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!

Swim Safe achievement levels

WAL to be safe when swimming and working on our swimming skills.
Below is my swimming progress sheet. My progress is highlighted green.
At the end of the year I want to have completed stage four and three.

Camp recount

At camp we played a game of murder on the dusty old coach.  The game is basically tag except you have to tag people in the chest or the tummy and then you count for ten seconds. Two people got their fingers shut in the door by Hamish but otherwise there were no injuries. Charlie or Tuxedo dude was always in because people targeted him. Tuxedo dude wanted caviar or fish eggs and salmon on crackers. Alaska stole his silk tissue and purposely dropped it onto the stones and the second time she took it she pretended to blow her nose and threw it onto the soggy grass. Tuxedo dude insulted Alaska by saying the laughing part of her brain didn’t work properly. People were climbing onto the top of the carriage and through the windows to avoid whoever was in. When I was in and somebody looked at me I stared at them like in a ‘‘your next’’ kind of way. When I was in and I felt like targeting someone  I targeted Charlie when he was playing but otherwise I went for whoever was closest to me. If I felt like getting someone in without any effort I just climbed into the carriage when everyone was in there and tagged one of them. It was fun to play the murder game but it was even more exciting when someone came through the window and they were in. The people who were playing were Alaska, Ayah, Porsha, Charlie, Jack, Jordyn, Fynn, Breanna, Benny, Hamish, James and myself of course. Sadly we had to leave to go back to school but hopefully next time we go there we can play murder once again.😀