My new Matariki Words!

My New Matariki Words

Last week me and my class did this task from our Literacy Contract. We had to do some new words that we may not have known before and they were all in Maori and they related to Matariki. They were really challenging because I did not know what most of them mean't so we had to look them all up in the Maori dictionary, or if we could not find them there we would search them up. At the end we would all mark them and see what we got right and wrong. We also had to add five more Maori words related to Matariki, which was a little bit hard, but I enjoyed it a lot. I would love to do it again because it was really interesting.

What do you think was the hardest word and why?

By Poppy

Movie Study Galore!

Movie Study Galore!

At the moment in our class we are doing a task called Movie Study. It is where all of us come together and watch a certain movie and reflect on some questions related to it. It is really fun. It is now one of my favorite tasks to do. The movie that we are doing right now is called Soul Surfer. It is based on a true story of a champion surfer, Bethany Hamilton. She was busy Surfing on a beach by a reef when a massive Tiger Shark came up and bit off her arm. The rest of the story is based on how she recovers and see's that there are some things in life that are more important than Surfing.I love watching this movie and I can not wait for the next Task of our Movie Study. 

By Poppy

 This is Bethany Hamilton.