Summarising the Battle of the Mountains

This week we read the Battle of the Mountains Legend, retold by Annie Rae Te Ake Ake. This story tells about how our maunga, Mt Taranaki, came to be situated here on the west coast of the North Island.

We were learning about summarising. As we read the story, we thought about the most important parts. After we finished reading, we tried to retell the story in 5 main points.

We created our illustrations by reading a story and choosing our favourite part to illustrate.

We are proud of our illustrations because we did a great job of drawing the mountains faces to show how they are feeling.

We hope you like them! 

What is your favourite legend?

19th October - Nanny Mihi and the Rainbow 🌈

                                               

Today in Karaka we had read the story Nanny Mihi and the Rainbow. The story had a lot of Maori kupu in it, and we learned a lot about the different Maori colours. We knew the our class was named after the Karaka Tree, but was cool to see we’re also another name for the colour orange.

                                 

After having read the story, we learned about what a collage was, and made our own super awesome colour collage rainbow! We used seeds, flowers, pasta, and pieces of paper in a bunch of different colours! And they came out really awesome. What do you think of them? Wouldn't you like to see a rainbow like this in the sky?