How Mammoth got their Tusks

Yesterday Room 3 literacy did a story about an Animal that we got to chose.I pick a Extinct animal which was a Mammoth,i explained how Mammoth got their tusks. 

 

Taha Wairua

 

Today Room2 did another Whare Tapa Wha about Taha Wairua.I learnt how to say Aotearoa in New Zealand sign Language.

Te reo Maori

 

Rata and The tree

 

Oral language

Today Room 3 literacy did a oral language.Here's a map that we followed a set of instruction read out by our teacher.Here are 3 things i learned about oral language

1.We learned how to listen

2.we learned how to follow the instruction.

3.We learned how to follow the direction of the story

 

Kei te pehea te ahua o te rangi

 Task description:Today for rotation my group called Rua did Te Reo Maori for our next rotation.We had to answer what was the whether like.      

Ko e founga hono ma'u'e Tonga 'a hono hingoa

This morning Mrs Tele'a told us a story by David Riley.Once upon a time a strong village man called Maui who was a superhero.One day Maui was walking down the river until he came up to a man called Tongataumata'u also known as Tonga the expert fisherman.They had a little talk and look around until Tongataumata'u showed him these beautiful shining hooks.

He told Maui to pick one of those hooks but Maui didn't go for the shining hooks he went for a old used hook with spider webs around it.But Maui ask what him what does he owe him,he said 'when you find a island name it after me'.So Maui went out in the ocean and went fishing,he felt something heavy so he pull it out and came out a island so as he promised he named it Tonga after Tongataumata'u.

Taha Whanau - Valerie Adams

                                                                                     
 

ngatu

                                                                              Ngatu

The group of women sit around a wooden table using  gooey,white paste then spreading it around the sheet.The group is learning how to make a ngatu made out of bark,ngatu is known as a tapa in many pacifica.Megan and lita are cousin they get to spend the day with their grandmother.Uoleva their mothers and other women and girls from the tongan community in Wellington.Uovela and her sister Mele are the eldest of the Taukei of the group.The two sister remember back in the 1950’s,1960’s they lived in a village called Tatakamotonga.

Taha Hinengaro

 

Task description:This week room2 did a task about taha hinengaro.What we did for our taha hinengaro we had to write down some things that we are good at.

Compound Sentence

Task description:Today for writing room 3 did a compound sentence we had to get 2 simple sentence and put in a conjunction between it. Here are some of my 5 of my favorite compound sentences from our task today.

 

Oral language Activity

How well did listen?

Today Mrs Tele'a read out instruction while we listened,labelled and drew