Japanese Game (Karuta)

Today the writing group played a Japanese game called karuta with Mr Yamasaki. The rules of the game was that you have to put your hands on your knees. They when someone reads out a sentence then they have to try and touch the card first before the other person gets it. While we were playing, everyone was having fun.

Origami Crane

Today we made a origami crane with our Japanese teacher, Mr Yamasaki. When I attempted to make an origami crane, I thought I wouldn't make it but when I kept on trying, I finally made it.

Chalk Art

Today we had to spend the whole of the middle block doing our chalk art. For the past few weeks, we have been studying all about the olympics. Rooms 7 and 8 students had to go outside to draw our code that we had planned. Next, after drawing our sport, one of the teachers had to take a picture of us in our position doing the sport that we did. For my chalk art, my sport was fencing.

Dream Shattered

Cook Island Language Week

Today, room 7 and 8 students got a visit from Cook Islanders. The Cook Islanders were from the Auckland Museum and they came to talk about their culture. Today I learn’t a lot of new things from my own culture as I am a Cook Islander. I learn’t that you could make a string with the coconut husks. The other thing I learn’t was that, instead of using a drill to make a hole through a piece of wood, they made their own special drill with only using hard sticks and ropes. Also the last thing that I learnt was that the coconut tree is the tree of life. I was mostly interested in how they made the vaka.

Mark Spitz

Everyday Theatre

Today, instead of doing maths reading or writing, the room 7 and 8 students had two visitors to work with us about our family issues. The main message Katlyn gave to us was that every child has hopes and dreams. I enjoy acting out the characters. Out of all the characters that Kaitlyn has, Becca is my favourite.