Will.I.Am Donates $100,000,00 To Manaikalani

Faith,Taylor,Jayden, Mavis got the chance to experience another way of  learning with the Manaiakalani. A fantastic piece of news which came to us as "Someone donated some money to the Manaikalani education trust" Well we found out that someone was MrWill.I.Am

I hope you enjoy reading my awesome experience below 

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Thursday 6 May 2013, was well... the best day of our life!!! I’m not being dramatic or anything but a group of students got the chance to see that Mr.William James Adams,otherwise known as Will.I.Am . He has donated $100,000 to the Manaiakalani Education Trust. We were told at first that it was an anonymous donater but when we arrived we got the news that it was Will.I.Am himself who had donated the money.It was something worth experiencing.

When the cheque was presented we were thankful and honored for his helpful donation towards the Manaiakalani Education Trust. His inspirational words motivated us all as students to keep moving forward in life.

The words that he preached today was "My mission is to help transform disadvantaged youths, and I hope my donation to the Manaiakalani Trust will help these young people gain the skills they need for tomorrow's job market."

We acknowledged that fact the he shared a small portion of his life with us about growing up with  only his mum to raise him and about the fact that music and arts literally saved his life. He told us that his dream was to look after his mother and siblings.

When he told us what his dream was we felt like we could do something with our life. Meeting or hearing him wasn’t just hearing or seeing him as a celebrity but we got to hear and see him as a person who motivated himself to succeed in life.

We came back to school feeling glad we got to be part of something worth remembering, we got to be part of something we could tell our friends with pride and experience.

My Reading Group Goals For Term 2

After sitting our e-asTTle test this week we analysed our group pathways which helped us identify our group reading goals for this term. Here are my group reading goals:

• WALT: use skimming and scanning skills to locate specific information. (Find, select, retrieve)

• WALT: use our knowledge of strategies to solve/read unknown words so that we gain meaning from the text.

• sWALT: make inferences to help us identify the main ideas and to evaluate the author's purpose for writing the text.

Fractions Presentation

This is a presentation that me, Timothy and Fabian put together for maths it is about simple fractions. Enjoy.

Topic Language Popplet

This is a popplet that Lutimi, Edward and me put together for our inquiry. We had to find the definition of these words. Enjoy.

Matter of fact

This is my groups presentation and identifed that with different kind of ice

Fractions Popplet

This is my popplet of this terms topic in maths,Fractions. I have learnt a lot of new maths language from this topic. Enjoy.

My Ancestral Poem

I am a proud Samoan with no shame to hide sometimes I lie but nothing will take away my Samoan pride.

I am a male,

boy not a girl,

a loud 12 year old pearl.

A proud Samoan who loves fire dancing, throwing fire in the air, trying to bare the heat with sweaty hair.

A Samoan who likes slap dances, hearing my ancestors doing their chants and fighting for me in battle.

My ancestors live in me,

their past decisions have shaped who I am today and if it weren't for them my days will feel like rain.

I will take my ancestors with me,

They may not be with me physically but they will be with me in spirit just like the wind.

I see myself inside an arena fighting for the championship title against John Cena.

I will rise in the future with my ancestors cheering for me and crying tears of joy.

I will succeed with the comfort and love of my ancestors.