polynesia

Polynesian canoe

IALT: Skim and scan to find key information

IALA: Polynesian wayfinders

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Where did the canoe start and complete its journey? three years to journey around the globe.

What did the crew use to navigate? stars, wind and ocean swells as guides.

What does “Malama Honua” mean? meaning “to care for our Island Earth”.

How many crew were there? The boat had a crew of 12 or 13 people at a time

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Aria 5 birthday

On Saturday I was really happy. It was my little cousins birthday. Aria was 5 years old. It was in the weekend, there was lots of people.


Firstly we played pinata. We had 5 pinatas and theses were the shapes,pumpkin,basketball,dog,cat, happy birthday cake and 1 baseball bat. I was having lots of fun. We got a present that's wrapped up in a news paper. There was some music playing, you had to pass it around, when the music stopped on you, you can open it once. Then the things that come out. This is called´ pass it on´.


Secondly food at the 5th birthday party was yummy. We had a ki at 1pm we had crayfish,boil up,fried bread,fizzy drinks we had lots of food there. At 3pm we had the cake, we sang happy birthday to Aria, the cake was big . It was so much fun there was lots of people, it was a awesome.


Finally presents for kids. All of the kids had to go in the kitchen, we had to line up in a boy line and girls line. We got a presents each. We got 5 toys and lots of lollies and chocolate.

using no tiding numbers

I used this question because it looked a bit easy for me. 5 and 7, 5+1=6, 7-1= 6. 6+6=12

Skip counting to 5s

The questions that I was using is the same like skip counting. 5+5+5+5+5=25 you can say 5x5=25.

Flag Football

Flag Football

WALT: The skills about Flag Football

On Monday we played Flag Football we had two coaches. Flag football is the same as American Football and Rippa Rugby. We had to put our pointing finger on the white line. We had to aim it our partner on the other side. They had  to catch it with a diamond pose.