Do you know the antonym for open?

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that an antonym is a word that is opposite in its meaning to another word.

She said that she is going to buy me an ice-cream!

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that a direct speech is when you quote exactly what someone says.

Do you know how to say the word flight in Te Reo Maori?

Learning Intention: We are learning the topic words for flight in Te Reo Maori.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record the eight of the vocabulary that is related to flight in Te Reo Maori using Blabberize.

Flight (to fly, to sail)	Rere
hypothesis	whakapae
investigation	ketuketutanga
fuselage	takere
Wings of a plane	Parirau o te wakarere
Lift	ara
thrust	puru
Drag	toanga
weight	toimaha
aerodynamics	Koutata
Tail of a plane	Hiku o te wakarere
Fin of a plane	Urutira o te wakarere
forces	ihi
symmetrical	hangarite
glider	Waka tauihi
plane	wakarere

Do you love it when you celebrate Father's Day?

On Saturday 4th of September 2016, my families and I went to go celebrate Father's Day at the Valentines restaurant in Manukau. It took us 20 minutes to get there. It was was both sunny and rainy throughout and the day.

First we went to church to celebrate Father's Day and also for my little baby niece to be baptised. I was so excited because my cousin said, "When your niece gets baptised, they can travel around the world".

At the Baptism, my sister and my uncle went with my niece up to Father to be baptised by the holy water. They were all wearing white clothing. My baby niece cried because the holy water went in her eyes. However soon my baby niece stopped crying because my sister held her in her arms.

After we celebrated the baptism, we went to the restaurant.

I sat next to my dad at Valentines and I gave him a hug and a kiss and told him that I love him.

Then we all stood up and prayed for my father, because he wasn’t feeling well. After we prayed, we went to get some food. I got some chips, chicken and some eggs. The eggs were delicious and wobbly, the chicken and the chips were crunchy and crispy.

My mum and her family chatted happily away during dinner. The rest of us were all busy eating because we were all so hungry.

Later on we went to say goodbye to my uncle. After that, we went home because the celebration for Father's Day was over.

My favourite part of the day was when we celebrated Father's Day at church and when my little niece got baptised.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use descriptive language in our recounts.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use verbs to describe my weekend.

Do you know the He Honore song?

Learning Intention: We are learning Te Reo Maori
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Blabberize to record the waiata 'He Honore'

Performing the Tigress duo routine is fun because I can use it for protection!

Learning Intention: We are learning Kung Fu.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this is when I record the Tigress duo routine using Wevideo.

Have you read the story 'Horeta and the waka'?

Learning Intention: We are learning to identify the main ideas from the story
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I illustrate the main ideas of the story 'Horeta and the waka'

Do you know the moves of the Tigerss routine?

 Learning Intention: We are learning Kung Fu.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Wevideo to record the Tigress routine from our second Kung Fu lesson.

Did you know that 'bat' is a homonym?

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of the English grammar.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that homonyms are words with the same spelling and pronunciation but they have different meanings depending on the context.

She said she is going to buy the ice-cream!

Learning Intention: We are learning about different types of speeches.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that a direct speech is when you quote exactly what someone says.

If you want to protect yourself, you should watch this!

Learning Intention: We are developing our fitness levels through Physical Education.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Weviedo to record the Kung fu panda moves from the first lesson.

There are four bases in softball!

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I describe the skills in Softball.

Let's love and care for others!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use blabberize to record the Act of Love prayer.

O my God, I love you above all things with my whole heart and soul, because you are all good and worthy of all my love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of you. I forgive all who have injured me and I ask pardon of those whom I have injured. 
Amen.

Always pray in the morning!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use blabberize to record a morning prayer.

Prayer:
God, our Father, I offer you today
all that I think and do and say.
I offer it with what was done
on earth by Jesus Christ, your Son.
Amen.

Mary is our generous saint!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Blabbrize to record the the Angelus prayer.

The Angelus prayer:
Call: The angel spoke God's message to Mary,
Response: and she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary...

Call: “I am the lowly servant of the Lord:
Response: let it be done to me according to your word.”
Hail Mary...

Call: And the Word became flesh
Response: and lived among us. 
Hail Mary...

Call: Pray for us, holy Mother of God,
Response: that we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. 

Lord,
fill our hearts with your grace;
once, through the message of an angel
you revealed to us the incarnation of your Son;
now, through his suffering and death
lead us to the glory of his resurrection.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

We should pray before we go to bed every night!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Blabberize to record an evening prayer.

God, our Father, this day is done
We ask you and Jesus Christ, your Son,
that with the Spirit, our welcome guest,
you guard our sleep and bless our rest.
Amen.

O Holy Spirit, show us the path to follow!

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I recite the Adsumus prayer using Blabberize.

We are here before you o Holy Spirit

We feel the burden of our weaknesses

But come together in your name

Come to us, assist us what we must do,

Show us the path to follow,

May you yourself accomplish what you ask of us,

May you be the one to inspire and guide our decisions

Because only you, together with God the Father and his son

Who have a holy and glorious name,

You who love order and peace,

Do not let righteousness be harmed by us,

May ignorance not cause us to stray from the right path,

Any affection for others not give rise to favouritism on our part

May neither titles nor people influence us,

Keep us close to you through the gift of your grace,

So that we may be one in you and that we may not draw away from the truth in any matter.

Grant that, gathered together in your holy name,

We may be able to combine goodness with firmness as to do all things in harmony with you.

In the hope that we shall earn, through the faithful fulfillment of our duties, eternal happiness in the future.

Amen.

My Guardian angel!

Angel of God, my guardian dear,
to whom God's love commits me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide.
Amen.

Learning Intention: We are learning a traditional prayer.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record the Guardian Angel using Blabberize.

Wow! Satellites can be very small!

Learning Intention: We are to learning to understand the interactive systems in order space.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write ten interesting facts about satellites.

How did you celebrate Father's Day?

On Saturday 4th of September 2016, my families and I went to go celebrate Father's Day at the Valentines restaurant in Manukau. It took us 20 minutes to get there. The weather was both sunny and rainy during the day.

First we went to church to celebrate Father's Day and also for my little baby niece to be baptised. I was so excited because my cousin said, "When your niece gets baptised, they can travel around the world".

After we celebrated the baptism, we went to the restaurant.

I sat next to my dad at Valentines and I gave him a hug and a kiss and told him that I love him.

Then we all stood up and prayed for my father. After we prayed, we went to get some food. I got chips, chicken,  and some eggs. The eggs were delicious and wobbly, the chicken and the chips were crunchy and crispy.

Later on we went to say goodbye to my uncle. After that, we went home because the celebration for Father's Day was over.

My favourite part of the day was when we celebrated Father's Day at church and when my little niece got baptised.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and follow the structure of a recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, follow by the events and then a conclusion of the celebration that we had on Father's Day.

My sundae ice-cream was really cold!

On Saturday the 27th of August, my mum and I went shopping at the Warehouse in Sylvia Park. It took us an hour to get there because there was traffic on the road.

As soon as we arrived, we went straight to the Warehouse to get a pair of shoes for me for my birthday party on Wednesday. I got some puma shoes because it was my favourite icon. We also bought some new clothes for me. They were very colourful and interesting.

After that, we went to the counter to pay for my shoes and my clothes. Once my items were scanned, they were put into a plastic bag. I was so excited because I had new clothes and shoes for my birthday party. Then I went and said to my mum, "Thank you for my clothes and shoes."

Soon after that, we went to buy some ice-cream from Mcdonald's. I had a ice-cream sundae. An ice-cream sundae is ice-cream that is put into a plastic cup and it can have vanilla or chocolate syrup on the top. It was delicious and cold. My mum had vanilla ice-cream on a cone with a chocolate flake on the top.

Eventually, we went home because I was exhausted and we had finished all the shopping that we needed to do for my birthday.

My favourite part was when my mum and I had ice-cream because it was sweet and just what I needed to end a wonderful afternoon.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and follow the structure of a recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, follow by the events and then a conclusion of my birthday shopping with my mum at the Warehouse.

Do you know how many countries are participating in the Rio Olympics?

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand Rio olympics.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use Google map to find some of the countries that are participating in the Rio Olympics and record the number of athletes and the events that they are participating in.

I like playing 'go home, stay home, with my siblings!

On Saturday the 13th August 2016, my family and I went to my aunt's birthday party. It took us an hour and 20 minutes to get there. We celebrated her birthday in a hall and it was a cloudy day.

After we arrived inside the hall, we went to go and sit in front of the table. We stood up when the birthday girl arrived. My auntie was turning 21. After she came and sat down on her chair we all sat down on our chairs as well. After that, my uncle said a prayer for my auntie and a food prayer for all of us. We all put our hands together and closed our eyes for the prayers. When the two prayers finished we went to line up in the line for the food. I saw my two best friends and I was so excited. I got myself some food. I got some egg salad, beef and a cup of fanta. The egg salad was delicious and cold and the beef was chewy.

We wanted to have some ice cream, however the line was long so we decided to play a game called go home stay home while we were waiting. I was in first and I counted to ten while my two brothers and sister went to go and hide somewhere. After that, I found my little brother and my sister, but they stuck together and went around the building and tagged on the wall before I was able to tag them.  I had fun and enjoyed playing stay home, go home.

Later on, we went to go and wait for the ice-cream again. I got vanilla, chocolate and a jelly. My little brother just got strawberry and vanilla. When I eat my ice cream, it was cold and the jelly was smooth and wobbly.

Finally we all went home because the party had ended and we all felt tired.

My favourite part of the day was when I played go home stay home because it is fun to play with my siblings.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and follow the structure of a recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, follow by the events and then a conclusion of how my families and I celebrated my auntie's birthday.

Did you know that 'bat' is a homonym?

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use the English grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that homonyms are words with the same spelling and pronunciation but they have different meanings depending on the context.

'Tau Ke Aotearoa' means New Zealand is so cool!

Learning Intention: We are learning to speak in Te Reo Maori.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record the phrase Tau Ke Aotearoa and explain the meaning of it in English using Blabberize.

Wetiwetiana means wicked!.

Learning Intention:We are learning to speak in Te Reo.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record the phrase 'Kia Koha e hoa ma' and explain the meaning of it in English using Blabberize.

Do you know the antonyms for 'hot'?

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand the English Grammar.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I explain that an antonym is a word that is opposite in its meaning to another word.

Do you get nervous and scared when you say a prayer in front of your families?

On Saturday 6th of August 2016, my families and I went to visit my auntie who has just arrived in Auckland. The weather was cloudy and sunny. It took us an hour and 50 seconds to get there because my auntie lived in Mt.Roskill.

Before we arrived there, we went to go and get some food from KFC. We bought some chicken, chips and coca-cola. After we went inside, I went to get the plates and cups because my mum said, "Go and get the plates and cups so that you can make the food for them." When I got the KFC, chicken and chips I placed it in the plates and handed it out one by one to my mum, dad, grandma, aunt and grandpa. Then I got the cups and place the coca cola and gave it to my families one by one.

Then I went upstairs and played on my little nephew's tablet. I played a game called Biking. In the game, you have to pick a player and choose a level. I played the game until 9:00pm. My mum called me and told me that, "You have been playing on the tablet since this morning."

After that, we went to the Happy Days. When we arrived inside the centre, my mum paid us to get a table. While my mum was doing that, I went to get my little nephew out from the car. I was excited because this was my aunt's first time coming to New Zealand. After we got our table, my mum told me to say a prayer. I was nervous and scared because this was my first time praying in front of my mum and my auntie. At the end of my prayer, my uncle stood up and said our food prayer for us.

Later on we went to go and get some food from the food area. I had vegetables like beans, sliced carrots and lettuce. I also had chips and rice. When I ate the beans, sliced carrots and the lettuces it was yellow and chewy. When I ate my chips, it was crunchy and when I ate the rice it was nice and cooked really well.

Finally we dropped off my auntie home and then we went home.

My favourite part of the day was when we picked up my auntie to  celebrate at Happy Days because she has came back from Tonga.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and follow the structure of a recount.

Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, follow by the events and then a conclusion of how my auntie has come from Tonga and how we went to Happy Days to celebrate her arrival.