Some of My Writing

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Diary Writing

Dear Diary 

Today I left the dog shelter. A really nice lady came and picked me up and took me to her house. When I got to the house, I couldn’t see because I was still in a box. 

Suddenly, a bright light shone on me, and I looked up to see the face of a smiling boy. I felt warm and happy. I was excited because I felt like I had a new friend.

All of a sudden, my new friend looked horrified. I thought he looked disgusted, and I didn’t understand why. 

 

Dear Diary

Today I was minding my own business, playing my game and then Mum walked in. 

Titiro Whakamuri – Reflection

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It’s been a pretty significant week for us in Aotearoa New Zealand. We heard about the passing of Kiingi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, which was a very sad time.

At Ara Tū Whakatā, we had a flag raising ceremony where we raised the Tino Rangatiratanga flag to half mast and sung some waiata.

On Thursday, the day of Kiingi Tuheitia’s burial, we had the life stream on in class. Our class erupted with happiness when we saw our new queen, Kuini Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō.

At the start of the week, most of our hub didn’t know about our Māori King, so although it is sad that Kiingi Tuheiti has passed, it is also exciting to see our new queen and to see people learning about this important part of Māori culture and history.

 

 

Kei te pēhea koe?

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Our Te Reo Māori Learning

Recently, we worked on creating a Google Drawing within our Drive to begin to tuhituhi / write, in Te Reo Māori. We chose three feelings and used these to write simple sentences using the sentence structure, Kei te pēhea koe? Ke te ___ ahau.

We also reviewed our using of online images using the ‘Search the Web’ tool.

This is the example we used to model what to do.

Our next step is to use the sentence structure, ‘E pēhea ana koe?’

 

Fact Families for 5X

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This week we have been learning about fact families to help us with our times tables. I am on the 5X tables.

Here are three examples:

8X5=40                     5X8=40.               40➗5=8.            40➗8=5

4×5=20            5×4=20                20➗4=5              20➗5=4

5×6=30                 6×5=30           30➗6=5         30➗5=6

I think I am pretty confident with fact families.

I might need a bit more work on fact families.