What are my most grateful for in life?

 What are my most grateful for in life? 

I’m very grateful for my parents as they gave me life and raised me with their love and sweat. They are always standing behind me, cheering me on, and giving me a hand when I need help and they brought a roof for me to stay and or else I wouldn't live in a house and I would have nothing so thats why I am so grateful for my beautiful parents.

I am grateful to have friends because otherwise I wouldn’t have friends to play with anyone and enjoy like a family and act like a family. It is important to trust in your friends so that it means that you have trust in them and they trust in you and believe in you as friends and that we all give respect to each other.

I am grateful to have all the team  5 teachers because they are always helpful and are  always kind. The team  5 teachers  are awesome because they  are nice and they trust and believe in me and she gives us respect. s and she will always laugh with us and enjoy having fun with us.

I am grateful to those who have served in wars, those who are fighting for their lives, and those who have given their lives for us. I am grateful to the people for giving up their life and respecting us for what they have done for us, as well as for providing us with protection and respect, as well as for trusting and believing in us.

God deserves praise because he created me and my family. I am grateful that God forgives and loves us; he forgives us for the wrongs we have committed, and he loves, respects, trusts, believes in, and guides us through his love and care for us. I'm glad for the way it's directing us in our minds and hearts.

today I decided to write 5 things i'm grateful for and why. I really enjoyed writing these kind of blog posts because It makes me think about my thoughts and why i'm grateful for these people and things and I hope you enjoy reading my blog post about what I'm grateful for.

Lockdown Riddles

 

TALOFA EVERYONE!

Today I made some riddles for you guys to enjoy playing and enjoy guessing. I really like making creative things like this and posting it because I know some people like guessing riddles. I made riddles before and heaps of you guys got it right. I really enjoy asking and answering riddles thats why I decided to start making different parts to riddles here is part 2 hope you enjoy.

Samoan Culture

As you guys know I am full Samoan and these are some things about Samoa and some beautiful pictures about Samoa. I love posting about my culture and the different things about my culture and I will continue to post more about my culture so some more posts about Samoa
Samoan  is the best!!!

Te Reo Maori

Today for our online learning for Te Reo today we were learning about how to say words about exercising. Our Walt for this week for Te Reo Maori is to Ask and answer questions about what things are and phrasing these words.

Te Reo Maori

 

Today for our online learning for Te Reo today we were learning about how to say who are your friends, who are your parents and who are your teachers in Maori. Our Walt for this week for Te Reo Maori is to find out about relationships between people. 

Highlights

 As you are aware tomorrow is the last day of school and we’ve been in lockdown for about 7 weeks now. I don’t have any highlights for this term because lockdown has taken over most of term 3 so we stayed home but my highlight of online learning was team 5 dressing up every morning and looking so beautiful and funny and the cultural language weeks online and us learning new things about different cultures. I would like to give a huge FAAFETAI TELE LAVA/ thank you very much to our teachers who have provided learning for us and supporting us even though we are under lockdown level 3 & 4.

Hauora Talk

  Today at 10am all the girls had a hauora talk with Ms Setefano and we were talking about the quote from Mark 12:30-31 and it says ‘Love our neighbour as yourself and what that means. We were talking about what does love mean and us girls were saying love is an emotion and it means someone cares about you, it's a passion, and commitment. Love involves care, closeness, protectiveness, attraction, affection, and trust and then we started talking about who your neighbour and most of us girls said family,siblings and teachers but then Mrs Setefano said neighbour is everyone around you not just your family, friends or your close relationships with others. The girls were talking about what Love our neighbour as yourself'' means. We said it means helping others, being kind,being compassionate,treating others the way you want to be treated and using your manners and putting others first before yourself which means helping others or complimenting them. I would like to THANK YOU Mrs Setefano for teaching us about loving our neighbour before loving us and Thank you for supporting us in our learning.

Love your NEIGHBOUR as YOURSELF!

My Lockdown

  This Term has been pretty crazy with everything happening in New Zealand and around the world. In term 1 & 2 everything was normal and us students would be at school with teachers learning, but because of level 4  lockdown we are not able to do learning from school and see our friends or go to school and it has lasted for the whole of term 3. I was kinda sad because It's better doing my school work at school because there's no distractions and when I need help I can ask my friends or  teachers for help but when I'm at home you get distracted and when your family members are busy they can’t help you. Being at home helps me improve my talents like baking, singing, dancing and communicating better with my family. Most of my siblings birthdays were during this lockdown so we had to find a way to still make it special even though we can’t go anywhere or can’t do anything during lockdown. This lockdown has effectively helped me communicate better with my family and spend more time together and have fun like playing board games, baking together, watching a movie together, chatting with my family who are international, sing songs together and dance together. I am so grateful for this lockdown because it helps me build my talents and  I know that these beautiful talents that I have will help me in the future. 

 

As you may be aware, Auckland is currently in level 3 lockdown, and some students are still doing school work from home, while parents who are required to work send their children to school. As you may be aware, when Auckland returns to level 3, takeaways reopen, and the lines at all takeaways were long. It's as if the world is ending and there will be no more takeaways and the building will be destroyed; Level 3 is comparable to Level 4 as we remain in our own bubble.This lockdown has been extremely difficult because school term 3 has ended and we are still under lockdown, which is really frustrating because it makes it difficult for us to interact with our teachers and friends. Lockdown is something that has actually helped me have more fun and it has helped me with my talents such as baking and other things. It has also helped me with more of my talents such as building and learning new things, as well as exploring other things that I haven't done before.

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This is about my lockdown and hows its going. More to Come.

Graph/ Maths

 

Today for maths we had to label parts and we were learning about graphs and we were learning about the different graphs there are. For this task we had to rate and answer the questions about the bar graph because the graph was showing.

Lockdown Riddles

 

Talofa Lava Everyone!

Today I made some riddles for you guys to enjoy playing and enjoy guessing. I really like making creative things like this and posting it because I know some people like guessing riddles. I made riddles before and heaps of you guys got it right. Comment down in the comment section when you have you guested it.

Patterns

So today I was trying to do this design and I had to try and using shapes and the lines to try copying the picture of the Samoan design so this is what I did. It was kinda hard because I only could use shapes and the lines but then when I started I actually got a idea of what I could of done.

 

Waka Waka

 

Talofa Lava Everyone!

For  learning today we had to  work on our "Waka Waka" slides,

I learned that just dance motivates me and encourages me to do my best and to be a champion and never give up. During this task it had helped me gain knowledge in knowing Just dance "Waka waka" facts.

Tuvalu Language Week Maths

 

This week is Tuvalu Language week so we are doing tasks based on Tuvalu. For this task we were learning about find the area of objects relating to Tuvalu culture using multiplication,use basic facts knowledge to find possible perimeters of the Tuvalu Titi,Label the graph using the labels on the left, Answer the questions relating to the graphs. I really enjoyed doing this maths because I actually like learning different things and learning things about Tuvalu.

Tuvalu Language Week

 

This week is Tuvalu Language week and we had to read the text and watch the videos on the slide about Tuvalu and the flag and then we had to answer the questions. I actually got really Interested in learning more about Tuvalu and its flag because I didn't know some of these facts about Tuvalu's flag.

Poster About Fathers Day

As you know this week is Tuvalu language week so I had to make a poster about father's day. For this task I used some Tuvalu language and I learned some new words about Tuvalu and how you say things in Tuvalu like saying I love you. 

 

Tuvalu Language Week

Tuvalu has some similarities with Samoa. I’m going to explain some facts about Tuvalu and its culture. Tuvalu is a small island that lies right in the midway between Hawaii and Australia. Tuvalu’s language is so similar to Samoa and how they say things like for example Tuvalu’s language say Talofa and Samoa’s greeting is Talofa as well.

Tuvalu, like all the other Pacific islands, is located in Oceania. Tuvalu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean's west-central region. It is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, midway between Australia and Hawaii. Tuvalu is quite near to the islands of Kiribati to the north and Fiji to the south, and there are nine islands in Tuvalu in the South Pacific. Tuvalu is the world's fourth smallest country, according to some estimates.

The two main values of Tuvaluan culture in order to develop healthy and successful Tuvaluan families are unity and sharing. These two values serve as the foundation for building a good society where people live in peace and share the common culture.

In Tuvalu culture, spiritual beliefs and values are most important in parts of Tuvalu's everyday life and those who are affected by the Tuvalu way and how they do things. Because of the effect of everyday activities in Tuvalu, love and spirituality are most important in Tuvalu culture.

In summary I hope that you have learned some amazing facts about Tuvalu and its culture. Amazing facts about Tuvalu and knowing that some things are similar.

This week for literacy we are learning about Tuvalu because its Tuvalu Language Week and these are some fast about Tuvalu and its culture.

Writing Tonga

 

TITLE:  What are some cultural facts about Tonga?

Introduction: 

The Tongan culture has some similarities with other Pacific island cultures, such as Samoa, Rarotonga and Fiji are just a few to name.

I will explain some facts about Tonga. The Kingdom of Tonga includes a variety of features and one of the most important things about the Tongan culture is their identity.

On the globe Tonga is on the Oceania near the other pacific islands and Tonga is on the southwestern Pacific Ocean and Tonga has about 170 islands  in the south-western Pacific. Tonga is known as being a friendly island because James cook travelled to Tonga and he was amazed by the hospitality of the Tongan people so he decided to call it the friendly island.

Some of Tonga's customs are that Tongan's place a high value on humility.  Everyone is expected to be humble, including the king. Some common practices of humility. Parents also avoid praising their children for accomplishments as a way to promote humility in the family. Some do and some don’t in the Tongan culture. Firstly, you should take care when admiring something owned by your Tongan peer.  One don’t that you should not do not gossip or speak of a person or their family to their peers without the individual’s knowledge. You may respectfully raise issues to them whilst they are present.  However, gossiping is considered to be profoundly disrespectful and inconsiderate.  

Tongans living conditions are below the poverty line  88 percent of Tonga's population live in rural areas of the country and this means most experience the highest rates of poverty and living conditions.

Tonga’s core values are mutual respect, sharing, and cooperating. fulfilment of mutual obligations, humility and generosity,loyalty and commitment. Family is the central unit of Tongan life. An example of respect is to acknowledge others and say thank you, an example of sharing is sharing different objects, an example of cooperating is including all members of a group in a discussion or team meeting, another example for humility is being grateful for what you have, a example for loyalty is being honest and telling the truth and the last example of being committed is Committing to Being Positive.

In summary I hope that you have learned some amazing facts about Tonga and some examples that you can do. Amazing facts about the different cultures and different things like there language, clothing and how they dance,these are some of the things that are different about Tongan and other pacific island cultures.

For  Tongan Language week we had to writing  facts and learn about the different facts that you should learn about the Tongan culture and the different things between other cultures and Tonga.

Reading

 Today for literacy I was learning the Maori alphabet. Did you know that in some words the word in the Maori alphabet always ends with a vowel and the valves are A,E,I,O,U for example like Kia Ora the vowel in Kia Ora is the letter A. I also learned how to pronounce the letter and words in Maori. I really enjoyed doing this little game because it actually helped me learn more Maori and learn more about the culture and how we express and pronounce some words.