The Holy Spirit gives us strength and hope!

Learning Intention: We are learning about the Holy Spirit.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I complete the learning activities of the Holy Spirit strand for the year 5 and 6 students.

How did people build their houses in Jesus' time?

Learning Intention: We are learning about the life of Jesus.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I complete a presentation of activities to show what life was like in Jesus' time.

The star was very bright!

• Advent is the time when we prepare for Christmas.
• Advent is Latin for coming.
• Catholic people light 4 candles.
• There are four candles on the Advent wreath, three purple candles and one pink candle.
• The candles mean love, hope, joy and peace.

Learning Intention: We are learning about Advent.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I list five facts about Advent.

Ouch! That really hurt!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of descriptive language.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I list eight interjections.

What is the value of 6 in 5,896?

Learning Intention: We are learning about place values.
I know i can do this when I write down what the value of 2 in 2,378.

My cousins and I were jumping on the bed!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I list down eight words that have a suffix in them.

Uhhh! A green slithering snake!

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a narrative. 

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I follow the structure of a narrative to write my story 'The green slithering snake'.

Hypothesis in Te Reo is Whakapae!

Learning intention: We are learning the topic words for flight in Te Reo Maori.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record eight of the vocabulary that are related to flight in Te Reo Maori using Blabberize.

Topic vocabulary for flight in Te Reo Maori

Flight (to fly, to sail)	Rere
hypothesis	whakapae
investigation	ketuketutanga
fuselage	takere
Wings of a plane	Parirau o te wakarere
Lift	ara
thrust	puru
Drag	toanga
weight	toimaha
aerodynamics	Koutata
Tail of a plane	Hiku o te wakarere
Fin of a plane	Urutira o te wakarere
forces	ihi
symmetrical	hangarite
glider	Waka tauihi
plane	wakarere

Mmm! McDonald's was delicious!

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the appropriate language features in our recounts.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use sequencing words to order the events of my weekend.

On Saturday the 19th of November, my sister, cousin, mum and I went to the mall to buy some clothes for church. We went there in my mum's red Suzuki.  

After we arrived we went straight to the Warehouse to buy some clothes for my cousin because she was staying over at our house that night. While my mum and my cousin was walking around, my sister and I looked for some decorations that we could put in our own room. I didn't find anything because the decorations that they had didn't match the theme of my room so I bought three ripped pair of jeans instead.

We bought my cousin a pink lovely shirt to match her pink leggings and we also bought her some laced shoes. Afterwards, we bought some perfume because we were running out of perfumes. We all got the On Saturday the 19th of November, my sister, cousin, mum and I went to the mall to buy some clothes for church. We went there in my mum's red Suzuki.  

After we arrived we went straight to the Warehouse to buy some clothes for my cousin because she was staying over at our house that night. While my mum and my cousin was walking around, my sister and I looked for some decorations that we could put in our own room. I didn't find anything because the decorations that they had didn't match the theme of my room so I bought three ripped pair of jeans instead.

We bought my cousin a pink lovely shirt to match her pink leggings and we also bought her some laced shoes. Afterwards, we bought some perfume because we were running out of perfumes. We all got the Victoria secret perfumes. My mum  bought two black and white cushions to put on our wooden chairs that are on our back deck.

Later on, we were all feeling very hungry so we drove to a nearby McDonald's because the McDonald's in the mall was packed with people. I got a medium quarter pounder with an L&P drink, my sister and my cousin got a big mac combo and my mum got some chilli fries with a legend burger and she also got a flat white.

After a while, my sister decided to go and buy some dunkin donuts and sushi for my brother because he is a sushi lover. My mum gave her the key to her car so she could put the food inside the car while we ate our food. Afterwards, my cousin and I played hide and seek in the park and I won. Soon, my mum called us in so we could go home and take a shower.

My mum drove us home and we got our church clothes ready for the next day. We all took turns having a shower. After we were all clean we watched a movie and ate some donuts before we dozed off to sleep.

My favourite part was when we went to McDonald's because I was very hungry and the food was very delicious.

Maungarongo ki te whenua!

Learning Intention: We are learning Te Reo
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I recrd the waiata He Honore using We video

The Tigress duo routine was very hard to learn!

Learning intention: We are learning Kung Fu.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps of the Tigress duo routine that I have learnt from our Kung Fu lesson.

Being the boss is very tiring!

On Saturday the November 5th, it was my sister's sweet sixteenth birthday. After we woke up we all said happy birthday to my sister. We got ready and headed out the door to Look for something to do until it was time to get ready for the birthday dinner. We decided to go out to Onehunga because there was a big sale there.  

My sister, mum and older cousin went to Postie Plus because there was a sale on for items on sales for under 20 dollars. They each bought three bags of of makeup and perfume because they wanted to look pretty and smell nice. My three brothers, Lasike, Patelesio and Tevita walked around with 50 dollars that my mum had given each of us to spend We bought bought toys, colouring pencils, stuffed animals and cases for our electronic devices.

I bought two adult colouring book because they looked interesting, some coloured pencils, An ipad case, Rainbow looms and a Pikachu stuffed toy. My two brothers wanted to go back to when they were five so they bought remote control cars and my other brother bought himself a laptop case, a phone case and an ipad case for his electronic devices.

After that, we had some left over money so we bought a homeless man some food and gave him some money. The homeless man passed on the kindness and shared his food with another man.

After a while, my mum called my brother's phone and arranged for us to meet up at my aunty's apartment. We walked to my aunty's apartment and then we left together and my  mum drove us back home so we could take a shower. I was the first person to take a shower because I had the longest hair in the family and my mum put my hair up in a braided bun. I put on my lovely black and white clothes and went with my dad to pick up my cousin Joan from her house.

When we got back home, everyone was ready so we took some photos to send to my aunty in Tonga because she was missing out on all the fun. After a while, we left the house and drove to Tombo's Restaurant in New Market for our birthday dinner. We all stayed outside while my mum went inside to help set up everything.

After we walked in, everyone settled on their seat and I intorduced myself because I was the boss for the night. I was very nervous because it was different from practising at home in front of my mum and dad. I introduced my brother so that he could say the grace and bless the birthday girl. The tables went in order to make it more easier for everyone else.

After everyone had finished eating, it was time to cut the cake. The cake was a big blue cupcake with chocolate as the wrapper. It was very hard for my sister cut the cake. Everyone sang Happy Birthday to my sister.  My sister and I gave out the little cupcakes

Afterwards, my sister said her thanking speech. My sister's friend Malia Dofa and I took many selfies. Malia Dofa went up and shared her memories with my sister and shared how funny and silly they were when they are together. Afterwards, my three cousins Tute, Seletute and Nunga sang a song that they made up just for my sister. Six other of my cousins Ali, Petra, Katrina, Viane,Vincent and Ivanja and they all said a nice thing about my sister using the letters in her name.

Many other families entertained us as well. Everyone talked and ate some more dessert. Then we took lots of photos outside the restaurant. We had to wait there because my aunty's car got towed.

When we got back home we opened up my sister gifts. She got many cool things. My dad asked my mum if we could do fire works but my mum said no because my cat and dog were hiding under the kitchen table so we drove down to the nearest park and blew up some bad boy fireworks.

I didn't want to hold one because I wasn't strong enough. Eventually, we went home. My sister had more than $200 from her birthday money so she gave each of us 20$ dollars each. Then we ate more cake and fell to sleep.

My favourite part of the day was being the best boss in the restaurant because everyone listened to me and eating the cake because it was delicious. I can't wait for my sweet sixteen and I hope it would be as big as this one.

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the correct language features in our recounts.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use sequencing words to begin each paragraph about my sister's sweet sixteenth birthday party.

Do you know the Tigeress routine?

Learning intention: We are learning Kung Fu.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps of the Tigeress routine that I have learnt from our Kung Fu lesson.

Horeta and the Tupua!

Learning intention: We are learning to identify the main ideas from a story.

Success criteria: I know I can do this when I illustrate the main ideas of the story 'Horeta and the 

waka'.

Multiply both the numerators and denominators!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write the three steps for multiplying fractions.

When did the Robertson family leave New York?

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that relative pronouns are: who, whom, what, which and why.

Learning the Kung Fu Panda routine is exciting!

Learning intention: We are developing our fitness levels through Physical Education.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I use WeVideo to record all the steps of the Kung Fu panda routine that I have learnt from our first Kung Fu lesson.

Fill our hearts with your grace!

Call: The angel spoke God's message to Mary,
Response: and she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary...

Call: “I am the lowly servant of the Lord:
Response: let it be done to me according to your word.”
Hail Mary...

Call: And the Word became flesh
Response: and lived among us. 
Hail Mary...

Call: Pray for us, holy Mother of God,
Response: that we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. 

Lord,
fill our hearts with your grace;
once, through the message of an angel
you revealed to us the incarnation of your Son;
now, through his suffering and death
lead us to the glory of his resurrection.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

Learning Intention: We are learning traditional prayers.
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record 'The Angelus' prayer using blabberize.

We will follow what was done on earth by Jesus Christ, your son!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer. 
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record a morning prayer using blabberize.

God, our Father, I offer you today all that I think and do and say.
I offer it with what was done on earth by Jesus Christ, your Son.
Amen.

Never go trick or treating alone!

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a narrative. 
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I follow the structure of a narrative to write my story 'Halloween trouble'.

Siotofa malia!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer. 
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record the Hail Mary prayer in Tongan and in English using blabberize.

Siotofa malia ke kalasia atu koe ae eiki e monuia koe fene'fo'fe'faitapu akina fo manava ko sesu.
Sangata malia e fa'e ae otua fe'aku mautolu anahala ahoni a fuo mamate. Amene 

Hail mary full of grace the lord is with you blessed are you among all woman and blessed is thy food of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary mother of God pray for us sinners know and at the hour of our death Amen.

Do you know where cheese comes from?

Learning Intention:  We are learning to understand that people and groups make choices to fulfill their needs.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I locate the countries where the ingredients from the Carl's Jr burgers are from using Google my maps.

Do you know the Adsumus prayer?

We are here before you o Holy Spirit

We feel the burden of our weaknesses

But come together in your name

Come to us, assist us what we must do,

Show us the path to follow,

May you yourself accomplish what you ask of us,

May you be the one to inspire and guide our decisions

Because only you, together with God the Father and his son

Who have a holy and glorious name,

You who love order and peace,

Do not let righteousness be harmed by us,

May ignorance not cause us to stray from the right path,

Any affection for others not give rise to favouritism on our part. May neither titles nor people influence us,

Keep us close to you through the gift of your grace,

So that we may be one in you and that we may not draw away from the truth in any matter.

Grant that, gathered together in your holy name,

We may be able to combine goodness with firmness as to do all things in harmony with you.

In the hope that we shall earn, through the faithful fulfillment of our duties, eternal happiness in the future.

Amen.

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer. 
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record the Adsumus prayer using Blabberize.

O my Mother, keep me and guard me as your child forever!

O my Queen, O my Mother, I love you and give myself to you. I give to you this day my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole self. Since I am yours, keep me and guard me as your child forever.    Amen.

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer. 
Success criteria: I know I can do this when I record the Act of Consecration to Mary prayer using Blabberize.

Thank you god for everything that you have given us!

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a personal prayer.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I pray for the sick and the poor in my personal prayer.

I sat between my mum and dad!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that a preposition describes the connection between a noun or a pronoun to a word in a sentence.

WOW! Tyronne is a really big bully!

Learning Intention: We are learning to make connections with the text that we read.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use the ideas from the text that I have read to create five critical thinking questions about the story 'Tyronne the horrible'.

Subtract the second numerator from the first numerator and put it over the denominator!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of fractions.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write three steps for subtracting fractions.

YMCA is my favourite pool!

On Saturday the 17th of September, my family and I went to Manukau mall for our family lunch because we didn't have anything else to do. We all travelled to the mall in my dad's Jeep wrangler.

After we arrived, I jumped out of the van and went inside straight away with my mum. There was a big empty space in the middle of the mall with activities like bungee jumping, face painting and baby photography.

My father asked me to do a back handspring so he can record it in slow motion. I did a backflip at the same time as my sister Sophia. Then I did a press handstand. Lasike and I got our faces painted. I got a really big Tongan flag on my cheek with a purple butterfly on my eye and my brother got a red writing on his face saying 'Po'uhilas!'. Then my dad took a photo of our faces together.

Afterwards, we all went to the movies and played in the arcade centre. We played ice hockey and my sister won against me, we earned 10 tickets from the game. Then we played a football game. We had to get the golden ball into the centre and if we do, we get a jackpot. Lasike won the golden ball so he got 150 tickets. After a while, we hopped in a machine called the Hurricane and it was really scary.

Then we collected all of our tickets from all the games that we have played and we had a total of 276 tickets. Then we went to the prize box and collected things that we could afford with the tickets. We got 3 smurf sculptures filled with candies and a big box of erasers and pencils. My sister gave us each 2 pencils with 2 erasers because there were six pencils and erasers altogether. Afterwards, we all went to the food court to have lunch because that was the main reason for our visit to the mall. Lasike and I had Burger King, my sister had McDonald's and my parents had some cooked salmon. Then we went home to have a little nap.

Later on, my mum told us to pack our swimming togs, towels and extra dry clothes because she was taking us to the YMCA swimming pool. We travelled there in my mum's Suzuki. After we arrived, I went to the girls' changing room with my mum and my sister to change into our swimming togs. When we were all ready, we hopped into the swimming pool.

I swam all the way to the bottom of the pool and back to the top. Then Lasike and I did a backflip into the pool. Then Lasike, Sophia, My mum and I went to the big blue water slide and I slid down the slide with my mum. It was really dark in the water slide and we ended up in a big, deep swimming pool. I swam to the edge of the pool and used the ladder to pull myself out of the pool. Then we played surfboard and I grabbed a big paddle board and pretended to surf on the blue, clear water. Lasike counted how long I could surf for and my mum won the game.

After an hour, we dried ourselves and changed into our dry clothes. Then we all went home because we were all very tired.

My favourite part was when we slid down the big, blue water slide because it was alot of fun and really exciting.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use the language feature in our writing.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use action verbs to describe my family day out.