Get NZ writing- Poetry

Over the past few weeks we have been part of the 'Get NZ Writing' poetry project. This project aimed to get 96,000 poem written across NZ!! We were sent a tin with objects in it and we used one of these objects to write poems. Here are my poems.

My powhiri work

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a marae. Here is my writing work about powhiri

Kawa of Care/ How to look after your computer.

We have been learning to follow the Kawa of Care which tells us how to look after our devices and be Cybersmart. We had to choose three rules to write about. Here is my work. 

Ways to follow the Kawa of care!

Keep your computer away from food and liquids.

Turn off your computer when you
aren’t using it.

  

Wharenui diagram

Wharenui

A wharenui is a meeting house where you can go and learn. It
represents an important ancestor that belonged to that tribe. The
tahuhu or spine runs along the top of the wharenui. In the centre is
the poutokomanawa or heart of the ancestor.  The head is called
koruru, the arms are called maihi and at the end of the maihi are
\ raparapara, or hands. The amo or legs are below the maihi. Inside
\ the wharenui if you look up you will see the heke, rafters or ribs
which are carved with stories of maori history.

A wharenui can open its doors in a natural disaster if some people's
house are damaged and they give them food and a nice place to stay.
They can stay there as long as they want until there house is fixed.
In Auckland they open their doors for the homeless because there
was so many of the homeless people on the streets in winter.

Wharenui can be used for celebrations like weddings and birthdays.
They can be used for meetings. You can also have a funeral there.

 

Karoro School Values

For the beginning of the year we have been learning about our school values. Here is my work showing our school values and some ways to demonstrate them!