Tha Zin Rātā and the Tōtara Tree Presentation

Walt: interpret figurative language and its effect on a text Task Description: for this week's work we had to check our understanding for our third slide and if you check my blog you will find my book review, I didn't get to do the create task since most of us in our group and me didn't really get it.

Tha Zin Rātā and the Tōtara tree Book Reveiw

Book Name : Rātā and the Tōtara tree

Retold by Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira

Reviewed by : Tha Zin

Age: 11

Auckland, New Zealand

This week’s book is called Rātā and the Tōtara tree this text is a fiction text. It’s about a guy named Rātā and he had been finding a tree to build his canoe and it took him about a few days to find the perfect tree that would float but at the same time has to be sturdy enough to use the canoe for a long time.

When Rātā finds the perfect tree since he was so excited at the time he straightaway asked his mens to chop down the tree, Although Rātā has forgotten to do the ritual and to ask permission from Tāne to chop the tree down. The next morning him and his mens went back to the same location to carve out the canoe but finds the chopped tree back in it’s original position with no marks, so they repeat the process of chopping the tree down and the ended up with the tree standing up again.

On the last night he hides in the bush and sees that heaps of animals gather up and puts the tree back in position, in that moment Rātā realized that all this time he had forgotten to do a ritual. Early next morning he does the ritual while walks to the tree he then sees that the animals had carven out a canoe for him and ends up with a canoe as a gift from the animals and Tāne.

I recommend this text to year fives up to year sevens and maybe even year eights it could teach them about how to respect other people’s things and to always ask before you use it. Itt can also teach them about learning to respect the environment so that the next generation can live a healthy and nice environment, and it can teach them to treat the beach, forests, and anywhere else as if it was their home.

Tha Zin Last Day of Textile At Tamaki

For today's tech class which also is the very last class of Textile I'm kind of sad... but also very excited for the next tech class that we will be going to, I am pretty sure that they might be hardware or robotics it's one of them then for our last one I am pretty sure that we will be having cooking class I love saving the best for last! but keep coming on to my blog to check out more about tech.

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Tha Zin Finishing Up Our Cushions!

Last term and a bit of this as you may already know we go to tamiki and the class that I go to there is textile, today we are finally going to finishing up our cushions and we will be getting to take it home!

I enjoyed learning the different techniques of sewing and the thing that I learnt while drawing out a cushion, cutting, learning to sew and sewing and putting wool inside of cushions I learnt a few things about the sewing machine, I normally just hand sew at home and I was quite excited that this term I got to experience using a sewing machine.

Overall I really enjoyed Textile and I am looking forward to the next class that we are going to and we are still going to be in Textile for about 2 more weeks but then we will be transferring to another class.

Tha Zin Battle Book Reveiw

Book Name : Battle

Author : Maria Samuela

Reviewed by : Tha Zin

Age: 11

Auckland, New Zealand

This week’s book is called Battle this text is a non-fiction text.

it’s about a boy named Timiona and he is about to have a dance competition with most of his classmates and his friends. Timiona “borrows” a medal that was from his great great grandfather who got it for bravery in the war, Timiona uses the medal as a lucky charm and hopes to win the dance competition with it.

When it was almost Timiona’s turn to go up he panics when he found out that his green hoodie had gone missing and in his hoodie was the medal, he looked and looked for his hoodie and the medal but couldn’t find it. Timiona ended up dancing without his hoodie and the medal but still wins, he goes back home hoodie-less and also medal-less. Timiona sees Krusty the loopy mutt he doesn’t really like that much but for the first time Timiona was pleased to see Krusty, Krusty had his hoodie and his mum had the medal in her hand looking at Timiona her head was tilted on one side and one hand up in the air with the medal it looked like Timiona was going to get in big trouble.

I recommend this text to kids and teens who has an interest in dancing and books and texts, and also you don’t really need something like a special medal or just something that means alot to you or to your family you don’t really need it to be your lucky charm you just need confidence in yourself.