Mahina-a-rangi’s Perfume By Rawiri Piripi

Author:Rawiri Piripi

Title:Mahina-a-rangi’s Perfume.

WALT:Review the stories we read.

The Story is about a warrior who fell in love with Mahina-a-rangi because of her scent,conversation and good looks.The people at the Kahungunu district admired what he did, like is hunting skills and planting. Many young women, including Mahina-a-rangi were fascinated by his good looks. So Mahina-a-rangi and Turongo got married.

I like this story because it is very interesting. From the story I now know how to make a kawakawa perfume.

Beetles

Title: Beetles

Author:Philippa Werry

This story is about a family that goes tramping in the bush and they have nothing to do, so Sam went outside and collected firewood from the forest. When Sam brought the firewood back they found a Huhu beetle just sitting on a log. They were so amazed when they found the Huhu beetle on the log.The story takes place at a house in the bush when they were going tramping

So Dad made up a game about the Huhu beetle. Everyone was happy that they could do something. They had to draw a beetle with all of it’s body parts. Matt had a lot of knowledge about the beetle so he won the game. So after that they carried on playing. The characters in this story are Phoebe, Dad,Sam and Matt.

I like this story because it describes the beetle and it’s body parts. I like the way the author wrote this story. I liked the way the author used strong, powerful and interesting words in the story.

Mighty Muscle By Sue Gibbson

Mighty Muscle By Sue Gibbson

The article is about Muscles and how to keep yourself healthy and strong. It is also about exercising and healthy food and part of your body.

I like this article because it shows how to build healthy muscles and food that helps you to get stronger I hope you like my article review Thank you.

BEN 10's Photo

During term two at Glenbrae School Room 9 was able to learn a few soccer skills from our soccer coach named Ben Cortellis from The Auckland Football Federation. We learnt how to dribble, pass, stop, kick and throw the ball. We also learnt games called Octopus, flag tag and truck and trailer. Thank you for giving up your time to teach us Ben. It is much appreciated.THANK YOU!

STUDY LADDER LEARNING!

I went on Study Ladder today and I played a game called English Greetings. It helped me with my language Skills!. It is a very cool site. You can also go on this site called www.studyladder.co.nz to play a variety of different learning games. 

THANK YOU FOR VIEWING MY BLOG I APPRECIATE IT BYE.

The Day Mary Shook the Karaka Tree By Jan Farr

WALT:

look for clues in the text to help answer questions based on the text.

This story is about a family that goes tennis every Thursday and Mum lost the ball inside the Karaka Tree. Mary tried to climb the tree and tried to get the tennis ball down from the tree. Mum was so scared when Mary climbed the tree because she thought Mary might get hurt.

The characters in this story are Mary, Mum, Dad, Kids and Dana.

This story takes place at the house and the tennis court.

I liked this story because Mary was very brave and very confident, and this story is very enjoyable as well.

Big Shift By Jacqui Brown

Big Shift by Jacqui Brown

This story is about a family that splits up and Dad stays at home in the country while three children move to Wellington with their  Mum.

The characters in this story are Mum, Dad, Cherie, Terei, Tomo, the storyteller and Meilai.

Part of this story takes place on a farm in the countryside and part of it takes place in the city of Wellington in New Zealand.

I liked this story because it is very enjoyable, interesting and it’s about Country life and City life.