Matariki

Last week my school and I had a matariki day it was very cool and fun day. The part that I enjoyed the most was eating the hangi because it was very nice. I also enjoyed prepping the hangi because we got to go to whaea Tonis house. We got to carry wood, stack the wood and got to dig the hole for the hangi. My favorite part about helping was taking photos because it was a easy job. The thing I didn't really like was taking the photos because the people that I was taking photos of kept pulling signs. The job I did like was scrunching up the paper to lit the fire because it was a simple job that I really liked. The hardest job was caring the wood because some of it was very heavy. Here are some photos of us.

Shortfin & long fin eels

I am learning how to write and find facts about short fin and long fin eels, I have learnt alot. My school has been doing tuna and takakau, it's basically  takakau competition on who can make the best takakau. Tuna is a tuna weigh in competition however we were only allowed to bring short fin eels in to weigh and we did the girth of the tuna. But it is mainly around coming together as a school and also it's a early matariki celebration. The hard part about finding facts was finding information sites because they all had the same information. The easy part was working with others to get the work finished because they are very helpful and they are sensible about there work. The thing I will do next time is find more information to go into my groups work but I think our group work is pretty good I mean it's not the best. 

Heres a look at my group work.

The switcheroo/Narrative

I am learning how to write a narrative piece of writing, I have an understanding of what narrative is. It is a story that is suppose to sound real but it is just a fake story it's not real just like unicorns. The paragraphs for narrative writing goes orientation first, problem arises, problem escalates and resolution. Also we had to use more than 2 pieces of punctuation. But the thing is I only wrote my orientation because I wasn't at school last week when my class wrote the other parts, I was sick. The hard part was  knowing what to write because it's like nothing I had done before and because I had never done narrative writing before. The easy part was making my plan, I enjoyed making my plan because it made my writing sound like it was going to be amazing and it was. The thing I will do next time is make sure I write out what was on my plan probably because I changed my writing. My writing was about me and my dog switching bodies, I call it the switcheroo

Here is a piece of my writing.

In a tiny town known as Cliffwood lived a little boy named Cliff who lived with his mum Linda and his small kind dog Rico. Cliff attended Cliffwood primary it wasn't a big school but he had lots of friends. One day Cliff had gotten ready for school it was a normal morning as usual, he opened the door and the wind was pounding onto his entire body. He then left his house "Have a good Day Mum said" "You too mum” Cliff shouted. He then opened the silver gate not knowing the dog was outside playing with his unbreakable ball. Cliff then left to go to school accidentally leaving the gate open. Then on the tip of the dogs eye he saw the gate open and he boosted out the front yard , not knowing what would happen next.

Recount

This week I have been learning how to write a recount for writing it's been fun and also hard because you have to remember the gems which are personification, past tense, punctuation, staccato sentences, simile/metaphors,  5ws/orientation, structure, planning and paragraphs. The easy part about this type of writing was writing about my topic because it was a very cool topic I wrote about, My story was about going down the hydro slides at the waves pools in whangarei. The hard part was remembering to use better vocabulary because I had always forgotten to use better vocab in my writing. The thing I will do next time is to use a different verity of punctuation like ?, !, ( ), '. Here are some photo's of my writing.

Medals Meaning

Today we had whaea tony came in and show us her great grandfathers and her grandfathers metals and we had to the metals they had they had four each. Then we had to pick out of all those 8 and research about what it means and what it means to them. The thing I had learnt about the medal I picked was that it was a medal you get if you, The United Nations Medal (Korea) was awarded for service during the Korean War (1 July 1950 to 27 July 1953) and for service in the first twelve months following the Armistice (up to 27 July 1954). It was manufactured in the language of each country that participated in the United Nations force in Korea. The Sovereign has given approval for New Zealanders, who meet the eligibility criteria, to accept and wear the United Nations Medal (Korea). Here is a picture of the medal I chose.

Haiku poem

For the past week we have been learning about haiku poems its been kinda fun and hard at the same time. There are rules to a haiku poem so there has to be 5 syllables at the top of your poem, 7 in the middle of your poem and 5 syllables at the bottom of your poem not 5 or 7  words but syllables. There is anther rule it can only be about a certaint topic or about felling. The hard part was creating words about my feelings because I was felling lots of emotions. The easy part was writing my haiku poem and making sure it makes sense. The thing I will do next time we do this is to came up with same different or better words for my haiku poem. Here is a pic of my haiku poem I did about my feelings.

Structure and language

Today I chose a writing goal and it is for structure and language  rubric 4. I am going to re look at it in term 2 week 4 to see if I have made progress. My goal for writing is, I have all of the structure and one part maybe well developed. My next goal for next term will probably be for my vocabulary rubric 5 and if I do well on that it will make me more better at vivid vocab.