Transformations DLO

Writing- Abandoned places

Abandoned places - writing

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

The abandoned house

One stormy grey/mahinahina day I was getting chased by a
person and then all of a sudden I came along an abandoned
house. It looked about 100 years old and It looked rusty. When
I opened the door smokey dust came bursting out.

Then all of a sudden water came pouring out of the house
and all that was left was soft golden sand everywhere. The
damp wooden walls were all mouldy,  and every step I took
I heard the creaking floor and there were holes in the floor.
It was really creepy.

The window was creaking behind me. I said to myself, “ How do
I get out of here?’’ I smelt something like a dirty musty smell.
I looked up and there was water dripping from the ceiling and
there were holes in the ceiling as well. All of a sudden the light
bulb fell from the roof and smashed on the floor. I saw a shadow
and then I started running. Then the ground began to shake...

My Marae Recount

Room7 Noho Marae

Trip

On the 1-2 of May term 1 2019 room seven and room five, the teachers and
parents, Miriama, Terry and Terry's cousin went on a Noho Marae to stay
the night because we were learning about our local Arahura Marae.

Evening rotations

One of my favourite things was the evening rotations.
At 7.00 o’clock we went into our evening rotations. I was inside doing games
with Phaedra and Adrian. The first game we played was rats and rabbits.
 How you play is there is a skipping rope in the middle and if you call rats
then the rats have to run and the rabbits have to try to tag the rats and if the
rats get to the wall first, the rats get a point but if the rabbits tag the rats then
the rabbits get a point. The next game we played was a game that you have a
fan and you have to fan the ball to your end. The next evening rotation I did
was the technology challenge with Miss Ireland. My group was Indi, Billie and
Alaska.What we had to do was we got some paper, tape and scissors and that
is the only things we could use and then we made me into Waitaiki who is a
character for the maori legend.

Roasting Smores

After the evening rotations we gathered round the fire and Donna and
Miss Kemp made lots of smores. Then we sang a waiata all together and
Donna was dancing and we all started laughing so hard! The smores were
delicious and they smelt so good! I wanted one more smore. Then Miss
Kemp got up and told us a story, then Miss Barrow got up and told us a story.
Then we went inside the marae and got ready to go to bed.

The Bush Walk

The next day we went on a bush walk. Billie and I had to find 6 plants,
but we found them in like five minutes (it was easy). The walk  took 20 to 30
minutes but I was getting sore legs but we made it to the beautiful lake.
I loved the pretty view. When we got to the lake/ picnic point, first Miss Ireland
told us a story about the war that happened at that lake. Then we got out our kai
and started eating but we only got 10 minutes. Then Donna and Phaedra started
handing out marshmallows, we all got two each. After our  kai we started walking
back to the cars. On the way it was very funny because I was walking fast and
Billie couldn't catch up to me so she was so far behind me. When we got back from
the walk, we sat down and marked our plant sheet, then we headed back to school.

I was very nervous about the Noho Marae stay but overall it was very fun.

Thank you for taking us. It was amazing. I loved walking into the marae for
the first time.

Self Portraits - Quote Art Term One 2019

In term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and classmate at Karoro School.  As part of this we drew self-portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see as important.

Here is my art.

If I Had Wings

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I had wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem.Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky 
( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

Key + blue gem poem

Get NZ Writing - poetry Over the past few weeks we have been part of the "Get NZ Writing" poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poems written across NZ! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here are my poems.

Powhiri Writing

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a Marae. Here is my writing work about powhiri.