History

From this investigation, I can see that I spend MOST of my time on my school mail, and because I'm at school most of hours of most days, and most of my school work is done on google docs, google docs comes up a lot. I was VERY surprised to see pinterest in small letters as I KNOW for a fact, that I spend most of my time on pinterest either laughing or crying at the interesting posts. I'm on it A LOT of times.... even when I'm supposed to be doing my school work. This lesson with James was very interesting.

Homework Center

This is my inquiry groups project presentation. We noticed that not many students in our class do not complete their homework on time so we decided that we should do something to help increase the number of people that do their homework. So we did a bit of investigation and found that there are causes for majority of the class such as, they need help, they don't have internet at home or even the fact that they are too lazy and having people doing it together with them would help a lot. I am very proud of my group for coming with such an idea and we organised almost everything.

The Fire Dance

'The fire dance' is a writing piece that I wrote, near the beginning of this year.
I am proud of this writing because I used my best vocabulary and tried my best to make it interesting and descriptive. This task was called 'a moment in time'. My teacher, Mr. Edwards, sent our class a presentation, with a different photo on different slides and we had to choose a photo to write a story to go with it.
I chose this photo because it's a Samoan boy dancing and I'm Samoan and I can relate, but I also chose this photo because when I saw this photo I saw a lot of excitement and knew instantly that it was something I could write about and make sound fun. I struggled with finding the right words for the right sentences and also with structuring it using my five senses. In the end I was incredibly proud of my writing.

WHAT MAKE S A GOOD BLOG COMMENT?

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Today James cam into Room 9 and taught us about what makes a good and positive comment.
He showed us a video that was made a few California students with the help of their teacher.
The children took turns talking about tips that personally helped me a lot. I listened carefully to what they were saying and even their pet panda gave excellent advice.

After watching that video, I know that there is going to be a massive change in the comments that I make.
I have learnt to be more positive and also to be more specific for example, I would usually right about a post and say I really enjoyed reading your post or watching your video. Keep it up and never give up, but now from the video I would probably say something like, 'that video was very impressing' or 'I love your post, especially the way that you put the photo collage together'. Then I might ask a question relating to the post that shows that I really did enjoy reading or watching their post.

I can honestly say that personally, the video that children younger than me made is actually going to change the way that I write a comment for next time. James has been very helpful in this session. It was amazing. Now I can look back at my comments and be proud of what I have written. 

Welcome

Welcome to my very own blog for learning. I look forward to sharing my learning with teachers, my school, my family and friends anywhere.

Me, Myself and I

Hello! My name is Maasoama and this presentation is about Me, Myself and I. Please do not hesitate to comment below about something that you and I have in common or something that makes us totally different and unique.
   

High Jumping

Now I personally find high jumping fun but difficult but GUESS WHAT... we actually have a coach named Andy that comes once a week to teach us how to run, JUMP, and throw! 
She made it a lot easier for me to understand and I think it's cool to share it with everyone.
So here it is! Comment down below if you also find high jumping difficult for you!