Titi's 2016 Reporting Blog

“Technology is coming up”. “12:30 to 2:30 on Thursday”.”Can’t wait, Yay!!!”. Every Thursday we go to Brandon Intermediate to learn different activities, we call it ‘Technology’. There are different groups, for example, Music, Hard Material, Cooking, Sewing, and Art. My first group was Hard material. In hard material, we have been trying to make a box. We started making them in week 3. The purpose of making a box is to put our belongings in it. In hard material, I was good at asking my peers if they needed help because on Thursday I asked Aria if she needed help with her box because she looked like she w as  struggling. The K.C skill I used was relating to others. Things that I found hard was remembering the tools/equipment because the tools  had difficult names that I couldn't remember like block plane. In hard material, the tool  that I was struggling with the most was the block plane. I haven’t used a block plane before but I stepped out of my...

What is surrealism art? Surrealism began as a philosophical movement that said the way to find truth in the world through the subconscious mind and dreams. Surrealist works often show familiar things in unexpected or impossible ways. Art is not my thing. But I stepped out of my comfort zone and had a try. I was really good at relating to others because I asked for advice on what colors I could use. In my art, I combined a guitar and my face. It shows that music is my passion. My hair has patterns in it which show my culture which is Samoan. The K.C skills I used was self-managing. I focused and chose the right people and the right place to get my art done. I didn’t distract other people and I shared my ideas. I was struggling with the equipment because it was too thick like the pastel. So I knew that my next steps were to not draw small patterns or else it will be hard to color. My advice for those people who don’t like art is to not be shy and just draw. Don’t be ...

Technology Learning Story. “Technology is coming up”. “12:30 to 2:30 on Thursday”.”Can’t wait, Yay!!!”. Every thursdays we go to Brandon Intermediate to learn different activities, we call it ‘Technology’. There is different groups for example Music, Hard Material, Cooking, Sewing and Art. My first group was Hard materiel. In hard material we have been trying to make a box. We started making them in week 3. The purpose of making a box is to put our belongings in it. In hard material I was good at asking my peers if they needed help because on Thursday I asked Aria if she needed help with her box because she looked like she was struggling. The K.C skill I used was relating to others. Things that I found hard was remembering the tools/equipment because the tools had difficult names that I couldn't remember like block plane. In hard material the tool that I was struggling with the most was the block plane. I haven’t used a block plane before but I stepped out of my comfo...

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...