This week we have been working on creating illustrations for poetry. We chose a poem and had to recreate the images side of it. We had to have relevant images to go with the words in the poem.

This is my first one:

Today I read a book called Small Saul.

It is about a boy who wants to become a pirate. He does lots of little challenges…

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. 

Today we learned how to use Voki to make our sharing more interesting. This is Miss Waho’s first attempt.

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.

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?’

Today we did writing from a picture prompt. This is my writing after my buddy gave me feedback and feedfoward:

Kia ora e te whānau.

Our Year 6 ākonga have had a revamp and tidy up of their blogs. Hopefully, they will be easier to view and navigate around and the students enjoy using them.

Here are some examples of our new theme, called Something Fishy.

What an awesome programme and opportunity for our students. Dancing Like The Stars 2024 was slightly different this year as our performance was only done in front of four other schools. It would have been awesome to have our whānau there because they would have been blown away and extremely proud.