Book Worms!!

 

Task Description: Happy Holidays!! Today for the Spring Learning Journey My first task/activity to do was to make my own Book Cover for our favourite book!. 

For this activity, design a book cover for your favourite book. You will need to think about what needs to be on the cover (the title, author, illustrator). 

Ann M. Martin is the author of the book

Writing/Google Drawing Task

Covid Well-being

 

Task Description: Yesterday Rm 1 started off with a piece of cardboard to write down some ideas for our Covid Well being. We had to make a poster about some Covid I've put different types of things to help with the Covid 19 when you are going back in isolation

Equivalent Fractions.

Task Description: Today for maths we investigated equivalent fractions, we had papers and coloured in 2/3s of the paper, we then had to shade in some of the boxes and add the answer. We also had to make a video

 

Reading ~ Rata and the Tree

 

Task Description: Today for reading we had to choose a Myth to do, I chose Rata and the Tree, this Myth was about Rata chopping a tree to make a waka so that his people can be safe. Tawhirimatea and Tangaroa were going to battle each other.... the creatures weren't happy in Rata so the creatures rebuilt the tree.. the creatures then built the waka for rata because he apologies

Maths Theseus and the Minotaur

 

Task Description: Today for maths Rm 3 did a Maze maths we had to answer questions about will it be interesting or how many ways are there to go enter...  

Taha Whanau

Task Description: Hello and welcome to my blog, this week is Sign Language week, our theme for this week is Sign Language is for everyone. I also put a picture on so you can learn how to do your own name in Sign Language. Sign Language is the main language in New Zealand

Tuvaluan Dance

Task Description: Today in the morning Rm 1, 5 and 4 did a Tuvaluan Dance with two ladies named Molia and Mary Ann, We learnt new words and we also got to learn some facts about Tuvalu

He aha te tae?

Writing - Kia Kaha Te Reo Maori

Te Horeta's Nail

Taha Whanau - Whare Tapa Wha

Task Description: Today for Te Whare Tapa Wha we did Taha Whanau, we had to match the English words and Maori words this task was pretty easy to do, I also enjoyed it! 

Taha Tinana

 Task Description: Today for the Whare Tapa wha we did Taha Tinana which is also known as fitness or exercising. We had to do 5 different exercises.

Level 3 - Maori Stage Polyfest.

Task Description: This is another maths task for today, this task is about a Maori Stage, it was a bit hard, but at least i finished. 

Level 2 - Finding Fractions of a Whole

Task Description: This week is Maori Language Week Room 1 maths has been given a task that was in Maori, we had a slide with the English words so that we understand what the instructions are.  The task was pretty easy but also confusing because of the Maori Words. 

Tongan Story

Task Description: This is a Tongan story when a man went surf  and fell of and got taken away from the current.

Tongan Language Week

This week is Tongan Language Week, we are learning more and more about Tongan Identity and what they are like, we've also been watching some videos to discover more facts about Tonga and what has happened in the past, some of the videos are based on what Tongan people do on the daily basis. The theme for Tongan language week is "Fakaloa 'o Aotearoa Aki 'a e Lotu Mo' oni" which means enriching Aotearoa new Zealand through prayer and faith Tongan people use wisdom spirituality and collective living  as a bases which to contribute to society.
Tonga is the only country in the south pacific to never have been colonised by a foreign power and still has it's own monarchy.

He hakete kikorangi

Task Description: Today for Te Reo we were learning about colours in Maori, and we also learnt some other words in Maori, I really enjoyed doing this with Ms Tapuke.

Writing

Traditional Tongan cooking and food: Coconuts and the Umu

The Coconut is an indispensable ingredient in Polynesian life, it is also dried into cobra or used in cooking oil or body oil. But most of all it is the base of nearly all Traditional dishes in the Polynesian
dine.
Taro Leaves are like spinach mixed with Onions and Corn Beef, it is wrapped in banana leafs and the coconut milk is added last.
The bundles are placed in an underground oven or a umu along with Taro roots or Yam, when it is full the umu is covered with banana leafs and old mats to keep in the heats hours later the bundles/food is removed from the umu.

Pieces of Cloth Pieces of Culture, Tapa Making and Community Collaboration

The Tongan islands lie 23 degrees south of the quitter in the pacific a tropical nation comprising over 100 islands Tonga still has its own king who is not only head of state but his head of the state church, Tonga was never formally colonised by any European nation and therefore its cultural practises today reflect ancient tradition and modern Christianity.
In 1773 Captain James Cook a British explorer described and named the Tonga island as the friendly islands, one of the greatest embodiment of Tongan history culture and religion is Tapa Cloth.. Tapa Cloth is a treasured textile which is made from Natural materials that grow in the Tongan islands no religious ceremony is complete without tapa cloth.
Tapa Cloth is especially prized as a covering for the casket of a deceased person, after a funeral ceremony has been conducted. The casket will be taken to a burial ground.
( Tapa Cloth are made by Bark, The inner bark is taken from several types of trees or shrubs, often mulberry and fig, and designs are applied with paints and vegetable dyes of light brown, red, and black ).

Tapa Cloth - Maths

Task Description: Since this week is Tongan Language Week our maths is about the Tapa Cloth, we had to measure and find the answer within the Tapa Cloth, for our create task we had to make our own Tapa Cloth!. Please feel free to leave a positive comment

Reading - Keeping The Tradition Alive.

Task Description: Today for reading we read a story named Keeping the Tradition Alive. we had to list five things that keep the Tongan Language Alive.

Sports of Tonga

Today for Te Whare Tapa Wha our theme was Taha Tinana so for our task today we had to watch a video of sports in Tonga and right some facts in the google drawing, This task was very interesting and I enjoyed learning more about it.

Taha Whanau

Novel Study Task!

Hello and greetings to you all, this is my Novel Study task i've done, this was a fun task to do. The book I read As Fast as words could fly was Amazing!!, you should probably check it out for yourself on Storyline Online. This is a very fun task. Please Feel free to leave a positive comment!

Taniwha Facts

Hello and Greetings to you all welcome back to my blog.. This week for Reading/Literacy I've been learning about the Taniwha's Rivers and facts and many more!, I have put different sentences in different orders this Story is either is Myth Or Legend!!. Hope you've enjoyed, Please Feel free to leave a positive comment on my Blog!