My Writing

In Te Maunga we have been doing recounts. We could write about anything we did in the holidays of our choice!

Here is my writing:

On Friday, Nan, Will, Zara and I went to Waipapa to go skating. We went skating because we wanted to go outside and have fun! First, we went to the rink but too many people were there so we waited until 2.00 clock.

We went to the plant store to look at a couple of plants. I could just smell the beautiful blooming flowers. I could hear all the birds chirping , The water from the waterfall just flowing slowly down and also I could hear the bees BUZZING in my ear. We had a look at the frogs there. “ THERE AREN’T ANY FROGS!” said Will. “ Where are they?” I said to will and Zara.  After we came out of the store, Zara and I couldn’t resist the big bags outside the exit.

Zara and I climbed into the small hole the bags formed in the middle. We figured out there were two forts made out of bags. When we had to leave, Zara got stuck inside the fort. I thought “ WHAT IS SHE GOING TO DO?!?!?!”. Eventually, with a lot of pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling, wait, did I say pulling?! She easily slipped out and made it in time for Makana!

At Makana we met up with my Nan’s old friend and when I say old I mean OLD! She was about like, hmmmmmmmm?,   99,00000000 maybe?! We got a strawberry sorbet ice-cream. It was Ginormous. You could just taste that delicious fresh tasty ice-cream. I could also feel it dripping down my hand as I held my ice-cream cone.  I saw a REALLY rich ice-cream looking tub. It had chocolate swirls of ice-cream on top of ice-cream that had MORE swirls of ice-cream on it.  It was crazy!

When we left Makana the last stop was the roller-skating rink! When we arrived I was so excited. We walked into the rink and saw so many people! I felt very nervous and also felt the ground smacking me when falling over. I could hear my bones cracking when I was doing the limbo there.

I definitely wanted to have some more adventures there again! But I also had another thought, It was that I needed a break from  the holidays!

Hope you liked my recount! Stay tuned for more!

Toku Ako ( My learning)

In Te Maunga we have been taking charge of our own learning with our toku ako in the mornings. ( Toku Ako means My Learning )

Every morning we do our Toku Ako for morning tea learning time. Our teacher Whaea Becks has a check in list and she would write what we are doing for that whole 20 minutes. Here is my literacy Toku Ako as an example.⇩ Also my maths one⇩

Koru Panel

In Te Maunga we have been doing Koru panels. We will put them in our on the wall in out Whare and it will turn out really cool. Here is my panel with an explanation.

Te Reo Maori

In Te Maunga we have been learning how to say things in Maori. We made presentations showing what we  learned. Here is our presentation made by Payton, Isaiah M, Mihipeka  and I.

Writing # Recount About Waitangi

In Te Maunga we have been writing recounts about our trip to waitangi.

I think I did well with fixing up my mistakes that I got in my comments. I also think I did well with giving my friend Payton feedback.

I could have done better by not getting distracted with others.
Here is my story!!!  ↙↙↙

The Big Long Walk Written by Tia

“Hurry up Te Maunga, Get in line!”  Said Whaea Becks. It was Tuesday afternoon and Te Ngahere, Te Moana and Te Maunga were setting off to go to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.  We were going there to learn about the Matariki stars.  While we were walking on the beach, I hears the choppy waves crashing down on the beach.  I also smelt the waves! I saw all the children up ahead of me walking on the right side of the pathway.  
When we arrived at our destination, We had to get stickers on us. We walked up the HUGE hill! We had to sit down and listen to a man but I forgot what his name was! WE had to split up into groups. We split up into groups so there would only be one teacher per amount of children. My team ( also known as Whaea Beck's team)went to weave the Nikau  first. I chose Mihipeka to be my partner because I am not that good at weaving and Mihipeka was, so I chose her. My hands got pretty sore as I placed my red fingers onto the Nikau.
When we were done weaving our AWESOME Nekau, we took it outside and played with it. As I slowly ran up with the kite, I threw it and it did a wonderful glide then a backwards flip in the air! Turns out I was throwing it backwards!
Next up, games. My favourite game was the blindfold game. We faced an opponent and we would have a yellow blindfold on. In our hands, we  held a paua shell and shook it so the other player knows where you are. You would have to tag them. I played against Rikki-Dean and I tagged him first! I felt really weird because I felt like I was blind! I felt inside like I wasn’t going to tag Rikki, but I did!
The last activity we did was planting. I heard the lady  talking to us about not stepping on the plants. I honestly thought I would but luckily I didn’t. As I walked over to the forest, I was about to step on a plant. I dug dug and dug the ground. Anyah, Mihi and I were still not done. We dug a little more and…Made it! PHEW! I thought in my head… “ That was a close one. “
After that we had to walk back to the tree where we first came to. When  it was time to go, Anyah and I stuck together. We slowly walked and moaned at the same time. We Sounded like dying cows! When we got back I was so happy and I ate my little heart out.
After all of that, It probably was my favourite Walk to the treaty grounds out of all the years I have been going there . I loved it.

Thing Link- Hoe Reflection

In Te Maunga we have been doing a hoe reflection. Our hoe are really important to our school.

I think I did well with making the thing link and giving good information.

The thing I could have done better was to put the thing link in a better place where you can see it better

Here is my thing link    😊😊⬇↓⬇↓\

Inquiry- Doll festival

In Te Maunga we have been doing an inquiry presentation about one celebration of our choice.

I think I did do well with giving really good information and working well with my buddy.

I think I did not do well with staying on task and I was getting a bit distracted from others.
Here is my presentation!     ⇓⇓