Cats who needs them

PBL Starting Point

PROJECT BASED LEARNING: OUR OWN BACKYARD STARTING POINT

What I am interested in about our backyard. (5 top things)	What do I know (5 main facts)	What I want to know. (5 best questions) Question Matrix	Project ideas (not final). (3 ideas)
birds Trees Walks Lakes and rivers Insects	That animals live in our back yard   That it is very mosy That it rains and new plants grow Insects live in our back yard There's walks through our back yard	How do you survive without food and water? What do you do if you fall into a animal trap? How many native birds are there? What are pests to the bush	A birdhouse for the kakapo A paper mache kakapo A kakakapo eating bowl

River bend ghost

It was dark outside a cold breeze filled the air I shuddered and shivered as I brushed my chattering teeth.SUDDENLY THE SHOWER TURNED ON. I DROPPED MY toothbrush I felt cold no not cold freezing. I didn't dare move a muscle. Help my body told me I wanted to run but I couldn't then the shower turned on cold. then I heard knock knock at that moment I knew I was done for. . . .a few minutes later Mrs hill came in to see what was going on.I thought my savior But I didn't say that.  

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Moari Hand Games

Maori Hand games

Last week we were split into groups and went to Maori hand games for matariki there was two groups one had the knuckle bones and the other had the whai (the string).Firstly I was doing the knuckle bones we did ticks they were really hard I couldn't do them.The first trick was to throw the knuckle bone in the air and pick up another it was really hard. Next we had to throw one knuckle bone in the air clap and catch the one in the air.

Then we swapped groups I was in the group were we did the string or whai it was like doing cat's cradles I learnt how to do the jellyfish I did it over and over again then I did the waka it was easy after that we did some more hand games we would get our fists and thumbs and played a game the words were e hipitoitoi and you had two move your thumbs up and down and if you did the same move as your opponent you say hipitoitoi ra and then there was a one where you had two move your arms and say hei tama tu tama and you say the same thing tu tama ra and win then we had a competition some kids went up and vs each other and whoever won out of the two groups faced each other then one kid faced the teacher lucky he was man it was really fun and hard I had lots of fun my favorite was doing the whai (string) and learning how to do some new things with the whai.