Here is a selection of my learning that I wish to share. Not all my work will be perfect all of the time as I am a work in progress. I welcome positive and helpful comments.
Kia ora, My name is Izzy, I go to rangikura school and this is my first blog post in 2017. Today i will explain Tamaiti moa. Tamaiti moa Means Whanau + community + school = Kids come first. If your wondering why kids come first well… If your an auldt you will look after the kids so in the next genoration the kids ( who will now be adults ) will look after the other newborn kids.
France 1889. the eiffel tower stands complete and ready to be unravelled to everyone in paris. Unfortunately the pirate cats have flew to paris and took down the eiffel tower and created a rock sculpture of the pirate captain. Can geronimo and his friends stop him?
Before we began our writing in small groups we discussed the importance of using descriptive writing, using similes and metaphors where appropriate, using dialogue and have done our best to make sure our punctuation is correct. Some of us have even used ‘Show Don’t Tell’ in our writing to provide our reader with more of an experience.
Our teacher gave us 10 minutes for each paragraph and then 10 minutes for editing at the end. We had so much fun working together!
If you have a moment, we would love you to comment on our writing.
Boy Overboard!
In the Morning Jack was fishing with his father, he went to see the beautiful view. He leaned over the side just in the wrong time as the wave hit the boat he fell into the icy water Jack screaming for help “HELP” he saw some sharks teeth chattering under the water. He yelled at his dad for help but the dad was listening to some music. Jack quickly swam to the boat but his
I can hear the sharks grinding their teeth together and the finn bobbing up and down. Jack’s heart was pounding as fast as a bolt that is shrinking earth.. Jack screamed for help “HELP” yelled Jack and then he saw Sharks coming towards him. Hi was terrified from the skanks that are gazing in front of them.
Jack along with other shark’s smelled the petrol which bring the sharks to the boat and gave Jack time to escape from the area of sharks. He quickly swam away from the sharks and swam to the other side of the boat but will he be fast enough to save his life?...
Written by Matatia, Va’aitino and Izzy
Izzy:
I think I shared helpful ideas for my group and helped a lot to share my knowledge to give people
Matatia:
I think we did good because we shared ideas to each others. I did good because I had to type well my friends gives me some amzaing ideas and also punctuation I love my moment in time.
Va’aitino
I think i shared good and helpful ideas to cooperate to my ideas and to my buddys ideas.
Kia ora . This is my cube reflecting on the past and the future like people who have past away in the past , our goals for the next twelve months and people that is important to you and that mean well to you i wrote mum and rob , for the people who have past in you'r family i wrote grandad and my goals were to be helpful and be respectful. People also do this during matariki to reflect on there past
Kia ora
Today me and Benjamin made a manu/kite for the matariki celebration. To do this hard work it
actually took us a long time ( about three days mostly weaving ). Also we tried not to get burned from the hot glue gun (it burns its really hot ).
The easy part was measuring and the hard part was weaving. We used flax, wool and toetoe.
To make the manu tukutuku you have to show your Tikanga and respect. Tikanga means why we do what we do, This respect me and my class have to show is that we cut up all of the tiny parts of flax into smaller pieces. Benjamin was a great helper because help is needed
Just incase you don't know what matariki is, it is a star there is also waiti, waita,tupu-a-nuku, tupu-a-rangi uru-a-rangi and wai-puna-rangi. They are bad because they tried to force their husbands to death.
But that is just the story of the mÄoris.
Anyway that's a whole nother page I am just talking about the celebration if you've been there you should know what happens I will name some things you will see, feasts , knuckle bones, kapa haka but as you should know about now maori people always say a karakia before they eat .
We have not tried to fly the manu tukutuku (i do not even know if we will it's too thin). For our celebration we had a festival in the hall , also we wrote some people that have past in the past.
Matariki is a time to reflect our goals and then set another goal.
