Tane Mahuta

Tane Mahuta

What is Tane Mahuta?

Tane Mahuta is a kauri tree but he is special he is the widest tree in
the kauri forest.

How old is he?

Tane mahuta is 2,000 years old and still growing.

When was he planted?

He was discovered in and identified in early January 1924.

How tall and wide is he?

He is 42.2 metres tall. The trunk is 17.8 m tall and contains 255
metres of wood.

 

Tane Mahuta is a special tree he is the widest tree in the kauri forest
Tane Mahuta is 2,000 years old and still growing that's amazing.
Tane Mahuta was discovered a January 117.8 m tall and contains 255
11 metres of wood.

Reflection - I like how we had to learn about Tane Mahuta and learn facts about him.

Kupe

Kupe

Walt: Learn about Kupe

Kupe was a great chief of Hawaiki (Tahiti), whose father was from
Rarotonga, and whose mother was from Rangiatea (Ra'iatea), where
her father lived. These were the three islands over which Kupe’s
mana (power) extended. One day Kupe's fishermen went out with
lines and hooks to their traditional fishing grounds.

Kupe was a man who sailed to New Zealand on a waka and named
New Zealand Aotearoa. Te Pehi Kupe’s portrait, painted in England
in 1824, shows an elaborately tattooed man aged about 30; from this
portrait, his date of birth has been estimated in 1795.

Reflection - I like how we had to find out information about Kupe and how we learned about his life . 

Camping in hokianga

Camp

On Wednesday the 21st of November room 5, 6 and a few kids from room 10 went on camp. First, we went to the Wairere Boulders to have a look at them. While we were there me and my best friend Ruby found 7 fairy houses.

When we left Wairere Boulders we went to the Marae and had a powhiri then we set up the mattresses and put our bags in the wharenui.

An hour later we went to the Lookout and went to a small beach to sketch the horizon. When we got back to the Marae we played for a little bit then we had dinner we had a sausage sizzle. For dessert, we had a banana split.

Soon we had a disco. After we did that we went to bed. The next day we woke up and had breakfast then got dressed then we went to the ferry and went across to the sand dunes and sandboarded into the water.

Then we went to Tane Mahuta, he was so cool then we sketched him. Soon we went back to Marae and played before we had dinner. We had hamburgers and for dessert, we had peaches and custard.

When dinner was over we had a scavenger hunt but people kept moving the answers after that we played three rounds of spotlight then we went to bed.

The next day we packed up and loaded our stuff into the vans and trailers and went to the clendon house it was cool after we went onto a vehicle ferry and went home. Wow, that was the best camp ever. By Lola Mikrut.

Google docs ninga challenge

I learned how to screenshot my google drawing. I really enjoyed it. Lola

What is Tongan language week.

What is Tongan language week?

Walt: Find out what Tongan language week is.

Tonga celebrates the culture and language of more than  60,000 people. Their heritage and the people who live in New Zealand. Tongan language week is being held from Sunday the 2nd until Saturday the 8th. Some Tongan language people live in New Zealand, some live in Christ church and 650 people speak Tongan language. In 2013 there were over 60 000 people in New Zealand who identified Tongan. Currently, there were more Tongan people who were born in New Zealand than Tonga. Did you know 20% of Tongan people live in New Zealand. New Zealanders of Tongan descent will celebrate their heritage in the annual Tongan language week (Uike Katoanga i o e lea Faka-Tonga.)By Lola

Wonder activity

Over everyday we have been doing wonder activities for can does I did a book cover.

spelling

Over the week we have done a spelling sheet we had to put the missing words in the empty spaces.

My clay

Over the past 2 weeks, me and my class have been learning about marine animals and plastic. Mine is a turtle with rocks, seaweed and baby turtles.

Common wealth games

This is my commonwealth art poster this is some real photos of people and true writing I got from the internet and my mum printed the pictures and I drew some. What do think of my poster? please reply.