What is Culture?

This shows what me and Kyra has done about What is culture. 

Writing Sample

Shantay

Cutting Down Trees

Have you ever wondered why people cut down trees. Well it is because people have found out many years ago about how trees help us. Trees help us for Stationary, Oxygen, and many other objects in life.

Trees also live on this planet so that means that we should be taking care of them like how we take care of yourself. People cut down trees because it is useful in life. Trees gives us paper, rubbers, bark, wood, pencils, oxygen and more other amazing stuff but we make that stuff but trees give us that material. Trees can keep us warm from its wood and paper that trees create. Oxygen is very important because it helps us living such as breathing and fresh air. Some people think that cutting trees down are bad but really its not because it helps us with making life easier. Trees can keep us warm from its wood and paper that we create.

Trees are very important because it doesn’t only help us with objects, it also helps us with oxygen and remember that trees are good to us so we can be good to them.

 

Legend of the Three Sisters.

How the Kiwi lost his Wing

Homonyms

Grammar #2

Tense 2 - Level 2

L.I. To identify verbs

To identify the tense in a piece of text

The sasa is a very energetic dance for men, women, boys, and girls.  Although dancers usually perform the sasa sitting down, they use their whole body in the dance.  Their movements show everyday activities in Samoa, such as greeting friends and going swimming.  The dancers, hand and leg actions must be exact.  Often the sasa is performed in time to the beating of pate (wooden slit drums), tins, or fala.

Highlight the verbs and then list them below.

-Is

-Perform

-Sitting

-Use

-Movements

-Greetings

-Going

-Swimming

-Be

-Performed

-Beating

Which tense are these words in?  Change them to the other tense.

These words are in Present tense because it is words that you have done.

is - was

Perform- perform     

Sitting- sit

Use- used

Movements- moved

Greetings- greet

Going- went

Swimming- swim

Be- to be

Performed- perform

Beating- Beat

Choose 5 of the past tense words and put them into a sentences

I am dancing to the rhythm of the beat.

When you feel tired it is good to sit down.

I went to the shop.

I was going to the mall but I had to do my homework.

I used up all my mums oil.  

Grammar

Tense 2 - Level 1

L.I. To identify verbs

To identify the tense in a piece of text

The sasa is a very energetic dance for men, women, boys, and girls.  Although dancers usually perform the sasa sitting down, they use their whole body in the dance.  Their movements show everyday activities in Samoa, such as greeting friends and going swimming.  The dancers, hand and leg actions must be exact.  Often the sasa is performed in time to the beating of pate (wooden slit drums), tins, or fala.

The words in bold are the verbs, list them below.

-Is

-Perform

-Sitting

-Use

-Movements

-Greetings

-Going

-Swimming

-Be

-Performed

-Beating

These words are in present tense, change them to past tense.

is - was

Perform- perform

Sitting- sit

Use- used

Movements- move

Greetings- greet

Going- go

Swimming- swim

Be- to be

Beating- beat

Choose 5 of the past tense words and put them into a sentences

We are going to be perform in assembly.

We have to use a pen in our maths books.

It will show respect if you greet yourself to visitors.

It is important that you know how to swim.

I am going to be a good student at school.

Why Facebook is Popular?

Why is Facebook so popular?

Have you ever wonder how facebook became popular? It is a way of contacting your families or friends. Facebook is a social network site. On facebook you can see other peoples stuff like their photos, statuses, their friends and what they have written about himself.

Its fun on Facebook because you can skype your friends that you haven’t seen in a long time. We can post up statuses about what you did or what you want to do. You can also post selfies of yourself or with friends.

Facebook can sometimes be good for reading because of the statuses people have been writing about and how you chat. You can also write on other people pages.  You can like others photos and comment on your friends posts.

Facebook can be used to play games. Some of your friends could be playing the same same game but a different level, so its more like having a challenge against you and your friends.

Being on facebook can be something to do like chatting, posting, liking and many other things.

Place of Origin poster

This is my and Kyra's Place of Origin. This is where my and Kyra's parents are from. 

How the Troll was Tricked.

Kiwi Can poster.

This is me and Kyra's Kiwi Can poster. It shows you what we learned and more information. 

Museum Trip poster

This is Museum trip poster. It shows what I have learned and their are some pictures there about what we saw.  

The Voyaging Waka Journey

Recount

            LI: To recount the journey to NZ on the voyaging waka through the eyes of someone who was on the boat.

You have travelled back in time to the day the waka set sail. Your challenge is to retell the what happened on the voyage through the eyes of the Captain, a passenger, the cook or the Tahuna (navigator).

Title	The Voyaging Waka  Journey
Orientation What are your responsibilities? What have you done to prepare for the long voyage? Who is coming with you? Why are you leaving? What will you miss? What fears do you have? What are you looking forward to?	Have you ever wondered how overwhelming guiding 12 people is? As the  captain of a voyaging waka I guarded 12 lives, making sure they were safe at all times.  All passengers were    prepared for this long journey and were all ready to head off to find new land.  That week  everyone was tired and frustrated .   Storing and packing the food was difficult.  Live animals were  challenging to take aboard because of the fight they put up against the strong men. 1/3 of the Raven tribe had decided to travel in search of new land, because of the overgrowing population.  We had to sacrifice our life to make and set a good example for their kids. We all missed them a lot but, they made a commitment to set sail for another environment for us. The fears we faced was starvation, and not knowing where we were. We all were looking  forward to leading a better life.  All of the responsibility  realise on your shoulder.
First paragraph Begin with a time word Reflect and recount what happened through your eyes as you set sail. How were you feeling? How were the others on the boat feeling? What could you see? What could you hear?	It was amazing as  we  were leaving  our  Island because I thought it wouldn’t be hard to say goodbye, But sadly It was really hard to say goodbye to our family and friends,  because they have been there for  us  since we stepped foot onto this land.  As we got into the voyaging vaka  we  said goodbye to  our families because we thought that we would never see them again. As we were leaving they were giving us a traditional farewell with traditional  music and dancers.  As we walked onto the waka  our captain was  leading us through the stars  as we were travelling.
Second paragraph Begin with a time word                                                Reflect and recount what   happened and how you (and the others on board) were feeling after being at sea for a few days. What could you see? What could you hear? What could you smell?	As strange as it may seem, us  Maori people had to keep our food source with us so we  wouldn’t starve to death. On the Voyaging waka we didn’t  have fridges to keep  our food source fresh so we used the water as our fridge’s. Sometimes live fish were kept in bamboo cages tied to the side of the boat.  Sometimes fish were caught but at the same time sometimes they weren’t. We  took  Live dogs, pigs and poultry.  We put fish and Shellfish on the roof of the waka to dry out the fish. We also took with us coconuts, They would be helpful for a variety of things like: Coconut milk For drinking, Coconut meat for food flavouring, Coconut fibre for making ropes and toilet paper and Coconut Shells (dried) for wood on the cooking fire.  Green Coconuts were kept in cool  storage or in the water because coconuts can go off fast in the heat.   We also took fruit and vegetables with us. The fruit we took were: Breadfruit, Bananas and many other fruits. Fruits were sometimes sun dried on racks.The vegetables we took were: Taro, Yams, Sweet Potatoes (Kumara) and many other vegetables. The smell of the fresh food could make us all fall to the ground.
Third paragraph  (keeping himself safe)              Begin with a time word                                               Describe your role on the boat. How did you learn your skills?  Why do the others on the boat depend on you? How does this make you feel?	Do  you know how hard it is to take care  of   12 people  because it is  the same as taking care of yourself?  Living on Voyaging Waka for about  two to three weeks  is hard. I had to take care of my siblings so that they are safe . It would be my responsibility to take   care of them especially if  my family was  living on a Waka.  My family and I were traveling to a far place on the Pacific Ocean.  It was really  extremely impressive that our family survived on this scary, long ride.  Being a passenger on our Waka is pretty scary because going thru waves, seeing big storms heading our way.Thats why it’s important that I keep my family safe on a Voyaging Waka.
Fourth paragraph Begin with a time word Reflect and recount what happened when land was spotted. Who saw land first?      What signs were there to tell you land was near? How did seeing land make you feel? Why?	I knew that everyone was terrified because they thought that they weren't  going to make it to their new home . As soon as they saw the land they were glad to know that they made it back to their new  home, that they could call New Zealand.   If we could make the Voyaging Waka different it would be a cage that would hold all of the animals. so they didn’t drown were coming back home.
Conclusion Say how you felt throughout the voyage, what you had learnt and what you would do differently next time.	We all felt relieved because we made it to our new homes. Everybody on the boat including me, was cheering and jumping on the boat. As we were heading to shore we were doing our traditional maori dance.  I also felt horrible that  had to leave my siblings but at the end of the day I had to find new land for us.

Storylines Show

On Monday the 18th of August, we had special visitors to  come to our school to perform. Their performance was about a Alien that traveled down to planet Earth to discover Non-fictions books, because she wanted to know about imagination and creativity. The actors names were Tai and Naomi. Their name of the show is called 'Space Jump' I think that the main thing about what they were doing is, to tell us about imagination, creativity and adventure. I enjoyed it because it taught me that images can help me read stories when I have trouble with some big words and many other.  Thank You for coming, we really enjoyed it, and we will like to have you come to Panmure Bridge School again.

Transum

This is I have been learning this afternoon, but I still need to practice the one I got wrong and go learn some more higher levels. 

Timewords.

These are some Time words that are good for Recount stories.   

Homonys

This is a slide that Kyra and I have been working on.