Titi's 2016 Reporting Blog

Writing Learning Story. “I write to give myself strength”. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of”- A quote by Joss Whedon. To communicate our identity effectively, as writers we can… Use a hook, Maybe use other ways of making our reader want to read more, like... (ellipses) or only giving a little information at once, Make our readers work something out (in` fer) by: Giving clues and not stating directly, Using anecdotes and examples-storie from our past. Use clever Dialogue, Punctuation, Carefully choose language to create a picture for our reader, Use informal language-everyday language/language we use with our friends, Rhetorical questions. This is our success criteria to help us write our personal/identity. My Personal Profile. I was good at sharing information that people didn’t know about me. In each paragraph I talked about something different and made a little idea seem so ...

Titi’s Reading Learning Story. “This bittersweet tale had the publishing world buzzing”. Glam Reads 2009’s best books- Best Book to curl up with, Glamour. What’s the name of your book? Well, my one’s called Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater. I found out that my book is a Fantasy book. I think that fantasy makes you imagine about anything you want. And m ost importantly, I think that fantasy isn't just for children. Becoming a teenager, rites of passage, facing failure and defeat, coming to terms with betrayal and disappointment - all the stuff of emerging adult life also has to be faced and coped with. “The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking”.- By Christopher Morley. I am working on trying to find out what this book is about. What made me read this book was the praises at the start of the book for example “Shiver is a haunting, breathtaking and original supernatural love story that will have you hooked from the very first page... The qua...

Veititi’s Maths Learning Story At Porirua College, there are 220 boys.  132 boys choose to wear a lavalava. E.J says that this percentage is because Porirua College students have a strong Samoan identity. Do you agree that the percentage E.J worked out is enough to show that Porirua College has a strong Samoan identity? Maybe you're confused about maths?. Well, I am too. When I was reading this problem the first idea that popped into my head was to divide the whole number which was 220 to find fifty percent. I was trying to find out what percentage 132 boys is equal to. Well, the first obvious thing was to draw a number line, so I drew a number line to show the different percentages. Here’s how I solved it. As you can see on the number-line. I knew that half of 220 was 110 students so that was 50%. Then I did 110+22=132 because 22 is 10%. I knew that 22 was 10% because I knew that 100%=220 so I took away the zero from 220 which equaled 22 which was the 10...

Titi P.E Learning Story. “Yes! P.E, I think this is my favorite topic of all”. “Expect the best from ourselves and each other when we play team sports”. That's what the purpose is for P.E. In P.E we have been playing and learning Rounders, T ball, and Dodgeball. Dodgeball In Dodgeball I’m good at: Participating and taking risks-stepping out of my comfort zone, Sharing the ball/Giving other people a turn with the ball, Including other people and encouraging other teammates, Supporting my peers by cheering them on and giving high fives, Reflecting on our performance. Give feedback and say what we have to improve next time. I am good at these things because I take leadership roles and I’m a good sportsperson. In dodgeball I take leadership roles, for example, setting dodgeball up/ organizing the equipment and organizing the teams. I think my next steps is to have strategies because I never know what we are trying to do so I just go f...

9th of October 2005 was the day I was born and raised. I was given a lovely name called Veititi. My name is very special because I’m named after my grandma. My culture is Samoa. My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it. Would you like to hear a short story about my name? Well here’s how it started. It was 2005 in a beautiful island called Samoa where a beautiful mother was giving birth to a cute little girl and was wondering what name to give her. So she named her Lita but what happened was she named her niece Lita instead of me, so that’s how my name became Titi but originally it was meant to be Lita.   Music is a talent and a passion that I love. Joining Violin when I was little is only the beginning. But now I am a expert. Netball is a sport that I have experienced ever since I was 10 yrs old. Being the youngest is awesome but being with 5 brothers is even better. The expe...

Polyfest Learning Story. On the  10th of August at Hosanna Church, Corinna School participated in an event known as Polyfest. Polyfest is an NZ wide event that many schools, groups (etc) are involved in. It’s a way for children and adults to communicate a story about their culture through song and dance. There were about 5 groups that performed at Polyfest. It consisted of Samoa, Tuvalu/Tokelau, Cook Island, Maori and Kapa Haka. On that day I contributed in the Senior Samoan group. I chose to perform for that group even though the teachers gave us a choice. My culture is Samoan and I’m proud to represent my culture. My polyfest performance was stressful but fun. I am very proud of myself because my goals for polyfest were to smile, have fun, enjoy and to get the actions perfect and superb. Performing in the senior Samoan group that I participated in the k.c skills I used were relating to others, managing self and participating and contributing ... I followed and...

What do you want to be known for? I want to be known for performing in front of the whole school and sharing my amazing talents. I will never forget when I got a Principal's Award, I was really proud of myself because I worked really hard to earn it. I am good at self-managing because I behave and listen to the teacher.  This makes me a successful learner because I can reflect on my learning and talk about what I am good at, and what I need to work on. The learning I like to do is writing because it’s a fun way to express my feelings and it’s a good way to talk about different topics. I am good at music e.g Guitar, Piano and Violin.  I show my confidence in music because I am a music person. My favourite performance was when we performed for polyfest and a lot of people were there. I always do my best and have fun when I perform.   This year I have also participated in Garden Club, Netball, Sports Awards and Poly Club. Participating in these things made me...