Matariki Fun Day.

Task Description:For this mornings task we are posting a short blog post telling what Matariki is all about and highlights from our Matariki fun day. We as a class are explaining why NZ should celebrate Matariki and why we should we keep celebrating it?.

Matariki 

Maori New Year

Last week on Friday Point England school got mixed up into different classes for Matariki, as we are celebrating a Maori New Year. We went into our classes and I was in cooking, the subjects are cooking, arts&crafts, movie making, and sports. I had lots of fun creating, making, and helping, because all these things is what my class had done together as a team and had a yummy lunch for a treat.

Celebrating what? 

Matariki is the named Maori in the middle of winter for a star constellation, it represents a great moment in the Maori New Year's. 

What do we see on the sky at the time? 

After sun set the constellations are visible in the middle of the night, while the  Matariki Festival is on  you can see seven stars-

1. Matariki

2. Tupu a nuku

3. Tupu a rangi

4. Waipunarangi

5. Waiti

6. Waita

7. Ururangi

Highlights? I was in cooking with Mrs Tele'a

1. My highlight is that me and my team won the competition of who was the best decorated eating table and that we all worked together to make origami stars and the first to do them too.

2. My second highlight is that we all had fun together as a cooking class to help each other out and have a yummy lunch together.

Should NZ celebrate this? Yes  Why?

Because this signals an important time in the  New Zealand calendar,  Matariki is a celebration of culture, culture, language and history. Matariki is part of New Zealand's history and starting a new year for Maori people.

Relationships Graphs.

WALT: Understand and create relationship graphs.

Task Description: For this maths task I had to answer down what t I think is right for the questions given. We are learning how to tell relationship graph and understand it too, so this is all about feelings and weather, but also for our create task was to make a graph using feelings about our favourite tv programme, sports, and book.

A Game Of Card - New Words.

Task Description: This Weeks reading we having done a vocabulary poster from a book called Game Of Card, and we had to copy down each word that our teacher has put down on the board. The words were some that our class didn't know so we had to find the meaning and the meaning of the little sentence in the bottom right corner, also there were places mentioned to we marked where in New Zealand was Rongopai and Waituhi.

5 Awesome Things About Living In My Bubble Chart.

Task Description: Here is a pie graph of what our class Room 3 has done during living in our bubble, 5 things form each of us and what we did and also what we enjoyed during lock down. This tells how many things we have done the same and things that we've done differently, but also knowing what fun things we have done during lock down.

Narrative- The Lucky Diamond.

Task Description: For this weeks writing task we have done another narrative and this time it had to a free image with a tree inside. We had to use the T.O.P.S structure and this stands for title, orientation, problem, and solution.

The Lucky Diamond

Names:Bryant, James

It was a lovely morning and Bryant woke up, he  grabbed his favourite thing in the world, Bryant loves adventures and he always likes to explore places. There was a little shiny diamond on his desk and he loved it. He thought it was real. He went down stairs and heard a doorbell, it was his friend James, 

“What should we do today?” said Bryant with excitement.

“I saw a allway near my house, and I think it’s a new one,” he said.

They were thinking of having an adventure and so they packed up and went off with no explanation.  When they got there they walked through the alleyway and spotted a lot of green trees,

“It’s a forest!” said Bryant

“WOW!” said James with his eyes wide.

As they walked they saw a path and so they followed, on the way they stopped for a snack and water. It was day time and so they thought they had to be back by afternoon. 

As they continued with their adventure Bryant slipped his hand in his pocket for his diamond, but then suddenly it was gone.

“Oh no where's my diamond!” said Bryant as he screamed.

“What! Oh no!” said James with a fright.

They looked everywhere and suddenly saw in front of them a cottage, they walked towards it and didn’t know what to do, but knocked. There was an old lady that opened the door and said 

“What are you doing here at this time of day?” she said with a growly voice.

James answered

“Sorry to bother you, but we're just trying to look for my friend's diamond”  with a scared voice.

The lady looked with great relief and she thought in her head if she could help the little boys and see if she can find them around the forest with some help.

When they got to the end of the path of the old lady's house they went up and down the path heaps of times. It was getting too late and the afternoon was passing by, but suddenly a man was walking past and peeked down below all the way at the front of the path. He saw something shiny and he could see a shiny flicker from all they where they were and so they ran up to the man, and the man turned around and said

“Is this your little boy” 

“Yes, thankyou sir for this,” Bryant said with relief.

The looked closely and thought that it might be actually real, so he told Bryant this

“Little boy I think this is most certainly real” said the man with a smiley face.

They all went to a store to check out if the diamond was real and so it was. Bryant and James' faces were with a huge smile on their face and they were filled with happiness and couldn't wait to tell their parents. 

It was a brand new day and they decided to use their money that they got from the man yesterday to go on a family vacation, along with James' family too.

They had so much and were happy of how that man was so kind and honest.

End

Taha Tinana - Fitness&Hygiene.

Task Description: Here is a Taha Tinana Task, we had to put down 5 things of what we do with our family to keep fit and make sure our hygiene is good, but also staying healthy and eating well.

Our physical bodies need to stay fit and clean. Our families and homes and where we learn the basic BUT important steps for this.

Here are 5 examples of what happens in my family-

1. We go for walks around the Panmure basin.

2. My family goes to the gym every morning and night.

3. My parents make sure that we have clean and good tooth brushes, also toothpaste.

4. We always make sure that we wash our body and hair properly so we smell nice and clean.

5. We always make sure that we have vegetables everyday and eat healthy food.

A special saying that me and my family say to each other to keep healthy and fit is 

'make sure you look after your body and eat more vegetables'

Grateful - Taha Hinengaro.

Task Description: This morning we have wrote a blog post about being grateful, and this is to with our taha hinengaro. What we had to do is write down a paragraph of what being grateful is and an example on what is means too, then we had to write 5 things of what we are grateful for today.

Being someone who is grateful is important. This means being appreciative for what you have and receive. But also thinking before you say: for example you wanted a pink lollie, but you get a purple one, then that's when you stop and think, and be grateful for what you get.

Here are 5 things that I am grateful for today:

- I am grateful for the lovely morning that god has given us.

- I am grateful for my family always being helpful and loving.

- I am grateful for nice breakfast that my mum has made.

- I am grateful for the things I get to help me with my school work.

- I am grateful for my awesome friends that I have.

Have an attitude of gratitude.