this blog today or Tuesday. Me and my mum have been going on a walk every day when I've been home and we've just been going to the beach and back. The walk only takes about 10 minutes but yesterday me went down the steps to the beach and the bottom step was very slippery... As we walked down I SLIPPED luckily mum caught me. Then when the waves were building up we ran up the beach. I hope today we don't get spayed.

There is a down side though. Today me and my class were going to make automata and I was really EXCITED but, then I got sick so I had to stay home. The thing is I've been home since Monday and I've been doing all of my work from home too. I hope my team enjoys making our automata today. Me and my team were going to just use one cam, the cam that we were going to use was the circle cam because we're new to this stuff too. Me and my team were going to put a tornado on top.

Writing instructions

Hello this week I have been learning about how to write detailed instructions. We last focused in on graffiti. Me and my friend Millie made our presentation together. Now we've started instructional writing and so far I am enjoying it. I think I enjoy it because it's kind of like I'm coding a robot and that I need to make it exact or the robot will do something else. When  Millie, Cornelia and I tried to directed each other it didn't work out so well.

Today Koka Terri read my writing group (Room on the Broom.) After that we all had to  group up  and write a set of instructions. The three rolls were the bot,  the writer and the debugger. I was the debugger, Millie was the bot and Cornelia was the person who write the set of instructions. The debugger also read out of the instructions. I the debugger also has to underline anything that doesn't go to plane.

All the other teams did great and one team even accomplished the task that we had to do. The task was, koka terri placed the witches hat on the painted  snacks and ladders. She also put the witches bow on the ground. It was very difficult but I loved being the debugger because I got to tell Millie what to do and  I think that Cornelia  did a great job writing instructions. Even though we didn't succeed I still enjoyed it .  

 

Maths

 Hello, this week i'm writing about math and how I had a wow moment in my math workshop. Yesterday I helped my teacher. I helped Alice, Rio and Charlotte A. In my group we've been focusing in on algorithms. I think that we're all sussed with our addition algorithms but I think that i'm good at subtraction algorithms too.  Koka Terri said that its way easier to use algorithms to figure out a question and I think that it is too.

I found myself in the learning pit when my group started figuring out questions with zeros. So I asked koka Terri how to figure out the question and after she explained it to me that was when I had my wow moment. I felt like it all made sense now but it took time and when I got a piece of paper with some questions. When I checked my questions with addition (which koka Terri taught me how to do) I GOT THEM ALL CORRECT!!!!!!  

So now i'll talk about how she taught me to check my work. I thought that it was going to be very complicated but it actually isn't. All you have to do is you see if you answer whatever you are taking away or adding together and if they equal the same as the top column. So I hope you liked my blog this week and please write a comment or some feedback.  

NETBALL!!!

 Hello, I love playing netball with my friends and classmates. Two weeks  ago my team had our practice on wednesday Charlotte's mum Jennine and I found it super fun and I've learnt alot scene then. My preferred position is center because I have to run around and pass it to the attack players that are in my team. I'm very happy with my team and I hope this week we win. I think that were playing kaiti school.

In week one my team faced Awapuni school and I played 3 quarters out of four. In that game I play C, C and D. The score was 6, 11 and they won but I still had a great time. I even got in the newspaper and I was defending a very good shouter from Awapuni school. I think it was a great game to play because we got a taste of what were up against. Our shouters where Tillie, Dillen and Charlotte M.

These are my teammates Kayla, Millie, Tillie, Nina, Charlotte A, Charlotte M, Rio, Alice,Dillen, Amber, Keylane and me. I think that was it but who knows ? In my opinion I think that Tillie and Kayla are great shooters but everybody has a tallent . I love netball  because it gets my adrenaline up and its my favorite sport.  I hope you liked reading my blog and have a good rest of the week.

Weekly round up and a new teacher !!!

This term Koka Ngaire and Koka Terri set a challenge. The challenge is that a team of people in my class will have a week to take photos of their learning and speak about it to and everybody gets a go at it. Last week the team was Kayla, Lola, Bay and William but we haven't seen their video because it won't play. 

We are also going to have a new teacher coming and his name is Beau and he has done some relieving at my school in the past and he taught my brother when he was still at Wainui Beach School.  I'm excited because my brother said he's  really nice and kind. I think that he'll get along with Koka Ngaire and I hope that he enjoys this school.

My team is  Rio, Louie and I. I am very happy because we all have strengths and we all will help out. I think that my team will do great because Rio is amazing at design, Louie is great with technology and I think i'm good at communicating with other people. Me and my team will be doing our weekly round up term 4 week 8 which means we will be the last team to do that. 

Thank you for reading my blog, Week 2 Term 3 !

By Te Atawhai  

First week back for team 3!

Hello, this week me and my friend decided to make a slide for one of our priorities.
The reasoning behind this project is that in our writing group we are focusing on genres
and we picked graffiti. The type that we picked is the one   that has a good message and that you are hired
to do it on their property. Me and Millie decided to have the message about saving endangered animals and
encouraging people to recycle. Our slide will be at the bottom, I hope you like it and please leave
a comment and give some feedback.

LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL

This is the last week of school for me. I'm so excited to see what term 3 will bring for me this year. Although I would like to be on holiday, I'm still at school.  This week it was interesting because this week me and my class had to perform a just dance. The options were Waka waka, Hand clap or Timber. I chose Timber and my partner is Nina. When I first did this dance it was very difficult to do. 

  

Or though I would like to be on holiday.

I still have a  week of school and in my class we did a Matariki  puzzle and we had to go around my class and read the clues that were hidden on site.

I enjoyed it because you had to read what it said and try and fill in the answers about the question asked in your own words.

What I mostly liked was that you got to colour the puzzle pieces in and then cut them out. 

I thought that it was cool that we could dress up as our cartier and perform it but me and Nina haven't performed ours yet.

I'm so happy that I could use a big panda head and that me and Nina look the part. Overall I think that me and Nina are going to nail it because we've been practicing hard but we've been having a great time and having lots of fun.     

My menu

So this week my class  had to make a menu of food that we liked.  I thought that I would add some drinks as well. I loved doing my favorite food . I also had to make a menu of foods that I don't like. I decided to just put up my good menu. I think that I did a great job making my menu. Tell me what you think of my menu in the comments.

Pepaha art

Hello, in my class I've been doing pepeha art. I find this interesting because I like doing art and this type of art has a lot of steps to it. When I was doing my art my hands almost died but the teachers finished art encouraged me to finish mine so that I could be proud of it.

The first step of the art is to outline the objects you want to put in your art. Then you need to fill in all of the white space with patins. After that you need to flip your peace of paper over and put it against a widow so that you can see your design. What you need to do now is colour on the side with nothing, for example I would colour my Maunga green. Last but not least you get another piece of paper, put your colored pecs down onto the paper and push very hard while tracing over your patins so that after youtube your colour and your patins on your new pecas of paper.

Remember to know what objects you are going to do. For example I did a Maunga, Te awa, Marie and for me I did a lighthouse. I hope you liked my blog about pepeha art. I enjoyed it a lot. Now I need to finish my own pepeha art.

JUST DANCE

Hello, in my class  after morning tea we do just dance. Just dance is all sorts of videos of people dancing but all though they don't look like people they are. I think that I enjoy just dance because just dance brings out laughter and with people in my class. I love being able to just get to see what its like to dance with friends and copy what's on the screen.

I love doing waka waka with my friends Nina, Kayla, Charlotte and me. I think we all work really well together and it's enjoyable at the same time.  My most liked dance would have to be Timber.
Timber is an exiting dance to do because you are all ways moving. One minute your standing and the other your on the ground.

I think my most unliked dance would be old town road. I didn't like it because it was a bit slow for me.  That's why I like Timber because it's a bit fast but not to fast, but if it was I would be tripping over my own legs. Why don't you give it a go your self and try lots of different dances. :)

Learning from home

For me I think I was more focused at home but it was definitely a lack of socialising with friends and other people besides my family. I loved being able to create things and pick what I wanted to do for the week. Plus being able to enjoy spending time with my family. I think this helped me to be more creative.

It was not the same as laughing with your friends. Or geting the shimmy on to get your work done but getting told off by your parents because I hit my brother was close enafue.

I wish I could have just seen all of my friends at the same time.  I think my favorite week was ANZAC week because I learnt alot about my great great grandpa Pompy.

I learnt about a big part of New Zealand's history of world war 1.  Me and my mum found it fascinating to learn about our family line. My Teachers Koka Ngaire and Koka Terri were very supportive along the way.  It was a rollercoaster with ups and downs but it was fun.  

Me and my brother also climbed my school maunga and here is a photo.    

Yummy in my tummy!!!

Hi it's Te atawhai. On Wednesday wainui beach school had a fundraiser for a the year 6 camp. The year 6s  made nachos. By the way they were delicious plus they were vegetarian too. I almost forgot to bring my order to school. It was great because  it was a cold day in Gisborne and the nachos made it a whole lot warmer for me. They were great quantities of nachos and really made my day on Wednesday. This is a picture of the nachos.

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swimming is hare

Hi I'm Te Atawhai and My class has been training for swimming sports for about four weeks and just yesterday we did the comp we went on a bus to enterprise swimming pool.  I definitely had butterflies .  But my friend Ella bought some bubble wrap so that helped a lot. When we all got there my knees were shaking and when I saw the length of the pool I was ready to just leave. Then I had second thoughts because I saw nana that came for wellington.


They called me up to do freestyle...We had to do two lengths of the pool. I   stood up to dive in. These are the people that I raced Alice, Clara, Ivy. Clara came 1st   I came 2th and Alice came 3d. 

 and hares some  some pictures. I 'm the one in the red togs

Back at school for 2020

Kia ora I'm Te Atawhai. My new class MLH,  is so interesting to be able to work with about 60 different people, in 1 combined class.  My home class is room 3 and I go to Wainui Beach School.
There is a different change to my last class combined to this year.  We do a lot of work but that is the only way to get better right . We do a quick write every day.  Today we did unicorns vs dragons and I choose unicorns.  Plus we have swimming sports on the 26th of Feb.  The school have be practising for it comment if you've been swimming in a pool or the ocean. We also did some games in our buzz groups, this is a video,  ps i'm the one in the overalls.

And I am a house captain for Manaia with Rasmus. There are 4 houses and I had to apply to be a house captain hare is my video.