Arahura marae recount.

Here is my writing about a trip to the Arahura Marae I went on.

This is a piece of writing that retells and evaluates (what you think) events or experiences.

Title A brief name for the experience or event.	Arahura Marae
Orientation Tells when and where the event began and who was there.	Last week on Thursday the senior school went to the Arahura marae. We went in the morning and separated to travel to the marae in separate cars. I traveled with my mum and a few room 1 girls. we are going to learn about staying on a marae. I was feeling excited. I was not nervous at all.We got to the marae at approximately 9:45.
Sequence of events Tells the events in the order they happened. You need to have a minimum of 3-4 events. Remember one topic per paragraph.  Your paragraph should have an introductory sentence use a time sequence word/phrase and then detail.	After, arriving we were welcomed onto the amazing beautiful marae with a powhiri. For the powhiri a woman called out from the  marae and Miss Ireland answered in maori like the other lady. This is called a karanga. It sounded beautiful. All the people walked forward. After that we went inside and the men did a kind of  walking- non-action haka. This is called a whaikōrero. A whaikōrero is a speech of welcome. Next, we had  the morning tea and it was delicious. There were tonnes of savouries and some fruit. There were also some very popular sandwiches which most people enjoyed.There were beautiful green and black table runners to match the colours of the marae. It had amazing lights in the dining room. After that, we all went into the wharenui  to share our mihi. There was about 80 people who shared their mihi. A few people mucked up! I was one of them. It took a long time to get through everyone-about 1 hour , but it was nice to know a few things about everyone. Next we had lunch. For lunch we had to bring our own and there was a huge deck for everyone to sit on . I sat with my friends. After that, we walked down to the river and tried to find pounamu. Some people ended up finding amazing pieces of pounamu. We had about an hour to try and find a piece of pounamu. Soon after that we walked further on to the beach and had a taniwha sculpture competition and my group came nothing. My group did a 3D taniwha but it just was a head and it had no body. We used whatever was on the beach to make our taniwha. Next was dinner. When we got back, we stayed in the marae and played a few games before dinner. I played uno with a few friends. When it was dinner time we went into the room where we have dinner in and ate dinner. For dinner we had potato, chicken,  and loads more. I got served heaps! After dinner we all went outside to do the evening activities. The activities some people were in were: Rippa rugby, Ki o rahi,Weaving,Tukutuku and soap carving. I was in Tukutuku  and Soap carving.There were a lot of adults that helped with these activities. I enjoyed the soap carving better because you had to think of Māori patterns not English patterns. I heard that in Ki o rahi you did the game Ki o rahi for half an hour and then you did rakau throwing.It was a fun thing to do. We ended the evening activities at 9:00. Soon after that we were roasting marshmallows and making them into s'mores by a fire.  The s’mores were really good. We sang waiata while we were eating them. Finally we got into bed and MOST of us went to sleep. I was not one of them. They must of had the heaters on a hundred because it was SO, SO, SO hot inside. When it was morning(6:00) we packed up and played some games. I played Uno with my friends. We did that until 8:00-breakfast! For breakfast I had a milo and some nutri grain and yogurt. There were lots of things you could choose to have. After breakfast We packed up and said what we liked. I said that I liked The poupou (carvings). I like the poupou because they have lots of designs in each poupou. After that we left.
Personal Comment/Ending Tells how the experience/event ended and some thoughts you may have about it.	I really liked the marae and I would 100 % go again. It was really fun and the food was great.

My Taniwha-Writing

For the past few weeks we have been practising using descriptive language in our writing. We have been trying to 'paint pictures with words'. We all got to invent our own Taniwha. We all drew our own Taniwha and the we had to write about it and describe what it looks like, what we do with our Taniwha and what our Taniwha is like. Then we read our work to a buddy and they had a go at drawing our Taniwha.

Create and Describe Your Own Creature

(Nogard-Taniwha)

WALT: be descriptive in our writing.  

Look at the description of a Nogard.  Now Create and describe your own creature that you will then be able to read to a buddy so that they can draw it.  Your description must be as detailed and clear as possible so that when you share it with others they will be able to visualise and draw you creature. Use lots of adjectives (describing words - big, small, round, green).

You must .....

• Have a name for your creature
• Start from the big things and work your way to the smaller things
• Describe the shapes
• Describe its neck, body, tail, wings etc.
• What does its head look like?Think about its eyes, nose, eyebrows, mouth, teeth
• Describe its legs/flippers/fins etc.
• What colours is it?
• Any extra details on the body like scales, spikes etc.
• Keep it simple and clear!
• Use correct punctuation and spelling.
• Check that your sentences make sense.

Remember that a good writer ‘paints’ pictures in their reader’s head with words.   This is what good descriptive writing does.  

Create your piece of writing here. Dakota

KATIPO!

Have you ever read a story about a Taniwha? I have! I even have my own Taniwha called Katipo...My Taniwha has a side ways koru shaped body (the top of the koru is the head). My Taniwha also has a wonky drawn-out tail. The colour of the tail is dark blue. The body is light red and the head is dark red. My Taniwha has one wing. The wing has 3 points and is placed just over the body. The points of my Taniwha’s wings are dark kikorangi and the rest of the wings are combined kikorangi and whero. My Taniwha also has a dark blue collar that is about an inch and a half wide. My Taniwha looks like an eel - tuna. My Taniwha’s eye is blue with a black cross going through the eye. My Taniwha has three white teeth. My Taniwha is outlined in black. My Taniwha lives in an underground cave in the Cook Strait and is fierce to people I haven’t introduced him to. When I’m not at school I am normally with Katipo-my Taniwha. We go flying high, Smash  into the  kapua! My Taniwha and I often go to our favourite place. Me and my Taniwha’s favourite place to go is to the Arahura river. My Taniwha and I have had heaps and heaps of adventures there !Once we found a huge piece of pounamu as big as an elephant's tamaiti. It was so big that we had to leave it in the river because we couldn’t carry it home!    

  

  

My taniwha.                                                                               

Lily’s drawing of my taniwha.

Peer Evaluation   Name of Peer:  lily

What I think you did well:  explaining your plan very well and having it all set out.

What I think you could improve on:  maybe next time you could say it more clearer and maybe we could get the exact same next time.

Self Evaluation

What I think I did well: I think I did well at putting lots of verbs.

What I could improve on: Punctuation.

My Magic Box Poem

My maori mihi

We were learning to pronounce Maori words properly. I had to screencastify my work. My next step is I could learn to add my first and second cousins and grandparents. I liked learning Maori and my mihi. We were learning to introduce ourselves in Te Reo Maori. My mihi lets people know who I am.

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