💐Advent : A Season Of Hope And Anticipation💐

What is Advent

Preparation for the commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ

The Symbols 

1. The Advent wreath is one of the best known symbols of Advent. It usually includes three purple candles and one rose or pink candle. The white candle symbolize Christ.
2. The Jesse tree helps us connect the tradition of decorating Christmas trees to the occasions leading to Christ's birth
3. An Advent calendar shows the passing of the days of the season.
4. Nativity scene is used to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ

📜Writing Poems📜

Last week, we have been learning how to write a poem and types of poems. In Kakapo Class, WALT understand what a poem is, understand the different structures of poems, understand that poems have a different structure to the writing. The first poem that I wrote was about Christmas. 

Oh I feel, I feel, I feel so loved. By the person beside me, 

the person behind me, and the person above. Lots of cries and lots of 

laughs, and lots and lots of photographs. In those photos I can see a happy 

happy family. As we sat together under the canopy, we ate roasted pork that was 

cooked perfectly. Laughter and memories came along and then we sang a 

Christmas song.

Types of Poems

1. Acrostic Poem
2. Cinquain Poem
3. Clerihew Poem
4. Concrete or "Shape" Poem
5. Diamante Poem
6. Found Poem
7. Free Verse Poem
8. Haiku Poem
9. Limerick Poem
10. Tanka Poem

This week, I still haven't worked on my poem yet and I don't know what I will write about actually. How about you? What type of poem would you use and what would you write about?

👍Knot Tying👍

Lately, Kakapo learned about knot tying. They learned about the types of knots and what knot is fit for whatsoever. We used a one meter rope to practice for our upcoming camp. The knots were hard to master but I had a teammate to help me with it. "I feel like this is a good skill to have because you never know what's gonna happen!" Priyanci said who mastered the knot tying skill. There were 8 types of knots.

Overhand knot

Half Hitch

Half Knot

Square Reef

Figure 8

Slip Knot 

Noose Knot


What types of knots do you know or you have skilled?

😁IM A NINJA😁

Today I became a GOOGLE DOC NINJA! I received the Green, Red, White and Black belt. For me to gain this,  I needed to do a lot of things such as - highlighting the words, making them big or small, changing the font, changing the margins, inserting images and more. There were levels as well. The White Belt is Level 1, The Green Belt is Level 2, The Red Belt is Level 3 and the Black Belt is Level 4! It wasn't hard, It was challenging. I finished quite a bit faster than I thought and  there were some bits that I needed help with too. What I learned about is how to find the "word count" that counts all of the words that are in the document. We had one hour to complete the challenge.
Thanks to Matawai School, we found out about this Google Doc Ninja Challenge.  Our Manaiakalani facilitator , Whaea Donna helped us when we needed it.

 

🙏👼All Saints Day On Pompallier Catholic School🙏👼

On the 1st of November 2018, The students of Pompallier Catholic School dressed up as a Saint for All Saints Day. Some students dressed up as Mary Mother of Jesus, Saint Joseph, Saint Raphael, Saint Michael and More! "I chose her for my confirmation and I thought it would be nice to represent her and dressed up as her," said Emma who dressed up as Saint Lucia.