Traditional Māori Clothing/Kākahu

On Friday mornings I am in the He Kākano class which is a senior Te Reo Māori extension class. We learn about Māori language and culture. This term we have learning about traditional Maori clothing and we had a go at creating our own garments. Here is our work. Please leave a positive, helpful and thoughtful comment.

How To Look After Our Rocky Shore

We have been using our reading skills to learn about our rocky shore. Here is some work I did showing how we can look after our rocky shore.

Rocky Shore Animal Work

We hare been using our reading skills across the curriculum to learn about the rocky shore. Below is some work I did about a rocky shore creature that I was interested in. 

My Sea Week Writing

For Sea week we wrote about why the ocean is important. Here is my writing work. Please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment.

My Chance And Probability Work.

This term we have been learning about chance and probability in maths. Here is my DLO (digital learning object) about chance and probability. Please leave a kind, positive and thoughtful comment.

Day And Night Explanation

For reading we have been learning about space and our solar system.  We learnt about why we have day and night.  Here is my DLO (digital learning object) about why I think we have day and night.

My Taniwha - Writing

For the past few weeks we have been practising using descriptive language in our writing. We have been trying to paint pictures with words.' We all got to invent our own taniwha and then we had to write about it and describe what it looks like, what we do with our taniwha and what our taniwha  is like. Then we read our work to a buddy and they had a go at drawing our Taniwha.

Create and Describe Your Own Creature

(Nogard - Taniwha)

WALT: be descriptive in our writing.  

Look at the description of a Nogard.  Now Create and describe your own creature that you will then be able to read to a buddy so that they can draw it.  Your description must be as detailed and clear as possible so that when you share it with others they will be able to visualise and draw you creature. Use lots of adjectives (describing words - big, small, round, green).

You must

• Have a name for your creature
• Start from the big things and work your way to the smaller things
• Describe the shapes
• Describe its neck, body, tail, wings etc.
• What does its head look like?Think about its eyes, nose, eyebrows, mouth, teeth
• Describe its legs/flippers/fins etc.
• What colours is it?
• Any extra details on the body like scales, spikes etc.
• Keep it simple and clear!
• Use correct punctuation and spelling.
• Check that your sentences make sense.

Remember that a good writer ‘paints’ pictures in their reader’s head with words.   This is what good descriptive writing does.  

Create your piece of writing here.      Eamon                   

                                                               Snifin

  Have you ever seen a taniwha? His name is Snifin.  He has a long thin  body. he has spikes all across his back and his tail that are red. Snifin  has three wings. His wings are three different colours; one yellow, one blue, and the other one is red. He has two legs and arms. He uses random weapons from the future.he has a red head and red and blue leg’s. The weapons he has a flamethrower gun that is red with a lightsaber. that is red too. He also has a small lightsaber dagger that is black. He has gold teeth with blood on the tips. He has a spike that comes out the top of his head. Snifin’s body is green with four electric bolts. His tail is whero. He has two big kōura eyes on each side of his head. Snifin takes me on amazing adventures. I climb on his head and he takes me up in the sky to meet the atua of the sky. My favourite thing to do with my taniwha is to play video games!

           Eamon                                                              Sean                  

Peer Evaluation   Name of Peer: Sean

What I think you did well:  Describe colours.

What I think you could improve on: Describe weapons.

Self Evaluation

What I think I did well: I think I described my taniwha well.

What I could improve on:  Next time I could describe the weapons more ( I went back and did this with Miss Ireland).