Dion's Mental Maths

Hi, this is my work to try and help others I hope I do with this strategy. thanks, Wevideo.

Clara's Interview with Nana Marlene

This week one of our activities for literacy medals is The nobody news slideshow. Where you have to interview your grandparents or someone around the same age as your grandparents. I decided to interview Marlene (Bella's Grandma). I really enjoyed this activity because I know more what it's like to be kinda old and be in self-isolation. I think this was a pretty easy activity because all you had to do was ask them the questions and then write the answers down onto the slide.

Curtis' Breaking News

Today for home school/coronavirus our class has been doing our daily literacy medals for our literacy medals we made a recreated 9 stars of Matariki. I liked the editing and I disliked the talking because I am a shy person. Hope you enjoy By: Curtis:)

Anzac day

When you go home tell them of us and say "for your tomorrow we gave our today."

Tomorrow is Anzac day, the staff at our school wanted to commemorate this somehow as the dawn parades have been cancelled.  We each were asked to reflect on what Anzac day means to us and our whanau

Kohen's Breaking News

For literacy this term we are focusing on Matariki. One of our activities last week was to create a breaking news bulletin about the story "The Stolen Stars of Matariki". Below is the video Kohen made for his breaking new bulletin.

Harrison's Matariki T-Shaped Reading Activity

T shaped reading

Today for T shaped reading it has changed to Matariki because it is nearly Matariki time and also because it is term 2. above is the piece of work that I did for online school. all we had to do was watch a video of a lady reading the stolen stars of Matariki and then write down how the story could have ended and we had to rewrite the end of the story in our own words. The easiest part for me was finding a picture because all you have to do is search up Matariki stars and it will come up. And the most difficult part for me was figuring out what the Maori words mean. B Harrison 

Kalani's Matariki Problems

kn tricky problem

it was hard to find some different endings for the story
it was easy to put down
it was fun to read the story

Miro H's Alternative ending

The stolen stars of Matariki new ending.

This is my new ending for the stolen stars of Matariki. It was hard to choose an ending to write about and to remember the Maori names. My favorite part was actually writing it. To be BTB, I could have said where in the book it started at.


Brainstorming

They could have used a torch to scare the patupaiarehe away
They could have delayed the patupaiarehe by hiding their agate so that they looked for it and then the sun would come up and they would leave the stars
They could ask the patupaiarehe to tell them about themselves so that they forget about the stars and then the sun would come up and they would run away
They could pretend to be stars and trick the patupaiarehe so they could lead them away from the actual stars

The actual ending

“Oh no!” Grandma said. “It’s those naughty Patupaiarehe! They’ve been stealing stars again!” Just then, they heard giggling and laughing. They slowly crawled up the stony bank and peered over. Down at the water's edge, there was a group of Patupaiarehe. They were dancing around a net with two white, glowing stones inside. Grandma gasped. “Those are the stolen stars!” she exclaimed. “Without those stars, it’ll be hard to know when it is time to stop eeling and rest for winter!” Sam and Te Rerehua gasped.  “We have to get them back!” said Te Rerehua. “But how?” whispered Sam. “Well, Patupaiathehe don’t like sunlight; it burns their delicate white skin.” Grandma said thoughtfully. “Maybe we can stall them until the sun comes up!” “Good idea, Grandma!” Sam said. “But how do we stall them?” They thought and thought until Te Rerehua exclaimed “I’ve got it; we’ll ask them to tell us about themselves! Then they’ll forget about the time and the sun will come up…” “And they’ll run away!” finished Sam. “Good idea kids!” said Grandma. So Sam and Te Rerehua crept over the stony bank and towards the Patupaiarehe. The Patupaiarehe stopped dancing and laughing as soon as the kids came close. “Wow!” Sam said loudly. “Did you catch that star?” Te Rerehua smiled. “You must be very strong to pull that down from the sky!” she said. The Patupaiarehe puffed out their chests and began boating on how strong or clever or good looking they were. They basted for so long that they didn’t notice the sun peeking over the horizon. “Oh look!” exclaimed Te Rerehua. “The sun!” The Patupaiarehe began shrieking. “Run for the hills!” they yelled to each other. Within seconds, all the Patupaiarehe were running away from the glow of the sun, and towards the hills. Grandma emerged from behind the stoney bank. “Kai pai te Mahi!” she exclaimed. “You two were very brave!” “But how do we get the stars back into the sky?” pondered Sam. Grandma grinned. “I know just the thing.” she said slyly. “Pōua!” she called. “Can you throw these stars back into the sky?” Pōua grinned. He knew just what to do. He hooked his gaff onto Pohutukawa. “Stand back!” he said to Sam and Te Rerehua. Then he flung Pōhutukawa back into the sky. The star left a shimmering arc behind, then bounced into its place. Pōua did the same for Hiwa-i-te-Rangi and it too left a shimmering arc behind, then bounced back into its place. Pōua smiled. Then he began walking home with his newly caught bag of eels and their newly collected agate. They would dry nicely in the sun. It was going to be a great day.

Just a wee thank you from Paroa School

Miro G's Alternative Ending

Today I listened to a Goodnight Kiwi story called The Stolen Stars of Matariki. In this story, Pohutukawa and Hiwa-i-te-rangi are captured by the conniving Patupaiarehe. Sam, Te Rerehura and their grandparents have to save the stars before its too late. In this version of the end of the story is changed so the way the stars are saved is different. Here is the link for the original story: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/goodnight-kiwi/episodes/s1-e4

Taj's T-Shaped Reading activity

Tricky Problem

Today at the lockdown at my house. I did some school work and it was a Tricky Problem I had to do a thing when I listen to a story. I had to do two problems that two kids would have done instead of doing the thing that they did and I had to take those two questions and put them into a story. The one thing that was challenging it was writing it.

Harrison's T-Shaped Reading

T-shaped reading

Today I did my T-shaped reading and this is the poster that I did about ANZAC above is a picture of the poster that I did. The easiest part for me was drawing the picture and cutting it out and putting it over the poppies. And the most challenging part for me was drawing the poppies because the peddles on the poppies were really weird to draw. And next time I would write why we are going to stand at our gates at dawn and why we are in lockdown. By Harrison