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Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2017

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Every year since 1975 New Zealand has marked Māori Language Week. This is a time for all New Zealanders to celebrate te reo Māori (the Māori language) and to use more Māori phrases in everyday life. In 2017 Māori Language Week runs from 11-17 September, the theme is 'Kia ora te reo' – which celebrates New Zealand’s indigenous greeting and the intent of te reo Māori revitalisation efforts between the Crown and Māori.

1. How do you celebrate Maori Language Week in your class/school? te wiki o te reo world challenge.
2. Why is this an important week to New Zealand? Because some of the population in NZ is Maori
3. How does New Zealand celebrate Maori Language Week? To be honest nothing.
4. Can you name any local places of significance that have a Maori name?Why are they significant? Aoteoroa.
5. What is your favourite Maori phrase or a saying you have heard this week? Haurangi.
6. What other languages are a part of your school and are these celebrated? Chinese.
7. What are the three official languages of New Zealand? Maori, English and sign language.
8. If New Zealand was to officially celebrate another language what language do you think that should be? Why? Chinese because its a cool culture.
9. Do you know of other countries that celebrate a second language in their country? What country and how do they celebrate? I don't know.

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The message is  - YOU MATTER.

We want you to think about how you are awesome. We want to know how you are a genius. Everyone has their own unique talents and abilities. What are yours? We would love to hear all about them.

 

Questions for this week.

Q1. Why are you awesome? What is your Genius (something you are good at)? I'm good at sport.

Q2. What would you like to change in the world around you? Terrorism and racism.

Q3. How do you think that you could do this? being nice and respecting everyone's culture.  

Remember “We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love”

– Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Q4. What is the best thing that a Teacher has ever said to you? I'm smart.

Q5. Think of a time when you have achieved a goal. Tell us what this felt like. Being a kapa haka leader and it felt goooooood. 

Q6. Do you have some learning that you are really proud of? My writing at Tama tu. 

Q7. Name five people that you would put on a "Dream Team" to encourage and inspire you. Are they famous people, successful people, members of your family? Michael Jordan. 

Q8. Why are these people amazing to you? His basketball skills. 

Q9. What makes you feel proud? Being really popular. 

Q10: Go on 5 different class mates blogs and leave some cool comments

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The New Zealand Election

This week in KidsedchatNZ, we are talking about the upcoming New Zealand election. New Zealand's next general election is taking place on 23 September.

 

Q1: What is an election? What type of election do we have in New Zealand? Party vote

Q:2 Why do we have elections in New Zealand? to vote for a new prime minister

Q3: What happens during an election? Persuade you why to vote for someone

Q4: What do you think would happen if we did not have elections and people did not vote? We will be stuck with one prime minister

Q5: Who is the Prime Minister of New Zealand? How did he become the prime minister? Bill English because John Key quit

Q6: Why do you think it is important that people vote in elections? So we get a new prime minister

Q7: If you became Prime Minister what is the first thing you would change? Homelessness.

Q8: How do you think our government can make New Zealand ‘more awesome’ like the Kid President? Make tax cheaper

Q9: What do you think the Prime Minister’s main job is during the day? Making important decisions.

Q10: Even though you can’t vote what are some ways we can make sure our voices get heard? Voting.

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Why michael jordan is the best basketball player?  

 I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

I’ve lost almost 300 games.

26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.

I’ve failed over and over again and in my life and

“That's why I succeed.

This is a quote from what I think is the best basketball player ever Michael Jordan and I am going to talk about why I think he is!

His shot.

One of the first clutch moments of his career was “the shot” to sink the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first round of the 1989 Eastern conference playoffs. Just as famous as his shot itself was his reaction, which has been immortalized on posters,in bedrooms and most importantly around the country. It wasn’t good enough to drive him to his championship, though not yet.

His NBA titles.

Nobody will ever be able to catch up with Bill Russell for most NBA championships but his era was completely different from Jordan's. M.J still managed to guide the bulls to six NBA titles and he won the finals MVP award all six times he won.  

 

The shrug.  

It can’t always be explained,as Jordan would have readily admitted in the 1992 finals, when he caught fire from behind the arc against the portland trail blazers which was not his usual repertoire. All he could do at the time was shrug his shoulders , just like nba fans around the country. Michael Jordan performed the famous shrug playing against Trail Blazers and shooting the game winning 3 pointer.

Three peat.

The golden standard for winning championships in today's NBA is to win not just one title, but three in a row. Jordan did that twice in his career, taking a break in between to give minor league baseball a shot.

Dunk champion.

Jordan won two NBA Slam Dunk titles. Those obviously aren't as significant as his MVPs and championships, but those events captured his enormous basketball legacy and how he could generate a buzz like no other, emulating Dr. J on his way to dunking from the free-throw line.

In conclusion all these reasons definitely proves Michael Jordan is the best basketball player. I am going to finish this speech with a quote from the man himself “I can accept failure everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.”

My whanau story

My Mother

It all started back when my grandmother gave birth to a pretty little baby girl,my mother.

Sadly I wasn’t around to see what she grew up to be but I’m sure it was quite hard back then. As she grew up she told me that she done everything right and would be pretty disappointed. Anyways later on in her life she meet a handsome young man that turned out to be my father.

They went on to have babies but sadly their first one was a miscarriage. Her second babies were twins,both a girl and a boy. They spent a lot of time together but then they had another baby,my older sister. My older twin brother and sister and my older sister had a 3 year age gap but still spent together until it was my time to come into the family and obviously becoming the cutest out everyone and being the favourite. We have all grown up to be mature teenagers now though but still, I was the favourite baby. I got a lot of love and now  I’m just an annoying brother.  

Now it was time to have another set of twins, my annoying little brothers. Me and my brothers done everything together though,we played sport together,argued together and we just wrecked a lot of things. Now I want to talk about my sporting years. It all began all the way back in 2010 when my mum put me and my brothers in a league team and we loved it, and the game. I was 5 and my brothers were 4 but we still wrecked and my mum was quite proud of me and my brothers, it went from a team no one I’ve ever met before to a brotherhood where everyone got treated each other the same. It was actually quite a good experience for me and my brothers because throughout all the 7 years we’ve played we’ve only lost 10 games and played a lot of games.

So now I’m going talk about my school years because I don’t want to say to about sport, but all you need to know is that I’m good at it.Anyway it started the year I played sport. I’m not going to go too far into my school years because it’ll take too long to read so I’ll just skip to the part when I became popular. It was last year at primary when technically everyone knew me because I was a good leader. A leader for sport, Kapa haka and school associated things.

I’m not going to talk about my intermediate years because I’d rather wait until the end of next year so I can just summarize everything I’ve done but it’s been a good couple of terms anyways.

Sorry about that I got a little too into talking about myself and now I’ll talk more about how much of a big part she was in my life.

She had a hard time dealing with me and all my siblings but we all loved each other the same.All I want to say is, thank you for always being there for me, through thick and thin you’ll always be my mother and I’ll always care about you.

The end  

By Zion