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I am a Year 5 student at Saint Patrick's School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 6 and my teacher is Mrs Agnew.
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to visit my new blog
and see the next stage of my learning journey.
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My family of five is small and immediate. We love one another very much, even though we sometimes get angry and upset. We know that
'no matter what we are WHANAU.
In the evenings we laugh together and share our day with our parents. We have long days because dad works seven days a week and my mum is a teacher.
My siblings and I like to play rugby and soccer together outside and we especially like to sing. My family is good at it. My brother plays the guitar, my sister plays the piano and I sing. My dad plays the ukulele and my mum is the manager. I feel joy when I am with them.
I show love and care for my family especially my sister when she gets hurt. My whanau cares for me too. They are the best. My dad is almost as tall as the whiteboard and my mum loves 500,000 times more than my aunty!
My favourite whanau saying is: “Home is where the heart is.” When we get home we know we are together again at the end of the day.
My aroha symbol is:
Daniel
A couple of weeks ago, our class teacher, Mrs Agnew, shared our new MITEY learning and the goal was to show our feelings through self portraits of ourselves. I had grew ecstatic and I bet the others were too! We started off by drawing the shape of the head and we drew lines on our faces: one vertically and three horizontally. These were to get the right places to draw in our eyes, nose, ears and eyes.
Then we drew our eyes in an almond shape but my friend Zachary Vargas drew his eyes round like Spongebob! We did the nose in a sort of cone shape and ears (Mrs Agnew drew the ears for me).
About a week later we drew in our hair and coloured in our faces. We drew our bodies, neck and coloured our jumpers/shirts.
We then had to use a white wax crayon to draw lines about feelings we have. For example angry = zigzag lines, calmness = wavy, gentle lines. Then we painted it with blue dye, and the white wax showed through the dye. It was very dramatic.
The next week, I was amazed at other peoples' beautiful drawings, when they were all displayed.
My favourite blurb that I wrote on my paper was: When I feel embarrased I say "I didn't do it Miss".
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Kia Orana, My name is Daniel Kolotau Ripata. I am 9 years old, well almost 10. I go to St Patrick's School. I am from Tonga and the Cook Islands. My Teacher is Mrs Agnew and I am in Room 6. My favourite subject is Maths and I like playing this Math game called Sumdog. My favourite animal is a Lemur. I’ve been to Rarotonga to see Whanau and I would love to go there again.
Last Friday we had Athletics Day. There are four houses: Rimu, Rata, Kauri, Totara. I am in Rimu and so I had to wear a blue T-Shirt. I competed in three Races. I came 2nd in each race. After the races the seniors did the 'Tug of War'. Totara won the Tug of War. At the end, the Teachers added the scores. They announced that Rimu has won! I liked this day because I spent time with my friends doing sport.