Poem

                     Poem Writing

In Kakapo class we've recently been learning about poems. Over the past 2 weeks we've been learning how to write poems, and about all types of poems. Some of the poems we learnt about were Acrostic, Sonnet, Haiku and personification.

The Acrostic poems are written with one word written vertically and the poem is written horizontally and each sentence starts with the letters written vertically. E.g: 
Summer's coming it's finally here! 
Umbrella's stuck in the sand
Many people running around
Me splashing through the waves, then I hear my tummy rumble
Eating hot chips with ice cream on the side
Running around all over again summer here I come!

Sonnet poems are famously known. Sonnet poems that rhyme like E.g : Hairy Mclary. This is my sonnet poem.
Pure white snow cover's the land far and wide,
Families gather side by side.
They all gather for a delicious meal,
They came by plane, boat or a vehicle with wheels.
Finally dinner is served and prepared,
Nothing's left, because nothing was spared.
Gathered together around the warm blazing fire,
As some of the whanau begins to tire.
Children waddled to their beds with their heavy sleepy heads.
Dozing off quickly, Dreaming so slickly...

As the morning sun rises,
Under the tree lays surprises.
Children jump out out of their beds,
With the word ''Christmas" stuck in their heads.
They shout "Yippee!"
As their hearts are filled with glee
To see presents for you, you and me.
But the Christmas spirit remains in the family,
Within the children,adults and elderly.
The colourful lights lit up the tree,
As it was standing in front of me.
Wrapping paper was scattered all along the ground,
As the children made lot's of sound,
BANG,WHIR,WACK with their new toys around.
That's Christmas, That's Christmas for you and me.

Haiku poems are a traditional Japanese part of poetry. Haiku poems contain 3 lines. 1st line includes 5 syllables, 2nd line includes 7 syllables and 3rd poem has 5 syllables again. E.g 
   1     2     3    4    5        -syllables
The hot blazing sun,
      1       2    3     4     5    6      7
Shines on the hot golden sand,
     1    2   3     4        5
Having so much fun!

Christmas time is here!
Wrapping pare everywhere!
So many cool gifts!

Personification, is a language feature, but usually used in poetry.In personification you write a sentence that includes an object or thing doing something that a human would do E.g:

The clock replied with the time.

The mountains echoed the singing of birds.

The books giggled as the pencil tickled their pages.

The scissors ate the thin paper.

The moon skipped past the stars and into the sky.

The sun hid away behind the thick clouds.

The ocean leaped onto the hot golden sand.

The seashell sang the song of the ocean.

I enjoyed writing poems very much! Poems are a different type of writing, and are unique in their own way. We learnt about poems for fun and to learn about different writing styles, for parody's. 

Which poem style was your favourite?
Why?

Tying Knots

 Recently in my class, we've been learning how to tie knots. We've been learning how to tie knots for survival skill tips and for our up coming camp.

First we went onto a website that had information about tying and specific types of knots that would and could be helpful and key to survival. Then to have a proper experience we used 1 meter bits of rope and practiced tying knots. Such as:

• The Over Hand knot 
• Half Hitch knot 
• Noose knot 
• Figure 8 knot etc.

I enjoyed very much doing this activity and I learned lots of ways of how to tie different types of knots.

If you would like to see more of these knots or how to tie some of these knots click here  https://www.animatedknots.com/indexbasics.php

Google Doc Ninja Challenge! 2018

                        

Today for Manaia Kalani, my class and I did the Google Doc Ninja challenge for the first time! By looking at our buddy classes blog posts we were inspired and wanted to find out more about this challenge. So today we did. For 1 hour we worked on this challenge, the level I found the easiest was the White belt and the level I found most difficult was the Black belt level. I enjoyed this challenge very much and I learnt many useful things from this challenge. But now I can finally say I am an official...

         !!Google Doc Ninja! !

                         

Google Doc Ninja Challenge

CUZ-Book

                                 CUZ 
Cuz is a book that we recently started reading together in class. It features 2 main characters River and Huia. River and Huia are cousins and River is 14 years old and has blonde dreadlocks. Huia is also 14 and has black long curls as River is blonde but they both share the same brown serious eyes. River is physically strong whilst Huia is mentally strong, Huia knows a lot about her family history while River has very little knowledge about his family history. Recently Huia's dad (River's uncle) Toe came and took Huia and River around the outskirts of the South Island. Then suddenly River smelt gas both Huia and Toe replied saying "It's just this old boat". Then * BOOM*! An explosion  bursted up in flames throwing Huia overboard. But Toe's friend was down by the engine so Toe went after him. River suddenly got bounced into the ocean and struggled to bring Huia to shore. River struggled to say to Huia about Toe who was certain about his death. Huia's heart shattered and River could see it in her eyes that were swelling up with tears. The next day they boith searched for Toe but found nothing but a  ripped up ragged shirt that belonged to Toe, Huia and River ringed out their clothes and Huia threw the shirt on. As they were searching for food Huia slid down a deep sudden dip and broke one of her ribs. So River layed her leaning on a tree, set up camp and finally got a fire started. 

Will River and Huia survive?
What do you think?