Aria's language learning story.

Ka Tangi Te Titi, Ka Tangi Te Kaka, Ka Tangi Hoki Ahau, Tehei Mauri Ora.

Thanks to my kaiako - Tipapa, I was able to learn sentences in Maori, Maori games and stories that have fascinated me. We also learnt a karakia that the kapa haka group have been saying -

Tutakinga i te iwi, Tutakinga i te toto, Tutakinga i te kiko

Tutakinga i te uaua, Tutakinga kia u, Tutakinga kia mau

Tenei te rangi ka tutaki, Tenei te rangi ka ruruku, Tenei te papa ka wheuka

E rangi e awhitia, E papa e awhitia

Nau kawhi kawhi, Nau kaaka kaaka, Nau ka toroa ka toroa

Tupu he toka whenua, Tupu he toka matatera

Tihei Mauri Ora

In class I have been struggling to pronounce the Maori words since I am not use to speaking Maori but my teachers and friends try the hardest to help me pronounce them properly.

My next steps is to speak more in class because since I am an introvert, I am not able to speak up during learning time.

Aria's Reading Learning story

Aria’s Reading Learning story.

“A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril”

To be honest the first impression I had for this book was more like boring mixed with “who the heck wrote this book” kinda face. But after awhile I realised that I was still reading this dull looking book - The Letter For The King by Tonke Dragt.  This is a fiction book.

I chose this book because I wanted to try something different for once. So instead of reading thin books I would have a go and try a thick book but that wasn’t only one of the reasons I chose this book. It was also because it had the kind of genre I would read so like a dash of adventure, a cup of mystery and a hint of danger.

The stranger leant close and whispered in Tiuri’s ear, “I have a letter here, with a message of vital importance. One might even say that the fate of an entire kingdom depends on it. It is the letter for the king. And since you are a knight I trust you to take it”

I inferred from this paragraph so I worked out that Tiuri will face a lot of enemies along the way that are trying to get the letter since the stranger said it was of utmost important, even the kingdom depends on it.

I evaluated from this so if I was in Tiuri’s shoes I would’ve been scared, even if I was a knight I would still be scared because I wouldn’t know what the future would hold for me when I try and deliver the letter.

I analyzed and synthesized so the main message in this story is that it’s a matter of life or death since the kingdom relies on one letter.

The strength I was good at was inferring because I would always think really deep in what’s actually about to happen in the text and work out what is not stated in it.

I need to work on making meaning strategies like reading back because if the sentence maybe a bit tricky I would have to read back and try to understand it or just ask someone if they knew what it meant.

Here’s a  little bit of my book if interested.

The letter For The King by Tonke Dragt

“What’s better about books is that they never run out of battery”

Feedback: Anahera,

No surprises. Once again you have managed to write a well-written text that is entertaining and informing. Everything from your strengths to your improvements seems to be included in this writing and so now I am able to understand n more about you as a reading learner.

By the way, your use of personal voice and context was a brilliant way to begin this learning story.

Anahera

Aria's E-astle.

Bottling up

Depression lies in all teenagers. Most usually bottle them up, putting on a fake smile as if they were acting and fooling everyone around them. But deep inside you know everyone will find out.

Take an example like me, Aria. A young girl who’s bubbly on the outside but is truly depressed on the inside. It’s just like following a recipe, a cup of depression, a spoon full of anxiety and a hint of disguise and you get a girl like me. Now let's get on with this boring life of mine.

Wednesday, 4:00 in the afternoon, locked up in my room, not caring about all the dramas that are happening in the world. Except for one. “YOU ALWAYS COME HOME DRUNK!” I can hear my Mom and dad fighting again. “BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN STRESSING A LOT!” My dad says. It’s like every day they are always like this. Hoping that it would stop but…. No.

That whole time they were fighting I was staring at a pocket knife and as I knew it, it was in my hand and the blade was on my bare skin. As if lightning struck my door slammed open. “Hey Ari- WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” said my dad. I stayed silent, closing my hand into a tight fist as my knuckles turn pale as snow, my vision turns blurry from the tears that are welled up in my eyes. “What in the world is going- ARIA JURY, WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?” “I-I didn’t mean t-” “HOW DID WE RAISE YOU LIKE THIS!”  After hearing those words I stormed out of the house.

It took a few minutes for me to realize I had nowhere to go. I started making my way to my happy place where only me and my best friend go when we are in our down moments. I arrived and sat on the soft sand looking up to the greyish clouds.

“What have I gotten myself into? I didn’t ask for all this” It was cold, actually more like freezing. I don’t know why I didn’t bring a jacket with me until two arms wrapped around me giving me warmth. I knew exactly who it was and started to burst out crying. “E-Eva I wi-wish I was in a bottle where nothing can tr-ry and hu-urt me-e,”

“Shhh just let it all out and you will feel better,” she said.

It took a couple of minutes to calm down and tell her about what's been going on in my life. She had no idea what I was going through and was upset that I didn’t tell her. She knew that I shouldn’t have kept it in because I was the only one getting hurt from all the pain “Well the only way that this problem can be solved is to talk to your parents, tell them what you’ve been through and they’ll understand”

It took a while for me to think about Eva’s advice but sooner or later I made my choice. Leading to my situation right now, face to face with my parents. Telling them that I have been through hell throughout my life. There were moments where I would look at them deeply and could tell that they never knew I felt like this and I should’ve told them.

5 years later

We moved towns meaning that we agreed to start a new life instead. Ever since that day, a lot has changed, My parents stopped fighting to cause me to stop hurting myself physically. But I still miss my best friend, she helped me a lot and I wish I could repay her. There were a few down moments but it didn’t last long. Finally, I can have a life that’s in peace.

But heed this: bottling something up would only make yourself feel worse but letting it out will let people support you.

Aria

Aria's Maths learning story T3 Wk 10

Aria’s Maths Learning Story.

I don’t like maths but it is helpful.

3 cm

  10 cm

4.5 cm

This problem:  Allister and Sam are refilling the fridge with milk cartons. They want to save time by transporting the milk boxes in a bigger container so they can carry more at once.

And right now we are trying to find out how many milk cartons can fit into the container.

Conjecture..

• Multiply the width, length and height to find the volume e.g W x L x H = ?
• Divide the two numbers together to find out how many milk cartons can fit into the container.

Milk carton - 4.5 x 3 x 10 = 135 cm

Box - 28 x 33 x 33 = 30492 cm

30492 cm ÷ 135 cm = 225

First I used a conjecture for this problem because I wanted to test out if it actually works and see if it could be helpful for this problem. And seeing the equation I just used, I found out that 225 milk cartons can fit into the container. I do have to say that this was a tricky problem.

The K.C I used would be relating to others because I would encourage my teammates to get onto the waka and share their ideas so I would be able to spark some more that would be helpful.

Getting out of the pit was hard for me because I would need to try and make meaning to what I am doing but with the help with my teammates I was able to persevere and be free.

What I need to work on is to be ready to explain and justify to my teammates what I am doing? and why I am doing this?, so they understand what is going on. As I said “I don’t like maths but it will be helpful in the future”.

Titi’s Feedback: Hello Aria...

I like the way you have explained and justify the problem and your conjectures. Good work on sharing your K.C skills.

You need to work on not blabbing your mouth in maths and having the pen. I have no idea of what else you need to work on. You are an awesome maths learner because you are good at working with people you don’t usually work with and you are good at persevering when you’re in the pit.

Aria's Tech learning story.

Aria’s Cooking learning story.

Ow! I burned my finger on the stove.

Sewing is finished onto Cooking.

As the same for sewing, cooking does have a lot of dangerous equipment that is lying around in the kitchen e.g Ovens, Knives. But luckily I learned how to use them properly and teach people how too as well just in case they set the whole kitchen on fire.

I have achieved the success criteria when I...

• Have followed the recipe so the product I created is perfect and can be a well-presented product that looks and taste delicious.
• Am able to work part as a team to help each other just in case we are stuck on what to do or we just need a helping hand on something else.
• Have creatively created something that you can’t buy from a bakery because what's the point to create a product that you can buy instead of wasting your time to cook it.

The K.C skill I used was managing self. And to be able to manage myself (And create a well-made creation) I had to ignore the distractions that surrounded me and listen carefully to understand what was going on so I didn’t really struggle at all in this class.

What was easy was creating the bread. Pretty simple,

• Hot water,
• 2 teaspoon of Yeast.
• 2 teaspoon of sugar
• Cup of flour.

At first, it didn’t seem simple but once I kept practicing and practicing it was just the easiest product I have ever made.

I would like to improve my decorating skills because most of my products were just plain and I regret putting nothing on it to make it seem WOW!.

If it wasn’t for my teacher I wouldn’t have been able to accomplish the goal to create great tasting homemade food.

Cooking ticked off.

Next is Music.

Aria's swimming learning story

Aria’s Swimming learning story.

Know how to swim safely, then you’re fine. Have no idea, then danger awaits.

Since New Zealand is surrounded by water, there is no excuse for you not to know how to be safe in the water. To be able to live around water then taking swimming lessons will be your hero since they teach you all kinds of skills that can help you to survive e.g freestyle, breaststrokes.

While swimming you always have to manage yourself. So that means to…

• Always listen to the instructor so you understand what to do.

• Not muck around while you are learning something.
• Being able to distract from all the things that are able to put us off.

So I'm saying that while I was in the pool I was good at managing self because of these three things.

Knowing that I was really good at managing self I realized that it helped me improve my swimming than what I did last year. I mostly improved on

• Turn our heads to the side to breastStroke 1,2,3 breath.
• Float on our tummy and back.

because as I remember I recall that I couldn’t swim very far because I didn’t turn my head to breath causing that to make me stop and take a breather. Now that I have improved I am able to swim as far as I can with breaststrokes.

Learning to survive in the water is important just how I now know that learning to be safe on a boat is important. As if 10 mins ago I didn’t know that you had to LEARN how to put a life jacket on properly. I thought that you just had to put it on, buckle and zip. Boy was I wrong. Struggling to breathe as if I was suffocating in a plastic bag while the life jacket got tighter and tighter. But luckily I now know how to put a life jacket on. (Properly)

My next steps are to obviously work on my freestyles because my arms seem to get tired. Maybe because I push myself too hard at the beginning and lose strength in the end. I just need to keep it even.

Don’t fear the water, make the water fear you.

Aria's Pepeha

Ka tangi te titi
Ka tangi te kaka

Ka tangi hoki ahau

Tihei mauri ora

Kō Taranaki te maunga

Kō Patea te awa

Kō Tainui te waka

Kō Nga Ruahine te iwi

Kō Ngati Tama Ahuroa me Titahi te hapu

Kō Oeo te pa

Kō Karen tōku whaea

Kō Ihaka tōku matua tane

Ko Simone toku tuakana

Nō Porirua ahau

Kō Aria tōku ingoa

Tekau ma rua aku tau

Kō Corinna tōku kura

Kō Ardelle raua ko Helen ōku kaiako  

Kō Michele te tumuaki

No reira tena koutou tena koutou katoa