"Nau Mai haere mai -I am in a Year 5 and 6 class called Kotuku at Mangonui School and my teacher is Miss van der Voort. Welcome to my reflective blog. Please remember I am learning to write my ideas clearly for an audience. There may be mistakes but I look forward to your helpful, thoughtful and kind comments."
Friday, 3 December 2021
Mountain/ silver-back gorilla site!
Thursday, 11 November 2021
A greedy gorilla who forgets his own name- by Mackenzie and Amber!
WALT- plan your writing following a narrative structure. Identify the target audience you want your writing to be for.
Wednesday, 10 November 2021
Mackenzie's and Katie's 6 sentence story!
Thursday, 21 October 2021
science
LI: identify our prior knowledge about science.
science is another way of seeing the world. there are different types of science like chemistry, geology, biology and much more.
I would love to learn how to make elephant tooth paste.
Friday, 17 September 2021
shadow grid art
WALT- create a piece of art using a grid and the outline of an image.
refection- I enjoyed colouring in the background. I found it hard to cut out my cat. It was fun doing this artTuesday, 14 September 2021
Mackenzie's Te Reo maori poem
WALT- translate my cinquain poem into Te Reo Maori to celebrate Te Reo o te wiki.
Mackenzie's Te Reo maori poem
WALT- Translate my cinquain poem into Te Reo Maori to celebrate Te Reo o te Wiki.
Friday, 10 September 2021
Amber and Mackenzie's poetry
WALT- Record ourselves reading our poems with expression.
Use interesting vocabulary and the correct language feature in our poetry. Follow the specific structure of two types of poem. write to entertain.
Reflection- We had to record it a few times to get a good one. ( actually we had to take 1000 takes to get the perfect one) but I still enjoyed recording it with Amber. The poetry was fun to make with amber!
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Mackenzie and Amber's character Map
WALT-WALT: infer character's thoughts and feelings. Acknowledge how a character reacts to unique situations in a narrative text.
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Mackenzie and Amber's character study
WALT-infer characters thoughts and feelings. acknwledge how a character reacts to unique situations in a narrative text.
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Mackenzie and Amber narritive
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
The day things started disappearing
WALT- Edit our Easstle writing samples by using a range of editing organise our ideas to write a narrative using the elements of a narrative story.
Friday, 26 February 2021
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Vocabulary
WALT - build vocabulary knowledge by reading a range of poems
REFLECTION : - By doing this mahi I learnt that nouns are names of persons,places and things I think it is interesting that verbs are words that end with ing
Friday, 5 February 2021
My all about me
WALT- Create a quality blog post that reflects a snapshot of yourself, goals and achievements.

