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Evaluating Myself

 Over the past five weeks or so we have looked at leadership in many different ways. In the first week, we made a presentation About ourselves. We had to have Our pepeha, Our family, Friends, Pets, Life Stories, Abilities, Skills, Qualities, Important values, Challenges I have overcome, Things that motivate me, And my favorite things to do. In the second week, We made a presentation about an inspiring leader that we look up to. The person that I chose was Martin Luther King Jr. He was very well known for his civil rights Movement. He has many inspiring quotes one of them is, Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Both my ko wai au and inspiring leader have been posted on my blog which you can look at. 

In the third week, we made a leadership video. I made this video with Giorgio, Sam, Zach, and myself. We made ours about football. There were six different scenes. The Great Man Theory, Trait theory, behavioral theory, contingency theory, transactional leadership, and transformation theories. In the fourth week, we filled out some forms to see where we think we are and how well we think we are doing in class. We then made a reflective piece of writing about why we joined Manukura and why we think that it is good for us. We also had to do a writing competition using a random word generator and use those words to write a three-paragraph story. The three words I got were coffee, tanning, and laundry. They were pretty easy to write about but I decided to change things around a little And make the person come close to death. On the first thing I write about their coffee getting poisoned and then when she gets home she faints but luckily her friend comes in and takes her to the hospital. On the second time she falls into the laundry machine and then nearly drowns. But while she was tanning a star blew up and crashed into the earth and blew up the earth.

In the fifth week ( this week ) We made a 10-question quiz about ourselves. I made mine on Kahoot and a few others made theirs on blooket. Another thing we have done is rewrite a song so that the lyrics are about ourselves then perform it in front of the class.

So this is what we have been doing over the past five weeks.

Reflective writing

• What the purpose of this change in structure was and why did it interest you

I was interested because I knew that it would be something different for me                 

and I knew that being with people I know would help me work a bit better and work well with my groups

• What you, as part of the Manukura class are being asked to do

We have been learning about different types of leaders and leadership styles.  We have been learning about ourselves and we have done a few podcast shows with people that show different leadership styles

• How well do you think you are keeping up with work in comparison to beforehand?

I think that I am keeping up with work very well. I finish most of my work before the end of the week and beforehand it used to take a lot longer

• Comparison of how you feel coming to school each day compared to beforehand

  I am putting more detail into my work compared to my old classes. Like my presentations, I have changed around layouts, added more color, and added more photos compared to the usual

• Pros and Cons of this kind of blended learning compared to 'traditional'

Pros

Staying in the same classroom

Fewer interruptions

With people I know well

Cons

Sam is not always with us

Easy to sneak off task

Sometimes everyone can be a bit too loud 

• How do you feel you have been working when left to take charge of your learning?

I feel like I am working very well but sometimes drift off task and start talking. I find that I work a lot better when you are in the classroom because I find that everyone else is on task so I also stay on task

• If you could improve or change the course in any way that helped support your learning what would you do?

It would help me work a lot better if Sam is in the classroom all the time cos then everyone else would stay on task and then we would work in peace instead of some people being loud

• Any other important things you have found over the past four weeks.

I have found out that our timetables are changing next week and everyone will have each class at the same time

Personality Test

 

My personality test said that I am a Counselor. This means that I am a trustworthy and supportive person. I find comfort in groups And check to see if people feel right. Some of my Drainers are Demanding deadlines, Emotional detachment, and facing conflict with others. Some of the ways I use these aspects in School and in the community are in sports and I class. I can Cooperate well in the group and give out all of my ideas. I can bring positive energy and warmth into a team but a bad thing is that I stay silent about other peoples options and don't question there opinions 

'I believe that leadership is...'

 leadership is About being hardworking and having a good connection with the people around you. I also think that you need to be a trustworthy and honest person. you need to be a person who people can come and talk to. You need to be kind and show integrity. another thing is that you should never give up and put others before yourself. if you come against a hard challenge then you need to perceive to get past it. That is what I believe leadership is

Ko Wai Au/Who Am I

 

This is my Ko Wai Au presentation

40 Hour Famine

   

We have been working on the 40-hour famine. It is about helping the children that are In need of water because they have to walk a very long way to get to a river/stream with dirty water.  so that's why they have the 40-hour famine. you have 40 hours to do a challenge like 40 hours no eating or sleeping. your can donate to wonder project to help the children in need

kaylis peneha awarded steven adams backetball scholarship

 kaylis peneha has been awarded a 5 year steven adams scholarship at scots college in wellington. he had to do an exam to get in he was very lucky. he had attended two steven adams he is felling very prod of himself his coach paxman taurima is very proud of him

kaylis is apart of the raukawa basketball team. he is very lucky that the other person with the scholarship was finishing this year so it was perfect timing. he had to do a few tests to get into scots college about reading and math and a few other things its a boarding college.

kaylis has always loved basketball. he has player since he was 6 years old. he is very lucky to get a scholarship he got a full scholarship. so that means everything is paid or. 

all his food all his work books toiletries are all payed for. I hope he does well in his future and that he becomes a very good basketball player.  kaylis has also always been very fast i remember he used to win most of the cross countrys and making it into the interschools.

When did you get the scholarship?

labour weekend

 on staurday morning my dad got a text from a kid named junior that he used to look after. it had been a year since we had seen him. they asked us if we wanted to go to haruatai park. of cause we said yes.when we first got there we climbed on top of the slide and slid down on top. 

then I asked my dad to set us some tasks he said ok. we had to start at the red spinny thing and get to the sandpit without touching grass bark and black. it took us a while to find a route to get there without touching the things. then we had to get from the sandpit to the big blue slide. 

without toughing the ground or silver.that one didnt take as long it was pretty easy. then we had a snack and my friend came to the park. then we did a few more tasks. then me and my friend went home and had some lunch, we also desided to go to the sand dunes.

we jumped off some ledges and rolled around in the sand. then a few people came with mini surf boards and boogie board's and slid down the huge hills and slopes. then we desided to go to the stream next to the sand dunes we threw some sticks in and rocks and a few other things to see what would float and what would sink. then we went home and had a nerf war. me and my freind vs my siser and dad.

Mask wearing in public

 I agree with prime minister Jacinda Ardern that we should wear masks when we go out in public and stay two meters apart. this will prevent the spread of coronavirus throughout New Zealand and make it safe for us to go about our normal day to day routine. I miss our cousins overseas and with coronavirus around we cant visit them or they can not come over here. I also miss shopping and catching up with my friends. if we get rid of covid in our community we get to do the things we want to do again. like going to the playground, swimming,trampoline parks and school. keeping away from people not in our bubble will prevent covid-19 from spreading

My goals for this term

 Group work

my goal for this term would probably be to work with other people not just the same group over and over again.

math work 

My math goal would be learning my times tables past 12. like my 13 and 14 times tables

writing work

My writing goal would be to learn longer words and write longer storys/paragraphs

reading work

In reading I want to be able to read faster and learn how to pronounce longer words

Personal goal

I want to finish my work faster and finish all of it.

Bed time

8:30-9:00

rocket challenge

We have started to make our rockets we need a 1.5 lliter bottle. and a ice cream container to make our fins. we cut out our fins and glued them onto our rocket we went out for a test flight our furthers we got was 15 meters. we used a force of 60 psi and a water level of 300ml. also before we started making our rockets we made paper planes to test out how far they go. we also had to cheek the aerodynamics of the bottle and cheek the fins we had to see how balenced our rocket was. we conected our rocket to the pump to pump it us so it had some thrust to get it off the ground.  then is was blast off. we havent done our final blast off yet because the pump didn't work 

Newtons laws

His first law, an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it. The second law, the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration. The third law, when two objects interact, they apply forces to each other of equal magnitude and opposite direction.

Ipo and andrea

 today andrea and epo came in. Ipo is a cockatoo we got to pat him. most cockatoos come from astralia. he had a brocken leg and wing. Ipo us an omnivore so that means he eat plants and onther animals. he loves children, cats and dogs. he also likes dancing and artwork. cockatoos love eating seeds. over in astralia the destroy orchards because all they want is the seeds inside of the fruit. 

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Scieance Roadshow

 On Tuesday the 30 of march we went to a scieance Road show. they came to our hall. hen we first got in to the hall there where a few other classes. we were one of the last clases to get there.  They instructers introducided themselfs to us. there names where jess, steph and merry They showed us a few explotions with ballons. they where very loud we where told to block our ears. It was very loud I could still hear it with my ears fully blocked. It even shook the ground. they had heaps of things around the hall. after the experiments we got to walk around and go to any activity we want. I went to the rocket shooter. we had to shoot these soft foam. there where long ones and short ones. the short ones worked beter because they where lighter so they travelled faster but they where a little more thin then the big ones so it was a little hard to hit the target but I hit it after a few goes. after I went to some handprints on them there was copper written on two aliminuam and another zink with to. there was a preasure gadge in the midle and it showed how much electrisity you had inside you.I got up to fifty witch was the max thet was around about all I did.

Otaki college bollards

 ŌTAKI COLLEGE BOLLARDS

W.A.L.T express our ideas about the bollards installed along our driveway. We are using descriptive language and checking our sentence structure is correct in our blog writing.

A cuple of days ago there where bollards put down the driveway the color of them where blue to represent the college. They where put there so no one walks on the road otherwise they might get run over they are also there for if a car losses control going down the drive way they will hit the bollards and they wont hit us but It would be bad for them because they might get hurt and we wont. also they are there to stop anyone riding there bike scooter's down the driveway because might corss the crossing when your not looking and you might run into them. also blue is my favourite color and they have shiny grey chains dangleing down and conecting to the other post. we are only aloud to cross the crossing just down from the entrance of school. no one is aloud to cross the road unlees your using the crossing

I like your grammar its very nice.

Kia Kaha buddies

 Today we went out onto the courts and played some games with our kia kaha buddies. There names are Jayda and Oriwa and they would say 123 and we would all say all eyes on me so they would get our attention. the first thing we did was introduce our names. then we played bang to see if we remember each others names. if you don't know what bang is, it is game when someone calls out a name, if that name is your's you need to duck and the people next to you have to aim and say bang like there shooting at each other who ever says it last is out. if your still standing you will be out.

The next game we played was bull rush but you can link arms to take the other person back to save them then they could run again. I got out twice but Zenith and Karson saved me. then they mad it harder. so then when you got tagged you would be in with everyone else and you could also move around. next we played seaweed just like bull rush but if you got tag you had to stand still and act like seaweed and tag anyone and I enjoyed everything and It was very fun.

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Feed back about our games

 Our feedback

some people said make the instructions more easier to read so they could understand how to play the game. next time we will  make our games instructions more easier to read. the game we made was called double dice its when you roll five dice and try to get as many doubles as you can. The game was pretty fun to play. I hope everyone else liked our feedback. We took ages trying to make up our game. Tahana Samuel and I made the game. we had lots of fun creating it together. Hope you like our game

Double Dice Maths Game

 Our game is called double dice. It's when you roll five dice and try to get as many doubles as you can. first to ten doubles win. Our instructions are, roll five dice and try to get as many doubles as you can. If any dice fall off the table then they will not be counted. If you roll 1,2,3,4 and 5 you instantly win the game. I have only rolled 1,2,3,4 and 5 once. I have created the game with Samuel,Tahana and I. I hope we get good feedback from everyone and I hope they like our game. Our game can have the max of 10 players at a time. Our game is not a original we made it.I think our game presentation is at least 80%. The equipment we need are pen/pencil, paper and dice. 

Curious Cove Highlights

 My first highlight would be kayaking. I hadn't been kayaking in ages. we saw a few stingrays swimming in the water but they where gone in a few seconds because they got scared of us. it was very fun and we got pretty wet when someone splashed you. I also loved fishing. I was having no luck the whole day and when we had to pack up I hooked up a fish and I was so happy to finally catch a fish. My last highlight was eating dinner every night. By Ethan 

what I want to be in ten years

W.A.L.T think about our future

In ten years I want to be a builder or join the army 

How will I get there

I will get there if I do well in school and get good grades  

What do I need to get there 

good grades and skill

Who is going to help my to get there

Teachers, family and friends