Leitoria's 2016 Reporting Blog

               The Beach As the sun rises it shines into my eyes.  I am blinded. A smell of a delicious BBQ coming from my dad’s cooking.  It makes me ravenously hungry. As the waves crash into me the salt stings my eyes. Circling gulls trapped in cage. Hot summer day feeling a little bit burnt like hot brown toast.  Kids laughing out loud with joy. Fish swimming as fast as the flash. No more summer for this year. By: Leitoria Elaine Talataina                                               

               Poem Learning Story In poetry we have been learning to paint the pictures in our reader's head and make them feel like there were there. I have been working on 3 poems : Cloud Poem Cold Weather Titahi Bay Poem Also my Blackout Poem I was working on figurative language and that is simile because I used “ like ” in my poem for example: So ravenous for food like hot toast. In my cloud poem I have also used personification to describe my cloud for an example: When I cry my rain falls down to feed the plants. By: Leitoria Elaine Talataina

          COLD WEATHER Cold weather outside Thunder blaze the night sky Can’t feel my fingers Body is numb Shivering as my teeth clatter Freezing into ice Snowflakes drifting from above Like its Christmas time No ice in the lake to skate in Looking for a place to sleep in So thirsty for coffee So ravenous for food like hot toast Still freezing I was working really hard on by trying really hard to make my sentence making sense so that my reader can visualize and also that they were there and they want to read more.' By: Leitoria Elaine Talataina

      Happy Cloud                Happy as a clown Floating across the sky Calm and carefree making kids laugh with funny imaginary faces King of protecting the good citizens from the burning hot sun When I cry my rain falls down to feed the plants. By : Leitoria Elaine Talataina

                   Maths Learning Story In Maths with Miss Ardelle we have been working on measuring angles accurately with a protractor. The problem was about the The Dab. The sports players did their dab and we had to work out the angle of their dab.   The angle of this person’s dab is 130 degrees. First I predicted that it was greater than 90 degrees because I used my bench marks. Then I used the other many benchmarks that goes to 180 degrees and found out that the dab didn’t go that far as 180 and it only went up to 130 degrees. When I used the protractor, I had to match up the cross on the protractor where the two lines intersect and make sure that the line with 0 and 180 is along a base line My next step is to use the Success Criteria to get some ideas because  you might need some help or you're stuck. By : Leitoria Elaine Talataina

                Art Learning Story Purpose: To create bold images that represent our ancestors and what they are remembered for? My ancestor is my grandpa because he loves his family and he loves his wife, kids and brothers and sisters. I was working on using big bold pictures, so you can see each image clearly. I used big bold images that represent my ancestor and that is a flag because my grandpa is Samoan and the cross represents my grandpa’s loves to go to church. I also used an image of a fale so show where he lives. I am good at using bright colors so that my ancestor art looks even brighter. I used contrasting colours, orange and green so my ancestor stands out. I need to work on adding some more cultural patterns onto my art like a border. By: Leitoria Elaine Talataina