Our first week in Drama with Footsteps Written by Mele

 Hello, Today I have written about  Footsteps Drama, Footsteps Drama is they are  two teachers and our  teachers were Kate and Emma they are awesome. We did 3 activities Five to Zero , Clap 2 - 3 and The Machine. These were so fun to play. Check out my activity down below.

By Mele

Other activities by Xavier and Briana

Cybersmart Challenge #2 - Know Your Keyboard

 This week we learnt about our keyboards an our chromebooks. We learnt that their are lots of shortcuts that we can use to make our lives a lot easier when working at school, home or where ever we may be working. How many shortcuts do you know??

Activities by Audrey Taniela and Sione

Ash Wednesday 2021 - Lockdown Level 3

Today is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the time from when we move from Ordinary time. Bishop Patrick Dunn says ‘we are entering the wonderful, joyful time of Lent. The sacred 40 days the church allows us to prepare for Easter.’ We are reminded that we live our faith through: Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving. Lent is a time to reflect on where we come from and where we are being called to be.

   

Because it is currently L3 Lockdown here in Auckland we had our mass online.

Here are some of the activities from members of our class Moala, Krystal and Maraia

TWP 4 Ready for Learning Lockdown Challenge

Manaiakalani have set us a new Cybersmart Challenge each week. Last week it was about our KAWA of Care, (which you can find on our own personal blogs) this week it is all about being prepared for learning because of our new Level 3 Lockdown. We have learnt about some of the ways that we can get ourselves ready for distance learning (again) by finding our learning links, and setting ourselves up online for meets with our teachers. Here are some of our activities below.

Cybersmart Challenge #1 KAWA of Care By Lisiate

Today I did a Cybersmart challenge, it was about how to take care you a Chromebook, We had to put the words where they should be and this one was kind of easy to be honest and I think other Cybersmart challenges would be medium hard and normal hard.

Written by Lisiate

Activities by Ana, Aniseko and Vili

What do you know about Te Tiriti o Waitangi by Achilles

 Today in class l have been learning about Waitangi. The first thing l did was find Waitangi On Google maps. Waitangi is in the bay of islands New Zealand one thing l learnt was Treaty of Waitangi was made in 1840 and 43 Northland chiefs signed on February 6th 1840. 

If you want to learn more check out my Google Drawing below. 

Written by Achilles

Activities by Taniela and Alfonsus

Rawiri Waititi ejected from Parliament for not wearing a tie - News Article

 In this article written by RNZ is about Rawiri Waititi getting ejected from the Parliament because he was wearing a Maori taonga around his neck and not a proper business tie. The main people in this article are Rawiri Waititi and Trevor Mallard. Rawiri Waititi is a man that is a co-leader from the Maori Party. Rawiri and Trevor also argued about the disagreements between wearing different cultural ties. 

The key event from this article is about Rawiri Waititi. Last year in 2020 some people in the Parliament agreed that there should not be any cultural ties in the debating chamber, and some disagreed. This event took place in Wellington at the Beehive, in the New Zealand Parliament Building. This event took place on January 1st 2021. 

In this news article Rawiri Waititi was kicked out of the Parliament and to never be seen in the debating chamber again. Rawiri said "Our people have worn these types of ties for generations, thousands of years. And it's time that Parliament, which was consented by my ancestors through Te Tiriti o Waitangi, recognised our right and freedom to express our own cultural identity, in a place that's supposed to be a place for democracy," 

Trevor Mallard and Rawiri Waititi argued in the debating chamber. This event took place because the Parliament wanted to discuss new laws around New Zealand. The day before the meeting a person asked Rawiri “What tie are you going to wear tomorrow?” Rawiri replied “You’ll have to wait until tomorrow.” 

In my own opinion I think that they should allow wearing any ties, like in the meeting there was a Mexican guy whose name is Ricardo Menendez and he said

“I have worn this tie in a lot of meetings and I have never been told to take it off and wear a business tie”. At that moment I straight away thought that Speaker Trevor Mallard was kind of being racist, about Rawiri Waititi having to wear a Maori tie around his neck. In my mind I thought he was being kind of racist because Rawiri Waititi was wearing a pounamu around his neck, but according to the Parliament laws you have to wear a business tie. That’s why they should allow wearing any ties.

Written by Krystal. Read more of her blogs at Krystal's Blog

Here are some activities' we did to compare the necktie and the pounamu from Xavier, Maraia and Krystal