Cultural Quiz

This week was cultural week. The seniors had a quiz and the Sheridan had a coloring competition. I am a year 5 which means I am in the seniors quiz. The teams names where country's i was in the Samoan team in my group there was Eva, Jai, Faith and me. We came 4th place which is pretty good.

Cultrual Peformances

Today we went to the Hall to see some Cultural Performances. We had Mangauwhau School who came in and showed us  their groups. There was Kapa Haka group anf Pacific Drumming group. I really liked their Pacific Drumming group because they had good rythem.

My Cross

The past six weeks we have been working on our crosses. when we are finished we are going to hang them all around the whole school. On my cross I've got a rainbow on the top, a Tongan flag in the middle on both sides. Well on the left iv'e got TON and then on the right i have GAN which spells Tongan and that's the part of the world where I come from.

Cultural Week

This week Is Cultural week. I'm in Room 5 learning French. Here are the colors in English translated into French.
Red-Rouge
Orange-Orange
Yellow-Jaune
Green-vert
Blue-Bleu
Indigo-Indigo
Violet-Violet.
I also now know how to count in french One to Ten.                
One-Un
Two-Deux
Three-Trois
Four-Quatre
Five-Cing
Six-Six
Seven-Sept
Eight-Huit
Nine-Neuf
Ten-Dix





 FRENCH FLAG

Social Justice Week

This week was Social Justice Week.Well did you know that every year the bishops go aside and celebrate Social Justice Week. Did my classroom celebrate? Well my whole classroom made a feather cloak that had celebrated Social Justice Week. Each feather had an important word on it. My feather said 'RESPECT'.

My Baby Brothers Birthday

On Saturday it was my baby brother's birthday. His name is Hopoate. We got him a mini basketball hoop and a mini basketball for the hoop. We made him a basketball cake and we made the lines of the basketball out of black licorice. The cake was vanilla-flavoured and we had a BBQ. 

Catholic Schools Cross Country

On Tuesday it was the catholic schools cross country it was at Monte Celia park. There was this big hill i'm not joking it was called killer hill i ran up it three times i also came 24th place out of 80 people which is pretty good. there was 3 people in my race from my school i came 2nd out of my school cross country.   

Raymond Huber

Today we had a author come in to talk to us about bee's and science. His name was Raymond Huber. His bee Books are Sting, The flight of the Honey Bee, Gecko and Wings and a lot more. He also taught us a song called "my friend telephone".

TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK

 MATE MA'A TONGA WAHHOO!
And if your wondering what MATE MA'A TONGA means, it means die for Tonga. This week was Tongan language week. I went back in may memory and went to the RWLC which means Rugby World League Cup. These are the games that I watched: Tonga v Warriors and Tonga v Samoa. Tonga beat the warriors and the Samoans so they were in the finals and this was it the last two finalist face off and the one and only  champions of the rugby world league cup is England sad that Tonga lost but we were still strong.

Our Hauora hands

Today we made HAUORA hands. What does it mean? It means how many people can help you when you need it. These are the people who can help me: a Professional, Pet, family, Doctor, Friends. Who can help you?

Prodigy

Today our teacher gave us this new math game called  Prodigy it helps us do maths. How does it work well  fist you log in of course then pick name my name is Stephen Starhand and then you battle someone and to attack you need to answer a math question. i gave you a login photo and me playing.

Komodo Dragons

Today I did a slideshow about komodo dragons. It took me about two days. I picked this topic because it is my favorite reptile and in the slide I explain that there is only 5 thousand left.

My Eden Rugby Prize Giving 2018

On Saturday the 2nd of September we had our Eden Rugby prize giving. I play for under 10 Eden Falcons. For our grade their was Most Improved Player 2018, Sportsperson of the Year 2018 and Player of the Year 2018.   Most Improved Player  in my team was Xavier R.G,  Sportsperson of the Year was me Po'oi Kaho and Player of the Year was Dylan Yare. So it turned out i got a trophy of most sportsperson.

Grandparents Day

 Today it was grandparents day at 9:30 we had to head to the hall for mass. After that we at some yummy delicious food oh an we also had a BBQ i had x2 sausages 1 caramel slice i had a lollie muffin and that is all i had for the day. My Nana and Grandad came from up north to come to the grandparents day.