Matariki stars

This Month The classroom and I have been learning about Matariki and the constellation of the seven stars, This poem tells you a little bit of Matariki,

Reading Comprehension

1. Matariki is a maori new year
2.  Aquarius
3. Harvesting  
4. Late June and early July
5. If you could clearly see the stars
6. Because over generations and generations people are most likely to change the maori stories over time

1. Pataka kai meaning in english - Storage room
2. Hakari meaning in english - Feast
3. Whenua meaning in english - Land
4. Whanau meaning in english - Family
5. Whakapapa meaning in english - genealogy

Exercise 2

        8. List three ways Maori people celebrated Matariki.

• Harvest
• Family get together
• Light trail

        9.  What stories do you think Maori shared at these times?

• The Maori’s share how they found New Zealand and how they landed in there seven waka, they also share how they followed the nearest star to find their destination.

       10. Name a celebration that is important to you. When is it celebrated and when       is it?

• One of my celebrations that is important to me is when all of my family have our own functions

       11. Think of one way you could celebrate matariki with your class or family. What would you do.

• For my family we would harvest and get together
• For my class we would do arts and crafts and make kites as a celebration for matariki  

  

        

     

Nobody laughed

Inference: Nobody laughed

Use the parts you already know and put the parts you didn’t know to find out a conclusion.

• I know that Big Barn Is a warehouse where you find what you want in it’s own section.

• I also know that the summer holidays are In December, January and February, and February is where you start school for a new year.

• I know that nobody laughed because they all had their own favourite thing and if they had laughed at anyone's favorite thing than they would laugh back.

Matariki

Matariki Teaching Activities

Measuring time

1. Why do we bother to measure time in days, months and years

    2. Why are there so many ways of measuring time?

  3. What are at least two things that these calendars seem to have in common?

  4. What are at least 2 major differences between the different calendars described

  5. According to the Muslim and the Jewish calendars, what year were you born in?

  

Answers:

  5.Islamic Calendar= Sun 1st May 2005

     Jewish Calendar= Sun 1st May  2005

      NZ  Calendar=Mon 1st May 2005

  

  4.They both have different names for their months

 

  3.That they all measured in days, months and years

  

  2.Because we have different times and days all over the world

 1.because we need to keep track of it all so we remember things? And sometimes people have upcoming schedules and should know just what month, year and days.

 

      

Simile or Metaphor

Simile or Metaphor

Say whatever it is a simile or a metaphor in each of the following sentences.

1. He dropped like a stone when the forward ran into him. Simile
2. “You silly old fox, Terry”  - Metaphor
3. My feet feel like leed. - Simile
4. He laughed like a hyena - Metaphor
5. The tent was a sky of green - metaphor
6. He broke my heart - Metaphor
7. Mum is as soft as butter - Simile
8. This is as old as the hills - Simile
9. John was a lion on the field - Metaphor

Metaphor or not?

Remember, literal language means exactly what it says but a metaphor could not be strictly true. In the following pairs of sentences, one is literal while the other sentence is a metaphor and contains a metaphor. Say which one in each pair is metaphorical.

For example :            

My life is hanging by a thread, Metaphorical.

1. We wrung a confession from the thief _Metaphorical____

                We wrung the dash cloth and hung it up to dry _metaphor_____

       b.     At the Olympics there is a flaming torch _Metaphor_____

                 He was in a flaming temper _Metaphorical _____

       c. The cat crept up on the birds _Metaphor___

               The minutes crept by slowly _Metaphor_____

       d. It rained steedly last night __Metaphor____

        Blows were rained on him by his opponent _Metaphor___

      e. The problem bristles with difficulty _Metaphorical ___

    The bristles on my toothbrush are worn _Metaphorical___

   f. The forward  ploughed through the opposing players _Metaphorical___

        The farmer ploughed the field _Metaphor___

  g. The rest of the class poked fun at her hair _Metahpor___

      I poked the fire to get it going _Metaphorical____

   h. We were wrestling with our homework _Metahpor__

       In the wrestling bout the champion floored his opponent _Metaphor___

   i. The cat dragged the chicken off the bench _Metaphorical___

      It was a drag having to get up in the morning _Metahpor___

  

 

Poem - Matariki stars

Today we were doing a tercet poem about matariki.

Polygons

During our Maths class today I’ve made polygons with the matariki stars. On this spreadsheet I have made 19 polygons , I’ve made 13 triangles , 5 diamonds and one hexagon. I have connected almost all of the matariki stars. This activity was fun and interesting.

Reading Comprehension - Vegans

Memory                Reading Comprehension               16.06.17

In class I was doing a reading comprehension, This reading comprehension was fun because i learnt a bit about vegan and healthy eating.  

Personification poem

                                                             Personification poem

                                                                         Basketball

I am round and shaped like a ball

And I am always used In a hall

I am big but people think i’m small

You bounce me a lot

Sometimes I’m worth a shot

People run around and dribble with me

But when you're sitting far away from me you can’t really see

As I get thrown across the long court

I quickly get catched and thrown like normal

When you see me fly like wind across the court

The crowd goes WILD!

My team travels around the world

And competes other teams around the world

My name and the game are the same name

What am I?

The lonely Tourist

One by one two by two I was stepping closer to my unknown destination . Trying to run away from the eruption around my neighborhood, I packed my bag and left In a sudden matter of time. Unknowing where I’m going to lead to I just had to hurry. I could feel a good spirit coming towards this unknown adventure.

As I left not knowing where everyone else went to i kept carrying on. Leaving myself as the lonely tourist. Exhausted from the long walk I then fell asleep right where I was. When I was sleeping it felt like I was drifting away with the wind which made me wake up. As I kept walking after my nap, I came across an airplane which I never have thought I would of came across. I sprinted to the airplane but I stopped and looked again and one side of It was unfortunately broken.

I stopped and ate some snacks,  And saw a lot of supplies like a health kit , food and clothes.

I wondered who left all the usable stuff.. So I took all the supplies and headed off.

When I left I felt a chill ram down my back, I then stopped and put my jumpers on.