He kakano Term 3 2019 DLO

Dlo

Writing - abandoned places

Abandoned places writing

Our learning goals are to:
-write a description using powerful words and phrases
include some Te Reo Maori
Carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling

Choose one of the above images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

Abandoned City

One day me and TEAM ZOMBS went looking for survivors after the big war. We got dropped/ngahoro off  out of the biggest helicopter in the world by Joe who is one of the ZOMBS TEAM members. Me and James went looking for survivors. We got loaded with guns. I got a flamethrower and James got a MINIGUN.

 I heard something as we were walking through the city and I was like, “Did you hear that James?” He said, “No.” Then he got shot in the leg! I went running/whakaomaoma to him. And I gave him bandages to wrap around his leg. Then we heard gunshots. Me and James went to have a closer look and there were two teams fighting. Then me and James were hiding in the trees until the fight was over. Once it was over  we went back to the abandoned city. There were cobwebs everywhere. I could smell the wet soggy dirt and wild peacocks which roaming around. I could also smell the wet soggy moss on the trees and on the side of the building.

 While I was searching the abandoned city all I could see was broken windows. There were cobwebs in the corners and on the windows. It felt paranormal. I could hear the peacocks screaming in the night. I could hear the birds and all the other animals tweeting and growling.  We could not find any survivors so we went back home. By Cooper

Making A paper plane

Introduction: Hi, today I researched how to make a paper plane. I have made a presentation of the instructions. When you have had a go, let me know how your plane flew, and maybe send me a photo. Smart Blogging.

My scratch project-Te Rea Maori

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week- Korero o te Wiki.

WALT:
- use scratch to code for computational
thinking
-learn how to create basic code on scratch
-say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori

Click here to see are our Korero  o te wiki- Phrases of the week
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1soDr946oBzf0tqOLumchhaizJ5VQemVC_Li8PvBwKHI/edit
See my scratch project here

My Marae Recount

   

Rm 7’s noho Marae                                               Experience

     

On the 1st-2nd of May rm5, rm7 and parents and some teachers  went to the local Marae  called Arahura Marae. We went to learn about the marae. When we got there we practiced our waita before the karanga started.

                      Going to Arahura river

 We got to go the Arahura river and your only allowed there if you get permission and you can only get permission by the marae staff. We were lucky to get permission to go there. We had to go down a steep hill to get to the Arahura river and then we went down this path. Then we got to the river and Jerry told as a little bit about greenstone. He said don’t look for green, look for a crispy white colour. Then me James, Joe and Jack went looking on the river bed. We kept finding some but it wasn't greenstone. Then Joe and James found greenstone.  After that we were finished so we walked back up the path and up the steep hill. Then we walked back to the marae.    

                                 

Story about carvings

When we got back from the Arahura River, Jerry told us a little bit about some of the the carving and the stories about the carvings. I really enjoyed them and there was three chiefs that went to Lake Mahinapua. They came from the East Coast to fight the West Coast because of pounamu. But there was one chief on the West Coast that knew they were coming so he changed the weather to really bad and their waka’s tipped and some drowned and others got to shore but the chief from the West Coast sent other fighters to the shore and killed the people from the East Coast. So three days later another chief from the East Coast searcher to get the three bodies of the top chiefs because he wanted to take them home to bury.   But he could not carry the 3 bodies so he cut of their heads and took them back to burry them.

                                                 

                                    Evening rotation

   In the evening we did our evening rotation. I stared with Adrian and Phaedra. We started with a game called rats and rabbits. I was a rabbit and Noah was a rat so I versed him and when Phaedra called rats the rats would chase the rabbits and tag the rabbits so the rabbits did not get to the end. But when she called rabbits the rabbits would have to chase the rats so the rats don’t get to the other side. When we finished that game we played hockey but with a big ball  and newspaper for the stick. Then we played one more game. It was just like ping pong but you could not hit the ball and the the ping pong bat was a paper fan.

Personal Comment

 For the first time going to a marae it was not as bad as I thought. I thought the food was going to be bad but it was amazing. I thought it was going to be small but it was really big. I learnt more about the Māori culture than I thought I would have and I really enjoyed it. 

By Cooper 

If I had wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky ( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.