Poutini Waitaiki

 Poutini Waitaiki

Poutini is a taniwha. He discovers a woman by the name of Waitaiki. He Loves her and wants her for himself. So he takes her and heads to the south island. Her husband Tamaahua is angry! He uses a tekateka to find out where they are (magic). So he chases Poutini around the country trying to find Waitaiki. 

Poutini wants Waitaiki for himself so he turns her into pounamu and rests her up the Arahura river. Poutini now cruises along the coastline where he protects his precious pounamu. Arahura river is where Poutini took Waitaiki so he can keep her to himself. Tamaahua was sad about Waitaiki, that she was turned into pounamu. He’s very sad that he won’t see her again because there is not a way to turn her back to her human. This is one part of Maori history, but the river, Arahura river, is still real. Waitaiki is pounamu, and you can find her as pounamu. 

By Karmi

Pounamu Designs

 

This is my Pounamu work that we did in the Term. We had to choose 2 Pounamu designs, and we had to write about it. 

Art portfolio

My Pepeha

  

This is my Pepeha Art Work. We did this in Term One but we haven't Put it on our Blog. So it is on the Blog. 

Aoraki

 This is our Aoraki work. We had to wrote a hundred words or more. Me and my friend Charlotte did more than a hundred. We also did a art work. Here is my art work. 

Arthur's Pass Camp Site 2021

After we got back from Arthur's Pass. We did a site about the things we learnt about Arthur's Pass. We had a great time at Arthur's Pass Camp. The picture has the link on it, and it will take you to my site. If the picture doesn't work, here is the link for my Site.  

Karmi Arthur's Camp 2021

Hypothermia, Heat Exhaustion

We have learnt about Hypothermia, Heat Exhaustion. It has all the information in it. It tells you how it happens and other things. We learnt about Hypothermia, Heat Exhaustion so we know what it does and what to do, because we are going to camp.

Penguin Report

 

Snares Crested Penguin

The Snares Crested Penguin is one of the endangered penguins because their population is dropping low. These Snares Crested Penguins can climb trees and they are one of the most amazing species in the world. 

Habitat: 

The penguins nest mostly within the forest of the North East Island. They sometimes migrate to one of the small Islands to breed their babies in winter. 

Food: They only feed on squid, krill and small fish. Snares Penguins only eat squid, krill and small fish for them to hunt. They dive into the water and catch them with their beak, and feed to their young ones as well. 

Threats: There are no threats to the Snares Island, and the breeding Islands are free from predators. Sea leopards and sea lions are the predator to the snare penguins. They eat any type of penguin, but not on Snares Island. The Snares Island does not have any predators or threats to the Island. 

Behavior: Snares Crested Penguins are a small group of penguins and they can only be spotted on Stewart Island. The coolest thing about this species is that they climb trees. Penguins have been spotted on branches up to 2 m off the ground. 

Lifecycle: The male penguin keeps the egg warm so it can hatch. When the egg hatches they start to eat some fish, while a couple of days or weeks later they start to get fluffier. A couple of months later, they start to get bigger into adults. Once they are big, now they can get started to hunt for food so they can survive. 

By Karmi

Parlympics Athletes

 

This term my class and I have been making slides about 4 athletes from all over the world and put down some facts about them and find a picture of them. We also write down their history and who could they be a hero to. my slide is up above. 

Violet Walrond and Ellese Andrews post

 

We have been reading about the athletes that played for NZ. I have done to post on different athletes. Violet Walrond was an NZ athlete that does swimming for the women's in 1920. Ellese Andrews is also one of the athletes that does the cycling for NZ, Tokyo 2020. These athletes are the one that I did and I hope you enjoy it. Bye... 

My Art

This is my art I did  in Lockdown. I have drawn a unicorn because they are my favourite animals.  I chose this one because it looks so cool. I did the hair in rainbow and I leave the skin white so it does look like a unicorn and I have also drawn the horn and some wings to it. I will also show you other drawings of mine next time. Bye....

Born to run and training

 We have been learning about an athlete called Arthur Lybiard. We have been reading about him and we also did a time line and a training letter how to train for the Olympic. The training letter is for you to train for the Olympic games you don't need to do it, you can do it for fun. The timeline is where you can find facts about Arthur Lybiard. I hope you enjoyed it. Bye...  

Training

If you're going to train for the Olympics, you have to be ready. If you're an athlete, and you want to be in the Olympic games, then you have to train very hard to be in the Olympic games.  You have to train every day if you want to become an Olympic champion, you have to do the sports that you like to do. You can make a new sport that you haven’t done before, it would be great. For one reason I never did cricket before, but when I played it, it was really fun. It would give you a new talent for sport.

To be ready…

1. You have to train your best to be in the Olympic games. Choose your favorite sport, and do the training with a friend or be alone for the training for your favourite sport. If you like hockey you can do the training for that or another sport, like tennis, basketball, netball, soccer or other ones. 

Find a team...

2.  If you want to be in the Olympic games, you will need a team and a coach for the training. You will have to have a team because you will need help because if you don’t have a team, you won’t be able to go in the Olympics finals and that would be really sad. So find one of the best athletes you have heard of and start training for the Olympics. 

Eat healthy... 

3.  If you want to be an athlete you will have to eat healthy food. You will have to eat things that are healthy food like an apple, banana, orange, tomato and others but you can’t eat unhealthy food. You will eat healthy, you will train every day to be in the Olympic games if you want to.

Training and Competing… 

4. You are ready for any sport you have to do in the Olympic games. The training was for competing, athletes did compete in the Olympics. That is why you train and train to become a better athlete that you haven’t been for. Your team is counting on you to compete for the Olympics finals.

Good luck...

5.  You have reached the Olympic finals. Get ready to be the Olympic champion. You have to be ready for anything you have been waiting for. Your team is counting on you, so make your family proud and your team. 

 By Karmi

Harakeke Uses and Instruction

We have read a book about Harakeke. We did a google drawing about Harakeke uses and instructions on how to weave your own Harakeke flower. If you did the Harakeke flower, send a command and a picture so you can give it to a family member or a friend as a gift. Hope you enjoy.  😀

How to weave a flower Purpose - We are learning how to weave a flower so we can use them as decorations. Equipment list A couple of flax, scissors, Beads, Tiny shells and a needle. Steps to make harakeke flower 

 1. Split the flax in half (from the sharp point down) but leave about 15 cm still joined (leave longer if you want a longer stem)

 2. Lie the flax flat on a table and start by crossing the left leaf under the right one. Then fold that now left one back under the right one. 

 3. Then continue to fold the one that’s now on the left under the right one, and you are going to keep doing this same pattern until you get to the end. So, to recap, always fold the one that is on the left under the one that’s on the right. 

 4. Eventually, you will get to the end of the leaf and because of the way the folds work it ends up in the shape of a flower. 

 5. Pull it around in a circle quite tight so that it almost looks like a rose. Then you want to get your pieces of shell or paua, needle and nylon. 

 6. Thread through the leaf and then through your shell or bead. Thread back to the backside of the flower and then to the front again and continue to the back again – knot it off. 

 7. The image shows two extra flowers that I have made up. As mentioned earlier these can make a neat little gift as you can pop them in a box and post them – could be a great gift idea for the grandparents!

SI Compare

Last week my group did a book called Subantarctic Island. I did two Islands, the Bounty island and the Snares island. We write things about our islands. Here is my compare and contrast hope you enjoy this! :)

Matariki News report

 We have been learning about Matariki. This is the Matariki poster for our reading for week 10. The kids at Ramanui Primary School also made kites and got to look through a telescope to see the 7 sisters. I hope you enjoy this poster. 

D.L.O

 

Here is a slide where you can learn all about Flips, Turns and Slides. This will help you with your maths and you can learn about this slide. 

If you think this slide will help you with your maths, please watch it and I hope it  make you smarter.  

Posters

 We have been reading about the Great Barrier Reef. My group did a different coral and I did the Cauliflower Coral. Some of my group did a Stag horn coral, Elephant ear coral, Brain coral and a Table coral. For the bottom poster, there is a place where you can go to snorkel and other and the poster shows you how much its cost to visit the Great Barrier Reef.

  

Whaling

 

This is a slide about Whaling. I think it is a bad thing. There are two links for you to learn about whaling. 

 

No girls allowed letter

 This week we have been reading about "No girls allowed". We did a letter for the organisers who said girls aren't allow to play rugby. This is my letter.

Dear Organisers
Hi my name is Riley, I understand your reasons why you don't want girls in the rugby tournament, but I have some reasons why girls should be.
1st reason, When girls play rugby they will know how powerful they are in their own unique body.
 

2nd reason, Rugby tournaments are really good for girls because they get taken down by boys and they will know how to get back up again.

3rd reason, girls should always be better at rugby than boys and it is unfair when girls don’t get a chance to play in a tournament. 
By Riley 

 

Kūaka timeline and facts

 

This is a kūaka timeline and facts. We did for our reading, it will tell you all the things about Kūaka. 

Hope you enjoy this work I have done. 

🐷💵( :INTEREST Pippa, Karmi & Molly: )💵🐷

 

 

For the few past day we did  my class did a slide about Banqer. My group did about Interest and what does it do. Banqer is a site where you can get money and where teachers also have the a count for all the student. So this will help you know some about Interest. Thanks for watching.

Earthquake posters

 

We have been learning about Earthquake. We did a  two posters and one of them is about how to survive an earthquake and the other is how do earthquakes happened. These posters will tell you all about earthquakes. I hope you had find these posters interesting. These posters will help you when you have an earthquake. 

Measurement D.L.O

 

We did some measurement from our dragon maths book. This slide is all about measurement and how to use  measurement. This will help you with your measurement and tells you what is cm, m and mm are.

I hope this will help with your measurement. 

Steps web certificate

 

Save the whales

 

Last week we have been reading about whales. It was about Save the whales. The story was quite sad because it was a whales stranding and some of the whales had died and only a few of them had survived. 

But at the end they went back to the ocean but a few of the whales had survived.  

I hope you like my letter about save the whales. Bye ................

ANZAC Food parcel

 

     

                           ANZAC Food parcel 

 

We learned about ANZAC food parcel. We were reading about ANZAC biscuits and I did a food parcel and these things that they used on the world war one. Their wife's had to send them snacks and letters and one of the wife's made the ANZAC biscuits. Some of the biscuits had fruit, non fruit, grapes, peaches, and other thing. They wrote the recipes for the ANZAC biscuits. 

Water safety Kayaking

 

We learn about water safety and learn what was dangerous and what is safe.

I did this slideshow about water safety and it is about kayaking and we wrote about the skills, things you need and other stuff.

There is a link that shows you how to to do kayaking and the safety features around that video. 

We hope you enjoy this slideshow and if you liked it comment down below. 

Bye.....

Whakapapa, mātauranga and tikanga Swim safe

 

Swim safe

 

This is a swimming safety poster that I did and I chose Rapahoe because it is a nice beach and I wrote the danger and the safety.

Be careful at Rapahoe beach. Bye........

PMI Cricket

 

We went Arthur Fong Park to do cricket and there were different schools that did cricket too. It was great, and everyone had a great time at the cricket and I also had a great time. It was fun. 

All about me and Wanted poster

All about me 

Hi, my name is Karmi and I am 11 years old. I was born in South Africa and moved to New Zealand with my family in 2018. I am fully bilingual in English and Afrikaans. Afrikaans is my home language. I go to Karoro school and live in Greymouth, New Zealand. I have a nice big family. I live with my Dad, mum and two sisters. I love to read and I am crazy about UNICORNS and all animals cute and fluffy. I love listening to music whenever I can! Drawing and colouring is my favourite activity. I enjoy baking and love to help with the cooking. I am an outdoor person and love going to the beach. Camping with my family is always the best. Being the oldest child in the house is AWESOME. I just love life and new opportunities.

Waitangi Day 2021

 Waitangi day is the day that family's and friends come together for this day.   

The Treaty of Waitangi was been signed in 1840, Feb 6. There was an misunderstanding of who should have the power to control to lead, and war. The misunderstanding happened because there were to different languages and there was a anger. 

This is why NZ celebrate the Treaty of Waitangi since 1974 on Feb 6. 

I hope you enjoyed Waitangi day.