In term one at Edmund Hillary School, we were seated in the hall to look at some of the teachers’ projects because our new topic was Ko Wai Au, which means who we are.” When the teachers revealed their projects, I was amazed at what the teachers did for us because they did all of this just to show us an example.

Next we went to class to plan what we were going to put on it. We were thinking about our names, family photos, perfect day, and diving deeper into who we are and our pepeha, but I only used some of the ideas that everyone gave to others to help them, and then I put them into questions that I need to put in my project.

After I was done planning, I was trying to figure out how I could show my questions in my work, so I did some work to explain my name, challenges, and my personality, and it all matched with the questions I put down because it tells people who shaped me, and it also tells people how I navigate challenges, and it shows people what beliefs I have because of the drawings.

Then I created some work that I wanted people to know about me. I also bring some family photos of the past that really connected with me and that helped me overcome some of the challenges that I have come across. I also wanted to add my name and what it means and my personality.

To finish off, all of the printing came. I was cutting some of the work that had white bits, and when I finished that, I started gluing it down on the piece of card. I also drew some patterns that really connected with my personal narrative. When it was done, I felt so nervous and scared because I didn’t know what people were going to think.

This week we have been working on our project, we had to bring in some of our past and recent pictures and we allso had to make some stuff to put on it frist I painted my cardboard to a light pink and then I put some of the pictures that my mum sent me next I added some of my work that we have been doing around who am I?

Kia ora.

This week we were learning about bias and prejudice. That was the first time I had heard of these words. I knew prejudice meant a group of people, and then I learned bias. It means you favor that one side. It could be racist comments and bad things about others, but most of the time it’s about people and how they don’t like them. Some of the tasks we had to do were these stories, and there were lines we had to put them in between bias and prejudice.

Kia ora

Today we have done lots of  wonderfull thing in class and out of class some of the stuff we did was our recount and learing to be responsble some of the things we had to do was helping the little kids and cleaning up the mess even when irs not ours.

Today I have done who I am. We had to think really hard about this because there were so many questions that we had to answer, But every level that we passed we had to think even more because the question got even more complicated. Like we had to talk about what we look like and our favorite thing that we like doing.

We also talk about what we are proud about our self and who we admire. This made me feel so amazed and speechless because I could tell others what I am good at, this also was one of the ways I could share my learning because it tells other what I want to be and what I can do.

Nǐ hǎo

This week I have done lots of fun things, like playing a new game and learning some new things about positive communication, but the new game we played was kickball. It was exciting to hear that we would play a new game. It was like softball because it had the same rules, but you just had to kick the ball to your teammate. I really enjoyed this game because it was different and was more fun.

Have you played this game before, and if you have, did you like it?

Kia ora.

Today I was running around the bike track so I can be more energetic and I can build my stamina. We only had ten mines to run around the track. In the time we had, I ran five laps, but my goal was to run at least eight or ten laps. I felt good because I came close to my goal, and that means I am slowly succeeding in my goals.

Kia ora.

At Papakura Intermediate we got to paint our clay magnets. I made a love heart, and I also made a koru. My favorite part was getting to design and picture what it would look like; the hardest part was when we had to get in the little gaps because I was using a big brush.

What would you make out of clay?

Kia ora

This week we have done some work about what is a pepeha. We had to talk about this for a very special reason because in the following weeks we have to create something like this. I loved reading the book we had to read because it led me to think of some of the staff I could use when I create my pepeha like this.

What are some of the ways you can present your pepeha?

Today me and my team was reading the musician this was a great book because this could happen to one of us, and one of the parts I liked was them useing their initiative  and being a little bit quieter and the part I enjoy was them at first they didn’t like it but at the end of the book they loved it. Also the book had some good punctuation and I know this can help me when I create my own story one day.

What are some more ways to be quiet?