Steps of how to have a positive digital footprint!

Last Friday, James visited Rm14. He showed us how to delete our YouTube channels, and also the teacher dashboard. After that he gave us our first instruction. Go to your Chromebook, search your first and last name, and see what pops up. So we did that. 2 or 3 people in our classrooms found photo's that they didn't know that was online. I found photo's that I did know that was online from my blog.  After that, we came back to the mat. He showed us what people can do online in seconds. So, we timed him. It took him 20 seconds to tweet a random photo of Rm14. Luckily, he deleted the tweet.. He sent us off to make atleast 5-8 steps of how to have a positve digital footprint! Here's my one!

3 Question About Earthquakes!

This week we were learning about earthquakes. Rm 14 have been learning lots and lots of facts about Earthquakes. After watching videos, reading facts, and learning about earthquakes, Mrs Moore sent us off to answer three main questions.
1) What is an Earthquake?
2) What do earthquake do/cause?
3) What is an earthquake drill? Why do we have to practise earthquake drills?
So we went off and answered all three questions. Also yesterday we did an earthquake drill at exactly 9:15am. My heart was beating fast once the bell ring to tell us it is an earthquake drill. Have you ever been in an earthquake drill?

Here is my presentation:

Speeches.

This term Room 14 has been writing persuasive speeches! We had to write a persuasive speech trying to convince the Audience and the judges about your topic. My topic was "Why we should have a positive attitude." I chose this topic because I think students like us are not having a positive attitude! If we have a bad attitude at primary how would we act in the future?

We all had great speech topics and ideas. We spent nearly a whole block in the morning getting our speeches done. I've got to be honest. I was waiting to do speeches ever since last year! 

When I have finished writing my speech, proof reading it and making sure it makes sense, and then putting it on cue cards, it was finally time to practise and trying to memorising it before I present it in front of the class. When I presented my speech I felt really, really, really, nervous. I was quite happy of the fact that I was the last one to present that day. While we present our teacher will be judging us of how we present our speech, written it, practised and memorised it and she will be checking if we have done our success criteria. We even had a time limit of our speech. My time was 3.54, which was a bit to long. But I was happy it did not go over 4 minutes. 

 When everyone has presented their speech it is time to vote for our Class Finals. The people who gets into the Finals will have to present their speech again. We had to write 3 names on 1 piece of paper. We had to keep our votes anonymous, which mean we do not write our name or tell them who I am.  At the end of the day our teacher has counted all our votes she was ready to tell us. The class finals are: Ivorn, Faiupu, Luciano, Emalata (Me), Hermione and Dinah. I was kind of surprised because I made it to the class finals last year, and now this year. 

When I got home I practised, and cut my speech down so my time would be good! I was even more nervous this time because I'm in the class finals. 

The day came when I had to present my speech. I think I was really good because my time was 3.08! I was super happy. It's not too long and it's not too short. Just right! But I still kept doing my happy feet. (That was because I was super super shakey) 

After 1 day the teacher had a class meeting without the speech finalist. She said it was too hard for her to choose so the class chose with her. I was wanting to find out badly who was going but then we found at the end of the day. The speech finalist were:

Ivorn

Fai'upu

Hermione

Luciano

Congratulations!

These people went to the hall in Friday the 28th to present their speech. They were also competing with other classes. The judges were Mrs. Noakes, and Mrs. Shuster. It was a bit sad because I wasn't there to hear their wonderful speeches! But I heard that in 3rd place was: Faiupu, and Ma'asoama from Room 15,

In 2nd place was Hermione! Finally, in first place was   ..................

Ivorn! 

Congratulations Ivorn! Ivorns speech was " Why we should be ourselves"! I was happy though because I have heard Ivorns speech and I want to congrats her again. 

Dear Snow White....

Today our teacher read us the amazing book: Snow White, because this week was *Book Week*. Every year we have book week and our magnificent librarian Andrea plans it all out. Anyway, after reading the story, the teacher told us to write a letter to Snow White and tell her about the silly things that she done. Like run into the forest and go into some stranger's house. She told us to write to her and explain what she has done wrong, then give her some positive advice. I was Snow White's real mother from heaven. It's great pretending to be someone and writing a letter. Here is my story:

Dear Snow White,

This is your Mother from heaven. A little angel came and gave me a story about you. It was a marvellous story but… You did quite some silly things in the story like, run away into the forest and go inside some stranger's house, and sleep on their bed! That was really stupid of you. But I still love you. Anyway, you even let a creepy old lady (Who was the next Queen, and who took over me) come into the house, and she told you about a magic apple. You should’ve known there was no special apple tree from high school…. She was a stranger! She tricked you. And why have you always been so nice darling? I know I taught you to be nice, but not really nice to a creepy old lady! Okay now that was overboard dear. And one more thing, why did you go with the prince? he was a complete stranger too. You just don’t meet someone who just kissed you and then marry them. Darling me and you father were BFF’s until I got married with him because I knew him. Don’t you remember anything I have taught you? I told you never talk to strangers ! First I think you should’ve ran to the village and lived with the orphans, and change your style and look and act like a villager. And second you should’ve listened to Grumpy. Grumpy may be a big fuss, and a angry dwarf but he’s always true with his words and he’s a softy. I just had a cup of tea with him. Wait I'm going off track, anyway, you should’ve listened to Grumpy!! And thirdly, your should’ve got to know the prince even better. Dear I hope there was a time machine to turn back time and still be alive so all that ever happened to you never happened. I love you with all my heart and I hope you have a happy life. But remember I still don’t like the prince. (He might be a wicked Prince) But I'm happy that you’re having a good life up in the clouds. I will always look down and see what your doing. I love you so much dear good bye now.

Love

Mother White.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Letter To Snow White

Place She Lives In: Cloud Castle And In Fairytale Land.

Speech Recording

This morning I used a recoding software that James had taught Rm14. You can record what your saying and the laptop will write what your saying. When I was using the recording software it felt like I was talking to a human being. Using this web tool is really fun. My teacher told me it is good for those people who don't really know English. They can talk through the recording software and it will write down what he/she said. 

This is a really good web tool to use :)

Quick Write

This is my "Little Bird Tales" and it's a persuasive writing. My class has been doing some "quick Write" and we have being doing this for 2 weeks. Were convincing people to buy what we want them to buy..... IT'S SO FUN..........

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STORY BUILDER!

Story Builder is an awesome web tool. My class loves it. We learned about "Speech Marks". We had a fun time using this "Web tool", and we learned a lot of stuff using this. We could put music in and add characters in it. It's a cool TOOL! (LIKE I SAID). On the bottom is a link to my "Story Builder'', and the a picture of the event. HOPE YOU LIKE IT :D

CLICK HERE :)

The Person I Treasure The Most

My older brother Rodrick

The person I treasure the most is my brother Rodrick. He is the best brother you’ll ever have. He’s only 14 years old. He’s the oldest in my family and the one who takes care of me and my older sister. He’s always focused on my learning and always check if my homework is done. He is the best brother you’ll ever have.

My brother is a very remarkable huge teenager. He has big muscles that when you touch them they feel like a bunch of rocks. He is skinny because he always trains. Rodrick always wears white big singlets. You can see him and adore and like him. Like really like like him, But if you're a girl reading this and you think you like him just to tell you….. he’s already got a girlfriend. As soon as you see him he is AMAZING.

My brother is sometimes mean. But I like it when he is mean. Roderick always says he smacks me cause he love’s me. Weird right but I know that is true. He sometime helps me with my homework and is always a person who makes the right choices. He is so kind (well sometimes) and really funny. Roderick loves to make fun of me and my older sister and he loves to make joke’s.

My brother’s action’s are: That he loves to run run run. Everyday he run’s and every race he wins. He love’s to play rugby and league. He always wishes one day he can play for the All blacks. (A rugby team). I think my brother will really achieve that goal because he is always focused on rugby .He love’s to spend time on his phone. But gets carried away with it. My brother always train in the gym and loves to swim in the pools thats why he is strong.

I choose my brother because he is the man of my family. He has his own house at Tonga. It’s the house that I grew up in when I was little before I came to N.Z. When he was born my dad gave it to him as a 1st child present. One time my older cousin and his wife Paea came to live in it. They lived in it for 2 years and Paea got kicked out because my uncle died. My brother got angry of my aunty for kicking out Paea out of his house and demanded that my aunty to go back to her house and paea to come to his house. My brother is the boss and whatever he say’s about his house it happens.

    

Emalata

My Reflection Writing

This is my reflection writing. I got the best score in my whole life I am so proud of myself. This test was a awesome test.

Day and night

This is a drawing (and diagram) that I have done showing what makes day and night. Space is our topic for this term

My Bio Poem

This is a bio poem about me. Hope you can learn more of me in this bio poem. Happy reading.

Emalata

Caring, friendly, musical, and cheeky

Daughter of Jonas, and Debbie, Sister of Roderick and Elizabeth

Lover of my family, music, and fashion.

who feels excited when i got a chromebook, bored in the holidays, Relaxed when I am reading a good book.

Who needs love, good care, Friends.

Who gives A helping hand, smiles, and love.

Who fears being drowning, the cemeteries and ghosts.

Who would like to see my dad, to have a good education, and to travel around the world.

Who comes from Tonga and lives in New zealand

Puafisi.

Mulan Slideshow

This is a slideshow of a movie called Mulan.I used to love this movie when I was little. Hope you like it

bloggging tips

Here are some blogging tips to help you blog

The climbing wall

The Fearless Climbing Wall

As I raced around the green open field, I spotted the high fearless CLIMBING wall. Fear raced in to my body. Shaking with nerves I shook my head I wasn't ready. I started nervously thinking  that I was too young to die. My heart started pounding with crazy thoughts. Will I die?  Will I break any of my bones?  Still shivering, I wanted to force my mum not to let me climb up this terrifying Devil. At last I started thinking I must face this huge massive CLIMBING wall.

Tyler the man in charge told us about why we had to wear this kind of nappy called a harness. Then he taught my group about this rope called a belay that we must pull slowly and carefully so the climber can easily climb and be protected and how to lower the person so he or she can abseil down carefully. After that he needed 3 people to be the first to pull the belay I kindly put up my hand quicker than you can say, “hamburgers are tasty!” He choose me first and then 2 other boy’s. I was delighted and relieved that I wouldn’t be first on the wall. Jess was the first one on my belay rope who went first. She climbed higher than I have ever seen her do before. I was relieved. Suddenly she became scared and shocked she wanted to go down so we carefully lowered her down.

Then Tyler told me it was my turn. I was extremely shocked. My eyes widened and I was frozen but I knew i had to defeat this devil. I put on the helmet that tyler gave to me. He clipped on a clip attached to the belay and told me “ If you're ready climb tell your team”. “I’m not ready!!!!!!”, I murmured to myself. Finally I  said, “I’m ready“ to my group. I was persevering and past the black bit I was so proud of myself. I kept on going until I got to a part where my hands was slippery and it was hard to climb up. I looked down and my group looked like a group of ant’s wow that is so a long long way.

I tried to keep going but I couldn't. I heard Mrs melick shouting furiously to persevere. I tried to pull myself up but it was too hard. My heart was pounding, I was feeling like I would fall off and kill myself. I pulled me up with all my muscles and finally past the slippery part. I wasn’t at the top yet but I was tired and I was shaking. I shouted to my belay group, “ lower me down NOW please”. My amazing group lowered me down and I was finally at the ground. I felt like kissing the ground when Tyler clipped of the clip and when I took of the helmet but I knew that would  be too embarrassing.

I felt amazed and calmed down. I was so relieved that I finished  but … I didn’t know we get 3 turns! AAAAAHHHHHH!! I am not going on that thing again!!!!!!!

By Emalata Puafisi

 

Bridget Mendler

This is a poster all about Btidget Mendler. Bridget Mender is one of my favourite singers.