Wacky Whakapapa Homework

On Monday the 17th of March we were assigned our homework for the week. That week we had to find out some information about our whakapapa (family). We had to type up our family tree and write down some interview questions and interview two people one of our parents and one of our grandparents  or someone around the same age. Here is what I found out:

My Interview Questions:	Roy’s Answers (Grandad - Mum’s Dad)	Irene’s Answers (Mum)
What was school like in your day?	He found school very hard. He went to a catholic school where the teachers were nuns and he got hit daily by a bamboo stick.	It looked exactly like HNI. Teachers were allowed to hit naughty kids.Dental Nurse-Murder House. We played Netball and Aussie tag.  We didn’t have assemblies and didn’t get certificates when we did something well. We did school patrol. We also had to learn folk dancing.
What uniform did you have?	Black uniform Black boots Black shirt Black shorts	Primary School and Intermediate  were mufti and at collage , White shirt, grey skirt, black blazer, tie and a black hat.
Did you have any pets? What type of animal were they? What were their names?	Cats Dogs Ducks He can’t remember their names	3 cats- Nookie, Becky, Sarah 3 dogs-Amber, Timmy, Muldoon 1 blue budgie-Bluesmoke 1 mouse-Houdini
What sports did you play	Rugby,  Softball, Cricket and Boxing when he was older	Netball
What was your best and worst subjects?	Best Subject-History Worst Subject-Mathematics	Best Subject-Writing and Spelling Worst Subject-Mathematics

Alive Athletics Day

Athletics Day

On the 18th of March HNI had their 2014 Athletics day. It was alive with chanting and cheering towards their fellow house mates as we went around the sheppard girls were chanting all the way as we solonmly charged through the activitys in this order.
Vortex-Shotput-Discus-Rest-100m Sprint-Long Jump-High Jump then lucky last 200m Sprint.
This is a poem about the noises we heard on the day.

• Houses cheering
• Starter gun cracking
• Shotputs landing 
• Racers speeding
• Loudspeaker roaring
• Vortex whirling
• Children squirming for shade

Here are some photos of athletics day.

Upside Down Art

WALT: analyse a portrait...
Subject
Colour
Artist
Materials+Techniques
Pose
Symbolism
On Thursday the 13th of March we had to draw a portrait of a cartoon. It sounds pretty easy right well heres the twist we had to draw it upside-down and we were not allowed to turn it around till the end. We had to use shading and only pencil. This is what mine ended up looking like!

Apostrophes

This week during word study we have been learning all about apostrophes and how to use them correctly this is some of my work. If there is more than one owner you put the apostrophe after the s but if there is only one owner you put the apostrophe before the s.

Examples:

The skink’s tail was trapped. The skink (singular) owns the tail, apostrophe goes before the s.

The fishes’ tails flashed silver. The fishes (plural) own the tails, apostrophe after the s.

A - WHO OWNS THIS?

Write a list of things each of your friends own. The first one is done for you.

a) Sara’s school bag.

b)Catrin’s chromebook.

c)Anna’s pencil case.

d)Sophie B’s maths book.

e)Niamh’s roman sandals.

f)Sophie J’s cat.

g)Mia’s headband.

h)Laura J’s Book

i)Laura G’s cap

j)Maddy J’s watch