About Me

Hi, My name is Sam and I am a Year 5 student at Mt Carmel School. I wanted to participate in the Summer Blogging as I was with my mum when Rachel came to talk to her class. I asked my mum if I can join. Finally she agrees and I am very keen to journey through with so many children around New Zealand.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Maths Week Five.

This week in maths this is what i have been doing with magic squares.

1

12
7
19
9
16
25
21
23
44


2
22
18
40
13
24
37
35
42

Friday, May 11, 2012

Faith is our virtue!


FAITH!
  • Believe.
  • Trust.
  • Love.
  • Courage
  • being faithful to others.
  • deciding to do good choices.
  • Joyful to people closer to you.
  • pray at all times with god and have faith.
  • Confidence
  • it is a Feeling
  • Belief
  • Moving on with God
  • Importance of knowing God.
  • Trust in a person or thing.
  • Believe in God or the teaching of religions.
  • A system of of religious belief.
  • Knowing the truth.
  • A great word to know.
  • People have good Faith in their selves.
  • Steadfast.
  • Born again.
  • Faith is healing.
  • Divine healing.
  • Feeling like your born again.
  • Strong or unshakable belief in something.
  • a specific system of believing in something.
  • Something relating to God.
  • Devine Mercy.

Definition of faith

The foregoing analyses will enable us to define an act of Divine supernatural faith as "the act of the intellect assenting to a Divine truth owing to the movement of the will, which is itself moved by the grace of God" (St. Thomas, II-II, Q. iv, a. 2). And just as the light of faith is a gift supernaturally bestowed upon the understanding, so also this Divine grace moving the will is, as its name implies, an equally supernatural and an absolutely gratuitous gift. Neither gift is due to previous study neither of them can be acquired by human efforts, but "Ask and ye shall receive."

The: habit of faith and the life of faith

a) We have defined the act of faith as the assent of the intellect to a truth which is beyond its comprehension, but which it accepts under the influence of the will moved by grace and from the analysis we are now in a position to define the virtue of faith as a supernatural habit by which we firmly believe those things to be true which God has revealed. Now every virtue is the perfection of some faculty, but faith results from the combined action of two faculties, viz., the intellect which elicits the ae in act, and the will which moves the intellect to do so; consequently, the perfection of faith will depend upon the perfection with which each of these faculties performs its allotted task; the intellect must assent unhesitatingly, the will must promptly and readily move it to do so.lief


We are learning about FAITH. We made up an assembly about faith.Faith is what in your everyday prayer.

FORMAL ENGLISH WEEK 5

Wednesday
Week 5:-
Learning Focus:-   
Prefix: - un means not
Task:  find as many words you can that has un infront of it.
          Example - unhappy

  • Unassuming-assuming
  • Unavoidable-avoidable
  • Unbearable-bearable
  • Unbelievable-believable
  • Uncanny-canny
  • Uncertain-certain
  • Unpleasant-pleasant
  • Unkind-Kind
Verb - action word,
Adverb - describe the action verb.
ly -  is a suffix you add to a word to make it an adverb.
Example - Angelica sings beautifully at mass. - How did Angelica sing - beautifully

Task:  -  add adverbs to these verbs and put them into sentences.
talk, run, walk, look, crawl
I talk to Salamona
I run as fast as I could.
I always walk around the Panmure Basin two times.
I look around sometimes.
I asked my little baby cousin to crawl to me.
Noun:  name of things.
Adjectives:   words used to describe the noun
Example:  Sione is a lazy boy  -  lazy is an adjective,  boy is the noun.
            What kind of boy is Sione? - Lazy boy
Salamona is always in to working on the netbook.
Siliva and Daniel are best friends with Catherine.
Mrs.Tui always dresses beautiful work.
Task: -
Adjective,Verb,Subject,Noun.


Mrs.Tui is a teacher that teaches children.
Mrs.Tui-Subject
Teacher-Subject
A-Article
Is-Verb (Supporting Verb)
Children-Noun


We are learning to identify the part of speech in a sentence.

Genevieve is a lazy girl.
Genevieve -- subject
is -   verb ( supporting verb)
a, the  -  article
lazy - adjective
girl - noun.

DIG DIG DIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!


DIG DIG DIG!!!
“WHAT?” I said.”We are going to dig for worms?”I included.Mrs Tui said we are digging for worms.”But why?” I said.So I stomped outside like the feet of a giant walking down the road in the wind.But I felt like I was going to sneak back inside because of the WORMS!!!.”Stop Phoenix stop touching let go of the shovel.”I told him.”NO”.He says to me.We went to find a shady area for us to dig away into space.So Room Seven and I were digging away.


“Come down to this end Lavinia!.” Says Salamona.So we followed Lavinia like little ants following the leader.We barged in between a group.”Sorry”.I say.We continued to dig,dig,dig but still no more worms.Are you kidding me!?.The ground was dried like a solid rock we can’t lift up.But Catherine came in like a strong woman and digged away.


After that little space we digged on,we kept on moving which was not really  cool at the moment.Suddenly I turned around, I saw Genevieve with a water bucket.I yelled out “Genevieve,Genevieve,Genevieve over here bring that whole bucket of water here”.So she ran over to my group like she’s been caught from a thunder storm. She tipped it in while I was starring at nothing.It was my turn at least to dig so I digged and digged but nothing was there but the problem was that big ROOTS were in the way.But the excitement was... I FOUND A WORM!!.At least we found TWO worms.How cool was that?.But the problem was that we caught one long earth worm with blood.And one was okay because it was short.

After a tiring experience,I think it was pretty cool finding earth worms.We ran like the wind back to class and got on with our learning.So rain come and make the earth worms grow.DIG,DIG,DIG,DIG,DIG,all day long.

Maxine Vaihu - Year 7

Questions by Petelo and Maxine.


1. HOW DO THEY PUNISH CHILDREN?1. THEY PUNISH THEM BY WHACKING THEM WITH E RULERS.
2. HOW DO CHILDREN GET TO SCHOOL FASTER WITHOUT BUSES, CARS OR TAXIS?2.THEY GET TO SCHOOL FASTER BY RUNNING OR USING OR HARD SHEETS OF PAPER.
3. WHAT DID THEY WRITE ON WHEN PAPER WAS NOT INVENTED?3. WHEN PAPER WAS NOT INVENTED THEY USE TO WRITE ON ANIMAL SKIN OR THE TREES.

About The Blub at the back of the book


About the blurb at the back of the book!
Maxine-This is the book that I wanted to read-  Mayday by G BRASSI
These are a few books that she has wrote
Four of them are..
Attacked,Maday,Skull Island and Paperchase.
I like reading this book because it’s like a mystery to be solved and It also looks like a adventure.
I love reading stories about adventure and I am very interested in this book.
I also love this author because she understands what she is reading and besides she has her own imagination.
Salamona-  Very exciting can’t wait to dig into another chapter.
A’leina -I felt like this book was going to be an mysterious book for me to read. That’s why I picked this book because it might be an interesting book to read.  I don’t know this author but I am going to learn more about G BRASSI. When I read this book  I wonder what would happen to dad.






Nominating A Honours Badge Leader

I nominate :- Angelica Siale

The reason being are:- She takes part in leadership and is responsible for her actions


Example of leadership in Room 7Example of leadership in the whole schoolexample of leadership to promote the special character of our school
Helping Mrs.Tui, Taking Control in what she does.
Zumba, Jump Jam, Participating in what are noticed in the school newsletter.
Representing our school at different areas and in public, She sings at church with praise and courage.









A Girl Named Annabelle


A Story About A Girl.

In a time, when everything you have, it is taken away from you the next day.
There was a girl who was wondering around the woods. Her name was Annabelle. She was a wonderful girl. It all started when she was five years old. Her parents were taken away from her so she grew up in the streets and she was taken to prison.



After five years in jail, she was released from prison because her dad’s friend helped her and her dad’s friend gave her a box which her dad would write to her and left a picture that lead her to the people that ruined his life.



Three years later her dad’s house was for sale and then she realized that it was her father’s house so she bought it. There was a lady living next to her and her name was Samantha she was Annabell’s mum but Annabelle doesn’t know her but she had a husband named  Jake.


At the end she killed all the people who ruined her dad’s life accept her mum and step sister because she accepted them to come back into her life again and started over again.



The End!!!!

Week 3 Reading Circle Template!


WEEK 3

TITLE OF THE BOOKMayday! By G brassi
PEOPLE IN THE GROUPZeph Salamona, A’leina, and maxine
ROLES:Discussion Director-Maxine
Word finder Director-Salamona
Selection Director- Zephaniah
Summary Director-A’leina
DISCUSSION DIRECTOR
Maxine

Write four to six questions about what you have just read. These questions will be used for group discussion during the next reading session. Think about the question helpers in the box below.
Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?
Details? Inferred? What if? Opinion?



Why does dad love joey the most?

Where does Uncle Matt park BELLA?

Who was waving the plastic bag in the air?

What was not going to last long?

Where was aunty Judy standing?

How does dad no the rubber boats not going to last long?
WORD FINDER DIRECTOR
Salamona

Find four to six interesting, powerful or tricky words from today's reading. Write them below along with the page number. Use flags to mark those words. You will be asked to share those words during our next guided reading meeting.
“Rainwater’s getting It plays Havoc with the wiring. 7/5
He gave Aunt Jude the Mooring Ropes. 8/5 The men had started the engine and were revving it noisily. 8/5
“Best speed for Trolling, Uncle B
en,”
Selection Director
Zephaniah

Pick the most interesting part of the story and write down.
Why did you pick this part?
Most of the islands around here are sanctuaries and you’re not allowed to land on them,but people live on slipper.

We were aiming for a small harbour in the last one.
Summary Director
A’leina

Write two to three paragraphs summarizing the chapter or today's reading. Use the chart that guides you through summarizing.
Today’s story took place in the sea. It was talking about Lee and Dad going fishing.
And we untied knots from the net full of fish.That’s why you should pick my mum for the duffy award.

My Mother!!!


MY MOTHER!!!!

I want my mother to win the duffy award because she cares for me like I care for her. She loves me and my brother like no other. She is so special in so many ways.
My mother is like a beautiful rose on her hair.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Our First time at Basketball.

Today we started with Basketball. Our first day of our new sport. We had a coach that use to play basketball. But he said he retired. We had to be extra quiet because the parish has mass today. We were near the courts.

His name was coach Bruce and our other coach was late and his name was coach Wayne. He is our instructor.

After our time of fun we had to end ourselves with a game called shoot the ball. Dorothy and Lavinia’s team  unfortunately won the game. But i had fun though even if we lost. I was thinking to myself why is this intresting to me?I still have a chance of playing basketball next week.

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