🏠 Lockdown 2.0! Staying Home Once Again...

 Good Morning my fellow blog readers! Today, I will be talking about, drumroll please...  ...  another lockdown! As you all know (hopefully you all know), that there is a Covid - 19 pandemic around the globe. Since the time when it first started in May 2020, New Zealand has been keeping the ice in the freezer. Until Delta opened the freezer and put all the ice in the microwave, set it to 30 seconds, and then opening the microwave door, so that all the water starts to spill all over the 5 million people of New Zealand. 

Now that Delta has had an outbreak, the schools of Aotearoa are back in the pit of digital learning. My class, MLH  (Moana Learning Hub), have been doing Google Meets for our learning groups called Workshops. Our Workshops include Reading, Writing, Math, and Strand Math; I am in L3+ Reading, L3 Writing, L3+ Maths, and L3 Strand Math. Our whole class also do set of arrangements called 'Priorities'. These include:

• 2 Quickwrites (A story of about 3 paragraphs)
• 4 Math Whizz progressions/gems (Math Whizz is a site made by Whizz Education)
• 1 Blog (This is my blog for the week!

And... 

• 1 Blog Comment to your Blogging Buddy (Your Blogging Buddy is a randomly chosen student in the class that comment on each other's blog)

In Lockdown, we do one more Priority, StepsWeb (StepsWeb is a word work site used to help kids with their vocabulary). Usually, I get my Priorities done to a high standard at the end of the week on Thursday; I have a LOT of workshops. 

Working at home with my family is really fun, well, most of the time. My brother has a Google Meet everyday at the same exact time, in the morning, so when somebody is trying to do their work, hint hint, me, I can barely get anything done because my brother is yapping away at his friends. Yaaaay.

This Lockdown we have a schedule for when our workshop meets are. On Monday, it's Math, on Tuesday, it's Writing, on Wednesday, it's Reading, on Thursday, it's Math again, then Writing again on Friday. Each block is a different workshop, and there is a lunch break, and a couple of priority breaks. Lots of kids work after school hours, which is pretty good choice, saying that there is a lot going on during the day. 

That is all I have to say about our new Lockdown 2.0, I hope you enjoyed it, and have a great rest of your day, without any family members annoying you during this distressed Lockdown.

Your weekly Blogger, Kale'a🐱

Luna Is Back!

 A few months ago we had a lost kitty, Luna. The last day before lockdown, we got new kittens (I wrote another blog about getting them)! We re - named them Skye and Luna. 

We have been trying to not let them outside at night. But, My mom went to pick me up, and she stayed outside. 4:00pm, still outside. 6:00pm, still outside. 8:00am, still outside. It had been three days since we had seen her. She had posted on facebook about Luna. One day my mother went shopping at countdown, and she got a notification from facebook. It was a man and he said that he might have our Kitten! She texted back saying she’ll be back in half an hour. 

She drove home and said where he lived. And… He was our neighbour! She drove home and walked over. They chatted for a little while, then she brung her back home.

I am so happy that Luna is back, and I think Skye is as happy as me.

Mahalo, Kale’a 🐈

New House Part 1

New House Part 1:

Yay! At the beginning of February, we started building our new dream house up at Gaddums Hill, Gisborne! I was so excited when I heard the good news. Right now, there is about 3 more months until we move in, and I wish we could move in straight away. Week 1:

Concrete was being poured, hole dug, foundation drying. Week 2: Wall framing goes up, stabilizing wood up, wall in place :D. Week 3: Break! Week 4: Order windows, paint. Week 5: Roof on! Week 6: Walls up outside, windows in. Week 7: Painting. Week 8: Plumbing, Water Tanks. Week 9: NOW

I can’t wait until the day comes when we move in. Today is Wednesday and we have been looking at some sinks, toilets and vanity. Thank you for reading part one of My New House!

Mahalo, Kale’a

Week 8 Blog Post

Lockdown Learning

Stuck in a house with two annoying brothers but loving cats and parents!?! That had been the most stressful thing in my entire life. Well, the positive thing was lockdown learning. Most people might have not enjoyed learning from home as much as I had, but it was WAY easier to get work done. I also enjoyed it because I had company which got me boosted (I am not talking about my family, I am talking about my cats ). 

On the 25th of March lockdown started. I can’t believe I even survived!

Each week we would have a new subject and tasks to work on including Anzac, Animal Kingdom, World Famous, Story Time and Our World. There were hands-on activities and discovery activities. I really enjoyed the activities that were chosen and the fancy friday google meets. I was filled with laughter and joy when I saw the costumes.

The one thing about being at home and with learning included, was getting the beautiful and cute little kitties we had gotten. There were some disasters but I enjoyed the lockdown very much (except for my brothers) and I hope you did too.

Thank you for reading, Kale’a

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Our New Kittens

Our New Kittens

As I watched cartoons on the TV, mom called me and Gavin into her room.  She said that our landlords (the owners of our house) had actually have cats! I was very inflamed because it i my dream to have cats in New Zealand. We are building our new house right now and it is the last time you can adopt pets at the SPCA because of the lockdown from coronavirus.
I was extremely excited to hear this extraordinary news.

At The SPCA

We drove through the curvy roads and finally we got to the SPCA. Dad, Gavin and I walked through the stinky door into the SPCA. We saw all of the cute, little cats meowing and sticking their paws through the wired doors. Dad chose the cage with all the female tabbies in it. Dad slowly opened the door so none of the kittens could escape and we scurried into the smelly room with the small kitties.



Choosing The Right Cats
My skinny, long, legs shook as we tiptoed  on the slippery floor. The soft fur of the kitties felt amazing. Coralie, our landlord said that she only wanted two furry friends in our rental house though, so we could only take two. I loved the one that rubbed my legs like crazy
(you will see the new names of the new kitties at the end of the blog*).



Adopting The Felines
Dad called mom saying we had to choose quickly because they were going very fast and we would get kicked out.  We chose one playful, and one gentle. Dad got a form and filled it in while Gavin went to get mom. They switched and Dad went back to work. The kittens got put into a box and me, Gavin, and Kalen went into a shady spot on their yard. Mom finished the forms and got booklets for information about the new members of the family. We packed up and left the SPCA for the last time.
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A Success
My family's new bundles of joy have been behaved, but not always :). Playful, kind, joyful and soft, these young kitties have settled in just fine. I am very grateful to have these kittens and I hope the others that used to be at the SPCA have good homes too.Thank you for reading about my beautiful new kittens.

Yours Sincerely, Kale'a.
* Their new names are Skye and Luna.

Thank You!
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Hope You Enjoyed! :D