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Thursday, November 5, 2020

My Haiku

 At school, we made haiku poems. This was mine: 

This is my Haiku. 



Thursday, August 20, 2020

Dragon poem - verse 1 - Water dragon

Dragon poem - verse 1 - Water dragon


Our class is learning to write poems. We read the poem "Dragon Song". Then we wrote the first verse of our own "Dragon Songs". This is mine: 


Thursday, August 13, 2020

What Is Resilience?

What Is Resilience?

To me, resilience is being, Brave honest trying hard, kind, anything on the following list: 

Character Traits Chart                Name: Beatrice  Date: 5-8-20


Highlight the words that describe how you think a resilient person feels and acts.


Character Traits

Friendly  

independent 

brave

mean 

lazy 

unhappy

scared 

positive 


kind 


funny 


active 

honest 


negative


reliable 

loud 


tries hard 

hard worker 

respectful 


gives up 

persistent 


adventurous 


quiet 

nice 


calm 



After your reading this week what have you learned about being resilient?


What does the word ‘resilient’ mean to you? Give examples of when you have been resilient.


Name: Beatrice

This is what resilience means to me...

Being kind, adventurous, persistent, friendly, reliable, brave, respectful, honest, trying hard, and being a hard worker. 


What drawing, photo, or image reflects what resilience means to you? Insert it here: 


                                                     This happened:

Because of this:

(I used pictures of the Titanic that I found on google)

Thursday, June 25, 2020

E-Close Activity about Matariki

E-Close Activity About Matariki  Date: 26-6-20


We did a close activity about Matariki. It was an E-close sheet because we did it on our Chromebooks. The idea was we were learning how to make sense of what we read. A close sheet is a sheet that is missing some words.  You have to add in the missing words so they make sense. 
The words I wrote in are highlighted in yellow. 


Matariki by Waitangi Teepa
Close completed by Beatrice

Matariki is not only a group of stars it is also the name for the Maori new year 

You can see the stars for most of the year but they disappear from the night sky in Aotearoa, New Zealand in late April, and reappear in Winter, in late May or early June. When the stars appear again and the new moon is risen it is the beginning of the Maori New Year and there is much to celebrate.

The Seven Sisters 
The Matariki group of stars has other names as well. One of its names is the Seven Sisters. In some stories, Matariki is the name of the biggest star. She is the eldest sister and she guides her younger sisters to their places in the sky.  The old stories tell us that when the stars shine brightly, the year will be warm. There will be lots of seafood and plants will grow tall and strong.

Celebrate
We can celebrate Matariki in many ways. It is a time for telling family stories. It is a time for hearing stories of the old days for learning about how people used the stars in the past. It is a time to plant trees and winter crops.  It is a time to fish. This is a time for making things, to learn how to weave and carve. It is a time for making and flying kites. Matariki is a time to make plans for the future and to forgive and forget problems of the past. It's a time to enjoy being with our family and friends. 

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Matariki

Matariki


Our class wrote about Matariki.   We made fact files. This was mine: