A House or a Home?

A House or a Home?

In the 1800s, most Māori lived in villages called pa. Each village had many buildings – kauta where people cooked, pataka where they stored goods and wharepuni where the Māori slept. A traditional wharepuni had a thatched roof and walls made of timber, fern, rushes and bark. Look at the picture below of a traditional wharepuni. Does it look like your house?

On your blog, compare the wharepuni to your own home. What are two similarities and two differences between a wharepuni and your house?

My house we have a Door we have windows and we have a roof and walls.

Wharepunis have a Door we have windows and we have a roof and walls.

So that's what they have thats simulare.

well my dads house has timber walls but my mums house doesn't.

Anyway that's what I did.

Waka Ama

Bonus Activity: Waka Ama

To this day, the people of New Zealand still use waka. Instead of using their waka to transport them from one place to another, they sometimes use waka in special events and in sporting competitions such as Waka Ama. Both boys and girls compete in Waka Ama boat races.

Watch this short video of a Waka Ama race. On your blog tell us whether you would like to be in a Waka Ama race one day. Why or why not?

That's the activity I'm doing.

I wouldn't because I will get puffed strait away and I rather swimming and I'm not really competitive.

Setting Sail

Dear, Friend.

Activity 2: Setting Sail

The first settlers to come to New Zealand must have been really brave! They had to leave their original homes and sail thousands of miles across the ocean on a special boat called a ‘waka’ to reach New Zealand.

Imagine that you were on board one of the wakas. On your blog, write a short letter to a friend telling them about your voyage to New Zealand. In the letter be sure to tell them how you feel about moving to a new country. If it was me, I would have felt really nervous…

that's the activity i'm doing, please read this.

I would be really nervous what if someone was already there

and they attack us when we are going onto the island and if they

don't attack us and let us stay but they dont like me.

I would also be sad because I'm leaving my own house behind

and i would also be leaving a bit of my family behind.

Anyway I hope all goes well for us all on the waka.

Kind Regards, Abby.

Maui and the giant fish.

I'm doing the summer learning journey but I started late but I still want to try to do all of the weeks of it and this one is 3 facts about Maui that I got from the story Maui and the giant fish.

Here's the facts...

1. Māui dreamed of the day that he could go fishing with his older brothers. Each time his brothers returned from a fishing trip Māui would ask, "Next time, can I come fishing with you?"

But Māui's brothers would always make an excuse.

2.Secretly Māui hatched a plan to prove he was a great fisherman. One night when Māui was alone he began weaving a strong fishing line from flax. As he wove he recited an old karakia to give his fishing line strength.

3.The brothers were angry with Māui, but Māui spoke up.

"I have come to fish because Murirangawhenua said I would be a great fisherman. Let your lines down as I say my karakia and you'll catch more fish than you ever have."

Just a random thing I thought you should know...Over many hundreds and thousands of years, these gullies and mountains became part of the landscape of Aotearoa as we know it today. Birds, plants, animals and the people of Hawaiki populated the giant fish of Māui. And in time Māui's giant fish became known as the North Island of Aotearoa, and Māui's canoe the South island.

Thank you for reading this and please comment a few things that you know about Maui.

The Dingo and the Hunter

The Dingo and the Hunter

It was a rainy cold night, there were stars twinkling through the clouds, and you could just see a few stars,

All the people were celebrating the rain that had filled up the dry lakes.

A Hunter came along with a hunting boomerang

and found a Dingo just sitting on a sand hill

So the Hunter threw the boomerang at the Dingo,

But it missed.

Then the hunter saw a kangaroo and

threw it at the kangaroo,

But missed again.

The dingo noticed that the people were hungry,

And so was the dingo.

So the dingo attacked the kangaroo

and brought it to the people.

So they all ate.

My Magic Box

I will put in the box

The Roar of the biggest of the big cats on earth

The dust that a leopard puts up while he sprints past

And the force that a wolf will throw at you

I will put in the box

A leaf from the widest but shortest tree in the world,

The power of a eagles wings who goes as fast as a cheetah,

And the most pure stone.

I will put into the box

A tiger tickling a turtle

The first bark of a puppy

And a feather from the rarest bird

I will put into the box

The rarest gem

The rock that is as strong like a world champ wrestler

And the smallest tiger cub on earth

My box is fashioned with the purest and strongest wood with gold hinges,

My box is painted the deepest darkest black and the most pure gold to look like space like a field of dreams,

My box has the shiniest glitter colored lock with a matching key.

I will ride a tiger

I will ride the bravest strongest tiger through the biggest forest,

With the wind in my face from the speed and agility of the tiger,

Jumping over and going under branches till my box ends.

KEY

Personification

Alliteration

Similes

Metaphors

A&P Show

This is My slide of work about the A&P show. All the information is in this slide. I hope you enjoy.

The oceanmaker!!

The oceanmaker

Hi I’m Kawa and This is my story plus it  happened around 2 whole years ago but still I’m going to tell you now because now we have paper here anyway let’s get on with it.

I had no hope I had been flying around for a week with only a bit of food and water on a broken plane, I was looking around and I saw broken ships and boats also old docks but they weren't broken. There was no water so I was afraid that I would die of thirst or hunger. My plane is smoking but there's nowhere to land and if I do I might not be able to get back into the sky again. I am exhausted, I’ve been flying around for ages trying to make the rainmaker otherwise I will die of thirst.

I was flying around for another hour then I saw a cloud and a lighthouse then I fainted. I finally woke up and I saw a small group of 3 who were twins and a older sister. I was in a house well more of a broken submarine house thing but still then I remembered my plans so I ran out finding my plane smashed so I quickly grabbed my back and packed up my plans and my other things then they grabbed me and got me back to there thing. Then they told me there names what are Pearl for the older sister and then Ochen and Moana for the twins. Then I told them my name which is Kawa. After we introduced ourselves I explained to them my plan of making a rain maker or finding water.

I said to myself if we are getting water we have to get to the cloud so I just started walking there but Ochen and Moana held me back and said “we should go fix the plane and fly there otherwise we will die of thirst before we even get halfway there”. I said “you're right we will get there so much faster if we fix the plane”. First we all went around the broken submarine finding parts we can use to fix the plane luckily there was everything we needed and more so we made extra seats for the twins and more room for the sisters to put there stuff then we fixed it and we got the last of the food and water as quick as a leopard and we were off flying to the clouds.

We set course to the cloud where the hills are. When we got to the clouds I got a bit of cloud to take with me when so  suddenly Pearl shouted “WATER, GRASS, HOUSES, TOWN, SHOWERS, POOLS, FOOD!”. There was water and fresh grass so we landed there greeted by 2 people called Sunny and Bob they were the only people living there so they invited us to join them in this amazing place. Pearl, Cohen and Moana were off to pick out a house but I stayed and said “Thank you for your kindness Now OFF TO PICK A HOUSE oh and we should have a BBQ later and can we pat the animals” they are really kind and they said yes!!!!!

I had hope again then suddenly it rained and we all cheered for rain keeping us all alive. Then I had a shower and I washed my clothes is well. Then we had a BBQ to celebrate having food water and shelter and of course after that we pated all the animals who lived in that area.

!!THE END!!

The process. (Sorry if it's hard to read) We first saw a bit of a video called rainmaker so we watched a bit then talked about everything then we made a plan which is right here.

Can I have your feed back green, orange or red. Yellow is in the middle of green and orange.

My new kitten!

This is my kitten and I got her Thursday, November 2 everything I know about her and all the photos are inside and I have only known her for a day because today is Friday, November 3. I hope you enjoy.

Te Uru Manuka Logo

These are my Ideas for the logo for Te Uru Manuka I chose  these logos because I think they represent Te Uru Manuka.

Can I please have your feedback for the logos that I did and tell me your favorite.

Kids are the future.

This is Maddie and my made up party will you vote for it yes or no.
Can I have your feedback please.

The lost animals

The Lost Animals

Kitty, Panda, Doge and Tige were all in the forest together for a fun trip. As quick as a cheetah, Panda obviously wanted food “we’ve been walking with no food for hours” Panda groaned there was a small silence then Tige said “ We just left. I have to tie my shoelaces (wink wink) keep going and I will catch up.”. As thoughtful as an owl, Doge knew that something was up so she followed Tige. within minutes Tige turned around and saw Doge. Suddenly Tige felt the urge to look around so first she looked to the left she saw trees then she looked to the right more trees then she looked in front of her there was more fog than before and it was thicker then she looked behind her and saw Doge again that didn’t worry her but the fog did. Frantiquly Tige grabbed Doge by the arm and ran into the depths of the forest and through to the other side…

Kitty and Panda were really worried they didn’t know where Doge and Tige went so they continued thinking that they were going through the trees and trying to get to the picnic spot first.Tempted Panda ran and shouted “ I NEED FOOD”. Within minutes kitty caught up and they started looking for Doge and Tige because they started feeling scared.

Soon Kitty and Panda hear a screeching sound then got chased into a river it was lucky that panda floated to the top because she's super chubby while kitty was holding on to her trying to live and float while saying “I’M TOO YOUNG TO DIE” then they got knocked out. Meanwhile Tige and Doge were sitting on a tree stump on the other side waiting for Kitty and panda. When Kitty and Panda woke up after being unconscious for about 2 bajillion hours they found themselves at the picnic spot so they looked up and saw a Lion, Liger and Tiger as well as Doge and Tige. After that they finally had their lunch then rode home on the animals.

Tige woke up suddenly realizing it was all a dream. Then she called her friends and told them everything then Unicorn said “So can we go on a picnic in the forest despite the fact that we might be eaten alive.” “UNICORN!” they all shouted. “I’ll take that as a no then” whispered Unicorn.” OF COURSE WE WANT TO GO!” They all said excitedly then they started planning...

THE END

DUN DUN DUN

My Personal Targets

1. Doing more Descriptive phrases
2. Sentence starters

What I am proud of my writing today

1. I think I did some good sentence starters
2. I think I put in some really descriptive phrases

What I need to work on next

1. Getting better at sentence starters

This is the story I wrote for E-asTTle but we had a picture we had to build the story off which is The Bush

My timetable for this week.

This is My original timetable for this week except some small changes.
Just incase you can't read the color code thing this is it.
Green: I worked to my highest standard and/or I achieved what I set out to do.
Orange: I worked a good standard and/or I mostly achieved what was intended.
Red: I found it hard to stay focused and/or I didn't achieve what I aimed to do.

NZ 2017 Elections!!

This is the finished one of our Inquiry of NZ Elections.
Shukoor, Cayde and Zach Did The first part and Maddie Bridget and I did the second part.
I hope you enjoy.

TOOLKIT!!

This Is Ariana, laura, Maddie and I's toolkit on how to use or make a Google drawing or make animals fruit people etc.
Only 4 groups of 4 in Rimu can go and I was one of the people.
Hope you enjoy Our Toolkit.
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A toolkit is our cluster all make 4 toolkits I think and we learn something from others toolkits.

CANTA MATHS PLAN!!!!! (For presenting it.)

In Rimu class we have been doing canta maths and this week on friday we are going to present all the cantamaths things for everyone to see.
I hope you like our idea for how we are going to present it but the rainbows won't be there.

!!DIGI AWARDS!!

This Is me and my friend Maddies Digi Awards one and if you want to see the plan it is my last post.

DIGI AWARDS PLAN

Kindness Animation

2 groups one bad one good the bunnies on the good team but it's home got destroyed. The good people Try to make every one good again and the evil principle trapped the good principal and fired the vice principal.

Maddie and Abby

DLO Of a small building

This is my DLO on how to make a small replica of your class or another building.

PASSWORD DLO

This is a password DLO that I made and this slide says how to make a strong password hope you enjoy.

BLOG POST

Monday, August 15

A Author came to our class and said a little bit about him.

When he was younger he watched a show that had a kangaroo in it called skippy who knew when danger was near. So he said to himself that he will write three books according to the show but he never finished making the third book. When he was older he started writing short kid stories for the newspaper that sometimes they used and gave him about 7 dollars.

TIMETABLE

This is my timetable for week four and this week we have to finish digi awards so i'm doing it more.

BOOK DAY AWARDS

On monday we went to a book award day EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW IS INSIDE

Canta maths 2017

This is me and my friend maddies canta maths plan so it doesn't look that nice.
The hat is for mathematical clothes and the trivia cards and the board is for the puzzles and game.

My idea of a Timetable.

 This is my idea of a timetable and this is why you should use it well in the slide.
Hope you enjoy.

My holiday

This is the story of the school holiday that I had. It took me two days to finish writing it so I hope you enjoy.

INTERLAND

I made a slide after the class and I  also did it and its about cybersmart.
There's more information in the slide hope you enjoy.

Maths DLO

This is the DLO I made on the questions I had for math.

Holes

This is my second novel study called Holes and I have finished it and put it all on this slide like I did with my first novel study this term Skellig. Hope you enjoy.

Novel study

This blog post is about the novel study I was reading and finished now I'm doing Holes for my Novel study and I'm already up to doing the story web.
I hope you enjoy.

Food and Emoji's!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FOOD AND EMOJI’S

Hi My Name is Abby and I’m going to tell you a story which goes 2 seconds back.

A group of friends went into 3 different shops the Ice-cream store, a candy store and a Bakery store. I will tell you who went in where.A girl called Nikita with light and  dark hair went into a Bakery store and became cake.

A girl called Abby with light hair went into a Ice-Cream store and became Coco.A girl called Mia with dark hair went into a Candy store and became Lolly.

There are 2 queens in this story the Sweet Queen and Sour Queen. The Sweet Queen lives in a nice white castle made out of candy floss and sugar. The Sour Queen lives in a evil black castle made out of crunchy bars and Licorice. The Sour Queen is planning to take over the Candy store then the sweet castle. The Sour Queen is the Sweet Queens EVIL SISTER!!!!! So the Sour Queen Commanded the Gummy Bears to take her to the Candy Store the Gummy bears obeyed. But there was one gummy bear who you will meet next he he.

The problem is that one of the Gummy bears called lolly didn’t like the sour queen and ran away till she meets a chocolate bar called Coco who is me. Soon we  found out we both wanted to know how to get out of this food wonderland. A few hours later they meet a cake called Cake who has the same problem. A Day later from walking they find out that in the real world they are BFFS!!!!!!!!!!

Once the Sour Queen took over the candy store she realised Lolly was GONE!!!! The sour queen made all her guards look for her luckily they were pretty far away till they see a PUG EATING A Chicken no a Chicken nugget who was screaming help me this Pug is called Maddie She’s your BFF so save me and I will take you to emo no uh the real world just save me. Coco takes no thoughts and says OK then saves the chicken nugget and gives the Pug the Sour Queen who Coco picked up on the way.

WHAT we aren't in the real world we are in a emoji land. Mia was the heart eye emoji, Nikita was the Demon emoji, Abby was the Poop Emoji and Maddie was the Pug eating a Chicken nugget emoji. Then they get sucked in a Void called CODY!!!!!!!!

They are back home safe and sound they think.

DUN DUN DUN
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What we have been doing this week.

This week my class have been doing lots of testing. We have our own schedule that just has what we have to do at a certain time. We have a small list of thing that we can put in our day then there is also MUST DO'S.
Today we did our E-Astle test today and the past 3 days we have had reading tests.
We have also been doing Lions math. The lions math is about the Lions, travailing and maths, how we have to pick a country from a small list of country's and find out the cost to go there, get food, attend all the lions games using 10,000 dollars. Me and my buddy Mika picked to fly from Scotland to NZ to do it and the price for it altogether is 8504.

This is all that has happened really its not much this Week.

Screencastify

This is my Blog post of how to do a screencastify.
I hope you enjoy.

Dlo to make your class or house in a smaller way.

This slide show shows you how to make a smaller version of any building well at least the floor and walls.
I hope you enjoy and enjoy your little building.

Tigers!!!!!!

This is My Third Piece of free writing.
This is about Tigers If you go to my older posts you will see the Doc version of it.
I hope you enjoy.

My Profile

This is My Profile that I made on Piktochart.
It has some information about me like what school I go to, my name and age.

Who views My Blog.

This Blog post that I made on PiktoChart shows who goes on my Blog.I Hope You Enjoy.

SUPERHERO!!!!!!!

Here are ten steps on how to be a great Superhero because the year 5 and 6's are focusing on superheros while the year 7 and 8's are at tech.I hope you enjoy and become a superhero.

SUPERHEROS

This Term the year 5 and 6's are focusing on superheros while the year 7 and 8's are at tech.
This is my super hero, her sidekick, Her Bio and her Logo I hope you enjoy.
P.S. I might be adding on more.

Exploring Blogs

We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.

We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.                                                                                                                      

  

Reflection 

Password Dlo

This Password Dlo shows you how to make a strong password That not many people would guess To put in.So think for a minute and think about your password is it strong is it at least 8 letters and numbers long will others guess it will you remember it if not then make a new password.

Easter fun day

Today is Easter fun day and I just finished making my Easter hat.

when I got the photo taken I got glitter glue in my hair.

While we were making the hats music was playing and we could pick songs.

Soon I will be making a thing to get a egg safely down after being thrown over the roof and do egg japing by smashing two hard boiled eggs together.

Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TIGERS

Hi, I Love Tigers so I’m going to tell you a bit about them and how to save some in the wild.

1-There are an estimated 3200 tigers left in the wild.

2-According to WWF there are more tigers (between 5000 and 7000 tigers) living in captivity in the USA than in the wild.

3-In the USA, there are no federal laws regulating the possession of exotic animals.Mar 20, 2016

If you want more tigers living free in the world and being safe STOP CUTTING DOWN TREES it’s not fair on them because they don’t come and brake your home to make their own home. Tigers live in forests so stop cutting down trees for firewood and to make a new home.You can cut down some trees as long as you replant them.

I hope this makes you a better person to the Tigers so do these things and plant more trees to make a better world for us and tigers.

Bye for now.

Camp

I went on my class camp and I thought it was really fun and I got to share all of it with everyone.
If you want to see more photos check out some other peoples blogs from my class from year 4-6.
I hope you enjoy.

NZ Artists

My class have been looking at artist born in NZ and finding some things out about them.
After that we had to pick a  piece of art from one of the artist that we did and recreate it on our chrome books.I hope you like my piece of art.

Library Psa

Madison  and I made this to show YOU how to act in the library and how you don't act in the library.
A Psa is a thing that shows you what to do witch is also called a public serves assessment.
I hope you enjoy.

Jamie duff

We got to meet a famous sprint car racer today Jamie Duff there are photos in this slide show and some talking but mostly photos.

POST IT GAME

Here are some things you do to keep your Chromebook safe.It was challengeing  it find the postit notes in the shape of a elephant and find importent things about your Chromebook that are true.
By Abby and Lauren