Last week was Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. We used Book Creator to make books to help people that don't know Maori. I chose to do Maori colours. We also used audio in case they didn't know how to pronounce it. At the start I didn't really know what I was doing because we have never used Book Creator before. At the end I knew what I was doing.
Click on the picture below to read my book.
We had a Maara Kai competition which was like MasterChef and everyone in my class was doing it. Willie, Shone, Sam and Ezra were in my group. We made spaghetti bolognese and meatballs with a mint water drink. I chopped up flat leaf parsley and squished all the meatball mixture together. We used kawakawa leaves because they taste like pepper. The food was delicious. There were two judges who tasted our food. and like it then they tested the others and after at we won bye explaining our dish and the taste.
last week we were doing wevideo on what has happened in our school life. I did mine on rat traps because in our awa there are rats and stoats. So we are trying to kill them all because they are eating our native and non-native birds eggs and them self. Here is my wevideo.
This is our August Reflection. Every month we reflect on our learning. Have you ever done a Reflection Newsletter?
We are learning about the Sacraments of Initiation. They are Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. We had to add a symbol and a ritual for each for them. The symbol I chose were a candle for God's light, a dove for the Holy Spirit and the bread and wine for Jesus' blood and body. It was easy to find the Sacraments of Initiation because they are written in our classroom on the board and on our Word Wall. I liked searching the pictures because there were lots to choose from. It was kind of fun making the slide all at the same time because people kept changing everyone's background.
For the past two weeks we have been researching an extinct animal from New Zealand. I chose the moa because it looked like a fun one to do.
My success criteria was to use some short sentences, some sentences with joining words (and, because) and to use some sentences with extra information. I think I did all of these.
What did you learn about the moa from reading my report?
Moa were from the Dinornithiformes family.
It had rough feathers which were brown and black. It looked like an ostrich because it had a small head, long neck, large body, strong legs and no wings and it could run fast. The females were bigger than the males. It was 3.6 meters tall and it lived in the wet brush grassland and forest. His diet was made up of small stones, pebbles and plant parts and twigs and shrubs. The maori people killed moa for its meat and made fish hook jewelry from its bones. They also cut down its habitat and ate all its eggs.
