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, 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
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
Monday, May 31, 2021
Monday, May 17, 2021
my speech
uhhhhhh friday why do i have to go to school?
Fridays at school should be optional because well it's just boring now don't you Agree?
I know that our family is always busy doing motor x, fishing, horse riding, camping, and road trips.
For example if you have plans to do an activity with your family just take the day off FRIDAY easy ha. i would like that because we are always busy and then we can fit in everything and not try to rush
Furthermore with the extra day off we would work way better at school with only 4 days
Which is pretty good for me. With an extra day off you have more time to think about work and what you want to achieve. I want to be a mechanic or something where i work with my hands so the more experience i get will help me achieve this goal.
For instance it's good to take a break. and sleep in because if you are like me you really like to sleep in and miss the bus so on fridays it would be fine.
And with Friday off you can help at home with work. For example on my farm i help out with shifting the cattle. You can start to learn the stuff you need in life like building or repairs. At home i help dad repair the tractors and work on my motorbike, this is teaching me mechanics and maintenance.
Also with the day off you could get more exercise mountain biking, kayaking and horse riding because you will have more time to do it and maybe a little snack.
I think that after this speech the teachers are going to wan’t the day off which i think is fair don't you? thank you for listening to my speech
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Friday, March 19, 2021
the raccoons 1st car
the raccoons 1st car
The raccoon, we'll call him Raccy he trend 16 so he went for a walk in the morning. On his way back he found a car he was so happy he started to run home to tall his prints. He got home and they surprised him, surprise!
said the prints, then he surprised them and told them about the car.
So they ran to the car and jumped in for a ride. Till they realised that the car did'int work so Raccy said "lets get to work". So they got to work and fixed the car and went for a drive but they crashed and went home for diner. the end
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
the best day so far 2021
INGREDIENTS
3 cups Edmonds standard flour
6 tsp Edmonds baking powder
¼ tsp salt
extra Meadow Fresh milk
75g butter
1 to 1½ cups Meadow Fresh milk
I wish there was capitulate letters. I like the dskripted writing. I like the fluffy cream.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
lantern festival
wellingtons lantern festival 26th of February. at the lantern festival there will be dragon dancing and a lot of music there will be heaps of lanterns it's only 3 days till the lantern festival and we might be going to it
Friday, February 19, 2021
Thursday, December 10, 2020
the best day ever so far
today we had a fun day and it was fun. we had a water gun fight and we had a water slid and water hooky. then we went up to the top field and done games and went on the bouncy castles.
it was so fun and tiring. and for lunch we had american hot dogs and ice cream and then we just had free time.
and then we went for a snow boll fight and it was so fun but i got a hole road cone fill of ice tipped on my head by Taz and Riley it was so cold so after we done that we went home
Monday, November 9, 2020
athletics day
Athletics day
Last week it was athletics day and it was fun. I placed in everything apart from shot put. I got 2nd in 100m run, 2nd in 200m run, 2nd in long jump, 2nd= in hi jump and 3rd in disguise. By the end of the day i was exhausted
But it was fun maybe not for everybody was having fun and now i am practising hard for next year. and i am going to win.
daetyn came 1st in 100m run and the 200m run and he came 1st in hi jump. connor came 1st in disguise and 3rd in shook put. my big est compediter was daetyn. `
Friday, October 30, 2020
class trip
Waitangi
On wednesday 28th october 2020 for a class trip. on the way up I went with my teacher. and on the way back we played the silent game it was pretty fun. When we got there whaea Imogen expand where and what we were doing When we were in the Museum we sore heps of Drawn pictures from the Maori people The reason mis Arranged for us to go to waitangi was Because of owr as I saw it kit Called Tuia 250 It's about well a lot of stuff mostly about Maori ships and 3 beads.
Friday, October 9, 2020
covid z
today we are going to preview our schools film that they created for the film festival
what i think the movie is going to be like.
i think the movie is going to be about a zombie Apocalypse my friend is in the movie along with 2 Others there names are daetyn, leila and balla and they get in Detention and bella gets turned in to a zombie and they found out that hand sanitiser is key to turn the zombies back to humans.
Friday, August 21, 2020
the sick penguin
one day there was a gorp of penguins they were waddling along the beach. and till one of the penguins started config, sensing and sniffing. he did not tack any notes of it he kept on waddling. then blaaaaaa he puked all the penguins woddled as fast as they could away one of the penguins said i think you got covid 19 beater get a covid test.
Thursday, August 20, 2020
corys kaka myth
Kaka myth
The kaka bird is cunning and vain and this storys going to tell you how the Kaka got its colour.
The kaka bird flew through the forest as fast as lightning. Stealing colour Off all the other birds zap boom pow. And the colour was gone. It was easy for the kaka because of its cunningness. The kaka flew around absorbing the color like a sponge from every bird in the forest.
All the birds with colour are lucky to have colour. And that is why the kaka bird has all of its colour.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
I was sitting pleasantly In the nice breeze Until I went Woosh Into the cold freezing air. Getting blown around Every day I only got a few hours of sleep So annoying and I couldn't do anything i sat tro rain and shin burning and sooking then they throw me in a bag then i was getting pulled out of the bag to be honest the bag was pretty good apart from how cramped it was in there.






