Dear Tai Tokerau Land Court

 One of our literacy tasks this week we had to write a letter to the Tai Tokerau Land Court because we readed a book about a old man getting kicked off his island and his nephew had to write letters and go to court for him. When we were writing the letter we had to make it like we were the nephew.

Here is my letter I hope you like it.

20th of October 2020

Federal Government Office

85 Cameron Street

Whangarei


Dear Tai Tokerau Land Court,

I am the nephew of Paratene Te Manu and I am writing on the behalf of him. I have heard that you want my Uncle to move off Hauturu. I am here to tell you why he should stay. He has lived there all his life and hasn't lived anywhere else. It would take him a long time to adjust to a different lifestyle. He will be a lot more disorientated because of his old age. He also has never worked to earn money. He is very old so he will have no experience and will not be able to support himself. As you know, he is an old man. At Hauturu he is as safe as he can be from viruses and illness. But if you take him away from Hauturu, he is way more exposed to illness and viruses. Also, because of his old age, he is way more forgetful but because he has lived on Hauturu for all of his life he knows Hauturu like the back of his hand. If you take him to a new environment, he wouldn’t know or remember where anything is and he will be very conversed and possibly paranoid most of the time which would not be a good thing at his age. I hope this letter will change your mind and that my Uncle Paratene Te Manu deserves to stay at Hauturu and live free.

Yours faithfully,

The nephew of Paratene Te Manu

The Real Friends

 This week for one of our Literacy tasks we had to complete a slide about Poetry. We first had look a 4 videos and choose one. I chose one called friends. On the slides we had to complete all the tasks on it. On one slide we had to see if it had Stanza, Rhymes, Rhythm, Tone, Imagery and Figurative Language. Stanza is a group of lines or a paragraph, Rhymes are how to words sound the same, Rhythm is the rhythm of the poem, Tone is the tone of the poem, Imagery is the message in the poem and Figurative Language is Language Features

Here is how my one turned out I hope you like it...

The holiday of a lifetime!

 This week for one of our tasks we had to finish all the slides. We had to go somewhere out of the country fro 5-12 days with 2 people and a budget of $12,000. I went to Fiji, then Samoa and Vanuatu.

Here is my slide I hope you like it.

Senses Poem

 This week for one of our literacy tasks we had to make a senses poem. The senses we had to do was sight, smell, hear, feel, taste and thought.

I did mine on a google draw so here is mine and I hope you like it.

D-Day but diffirent?

 This week for one of our personification task we had to do another piece of writing. But this time we had to do about something else on D-Day.

"Sind wir bereit?" "Jawohl!" ("Are we ready?" "Yes Sir!"). I can't understand what they are saying so I just ignore it. It is pitch black and all I can see is the stars in the night sky. I can hear the ocean waves crashing on the beach as they break. I can smell a sweaty smell. I wonder if it is from a human and if it is, why are they here? I get a thought, a thought that something very, very bad is about to happen or that was at least what I thought was going to happen but you never know it could change in a second.

I look at the horizon. I am blinded as the glistening sun rises and hits my eyes. I look away until my eyes get used to the new light. I look back to the horizon but this time there is a tiny black dot. As it gets closer more show up. After a little bit longer there are hundreds of them out in the water. After a while I start to realise what was going to happen. They were going to have a surprise party for the people coming back from wherever they were. As they drew closer I could hear the waves crashing against the armoured ships.

As they come closer to the shore I hear screaming for both sides. “Charge!!!” “Aufladen!!!” ( Charge!!!). I now know that this was not a party, it was something that was happening all over and it somehow managed to make it to me. It was WAR. I look at the boats that were nearly at the shore. “BOOOOOOOM” The first ship lands but somehow lands on a landmine and explodes. All the body parts fly in the air. Blood flies everywhere and lands on me. An arm bounces over me and rolls away. More and more boats get to shore and people start jumping out of them. I see soldiers falling to the ground as I hear the machine gunners start holding down the trigger. I look to a soldier who has made it the furthest but then sadly steps on a landmine. As he did I hear his last scream.

I was getting kicked around and I had managed to get kicked to the front line. I look around and see soldiers being shot and killing the other team. I see a soldier that was doing well. “CRACK” The soldier has been shot. It pierces his skull and goes through his brain and out the other side of his skull, he then falls to the ground beside me. I start to think ‘I have seen everything’ until I see a soldier helping his fallen comrade. He drags him beside me until he gets shot. He falls on the other side of me. They both die and I burst out into tears. I start wondering why they are doing this to each other. One of the dead guys' blood pours out and gets to me. I am now in a pool of blood.

I look back to the horizon and see that the sun is setting. It was already night and I am in shock. I then hear cheers and cries of soldiers. It had seemed that one of the teams had won. I notice that the team that came on the boats has managed to win. I want to go up and congratulate them but I have no way to get to them so I was just glad that it was over. It was a lot for a little pebble to experience in one day.

Thanks for reading I hope you liked it.

Personification Fun!

 This week for one of our literacy tasks we had to find out what personification was and write a paragraph on a table with personification in it.

The definition of personification is giving a non human like things human like qualities.

This is my paragraph on a table with personification in it I hope you like it.

I was having fun enjoying the peace and quiet. I started to feel all the marks and scrapes on me as hear all the kids outside screaming. I was becoming worried as I heard the keys enter the hole. I wanted to sprint as fast as a tiger when I heard thedoor creak open. All the kids started to pour in as I started to scream. As I felt the books, devices and arms pile onto me I felt as if I had 100 tons on me and a whole ocean was pouring out of my eyes. I then tried my hardest to move my legs but after awhile I can to the realisation that I will never be able to run away for this miserable life of mine I then accepted that this is my life and will always be my life no matter what. It was nearing the end of the day as I had to make the decision to wait till the next day to have this repeat all over again and have more scrapes and marks show up on me.

I hoped you liked this. 

End of Term Reflection

This is my end of term reflection we had to do. We had to also answer some questions in the reflection I hope you like it.

My highlight of this term was having our matariki breakfast and share our goals for next term. It was a highlight for me because we had a free breakfast and sharing my goals.

My biggest challenge for this term was lockdown and trying to do all my work without help because my mum was helping my brother. It was a challenge because we had to do lots of online work and having to do all of it at home.

But my biggest success was also lockdown because I think I accomplished lots of work and accomplished all of it to the best of my ability.

Something I have learned this term was how to write very descriptive instructions for a class task during lockdown. It was something I learnt because I could always write instructions but not descriptive enough for a blind person to complete them. This is my blog post about it.

Something I am looking forward to these holidays is coming home to my mum after going down to my dads and playing on my ps4. Why I am looking forward to this is because we are going for two weeks without seeing her.

That was my end of term reflection I hope you liked it. 

Matariki Goals

For our Matariki goals we had make a copy of a slide and complete all the slides on it. There was a Literacy goal, a maths goal, a social goal, a RE goal and a extra curric goal. Once we finished we had to share them at our matariki breakfast.
These are what goals I chose.

Maori Gods

This week for our Te reo task we had to make a DLO show facts about two maori Gods called Rongo-ma-Tane and Haumiatiketike. They are good of some types of foods.

I did my DLO on a slide. This is how it turned out I hope you like it.

Draw It

This week we had to read some stories and do some tasks on them. With the draw it task we had to draw a scene from one of the stories.

This is how my one turned out. I hope you like it.

The Night Terror

This week we had to make a mythical creature.

This is how my one turned out. I hope you like it

Facts about Night Terror

He is 5 km long

He can breath fire

He can fly

He can turn the day into night

He teaches kids a lesson when they anger him

He has a snake body, a lizard head and dragon wings

Night Terrors Backstory.

A long time ago there was a little boy name Muhammad. He grew up in a poor town on and island in the middle of nowhere. It was him and his mum since his dad went to find if there was another place out there somewhere but never returned. One day Muhammad was wondering around the island and found a cave. He stared at it for a while until he decided to go in. He walked in and found a match and a long stick. He lit the stick on fire and went deeper and deeper into the cave. He was walking for 15 minutes till he bump into something big and slimy. He put the stick close to it and saw a snake body! He walked beside it for a little bit then accidentally tripped on a rock and burned the snake. It woke up and saw Muhammad. Muhammad then noticed it was Night Terror the legend his mum always told him. But now it was real and was about to kill him. It was late and his mum was looking for him and all she heard was the scream of Muhammad. Night Terror had found out what he wanted to do in his life. He would teach every kid that angered him a lesson.

Creativity!!

This week we had to do a slide on creative writing. Once we did the must do's on the slide we could choose to do the can do's but I didn't do them. This is my slide I hope you like it.

Matariki

This week we had to do a slide animation or scratch on matariki. I decided to do an animation. This is how my slide turned out.

What is your favorite story of how matariki was made?

Sentence fun

This week for my second and third Pobble tasks were Sick Sentence and Sentence Challenge. Sick sentence is when they give you a sentence and you have to make it better. Sentence Challenge is when you have to find the articles in the sentences. An article is are words that define a noun as specific or unspecific. EG: After the long day, the cup of tea tasted particularly good. The article is the because it is defining the noun as one specific day and cup of tea. Now this is my doc

My class is in space!!

This week we had to do 3 Pobble tasks. My first one was when we had to make what a classroom would look like in space. This is how my one turned out I hope you like it.

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What would you do if your class was in space?

Advertising

One of our literacy tasks were that we had to copy a slide the complete all the slides. The slide was based on advertising. You had to watch all the videos then you had to say who they were trying to target and what did the do to persuade their viewers. Here is how my slide turned out.