Te Hiakai Imprisoned

Te hia kai imprisoned

One beautiful sunny day Te Hia Kai was doing his normal routine. This was making fire in his old rugid cave. Then suddenly Te Hia Kai was STARVING his puku rumbled and he needed to eat.

"Okay snack time" he told himself. He grabbed 30 packets of chips. Te Hia Kai gobbled his kai up in one swallow then threw them straight into the fire which caused ahuahi to poison its surroundings. But he didn’t care at all just watched it burn down.

"Time for my daily walk'' he said with laughter. As he walked he ate MORE packet foods dropping them into the, awa in the trees and basically everywhere. "Hmm I’m tired" he thought to himself. Lumbering slowly down the trail he arrived back home. "Home sweet home". As he laid in bed he made a fire throwing all of his extra rubbish into, but he didn’t know he had being watched though by the fierce Mahuika god of fire.

Mahuika was pukuriri because he was using the fire and he was causing poison killing innocent creatures. Mahuika visited Te hia kai and just in case she didn’t go too crazy Maui tagged along. When Mahuika arrived she told him off loudly, but after a while he lost interest and day dreamed. She got so furious Maui and she discussed a punishment. "You will be locked up here until you have learnt your lesson" Ever since then awas, forests and all land was squeaky clean but te kia kai was nowhere to be found.

By Tiana and Cheyanne

Room 1 tried their own version of the running man

Persuasive wriitng

Today we had a discussion about Harambe the gorilla. A four year old boy had fallen into his enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo and they had to shoot him to save the boy from getting hurt.

At first we disagreed with him being shot but after some research, most of us agreed that the Zoo made the right decision.

We made a padlet displaying some of the reasons why we agree and why we disagree.

Why are tigers becoming endangered?

 

My mongoose report

Mongoose

Mongoose are endangered animals who fight for themselves.

Mongoose appearance

Mongoose have a long shaped face and short stubby legs. They also have small round ears. Some can come in tan but mainly bring win and grey. Mongoose also have have short fur and a short muzzle. They also have paws they look like human hands.

Habitat and diet

The location of a mongoose is usually Africa but they can also live in Asia. Forests and the grass plains are there habitat too. Mongoose mainly eat crabs and chicken but may eat birds and rats.

Interesting facts

They are very vicious and tough. Mongoose can battle venomous snakes and win the battle. This is because of there thick fur coats they all species of mongoose have. Hawks can be a threat, though they can easily harm the mongoose and many other creatures in his habitat.

Conclusion

These small creatures are harmless to humans but fierce predators.

By Tiana

Meauring capacity

Room 1 are learning to estimate and measure capacity using litres and Millilitres. 

Before we measured using measuring jugs. We estimated using our knowledge of how many cups could go in. We knew that 250ml = 1 cup. We made estimations based on the prior knowledge we had.

After we estimated the measurements we used measure jugs that had millilitres and litres on the side. We filled the bottles up first then poured the water into our jugs and added up the numbers.

We then realised 1 litre = 1000ml and 1000ml = 1 litre. Now when we go to the shop we can convert litres into millilitres with our families.

Libby said we can use the measuring cups for baking as well because it says how many cups are on each jug. Baking is usually measured by cups.

This was a fun lesson.

By Saeis.

KAITIAKITANGA

Room 1 are looking at the words
KAITIAKITANGA/KAITIAKI- 

KAITIAKITANGA

Means guardianship and protection. It is a way of managing the environment, based on the Māori world view. A kaitiaki is a guardian. This can be a person or group that cares of someone or something.

We discussed some of the things we were kaitiaki of.

Ko ahau te kaitiaki ō tōku _________.

I am the guardian/caregiver of my_____

Ko ahau te kaitiaki ō tōku whānau.- Stephen

Ko ahau te kaitiaki ō tōku tinana.- Caprice

Ko ahau te kaitiaki ō tōku teina.- Praise.

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What is sustainable living?

We brainstormed what natural resources we have. Then we looked at all the problems our world faces

(We sorted these problems into the correct category yesterday) 

We decided that sustainable living was a solution to try and solve the problems our world might be facing. 

We defined what we think sustainable living is in our own words. 

Here are some definitions. Later on we will come back and revise these definitions. 

GREAT YOUTUBE CLIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJliYqEXfeI

Measurement fun

Measurement

Did you know the tallest man was 251 cms we then measured our selves against the line of how tall he was and it was the height of 1 jayde and half of tiana. We then did the shortest man and he was 54.6 cms and when we measured our height against it the line went up to tianas thigh.

Praises group: Did you know the shortest adult was 54.6 cm long.We measured James leg and it was the same size of the shortest adult.

Life Ed- Digital Citizenship

We learnt about trolling, how and why we need to keep our personal information private and how to be safe on the internet. We loved having Harold and Misty at our kura.

Narrative writing

Room 1 came up with our own success criteria for a great narrative. Our theme for the story was

A STORY OF SURVIVAL 

 

We then went away and used the success criteria to help us write an awesome narrative

Here are some snips from our writing. 

The scare of the banana- By Tiana (Year 5 )

As long years passed the banana grew and became dull and boring. The bananas human friend suggested going to a maze or to space but the banana said “all I could hear was you telling me I was going to be squished or explode”.

A story of survival- By Jobi (Year 6)

I knelt down to bless the weird looking Taiaha but when I picked it up it let out a huge bang! “Hey!” cried one of the soldiers. “I don’t know if you know but I’m allergic to death, especially around the face.”

A story of survival- By Sam (Year 6)

Suddenly the water was just above their heads and they could not leave but managed to go up every once in a while. Then they managed to get out of the cage but noticed they were lost at sea. 

A story of survival- By Cheyanne (Year 5)

When we got halfway we were hit by something, Zap! I turned into a monster squid and eftpos turned into a flaming bird but Amber, we couldnt understand her because she was speaking Japanese. 

Tias wellness cake

I made a wellness cake because we are studying wellness. I put all the new things I have learnt about wellness into my cake and turned it into a video. Thanks to mum and dad for helping me.

Enjoy my video :)

Chef Tia

What have we learnt about Wellness so far

We made up new Enduring understandings today to see what we have learnt about Wellness. Then we isted all the new things we have learnt in wellness.

We had a little giggle when we compared them to what we learnt in week one and two.

Tapawha have mastered the number line.

Click on the link to watch our video.

https://replayapp.com/v/wjbXTGM7Za/

FRIDAY JUMP JAM!!!!!

Here is a little snippet of how we rock the D FLOOR on  a Friday morning! 

Web conferencing with room 2

We had so much fun Web conferencing Room 2 today. We had to organise our roles, then we had to organise our selves to make sure we were prepared to complete the job.

We worked together as a team and it flt good to not argue with anyone in our team. Research and writing team worked really well under pressure.

We are really proud of how we set everything up and were prepared so that everything went smoothly.

Enjoy our video

Samantha Wahanui

Whanau time on Friday

Today we decided to teach our whanau class how to say Kei te pehea koe?

That means how are you? in Maori.

The juniors loved it.

Cheyanne has learnt a new strategy in math

Here is Cheyanne explaining her groups new strategy to solve addition problems to her buddies.

Thanks for your help Cheyanne!

Making connections

Room 1 have been looking at making deeper connections with a text instead of surface connections.

Here are some of the connections we made.
Tia and James

Caprice and Georgia