Writing

In Te Ngahere for writing we had a new writing prompt. our writing prompt was a photo of a shadow in front of a green door reaching for a padlock. I really enjoyed writing about this photo because it had a bit of a scary vibe and I like scary things. Maybe  I could make my writing even better if I focused even more on it. I think I did well on reaching my goals for this piece of writing. Whilst Writing this I also learnt a few new words that I can use to improve my writing. My focus in this piece was to be an R6 in vocab by deliberately and consistently using precise vocab for effect and for ideas I chose R4 by having a lot of ideas and one has a lot of supporting information. The way I have shown this is by having a lot of ideas with a lot of supporting info and I have consistently used really good words for effect. For example I used the phrase cold and mysterious was the night. Here is my writing. Please give me feedback on my writing.

Cold and mysterious was the night where creatures lurked and people slept. One curious little shadow in the shape of a person wearing robes set out on a quest to get through the haunting green doors of a small shed. The full moon shines on the shadow, the streets are dead silent the only living thing out there was the mischievous young shadow. Rumour has it that if this shadow lurks around your fields your valuable items are sure to go missing. Nobody knows what this little shadow is or who it is, they just know it brings no good. Quietly the shadow opens the lock emitting a small click. surprisingly the shed wasn’t what meets the eye it held jewels and magical items. Haunting eyes target the wonderful jewels of green, red, blue and purple but only one was it wanting, the cursed gem. Creeping towards the jewels the shadow picks up the cursed gem with elation. Swiftly back through the dead streets as quiet as a ghost town the shadow creeps back to it’s cave full of stolen treasure …

Swiftly the shadow jumps from light to light although it knows it’s completely invisible in the dark. Fear soars through the terrifying shadow’s body. Curiously the shadow does not like to go in the dark as if it wanted people to know the shadow is near. Wanted signs hang from walls and lamp posts about every 2 metres apart. Various amounts of people think it’s darn right useless trying to catch something you can’t even touch nor hear, so they think. Nervously  the ghastly being advances closer and closer to its home. No one really knows where it lives or what it lives in.

Shadow thief is what they call the mysterious being for  you can only see its shadow and it steals all valuables insight. Gem in hand the shadow thief almost reaches its cave. As it proceeds to its cave it sees the sun start to rise.

Legend has it that the holder of the gem can remove or give any curse, but a twist, oh yes a twist, the holder must lose something close to him or her. Which is the reason most people keep well away from it. People don’t know how it erases something you like but a common theory is it reads your mind and then with its power it kills the one you love or destroys the thing you love. Some delusional man gave up his innocent daughter’s life to remove his curse of a golden touch. 

As the moon went down the scorching sun started to come up, the town woke up, the sky was bright, the birds were about and people filled the streets but the shadow thief was nowhere to be seen. Mysterious as always the shadow thief was figuring out how to use the gem in it’s dark bat infested cave. He tried saying what he wants, rubbing it like a magical lamp and even throwing it but nothing seemed to work. Agitated the shadow thief shouted “I want my curse gone!!!” then suddenly out of nowhere a deep voice said “are you sure”. Surprised, the shadow thief said, “who was that?”. “Me” said the gem “who”, “me” the gem repeated. Finally the shadow thief realised it was the gem. In awe he uplifts his voice and says “can you remove this curse!!!? “are you sure?” repeated the gem “ah-ah-ah” muttered the shadow thief nervously . The gem repeats itself “do you or do you not?” “ye-ye-ye-ye-yes” he said. Then boom clash bang!!! suddenly it was all gone, the shadow thief was a man again, big and tall ,muscular, handsome and most of all face lit with a smile delighted of his curse finally gone. 

Forgetting the price shadow thief had paid he runs to his parents house to find them dead on the ground, pale, as if their life got sucked straight out of them. Shadow thief falls on his knees salty tears running from his face, he looks up and gives a great shout “noooooooooo!!!”. The price he whispers to himself the stupid price. His innocent parents lay there, life drained. The shadow thief mourns and cries a river “noooooooooo!!!” he shouts once more. The shadow thief talks to himself, “You shouldn’t have done it David”.

Dreadfully time came to pass as he himself David had realised his consequences. He then sat down in his plain coloured living room on the mossy green couch weeping and weeping and weeping as the hours passed by …

The End

Te Reo Maori

In Te Ngahere we have been doing Te reo Maori. In Te reo Maori we were learning about the Maori names of items in our class. So we started making animations about some names of items in the class. Me and Harlem were in a group together. I really enjoy this because I like learning more words in Maori. I think next time we could lay it out better like instead of putting the items right beside Harlem, I could put the items were he’s pointing instead or instead of just making me ask the questions. I could answer some of the questions as well and we could try putting the items in order from easiest to hardest. The types of words we used were pene for pen, karaka for clock, tepu for table, turu for chair and the question was He aha tenei?

Which means what is this? The answer to the question is he ___ tena.

Panui

In Te Ngahere for panui/reading we have been focusing on learning what a round character is and a flat character by learning about their dimensions. The 1st dimension was what you can see on the surface. Dimension 2 is about their fears, weaknesses, dreams and backstory. Dimension 3 is about who they really are, their decisions wants, and desires. We were given 4 characters (Bilbo Baggins, The Fire Raiser, Benny and Mr Twit). We had to find all their dimensions then say which character had the most dimensions. I really enjoyed finding dimensions for The Fire Raiser but next time I should work with my buddies a bit more so we all understand the text.

Measurement

 

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing measurements we are using standard and non standard measurements. Standard measurements are centimetres, litres, grams and all those measurements that never ever change. A non standard measurement is measuring in footsteps or hands and things like that because not everyone has the same foot size or foot steps making it different for every different person who measures with non standard measurements. I enjoy doing this because I like measuring things and I like maths. I think next time we do this I should try and eliminate every variable so I get exact measurements.

Kapa Haka Practice

In the Kapa Haka Roopu we have been practising for the Kaikohe Cultural Festival. We have mainly been going through our routine a lot so we can make it perfect. I really enjoy kapa haka and recently we all got individual feedback which has really helped me in improving my performance. I think I need to make my actions on time for the waiata and the haka.

Maths

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to multiply, subtract, divide and add large numbers in maths using the standard written form, which is how people worked  out maths in the old days. I enjoy doing this because I find multiplying and dividing numbers really fun. I learnt a few new strategies from Mr Lindsay, e.g if you have a number with 1 or 0 put it at the bottom to make it easier to figure out because everyone knows their 1 times tables. I already knew how to use standard written form and multiply large numbers so the only thing I needed to learn was dividing large numbers. Here is an example of on of the questions we had to do. Here is a link to some questions we had: Multiplication.

Science

In Te Ngahere week 1-3 we have been doing science fair. In science fair me and Ben just finished our board and now it’s in the whare. Me and Ben’s question was about which material is the best insulation? At the start neither me or Ben really enjoyed the science fair but we did have a few good times. I think next time when we were testing we should test more than twice because the first time may be a fluke. We enjoyed testing our hypothesis. I think next time we should spend more time on cutting out the paper for our board properly.