Keeping New Zealand beautiful

To help my neighborhood and my environment i would: 

1. Ask a group of friends to help clean our neighborhood so that our street is clean.
2. Walk along the foot path with a rubbish bag and see if there are any sightings of rubbish and pick it up.
3. Keep clear of anyone dumping rubbish and ask them to pick it up 

These are a few ways i could help keep our neighborhood clean and tidy. 

Wild eyes

For this activity i have chosen the tuatara because i like the skin and the way it moves i also like the natural color of the tuatara. A tuatara is a lizard or a reptile that has soft spikes along it's neck. A lizard is a reptile that was discovered a century ago. A tuatara loves to eat insects but there common food that they eat are eggs, they even eat the left over scraps from a seagulls meal. Tuatara's mainly live in New Zealand in the south. 

 

My winter holiday poem

Today I wrote this poem about our two week holiday.

Holidays

“ Yay “ everyone shouted with joy and happiness. On the last day of school i started thinking and it made me wonder…. Is school actually finished? Wow we are now moving onto term 3 really quick, my response was really surprising to the holidays coming , i didn’t actually want the holidays.   

Two weeks of the holidays are pretty long that’s why i’m not actually surprised and excited about the holidays. You have 16 days off of school and it’s the winter holiday too, there ain’t a lot of activities to do this holiday as well. But there are exciting indoor activities to do also .

I hope all goes well for my winter holidays.

 

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.