Fleet Of Foot By Paula Morris

“Grandma called him Tamihana, but he was Tame to us – and Tom in the city.”

He changed his name to where he was because he wanted to fit in and have a name that people can spell and say properly.

He used Tom because he knew that others would know how to pronounce it and people wouldn’t say his name wrong.

This quote shows that to fit into the city, Tame had to change his name to a name known by a lot of people that it was very rare that anyone got it wrong. The Name meant the same but was written into a different language that others would understand.

This week we have been practicing reciprocal reading. We work together in groups to understand a text. We all have rolls: discussion leader, predictor, questioner, clarifier, and summeriser. Today I was the summeriser. It was annoying because I had to keep asking the group to share their summary’s. Working in a group was ok but also frustrating because others were not focused on the take that was set. Next time I think we could stay on task.

Two Cultures, One Person, One Heart

I chose these six words because in the text it specifies that she is Palagi, and Samoan, because her mum is Samoan and her dad is Palagi. She is also one person and one body. I also chose these words because she was very kind to others and when she got told no by her mum to take the curtains down of the mirror she didn’t start yelling she just accepted that and moved on.

For Literacy we have been learning different comprehension strategies to help us read. this is my summary for the main point of the article “from Influenza to Independence”

New Zealand And Samoan History

In 1918 Influenza arrived in New Zealand, A ship from New Zealand arrived in Sāmoa with the influenza bug aboard. Colonel Logan (NZ) then refused to quarantine the ship and stop others getting sick. 8,500 Sāmoans died from the deadly disease. Sāmoa then had a peaceful protest for independence. On Black Saturday 1929, while protesting New Zealand police killed 11 protesters. Finally in 1962 Sāmoans gained independence for their country.

For Inquiry we have been researching about a trailblazer. I chose to research about Nadia Comaneci.

I worked with Indi and Ava.

The thing I found finding the information most challenging  to find because there wasn’t much information.

We chose to create a diorama about Nadia.

In literacy, we have been doing novel study. In novel study we have been reading the book Holes. Last week we finished the book and went on to do a create. We decided to do a Movie Trailer to inform others about the characters. This week we get to watch the movie 🙂 The book is written by Louis Sachar. Here Is our Video made on Canva. Please Have a look 🙂

Holes Trailer

In Art we have been creating perspective art. The steps to this are 1. Draw a perfect circle with a dot in the middle 2. Divide the circle into triangles 3. in the triangles draw houses and make them all touch both sides of the triangle 4. Colour in the houses 5. Rub out the lines 6. out line the houses 7. Colour in the sky a light blue. And just like that you have your very own perspective artwork. Have you ever done a perspective artwork?

In the book holes we discovered the the book was originally named Wrong Place Wrong Time Wrong Kid, but changed to Holes because that was the punishment or chore that the boys faced. I created the cover of the book is it was named Wrong Place Wrong Time Wrong Kid.