The Crystal Crescent book review

 Today we finished reading the Crystal Crescent after we finished it we wrote a book review.

This is my book review. 

Matariki

What is Matariki? 

Matariki is a Māori new year. Matariki is a time

to plan your future and to get ready to
harvest crops. Matariki is
visible in June or July.

How Many Stars are in the Matariki Constellation? 

Are there 7 or 9 stars? Matariki has 9 stars

according to Dr Rangi Matamua.

His tūpuna (ancestors) could see 9 stars with

the naked eyes. This is a map of the Matariki stars.

The Nine Matariki Stars

Matariki

Matariki is the star that represents consideration, hope, our relation to the environment and the gathering of the public. Matariki is also linked to the health and prosperity of people.

Pōhutukawa 

Pōhutukawa is the star associated with those who have passed away.

Waitī

Waitī is linked with all water bodies and foods within it.

the naked eyes. This is a map of the Matariki stars.

The Nine Matariki Stars

Matariki

Matariki is the star that represents consideration, hope, our relation to the environment and the gathering of the public. Matariki is also linked to the health and prosperity of people.

Pōhutukawa 

Pōhutukawa is the star associated with those who have passed away.

Waitī

Waitī is linked with all water bodies and foods within it.

Waitā

Waitā is linked with the tide and food sources within it.

Waipuna-Ā-Rangi

Waipuna-Ā-Rangi is connected with rain.

Tupuānuku

Tupuānuku is the star associated with

everything within the soil to be harvested like

beets and carrots and potatoes.

Tupuārangi

Tupuārangi is connected with everything that grows up in trees like fruits and birds.

Ururangi

Ururangi is the star connected to the winds.

Hiwa-i-te-Rangi

Hiwa-i-te-Rangi is the star linked with granting

our needs, and realising our endeavor for the

new year.

Mrs Naden’s Comment: You have written an excellent explanation of Matariki. Next time: use your own words. If you are just finding synonyms you need to be careful.  Use lower case and capital letters correctly.

Public Holidays

Boy at the Back of the class. (refugee camp)

Today we were learning about the refugee camp in Boy at The Back of the Class.

I found it tricky to make the tent in the back right by flag on a angle (on the right of the flag)

I found it easy to google the greece flag

Next time I would change my landscape

Dolphins

For the last couple of weeks we have been learning about  Writing we have been learning to use a hook. We had to use juicy verbs and different sentence starters.

I found it easy to use different sentence starters.

I found it challenging to write on some slides

Next time I would change nothing

What I Read

writing to someone to describe dolphins

My Jaguar Report

JAGUAR FACTS

I'm doing a fact report about JAGUARS
Jaguars are known to eat deer, peccary, crocodiles, snakes, monkeys, sloths, tapirs, turtles, eggs, frogs, fish and anything else they can catch.
Jaguars are large cats that can be found in North, Central and South America. They are identified by their yellow or orange coats, dark spots and short legs. The dark spots on their coats are unlike any other cat spots. Each spot looks like a rose and are called rosettes





Jaguars are found on the American continents; they live in Texas, in the Cerro Colorado Mountains in Arizona, the southern part of California, and New Mexico, in the United States, and are found in rainforests in Central and South America. The largest known population exists in the Amazon rain forests.


Did you know? Jaguars can bite through a skull and they can drag 800 pounds (362.874 kgs) across the ground.





I think jaguars are so cool because they are SO big and SO strong

10 Year old Mc Donald

today I was learning about a 10 YEAR OLD Mc Donald

finding the key elements

• I were learning about football and how special it is to New Zealand
• I enjoyed reading about football
• I found challenging to get the perfect summery
• I would change next time nothing