Pouaki The Glutton

 Today i did a screencastify of a legend Called Pouaki the glutton. 

Here it is!

Coded Hundreds Board

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Today Miss McLeod's math group did this coded hundreds board. This coded hundreds board is not a regular hundreds board that has numbers on it but has codes instead of numbers.

You Should Make A Copy And Try It. But you have to rotate one block

Here is my one

The Tasting Test

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Today with my teacher Miss McNeill we did a taste test. At first i was thinking bad things was going to happen before we started. And that happen not at the start but towards the end. So we had to close our eyes and guess what we had in our hands or on the table. 

This is the list we had

1. Honey
2. Lemon
3. Ham
4. Coffee
5. Chips

The first thing we did was honey. So as i said we closed our eyes and Miss McNeill put it on the table for because it was in a cup otherwise it would be in my hand. And we had to smell. And it smelled like raisins which was not bad. But cause i do not like honey i did not like the taste. 

Second was lemon and it was very sweet. As usual i closed my eyes and got something put in my hand. I was confused until i blurted out it was lemon after i tried it. And the lemon was good to eat. Cause after that i took one more lemon to eat after the taste test.

Third i had Ham and that was probably the best out of all. Cause who doesn't like Ham. And this time instead of smelling it i ate it straight away without hesitation. Cause i knew it was Ham

Fourth we had the coffee and the coffee was suggested by my reading teacher Mrs Jones. And since kids do not like coffee. We spat it out and had water.Everyone started complaining after we went back to tell Mrs Jones off.Cause of what she suggested.And i want to say the coffee was cold.

The last was potato chips! i loved them because they were salty and nice. But the only problem was that it was very hard to crunch. 

I learnt that Children have more taste buds. Cause kids have 10,000 taste buds and adults have 5,000 taste buds . That is because adults have to much hot coffee. 

Here are some photos!

Retelling The Legend

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Last week we started retelling a legend about a bird called pouaki. Pouaki is a bird that is called a gluten. And he did not do great things.

Here is my retell

There was a bird called Pouāki that on a mountain called Mt Torlesse.There was water that had been shaped that was from that mountain to sea. And on the mountain there was Raupo,Toi Toi and Harakeke.

Every single day Pouāki would sit on that mountain and wait until hunters from a Pā would find food.The glutton would swoop down and scoop them and take them back to he/his nest and then eat them.This keeps happening everyday until Ruru (One of the people in the Pā) had a plan. 

Ruru chose 40 of the bravest men to go on this mission. Overnight Ruru and his 40 men built a cage for them.As soon as they were finished building the cage they made sure that the door was easy to shut and lock.Then Ruru waited in front of Pouāki’s nest until he had to run from Pouāki.

Ruru ran into the cage with the other 40 men and started a fight. Some people manged to cut of his two claws.By then he killed some people.Then people cut of his wings so he had no way of attacking them. By then Pouāki had killed many of the men and only a quarter men alive.Then when he couldn't attack. Ruru and his other people started to clubbed Pouāki to death.

Then they had a feeling that Pouāki had children.So they climbed Mt Torlesse and halfway through they heard this beautiful noise.They thought it was Pouāki little's morning for them. So they memorize the sound and keeped climbing. As they reached the top, without hesitation they killed the little ones. Then after that they could catch the food they wanted and eat.They lived happily ever after.

My best friend

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A couple of weeks ago we made a description of our own best friends.Then when we wrote all that information into a template which looks like what i am going to show you.

Here is the template.

Maths Questions

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Today my teacher has set our homeroom some questions to see what things we can do in math.These are all about statistics.

Here they are

Retelling a legend

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So today i did a retell about a story of how the south island was made.

Here you go.

First rangi (sky farther) had married Pokoharua-te-po.Then later on they had four children.Their names were Aoraki (The eldest son) ,Rakiroa,Rakirua and Rarakiroa.The all had simular names instead of Aoraki.So then they found out that rangi their farther had fallen in love with Papatuanuku (Earth mother).

Before their farther rangi left to see the earth mother.The four sons jumped into the waka Te waka o Aoraki.And then they said a karakia to go back down to earth and see what and why Rangi was intrested in her instead of their mother.

As they were seing why Rangi their farther didnt like their mother they were more intrested to find land.But there was mostly sea to look at.As they were looking for land they found that a storm was forming.They thought it was their farther telling them to come back home.

So then the eldest son Aoraki said a karakia to make the storm ease and the waka to go back into the heavens.While the other younger brothers was shocked and scared.Their older brother got the karakia wrong and made a mistake.

Instead of rising the were sinking and Te waka o Aoraki had fliped over.So the sons swam on top and it seemed that the western side was much higher than the eastern.So the brothers had to huddle and lean on one side.As they were doing this their hair turned white.And soon they had turn to stone.

Then the brothers turned into mountains and made the southern alps. And the waka turned into the south island.

All About Eels

A couple of days ago we have been learning about eels.Eels do not have a life cycle like us but its very different.Last week we went to a marae (Te pa o moki).This marae is all the way out in Leston. Clem Smith taught us a lot about eels and show us their life cycle.

This is how a eels life cycle is. First they can stay in Lake Ellesmere for as long as they want.So then if they want to have babies they go near Hawaii in the warm water.After that they have a dad and the mum.And the dad has to squeeze the mum to a ton of eggs come out.

But unfortunately the mum and dad die.But then the eggs turn into baby's (Larva).Then they have a scent of their mum and dad and follow their trail back Lake Ellesmere.Then they grow until they are adults.

Here are some photos of the eels we saw and the life cycle.