Category: Hanga | Create

In Social Studies, Whaea Honey has asked us if Culture is learned or are we born with it?. Throughout this week I have thought about it, I have thought that I was born and taught, because I was taught by my parents my school and Whanau in general, for an example: I was taught how to walk, how to speak my Reo I am also proud to be able to speak it, I was also taught my Pepeha my Whakapapa. I was also born with my culture in my DNA I have so much but don’t know what yet.

Kia Ora, ko Keogh toku Ingoa and I am currently at Bay Of College, my culture that I have grown up and evolved with is Maori and Te reo Maori and my favourite subject at school are English, Maths,

I am going to tell you about me as a learner I sometimes struggle with some subjects that were hard to understand but would like to always give a go and my favourite things to do and what i am going at but let’s start with my favourite things to do and they are sports but i haven’t been playing sports as much as i like to do them but this year for a goal is to start playing the sports i like to doubt i think i am going to just practice them to be good at the sports like ki o rahi and waka ama but i am trying to do one thing at a time so i am starting with ki o rahi.

Before closing my little about me, I have been looking forward to all the sports and new things that come my way. I’ve been inspired by my aunties and she has uplifted me throughout my years. No reira tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa.

Kia Ora Koutou Katoa,

Room 8 classroom, we wrote a speech for our end-of-year speech about how we had been doing here at Tautoro School. We will be doing our speeches at a dinner that the school has provided for us in year 8. Our speeches have to be at least a minute or two long.

I was having a hard time thinking about what I had to say. but then listening to my friend’s speeches I had thoughts that would go on for so long so I started typing some new thoughts that came to my head.

In my speech, I thanked my friends and teachers for all their help and support, how I started Tautoro school, and some of the goals that I want to achieve and accomplish for next year, my goals for next year or the in future, are better at maths, continuing my Te Reo Māori and understanding more of my culture that I hold with me, I also want to try science next year, to unlock my brain with other subjects that I have never experienced before in my life,

and here is a part of my speech.
I just want to thank my friends for you’re help and support such as Isabella, Aria, Taria, Tumanako, Milan, Nyah, Simon, Jayden, william and joeche. and you Whaea Rachel you have inspired me to give Kapa Haka a try, I would also like to acknowledge Tautoro for the opportunity that you have given me.

Kia Ora, Koutou,

This week room 8, we have been doing our IKAN tests, and graphing them. Here is my work that has been happening for these past terms. For me, I am hoping to get better at maths and try and get really good at times tables, because in life, times tables are probably the most important in life for science, and building, you just have to use times tables in some jobs.
But this is my Graph for my IKAN results.

Thank you for looking at my graph.

Maths by Keogh Stowers

Kia Ora Koutou,

This week for tuhituhi we had to write about the key ideas we learnt in our panui pukapuka. The main topic was the phrase can and can`t. `Ka taea, e kore e taea`. Below I have shared my whakaaro about this. Hopefully, it will help you understand this kianga (phrase) better.

This was easy. The hardest concept was trying thing of things that my chosen character couldn`t do. For example, a bird can swim, fly, sing, talk, walk….. so I had to think of human things like drive a car, write a letter – which is what I said. Ka taea te manu ki te rere, e kore e te manu ki te tuhi he reta`.

Here is my blog post for this week.
Aku mihi,
Na Keogh

Tuhituhi by Keogh Stowers

WALT:Tautohu me te matapaki i ngā kupu matua i tētahi tuhinga
Identify and discuss key words in a text.

Kia Ora Koutou,

This week we have done another book for Pānui. I have learned new words every time I read a book it has taught me a lot of words and I can use those words from the book. We had to read the book you can read over and over to read it, and it has also helped me how to say it and read it, the book that I have been reading is called ‘Ka taea,e kore e taea’ I  have really enjoyed doing this every week for Pānui.

Anei, this is my work for pānui I hope you enjoy it.

Panui by Keogh Stowers

WALT: Convert decimals to fractions

This week we have been converting decimals to fractions for maths. We had to remember some things to get good at the mahi. first thing you have to know the value of the decimal.

We have to know and understand ‘nested place value’. There are many tenths,hundredths, and you can’t forget about the thousandths, in any given number.

Secondly, we need to know our factors or what numbers go into a faction’s numerator and the denominator to simplify that fraction. For example, 15/5 can be simplified. The number 5 is a factor of both, so we divide 15 by 5 and 50 by 5. This gives us a fraction of 3/10.

Opinion:At first, this was really struggling for me and I didn’t know what to do but once I did it over and over again it started to get easier and now I’ve gotten really good at it but I still get confused sometimes.

this is my video of me solving the decimal to fractions please watch my video.

\ by Keogh Stowers

Kia Ora koutou,

This morning room 8 we picked three people in our classroom and then we had to write down things about them like their favorite food, what they do not like, and what’s their eye color, we had to describe them, so the people that I have picked in my classroom and written about is Aria, Shaniah, and Tumanako.

bellow this reflection is the slides that I have made for the people that I picked,

Hope you enjoy it.

Taku rongonui mai ruma waru by Keogh Stowers

Kia Ora Koutou,

Every week our teacher “Whaea Gaylene” she has picked books from Takawiniwini for room 8 and  this is for “Panui”. And each time I read the books that our teacher chosses for all of us I learn a new kupu  in Te Reo Maori every time. even though it might sound the same, it can mean  something else. So reading a book in Te Reo  Maori,  it has tought me new words and I can read it over and over again and  it helps me of  how you can use those new kupu and put it in sentences.

This is my book that I have been researching hope you enjoy.

Panui by Keogh