Showing posts with label Term 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Term 3. Show all posts

Friday, October 11, 2019

Production Highlights

Production Highlights
Here are some highlights from this year's production about Captain Cook. We did it on Captain Cook because this year makes it 250 years since Captain Cook came to New Zealand. This Slideshow I made took ages so I hope you like it!

Here's my Slideshow...

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

2019 Speeches (What is courage What is bravery?)

(What is courage What is bravery?)
We have had our speeches now and It was quite nerve-racking for most of us.
Our topic was "What is courage, What is Bravery?". It didn't take me that long to write my speech this year maybe it's because I'm older so my writing skills as levelled up? 

                                               I hope you like my speech!
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Title:
What is Courage/Bravery?
By: Isabella 

Introduction, Non Sensible way example: 
Hi, My name is Isabella and what I’m talking about today is What is Courage, What is Bravery? Let’s First talk about non-sensible Courage/Bravery and then the sensible ways. These statements in your opinion could be different or you could disagree to agree with me. What's a non-sensible way to show bravery? In my imagination, I straight away think of someone who wants to show how they are brave or face their fears, but not in a safe sensible way. Imagine what might happen next? Maybe they try to Bungee jump without a cord (Whisper: Can you see the problem here) -Pause- That was just an example I thought off the top of my head, But I’m sure you could think of some examples yourself.

Sensible ways example: 
Moving onto the sensible way of showing Courage/bravery. Here’s an example from my own life. Have you ever heard of skyline Rotorua? In Rotorua? And after the big Zipline, there is a platform where you choose to go down the stairs or go down with an almost bungee jump backwards experience? Well, I wanted to face my fears! I was the first and youngest person to do it in my family and there were 4 of us. But proving I could do it my mum than jumped then my sister and then auntie. But it was a brave step for me, Just imagine being connected to a cord walking on a thin plank Backwards Not even facing forwards! And just jumping off. Well before I did that I learnt how to get to the ground safely, of course, I wouldn't do that If I didn’t know, that would be too risky. 

Conclusion, Why do people Face their fears or have courage?: 
What would it feel like to have nobody facing their fears or having courage? Well, I know a way to get you in a feel without people not facing their fears. In your mind Imagine a dark room it might feel like a tight dark box, well it’s because nobody invented lights yet because they did not face their fears! Just like with nearly every overly used appliance. Nothing has been made. Courage helps you to stand out, do things you never thought you could do and probably lots more you can think of. But everything has its downs, with using courage you can get butterflies you can faint you can get sick just from Facing your fears in a way that can seem really scary but harmless, just like saying this speech it’s hard to get up in front of people and speak, and don’t forget to write the actual thing.

Ending, Rapping it up: 
That now sadly concludes my speech I hope you learned something and I hope you have had a good day. I hope one day this speech can help me in public speaking in the future because a lot of the time people are missing that key feature. What would life be if we had 
no courage to attempt anything? -Vincent Van Gogh.

  Thank you for listening   

Production (Sneak Peeks)

Production (Sneak Peeks) 


Soon we are going to have our production, As we were rehearsing the Gisborne herald came and wanted some photos for early sneak peeks. Our production is on the 24th of September and many of us are excited. What people normally won't see is the time, effort and stress that we put into production, We only had about 2 months (I think) to start getting it together. You can see in the photos that some of us weren't in costumes, well that's because that same day some of us were still going to try our costumes.
   

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Bruce Potters Visit!

Bruce Potters Visit!
Before you think Bruce Potter is a relation from Harry Potter you are wrong. But that does not get rid of that fact that he is a magical person! Bruce Potter Is an Illustrator, Opera Singer and use to be a 3rd-time weight lifter in the world. He came to our School and showed us his book (Written by Him and Illustrated by him), He showed us some of his oil paintings as well. He didn't just do that he drew a drawing that we came up with! It was a really out of the ordinary character it was animals but mixed into one big animal! From inspiration from his book "Doodle Bug" We did some doodling. I loved doodling because I love sketching and drawing. 

Here's My Doodle:   

Thursday, September 5, 2019

Letter To The Queen


Letter To The Queen
We made a letter that is about what we think should change in the world (Mainly Plastic). The letter is for the queen, We aren't actually sending it to the queen but that does not defeat the purpose. You can see in my letter I focused a lot of plastic because that's the main problem that I could think of.
Here's my letter.
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Stop Plastic Poster

Stop Plastic Poster
This poster is All about plastic and to save our world and animals. You can see by the photo's that it is really harming our sea's. It also goes into animals bellies. Turtles thing the plastic are jellyfish so they end up eating it. In this poster is all my opinion so you could not agree to te statement I am making. We need to be aware that the plastic problem is spreading and fast, On the internet, there are lots of articles to do with plastic. 

I hope you enjoy my Poster.

Ki-O-Rahi (Friday Program)

Ki-O-Rahi (Friday Program)


This game is a Maori game which includes protecting and throwing. The aim for the people how to throw the ball is to throw a ball at the bin. The aim for the people who protect the bin is to make sure no balls hit the bin. I was not here on Friday but have played that game before when I was here for other Fridays.  


Our Amazing Cross-Country 22/8/19

Our Amazing Cross-Country  22/8/19
  On the 22/8/19 was Makaraka's Cross-Country. I could sadly not attend because I was still sick and my mum thought it would be best if I stayed home and not make it worse. It was a wet and muddy evening but that didn't stop us! What we do is lets say the year 6's were going to race we would do the year 6 boys first and then do the year 6 girls. we just keept doing each year group. At the end we get to eat a free sausage sizzle.   

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Whale Rider - Work

Whale Rider - Work
Have you ever heard about whale rider the movie? Well, we have been reading the book and answering some questions around the book. You will see on this slide show all my work based on it but not the book, so this might come difficult to understand. All of these are just my opinion's about the story so you do not have to like them. Whale Rider is a New Zealand Film base a lot on Whangara, a maere which are school is really familiar on. 

I hope you enjoy my slideshow... 

Thursday, July 25, 2019

2019 Speeches - Research

2019 Speeches - Research 
We got speeches coming really soon and we have been looking at speeches from famous people. The main people we are looking at are Martin Luther King Jr. We are learning this so when we do our speech we have a Big Idea of how we present it and how we write it. I did all this work with Isla because we had to go into partners. 

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Term 3 2019 Maths Grid Results

Term 3 2019 Maths Grid Results

Here are my Term 3 maths grid results. We do maths grid at least 2 times a day and its to test how we are under time and also how we are at our time's tables. We get 6mins to do 100 times tables. It sometimes gets a bit stressful but it will help me out int the future.

Here they are...

Monday, July 22, 2019

2019 Term 3 Week Goals

2019 Term 3 Week Goals

Here are my 2019 Term 3 goals. What are goals? Goals are things that we aim to do in the week / want to get done. We also get quotes with our goals. You will see a box with Quote Reflection, well that box is where I write about the quote we get given not all the time I write a lot in those box's because it can be a difficult quote. You also can see Week (Number) Reflection on goals. That's where I write about my goals from the last week. Then there are Week (Number) Goals that's where I write the goals I set for myself for the week.

Here is my 2019 Term 3 Goals:   

Thursday, September 27, 2018

All about Relief workers By Isabella...

All about Relief Workers...

This involved with Trash Reading, Mrs Olivia (One of the Characters) Is a Relief worker and we decided to research a Relief worker since I could not find one I decided to tell you about them. In this Video it will have my work which you can read while I read titles...
Enjoy!

Whats a Collaboration (More Cybersmart!)

What is a Collaboration?
I did this a little late but a least I did it!
Me and my friend Tayla budded up for making a collaboration. We got to talk about what collaboration means. This was in with Cyber smart and what I think is anything with cyber smart is fun normally! I hope you enjoy this Collaboration. If you like you can read along with us!

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Make a little go a long way! ~Speeches 2018~

Make a little go a long way!
2018 speeches strikes again! One of the people who were going on monday needed more time so I decided to volunteer to fill in for them, I was really nervous because I'm shy speaking by myself the only one. When you shake a glitter jar you will see how I was feeling. My mind was exploding with things that can go wrong. I was pardicing with my friends and I was mabey was stress eating well anyways I just want to say "If you shy or scared or stage fright still give it a try! because you never know what might happen".
If you cannot understand me on the video the scroll down to see the words  
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Here are the words
Hi I’m Isabella. The question today is what can I do to contribute to the world? I think the first thing to do is to make a choice whether I will contribute in a good way or a bad way. After choosing to make a positive contribution, the next question to ask is what will my contribution look like?

There are a lot of problems in this world.
Many are very hard to fix and it is easy to feel like we can’t make a positive difference. It can feel easier to throw our hands up and decide it’s too hard, there’s nothing we can do, and to give up.

My mother told me of a phrase used in many different movements: Think globally, act locally. This means that if we want to make the world a better place, we all have the power to make these changes if we first start with ourselves. So, I’m going to focus on one problem that I know I can help with: how us humans connect and



support each other to make this world a better place. The think globally, act locally idea means that I need to do all I can to build my relationships with other kids, my teachers, my family, my community, and even with my pets. My aim is to spread good energy through the values of caring, kindness, respect for the differences

between us, and understanding. This also means that I have a responsibility to do the right thing by standing up for myself and others against bullying which can be hard to do. When there’s someone new, it’s important that I am friendly and welcoming and I help to show them round.

It can be as little as smiling and saying hi to someone, it’s as easy as that! Or giving a hug. Research has shown that a deep, heart-to-heart hug is a type of therapy and helps to heal sickness, and relieve loneliness, depression, anxiety, and stress.

Apparently we need four hugs a day for survival, eight hugs a day for maintenance, and 12 hugs a day for growth. Imagine what might be achieved if we all committed to giving out tons of hugs a day? We might never have another war again!

Perhaps a little unrealistic but my point is, it doesn’t take much effort to do a lot of good or to change someone’s life for the better.
Thank you.

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

More Cybersmart!

More Cybersmart!
We did more Cypersmart but this time editing are blog post that we think we can do better on! I edited 3 blog post so then my blog post can be really good!

Sunday, September 2, 2018

Makaraka did Tamararo!!

Makaraka did Tamararo!!

Heaps of people in my class including me preformed in a Kapa Haka competition called Tamararo but sadly some people could not come. Tanemauta also had some people in there. Last year the other year 5 & 6's they Attended as entertainers, And this Year we were able to compete in the competition! We had to get to school by 7:45 so we could get ready, For me that was a early start on a Sunday but I could mange it. 
For the girls to-do list it was
-Get dressed
-Get a moko
-(For girls who did not have a bun) Put hair in a bun
-Get rib in and feathers in hair
-Get lip stick

And for the boys to-do list it was
-Get changed
-Get moko
-Get school jacket  

When we got there we had to start practising while we were doing that a problem accrued the poi's had been Forgotten! so Mr Milne had to go get them.

When we were all ready and lined up to go on, me and my friends had to do a breathing exercise to calm us down. We got on stage and Sang are hardest and after that we went back to school and we got change into are clothes and we went home.
I love that experience and I hope we win And I also hope I get this chance again!
Thank you 

Friday, August 31, 2018

Daffodil day at Makaraka school!

Daffodil day at Makaraka school!

All around NZ on the 31th of August we pay 2 Dollars to get a Fabric Daffodil and you can pin it to your top. All the donations go to Families with some who as Cancer and needs help or Families who had someone in their family who passed away who had Cancer.  Doctor have tried to find a cure for lots of different Cancers but so far do not succeed. From my experience its really hard to lose someone.

                                Hopefully doctors and Nurses can find a cure 



Harold The Giraffe Came to Makaraka school!

Harold The Giraffe Came to Makaraka school!

If you know about Harold the Giraffe hopefully you will be intrigued. Harold the Giraffe is a school thing he goes all around Nz. Its all about a puppet named Harold What they are trying to do is make learning a little big easier and more Fun! And that Giraffe on the front of the truck is Harold and also the its the logo of the company. 

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Trash by Andy Mulligan (More Reading)

More reading from the book called Trash