Tranformation Learning story

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Languages Learning Story

Languages Learning Story

Write to describe what normally happens when you go to your
language class.  

Include details like

-who is your teacher

-what language you’re learning

-why you go to that language/why it’s important to you.

-how confident you feel in that language

-some of the things you’ve learnt this year

-highlights of this year in your language class

Every Tuesday I go to Cook island class with my teacher Abby.

  So in my Cook island class we start off by doing the worksheet

our teacher Abby gives us and then after we play a game in cook island 

like playing hangman and guessing the work in cook island and finish

of by playing the drums, but sometime Abby forgets to bring the drum

sticks and we don't get to play the drums and then we go back to class
. I go to Cook island language class because its my language and its
important to me because Its my culture and its good for me to learn
how to speak my language. I'm not quite confident in my language
because I don’t understand what the words mean. Sometimes I understand
but I also don't know how to pronounce the words. Some things that I’ve

learnt this year was the colours in Cook Island, basic words and
how to introduce ourselves and our family also  learning how to drumming,

dancing and learning to pronounce the words. My highlight of this year
in my language class was learning to pronounce the Cook Island words because I can learn to say a sentence in Cook Island.

Poetry Writing Learning Story

Poetry Writing Learning Story

In Term 3, I was learning to write different types of poems. 
The poems we learnt about have special features. 

One of the poems I learnt about was Acrostic 

It’s special features are Acrostic poems are easy to write. 
The name of the person, a place or a thing is written in
capital letters vertically down the page. Each capital letter
starts a new line of the poem. Each line describes the person,
place or thing.

I tried to write my own one.  

Here it is. 

Loving, kind lion’s sitting in the sun 

Increasing their body together  

On top of the cave is fat Pumba 

Now the lion cub is born  

Knowing it’s here  the new king is born

Independent king ready and away

Now Mufasa is dead   

Going to be king the lion cub said 

I want you to notice the interesting words I used 

I got some feedback on my poem which I  liked that it
describes the movie-Tyrell I think you should change the
  ready and away to ready to rule- whea vicky

I then tried to re-work my poem and now I’ve got this.

 Loving, kind lion’s sitting in the sun 

Increasing their body together  

On top of the cave is fat Pumba 

Now the lion cub is born  

Knowing it’s here  the new king is born

Independent king ready to rule

Now Mufasa is dead   

Going to be king the lion cub said 

Reading learning story

Term 3 Reading  

I have been building my skills as a reader.  

I’m going to share about how I know I’ve been successful
as a reader. 

This is what helps me be a good reader

*use pictures as a clue. 

*Finding out what the author wants me to know. 

*Bookmark helps me to remember my success criteria
and learning goals.  

*Sounding out the words I don't know. 

My book is called The Refugees ch. 1&2 

The author is Janice Marriott 

It is a  chapter book 

I was a good reader when I  was reading my book to
myself and understanding what happened. I understood
what had happened because they had to leave their house
and see their mum get pulled from the hair. I pictured a
picture in my head and I connected my feelings to the book.
I felt emotional.       

This helped me because I didn’t know some words,
but then I figured it out at the end. There was a hard word
for me was angrily. It was sad when I felt emotions with
the character in my story, I understood it better.   

Polyfest learning story

‘’Line up’’ shouted Kate. 

I’m in the changing room waiting for my dress for the Cook Island group.
 I’m am nervous but ready to perform for my family. I need to smile and dance.
I’m excited as well. The last few practices have been hard but I got the moves
done. In the last practices I  got my actions right then I worked on smiling,
I pretty much know all my actions. I like my costume and it fits me perfectly.
When I perform I did my actions at the right time. When I spin around in
my dress felt like I was on a big cloud. My favorite part was dancing to
the drums. Learning the actions were easy. 

‘’Hurry up’’ shouted Helen

I was getting ready for kapa haka and when I got my dress I needed to find a
place
to put my bag. I was looking for my feather. I  asked my friends
‘’where did they get the black lipstick?’. They said, “It’s in the bathroom.”
When I performed with my group I felt proud and strong.  

On the night, I was changed and ready to perform on stage.
I was excited and nervous. I was on the stage. The music started, I danced
and did my actions.  I also smiled. I had butterflies in my tummy. In my Cook
Island group, I couldn't find my dress but I found it. I was talking to my friends
that I was scared but I did it. In the Cook Island group, I thought I did well
because I swung my hips and danced. 

After my Cook Island group, I went to Kapa Haka I.  First I took off my Cook
Island dress in the bathroom,  I put on my Kapa Haka dress. I went into the
meetup space to get my black lipstick and got my band and feather. We were
all lined up in your lines and practicing our song and actions. I felt scared but
proud of myself for doing kapa haka. We were on stage coming in, I got in line.
‘’Whakapiri’’ said Praise. We sang and did the haka as well as our action song. 
At the end, the whole school sang We stand up we stand tall. Then my mum
came and picked me up at the end of the performance. My mum said that
the dancing was lovely and beautiful.  

    

Padlet Learning Story

We have been learning about a new tool to show our learning.  Our tool was a padlet.
You can make arrows that connect ideas or pieces of information.  
You can add pictures to show you idea or information.

We have used a padlet to communicate our ideas about the stories we've learnt about Porirua.
 We've been thinking about how knowing our past helps us prepare for our future.

I made some connections on Lijacana’s padlet.  

I connected to New Zealand because that where we live, also because George Gray wanted our land.
I connected to land/whenua because it connects to New Zealand and the treaty.

I connected to the treaty because when you sign something, you have to keep your promise

just like we did in mindfulness.

My Choice Learning

                                                                         Kapahaka

 Kapa Haka is a thing that I love to do now because it’s all about culture and who you are.
It was the thing I loved ever since last year in kapa haka. I enjoyed it but when I first  started I
was not sure about it but I pushed through and I did. It takes a lot of effort. It was a challenge
for me. You need to be strong and disciplined when your kapa haka teacher matua Todd is there
he also is tall and maori. When you go to kapa haka you need to have  sharp actions and
a pukana face with a loud voice. There's also this song we just learnt and it called E ng iwi e.
It’s a maori song and I’m in  the junior kapa haka because there was too much kids in kapa
haka so we had to split into  two groups.