My Name

Whats the story behind your name? Talofa Lava I am Norah-Jade

When I was born my Mum and Dad couldn't decide on what name to call me, then my Aunty walked in and she said to call me Norah, and that name only lasted a day because the next day my Aunty from Australia came to the hospital to see and said "we should call her Jade" but my Aunty also wanted to just call me Norah so then my Mum and Dad decided to put them together and call me Norah-Jade. 

and thats why my name is Norah-Jade :)

Explanation writing

A Job for me:

What do you wanna be/do when you grow up? Are you sure about it? Why do you want to be/do it? Hi my name is Norah-Jade and today I will be telling you about what I want to be and do in the future. Hope you enjoy it.

Everyday I wake up to ask myself, What do I want to be or do in the future? But to be honest if someone asks me that I always say that I want to be a flight attendant because it sounds very interesting, even though I say that I am still not even sure about it. But after I say flight attendant in my head I always tell myself “why did i say that” because after I say “flight attendant” another interesting job just pops up in my head. Like being a lawyer.

One day I went to the airport to say goodbye to my uncle. As soon as he left I saw a 2 lady’s walking and they were dressed as a flight attendant but before they walked in, one of them stopped and took 2 big deep breaths. I thought to myself, is she nervous I never knew that being a flight attendant was a hard job, so I asked myself again What do I want to be or do in the future? When we left the airport we were going back home and I asked myself again What do I want to be or do in the future?

When I asked myself again I thought to myself saying “I think I should stop asking myself the same question everyday because I think that's why I don’t know what to be or do”. When I was going to bed something popped up in my head then I thought for a while why do I want to be this? And then I said “hmmm well I’ve been playing ever since year 2” then I said How am I going to do it? Then I said “I am going to do it but I really wanna know though”.

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Inquiry: Te Taha Whanau

Walt: Te Taha Whanau 

Task description: For this task our theme was Te Taha Whanau.

What is Te Taha Whanau? it describes your relationships with people that are important to you, and who are special to your life. Like friends, family, church member's, and people you love. Who are the people in your life? Who are important to you? How do they support you? 

Fast talking PI

Walt: Understand new information by making connections to my life, texts I know and the world

Task Description: for this task we had to read the poem that Selina Tusitala Marsh made it was called fast talking PI and on this slideshow we had to compare the poem to our lifes. 

Patterns

Walt: Follow our DMIC norms

Task Description: Last week we did a pattern sheet that we had to do with our group. What you do is you have to try and see if there is a pattern in the sheet, when you find the pattern you have to colour the whole thing in. one of the thing we found out was that every third pattern is a triangle. 

Letter to Ms Tapuke

Dear Ms Tapuke 

My name is Norah-Jade, I am a year 7 student at Pt England in the Team 5 block. I live in a family of 7 including me there’s 8, 3 sisters, and 3 brothers, I am the second eldest in the family, the youngest child in my family is 2 years old and the eldest is 14 My Mum is full samoan she was born and raised in New Zealand, My Dad is Half Samoan and a quarter tongan, he was born in Samoa and raised in New Zealand.

My favourite thing to do at school is play sport, my favourite sport of all is Cricket and Netball. I enjoy hanging out with my friends Jane, Nina, Oalii, Sivaenah, Madi, Alrida, and more. Early in the mornings I wake up and Read a chapter of my book “Moonfleet '' everyday, just not when I’m on camp.

At school I love to learn, my favourite subject is Reading and Writing, I love to do reading because I like to answer questions in slide shows and in person, I like to do writing because in my free time I get to write about anything, and because well I’m writing I can describe people and stuff in my own way. 

During the holidays I love going to the pools because it's like free time to me. I love to play board games and stuff with my family and friends. In my free time at home I like to read any books but especially not the ones that I read early in the mornings. 

Yours Sincerely 

Norah-Jade 

My first day in Intermediate

Talofa lava, Bonjour, Malo ni and Greetings to you all.

My name is Norah-Jade and this year I am a year 7 student at Pt England school. When I walked into the Team 5 block, it felt different because the people and the things that were around me were so different. I also felt really welcomed because they all were being so kind and helpful. My goal for this year is to stay focused when I am doing my work in class and to get good grades for my Reading and Maths tests and other stuff like that. I am looking forward to seeing what we'll be getting up to this year and to see what things we will be trying to achieve. 

For the first week of the term we have been doing lots of cool and fun art work and also hard learning, What we are learning right now is our Family Tree and the question is "how do I keep myself in balance: Physically, Spiritually, Mentally, and Socially".