He Kākano Term 2 2019 /Location and Directions

In He Kākano (our te reo maori class) we have been learning how to say basic directions to maori. I worked with Rebekah. See my slide show below.

Pyramids and Prisms DLO

In The Morning

In the Morning 

Bare feet 

hit frosty sand with a crunch.

Seagulls beckon me forward

with screeching, squawking sirens. 

Crisp, salty breeze 

wraps around me. 

The sun will be rising soon. 

I sit down 

on a squishy, soggy log. 

Waiting for sun. 

Waiting for warmth. 

Wild waves crash and smash

 in the midnight blue morning.   

Hunting For Cuboids DLO

We are learning to recognise and find the volume of cuboids. 

Hunger Games Book Review

Sasha Ellery.   Age 12  Room 8 
Hunger Games                                       
 Written by Suzane Collins 

Do you want to read an action packed, nail biting story? Well, the Hunger Games is the
story for you. This is a book full of drama, action and adventure. 

The Hunger Games are set in an arena in the Capital and in District Twelve. In the
country of Panem. The places are fictional. Hunger Games is set in the future. 

Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the book. She lives with her mother and sister
Prim in District Twelve.  She enjoys using a bow and arrow and hunting with her friend
Gale. She volunteers to take her sisters place to go to the Games. She ends up winning
but the story isn’t done there. 

Peeta Mellark lives in District Twelve with his parents. He works with his parents in a
bakery. He enjoys painting and icing cakes. Peeta has met Katniss before a few years ago
. Katniss was starving and slumped on the street. Peeta risked getting a spanking and
chucked Katniss some slightly burnt bread they were throwing out.   

When Katniss Everdeen volunteers to go to the Hunger Games she goes on a death
defying journey to keep herself alive. Katniss must find allies to win. When the rules
change Katniss has to fight to keep herself and Peeta alive. Will they make it out alive? 

The connections I have to Hunger Games are that I have a younger sister like Katniss
and Prim. I also have a cat like Prim’s cat Buttercup. I really enjoyed reading Hunger
Games because I enjoyed the action and tension. 

I recommend this spectacular book (and series) to people for 12 and over because
there is a lot of violence the very beginning. 
  

Words Of the Week Scratch

The past three weeks phrases are: "He aha te kupu maori mo?" (what is the maori word for?)
"ka pai to pangarua" (great maths) and "ka pai to panui" (great reading). Here is my scratch. 

Picture Book Study

Analogies DLO

Lake Daniell

Lake Daniell

On Wednesday the 12th of June, rooms one and eight, Ms Kemp, Mrs Robins and some
parent help went and walked Lake Daniell for the William Pike Challenge. We had also
been learning about hypothermia and how to prevent it.

We all got to school early. We got  in our car groups and drove to the walk. In my car
group was Kelly, My Mum, Grace, Nevey and Lily. It took an hour and a half to get to the
start of the walk. Everyone got into groups of three for our scavenger hunt. I was with
Dakota and Rebekah.  On the scavenger hunt everyone had to find a: Rainbow trout, a
kaka, a long tailed bat and beech trees. My group only found beech trees.

After 15 minutes of walking we stopped and had a break for everyone to catch up to
have a drink.  Everyone stopped twice more before getting to the hut. It took us about
two hours and 15 minutes to get to the hut. At the hut it started to rain. No one  could
go into the hut because they are rebuilding it. So everyone sat on a log and had lunch.
After everyone had eaten we started our walk back to the cars.

On the way back we only stopped once. It was much faster on the way back.
When we got to the sluice box on the way back most people chucked rocks
and sticks into the water. It was nice to get to the end so that I could sit down.
My legs hurt a bit. When everyone had finished we took a photo and got into our car
groups.

In Reefton my car group stopped and got chips. When we got back to Greymouth we
dropped everyone off and went home. We didn’t get home until 6 o’clock. I had an
awesome and tiring day, but I think everyone had fun.

The Umbles

NZ Giants

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Celebrating Be Us Poem

WALT: Identity, sensitivity, and respect ! Recognise instances of discrimination and act responsibly to support their own rights and feelings and those of other people.

Kupu O Te Wiki Comic Strip

Learning Intention

We are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language.

Success criteria:

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Road Safety Week

WALT: write within the persuasive writing structure.

Kea Patrol

I strongly believe that Kea patrol should remain in the afternoons. I think this
because Kea patrol helps people cross a State Highway which is extremely busy,
Kea patrol keeps everyone safe when crossing the chaotic main road and stops
accidents from happening.

Firstly, No one could disagree that kea patrol helps people cross a State Highway
safely.  I think this because kea patrol lets everyone cross at the same time so
traffic doesn’t have to keep stopping. Kea patrol also makes sure everyone crosses
the main road at the same time. Everyone would agree that  having primary school
age children cross anywhere and pop out from between cars is unsafe. Many schools
are on main roads so it is important that kids cross the road safely. Many cars,
motorbikes, gigantic trucks and camper vans come flying past our school. This is
dangerous! Students are still learning about road safety so they have to be
extremely careful. When we are on Kea patrol it is a good chance for the older
kids to be responsible role models for the juniors

Secondly, Surely you would agree that kea patrol keeps everyone safe when crossing
the threatening State Highway. Kea patrol keeps everyone safe by stopping the
traffic completely with the signs so that everyone can cross safely even if they
are excited or not paying any attention. Children  are excited to leave school and
go to sports events or after school activities with their friends. Even if someone
trips over at kea patrol they can get back up without getting run over. Without kea
patrol kids could run across the treacherous road and be hit by cars who are
pulling out from the side of the road and turning from Rata street. People also
have to watch for cars doing U-turns and cars pulling out from outside of the shop.
We also have to watch that cars are parked on either side of the road to pick up
their tired children.

Finally, Everyone would agree that kea patrol stops accidents from happening.
 Kea patrol stops accidents from happening by stopping the traffic and makes
sure everyone crosses the treacherous road at the same time.The signs we use
for kea patrol are big and bright so you can see them if the sky is dark.  
For example, if there wasn’t kea patrol and it is raining and it is harder to
see the road be because the sky is dark. If a child tries to cross a road and
the driver doesn’t them this could cause and accident. Last week an accident
happened outside of our school because the weather was raining and hard to see.
There was no kea patrol and a kid ran across the dangerous road then a car
stopped and the next car rammed into it. Having kea patrol in place would have
prevented this accident.

In conclusion I strongly believe that schools should keep kea patrol in the
afternoon. We should do this because kea patrol helps people cross the
treacherous main road, kea patrol keeps everyone safe when crossing a State
Highway and kea patrol stops accidents from happening.  

Comic Strip

Learning Intention

We are learning to represent a te reo message through visual language.

Success criteria:

Create a comic strip character who will be used to carry your understanding of each phrase of the week.

Draw the comic strip.

Here is my comic strip.

Taku Mōkai

In He Kakano we have been learning how to say the names of our pets and animals in Maori. Here is my slideshow. 

Classroom Kupu

We have been learning to say the names for classroom objects in Te Reo Māori. Here is the slideshow I did to show my learning.