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Aroha and Whanau

 My dad is a builder and my mum is a lovely mum. My siblings are playful and cheerful to me.

My family is so big. I have thirteen brothers and sisters, including me but thanks to my mum, without her I wouldn’t have so many friends to play with.

My family means a lot to me because when I get home from school, we have lovely conversations about school.

My family and I often go to the park, so we can spend time together before my second oldest sister goes to work.

At night, my dad tells us when prayer is about to start. Also we have Bible studies after we have had dinner. Dinner time is like we are having family time.

Later my dad will make sure we are all asleep for school tomorrow before he goes to pick up my sister from work.

My whanau saying is: “Family is everything.”

My favourite Aroha symbol is:

           

Water Awareness

At St Patrick's School we were told to bring swimming togs, towels and swimming caps to school because we were going to go to water awareness lessons. On Tuesday , the 8th June we were so excited to go swimming. We went in the bus.

We had fun but we had to listen to our teacher because we needed to know what to do if a big wave came while we were trying to swim back to the beach. Sometimes I nearly drown because I normally kick my legs downwards instead of on the top of the water. 

St Patrick's children would always do a manu at the end of swimming. A manu is when a person jumps and makes a huge splash. One day was special because they had a boat in the pool. we had to get in and sit on the edge of the boat and they told us when to fall off backwards. we had to cross our arms and our legs.

I really enjoyed going to the lessons and I think I am better now at keeping safe. I would like to go again sometime.

Table tennis experience for Room 6

 On Wednesday a table tennis man came to St Patrick's school.  He told us that his name was Dinyar.  He taught us some new skills that we have not learned before.  I felt so excited when Room 6 was chosen to learn table tennis. We had to listen to Dinyar so we would know what to do. 

When we got started we didn't bat properly, and two minutes later we were getting better at playing table tennis. Dinyar said to stop and come and make a circle so we could play a game. We were glad that we were going to play a game. Dinyar told us to put our hands on the ball and wait until he says to let go. Grace and Sulia won the game for Room 6. We had to learn how to balance the ball on our bat, I felt really happy that day.

Revealing my feelings through Art

 This term I was creating a portrait  of myself.  I crayoned my hair black and drew the St Patrick's t-shirt. I gave myself a big smile because I was enjoying myself. I made my hair short and I made my eyes dark brown. The next day our teacher told us to get our writing book and describe our feelings in a blurb. 

Then we wrote about our feelings. When we were writing about our feelings we described an action through our words.  My favourite blurb was "When I feel confused, I put my hat on my head."

Our teacher made sure that we shaded our portraits nicely and didn't show white paper.  We  did some lines to describe our feelings with a white wax crayon. Then we had to dye the whole page with blue dye and we could see our feelings come through. It was like magic. 

My Profile (By Grace)

 Talofa, malo e lelei, hello. My name is Grace. I am a year 4 student in St Patrick’s school. I am in room 6 and I am 8 years old. My culture is Samoan and Tongan my favorite hobby is soccer and pandas are my favorite animal. My favorite subject is math. I want to be the best student I can be this year and learn lots of new things. My mum and dad are the best and I’ve got six brothers and seven sisters’ that's how you know I am very lucky.

Chicks at Room 6

I think we should always have chicks at St Patrick's because we love having them here. Today is so sad because all of the chicks left but we got a certificate for taking good care of the chicks.

I still remember that there were eleven eggs when Jo brought them to the classroom and when they hatched there were little chicks jumping around. 

We got to feel them and they liked to  sleep a lot. Sometimes we made lots of noise and they woke up. We all had a great time with them because we got to share them with everyone at school.

It was very sad today because Jo took the chicks back to their farm and that was the last day we saw them. I wish that they could stay for 10 weeks but at least they were in our room and that means that we were the closest to them and that is the story about the little chicks.