Matariki Create Task

WALT: Summarise and analyse ideas and information about the text. I think this Walt means gather a hole pile of information & ideas and turn it into a small text will using all of the information you gathered

 Matariki is a group of stars that is a symbol of the maori new year. we have new create tasks to do with Matariki. Legends say that matariki are sisters and matariki is the oldest sister of 6 other stars called Waiti, Waita, Waipuna-a-rangi, tupu-a-nuku, tupu-a-rangi, uru-a-rangi. The 1st task was to make a summary of 2 videos and 2 texts.

Video #1: The video is about the 7 sisters that always annoy other stars, so Matariki’s parents give her and the matariki sisters a job. They had to stay in the sky to symbolize the maori new year.

Video #2: The other video is talking about what some people do to celebrate matariki. People say that it’s a good time to grow crops and get heaps of fish. Some make kites and fly them.

Te Papa Website: some tribes didn’t celebrate at the same time, some celebrate when the first full moon appears. In early june, you can see it early in the morning.

Celebrating Puanga at Ramanui: near the mountain of taranaki

school, they celebrate the come back of Ramanui and Puanga the red star and blue star and the only brothers of matariki as the school is the only true celebrations they say.

We had 4 choices to make for the 2nd create task. The 1st was to make an animation of matariki, the 2nd was to make a Venn diagram of how you celebrate new and the maori new year. The 3rd was to do a word find and make a glossary with the words. The 4th and last one was to read tawhirimatea and re-write the story. I did the word find one.

Glossary 

Waiti: sweet

Wairua: spirit, soul

Maramataka: maori lunar calendar

Whenua: land 

Pataka: storehouse

Korero: speak

Whanau: family

Matariki: maori new year

Whetu: stars

Kai: food

Pipiri: first month on maori new year

Constellation: group of stars to make an image

           Celebration: do something special /

special event

Harvest: farmers gather grain or fruits

Pleiades: 7 sisters

June: month of the year

Past: time before some people were born

Future: time that will come

Reflection: sending back light

Calender: showing the dates of the year

 

Reading create task

WALT: Make connections with yourself, others texts and the world 

This week we had 8 new reading books, the books are called A bad case of stripes, you are special, harry maclary, where the wild things are, the wonky donkey,when pigasso meets mootisse, the empty pot and peter rabbit. We also have new create tasks. The 1st task, we had to make connections from the book telf, another text and the world. There are 2 more tasks but I didn't have much time to do it. I also didn't get to finish the 2nd task because I didn't really have much time but I was nearly done.

 The 2nd task was to make a Venn diagram with 2 different text, main characters. the 2 books I used the main characters from A bad case of stripes (Camila Cream) and When Pigasso meets Mootisse (When Pigasso meets Mootisse).

M&M Stacking

 Today, I tried to break the world record of the most M&Ms stacked. The best is five but I only got to stack 2 M&Ms and I used the colors from the house from Mustang yellow house from my school. I worked so hard to stack the M&Ms and put it in the right place. Hope you enjoy 😁.

EARTHQUAKE

WALT: Use prior knowledge when making text-to-text connections

 The story is about a young girl called Ellie who survived the Christchurch earthquake on the 4th of Sep. After the big earthquake, Ellie and her mum got supplies ready. On the way, they saw lots of damaged buildings with cracks everywhere. Then another earthquake struck on the 22nd of Feb.Our complementary task was was about Quaky cat helps out. A cat called Tiger can’t sleep because the huge Christchurch earthquake struck. In the future, his house got mended.Our challenge text was how an earthquake happens. Earth is just like a puzzle, the pieces are called tectonic plates. When on crashes into each other or slides on each other, an earthquake happens. 

The Hungry Wave

WALT: use prior knowledge when making text-to-text connections

The story is about a girl named Ana and her 3 brothers,

Niko, Mika and a baby brother. When Ana, Niko and Mika were getting ready for school,

an earthquake happened. It lasted for a long time but then stopped.

Then Ana’s mom let her go.

When she went out, a tsunami formed. They all ran away shouting TSUNAMI!!!

In the end they all

survived the disaster.

Our complementary text is about how tsunamis form.

Tsunamis form by landslides underwater,

earthquakes underwater,

land slumping underwater and volcanic eruptions underwater.

Our complementary text is about

how tsunamis form.

Tsunamis form by landslides underwater, earthquakes underwater,

land slumping underwater and

volcanic eruptions underwater.

Taniwha Trouble

WALT: Evaluate ideas and information in a narrative text.

 The story is about a boy called Noah who was hearing some weird noises from his class room heaters. Noah thought there was a taniwha in the heaters, he went and got the caretaker mr Blackadder. They both found where the taniwha sound was and captured it. Mr Blackadder showed Noah's whole class the taniwha in a jar, it was tiny. Complementary text is about 2 taniwhas who lived in a lake near Wellington harbour who wanted to go out into the ocean, so then they tried to make a huge wave that flooded the land separating the lake and the ocean and they did it, so they now live in the ocean. Challenge text is about a taniwha who lived in wellington harbour and when the taniwha was asleep he slipped over the land freely in the sea.

I was staring at mr Blackadders jar. The water was just so black I couldn’t see anything.

Was I the only student who didn’t see small taniwha in the jar?

1. Would you have captured the taniwha by yourself? Probably yes.

2. Do you want to hold the taniwha in your hands? Definitely yes

3. How did you know that there was a taniwha? My father told me the sound a taniwha makes

4. What’s your favourite animal? Definitely a Taniwha 

5. Do you like any other animals? No

 

ANZAC reading tasks by Jf

For week 11 (the last week of the term) our reading tasks are all about ANZAC. If your were wondering what ANZAC means, it means Australia, New Zealand Army Corps. We had a minimum of 5 tasks but we had to do at least 3. I didn't get to finish 3, I only did 2. Hope you like my work😄.