Parihaka by Santinoc Kia ora bloggers, today we were learning how to Infer. We were learning this because the reader will always have a question in mind. For the activity, we interviewed local Parihaka villagers and we made a short movie clip. After that, we had to colour in a Parihaka feather with information about […]
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Whirikoka
Whirikoka by santinoc Kia ora bloggers, today were learning how to Infer. We were learning this because sometimes we have questions in our heads. For this activity we listed all of the places that were important to Whirikoka Purakau. Where did Whirikoka live? He lived in Turanganui a kiwa near whatatutu. What is the name […]
Pa site visit!
Two weeks ago we got to be able to visit the Ancient Maori Pa site that Matawhero Lloyd rebuilt. The place where Matawhero Lloyd built was were Whirikoka used to live, around Whatatutu. We got to have the oppertunity to look and go inside the children huts, and also built part of a Cheif whare. […]
Mahakirau
ReadingMahakirau by santinoc Kia Ora Bloggers, Today I was learning how to compare and contrast, so if you look at two different text with the same fact, but of they are not the same fact then it is different. We were learning this because we will know what fact is true or not. For […]
Mauri Mahi, Mauri Ora!
Today we were learning how to infer and use our voice for effect. We were learning this because, so then our audience would be able to hear us. For the activity we had to choose our characters and memorise our lines for a play, and the name of our play was called Mauri Mahi, Mauri […]
Our Wetapunga
Wētāpunga by santinoc Today we were learning how to Infer. We were learning this because sometimes we have questions in our heads. For this activity we had to make a poster on Canva and we had to have at least 5 questions on the poster including a few GIFs. I enjoyed filling out the anatomy […]
The anatomy of a praying mantis
Today we are learning how to use evidence to answer questions and how to justify our opinions. We were learning this because we know how insects communicate with each other and what their senses are. For this activity we were allowed to choose between making a play about a scenario, if another insect attacked the […]
Rongoa plants
Today we were learning how to make connections. We did this because, if we were reading a book then we would make connections with that text and another text or we could just say text to text connections, text to self and text to the world. A text to self is when you can […]
Commonwealth games medal
Today I have been learning how to make connections. We were learning this because this month the commonwealth games are running right now, and New Zealand is now at 48 medals at 4th place in the world. For the activity we had to design our own commonwealth games medal. I enjoyed sketching the outline of […]
Dinosaur chain art
Today we were learning how to infer and apply prior knowledge. We were learning this because we would always have a question in our minds, for example: Who made up all the dinosaur names. For this activity, we did a Dinosaur chain art poster. I enjoyed sketching the outline. I found it challenging to mix […]