Flax picking

When we had finished PE on Friday morning Ms Tito said she would  take Room 19  down to Amaru creek to pick flax and weave a flower.


 As we started to walk to the creek I could already see some flax bush ready to pick. When the tarpoulins was placed Ms Tito went over a couple of things with us like, always respect flax never pick flax at night,never pick flax in the rain and don't hit each other with flax


The next thing we learned was how to cut this precious Taonga    properly. When Ms Tito showed us a demonstration of how to cut it she said when your cutting a piece of flax always pick the one the most far away from  the one in the middle and you should 
cut on a slope half way from the bottom. 





When we had got our piece of  flax we took the red strips on the side of the flax off and then split the middle in half so there were two bits. 








   




When we walking I could see the flax bushes waving to me. Back to school we went to the street and Ms Tito tout us how to weave a flower ,but it was so hard. 

Tuakana Teina Reading

Every Tuesday afternoon Room 19 has time to read to the little kids of Room 9.

When I was reading to my partner, he was always distracted by something and he didn't listen to me reading to him. I tried making him read to me but he said he couldn't read.

The next time I read to him he still wouldn't pay attention so I told my teacher and she said next time let him choose the books. 

So the next time I read to him he chose the books and he payed attention to me for the first time. 

In the future I hope he could be a better listener.

Anthony Protection definition

protection

The P is for partnership, the R is for reassurance, the O is for overcoming, the T is for Trust, the E is for enthusiasm, the C is for camouflage, the T is for tolerance, the I is for invulnerability, the O is for overcoming and the N is for Not giving up.

Anthony's movie