Apple Tower

What did you find most difficult? Why did you find it difficult and how can you prevent it from happening again? The most difficult was coming up with a plan that actually worked. I found It difficult because it was hard to make the frame stay up without using too many straws. How did you plan for the task? We planned to stick all the straws together to make a box frame and then make a top for it that sort of looked like a two layered jenga. Everyone agreed on the same idea so we did it. Did everyone share their ideas? We all agreed on the first plan, but yes everyone did. Did everyone have a role in the team? We all played a part in creating the tower like some of us cut the straws while some others stuck them together and made the jenga part.

Brylie & Gus, Leadership

Gus and Brylie are the head boy and head girl of Hauraki Plains College. They came into Marama to talk about leadership, these are four different types of leaders they talked about. The message that I thought they were trying to give to us was you don’t have to have all of these leadership qualities to be a great leader everyone is a great leader no matter what values that they have.

The Warrior is the person who fights for what they think is right and has persistence to keep going, not stopping until they get what they think is right.

The Profit is someone thinks about their actions before doing them, thinking carefully on what to do.

The Priest is someone who cares for everyone else, helps others without hesitation and puts everyone else before themselves.

The Merchant is someone who gives to others, its like how your parents give you food to eat, clean water to drink, a roof over your head and many other things.

My Weekly News

My Weekly News

“I Got You a Hamster!” Sister’s Love Brings Boy to Tears.

A little girl called Abby got $55 dollars worth of birthday money from friends and family. Guess what she spent it on? A hamster for her big brother because she thinks that he has been working very hard so he deserves a little gift. Her brother, Daniel cried tears of joy and hugged her for a very long time. The video has been shared more than one million times. In my opinion I think that this was an amazing act of kindness from a little girl that shows us that just the smallest things in life are worth it, it’s like doing a little favour for mum and dad or helping someone out. If a little girl can do it the whole world can too!!

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/i-got-you-a-hamster-love-from-sister-brings-boy-to-tears-watch/

I am curious about what went on in her mind to drive her to do something that amazing.

1. Faltered: Loss of strength or momentum.
2. Numerous: Great in numbers or many.
3. Literally: In a literal matter or sense.

How To Work In A Team

The Marama Way

Right Thing,
                     Right Place,
                                          Right Time.

That is the Marama motto, the Marama motto comes under the Marama Way. Here are some things that are apart of the Marama way. Laugh, smile, have FUN, but remember to put what you used away once you are finished, Ask for help, INCLUDE EVERYONE and many others. I think that this is a great poster because some people need reminding that we are the role models of the school and if we do something stupid the little kids will think that that's what we are supposed to do at school, parents and other schools will think that our school is not very good.

Same But Different

Welcome Back! In 2016

Welcome Back In 2016 Questions

4 Words

My Theme Song

Shake It Off, Taylor Swift. Did you guess???

Why have you chosen this song?

I chose Shake It Off Because you need to shake off all the things that people say that may be hurtful and also something might go wrong in your learning everyone makes mistakes but its all right because there will mostly be a way to fix the mistake. In the lyrics I have written she's dancing on her own so that means no one else wants to dance with her she is all on her own and people don't like her very much.

Book Challenge

Multiple Intelligences

On the left there is my Smarts Test results. It is quite easy to see what my strengths are and what I am not quite good at. I have discovered that I am very Music Smart and not very Number smart so now I know what I need to work on. So now I think that I should include as much music and work with others lots in my school life as I possibly can and work in the collaborative spaces with others at a table. My strengths are Music, word, people and picture smart. I think that it wouldn't be very hard to include these smarts into my learning space. This test has completely changed what I will do through the year with my learning and where I work in the spaces that we have.

100 Word Holiday Recount

Cousins, Brothers, Parents, Grandparents, Auntie and Uncle how about a great way to start a holiday. I got to go to my absolute favourite place on earth Hahei. First week there 2 days rain. So do you know what we did PING PONG tournament. Nana and Dad had the showdown Dad won! He won the mini Ping Pong cup and two custard squares. Nana makes the BEST. Thick custard with a slice of chocolate on top. We also went sea biscuiting, suuuper fast. My cousin and I were up first. “ TOO FAST… AHHHHHHHHHHH”. My whole holiday combined BEST HOLIDAY EVER!