Flax Picking

Last week, my class Room 19 and some of the kids from Room 20 had an opportunity to go down to the Omaru Creek and pick some flax to make some putiputi (flowers). We walked a short distance to get there because it was really close to our school.

As we arrived there we sat down in the shade and our teacher (Miss Tito) told us some rules of what we should do to the flax and what we shouldn't. She said, "you should never step on flax, never cut them on rainy days or night time, never ever cut the baby flax or the whole bush will die. Also if you cut all the flowers  that grows on the flax bushes all the native birds in New Zealand will die.

After that we started cutting the flax and then we ripped the sides of the flax and then we put the ripped sides under the flax bush so that nobody steps on it. Later we came back to school and started making it it was really hard to follow, I was struggling a lot but then Miss Tito helped me and I was onto it. Then suddenly Miss Flavelle (one of the office teacher) came and called me to go somewhere.


    Pictures of what we did.

Tuakana/Teina (Oldest/Youngest)

This year at Pt England school room 19 (my class) had decided to help room 9 to improve their reading skills. We both classes go to the school library every Tuesday to do this. This is called Tuakana/Teina means Oldest/youngest.

We had to pair up with a junior kid from room 9, then pick a book and read it to each other.
My partner was really good at reading and he was not naughty like the other little kids.
It felt great reading helping room 9 with their reading skills.



Tuakana Teina Reading from Jaybz on Vimeo.

Picnic At Point England School

Every year, Pt England school always has a picnic down at the reserve on every March the first, and this  one was amazing.We walked a short distance their because it was really close. After we arrived there, we had a little meeting and after the meeting we started to have lots of fun. Anthony, Carlos, Mohammed and me had our own things. Mohammed brought some music, I brought the mat, Carlos and Anthony brought lots of food. It was wonderful.

After a while we left the picnic spot and started to make a little muddy pond close to the beach. My friends helped me make it more deeper. My brother was the one that helped most. It was amazingly fun.

After that we had a swim, I jumped of the huge rock and I was about to drown because I wasn't really good at swimming but luckily Miss Tito (my teacher) rescued me because she was one of the assistants that was in the water. She Told me that she had to stay in the water for the whole day.

When we got off the beach my friends and me went to the showers and had a shower also got changed and then had lunch. Later we played some really fun games and had a try on Mr Barks kite. At 2:30 Mr Burt (our principle) made this loud noise like a siren, then everyone started packing up and we went back to school.

My DLO

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