Annika @ Rutherford Junior High School

Part 1

Today in room 1 we listened to Christmas music. Joel,Gio and Moata played many Christmas songs. Such as jingle bells,frosty the snowman ,snoopy and rudolph the reindeer. The music was relaxing and calming. As I am writing they are also playing Christmas music for us. They have been practicing for the Christmas parade and if you see them and say hi on Saturday you will get a chocolate. Joel is playing tuba, Gio is playing the trumpet and Moata is playing trombone. they are really good. As they are playing their delightful music the students are singing along. They have a clip board with the notes In Front of them to help guide themselves.  We are really grateful that we have such good instrument layers at our school.

Part 2

What do I do for Christmas? Well for Christmas this year I am going to spend it with my dads family down in greytown. I wake up very early to see my presents under the tree and I will open them with my cousins we will visit family. And have very yum dinner. This will be my first Christmas with my dads family so I’m very very excited. My favourite thing about Christmas is opening my presents in the morning and spending time with my loved ones who are my family. Then a few days after Christmas I will be going back to my mums and stepdads house to have another Christmas there. I will get to open more presents their and have a yum dinner. where my family down there might also be invited. I am very excited for Christmas this year.

On Monday morning my class went on a trip to Ratana pa it was so fun first we went to Big hours TW Ratana first when he told us about TWs hours and he told us some fun stuff about TW Ratana then we had to look for all of the moon and stars I count 36 we went to the place with the bouts  the tour guide Tutere then we went to the temple and the we learnt about the names of the of the stars then he told us about how the angles came to the little doors that was cool I thought but then we went to the park and played on the play ground and with  some balls and me and my friends went to the shops came back and had same food after that the class played a game were there were teams of three and we had to write the names of the streets and then we pack up and went home.

if your class went to Ratana pa would you go?

This is Te Waiorua

She is 12

Her D.O.B is: May the 2nd 2012

her favourite colour is: Red

Her favourite food is: Doritos or Cafe Anatolia

She has 8 siblings

Her chores are: Washings Dishes,Washing clothes,Drying clothes,Cooking.Sweeping,Vacuuming,looking after her dog,family.

Her favourite sport is: Rugby

She is very nice and lovely caring and welcoming

She  plays softball for mustangs and she is very good at it.

She loves to sing and she isn’t scared of anything. She is also confident and always shows our school values.

She has lots of friends because she is kind to lots of people and I’m happy she is my friend.

She is also from Ratana

This weekend was a bit of a full on weekend one thing after another. But on saturday morning me and my family woke up and got ready to watch my sister and my brother play softball. Their team did really well and they won their game against Saint Anne’s. It was really fun and exciting to watch. After that we had to go home so I could get ready for my softball game. When I got there we had practice/warm up then we jumped straight into our game. My dad came to watch my game because I hadn’t seen him in a while. We did well and I think we won our game also but I played on third base. After that my dad took me and my sister to have lunch but I don’t remember were we went but it was good. Than we went and spent some time at play to win in town and that was really fun and exciting. After that we went back home with my mum. And I hung out with my stepdad and siblings while my mum went to her friends. Me my stepdad and my siblings played monopoly and had a movie night. The next day it was Sunday we went fishing a scooter ride and walked up the durie hill tower that was my weekend I know fun exciting the end.

One of the biggest things I disobeyed My Mum with is when I was like 1 or 2 I was told to stay away from the edge of the deck and I ran away and didn’t listen but I ended up falling of the deck and I broke my arm and had to go to the hospital I was scared and I regretted it. It was sore and I said that I would never disobeyed her again but clearly that was a lie.

Journal work

 

Title of story: Grannys puna

Pages read:4

 

1. Complete this table by writing questions about the text before you read the text, during reading and after you have read the text.    

 

Stuck for what questions to ask?  Click here for help.

 

3 Questions before reading (at least three questions)

1.What does puna mean? 2.I wonder if it means garden? 3.I wonder why it doesn’t have a name?

 

2. How does this text relate to your own life? Pick one ‘text connection’ and explain:

 

When I was little I saw an eel and I was always frightened of them. It wasn’t until I got older and was used to seeing  in the lakes and other places and then I felt like It was normal.

 

3.Write a summary of the story/article 

At Granny’s Puna only adults were allowed to go and see it. But a young girl snuck up to her grannys puna when she saw long tail eyes and a long body. She got frightened and ran back down. Her Granny found her and told her it was just a tuna then they both stood and looked at the tuna.

4.Who are the Characters in the story/article 

Granny And a young girl

 

5. Word Map – Select the topic words listed for the text. Complete the table below.  There are two examples to help you with the task.  

 

 

Topic Word	Definition in your own words.	Words that mean the same (synonyms) – minimum of three	Use the word in a sentence.
Studio	The workroom of an artist.	gallery, salon or workroom	The artist was so busy in her studio painting that she lost track of time.
Photograph	A picture produced by a camera.	picture, image, portrait	“Everybody say cheese!” yelled the photographer as he snapped a photograph of Room 7.
Puna	Puna is the maori word for spring or water	Spring or water	It was puna.
Titiro	Titiro is the maori word for look	look	I am always titiro.
Tuna	Tuna is the maori word for eel	eel	I saw a tuna

 

Today in taha tinana we played 3 games. we played a two person tag were they would yell a number and if your that number you have to run to the wall without getting tagged. That was alright I won out of my group 2nd group. After that we played see weed it was very fun and a lot of people got tagged. To end our session we played multi sport in multi sport we played netball,basketball,football,touch,hockey and more. Then we had to pack up and go. So that was our p.e session. Than someone said to a student to go back to there country and they got so mad each other and there was arguments and it turned into a mess. But it was really funny. My buddy’s for the 2 person tag was 1st me and te wai 2nd was me and alijah and 3rd was me and Poppy. But the funniest part was the argument.

To be continued…

Learning Intention

Work through the process of ideating, visual story and creating a storyboard with a plan for shooting, shooting the film, editing.

Success Criteria

Create a 3 minute film with effective images that tell the story.