Keep New Zealand Beautiful

On the 22.09.2020  Te Kauru, Te Puawai, Te Manga had a hikoi to Lake Ngatu to plant with the help of Department Of Conservation and did a clean up on the track. 

All of Te Kauru, Te Puawai, Te Manga got to plant atleast one plant. There were only these native trees Kanuka and Manuka. 

We all learnt to use caring for our environment by cleaning our lake and looking after it. 

What I really enjoyed learning about planting is that  all of us can learn how to use partnership by helping each-other plant. 

Here is an example of what I mean, I could not take a Manuka out of the pot and Kaydee taught me how to do that. 

Unwanted Visitors

WALT use different strategies to understand what we are reading.

SJ Level 3 May 2019 

- Unwanted Visitors 

Activity 1

Use the article to answer the following questions:

1.  What could tramping boots, dairy products and even honey contain? They can hide species that might harm the environment. 

2. Unwanted pests, weeds and diseases endanger New Zealand’s plants and animals. Find evidence to support this view. Pests are animals that cause some kind of harm. Weeds are plants that are grown in places where they are not allowed to grow. Bacteria are caused by diseases, viruses and fungi. 

Problem Solving

WALT solve word problems using different strategies. 

Read, Read, Read Monsters

WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others. 

On your blog write a reading response to one of the text you read.

WOW that's amazing!

Yuck, gross!

I don't believe it!

Afinemata/Gahehelevao

I can't believe that there are lots of tales and some of them come true. My favourite tale that is on the book called monsters is the Afinemata/Gahehelevao. 

That is my favourite one because it reminds me about the B.F.G and it is probably bigger and taller than a mountain!!

Animal X Factor

WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others. 


I really enjoyed making the slide about Elephants and why I like them. The thing that I found tricky was making an A-Z about the Animal X Factor because I could not find words for the A-Z. The thing that I could of done better with is finish the learn bit on the class site which is this slide and the A-Z on here. 

Awesome Tiger Facts

Facts About Animal's

Covid-19 Writing

WALT explain what the rules are at Level 2 and what we think about it. 

12.08.20

What happens at level two lock-down? 

At level two lock-down we all have to make sure that we are social distancing. I do not feel happy about corona virus being back in New Zealand. I do feel a bit scared about my family that live in Auckland because most of them are adults. We all should know to wash our hands and use lots of hand sanitiser. That is called hand hygiene. Always remember that we all need to be one metre apart and stay in your bubble. All of the people in Auckland have to be in isolation. You need to try your hardest to not touch your face. Always make sure you wash your hands before and after walking your dog, baking and don’t play on the public playgrounds. It is not complete isolation here, so do not worry about your families, food and other things that you would buy from a supermarket. You need to be very careful about who you touch and who you hug. You can only touch your family like your mum, dad, bothers, sisters and other family members. At most schools the assembly won’t be the whole school together but it will be in a hangout. People always need to wear a mask when you are out and about or when you just have a little walk with your family or by yourself. Te Manga’s assembly was supposed to be on the 14.08.2020 on Friday. Instead of our assembly in the hall we made a really cool video. There has been five corona virus cases in Auckland. On the 12.08.2020 on Wednesday there was too many people doing covid nineteen tests and I could not even have a blood test with my mum. All of the people that got a test were from Auckland. My experience about covid nineteen has been interesting but still a little bit frightening. 

Thank-you for reading about what I think covid nineteen is and what it is like. 

Written by Lucy

Diabetes

WALT use our reading strategies to find information in the text and explain it to others.

What did you learn from reading this text?

I have learnt that you need to be very careful about what you eat and what you do and that you have to use a pump to put insulin in your body.

I really enjoyed learning about what diabetes is and how to look after it.

The thing that I found tricky was making the graphic organiser and do an A-Z.

The thing that I could do better is find words for the A-Z