Reflection W6 T3

This week my maths group has been working on learning the short division strategy. I like using short division because its easy and fun. Here is a slide of how to do short division.

Art Soiree

In Totara for the art soiree we are tie dying tee-shirts. At our art soiree the tee-shirts will be up for auction along with lots of other art. Click on the link to see the designs that I like. 

Marae Visit

On Tuesday the 21st of August my class (T3) went to the Arahura Marae. When we first got there we had to grab our buddies and line up under a little shelter. We had to be karanga onto the marae witch means welcomed. 

Once we got to the Marae we had to take our shoes off and sit down on the seats provided. Then Matua T said a long speech in Te reo about the marae and its background. 

After that we sang a song because its polite to sing after someone has given a speech. Then we all stood up and gave the people that own the marae a hongi. A hongi is like a greeting and it is when your touch noses. It is so that you share the same breathe of air. 

After the welcoming was done we went out into the Whare Kai and washed our hands. Before we went into the eating place Matua T said a Karakia to bless the food. Then we went into the eating house and we were aloud 1 savory 1 piece of cake and 1 piece of apple. 

After we were all finished eating we went back into the meeting place and sat in a circle to do our mihis. After everyone had said their mihis Matua T told us about what all of the carvings on the walls meant. He also told us about the parts of the Wharenui. I already knew about the parts of the Whare because we learnt about that last year. 

After that we went outside and Matua told us a little bit more about the history of the Marae, and then we sang another song. Will and Sam then said Thank-you to Matua T for having us and letting us explore the Whare. 

Then we left. I had an amazing time at the Marae. I think its really cool because that is my Marae and the people that were there are all probably related to me in some way. Also Matua T talked about another marae in Bruce Bay that is also my Marae. 

I had an amazing time at the whare and I cant wait to go back and see it all again!

Relfection Topic

This week Kaede Mya Mackenzie and I, have been working on getting an old stall that was made by older students that no longer go to out school out and repainting it. At the moment we have only cleaned it and got it ready to paint. We are going to sell vegetables, fruits and plants at it. We will put it out the front of the school and have an honesty box for people to pay for what they want. Next week we will start to paint it! 

Reflection W4 T3 Numeracy

This week we have been working on solving word problems. We also had to show our working outs. Here is my work book. 

W3 T3 Reflection Writing

This week for Literacy we have been working on Arguments and using topic sentences to start each paragraph. I also wrote a piece of descriptive writing. Me and Kaede did an argument about why we dont think animals should be in circuses. Here is my work.


Would you like to be trapped in a cage having to practice acts all day everyday. Well we know that we definitely wouldn't. 

We think that animals should not have to be abused for human entertainment. The animals are living a sad and lonely life and should be out there enjoying the world instead of being stuck inside and not being in there natural habitat. We`re going to tell you 3 reasons why we think animals should not be in circuses.

Would you like to be abused and carried around for your whole live? Well the animals that act in circuses are not treated very nicely. They have been taken from their homes to act in circuses for human entertainment. The circus instructors use whips, tight collars, muzzles and electric prods to make the animals do as they are told witch is an abusive way to control animals.

The animals are living a lonely and sad life, what if that was you? They are chained up and not feed properly and are forced to do things they don't want to do. They are not living a usual life and they will probably die earlier in life then other animals because of being overworked and always being exhausted.

What If you weren't with other humans and you were always with animals instead of people like you. Well these animals aren't in there natural habitat and are forced to live in cages instead. I think it's very unfair and wrong for people to treat animals this way.

Those 3 reasons right there are why we strongly think that animals should not be in circuses.

What do you think?

By Ella and Kaede

Wandering through the graveyard, it felt like something was watching me. I ran away from my village. I stopped because of the smell of burning. I looked blurry eyed around nothing was there except 2 headstones. Gale Ropper and Michael Ropper.

Staring at the headstones, my brain was spinning in circles as I was wondering how I know those names. I mean 2 headstones in a graveyard? I wonder why there is only 2? I got over the thought that I knew them, that is silly.

A shrill cry echoed in the misty air, my heart dropped, my eyes almost popped out of my head. Was that the person? Is there really someone watching me? I walked and I could hear footprints behind me. I pulled a knife out of my pocket and turned around sharply. No one was there...

W3 Reflection

This week we are learning about 3D shapes and we had to do a workbook about them. We also had to make a presentation showing that we know what they are. We have also been looking at graphs, I brought some skittles to school and me and Kaede made a graph showing how many of each colour skittle there was. Here is my work.