Come on guys, get water wise?

 
WALT understand and use information from the book.
I know this when I complete a character profile of Water from the story.

Come and we will travel together?

WALT identify how the early church communities spread the good news.
I know this when I draw lines to show where Paul went on his journey to preach the Good news.

Who are these people?

WALT  identify who Aquila and Priscilla were and the significance of their role in the early church community.
I know I can do this when I can write down 5 main facts about Aquila and Priscilla.

Can you spot the 8 facts about Lydia?

WALT identify who Lydia was and the significance of his role in the early church community.
I know I can do this when I can write down 8 main facts about Lydia.

Hey guys, can you get me out of this chair?

WALT find an article and summarise it. 
Success Criteria: I know this when I retell an article in my own words.

How many deaths have there been from Tsunamis in Japan?

WALT present our statistical investigation in different ways.
Success Criteria: I know this when I display my data using a line graph.

Let's challenge the beast!

 
WALT use descriptive language in my explanation writing.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I can use action words in my writing.

Let's lead the children and continue Christ's saving work!

WALT recognise how the Church continues Christ's saving work by celebrating Liturgy. I know this when I use the bible to choose the right Sacrament for the right scripture reference.

Come on guys, go to church and celebrate the Eucharist of Christ!!

     
WALT recognise that every Sunday is the day when the Church celebrates that God raised Jesus from the dead. I can do this when I write one sentence about why the Church celebrates the Eucharist every Sunday.

Save your beautiful family!

WALT identify ways of surviving a Tsunami.
I know this when I write 5 ways to survive during a Tsunami.

Become the leader and take your kids to school!

St. Patrick’s School

Saint Patrick's School is a place where students can get an education.

At school we learn, create and share our ideas. School when we are five years old. Cleaners cleans our school to make it smell nice and shining. Our principal to run, guide our school and look after the students. Teachers teaches us new things things that students don’t understand.

    

At this school, the students studies hard to learn new skills. They use books, Chromebooks or netbooks to get more information and to learn more education. Saint Patrick’s School has a sick bay to take care of any injuries. Our school has a lunchroom so students can place their lunch orders. Saint Patrick’s have programs like APOPS where we have the opportunity to hear musical instruments. Also ‘Trash to Fashion’ and Kiwi sports like softball, netball, basketball and many more.

Saint Patrick’s School celebrates Mission Day. All the money that is raised goes to the Holy Angel’s  Orphanage. They have a Cultural Festival where the students get to perform a dance from a different culture. St. Patrick’s celebrate St.Patrick’s Day and the Christmas production. These events are celebrated because it is important for the school as it’s a part of their identity.

In the morning, we have Religious Education so that we can learn about God. In maths, students learn number, fractions and place value. They also learn how to read and write. These subjects help them to learn new skills that they need. They are also able to blog and share their learning.

St. Patrick’s School is a place where students can learn important life skills and gain knowledge that will help them later in life. 
WALT plan and write an explanation writing.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an explanation writing about Saint Patrick's School and use at least 2 sentences to describe each part.

Be a leader and save your family!!

WALT to understand and identify a way that we can minimize the damage of a Tsunami.
I know this when I can list an emergency kit for a Tsunami.

Make number comparisons!

WALT compare the given numbers using the symbols less than, greater than, and equal.
I know I can do this when I choose the correct mathematical symbol for a given set of number.

The history of Tsunamis in Japan!!

WALT understand the history of Tsunamis in Japan. I can do this when I draw a timeline with details of Tsunamis that have happened between 684 AD to 1741.

Play More Softball, Lose weight!!

Sports

On Tuesday 21st of October 2014, Room 6 went in front of Room 1 and 2 to play softball. When we arrived there, we sat in front of our coaches. Their names were Debbie and Santana and they were both females. Debbie and Santana first introduced themselves and started to explain to us about the home base, first base , second base and third base.

After Debbie told us all about the bases, she put us into two groups and I was in the home base team with Cheska, Patelesio, Ingrid, Immanuel, Miguel, Drey, Lasike, Philomena, Julius, Siu, R.J, Aiden and Isaac. The rest of the class was put in the second base team. We had to run around the bases and put our feet on each base. My team won but even if the other group lost, we still cheered for the last person running in their group.

Debbie called us in and put us into two equal group. My partner was Jayviah. I was facing towards him and he was facing towards me. Debbie gave us one ball per pair. I had the ball and I held onto it. After Debbie gave us the ball, our partner had to do a butterfly upon their face so that they could catch the ball. I threw the ball towards Jayviah and he caught the ball in his butterfly fingers, but then he threw the ball too hard and I missed it.

After we threw the ball at each other, we had a challenge. The challenge was that if we threw the ball at our partner and our partner missed the ball, then we had to sit down. After Debbie explained to us the instructions, we started playing the first round. Jayviah missed my throw and we had to sit down. After the second round, a lot of people missed the ball and the only people left standing was Patelesio amd Santana. Then on the last round, Jayviah and I were the second to last standing with Santana and Lasike. Santana and I were the only girls standing, and Lasike and Jayviah was the only boys standing. Jayviah threw the ball short and I couldn't catch the ball but I did try to jump for it. So we lost and Lasike and Santana won the challenge.

I really enjoyed playing with Debbie and Santana. I am looking forward to our next practice.

WALT follow the structure of a recount.

I know I can do this when I sequence my events into paragraphs.

Life on the river!!

WALT extract information from an article.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I can describe Minh.

Come and celebrate Mission Day at Saint Patrick's School!

WALT advertise for Mission Day.
I can do this when I put important details on my poster.

Water, Water everywhere!!

WALT plan an explanation.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I create a brainstorm about water.

Twenty fingers on one hand?

WALT understand and use information from the story.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I complete a character profile of Tuni.

How can we worship God??

WALT I will identify various ways people worship God through Karakia.
I know this when I can write 4 ways to show how we  can worship God.

Praise God forever and ever!!

WALT write a personal prayer to God.

I know this when I show gratitude by thanking God and asking him for support.

We thank God for helping us with our school work.

Have you heard about a trickster called Maui?

WALT understand Maori creation stories.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I illustrate the important elements from the story of 'Maui and the Goddess of fire'.  

Did you know that Maui was a trickster?

WALT understand a Maori creation story.

Success Criteria I know I can do this when I retell the story of 'Maui and the Goddess of fire in my own words.

One day there was a man who loved to trick people so people called him ’The Trickster’ but his real name was Maui. One day Maui wondered if there is goddess of fire so he washed out all of the fire in the pa and so people were cold that night.

Maui finally stood up for himself and said “I did it. I was the one that put out the fire in the pa”. The people were furious and they wanted to put Maui in prison for 50 years. But then something happened, the leader of the pa said to Maui “You may think prison” Then there came a big BOOM  like thunder. And the voice continued “But there is only one thing to do”. Maui asked,

“What a great leader you are. What can I do?”

The leader told Maui “You can go and see your ancestor, the goddess of fire”. Maui was looking for the cave where his ancestor lived. The cave  was brown and covered with flames. The goddess of fire was really proud of Maui, but Maui tricked her. He said, “Someone has put out the fires in the pa. May I have some of your fiery fingers?”

She replied, “Oh, of course you can Maui.”

However, Maui tricked her and stomped out the fire finger and threw it in the water. Maui kept tricking her until she only had one fire finger left. She was really CROSS, so cross that she threw her fiery finger at him. He quickly turned into a bird and dodged the flames.

He thought he was so good at getting away with it so he shut his eyes. However, he was wrong and the bottom of his wings caught on fire.  Maui flew back to the pa and said “The goddess did not give me her fire but on the way back I learnt how to make fire with sticks”. So he showed them how to make fire. It took some time but the flames slowly came up and this is how the story of making fire with sticks came about.

A gratitude letter!!

WALT show appreciation for those around us.

I know this when I write a thank you letter for my parents or teachers in my own words.

What do you know about fives times tables?

WALT: i am learning to find the answer to multiplication facts from what I know about fives.
Success Criteria: use 5 times table to solve number problem correctly.

Buliding a bilibili for Mother's Day!!

My special diary entry!

I am Viliame Nagalau and I am a Fijian. I love to live by the sea of Aravoudi on the Island of Ovalau in Fiji. My dad Seru and I love to go fishing on our bilibili. Sometimes we go during the night and use a torch to attack the fish. During the day, my mother likes to go fishing but she hates getting wet when the water laps over our bilibili.

WALT: write a diary to improve my reading.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I write a diary entry using the information from the book.

What is Ecology?

WALT understand about ecology.
Success Criteria: I know I can do when I write about the relationship between the non-living and the living.

Oh no, there is a big explosion!

A big volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1883. It was reported as one of the loudest recorded in history. The Krakatoa eruption created an amount of ash cloud that covered the whole earth for about 5 years. A total amount of 40,000 people died at that time.

WALT: understand news around the world.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I retell an article in my own words.

What do you like to do on a Friday afternoon?

On Friday after school my uncle and my auntie picked my 2 brothers, cousin and I from school. My little brother wanted to go home but my uncle said that there was something that we had to do before going home. My brother cried out loud like a dragon coming down to the ground. So my uncle told him that we could go home and drop him off first.

When we got home, my auntie said to us,“Go and change into your clean clothes”. We got changed and put on our shoes and we all rushed to the car like racing cars. Then we locked the car because we were so excited. My auntie drove the car and we were off to get our surprise.

We went to McDonalds to get some ice cream. My uncle and auntie wanted to sign something so we went. Soane, Akesa and I thought that we were going home but we went to Wendy’s. I told my auntie that I haven’t tried Wendy’s before and my auntie said “It comes with free ice cream”. However, I told my uncle that we already ate ice cream at McDonalds so my uncle asked “What do you want beef or chicken?” Soane wanted to have a beef burger and so did my uncle. Akesa and I wanted to have chicken. Wendy was more organised than McDonald’s because their service was a lot faster.

We went to the park and my uncle said that the surprise was that we were getting rabbits. I asked him if they were wild rabbits with red eyes and he answered ‘Yes’. We were so excited because we wanted to catch those rabbits. Rabbits are so cute. We got to the park and we didn’t see any rabbits because there were a lot of dogs and children. After a minute, the children and the dogs left the park. When they left, the rabbits had disappeared as well.   

I had so much fun, it was like I took my first driving lesson.  

WALT write a recount using dialogue.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use speech marks to start and end speech.

• use speech marks to start and end speech.
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• use speech marks to start and end speech.
• use speech marks to start and end speech.
• use speech marks to start and end speech.
• use speech marks to start and end speech.
• use speech marks to start and end speech.

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What are smiles? And why should we use smiles?

WALT use smiles to improve our reading and writing.
I know I can do this when I use appropriate smiles to describe objects from my story. 

"Tui are using smiles to improve our reading and also trying to move to the next level.

Ways we can help bees survive in our environment!

WALT understand why bees are important.

I know I can do this when I list ways that we can help the bee population.

Write a friendly letter to someone now!!

 WALT  write a friendly letter using the correct structure.

  I know this when I write the body and closing for a friendly letter.

Getting a chance on a horse!

On Saturday 2nd of August 2014, I woke up and put on a warm hoody. I rushed out to help a friend (police officer) to feed the horses. Her name is Janet. Their food is made up of coconut, dried hay and other stuff. She asked me if I wanted to ride with her on the horse, and I happily said ‘Yes’.

Janet put a really heavy thing over the horses that we were going to ride to make us comfortable during the horseride. I was excited but, I was praying that I would not fall down because I was scared that I might break my bones if I did.

I went really tall, when I got on the horses back. I looked down their was no way near touching the ground with my foot. She only says Don’t worry because if you think if you think you are going to fall down and hurt yourself it will never come true’ and I replied back ‘Thank you for saying that.’

We walk up and down the road and people was staring at us. And I thought that they think we are crazy riding the horse down the street.  I was really scared because the horse might run off and have a accident while I am on its back.  

The horse ride was fantastic and I had so much fun. I said thank you to Janet for allowing me to ride with her.

WALT write a recount using descriptive language.
I know this when I use adjectives and verbs correctly in my writing.

Support Cancer society!!!

WALT understand the importance of daffodils.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use yellow to colour in my Daffodil for Daffodil Day.

What you didn't know about bees!

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WALT write 5 facts about bees. I know I can do this when I write 5 facts about bees.

What do you know about bees?

    

WALT understand about bees.
I know I can do this when I write 5 steps on how bees make honey.

Say a prayer today!

     WALT write a prayer.

I know I can do this when I write 3 sentences to express how I feel in my own words.

What does the rock represent?

God is the rock that holds us together. The rock is big and strong just like God.


WALT understand  representation of God in our lives.
I know I can do this when I write two sentences to describe representation of God as the rock.

First time having Movie Night!!

On Sunday July the 13 we went Divine Mercy. After we had Divine Mercy my auntie invited most of the Tongan Sunday School kids  for movie night over at her house. My auntie told my parents that she was giving us a treat over the holidays.   All the parents agreed but first we had to go home and to have a shower and fetch our pyjamas and before we go over to movie night.

I was so excited.  We rushed home, had shower and was ready with in a short time.   Once we got there we saw a data projector and an apple computer.  They used a big white cloth and sticked it on a wall for the screen.  We were the first family to arrive.

Later, three other families arrived.  There were about 16 children.

The first movie we watched was Real Steel. We watched half of it because everyone came.  Then we watched Frozen and when it was the main song of frozen my cousin came we sang to the song and it was really loud and my auntie was taking video of us sing so loud.  It was such fun.  

We all camped out in the lounge No one bothers. The boys were choosing their own movie more the us girls but we did not mind.  

I thank Sam for the lovely night.

Have you parents ever eaten a spider when they were little?

Have your parents or friends ever eaten bugs or spiders?

My father had an apple given by his mother from a tree. It was the last apple on the tree and my dad was still little he really wanted to eat it. The apple from the tree had a black spider on it because they forgot to wash the apple. He took a bite of the apple and he said to his mother that the apple tastes funny and that he didn't like it. He looked at the apple and saw the body of the spider and the head was gone. He was crying because it tasted so bad and he was scared because he knows that black spiders are really poisonous. His tummy was really sore so he had to go to the hospital.

If I see a spider will run to the bathroom and vomit there!

WALT write a recount using the correct structure. I know this when I write the events of a disgusting event in order.

What would you like to say to God?

Sorry God for the bad things that other people in this world have done to make you angry and sometimes even me. I want you thank the teachers at Saint Patrick’s School for teaching us and Miss Chao. I feel really sorry for her because she has a really sore throat and she is trying to save it for our parent interviews. Please look after our parents who looks after us and gives us food to eat and shoes to wear. Please look after the people who has cancer and has a handicap. Look after people that has something wrong with their mind and help them to get well.

Amen

WALT write our own personal prayer.

I know this when I write a prayer in my own words.

Do you know how to make scrambled eggs?

WALT write a procedural writing.
I know this when I write 6 step of how to make scrambled eggs.

Noises, noises everywhere!!

WALT identify solutions to control noise in my community.
Success criteria: I know this when I list 4 ways to minimise noise in and around my house.

Do you know ways to strengthen you faith hope and love for God?

WALT identify ways to strengthen our love, faith, hope for God
I know this I draw and write ways that I can strengthen my love, hope, faith, for God.

Have you heard so many bad noises?!

WALT identify noises in our community. 

I know I can do this when I can list 7 bad noises and 6 good noises that I hear in my community. 

Which fruit won?

WALT understand and interpret information on a graph.
Success Criteria: I know this when I write 2 statements about the chart.

Most people in Room 6 like oranges because it is juicy and has vitamin C.
Least number of people like pears because it doesn't have a strong taste.

All about sounds!

WALT explore and understand sound.
I know this when I write 5 facts about sound.

  

Spending my time with two silly Pirates!

On Monday 16th of June 2014, Room 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, and 6 walked up to the hall to see people from Vivo perform at Saint Patrick’s School hall.

Their first song was Beethoven, I really enjoyed it. They were really good at playing their own instruments. They were playing their first song called Romance and it sounded really nice and loud when they put all the instruments together.

After they played the first song, we heard a loud sound coming from the front where the stairs are. We thought that something fell but it wasn't, it was two pirates. We were scared because he had make up on and it made his face look scary like a real pirate. He also picked his nose and nearly put it on someone in Room 2. I liked their songs and they told us to clap and click our hands to the song while they sang and danced.

They were really funny when they told us to show our teeth. They showed their teeth and it looked rotten. It looked like they never brushed their teeth in the mornings.

They told us so many jokes, some of the jokes were funny. We had a really fun time with Vivo!!

WALT to write a recount about the Vivo performance.
I know this when I write about what happened at the Vivo performance.

Have you ever tasted French Toast?

What you will need:

• Eggs
• Slices of bread
• Big/small pan
• Plate
• Butter 
• Bowl 
• Oil

Step 1. Put the oil in the pan and heat it up. Crack the eggs in the bowl and beat for 15 seconds.

Step 2 Dip the bread in the egg mixture and place it in the heated pan. 

Step 3. Cook it for 1 minute.  Spread some butter onto the bread to add flavour to the french toast.

Step 4. Flip the bread over and cook the other side for another minute.

Step 5. Take your French Toast and place it on a plate.

French toast is easy to make and it’s great for breakfast during weekends. Does it taste delicious? Keep trying it and you can be a great chef at making French Toast!

WALT write a procedural writing.
I know this when I write the steps in order.

Do you know how to make butter?

WALT write a procedural writing.
I know thi when I write the steps for making butter.

Do you know what sound is all about?

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Do you know who the son of the living God is?

   

WALT understand that Jesus is the son of God.
I know this when I write the message that God sent to Simon Peter about Jesus.