Writing-Abandoned Places

Abandoned Places

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

Choose one of the above images to prompt a piece of descriptive writing

Erewhon The Dead City

‘Apocalypse over twenty years ago’ she snorted rudely. I continued despite the reaction
‘ A group of aliens took over, destroying the city and killing the inhabitants with toxic spit.
One who managed to escape named the spider like creatures Chrysalids and he only just
caught a glance of a tall thin man with oblong eyes and he saw him spit poison.’  
‘ That’s rubbish Hazel if you believe that you believe in science. Then I don’t’ Olivia snapped
. ‘ Fine but if you wanna be a soldier you have got to believe.’

Twenty years later

Olivia and I are being lowered from a helicopter. The wind is full of screams from the massacre
and lost souls drift through the ruins of Erewhon. Olivia is talking to herself ‘Come on Olivia you
can do this’ I put an arm of comfort around her shoulder.‘ Remember twenty years ago?’ ‘ yes’
‘ Well then believe you can and you will’ Olivia smiles gently and then walks into the smokey
makariri ( cold ) ruin. The smell of stale blood was familiar but still a worse smell was hovering in
the air. When I touched the old quartz it crumbled away and turned into  dust blowing away in the
wind into my eyes. ‘Hello is anyone here’ the sound of sharp claws scuttling around sent a shiver
up my spine. I swore I heard business boots you hear in the city clattering on the old stone tiles
and it made me think back to the story about the Chrysalids and the apocalypse. ‘STAY OUT’
screamed something in a hoarse voice like thunder. Then lightning illuminated the ruins and
Olivia was gone.

‘ Hello is anyone here’ I asked nervously then I yelled ‘OLIVIA’. All I heard was grunting and the
clickety clack of boots so I took that as a reply. More scuttling about and I thought of the story and
then something exploded and toxic gas poured into the stale air. I ran into a tall pale man in a
suit with glasses on. I saw a pair of  oblong eyes through the glasses. I reeled back in horror
and screamed ‘ OLIVIA THE STORY…. IT’S… IT’S... IT’S TRUE’ something told me to turn
around so I did. Olivia was staggering towards me and grunting almost like she was a zombie.
A chrysalid followed ‘ OLIVIA LOOK OUT!!’ I yelled. She fell over and the monstrous chrysalid
injected something into her and she became a zombie. I opened fire at the chrysalid but Olivia
looked at me with eyes that looked weak like she was a chrysalid or turning into one but she
looked at me strongly in the eye. Then it hit me but I couldn’t do it because if I did it I wouldn’t
die but if I did I would die too along with ‘her’ ‘Goodbye Olivia’..... 

By Emma

Maori Phrases of the week

Task: Create a simple animation using scratch that teaches people some of our phrases of the week- Korero o te Wiki.

WALT:

- use scratch to code for computational thinking

- learn how to create basic code on scratch

- say basic phrases in Te Reo Maori

Click here to see our Korero o te Wiki- Phrases of the week. 

See my scratch project below.

MY Marae Recount

 

Room 5 and Room 7’s Arahura Marae Camp It all began on the first of May on Wednesday at school. The class was getting ready to get into the cars and drive to the Arahura marae. In my car group was Charlie, Hamish and Cooper and Robyn ( Charlie's mum ) was our driver. I was so nervous and I felt my heart beat one thousand times a minute and I was screaming inside my brain but in the end the trip was fun. We were going to the marae to learn about our local history. The Powhiri Porocess At the Waharoa/gateway we had to squish up into a tight group and then we had to walk around a flax bush so the Tangata Whenua could begin the Karanga. The Karanga sounded like a sad moan and sometime during the calling we had to take a moment of silence to remember the dead. Inside the Wharenui we looked up at the Tahuhu and heke to find that they were constantly changing colour with L.E.D lights! How modern! During the whaikorero I felt impending boredom because the speeches took minutes but they seemed like hours or days even! Then we had to hongi, and I was so nervous. We were going to do a karakia but someone else kindly blessed the food before we got to the wharekai. Finally we got to have FOOD, well morning tea anyway but it was delicious and I had two potato top savouries. The Food Was Delicious. My mouth was drooling when I heard what we were having for tea. Roast chicken, crispy battered fish, chips, a salad and last but not least coleslaw. I had exactly one piece of lettuce, some chips, a piece of roast chicken breast and one piece of fish and then I had to sprinkle it with some salt but not too much. The food was delicious and I had to get seconds it was so good. I nearly asked for a third round it was so good. THANK YOU Miriama for cooking such perfect food. For dessert we had fruit salad, yummy, yummy and pavlova. All we drank was water and it tasted different to the water at home because I get water from the fridge. Looking For Greenstone ON the way to the awa to look for Pounamu my head was bursting with thoughts. Was I going to find pounamu and was I going to get very messy in the sand. Jerry told us not to look for GREEN, just look for some white crusty stuff around GREEN rocks. How would I find pounamu if I wasn’t looking for GREEN. I did look for GREEN anyway and I did look for crusty white stuff and I didn’t find any GREENSTONE. I was very disappointed so now I hate the color GREEN and stones that are GREEN. So that was not very fun but then we did a sculpture competition and my group didn’t work very well together and we split up so me and Ayah were collecting mud to stick the building together but we ended up just getting sand and getting wet to make mud. Shannon and Cameron didn’t work together, one minute went by and we were going to make the Marae but no instead it was a wharenui. All that drama was tiring so when our work was judged we lost but at least we tried. Lake Mahinapua Tramline Walk On the Mahinapua Tramline Walk it was mostly flat but when we had to walk up to the picnic point it got treacherous and there was mud everywhere. There was lots of uphill and downhill and we had to find several native trees but me and Olive found them all and then we just walked. We caught up with Sapphire and Breanna. We made up nicknames and my nickname was Onion. When we got to the picnic point we were gazing at Lake Mahinapua where a battle for Pounamu happened. I could picture the Ngai Tahu boats sinking and the Shamans storm. I couldn’t see the chiefs heads or bodies though. Then something broke my thoughts it was !!MARSHMALLOWS!!. I chose white because the pink taste different to me and the white just looks nice like snowy !!MARSHMALLOWS!! . The walk back was mostly downhill and then we were on our way to school… Personal comment Overall the Marae experience was great for my education. I would have preferred to go to sleep a little earlier since I was grumpy in the morning ( although I didn’t show it !). I hope I can go to the Marae again when I am older and remember what fun I had. Some Photos From The Marae Lake Mahinapua The Ancient Battleground The Tekoteko Tamaahua !!!Lunchtime!!! !!The End!!

Quote Art-Self portraits. Term one 2019

In term one we looked at our school values and what it takes to be a good learner and classmate at Karoro School.  As part of this we drew self-portraits and chose quotes that reflected something we believed in or a value we see as important.
Here is MY art :  )