procedure

This week in Te Ngahere we were supposed to write a procedure on what we did for technology. A procedure is like a list of instructions of how to do something. In technology Dayton, Jack, Liam and myself were doing shelves. I enjoyed doing this because I really like writing. I did really well on my spelling, but I think I might’ve needed to understand the instructions a bit more. I hope I could understand the instructions a bit clearer in the nearby future and I could make my procedure much better.





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maori rotation

This week in Te Ngahere we’ve been doing te reo maori rotation. This was when we had to do a list of activities rotating around the school. My group was Pohutukawa tahi but I was confused because I thought I was in Kowhai. I didn’t mind and I was still happy with my group. On the first day Whea Becks (our teacher) called out the names of who was in what group. We then went outside with the whole school doing the same. We then sat down in the correct groups with the teachers telling the groups to go in a classroom. We went into Mrs Simmon’s classroom first. She gave us a photo and we were supposed to hide it. Then we needed to find the item in the photo. Eventually I found mine. After 20 minutes we went to Whea Mel’s classroom to learn a song. Then we went to Mrs Neumann’s class. First we had to get in a circle and grab an animal. We also had to say the colour, the animal and how many we picked up in te reo maori. I really enjoyed this because it was fun and had a lot of simple activities. I think I might need to learn how to be more faster when I did Mrs Neumann’s activity because I barely got any points. What I could do next is remember the colour and animal.

te reo

In Te Ngahere a lady named Whaea Lisa came into our class again to teach us more te reo maori.
Instead of her wanting us to tell her the kupu, we had to write our own.
What I mean by that is we all had to get into pairs or even groups of 3. I chose CJ.
What we had to do was there was a piece of paper and it had a group of boxes in it.
In the top had a list of maori words and under them we had to do what the english kupu was.

I enjoyed this because it was challenging and I love challenging stuff to do.
I think what I did well was working hard. But this was difficult because under the meaning of the maori kupu
we had to write down stuff that related to it and we had to relate it with the letter Whea Lisa gave us.
This was difficult because for me my mind was totally blank and had no sort of ideas in it.
I think if I wanted to help myself achieve this I have to make my words a bit more understanding because
on my paper my words were hard to understand.

Duffy assembly

Yesterday the whole school went to the Whare to have first ever Duffy book assembly.
When we got there we suddenly sat down like we always do in the whare. After some minutes of social and
seriously loud talking it stopped sometime after. When we finished talking,  Whaea Chrissy suddenly
introduced us to someone named Zinky, She introduced herself and claimed to be someone from another
planet.
She was a lady with a rainbow uniform.

We had a lot fun like singing the Duffy song, meditating, fighting some pirates, and finally prize giving,
I mostly enjoyed meditating because I dreamed of being someone from ancient Japan who meditates.
I might’ve needed to learn the lyrics of the song a bit more because it was pretty hard to read..
Once that finished we all said goodbye to Zinky and went back to the classroom.

We then had another prize giving. this prize giving was the teachers giving out some books for us to keep.

Again I enjoyed this marvelous event happening and hope we do the same next year or probably next term.

bye - katipa

ukele teaching

On Wednesdays we have been learning to play the Ukulele with Alison. Alison was very talented and her performance was very amazing because she had an excellent tune. She taught us the basics of using a ukulele that was very interesting to understand. I really enjoyed this because I kept on saying in my head to become a musician and thanks to her I was able to set that goal. I think I might have needed to understand the instructions a bit more so I could get the sound to have a  better tune and to do that I may need to watch some videos, and get someone in my family to help me. There was one thing I did right and that was doing my best. Hopefully I achieve playing the ukulele with being a musician included.

description of forest

Last week in Te Ngahere we have been learning to write some descriptive writing about the Forest. We weren’t allowed to write I see, I hear, I feel  and I smell. I got told that my writing was like a recount so I had to fix it. To do that I had to change the writing that related to the recount but luckily Ezra helped me with it. I enjoyed it because I love going to the Forest. I think that I have to learn more about not letting people do the work for me.

the visit

Last week on Friday 2 people from bay bush came to tell us what they do in the Ngahere. In the process they taught us a lot of information. Also they presented 4 things. That was a Possum, a Kiwi, a Hedgehog and photos. I enjoyed learning about this because it helped me understand what creatures needed to be safe and which didn’t. Then after the presentation they brought us outside taking us to the field to teach us about rat traps. So far we haven’t been able to get any .  I hope we see them again soon.

blog post

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we’ve been learning how to use metaphors and learning not to say I  or because.
I enjoyed making a poem about myself to describe me to other people.
I think I need to learn more about making my writing make sense. It was challenging for me
but what I did well was when I knew what a metaphor was to help me with my poem.   

This is my first draft.