Narrative writting

In writing I have been learning how to do narratives. We broke down the body of writing into  parts to learn bit by bit. First we learnt how to   to use a graphic organiser to plan my writing. Include key information for the orientation, events, closing paragraphs. Next I learnt how to write the orientation. I had to bring my story to life using adjectives and interesting vocabulary. Then I learnt how to write a middle event for a narrative. I had to write the events leading up the problem, then describe the problem in detail, and stretch out the solution! Lastly I learnt how to write a closing statement to sum the whole story up.

Here is my middle event for a narrative.

Waitangi trip

This term I am learning about the first encounter of the British and Maori. I travelled to Waitangi with my class and we learnt about the first encounters the people who were involved but the main focus was to learn and create digital objects about the encounter of British and Maori. But before we started we had to learn information about the first encounter so we went on a walk around the museum and the treaty grounds gathering information. The most memorable thing for me on the walk was the museum because it had information about our Maori Rangatira and their weapons. My favourite technology item was the Sculpt GL because you were able to create carvings.

cultural festival

Recently our school held a Southern Bay Of Island Cultural Festival. It included performances such as Kapa Haka, Waka commands and Hula there were also competitions in between performances.
I liked how the schools who came participated in performing some didn't perform but they came and supported in the audience. It was a very eventful day and full of good performers. When I stood and performed with my ropu I felt nervous as I took one step onto the atamira but hearing everyone cheer and feeling the wairua of the ropu gave me confidence.

Orientation writting

In writing this week we have been learning how to write an orientation for narrative writing.
In a orientation you  have to include your characters and the setting of where the story takes place.
To intrigue  the reader you must use a hook like a sound such boom or kapow, dialogue, action or description. The hard part was to think of ideas that are suitable for the type of story I am writing. The easy part is to get use to the story i'm writing  and have a continuous flow when writing.

Assembly Reflection

Ta Hekenukumai Busby revived the almost lost arts of celestial navigation and ocean voyaging by waka hourua (double-hulled sailing canoe). So in assembly we done an item that included the beautiful arts of wayfinding. The easy part was reading out some voyaging facts and the hard part was to lead the waka because I was the kaihautu.

ANZAC Haiku

Today we watched a short film representing what it will feel like in war. After we watched the film we had to write a haiku of what we felt like if we were in this predicament.

Novel study

Today my novel activity is to write the author of the book I am reading which is hooks daughter.