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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, December 10, 2021
Thursday, December 2, 2021
the McLaren
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Monday, November 29, 2021
Friday, November 26, 2021
grain
wanted
if you see this man tell the police. never approach him because he will twist your mind and make you think that you never existed.
up cycling jeans and tents
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
time travel
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh” we were falling out of the sky. We all moast hit the tower bridge, splash we landed in the water. Then we hauld our way up the rocky shore. Our clothes were wet and soggy. Bang we heard gunshots we were soon beeing transported to a bomb shalter they gave us clean closhs the next day we spoted the tower of london. on our way there we found a dog in the ruins of a house, we nemed hir shadow she was a doberman. We got up to the top of the tower of london there were there hangliders there we saw someone gliding towards big ben we chased him to big ben we knew it was Tempass because he had the amulet. Levi almost got hit by a bomb. We were at big ben and we were right next to him he looked like the robber from denice the menace. Cooper n punched him and we graded the amulet. then we were on our way back to 2021, then i realisd it was a fake!!!!! To be continued
time travel
Bang we were in ancint Rome it looked like a dungin, then i realisd it was an armary, where the gladiators go before they fight. And on top of that whea jojaw came in and said get ready to fight!!!!! Soon enough we were couring dehind rooks. The colosseum was masave, millions of people were chanting the name of the gladiator, he was towering over us like a mansion. We all shot him with a bow then Cooper n threw a knife at him. Then we swung our swords at him he tried to stab levi, but levi dodgd him. Me and cooper n jumpt on his back and stabt him while levi shot an arow at him. Swosh naw we were going to another time. To be continued
Monday, November 15, 2021
guniea pig spelling bee
hahahahahahahaha our whole class cracked up well not really. expression whisper pressers a red button she gets it correct. haw were the guinea pigs spelling i mean they cant even hold a pen. few answers latter maddie got lots of answers correct. noo!!whisper got it whrong. there for Maddie two for Whisper Maddie wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, November 1, 2021
time travel
We stood in science until we saw a sabertoth tigar. We ran up a nearby hill then I remembered I had a pocket knife. I passed it to Copper n because he knew how to use it. Soon enough it was dead. Then I saw smoke. At first we thought it was a campfire. Levi was the first one to slide down the hill. Then in the distance I saw something out of place; it looked like a medevil castle.
We noticed that it was getting dark so we started heading to the castle. We realised we had gone back to the wrong time. We started to discuss artafacts from medevil times like swords and crowns. We walked all through the night until we realised it was a medevil city. Thay let us stay in the stables so we hit the hay. In the morning we woke up to people selling free fruit so we had fruit for breakfast. On our way to the castle we saw heaps of posters of a dragon mabey that's what the smoke came from. When we saw the castle up close it was way bigger than it looked from a distance. We talked our way in. We made our way to the throne room. The first thing the king said was “you look furmilor”. The king explained he was about to die. if we could kill the dragon we could go to the stone age then he referred to me as prince Sam. the king explained that I was his long lost son. The following day we battled the dragon. It took true skill to defeat the dragon. I am surprised we did it. Then the king sadly passed away i couldn't
take the throne. So i elected a new king until i return. We were naw in the stone age. We saw a cave. The cave men wernt there so we snuck in and grabbed the painting.
Friday, October 29, 2021
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
hi we are winners
we won the environmental and sustainability awards. we won a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. we have a lot of school protects like ducks, honey, wetlands and meany more.
Friday, October 1, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
pet day art 2021
this is my veggie animal
this is my scene on a tray
this is my clay dog to the description
this is my vaseTuesday, September 21, 2021
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
male sea house giving birth
its a glories day for the male sea house as she gives birth to 2,000 little babes. but only 10 will survive.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
narrative
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
how to stop over fishing
in our class we talked about how we can stop over fishing.
only take what you need
stop stuffing fish for trophies
change fish limits
know the rules
more marine reserves and rahui
stop selling fish
Monday, August 23, 2021
lockdown
at first i was having a 🥳 no school!!!!!!!! 2 hours later 😱 i cant see my 🧑🤝🧑. if you dint know 🇳🇿 is well hopefully not 💀 hopefully people stay in there 🗨s. and we all dont you now 💀.
Friday, August 13, 2021
How to make Milo
How to make Milo
Ingredients:
- Milo
- Water
- Milk
- Marshmallows
- cup
- teaspoon
- jug
Method
- boil the jug
- put a teaspoon of Milo in a cup
- poor the hot water into the cup
- put Marshmallows in the cup
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Friday, August 6, 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
school holidays
hello their yes you I am talking to you so listen so I love Lego i think we can all agree. and when a absolutely massive toy sale came on you could say I went crazy on haw much Lego I brought and I spent about $150 on one thing yes Lego hows done that before think about it you done yet its been 5 whole seconds.
so I brought 3 Lego sets and I got one for an early birthday present.
Monday, July 5, 2021
motocole
Motocole
Cole Tracy now where do I start with Cole. Oh yeah, the motocross pro. Cole came third in the summer series against Liam Peris.
Recently he snapt his ribs. He was in Auckland hospital. Anyway moving on, he rides A yz 65 they are really fast. He comes from A racing family, his brother and sister race motocross and his dad and uncle race jet boats and his mum used to race holdens.
He taught me heaps of tips like how to whip,wheelie but most of all he taught me how to do starts. 46 is Cole,s number, his trusty, trusty number remember how I said his dad races jet boats? Their number is 46, that’s the legend of 46.
Once a month we load up our bikes and go racing, mainly I win, oh yeah I’ve never won in my entire life!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, enough about me. Cole mainly gets a podem finish everytime. Cole is 8 one whole year younger than me and hes pro 65 thats crazy.
Cole inspires me because he's really good at motocross no matter the weather or the fall he will ride to the bitter end. Cole loves racing, that's why I know he will never stop.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Tiddler production
my octopuss taecher
As the octopus flies through the kelp forest like a hot air balloon, she looks like an old lady in a dress. The octopus is Buried deep in an 8-9 degrees celsius kelp forest never to be seen. 2000 suckers with an ink gun to protect it. Crawling on hands deciding whether to trust us or not. being hunted by things left right and center. Camouflage blending with its surroundings. Hunts crabs by capturing them in her dress.
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
my teina Mako
Questions for my teina Mako
How old are you 5
What is your favourite colour yellow
What is your favourite dessert frozen yoghurt ice block
What is your favourite thing to do at school maths
What is your favourite book salamon crocodile
What do you want to be when you grow up fisherman, astronaut, archeologist and doctor
Monday, June 28, 2021
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
chicken pox
Monday, May 24, 2021
rotational symmetry
WAL what rotational symmetry is.
We created colourful shapes that were rotated 4 times.
A shape has rotational symmetry when it can be rotated and it still looks the same. The order of rotational symmetry of a shape is the number of times it can be rotated around a full circle and still look the same.
author visit
today liz vander lause came to our class to talk about cuz.
Questions we want to ask the Author:
Did you get inspired by anything or did you think of the story on your own? both
Did you make up the characters names or are they real people? made up.
Is it going to be a movie? no
Can you make another sequel? yes
Who is the artist who illustrated the book cover? the publishers
Why did You call it cuz. ? because there cuzons.
Why did you chose to write Cuz? Cooper. it just popet in her mind
How long did it take to write? a cople of years.
How old were you when you Started writing? 50
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
speech
Hi my name is Sam. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be prime minister? Well it's actually not that easy to be a prime minister. so you're probably really confused as to why I said that. well if you think about it there's a lot on your mind such as travel bubbles, covid 19, gun laws, online meetings, pest control and tax.
The benefit of being the prime minister is the amount of money that you get paid. Well you.
might not know this but some of the money your parents get paid goes to the government and this is called tax. I strongly believe that's not fair. So if I were the prime minister I would lower tax alot.
If you watch the news you probably know we have A travel bubble with australia. But what if Australia opened A travel bible with China and they could just come over to New Zealand.
But what if someone from china has covd and they slip through the borders and into New Zealand. That's three whole countries in A possible lockdown. If I were prime minister I would negotiate with australia.to make travel bubbles.
Now pest control. pests are A threat to new zealand natev bush cause they kill all the natev birds especially kiwi. Well if I were the prime minister I would increase the amount of traps that people make.
Another thing prime ministers have to do is meetings, espeley online meetings. And to have to deal with that many meetings it's just crazy. So if I were the prime minister I would only attend meetings that were important.
The housing crisis, people don't have houses. I believe that people should have houses. So if I were the prime minister I would make sure everyone has A decent house.
Gun laws are very important cause you can't just have people running around shooting people. So if I were the prime minister I would make it so you can't get A gun license til you're twenty five.
Covid 19 it just had to be on this list. If I were the prime minister I would vaccinate everyone over fifteen.
Graffiti it's A strange thing for this list, but here we go again. If I were the prime minister I would aloy it. Now what I mean by this is I would make some places around the country where people could do graffiti.
So that's it. so if I were you I wouldn't run for prime minister unless you're very prepared. That's all for today. Thank you for listening to my speech.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
haw to play ki-o-rahi
what is ki-o-rahi
ki-o-rahi is a mix of rugby,netball,softball,and ripper that make the best game ever. whaea Gina
taought us haw to play. how to play
tahiwha team score points by hiting the tipo with the ki.ki oma score points by toching the poe with the ki and dive into the awa .
what you need
. 1 tipo drum
. 7 poe poles
.1 ki ball
.10 + players
.around 30 cones or spray paint
2 teams with something to tell them apart
Friday, April 16, 2021
in the bush volume 2
Five years later he was walking down the street with his fearsome wolf. He just thought about what had happened five years ago. That night he was woken by a nook on the door and the people were asking for him to go back into the corrupted bush for 10000 dollars they said they would give him one day to think about it.In the end he decided to go back into the corrupted bush. The first thing thay did was go back to the corrupted campground thay all looked at the black gooey stuff. One of the men got a sample of the black gooey stuff but he wasn't aloud to. But then the black figure came out of the shadows and killed the other two men. When he woke he was being dragged to a red castle.A few moments later he found himself in a cell with his wolf. He went to sleep. The next day he was being dragged by some black spirits into some sort of throne room. There were huge black banners hanging from the walls. When he saw the man sitting on the throne he reconised his face. It was the man who asked him to come back into the bush. It must have been planning it all from the very beginning but why? He then said that he wanted to kill him so now one would know the secrets of the bush. He then stood up off the throne and killed him. Somehow the wolf got out of the bush.
term 1 reflection 2021
Term 1 reflection 2021
This term I have been proud of the following achievements.
In reading …. I am reading a novel
In writing this term ….I wrote alot
In maths I … can use a number line to solve problems
In PE this term….I can swim buttufly
In art I made a lantern
During activity week …. I'm not scared of snorkeling anymore
Monday, April 12, 2021
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
lantern festival
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
swimming sports in kaitaia against the whole far north
take your mark hoot! as we splashed into the pool. i came up instantly but Everybody else stayed under for about five seconds. it was a tight race between me and another kid for third place. but in the end i was fourth. but then they said i was fifth. then we got sushi.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
sweetness in totara
INGREDIENTS
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
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.