Te Mata Peak by Berenger

On Saturday when I was in Hawkes bay, me (Berenger) and my friend Angus and our mothers went to Te Mata Peak.

Here is part of the legend: 

Many centuries ago when New Zealand only was inhabited by the Māori people, there was a pa with a Pakipaki chief, and he and his people were under threat of war from the coastal tribes of Waimarama.

Hinerakau, the daughter of the Pakipaki chief, would get to the leader of the Waimarama tribes, a giant called Te Mata, to fall in love with her turning his thoughts from war to peace, but she too fell in love.

The people of Heretaunga, however, hadn't forgotten about the past and their revenge, demanded that Hinerakau should make Te Mata prove his worthiness by being set seemingly impossible tasks. The last task was to bite his way through the mountain between the coast and the plains so the people could come and go with greater ease.

He died trying to prove his love and today you can still see his half accomplished work.

I think that you should go to Hawkes bay to see Te Mata.

By Berenger Iverson

P.S. Don't fall down!

Rm 5's planting ceremony

                                          By Damar Endarto

On the 17 of June Rm 5 went down to the field and planted some plants.

Here are some pictures:

This is Ms Cowsill doing a mihi ( speech ) to the gods while room 5 were listening. We also did a Karakia.

This is Mr Koko digging holes for our trees.

Here are some plants:

Karamu

 Mahoe (whiteywood)

Manuka

Te Kouka (cabbage tree)

After the planting we watered the plants. 

Then we made a sign for the plant and did the vote.

So the winner was Evie's sign.

Please comment about what you felt when we sang the Karakia or what you felt when we planted the plant.

Karakia

Thank you Room 5 for opening our morning with your karakia. He mihi nui! 

Our Book Week

BOOK WEEK

by Evie F and Ava

Last week we had Book Week.  We started with the book character parade.

Here is Miss Harford as the Queen of hearts.

Here is some of the year 0's and some of us dressed in our costumes.

Here is our class.


Here is Biba's description of the parade.

Glittering with laughter and joyful music we clapped and clapped along with the beat. There was one costume that struck my eye. The gown was white with glitter sparkling just like a star shining in the night sky.   It had a blue shimmering bow that had little details of a princess on it and the person wore one little necklace around her neck.  There was a headband which shone with blue sparkles all over and she wore blue  high heels which also sparkled all over.  She was Cinderella.  Oh how she looked like she had just got out of the Cinderella book.   

Later in the week we met our new little buddies in room 15. We heard them read and then helped them to write about
Grandparents' Day.

Hamish and Ojas are really helping their buddy.

 This is the whole class with their buddies.

 Ava and Sybilla are getting their buddy to reread her writing..

Rhys and Jamie are watching their buddy carefully and Oscar is helping his buddy to spell the words.

We all had a lot of fun everyday and we read lots of books in this week.

Please tell us about your favourite moment in Book Week!

Our visit to Ley's library

Our Visit to Ley's Library

written by Hamish Barker and Oscar Hoare

On Tuesday the 6th of June Rm 5 went to Ley's library to learn about Matariki.

Not only did we learn about Maori and Matariki in Aotearoa, we also learnt about Fiji and Tonga.

Here is us learning about New Zealand and Fiji and Tonga and the rest of the Pacific Ocean.

On the wall we also learned about Masi made from the Mulberry tree and how they used it to describe their tribe,family and themselves.

Masi is special paper that come from the bark of the Mulberry tree. It is soaked in salt sea water then  hammered together with special hammers made of strong wood.

This us travelling between Tonga and Aotearoa  on our vaka  or waka with special paddles from the museum.

Here is us decorating with stencils and rubbing.

Please add something you learnt on this day when you comment.

The Creation - Matariki

Kia ora Ruma Rima,

Here is the link to the legend about Rangi and Papa which not only explains how the world was created but also tell about the creation of Matariki.

Have another look at it and see if you can find another legend about Matariki. Tell us about it when you comment. Maybe you could also show this to your family.

The story of Matariki

If you would like to have another  look at the  news item about the Matariki kite celebrations in Paihia last year click the link below.

TV3 Matariki Kites

The room 5 visitor

  Written by Biba and Aleeza

On Friday Aleeza's turtle Dash came to room 5 to visit .  She shivered in fear as all the people crowded around . She slowly calmed down when less people came . We wrote sentences about Dash  when school started . Some sentences were describing a lot about Dash. In the afternoon we looked carefully and drew pictures of Dash .

Here are some of our descriptions  of Dash, the turtle

Rhys - Dash the turquoise turtle turned his head as quick as lightning while sitting on the floor and scrambled all the way across the wet carpet recklessly trying to escape.

Berenger - The large, red eyed turtle crawled to the gateway of freedom, as fast as its clawed, webbed feet would carry it.

Damar - The yellow striped turtle waddled slowly across the patterned floor while swishing her teeny - tiny tail.

Evie - The turtle looked carefully around on the floor for an opening.

And some of our drawings

by Kip

by Evie H.

by Aleeza

by Evie F

by Biba

by Karisa