Welome to Totara Whānau we are a year 5 and 6 class at Oruaiti school in the Far North. Our teacher is Whaea Jorja.
Monday, December 6, 2021
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
up cycling
today we went in to puriri class to up cycle jeans and clothes.we made pencil cases,swimming bags,tool belts and bags.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Time travelling
Travel log Its been alot of moons when my mission started me, Eli and Luke where teloported to a some sort of cave it looked familiar on my map and i Wondered is this the cave that we were ment to find on the map eli? Eli said i am pretty sure that this wait i hear something further down the cave and it started getting louder but it was just luke he was just in the cave entrance when he saw alot of weapons a thats when we knew that it was the right cave. I remebered that i had a little pocketknife in my back pack and eli had a torch and Of course luke had snacks in his bag.I said are you ready boys and luke said and are you ready snacks and we set off in the cave. When we came across a wall of cavemen looking things that are identical to the map pictures,that caught my eyes as we where about to go out of the cave a caveman pushed a massive rock in front of the doorway and we were trapped in the caves when luke saw a little hole that we could fite though so we crawled out though the hole and we were free from the caves that we got trapped in from the big rock that the caveman put in front of the doorway we went around the left corner and we saw a caveman standing in front of the door. me and Eli were walking when we saw that luke was not here with as so we went back to the hole and crawled threw the hole and luke was not here with us in the cave so we crawled out of the hole then we saw the caveman outside of the hole and we saw that he had a bat that looked like the bat that luke tried to make at his house,thats another story we will get to that later,anyways luke and Eli went around the right side of the cave when i went the left side of the cave
Monday, November 15, 2021
spelling bee
spelling bee
Guinea pigs were spelling words like Expression,nation,Aggression,Magician.
the Guinea pigs had to stand on a circle,the circle was the button they had to press to answer they question.
the guinea pigs names are whisper and maddiy.
Monday, November 1, 2021
enviromental and sustainability award
we watched a video that we saw our school on the video. Whaea Jorja told us that we won $20,000,she also said that it was not for the teachers it was for the kids at oruaiti school and it was for stuff that the kids wanted in the SCHOOL.
Friday, October 29, 2021
totara TE WIKI O TE REO MAORI
VR sir peter blake
On wednesday we talked about protected oceans and unprotected oceans in the south and north islands
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
pet day art
this is my scene on a tray and im going to tell you about my tray. i made taratara mountain and taratara is my maunga.
i will tell you about my clay dog art that i made all by myself here is a pic
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The ultimate chase
It was a early afternoon when the chase began, mrs Bates skidding down the snow hill while the policemen gave action. They are right on her tail,it is heart pounding.
Officer Pickard just about apprehends mrs Bates but trips over and lands face first in the snow. The other officer who was called sargent Rob Arrowsmith was still hot on pursuit yet Bates skills on the mountain bike were eye popping and intense. The snow started coming down heavy but officer Pickard after gaining control and came boosting down the hill skidding past sargent Rob
Thursday, August 26, 2021
My emoji story
My story is about how 👎 it is that our 🏉 season got ❌ again because of 🏴. I really miss playing with all my teammates. My dad is our coach and i know he is 😠 about it too.
I really hope we get to do 🏆giving because we all get a 🏅 and i think we might get a 🏆 as well.
Monday, August 16, 2021
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
how to make hot chocolate
Ingredients:
hot chocolate
milk
water
Milo
Equipment
jug
spoon
cup
step 1. fill the jug with hot water.
step 2. turn your jug on.
step 3. wait for it to finish boiling.
step 4. put a tea spoon of Hot Chocolate or Milo into a cup.
step 5.get your cup and pour hot water to half way.
step 6. after putting hot water in to a cup you need to give it a steer.
step 7. put 1-3 marshmellows into your cup.
step 8. now you can enjoy your hot chocolate.
Friday, August 6, 2021
Friday, July 30, 2021
the ukulele maker
for reading today my tane reading group read a book about a man that makes ukuleles,a person that makes ukuleles is called a luthier.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
my teina
Questions for my teina Caleb
How old are you? I am 5 years old.
What is your favourite colour? My favourite colour is red.
What is your favourite dessert? I like ice-cream.
What is your favourite thing to do at school? I like soccer.
What is your favourite book? Chester the crab.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a policeman.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
the scary production.
Where should i start,bang a big shock hits me when i start to walk on the stage for the big song in the production.when i start to walk on the scary stage i had to be brave and did i went threw the hole thing and i didnt
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
last person on earth
bang with a bright light hours and hours had past. I thought i was the only person left on the planet after the alien war had past
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
pangrams
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
My speech
Hi my name is tk and today I'm going to talk to you why Fridays should be Optional. here is one Reason why Fridays should be optional, we have got
4 other days to learn in school. Do you think Fridays should be optional?
How cool would three day weekends be? Now I'm going to convince you that we should have optional Fridays
For example an extra day would give you more time doing stuff.
In our whanau we like doing stuff like going out on the farm and playing around.
Also it would give us more time to do the things in life kids should be doing.
I think everyone at school would want to have friday off, because I would definitely want to,even the teachers would love this.
The only thing about having a long weekend is you get to do things you have always wanted to do like go to auckland to see family, that's if you have family living in auckland like me if got a aunty, uncle and three cousins living in auckland and there names are rakai, eraihia, taiamai, abony and jeff
One thing I'd worry about is would it affect the long weekends we have already, or would that give us more time to do stuff.
Here is another reason why fridays should be optional,kids are at school technically every day almost and kids would want to have friday off because Who Wouldn't.here is another reason why fridays should be optional.
Another reason why fridays should be optional is because if you are busy then take the day of easy ha.often friday are quite boring quite often now don't you Agree. After the teachers hearing this they will agree 100% or Even more then that like 200% or even 300% dont you agree.
here is another reason why fridays should be optional.fridays should be optional because if you have alot of work to do like feed the animals or fix your motor bike ,thats if you have one because if you do and it is dirty and it needs a water blast then stay home on friday and give it a nice wash so you can make it dirty again so it needs to be cleaned again.here is the second to last reason why fridays should be optional.
if you agree with me this will be easy to talk to you about the last reason why fridays should be optional fridays should be optional because like every school would want to have fridays off because Who wouldn't fridays are just boring now because i definitely agree to that. If I convinced you that Fridays should be optional then give me a big thumbs up. thank you for listening to my speech.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
trip to puketi forest
on Tuesday we went to Puketi forest for our trip. on the trip me my mum and Kahurangi went. When we got their we meet a man and his name was John. John showed us a very fragile kiwi egg that was massive. it was amazing because it was like the size of my hand but I'm not entirely shore because we weren't allowed to touch it,it was amazing how big it was
Friday, April 16, 2021
term 1 reflection 2021
Term 1 reflection 2021
This term I have been proud of the following achievements.
In reading i have learnt harder reading books.
In writing this term i learnt to write more than 2 pages.
In maths I i learnt my dividedbys.
In PE this term i learnt to do breath stroke legs.
In art we made collage art
During activity week in snorkling i saw thousands of kina
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
Maitai Bay Collage
this is my co-lager work art and it is about maitai bay. we went to maitai bay for our school trip this year.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
The day my head went wild
The day my head went wild!!
On Wednesday my teacher made the most Delicious scones. The scones jam was spreading like the dark night sky and the cream was as beautiful as the moon light. It was torture waiting for the time we could put the delicious crunchy scones in my watery mouth, crunchy on the outside of them.
spreading.
3 cups Edmonds standard flour
6 tsp Edmonds baking powder
¼ tsp salt
extra Meadow Fresh milk
75g butter
1 to 1½ cups Meadow Fresh milk, approximately METHOD I think you should you need to use pargrafes .
I like yore writing.
I like yore panherrashan.
Preheat the oven to 220ºC. Grease or flour a baking tray.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Add the milk and quickly mix with a round-bladed table knife to a soft dough. For light and tender scones the mixture should be quite soft and a little sticky. Scrape the dough onto the floured baking tray and flour the top.
Working quickly, pat the dough out to 2cm thickness and with a floured knife cut it into 12 even-sized pieces, then separate the scones to allow 2cm space between them. Brush the tops with milk.
Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Place on a wire rack to cool, wrapped in a clean tea towel to keep them soft.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
lantern festival
last week Totara class ordred lanterns that were Endangred animals in new zealand. we are making them because a lantern festival is coming up so we got to have them before the 26 of february.
ki o rahi
how to play ki o rahi
ki o rahi is a game that whaea Gina taught us to play. ki o rahi comes from Aotearoa this is another way of saying new zealand.
what you need:
1 drum.
10 cones or more.
7 pou
1 soft ball ( size 3)
2 teams
ripper tags
how to play:
there are two teams ki oma and taniwha. ki oma gets there points by tagging the pou with the ball. taniwha get their points by throwing the ki (ball) at the blue barrel. if ki- tiaki blocks the ki (ball) from hitting the barrel then taniwha does not get the point. ki-o-rahi is a mixture of rugby netball soft ball and ripper.