On Wednesday we were writing what Matariki is about and then we cut them and put them on a star and then we are going to make a 3d star with it.     

Every Monday night we play basketball  last Monday we lost but that’s OK. We verst 2 tall people they were so good and basketball. Do you like basketball? Because I know I do.

Why we celebrate Matariki

Hello everyone I’m going to talk about why we celebrate Matariki and you can learn a lot from it, Like me. So let’s learn today. 

Why  do we celebrate Matariki? Matariki was a time when food stores had been built up. Which meant more free time for whānau and communities to spend together. As well as more time for love and more time to look at the stars.  As well to look at all your family members that have died.

Matariki is a time to take in knowledge to the dead and to release their spirits to become stars. It was also  a time to reflect, to be thankful to the gods for the harvest, to feast and to share the bounty of the harvest with family and friends.

Matariki is based on the winter rising of the Matariiki cluster in the early morning sky, during the Tangarea period of the lunar month of pipiri. Matariki starts in the late may or early june in the cold winter morning. 

So this is why we  celebrate Matariki and  why it is important to celebrate the Maori new year called matariki. It should give us a new start.

This week St. john came to Blaketown sch00l to teach us about CPR and survival. I really enjoyed it has St. john ever came to your school

Blaketown school had a disco on Thursday 29th June and there was prizes that were for things like the best dressed and who had the best dance moves.

In Room 4 we did Lorax writing that is all about persuading

This week we got  to play krotfball. It was so fun I hope we do it  again  soon.

We have been practising how to reply to a comment on blogs.

I’m a year 6, but I’m in year 8 maths. Feared by many in the class.

This is a true story of me and a general day in maths (2 years up).

First of, I would usually do the black belt challenge, where we have two minutes to do a card of maths, going up and up to black belt (over a period of weeks).

Afterwards, I’d usually do my Prime 4 B maths book, or  5 maths questions then maths book.

Then  sometimes, we play around the world. you go around the classroom answering maths questions trying to answer before the other person until whoever has gone the farthest, or most people beaten, wins. Most people are afraid of me in that class now, and I find that amusing.

Thank you if you read this blog. It was fun to write and brings back memories, that are going to happen again today.

Tena koutou katoa friends! Bye!

Hi my name is  Kaylee. I’m normally good at maths but because I tried I got some right and some wrong  but that OK . because we all do things differently so don’t worry if you get them wrong just ask for help.

We have Prime 3 maths books in Room 4 and we also made shadow art for ANZAC day

We moved up in our maths and now we are in 3A. Indi and I went from page 10 to 16 together and worked it all out and we will do some more work from today and onwards.

We made lamingtons because a lot of us had never eaten them before. They were yummy and easy to make.  Have you had a lammington and do you like them?

This is some Chromebook tips for new people on Chromebooks

Friday 5 May 2023

This term, we’ve been learning the Maori names for the colours. This is a photo with a few of the colours.

Also, there are other Maori words we’ve been learning, the words are here to look at, and is updating regularly for the whole term (I think,).

What kind of Maori words do you know? Do you understand this: “Kia ora koutou! Kei te pehea koe? kei te pai ahau. tena koutou katoa!

Me te ra ataahua!”

I hope you like the Maori language! Its a good language to learn, and native.

tena koutou katoa! goodbye!

We made some Lamingtons. It was quite hard because we didn’t let it sit for  long enough.

It was so much fun  and so good.

On Wednesday we made lamingtons

for the King’s Coronation. It was lots of fun.

The entire class did Anzac poems
here is an example.

I love doing it mainly because I like doing poems.

1.  You will need green and black paper.

2. You will draw the bunny on the black piece of paper

3. Then you would need water colours that are brown and black

4. Now you will colour the bunny brown and then when it dried colour the background black.

Then when it’s done stick it  on the green piece  of paper  and now your done.

Anzac art on Friday the entire class made Anzac shadow art

here is an example

and I love doing it.