Sharing my Knowledge on Te Huarere (Weather)

For the past couple of weeks we have been making a weather report in Te Reo Maori. We were learning this to pronounce Te Reo Maori properly. In this task we had to be in pairs, my buddy was Ayanda. Out success criteria was that we had to have the weather for at least six places, include a map written in Te Reo Maori, use symbols to represent the weather. Also the Te Reo Maori has to be has to be spoken, a welcome and a goodbye. The easiest part was saying the weather in Te Reo Maori and the hardest part was writing the weather and places in Te Reo Maori.

Have you ever had to say the weather in Te Reo Maori in front of an audience before?

My Time Playing Cricket

Yesterday half of Te Ngahere went to go and play cricket with a guy called Neil while the other half of Te Ngahere was inside doing Te Reo, we swapped over after about 35 minutes. We did a drill first and then we played Speed Cricket. We played Speed Cricket by splitting the group in half so that one half are the batters which hit the ball with their bat. The other half are the fielders which are trying to catch the ball when the batters hit it. You start with three bats and as you go along there's  going to be one taken out by not hitting the ball when you’re the batter. When the fielders catch the ball  you have to put a bat down, once the three bats are down you swap over.  I think the best part was when we actually played speed cricket. The easy part was standing in line and the hard part was trying to hit the ball with the bat when it came flying at you. Neil taught us how to hold a bat, how to stand when you hit the ball and what to do. You hold the bat by putting both your hands on the handle while your thumb and index finger on both hands make a v. You stand on your side while your front foot is pointing to where you want it to go.

Have you ever played cricket before?

T - Shaped I Absolutely LOVE!

For the past two weeks we have been learning language features by using T - Shaped Literacy. T - Shaped Literacy is when you have a variety of stories you have to read with some questions around the story. This weeks t - shape is about adverbs and we had to find the adverb and write a sentence with it for what mood is created for us while reading the story. I’m almost finished and I think it’s a good thing. My favourite part was when we had to find the adverbs because I thought it was challenging and it would be really difficult to find them. The easy part was when we had to write the adverbs on our T - Shaped. The hard part was choosing the mood.

We have to learn what the adverb is to be able to find the adverbs in the story. Do you know what an adverb is?

LINK to T - Shaped Literacyhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/17_QhIn3yzvXcGRAKETUsiolQLZTb2B1AvQBLb1RaDPY/edit

Going to Ayanda's House

For the past two weeks this is what's been happening... I went to my friends Ayanda's house for a sleepover. The first thing we did was drop of my clothes, then we went to the shop and we brought lollies and chips for us to eat while I was staying there. We went back to their house and went on their trampoline. After a little bit we decided to go to the Lily Pond, we jumped off the rocks and swam for a couple of hours. After Lily Pond we went back home and went back on the trampoline. Then we went into her room and went on her chromebook. We were in there for about an hour then we went back on the trampoline. After a little while we decided to play with Ayanda’s little sister, we played a game called go home, stay home and hide and seek. I really enjoyed the holidays and spending time with Ayanda.

Have you ever been to the Lily Pond before?

 

My Alright Holidays

For the past two weeks this is what's been happening... I went to one of my Mums friends house Laura, and she invited some of her other friends, they talked and talked about some things, probably mum life because they’re all mums. I didn’t really enjoy it because I had to look after all the little kids, the hardest one to look after was my baby sister Sage because she kept running down the driveway and everywhere else around the house. A couple days later we went to this place called Lily Pond, it’s a place where we can swim and if you’re a really confident swimmer you can jump off the rocks. I think it’s really fun to jump off the rocks because to me it keeps me warm so I can stay in the water longer. We went there a couple times in the holidays. Another day in the holidays I was allowed to invite a friend over for a sleepover so I asked my friend Ayanda and she said yes!!! My sister Kova went to go and stay with her friend Molly. It was really fun because the day Ayanda was leaving Molly came over to stay the night at our house. We went to Lily Pond with them before Ayanda left. My family from my Dad’s side came to the Lily Pond as well, so that made it even more fun this is also my favourite part of my holidays.

What was your favourite part of the holidays?