Chinese New Year

This is a poster to do with the Chinese new year. Harper and I created this poster on Canva which is a really cool site. We have been learning about heaps of festivals and this is just one of them. Hope you like it :)

Aoraki Pūrākaua

This is Aoraki Pūrākaua which is the legend of Aoraki we had to re tell the story in groups. We also did this really cool art work about it which has Aoraki standing tall in the middle of his other brothers. Both things were really fun  so I hope you like them!

The story of Aoraki

My artwork

Arthur's Pass Camp

 Here is my camp site which has everything that we did to prepare for it and then of coarse what we did in Arthur's Pass. I hope you enjoy it!

Click here to see my camp site!

Literacy work

Click here to see my heat exhaustion writing 

We have been preparing for our class camp at Arthur's Pass during literacy. One of the DLO's is a hypothermia information pack and then the link is for my heat exhaustion writing. Did you know that when you get hypothermia you feel hot even though your cold and when you get heat exhaustion you feel cold when you are really hot.

Show don't tell 3

This week we had to fill in a show don't tell showing how people have felt in the book so far. We just finished the book running wild and the ending was great I loved it. I hope you enjoy :)

Timeline Running Wild!

This week during literacy we had to create a time line on what has happened so far in the book running wild written by Michael Morpurgo. This task was really fun so I am so glad that it was set for us this week. I hope you like it! :)

Shadow art

During lock down we got to chose to do this shadow art task. I chose to do it because it looked really fun. I also got my family involved. I hope you like it :)

Paralympic Choices

 

 

This week and during lock down we had to chose a few things to do of a choice board to do with the Paralympics. I chose to do the host poster from another year of the Paralympic games I chose Rio because I think it is a really cool place. The other one I chose was the one about explaining to people what boccia is. I hope you love this post :) 

Oona's Story

This week we had to create a story on Oona's perspective until where we are up to now in the story running wild.

Oona’s Story Hi, my name is Oona and I am an elephant that gives rides on the sandy beaches of indonesia. Today there was just something about the sea that I didn’t like at all. I didn’t even go for my morning swim that I usually love so much. I just wasn’t going to take any chances with that water today. Today I had this really kind kid called Will riding me. He looked a little worried trying to get up onto me and when he was up he still held on to the rail very tightly he waved goodbye to his mother and we were off. 

 I loved these walks even though I did the same everyday I guess I just loved imagining what the kids' faces would be like as they rode me. We were about to turn around when I saw something way out on the horizon, something that no'one else could see a tsunami was coming. That was when I knew we had to go as far away from this very beach as possible. 

 I suddenly sprinted. I felt a little bad because Will, the boy that was riding me, nearly fell off at first but then he managed to get back up which I was very glad about. He was also probably wondering what I was doing as I suddenly ran into the jungle which was probably a bit scary for him. I just knew that the longer we walked along that beach the more danger we would be in. I ran for what seemed like days and nights while WIll was either sleeping or slapping my neck asking for food and water. Trust me I would get him food but only when we were a safe distance away. 

 One day when I was just walking we I came across a stream that had no crocodiles which was good so I decided to lie down in the middle so Will could get out and have a big drink of water. He must have been asleep or something because I ended up waiting there for quite some time. Well, it seemed like a very very long time. Finally I felt the wait of Will come off my back and saw WIll swimming across the stream to the other side where he sat and drinked for a long time and really wanted to play with him so I completely submerged myself under the water, the best hide and seek spot ever isn’t it? 

He got very grumpy at me. I don’t know why I was just playing. I think he thought that I had just left him so I decided to pop my head back up to the surface to see what he was doing. He looked quite surprised that I had just been trying to play with him and he actually started playing with me which was really fun. 

 We started walking again and I picked some figs from high up on the branches and gave them to Will. He was really grateful. I ate some too of course but mainly just leaves and twigs. 

 We walked for a few more hours when I heard a snap of a branch and an orange and black striped shadow emerged into the clearing where we were both standing. It was a tiger. I had had many encounters with these creatures before so I was not worried. WIll probably was though. I said to the tiger to go away and leave us alone or I will stamp on you and you will cry in pain. Guess what he actually went away which is very cool I felt pretty cool too.

Tsunami Writing

This week during lock down we had to do a task on what it would of been like to be on the beach when the tsunami came and how you would feel. We have started a book called running wild and it is about a boy who is on an elephant when a tsunami comes on to the beach that he is riding on. This book is really good so far so maybe you could read it one day. Hope you enjoy it :)

Fold out picture art

This is my fold out picture art. It is really fun because you fold it a certain way that we you open it you draw on it more and it looks like it has a huge open mouth. I chose this cute backpack fold out picture to try but their were way more to chose from. It looks like a normal school bag but then when you open it its a scary school bag monster.

A moment in time

Last week in Ruma Whitu the Wai girls literacy group had to complete a journal response for one of the two moments in time on the left. This task was really fun because you got to think about how to write particular phrases into a journal form. I really enjoyed this task! Hope you like it :)

Athlete Research

This week we had to create a athlete research slide based on people from the Olympics and the Paralympics that were diverse in heaps of different ways. This week our WALT was to find information and write it in our own words. I learnt heaps of things about the athletes like how many medals they have and all about the athletes childhood. I really want to learn way more about the Olympics champions because it is really interesting. I hope you like my post :)

Aunty Megs Quotes

This week in literacy one of our tasks that we had to complete was a slide on three quotes that tell us about Aunty Megs character in the story 'Alone on a wide wide sea'. This task was really fun because we got to look through the book to find her best quotes. I hope you like this slide :)

Cooper Station advert

Last week we had to create an advert for Coopers Station which is a children working farm in the book by Michael Morpurgo called alone on a wide wide sea. of coarse we had to lie a little bit because Piggy Bacon is the owner of the working farm and he doesn't wan't to tell people how bad it really is. I really enjoyed doing this task so I hope you like it :)

New Ending Hana

This week during literacy we had to create a new ending for one of the characters in refugee. I really enjoyed doing this task because I love writing. This is the finished story of Hana I hope you like it. :)

Hana

At the start of my story I will tell you that Me and my family are drowning. That word is going to be part of my history for a long time because that was the last time I saw my family well. That was what I thought would happen.

We heard a motor coming our way. It sped past but Mahmoud, my big brother, grabbed on and begged for them to take me so I would not drown. After a while they agreed and that was the last time I saw my mothers lovely caring face. The boat that they had given me sped away and that was when the lady that was holding me started singing a lullaby. My eyes slowly closed while she was singing and she was stroking my hair. 

Fish swam past my face as I dreamed about my pet goldfish that we had to leave behind but in this dream he was swimming alongside me in the water, protecting me from all of the things that I had not yet seen. That dream was one of the best dreams I ever had but sadly it didn’t last long because soon enough I was waking up.

When I opened my eyes the lady that had been holding me was lying beside me. Suddenly I noticed that we were on land, yes we were on land. I tried to yell out in joy but all that came out of my chubby face was goo goo gaga. It was devisting that I was still a baby and couldn’t say anything. The lady said that the others had dropped us off here and then they had sped away and yes it meant that we were all alone.

That night the lovely lady made a big hut and lined it with ferns and then she lit a fire to cook some fish that she had caught. To be honest I didn’t know how she did it but somehow she did. The night went smoothly and so did the many years that we had been living there. I am 9 now and I have learnt how to survive in the wilderness and I have learnt how to catch a good looking fish as well which is pretty awesome.

I also learnt that the kind lady's name was Amelia and now I just called her mum because I didn’t really remember my other mother that much which was sort of sad. LIfe went really well from then on. We added more onto our hut and it started to get so big that some rooms had nothing in them. My room was by far the best. I had the best bed made from flax and moss. It is SOOO comfy. We made a little kitchen which had things like a fire, a big rock slab for a bench and then wooden cutlery that I made and big leaves that we used for plates.

That is pretty much all of my story that I have to tell because to be honest my story was pretty good except that I didn’t know if my family were still alive or had drowned in the middle of the deep dark ocean!

 

Matariki Food DLO

This week we have been learning heaps about matariki! For this task we a to create a DLO showing the food that they eat during the time of matariki. Me and my friend Lucy did this slide together so make sure to go check out her blog as well. I really enjoyed adding all the facts and information in this slide so I hope you like it. :)

Geometry DLO

This week our task in maths was to create a DLO showing everything that we had learnt while doing the geometry tasks in our dragon maths. I enjoyed doing this task because you got to add heaps of colour and heaps of my favourite geometry tasks could be squeezed into the little google drawing! It was really fun. Hope you like it!!!

Refugee Week 9

This week all of our activity's were on on slide. This week we read chapters 36-40 they were really interesting but also sad and scary. On this slide there is a page on vocabulary, a page on figurative language and of coarse all of the think and respond pages it was really fun hope you like it :)

Blobfish Habitat

This week in Ruma Whitu we have had to chose a marine animal and then write about its habitat. I chose a blob fish because they are a really interesting animal. This task was really fun because I learnt heaps more things about blob fish. I learnt that they lay their eggs on the bottom of the ocean and that is why I put it into my slide. Hope you like it!!!