Welome to Totara Whānau we are a year 5 and 6 class at Oruaiti school in the Far North. Our teacher is Whaea Jorja..
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Monday, November 15, 2021
spelling bee
guinea pig spelling bee our contestins are maddie and whisper. they had to write the word on the paper after a few words whisper won
Friday, October 29, 2021
we won
Friday, October 1, 2021
Thursday, September 30, 2021
totara te wiki o te reo maori
For te wiki o te reo maori we played games in maori we play a game called ika ika and tapiri. ika ika is the same as fishy fishy
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Friday, August 13, 2021
how to make a hot chocolate
the ingredients Method
1.hot water get cup then put milk and 1 tea spoon of
2.milk Milo/chocolate powder
3.Milo/chocolate powder then put hot water and steer add 2
Equipment mash mallow
1.cup
2.spoon
3.jug
Friday, August 6, 2021
Friday, July 2, 2021
my octopus teacher
Craig said that it looked like an alien, it was very stormy. Craig has a son called Tom who works hard. Craig thought he was not a good dad. He could hold his breath for a long time. It is hard to go in the water when the water is 8-9 degrees. He doesn't wear a wetsuit. After 1 year of going in the water you get used to it. The seaweed is like a 3D forest, there were heaps of jellyfish. He felt like he was not on this planet. There was a cool shark called a Pyjama shark, there was a cuttlefish. Kelp forest there were lots of hiding holes for the octopus to live in. The octopus has trust in Craig and stuck on to his hand and started to follow him. Then the lens on his camara fell off and the octopus swam away. He spent 1 week looking for the octopus THEN THERE IT IS…. THE OCTOPUS! The octopus goes over to him and starts following him. the octopus clings onto his hand then he had to have a breath, he had to leave and say goodbye to the octopus. But the octopus didn't get off and came to the top then he left.
Her arm got bitten off, she got trapped in a rock and the pj shark ripped the arm off. She was milk white. 100 days later the arm had grown back. Craig was sad because it was his fault that the octopus got its arm bitten off. Day 320 and he saw another Octopus and they were mating when the octopus had its babies. The octopus was weak and fish were nibbling it. Craig went back to the octopus and it had died. Cooper cried
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
the production
our production is of tiddler the fish i was a blue fish and i was terrified but when i sore everyone i got a burst of confidence. here is a video and a photo
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Thursday, June 24, 2021
READING
Monday, June 21, 2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021
lucas - My inspirational person
Lucas has taught me to fix my motorbike. I look up to him because he is the best. He is nice and funny. A couple weeks ago he taught me how to ride a sx85, which is a dirt bike. He helped me fix a Carburetor .
He is 12 years old, has 1 brother and his favorite color is blue. He loves motorbikes, fishing, hunting and is really funny. When I got one of my own motorbikes he taught me how I tune the carburetor and fix the engine.
He taught me to wash my bike so it stays clean. When he told me all this stuff I thought he was Albert Einstein for a second. but as I grew up I knew he wasn't Albert Einstein.
He also taught me a lot more but I look up to him for lots more reasons. He also taught me how to catch eels and how to ride with a clutch otherwise plut plut plut boom and the bike stops. He is always there for me when I need it. and he has always got a funny story to tell he loves.
He loves Pig hunting and last year me and him and his little brother Mashil Rode up his race to one of his paddocks and caught a pig by ourselves and rode back.
Him and I went to a fishing comp this year. He caught a 5kg king fish he said was the biggest fish he had ever caught. I was so proud of him that he got 6th. Thank you for listening
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Monday, May 31, 2021
Friday, May 28, 2021
author visit
today liz van der laarse the other of cuz she answered our questions she told us that she was 50 when she finished she also seed she was writing anther book the book is about two step brothers the older brother is jealous of his little brother and she said for us to read 'not even' her second book












