Gumboot Friday

                                       Gumboot Friday

Last Friday some of Te Waka Ako wore gumboots to support mental health.

We also made some cards and wrote positive and nice messages  on the cards. There was at least 100 cards we each got two cards each so in each group you should at least have 10 to 14 cards. If we ran out we had to come back to school we only went from school to up Glass road to Hillsborough road. we even delivered it to somebody in Te Waka Ako. People donated nearly 1 million dollars for Gumboot Friday one of the students in the Healthy Puketapapa Student questionnaire gave this idea to the teachers and the teachers decided to do it                             

We Went to put the cards in letter boxes. They decided it be on gumboot Friday it also links in with our inquiry topic Well-Being. We gave cards to people that thought could need them and today we got an email  from a mother that her son read it and got lifted by it. We also got another email from the old Deputy Principal saying she got a card and she also got so surprised and she also got lifted by the message on it, she even took a photo of it And sent it to Sally also sent to us. Some people even made five cards or even 6

Cards. We all went in different directions one of the groups went to Glass Road and the others went Hillsborough Road or just a little further than the others the people that got in their letter box they can send it further than we went. Here is an example of mental health pretend the gumboots is your mental health and the mud is the bad thoughts about you and your wading through it if you struggle you have bad mental health if you don’t you got good mental health it was the best time of my day.

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the tragedy

Last Monday we went to a very important assembly, and we went outside and we planted a tree  to remember the people who are gone. We had to  put down cards that each classroom made. We made cards for different groups of people. The first group was firefighter's, police and ambulance. These groups. And were the people that had a big response to this man's doing and they got to it very fast.
In Te Waka Ako we signed a treaty to say that we would listen and do are work and be kind and to respect each others differences. The money that as been donated is 9,083,865.33 dollars  and that is a lot to help the family's that have been effected by this horrible horrible tragedy that happened in Christchurch.
The schools that were in lock down were in shock because the were in lock down for 4-5 hours
straight.
This has made me feel worried because this has happened in NZ.
Here is a site if you want to donate some money, 5 dollars or more up to you blog ya later

   

Welcome to my blog we have been learning to use talk to type.  And we have been doing talk to type for at least 4 weeks and we have used it for poems and our other work too. Its is very fast it might do wrong words you can fix that. You can spell tricky words that you don’t know very well. Also helps us to work faster and  concentrate. It helps us to not talk to other people and do paragraphs fast. It also helps us to work harder and challenge us with this tool. This tool also helps us to do stuff much faster, like writing and maths and inquiry.

out smarting cybersmart

   Today in Cybersmart we played the Cybersmart game we had challenges and games and we had tasks to do.   Blog ya later