If I Had Wings...

For the past few weeks we have been doing poetry. This weeks task was a poem about If I Had Wings... First we had to answer some questions and then we had to colour in the piece of paper with the poem. Last of all we had to write our own If I Had Wings poem. We had to use sticky 
( interesting ) language, use the five senses and use interesting verbs and nouns. Here is my poem.

My School Kit Poem 1

Over the past few weeks we have been part of get NZ writing poetry project.  This project is aimed  to get 96, 000 poems written across New Zealand. We were sent a tin with some objects in it and I used three of these objects to write poems. Here are my poems.

The Powhiri Process

We have been learning about being welcomed onto a marae. Here is my writing work about powhiri.

Kawa Of Care

We have been learning to the Kawa Of Care which tells us about how to look after your Chromebook and be cyber smart. We had to chose three rules to write about. Here is my work.

My Marae Writing

We have been learning about wharenui because we are going to a marae soon. This is my diagram and writing about marae.

Marae

A marae is like a book. The kōwhaiwhai, the tukutuku
panels and the carvings are the pages of the history of the
whanaū and the hapū. In some marae there are photos of
important people who have passed away.

A marae represents an ancestor. The head of the marae is
called the kōruru. The maihi are the arms. On the ends of
the arms are the hands which are the Raparapa. The spine
is called Tāhuhu. The ribs are called heke. The heart pole-
the heart of the marae is called poutokomanawa.

A marae is a great place to learn. There can be

meetings at a marae.

You can have weddings there, Tangi

( Funeral )and Birthdays there. Marae are sort of like a
memorial place. When a natural disaster has happened and
families don’t have homes, people open up their marae
doors and people get served food, a nice warm place to
stay and they get to sleep there. This happened after the
Kaikoura earthquake.

These are some of the reasons why marae are important to
a community.

Karoro School Values

For the beginning of the year we have been learning about our school values and some ways we can demonstrate these.