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Sailing trip

Okahu Bay

First Ms Lammas came and got us from our classroom and told us to get in the line. We walked and walked until we reached the oak tree to wait for Ms Naicker to do the head count of the children. We then started walking again but stopped in the car park footpath to wait for Mrs pat and for our bus. Mrs Pat finally came and so did the tech bus for the senior students, but no sign of our bus. We waited for 2 minutes which felt like forever until the bus finally arrived. We got on the bus with Ms Naicker’s final head count of the students before we head off.

 

Then we finally got there. It took us 10 minutes.We got off each saying thank you to the bus driver. The bus drove off and we followed the instructor. He took us to a classroom where we sat our bags against the glass wall. After putting our bags away they introduced themselves. The names were Kim, Jamie, Lola, Sophia, and Jake. Kim introduced us to  life jackets and rashies. She then told us to get in a line from shortest to tallest we got our rashies and aqua fleeces to go change. We got back and put on our life jackets and our helmets. Kim then gave us time to eat lunch.

 

After Lunch we had to get in our group and got our letter on our hand. We put on sunscreen and followed Jake. Jake told us all about the quest and how to work it. We got in our groups and then went to our spots. My group ( B ) went to the speed boat, Sapphire’s group ( A ) went to the quest and Honor group ( C ) went to the classroom and learnt about ropes. We were on the speed boat going slow at first until we passed the sticks we went flying. He taught us everything about speed limits and the sticks. We then did donuts and went really fast. We came back and slowed down because we were in the sticks. We came to shore and switched to salling. Me, Timothy, and primrose went to lola’s boat and Beautiful, Jasmine, and Terrell went to Sophia’s boat. We were shooting each other with water squirters, and Timothy was steering the boat. Sophia’s boat came and we wet them with our water squirters. Primrose fell in because she leaned too close to the water. Me, Primrose and Timothy were on one side and lola was on the other side. It was uneven. So I told Timothy to steer the boat straight so I could walk to the other side but he turned it and I fell in the water. 

 

We got back to shore safe and sound. We went to eat lunch. It was spaghetti bolognese. We finished our lunch and went to play on the playground. We then went to the bathroom and had a shower and got changed. We finished and went to learn about different ropes with Jamie. We had to focus. The knots were called the figure 8 and the reef knot. We had to use teamwork on the last task until we had to help the people from sailing. We had our debrief, we talked about things we learned and our favourite coach. But before that we did a feedback paper. 

 

Finally, I said the thank you message at the end and we walked off to the bus. We waved goodbye 

 

I liked all the coaches and loved the sailing part

The Abilities of Fatima

Malo e lelei

My name is Fatima Vaka’uta. I am in year 6 and I go to Glen Innes School.

I am a kiwi and full Tongan. I also have 5 siblings and two parents. I  was born in Auckland, New Zealand.

I love reading and writing. I hope to learn more new things in maths to help me improve

My interests are Writing and meditating. I also have lots of hobbies but my favourites are eating, watching tv ,and playing soccer

My superhero summer learning journey

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Name: Fetu Anga

Age: 100,000 years old

Family: Father ( fatherless) Mother ( motherless) Sister ( sisterless) Brother ( has a brother ) 

Weakness: Lava

Friend/Sidekick: Horses

What describes his sidekick/friend: Very fast, always there to help, and dangerously cute horse

World they live in: Tonga/Veitongo

Transportation: Running ( really fast ) Swimming ( under water ) and walking on land

Love/interest: Water and fire also horses

Abilities: Fire breathing, Water from hands, camouflaging, speed and jumping ( really high )

Enemies: Brother

 

My bad day at tu manawa sport

It was the worst!

Today at Tu manawa sport we played ki orahi, Once all the girls and all the boys lined up to get there colour band on there hips but before that we had to put black belts on. First we got spilt into two lines a girls one and a boys one. Once we got spilt in our team i was so happy because it had fdast and fit people but some people in my team was cheating there were picked to come into the yellow but instead went to the red team. Once we got sorted we all realized that the people in the red team hasmore then the yellow so we had to restart. I WAS MAD!

WE restarted and got into equal teams But the thing was when we got into the game we started out normal with playing peacefully and then in the last minutes we had thirteen and the othere team had ten i was so happy when in the last ten seconds we dropped down to ten in points well the other team had thirteen. Our whole team was confused and angry. I dont know if the coach got mucked up in opur teams points or if he is cheating.

The end .

Tongan language week

Tongan language week

 

On Friday the 8th of September we celebrated the week of Tongan language week.

 

On Friday all the tongan children dressed up in traditional tongan clothes for tongan week. And all the tongan children’s parents brang a traditional tongan dish for Glen Innes School to try.

 

On the second block all the Tongan children gathered in the  hall to make sure all the Tongan children would practise and know the Hymn and the song we were about to sing in front of the whole school assembly.

 

When the classes arrived in the second block each kid from each class got to try pani keke, otai, and lu all of them enjoyed it because it was easy to see how delicious it was and the joy in their faces because of the food.

 

And last but not least on the third block we had a very very special and exciting assembly. Once the class came Miss Tu’akoi introduced the tongan group and taught the audience how to count in tongan. After that we sang the hymn and the tongan group danced on the stage.

 

HAPPY TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK

Fatima Matariki Mountains

Today in cybersmart we created Matariki Moutains. We used the polyline tool to make close shapes for our moutains. The reason why we use the polyline tool so our shapes were closed so that we could give the shape some colour and pop. We also use the dupilcate button and the arrange button. We use the dupilcate button to dupilcate the mountains and we used the arrnge button to arrange the mountains.