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Monday, March 25, 2013

Making putiputi (flower)



Last week our class room 19 have been making putiputi (flower) at Oamaru creek . We went walking and sat down on grass near the flax the equipment we had been using was rulers and little knifes the reason we went there is to learn how special they are in a Maori culture.                                      


but in Maori they have certain rules when you're allowed to pick them and sometimes not it  1 never the three middle ones they are the very important  because the 1 is the Matua (Father) the second one is the pepi (Baby) the 3 one is the whaea (Mother) because if you do the entire plant will die. 2 don't pick them when its raining because it will never survive  3 and make sure when you're cutting them  cut them at the bottom of the plant don't cut them in the middle or they won't grow .

To start of  you can pick a buddy and cut two one for your self and another for your buddy once we have cutten 2 we can ripped  the red bits from the the edges  after that you can splits them into two  but always remember that they are special. Then we can grab all the bits make it all in one piece and put it under the plant to give all the fieber it  had all in that flax but after that we went down in the street to do the next step but I had to go choir with miss M so I had to miss out
well hoped you liked it

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Tuakana/Teina (older/younger)

Tuakana Teina is when you read with your little brother or sister and your friends for example if you see someone struggling on their reading you can go and ask them if they need any help and if they said yes you can help them out sounding out a tricky word.
                                                         
Memoir is the name of my Teina (younger student) she picked me because I don't bully her and I picked her because I know she's not that good at reading, so I try and make her do her best at all times!  On the first day we found a book and a comfy spot to read the book was the wheels on the bus I asked her "do you want to read this book?" and she replied "yes".

But did you know when you're supposed to say the wheels on the bus go round and round all day long then it was her turn to say it but she said the peals on the bus go round and round all day long and she said ''oooh no'' was that supposed to be wheels on the bus or peals ,I said yes it was so pose to be wheels then I started to laugh and we carried on reading the book ,after that funny story it was pack up time .

Every Tuesdays our class Room 19 have been reading with our little ones from room 9. My buddy is memoir she is very kind and always trying her best to sound out her words but sometimes she can't be bothered reading. 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Our School Picnic

On Friday the first of march our school had a picnic at the Pt England reserve first we set the cones out were can we play and cannot play then we went to eat our lunch because we were hungry so I went and sat down with my friends anamei,Mya,jouan,saadiya after our lunch we went and played in the sandpit down our beach. Me and Mya were just walking around the edges looking for sea shells that have been already picked up from people just then me and Mya saw an volleyball net ,we started to run towards it but I didn't find a volleyball ball around and then I found one but someone was using it then I went to ask the person if I can use the ball but that person had no one to play wit then I asked her if she wanted to play volleyball with me and she said yes after that I was really bored so was Mya so I asked her do you want to dance or sway side to side just then I saw Anamei dancing and I was like that's it I'm joining anamei but Mya was alone then she found a rugby ball and grabbed it and said hey Dhara want to play kicks for a while and said yes Nek Minuet when Mya kicked it went on my face and Mya started to laugh at me but when I turn around she started to run because started to chase her but I fell on the ground After that funny moment it was singing time but me and Anamei were buddies and coshed the song I believe by Yolanda Adams but Mr Jacobson said the song are going to be different then the first songs were Bruno mars count on me ,one direction your beautiful after that it was time to go to class get our belongings and and go home Hope you like it