What I Felt About voting

When I was voting It was pretty cool for my first time. And I really didn't wanna vote, It was pretty fast to do as well. And yeah, that was How I felt when I voted.

Simon O'Connor Visit

SLOG DAY!

Reflect on Simon O'Connor's visit to our school.  

SYMBOLS	FOCUS	My answer
	From our brainstorm, choose the 20 most important words.	Family Democracy Polices Parliament His past - Trained for 9 years as a priest Talked to people on K-Road Community Can't keep contact with his kids Busy Fencing (Bruises) 20 emails a day Help Politics National His family and friends inspired him His education wasn't good, he was on low grades He is a member of Parliament Sister (Lawyer) Brother (Carpenter) Irrational people Opposition Whangarei ‘National is always right’ Travels to other schools Wellington Played soccer and cricket Great childhood Pt England reserve Emotional Rest homes ‘Never give up’ MP Government Respect
	Choose 8 of these words and highlight them.   Write a summary to describe what the life as an MP. Use Simon O’Connor as your example and use one or two of these images in your summary.	His family and friends inspired him His education wasn't good, low grades Travels to other schools Help Irrational people Can't keep contact with his kids Busy Respect Simon O’Connor, a member of a parliament has visited our school Yesterday and had told and explained how he works and what he does for our Community. He has explained to us all the important things and not so important things he does in the parliament, he has also told us that it is a very good job and he enjoys being apart of the government. But in Simon O’Connor’s childhood he was struggling in all his works, so technically he was dumb, but then something switched on and he became more smarter than ever and much more mature. He speaks his mind and shares his opinions and because of that his Family and friends has been encouraging him to go beyond. They wanted him to be apart of a parliament and been encouraging him through his days. He is married with 5 kids, but he doesn't stay around much because of his job and he’s disappointed and upset that he doesn't spend much time with him family. That's one  thing Simon O’Connor struggles is that he never gets so much time with people who love him and people who he love. As a Member of Parliament, Simon O’Connor has recently received like 20 emails a day and been having visitors swear at him, and he doesn't like that he has haters hating on him for no possible good reason. Instead of Simon O’Connor running to his corner and hiding, he sits his visitor down and talk with them so he can solve the problem with them. Simon is a very helpful man, he is always keen to go out and talk with people to know what problems they're facing so he himself can help sort things out and make things work. He respects everyones opinions about the Community and what they struggle with and he is more than happy enough to help them through any and everything. As i said he has visited our school and not just our school but he travels and visits other schools to give them information of what life is like as an Mp. ‘ I’d love to be a Minister ‘ a dream of Simon O’Connor which he will want to be true because he is desperate and will be more than happy to become the Minister of the Parliament. ‘ Never give ‘ Simon O’Connor has said this to us to encourage us to not give up that easily that sometimes taking the hard and long road will lead us to success.
	You have a chance to have your voice heard.   Explain to Simon O’Connor one of the biggest problems in our community.   Describe to him why it is a problem and how he could use his job as an MP to address it. You can use the inquiry you did in our term 1 Sustainability unit or another one of your choice. Choose one of these ways of sharing the message: A rap A speech A written song A letter	A problem that i find disturbing in our Community is that the Government is destroying the houses which families spent nearly their whole lives in. Even though the Government is rebuilding houses and remodeling the houses to make it look more better and more safer and like put in more space but the price is too high, and most of us in the Community doesn't have that much to afford a new house for ourselves. I like the way they rebuild the house but the price they put on for us to purchase is really high. I really appreciate the Government changing and reshaping our houses but it won't feel as normal and it’ll be more of an experience and like we as a Community won't feel like we’re living in ‘ Home sweet home ‘ . Another problem that concerns me is that people at late night sleep in the dark and cold. That they shiver through night and have nothing to keep them warm. Its really sad for me too see the homeless in the streets smoking and sleeping on the floor, starving and wanting money for food, clothes and water. I love our Community and i’ll do any and everything to help the homeless and help them get back to their feet and being healthy and warm. It's a big concern because the Government doesn't seem to care at all for the people in our Community and this is a situation i want the Government to fix. Getting people in houses again.

Animal Jammers: Our Political Party

In S.o.s we created political parties, and our group wanted to work on helping animals and protecting them and seeing how we can help them from extinction. In our group is me, Danny Joe, Issac and Netane. We all have something to work on that could probably help them. Our group/party name is The Animal Jammers. We have our own party slogan "Write the future!" it's a pretty cool slogan. To see our work click: Here.

9RMz Learning about S.O.L.O

In S.o.s we were working on S.O.L.O-(structure of observed learning outcomes)
There were 5 levels of S.O.L.O, The first one is Prestructural-I don't understand I need help. The second one was Unistructural-I CAN identify label follow simple instructions. Multistructural-I CAN describe calculate list combine. Relational-I CAN explain solve, compare, analyse and relate questions. And Finally the last one is Extended Abstract-I CAN create, predict, reflect, imagine, evaluate and generalise.
We use solo to talk about "Leadership". Here is my Extended Abstract. CLICK.
Our Teacher Made up this thing called "Slogging"
Which means S.O.L.O Blogging.

If I Was President...

if i was president i would upgrade every single school and buy homes for every homeless person in New Zealand, I would provide food, cars and a job to get to work. And After I've done everything I would Quit and put a picture of me on the wall.

S.O.S Work

 Questions: Do Now: Who runs the classroom?

• Who  runs/organises/controls your house?  THINK

My Mum and Dad Runs Organises/Controls my house

• Compare and contrast your answer with your neighbour  PAIR  
• A person who has someone different run/organise/control their house is….
• There answer is...

Owens mum mainly controls his house but both of them organise their stuff and his mum controls the house.

• Who and how do you think our school is run/organised/ controlled.  
• Create a Google Drawing for how you think the school is run and organised.   Link your google drawing here

• Complete concept map.

Today At Social Study Class

Today, we worked as a team to solve problems on being stuck on a island. The Photo: Sorry it's upside down. :-)

Fiji: What I learned?

The country that i was researching was Fiji. I learnt about why they had to leave Fiji and why people go to Fiji. I had to research about their traditions, what their cultural dances and their food. I learned about the push and pull reasons for New Zealand and Fiji.

My Presentation Link: Here

From Tokelau To New Zealand

From Tokelau to New Zealand

Click here for the reading.

Write a summary explaining reasons why Tokelauans moved to New Zealand.  

What was life like for the Tokelauans?

1.Choose 20 important words from the text	Ko te au o mātua,Ko fānau,Parents, heart,Children,Generation, Opportunities,Government,New Zealand,Consequences,People,Migrate,Education,Domestics,Hospitals,Families,Scholarships,Study,Culture,tradition.
2.  Now choose the 6 MOST important words	Parents,heart,Children,Families,Study, Scholarships.
3.  Now use those six words to sum up the text in a couple of sentences	My parents look after me better than anyone in this entire earth. Their heart is so kind to look that they look after me. All people around the world have Families. In school i’m gonna study as hard as I can to get a scholarship to a university. This is what life could be like for tokelauan children if they migrated/lived in New zealand.