Wednesday 24 February: junior and senior learning

We are working in two groups today:

Seniors: I want you to read three articles on Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

This one, from 100% Pure New Zealand.

This one, from the NZ History website.

This one, from the Waitangi Tribunal.

1. For each article, decide what the three main points are, and write them in your own words.

2. Then I want you to decide which article show most clearly the problems in how the treaty was discussed and signed.

3. Now I want you to create a resource for the junior students on the signing of the treaty which helps your audience understand what was problematic about the hui discussion and the signing of the Treaty.

Juniors: we are preparing for the asttle writing to persuade test.

Our practice writing prompt today is:

Is boxing better than fishing?

We will brainstorm ideas, then revise our essay writing structure, then have a go at writing persuasively on this prompt.  

p.s. We are definitely picking up the maps work again after the asttle test!

Making maps to tell our Aotearoa stories

 Last week we wrote in our journals about the world we see outside of our whare - I saw some fabulous writing.  The most important thing we all did was take small things and make them important in our writing.  I saw some great use of metaphors and other language features.  We also watched part of a Mike King documentary, where he is thinking about how to tell the story of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and why it is important to him.

This week, we have junior testing (PAT reading) happening on Wednesday.  Then students will be working on making maps of their connections to New Zealand, past and present.  Starting on paper, each of us will make links to places in New Zealand that we know something about, or have a personal connection to.  Starting with what we know, and building up over the next few weeks, we will include:

• where we were born
• where we live now
• our marae
• where our family members first lived when they came to Aotearoa
• places we have lived
• places we have visited
• where Te Tiriti was signed on 6 February 1840
• other places where Te Tiriti was signed
• sites of the New Zealand wars
• sites of natural disasters 

Matua Gordon and I will make our own maps alongside you, and when we are ready to share them, we will put them on our learning blogs.  We will each have an opportunity to decide how we want to present the maps we have made using both verbal and visual techniques.

A visual mihi of our journey in Te Reo Pakeha

 Kia ora koutou Ngā Here Kahikatea whanau.  I am super thrilled to be teaching you all in 2021.  I want us to start off by thinking about what matters to each of us in terms of listening and telling stories.

Your task is to create a visual collage about the stories that matter most to you.  What images will tell the following stories:

• Where were you born?
• What three places are special to you?
• What is or was your favourite children's storybook?
• What is or was your favourite nursery rhyme or children's poem?
• A song you like because of the story it tells?
• What is a line from a favourite song of yours that is powerful for you?
• Who or what do you love most?
• What did you read over summer that you enjoyed (short or long text)?
• What did you watch over summer that you enjoyed?

Below, I have made a collection of my answers, which I then need to organise into a collage.  Your task today is to make a collection of your answers on a doc in your NHK English folder.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

BY EDWARD LEAR

I

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

   In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

   Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

   And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

    What a beautiful Pussy you are,

         You are,

         You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

II

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!

   How charmingly sweet you sing!

O let us be married! too long we have tarried:

   But what shall we do for a ring?"

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

   To the land where the Bong-Tree grows

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

   With a ring at the end of his nose,

             His nose,

             His nose,

   With a ring at the end of his nose.

III

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

   Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."

So they took it away, and were married next day

   By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince,

   Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,

   They danced by the light of the moon,

             The moon,

             The moon,

They danced by the light of the moon.

Sam Prebble, Great God! This is an Awful Place -