Today we are learning how to do algorithms!
Welome to Totara Whānau we are a year 5 and 6 class at Oruaiti school in the Far North. Our teacher is Whaea Jorja.
Friday, November 26, 2021
W.A.L.T solve problems using algorithms
Thursday, November 25, 2021
THE CRAZY WANTED WOMEN
!WANTED!
Shes been stealing peoples tie food…
and walking into the boys bathroom but
guess what happened next!
She flooded the toilets and made the
hole restaurant filled with toilet water but thats not all she did…
Guess what she did she almost smacked the chef
… in the head… Like who would do
such a thing (well she would)
But the worst part is shes even eaten
her own food she spat out!
!KNOW HELP ME FIND HER!
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
!UPCYLING!
!Upcycling!
!Jeans + TENTS!
Today was an amazing day! We got taught by Sharee and Jo! They were very helpful.
They told us every week they have 7 strollys a week get dumped! We were making handbags, Swimming bags,
Phone bags and lots more. I enjoyed making a Phone bag… But even better, we were re-using them
so it didn't go to waste. We got to choose a buddy and make some stuff with them… But sadly I didn't
get a buddy. We learnt how to free hand sew, it was really fun! But my favourite, favourite thing to
do was learn how to free hand sew!
This has taught us to not waste things because you never know what you can make with it.
We all started sewing and decorating our bags and all sorts! We all seemed to enjoy it… so
I reckon it's a really fun activity!
!The end!
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
the !GUINEA PIG! spelling bee
The Guinea pig spelling bee
The class got told about a hilarious video…
We all watched it… and it was about a- Guinea pig spelling bee.
They were named … Maddie - and - Whisper
“We are doing sion words today” The girl says
“How do we spell expressions”…
*DING*
Whisper hits the button...
E.x.p.r.e.s.s.i.o.n.s
“CORRECT”
How do we spell Aggression… _____________
M W
Maddie hits the button 111 11
A.g.g.r.e.s.s.i.o.n
“CORRECT”
How do you spell Nation…
Maddie hits the button…
N.a.t.i.o.n
“CORRECT”
How do you spell Magician…
Maddy hits the button again!
M.a.g.i.c.i.an
"CORRECT
How do you spell aggression…
Whisper hits the button
A.g.r.e.s.s.i.o.n
“ Incorrect sorry
_____________________________________
M W
111
11
“I think we all know who has won”!
! “ MADDY “ !
She has won some grass!
HORRAY
The life of a !ROMAN! story
Life of the Romans
Finally we are done with our mission.
“No your not you still have some more”
Whispered a voice.
“Wait guys where are we even going know”
Said Azna.
“I'm not sure but well have to find out”
Indy boringly said.
“Guys, let's touch the second one maybe
we have to do it in a line,” Smartly said Azna.
“Hey Azna thats sound about correct because
our first one was the room we walked into
maybe we have to walk into the area and
maybe it will appear” Said Chanel
Then off we went.
We appeared in the ancient Rome room.
There was a lot of cool stuff. Including
old things they used. The picture
appeared; it looked like we had to
fight someone.
Azna, Indy and I touched it at the
same time.
We were swirling and flying. It was
incredible
We arrived. We crashed onto the floor and
in a blink of an eye there were people
chasing after us. Indy SCREAMED and ran off.
Me and Azna were the only ones attacking.
It was hard because we didn't have anything
to help us with. We sprinted up to them
*BOOOF* We collided. But they were
still going. We had no idea what to do but
then all of a sudden… Indy had made us
the coolest armor ever and im just gonna
say something. We looked pretty good in
it, so thanks to Indy we now have a chance
of winning this fight. But what if we don't… Anyways we got into a fight… It went horrible
but Indy finally joined… just as we were about
to win! Then Azna said I can't anymore
i must sit down >:( It was me and
Indy left O-O
“WE WON” I scream.
“ RUN EVERYONE WE MIGHT MAKE IT”
screams azna…
”We made it”
Finally we were all done...Well with that task!
My ancient !STONE AGE! story
!STONE AGE!
We were on the bus driving down to the Auckland museum!
“Guys, let's make some rules for our adventure”… says Azna
1 always stay with each other
2 No fighting
3 listen to 2
Me and my friends and I were so excited…
We arrived… me and my friend’s were put in a group.
Whaea Jorja was telling where everything would be.
My friends and I went down to the stone age area.
It was so cool… but something wasn't right... our list
Was going weird.
We ran to Whaea Jorja… and she said
“You guys were chosen to save the stone age stuff here's
another list when you touch it you instantly teleport
to the area”. Me, Indy and Azna took a deep breath.
Now this is where we got a bit confused…
AzNa decided to touch an old painting on the paper because
she thought it was fake.Now she was stuck there but even
worse she didn't have any help. So we touched the
painting on an old rock and within a blink
of 2.5million years later we were in the ancient
stone age.
Indy and I woke up in a pitch black place.
We couldn’t figure out where we were so we
had to try to walk around without tripping up.
We found a light patch and someone was there ofcourse
it was a ancient person but
We still ran to it… it was AzNa. Finally she
started talking about some old painting
on a rock she found.Me and indy screamed
“ WHERE WAS IT”
Then azna said “ oh i forgot”
We were screaming about how
that was our only way out.
But… she didn't even care so we walked
around to see big mountains and caves, trees.
The best part was they gave us free swords.Then all of a sudden...
Someone popped out of the sky and said
“5 minutes left”. We wondered if that
was the time we had left so
We went searching. We asked a few
of the ancient people but we couldn’t understand
what they said so we just ignored them.
“I found it” screamed AzNa we were all jumping in joy.
“But know we have to find our way out”
Azna grabbed the old painting on a rock but
it was hard and Indy and I had to join in to help.
It was finally time to get out. We had five seconds left to
run, “run Indy”Azna screamed. Within 5 seconds
she made it in 1 second. With a blink of 2.5million
years in the future we were back.
We put down the old rock painting on the nice clean cloth.
But I wonder what will come next…
Friday, October 29, 2021
TE WEKE MOURI WEEK
With whae Kenya
This was a really fun time to do multiple games with a teacher whos learning to become a teacher. It was really cool to learn new stuff also we found out some games we can play as a class latter on next term! We played these games with manuka
What did we do well know you know...
Rahina - Tapiri
Ratu - ika ika
Raapa - Whui
Rapare - ngoi ngoi
Ramere - He aha taku nama - POI
Oruaiti School win Environmental and Sustainability Awards :)
Friday, October 22, 2021
Friday, October 1, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Our crazy pet day!
For pet day we were making some awesome art and everyone did amazing. It wasn't even about winning its about having fun. so YAAAAAA. (here are some photos of my art work)
For pet day I made this hunting camp ground.I made a cute turtle and named it turtes. He was very cute but soon I'm a eat it.
Friday, September 10, 2021
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The big wave
It was ,may ,24th,2013. It was a sunny day, a time to
go for a lovely fish. I couldn't wait. I wanted to catch
some moon fish!
I know it's hard to find them but I found the perfect
spot where my family used to catch moon fish.
Knowing it was really flat, flatter than it has been in
a while, I still decided to go… now telling the story
I regret going on the water that day.
Well anyways I hopped in the boat and went off.
I know it's not the best idea but still…
We arrived right where we got the moon fish
,then I looked in the distance.
“That's weird” I whisper there this big wave coming…
that's random. I moved a bit closer to the big wave.
I realized then that there was a txunamy I didn’t
realize today was the day that I might DIE but I mean for sure I could survive!
I was hit by the wave. I could just hear my boat
breaking. I tried swimming up for help but it was
hopeless… I finally made it to the top of the surface.
The water was pulling me everywhere!
I did know what to do except go with the flow.
This was the scariest time of my life.
My mind was black I couldn’t think then all of a
sudden I stood on top of a bridge and saw my boat
broken in half.
Life's hard now but I still love it.
!THE END!
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
My writing
It was around 12:00, I decided to do some art, not any art,
a piece of art that had memories on it…
This art is very special to me.
You wanna know why, because I made it.
But I first need to get all my art supplies!
It was hard getting there, because it was so high up.
I got a chair and grabbed the stuff I needed.
I grabbed the black paint and squirted it onto my canvas!
I got my paint brush and started brushing the paint all over
the canvas, but it did take a couple coats…
Well I waited for it to dry. I started printing out pictures to
stick on…Know these photos were from out this year and
last year. It had photos of me and my friends from Auckland,
my dogs as well as me and my sisters.It was almost done.
I catched the glue and started glueing on all the photos.
I let it dry for a while… I came and checked on it in the
afternoon around 3:00 to see if it was dry “YAY”
I screamed it was all done.
Then I had a canvas but with memories!
(This story happened a couple days ago)
The end
What dose ingenuity mean?
1. To be clever and inventive.
What is the scientific reason behind adults not be as inventive as kids?
2.When an adult starts to grow up our frontal cortex develops more tendencies and we lose
our creative minds to make things come to real
Why do you think people are more creative in lock-down?
3. The reason why I think we are more creative in lock-down is because there nothing to do and that's when we start to bring up our ideas.
Write 3 positive things about Lock-down
4. I can do Art all day, More family time, Sleep in a little bit longer