Tag: Writing

Come Lord Jesus! 

We think of these words during the season of Advent. It is when we are 

getting ready for the birth of Jesus,

We have an Advent wreath in class and there is also one in the Church. We light the candles every morning at prayers and think about these words – Hope, Peace, Love and Joy. We try to think of these words during December when we are at home with our families.

I have enjoyed this year because I have been with my friends who started school with me back in Sister Evalesi’s class. We had fun, laughed and sang a lot but also we had to work hard too. I loved being part of our Whanau movie which we saw at Sylvia Park. 

I hope you have a Merry Christmas and enjoy a rest with your families.

today I was with Paul . I made a doodle picture and then Paul saw a bird. Then I made a poem about it.

We have been talking about our whanau. This means family in te reo Maori. We saw an artist called Reuben Paterson who makes art using koru patterns. I made my family using four koru because one is my nana, one is my mum and then there is my sister, Alyvia and me. I liked adding the glitter on top of the wax crayon.

In April the Matariki stars are gone and in June they come back. We can see the stars early in the morning when the sun comes up. Matariki is Maori New Year when they think of their plans for the next year.

 There are nine stars in the cluster and we decided to make kites like the book we read. I cut my brown bag into two and then I painted one half green and the other one I made Maori patterns. It was so fun when I got to paint them and put them outside to dry.

The next day was a challenge because we had to weave the strips together and I was getting confused but then I managed to get it looking good in the end. 

Finally we braided three colour of twine to make the tail. Then Mrs Yumul glued gunned a feather and some fern branches onto the bottom

Happy Matariki everyone.                     

Torty was lucky because she was hibernating one day she was  under some leaves and the leaves started to burn but she escaped. She was living with Stewart, the man she met during World War 1. They had a good friendship.

This is my drawing of Torty.

We have been looking at v marine reserves.

We chose a sea creature to describe without using its name. This is mine:

My sea creature is a Maori word for a sea egg.

My sea creature has lots of spiny brown spikes.

My sea creature can only be found in New Zealand.

My sea creature is delicious to eat.