Our Annual Culture Festival 2018

Today was Glen Taylor Schools Annual Culture Festival and it was awesome! So many beautiful colours, music, yum food, awesome dances and entertaining intermissions. Our student leaders had hosts the festival today and we did a pretty good job! I loved getting to see all the different tastes of dances and music from every culture group and everyone was absolutely stunning in their awesome uniform! I was in the Samoan group and it was very fun performing on the stage, even though it was very very hot. Island plates were on sale also some homemade/shop sweets from parents! It was a fun, relaxing and exciting day and because it was my last Culture Festival at Glen Taylor School, it was the best!

Here are a couple of photos taken from today! Enjoy!










Cook Island Group - GO DANTE!

Hawaiian Group 

Samoan Group's Sasa!

 Head Students - Hosting the Event!

Tongan Group!

Homework Wk8 T1

For homework this week we were given different tasks to complete. Ranging from reading to writing to maths to spelling and also extra work which I completed as well. I enjoy doing homework because the tasks that we are given are very fun and give us a chance to be creative in whatever way we like. Here is my slideshow of all the work I have done for homework this week and the tasks I have completed. Thank-You!

Island Style Project

In class we have been creating an Island Style Slideshow including some of our favourite things about the South Pacific! This means food, songs, singers, sport players and many more. We used our creativity with google slides to create this and I hope you enjoy! Here is my ISLAND STYLE presentation!

Head of the World

For writing Room 11 wrote short narratives about an image that Miss Tupou put up on the board. The image is below. We had to give a detailed description about the image but we had to at least have one figurative language in our story. Room 11 included rich writing so that the reader was able to paint their own picture in their head. Here is my story about - THE HEAD OF THE WORLD!

Enjoy!

My Writing:

Do you want to visit the beautiful Island of Samoa?!

For homework we were also given the task to complete a poster on why people should visit our motherland. Your motherland is the country your mum and dad are from. So your culture. Here is my poster and why I think people should visit my motherland. (Samoa) 

Enjoy! Hopefully this interests you in visiting Samoa one day!

Titanium - Show Don't Tell

In class we watched the first few seconds of the music video Titanium. We then used the show don't tell technique to describe the music video. The difference between show and tell is that show gives gives the reader more detail and paints a picture in their heads but tell only gives one or two simple sentences. Here is how Room 11 used the Show Don't Tell technique to describe the music video Titanium.

Figurative Language

In class we learnt about figurative language and how they are used in writing. We created a planning including different figurative languages, how they are used and examples of them. Here is our Figurative Language planning.

Show Don't Tell

In class we learnt how to use the "Show Don't Tell" technique in our writing. Here are some examples we wrote about in class. 

Island Styles

Today, Glen Taylor School had a Mufti Day which was run by the Student Leadership Team. They are fundraising for Fiji, Taveuni because they were recently hit by Cyclone Winston and because they are fundraising for Fiji, they thought why not make the theme ... Island Styles. A lot of students came dressed up in traditional dresses, lava lava's, jandals and we all definitely looked awesome! It was so great that it was worth taking a photo of!

This photo was taken after our whole school practise for our sasa.

Magic!

For our quick write today we wrote about this image!

Here is my writing about the image above! Enjoy!

Homework Wk 7 T1

Here is my slideshow I created including all the different tasks that I was given for homework. There are also some separate tasks that I have already blogged earlier. Make sure to check those out as well.

                                                               Anyways, I hope you enjoy!

To my beloved parents .....

For LCS we have been learning about migration and how our ancestors arrived in New Zealand. To and of all of our learning about migration, we decided to write thank you letters to the people that migrated to New Zealand for us. My parents migrated to New Zealand for me and during our lessons I have learnt that they are the ones I should thank for all the opportunities I am given and for this helpful education I have. Here is my thank you letter to thank my parents for migrating from Samoa to New Zealand. 

Think about who migrated to New Zealand for you? Maybe write them a thank you letter!

My Maths Game

For homework we had to create a maths game that would help our class learn our addition, subtraction and times tables. To be creative we had to be original and be fun with our created game. Here is my game I created including the template and the instructions on the side. Enjoy!

My Family Tree

For homework we have to figure out a way to present our family tree. Moving from our grandparents to our parents to ourselves and our siblings. I created a google drawing to present my family tree and this is the end result! Enjoy!

Tag Tournament

Today a girls and boys team represented Glen Taylor School in the Tag Tournament. Both teams did an amazing effort and we all had a lot of fun! Thank-You to all the training form our teachers and the support form our team mates and our parents. Also the ice-cream!!! In the end our boys team came 3rd and girls team came 5th! Other than that, we all did awesome out there on the field wearing our sports uniform with pride and showing FIRE while out of school! Here are a few amazing images taken by some of the students! 

Enjoy!💜🏉🏆🎉

Homework Wk6 T1

This week we were given another pile of homework from Miss Tupou that I have completed. We were given spelling, reading, maths, writing and also some extra work that I completed as well. Here is a slideshow I have created including all of my homework for Week 6 Term 1.

Do you have a goal?

Today, Glen Taylor School had their goal setting evening for 2018. The reason we have these events is so that our parents are familiar with where we are at for the year and where we need to be by the end of the year. We introduce them to our new teacher for 2018 and share with them our goals for each subject. Here are a couple of my goals for 2018!

Maths💕:

Reading💕:

Writing💕:

Castle Midnight

Today we did a quick write. Miss Tupou put an image up on the T.V and we had to write at least 4 sentences about that image. It could be a song, poem, story or anything we wanted. Here is my quick write about Castle Midnight. 

Please enjoy!

Why do YOU read?

For reading today Miss Tupou had written done a question on the whiteboard. Our question was "Why do we read?". Room 11 then all gave in there ideas on why we read and wrote them all on the board. Lots of us had some very good ideas on why we read and I feel like it was worth posting! So here is an image of Room 11's thoughts on why we all read! 

Enjoy!📚💜😀

What is your migration story?

In class for LCS, we are learning about Migration and how our ancestors came to Aotearoa! We have already had a few lessons about it and I have really enjoyed learning about how my people came to New Zealand and all the struggles they went through. 

One of our lessons we had with Miss Tupou included watching three different videos. One about the Samoan Migration, Tongan Migration and also the story of a boy from Columbia and the challenges he faced while migrating. After watching each video we contributed ideas that were mentioned in the video about the struggles they faced. etc Family, Career, Education, Dawn Raid

Here is an image of our class work on the board! Hope you enjoy reading!

What would you put in your SURVIVAL KIT?

One of the activities we were given from Mr Victor was to fill in a document including things that we would put in our very own survival kit. We were able to put in as many things as we wanted. What would you put in your very own survival kit?

Homework Wk5 T1

This week we were assigned some homework. Some reading tasks, writing, maths and spelling. Also some extra work that I have completed!

Here is my homework!

Book Review

As one of the members of Extension Group for reading we were given tasks to complete. One of the tasks we had to do was to write a book review on a story in the book ToiToi! I chose a book about a girl explaining her time playing hide and seek with her sister. I chose this story because I loved the language she used in her story! Here is my review I wrote on the story named "Success for the Seeker!". Enjoy!

Maths Warm-Up

Yesterday, Miss Tupou taught the class some new strategies for maths. I had only learnt how to do it today as I was busy doing something else. Learning it today I didn't know what to do but I'm glad Miss Tupou taught explained how to do it again. The strategy was very interesting and I enjoyed learning something new today! Here is evidence of our learning as a class!

Maths Warm-Up #2

For maths we learnt a strategy that we could use when doing times table. Miss Tupou would put up questions on the board and we would then try and figure out the answer using the strategy we just learnt. Here is our working out for this maths warm-up!

What makes a good leader?

Today, in class we wrote explanations on What a great leader is? We used our planning to rite our introduction, 3 reasons and conclusion. I chose Martin Luther King Jr as my leader because I think that he is a very great leader and he has done so much for the world to be fair and loving! Here is my explanation!

Turbo Touch

Room 11's kiwi sport for this term is......Turbo Touch! We have already had a lot of fun participating in the activities and I can't wait for our next session! Here are some images of our sessions so far!

Ace Survey

After creating our board game we had to fill in a survey about our school vision (ACE). This survey was created by some of the students in Room 11. These students were Madina, Precious and Miracle. They created 15 different questions that were all about our school vision. A stands for Achievement C stands for Confidence. E stands for Excellence. Here are my answers for the questions they asked!

Enjoy!

Snakes and Ladders - Positives and Negatives

In class one of the tasks Mr Victor assigned Room 11 to do was to create a board game using the positive and negative statements we wrote earlier (scroll down). We used 4 positive statements and 4 negative statements. Here is my snakes and ladders game I created. 

Hope you enjoy.

Positive or Negative - What does it lead to?

During the time we had today with Mr Victor, we were given a couple of tasks. We were focusing on the negatives and the positives of showing our school values. What is something good that we do to show our school values? Or something bad. What could this choice lead to? We created 4 statements each for positive and negative things that we do at school. Later on we were given our second task. To create a board game using these statements. I decided to create a snakes and ladders board game. I will be posting about that later on but here is my positive statements and negative statements. 

Hope you learn more about the different consequences you can get about the decisions you make.

Homework W4 T1

This is my homework for this week that was assigned by Miss Tupou. Each week I will produce my homework in a different slide! Each slide will contain all the homework I was given from Miss Tupou! 

Here you go!

Pasifika Pearls 2018 ( O.G )

This year Pasifika Pearls is now taken over by... the one and only MISS SIALE! The year has zoomed by so fast that the O.G Pearls have already had a performance. We performed in front of around 230 people last night in the school hall! Sadly the O.G Pearls are starting to decrease as we only have 5 people in our group and next year there will be only 3! Wow! 

Anyways, last night was one of my favourite pearls performance because we all looked very pretty and we also performed a new Fijian Dance! Thanks to Miss Tupou and Whaea Pene for helping Miss Siale out with our costumes and hair! 

Here are some photos and a video of us girls getting ready for our big performance!

Teachers helping out with our hair and makeup!

Photo Time!

Miss Siale, Tiana, Anaysha and Brooklyn!

Amy, Tiana and Brooklyn!

                                                    Group Photos!

Line 1 (Top) - Anaysha

Line 2 - Lexiannah and Tiana

   Line 3 - Brooklyn and Amy

Different Angle!

Line 1 (Top) - Anaysha

Line 2 - Lexiannah and Tiana

   Line 3 - Brooklyn and Amy

Term 1 Powhiri

A new year means new people. Today Glen Taylor School welcomed our new whanau to our school. This means students, staff and parents. It is great to see a lot of new students! The Kapa Haka group has done an amazing job! Here are a couple of photos.