School Prizegiving

On Monday 6 of December our school had prize giving. I think this prize giving was one of the best 

prize givings  I have been to because I got my first prize and a few other prizes. As you can see in this picture me, my teacher and some of my classmates took a photo after prize giving. (I am the one with a huge book in the front if you didn't know)

In this picture me and some of my friends were chosen to be the year 8 prefects next year. When I went home and showed my family all of my prizes they were so proud and they were even prouder when I told them I was a prefect because I am the only one who got prefect in my whole family.

Coming back to school

I wore my mask to protect myself and others from getting covid, however, it wasn't big enough to hide the smile on my face while I was walking through the school gates and towards my classroom. 

As soon as I saw my friends and my teacher, I was filled with excitement and happiness. I looked around  my classroom and it felt like I hadn't been to school in a year. 

Yesterday was better than all of the days in lockdown combined because I got away from my siblings for a couple of hours and it felt nice to play with different people other than my family. 

While I was playing on the vortex with my friends I realized that my body felt sick after a few spins because I haven't been on it for months.   

Week 4 reflection

 My win for this week was getting to watch lots of movies because it was too hot to go outside and play. 

My greatest learning achievement this week was my hangi writing because I put a lot of effort into it and I have nearly finished it.  

I am super excited that we get to go back to school because I am sick of looking at a screen all day.

When I tell my parents that we are going back to school. My parents:

When I tell my siblings that we are going to school again

Cooking breakfast this morning with my class

Today some of my classmates, teacher and I cooked our selves some breakfast. As you can see in the picture I cooked scrambled eggs, ham and mushrooms. I made that much food because my family and I were going to eat it. I ate it with bread and avocados. Even though I was the first person to start cooking I finished last.  

Explanation writing for hangi

Here is an explanation about a hangi. There is only one paragraph because it is not finished and

because I just started on it but I am going to add one paragraph. If you are wondering what all of the other writings are they are just some bullet points and ideas. I have never tried hangi before but I think it tastes nice. My class and I did this because one of our teachers wanted one for her class to explain what a hangi is

 

Term 4 week 2 reflection

My win this week was getting to see my friends at their house and no I didn't go inside. We just had a BBQ and play two very loud games: Get rich quick and king of the jungle. We played these two games until somewhere around 10 or 11 at night. 

This week was challenging because I was still very tired. This meant for the first few days I was slow and sleepy in online calls and learning but I did really well not to show it. 

My goals next week are to sleep early and maybe drink some coffee to wake me up if I am still sleepy.

Wordle

This is a wordle about me and the BEST characteristics which make up my personality. I enjoyed making this wordle because it was a fun way to play with words and learn some new words about myself.

It is good to have a positive view of ourselves because if you're happy, then you are more likely to push yourself to do things which are fun or can be challenging. For example last week's Cybersmart challenge was very challenging but we all learned something new and how to cope if things don't go your way.

 

Term 4 week 1 reflection

I was so excited when I realized school was near but I was sad because it didn't start until Wednesday, but then I saw that the online meetings starts on Monday so then I started counting the days until Monday.    

I was excited because I could finally do something, it felt really good doing school again because for most of the holidays we just did nothing. The hardest thing was getting ready for it because I was still in holiday mode so I was very sleepy and tired. The thing I enjoyed was seeing my teacher and friends on the online meetings.

Niue posters

 

Today for Niue language week we made our own posters, as you can see I am

in like a kina of beach. The words at the top means  "Hello My name is Malachi" 

Cybersmart challenge 25: Attributing images

 

Welcome back to term 4. Today for home learning we did our cybersmart challenge.

If you don't know what an attribute is here are some ideas. 

A attribute is when you use someone else's images or work as part of your 

own presentations  

Attributing someone else’s work that we use is important. If

you do not attribute the original source, that means  

you are basically claiming the image or work as your own.   

Images which are free to use should still be attributed because it

shows that we have good manners.

If you are having trouble with finding pictures with the google search or explorer tool, type in

"wiki.media" or "wiki.commons" and then your search term. 

Wall of fame

Today for our school it is the last day for term three then holidays!!! Here is a

quick recap from term 3 we had to say like what were we grateful for and other

things on the slide.By the way I did not create the slide my teacher did and I only 

wrote on it and made some edits.

 

Cybersmart challenge 24 - Replying to a comment

 

Today I completed cybersmart challenge number 24. Today we learnt how to reply a 

comment on our blog and at the last task we had put a conversation we ourselves and someone else.

This is important to me because this task reminds me how I should reply to some online and

maybe face to face like in a actual conversation.      

Art : weave skin

If you are wondering what this is it this is art I made on a site called weave skin.

If you want to create some art like this here is the link. I got like 10 different pictures like this because

I spent hours making art.(it was so satisfying).

 

Reading home learning slide deck

 

This is my home learning slide deck. This is like my writing and maths slide deck

but for reading. This is my favourite slide because I like the way I have done

the layout and because three weeks worth of work is on this slide. (This is my 100th blog post)

Art

If you didn't know this is Captain america, Iron man and Thor but pixel art

version. I made this art a long time ago before the deadpool art if you still

remember that blog post. I remember that I made this in the night time and

I made art for hours. I made this before we went into lock down.

 

Writing slide deck

 

This is my term three home learning writing slide.This is like my maths slide but

only for writing.In here is school work or just normal writing.I think the best

writing I have done in this slide is How Maui Slowed the Sun because I put lots of effort. 

Cybersmart challenge 24:Scams and phishing

 

Today I did the cybersmart challenge about scams and phishing.I learnt

how to identify real scams and phishing.I loved this task because

we had to figure out if it was a scam or not, and because the front of

 slide made me laugh.

Maths learning slide

 

This slide is my maths learning slide.I am going to use this one

slide for the whole term and only for maths and I have other slides for other 

subjects like reading and writing.I think I started this maths slide two weeks ago so that

means I have only two weeks worth of work on this slide.It has lots of different maths activities

like kahoot, prototec, transum, and home learning.   

Fried chicken

On Tuesday my mum made some fried chicken.The fried chicken that my mum made

was the closest we could get to KFC, but to me it was better than KFC.There was

big and little chickens, I like the little chickens because it tasted like chicken nibbles.

If you are wondering what that bowl at the back is it is the batter for the chicken. 

 

Cybersmart challenge Number 22: Empowerment

 

This week's Cybersmart Challenge was about empowerment, which is the "authority or power given to someone to do something".We should follow these instructions when someone leaves you a comment or an email that is not positive,helpful or thoughtful.Something important I learned from this challenge is when

some leaves a comment that is not thoughtful,helpful or positive we should not reply to them

because it will leave a mark on our digital footprint, and not to be a cyberbully.    

Reading: Texting is better than talking

 

This task was one of the tasks for my reading home learning this week.

Something I found interesting because did you know that talking on the phone causes

the radioactive waves to be extremely close to the brain.I just wanted to say that I

disagree with this task because one of the reasons is that you can get more of a conversation

talking with a person in person.(if that makes sense) 

Cyber smart challenge

Today I learnt how to comment on google docs in different ways. For this task we had to make a comment on a random fact, comment a suggestion for synonym of a word, write a Positive Thoughtful Helpful comment and add in an action request for a friend. Below you can see my screenshots for my work. I found this task to be easy and fun because this only taken me like five minutes to just to do this.

 

Fried bread

On Saturday my mum and I made some fried bread to be honest 

This took me and mum hours to make the dough but it turned out 

pretty good and it taste like panikeke and it taste awesome with jam and butter .If you want to make

some fried bread here is a video.We used 2 tbsp sugar, 1 cup lukewarm water, flour ( as much as you want )

and tsp yeast everything else is on the video.

 

 

Cyber smart: Google Meet Ready

 

Today for the cyber smart challenge we got reminded what you have to

do when before and whenever you join or in a google meet.For example making sure you are in

a quiet place, siting still, being kind, raising your hand to speak and other things.

Multiplication by Heart

Today in maths class we meet with Mrs Allen, Mr Nevalagi, Mrs Cardoza and some of my friends .

I did a website called Multiplication by heart here is the link 

https://sites.google.com/view/pirihira/lockdown/room-6

For me it was actually pretty easy  but it will help me in the future with other things. 

 

8 bit art : Dead pool

 

A week ago I made dead pool on 8 bit art.I wish I could

add him some legs but I don't know how to so I just did the 

body because it was easier but I am still proud of it because 

it looks great. 

Minecraft: Refugee camp (last week)

 

Today I have just finished my Refugee camp that I started last week but 

I couldn't finish it in time because I had lots of work to finish and didn't

have enough time to finish it.I made a very small refugee camp because 

I was to lazy to make some more tents and I was to lazy to decorate the tents inside 

and outside but I hope you guys like it.  

Cybersmart 8 bit art

 Today for cyber smart with Mr Goodwin we were assigned to complete a 

quality blog comments.Mr G has been tracking our comments

since two weeks ago.Ocean had thee most points an won a healthy big bar of KitKat.

We all learned how to create our own digital Mario 8 bit art, as well 

as our own piece.I created iron man and captain america because I am 

a huge marvel fan and I am going to create the whole of the Avengers.I really enjoyed

it because making all kinds of things and it if you have extra time you could make your own

creation.Here is some pictures of my creations.

  

Transum

 

As you can see I have about 12 trophies in my trophy cabinet.

If you are wondering what this game is this is a maths game called Tran sum

and you play math games to get trophy's but you have to finish the task.

   

St Louis ship: Minecraft

Today I have complete yet another build in Minecaft, so today I 

have built the St Louis ship that took refugee Judes from Nazi Germany to America in 1930.

You can also see that there is a lot if scaffolding around and in the ship because it is still

under construction and yes this is the same map that I built my concentration camp on.

This ship took me one week because I am only aloud on a devise for one hour

if I didn't this would have been finished in like three days.I am kind of proud of what 

it turned out to be and if you didn't realise all of the blocks in my inventory is all of 

the blocks that I used for the ship.   

 

My birthday

For my birthday me and my two cousins Gg and Jojo but I just call them G and Jo,my nana took us to Rainbows end.My birthday was in the holidays so when we went the tickets and the car parks were so full and we almost didn't go in but lucky for us we were the last one's got get because it was my birthday.Anyways the ride that we are on now is like our second ride because we just got in, and our first ride was that 3D Theatre thing.We didn't get to go on all of the rides because we got there at 11:00 and we had to go at 5:00 because they were getting ready for the night shift.We only went on the 3D Theatre, gold rush, bumper cars and we went on the roller coaster.For me the roller coaster was my favourite because we went on it like 3 times.

 This picture was just before we went home and dropped me off to my real house and drop off the boys to their house, and as you can see at the back the Dj is just getting ready to play some songs.  

Minecraft: Concentration camp

today I have just finished my minecraft concentration camp (My teacher said

it was for our work and I"m not playing in not survival) To be honest I actually liked

building this.At the end it looks like I am messing around but I am actually figuring out how

to stop recording but my friend (Renei) helped me to.   

 

Gender reveal

On the first week of holidays my uncle and his girlfriend has a Gender reveal, so

I wanted to do a blog post about it.I think it was the best Gender reveal ever well for me 

it was because there was lots of food.

There was cupcakes,crispy cream donuts (the nutella and coffee ones), so much lollies like sour patch kids 

liquorice (the sour and chocolate ones) and other lollies and chocolates,brownies,a cake that my unties made

and other things.Then after all of that we got to play rugby league and rugby challenge on the ps 4 and I am getting a baby boy cousin yay!!!!!       

Here is a photo of all of my uncle's that came to the Gender reveal.In this photo is my uncle Ben on the far left side,my uncle Caleb on the far right side,my uncle Josh behind me, CJ is standing next to me and Caleb, my uncle Mervin is the one all the way at the back and my other uncle is standing next to me on the right.This photo was taken right after the video at the top 

 

Last day for Term 2

Today is the last day for term 2 I am kind of sad but at the same time I am excited for the holidays because I am turning 12 and I get to spend my birthday at my nana's house.My wins this term is that I got a good report, coming to school, learning things and playing with my friends.The challenges this Term was for me trying not to talk as much, improve my hand writing and trying new things.My goals for next term is to improve my hand writing some more and try new things.

Celebrities In G.I

 

Today for cyber smart we had to make a remove.bg with a celebrity in G.I and as you can see I chose Adam Reynolds from the rabbitoh's (my favourite player from my favourite team) 

My 24 hour digital footprint beach

 

Today for Cyber smart we did a smart footprint.For this task we had to

put all of the pictures that we have gone on for the last 24 hours like our gmail,

drive and other websites.

Farewell Mr Botha

Today is a very sad day because Mr Botha one of the teachers are leaving us so we an special assembly to say thank you and other things like giving him cards dancing to the song Jerusalema because Mr Botha is south African.In this photo at least one person has to give Mr Botha a lollielane, that person that is giving a lollielane to Mr Bother he is one of my friends.A few students that was in his class last year wrote something for Mr Bother it was very emotional and to honest I was about to cry like three times. 

 In this photo everyone quickly goes into their places and Mr Bother is thinking that it is the end but he walks outside and we all celebrate.We give him high fives and at the end all of the year 7&8 did a haka for Mr Botha before he leaves at the end Mr Botha had a few tears and we wish Mr Botha a safe trip where ever he is going and Mr Botha can visit our school any time he wants.

Like we say at our school once Ruapotaka family ALWAYS Ruapotaka family. 

Caged bird

 For today we did writing about a poem called caged bird by Maya Angelou and we have to answer all of the question. 

Identify the speaker of the poem. 

Malachi:Someone who speaks of freedom.

Hone :A person who is trying to break free 

What is the speaker’s tone? 

Malachi:Mostly negative with some positive

What vocabulary is used (diction), which reveals the speaker’s tone? 

Pita: seldom, bars of rage, grave of dreams, fearful trill.

What is the connotation, implied or true meaning of each word ? 

What stanzas are repeated? 

Malachi: the 3rd and 6th paragraph

Why are they repeated? 

Pita: they are repeated to see how the bird feels when he’s being locked up and free to go.

Identify FOUR symbols from the poem which are used to stand for bigger ideas than their literal meaning? 

Malachi: Grave of dreams: means that your dreams are dead and there is no hope for you.

Malachi: The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still:means that he doesn’t know what it is but he still wants it.    

What is the central idea of a poem? 

Pita: The story was about a bird that is trapped in a cage and also a free bird. 

I also think that this was a story about the man who assaulted Maya Angelo. I think that she wrote the poem caged bird because of that man who attacked her.

State central idea in one sentence. 

Hone: The central idea of this poem highlights the differences of being free and being trapped by the circumstances of one’s situation  

Last question: Based on what we know about Angelou’s life, what are the possible connections between Angelou’s life and her poem “Caged Bird”? 

Pita: Maya Angelou wrote this caged bird because she got assaulted when she was 8 years old and the man who assaulted her was found and sentenced by the judge. 

Malachi:That Maya Angelou is the caged bird and that man that was pita talking about he only got one day of jail for some reason but he got killed or murder after he was released from jail.When he got killed Maya went mute.

How to: make a quality blog post

 

For this task I have to make john a quality blog post .For a quality blog you have to have a great  unique title, a Description of the learning and Keywords as labels 

Origami

 

Today me and my friends made origami.We made a butterfly,shark and a flower.

Funny story about the shark it was a boat but then it turned out to be a shark. 

I used to, But now poem

 

Today for writing I did a poem about I used to, But now and we had to do 10 ideas for the poem.The poem is basically is about what you used to do things but now you have changed, and I wrote this poem all by myself.

My week last week

On Monday and Tuesday last week most of my family was sick.Then on Wednesday we packed our things for Hamilton and also we cleaned the house before we went to Hamilton.On the way to Hamilton  

Here we are in car heading to Hamilton and we are in mount wellington, and also if anyone is wondering what I am eating I am eat a little bit of jerky I thought that I was going to like it but then in the end I hated it because it tasted like blood.(maybe because my gum was bleeding).

Here we are in Hamilton in our air BNB after one of our serves.Funny story why there's so many people in our house, so we invited 8 or 7 people to our house then out of no where people just started to rush in and we ended up with 40 persons in our house.I'm sorry that the picture is upside down but that is the way that my mum took the photo.

This was also on the last day we got to stay in Hamilton before we had to come back in Auckland.

Cybersmart Writing Session: What If?

 

2 weeks ago our writing/cybersmart session was a fun and silly one. Writing can be fun and silly, but things that shouldn't be silly in our writing includes accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar - thanks for lesson and reminder, Mr Goodwin! 

Over the next few days, Room 7 will also be writing their own "What if" experiences. Please keep an eye out for their pieces of writing - enjoy! 

My grandma's hands

This week's writing task was a free-verse poem about"my grandma's hands". We practised using semi-colons, a range of sentence lengths and using better vocabulary.Our poems are based on an original poem written by Gary O'Connell. I chose to about my great grandma because he was someone very special in my family but I wish I could spend more time with her.

My great grandma's hands by Malachi  

My great grandma's hands;

are wrinkly,cold and weak pillows;

Her back, a stiff ladder;

Her legs, fast twigs.

Her laugh is a quiet chuckle

Her favourite colour is yellow/golden and white which is the colour of heaven.

Lying 

peacefully and quiet

my great grandma 

is wrapped in wood.

Moment of awesome

 

One of the most awesomeness this I did is when I rode the farefall

with my cousin's and me.When I got all the to the top and dropped I felt like

I was flying then I liked to my cousins they were closing their eyes and screaming.  

About me update

 My name is Malachi. I am a year 7 at Ruapotaka school and my teacher is Mr Nevalangi.

I am a proud Samoan with three brothers and two sisters.My mum,dad,nana and papa are all from Samoa and speak fluent Samoan. I kind of speak Samoan but not that much.  

Some of my Interests are eating shrimp because it is my favourite food especially when it’s fried. I also like to eat butter chicken. My favourite restaurant/fast food place is Burger King.I play games like among us, minecraft,krunker and other games.I also like to support the rabbitoh's by watching their games.

Some of the hobbies I like to do is to play soccer,touch,baseball and other things like going to the pools/beach,spending time with family.

bingo

 

On our latest cyber smart session with Mr Goodwin and Mr Fergersin. We did a bingo so for example for a drawing you put a drawing at you did or on your blog but your not aloud to search it up on google.

Term 1 week 10 A day in room 7 and 8

In this picture our class and room 8 were having lunch together and 

we had such a fun and funny time together because we did jokes and riddles.

I think this photo was took on Wednesday 

 

Drawing My self

On Tuesday in our cyber smart session we had to take a photo

of our self and put it on a google,dock and draw our self

with the poly line tool   

 

Information about Submarines

 

In 1578 a man named William Bourne had the first ever plans for

a submarine but a man named Cornelius Drebbel built the

first ever prototype of an submarine in the 17th century. Did you know that submarines

doesn't just sink it actually semi float (float and sink).

Americas cup animation

 

Today in cyber smart session with Mr Good Win I made a animation of Americas cup but 

I had to hack the system to make the animation to go faster.

Science tech

 

Today at Tamaki Collage in science tech we did an experiment.

We got two beakers,sugar,hot and cold water,thermometer,timer and a dropper. 

We filled one beaker with cold water and the other with hot water if you put to

much or to less you could use the dropper.We use the thermometer to measure the temperature

of the cold and hot water,my temperature for the cold was 23 c and the hot

was 80 c.We put 10g of sugar in both beakers and time how long it would take to dissolve

then we made it an competition witch one would dissolve faster.Obviously the hot

water won the competition.  

 

Book mark challenge 4

 

This are the things that I did for my cyber smart session and this is the book mark challenge 4.

Writing pt 1

Hi everyone here is my writing that I

did if you like this one make sure that you 

read pt 2 and have a nice day. 

 

Writing pt 2

Hello everyone Here is my pt 2 of my writing if you

like this I encourage you to read pt 1 if you didn't and have 

good day.

 

Malachi remove bg

Right now I'd rather be at the beach in Samoa playing in

the sand,the nice cooling water and looking for crabs in the rock pools.

If you could be anywhere in the world where would you be?

  

 

Day four week 5:Pixel art

Hi again everyone sorry I didn't post last week  because I couldn't get on the website

and I went camping so that's what my pixel picture,is about when I went camping

with my church friends.I'll have some more pictures about camping by

next week.

 

day four week 4:Special Summer Place

 

This is my google drawing of my special summer place I have describe the picture.                                         (by the way the picture is a picture of eastern beach)

Day 5 week 3:hour of code

Today I have completed hour of code but in python.

Here is some questions that I didn't get to answer the last time.

What was something that you found easy and why was it easy for you?

I found the ravager task easy because you just needed to introduce the ravager to the villagers 

Describe one thing you found challenging and explain why it was difficult

I found challenging to do a loop in your coding because,I needed to do for i

then something so I didn't really get it.

Discuss why you think problem solving skills are important skills to develop in life. 

I think problem solving skills are important in life,because if u learned how to

solve something in school that will come in handy if someone asks u the same question.

 

Day 5 week 3:New year poster

 

Happy New Year!!! Yesterday and today me and my uncle were working

on a happy new year poster.We also put the flags of the country and the language

of it.We have the Samoan, Tongan, Italian, German and the Israeli flags.