The Quest by Leith Cooper

WALT: infer meaning from a text

Today in our Literacy lesson today we read a book called The Quest by Leith Cooper. This was a really interesting book to read, I could picture everything that was going on in my head. After reading we had to answer some questions about the story. We also did some  grammar work, identifying Subjects, Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns and so on. We did some more inferencing by looking at some random images. For our writing part we had to come up with a paragraph about 'What makes a good leader'.

Taha Wairua: Maori Language Vocab

 

Taha Wairua

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. This week is all about Maori Language week. For Maori Language week, we will learn a lot of Maori culture and languages. Today for our Whare Tapa work we were focusing on Taha Wairua. Our task for today we had to create a poster to celebrate the theme for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. In our poster we had to include objects we would normally see in a classroom, we also had to write it in Maori.

Taha Whanau: Special Occasions

Taha Whanau

Task Description: This morning for our Te Whare Tapa Wha work, we looked into Taha Whanau. By doing that our activity was to look into one special occasion that is from our main culture. Mine is Tonga so I decided to choose 21st Birthdays as my occasion. I've been to many 21st Birthdays and nearly all my aunties and uncles have had it. 21st Birthdays are really big in Tongan Culture, so I'll like to share some key points from it to you. I hope you learnt different things from my culture, ENJOY!

Maori Language Moment

 In 1972, 30 000 signatures were delivered to parliament to safeguard the Maori language

3 Reasons why I think it needed to be protected..

1. The language might fade away

2.The language might die

3.the Maori language may continue to the future

ICT Outdoors by Catherine Lunjevich

WALT: Infer meaning from a text

Malo e lelei, today for our new reading task we had to read ICT Outdoors by Catherine Lunjevich. This book was about a school girl who thought that reality was all about the internet and computers. She notices that her favourite teacher was not acting like her normal self. The school girl had to help her teacher to go back to her normal and loving self.

Tongan Myth Summary

The Battle of the Shark and the Octopus

Summary

This myth was about a fijian shark god named Takuaka. He was a guardian of the reef. Takuaka became jealous of other guardians so he decided to challenge them and defeat them as well. Takuaka hears about this octopus guardian so he decided to battle him. By surprise the octopus defeats the shark god, Takuaka finally admits defeat and promised to never harm any people ever again.

Ko Hoku Famili - My Family

Ko Hoku Famili- My Family!

Malo e lelei and welcome back to my blog. Today it is the start of TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK YAY!!. Tonga is my culture and I love learning new things about it. This week Team 5 will be learning all about Tongan culture and it's languages. For our 1st activity we had to pronounce our family members in Tongan. This was a really fun task to do because it reflects onto our family, why they are important and why we need them.

Some people say family is not important but in my opinion family is everything. It is very important to look after you family members very much, never take them for granted and always love them no matter what. In Tongan culture it is very important that you listen to your parents and  your eldest.