Thursday, November 17, 2011

Ruma Whitu Karakia

Etu mo te karakia

Kia ino tatau

E Ihowa manakitia matau

Arahina matau kia matau mahi

Mo tenei ra

I runga i to ingua tapu

Amine

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Narrative Writing - Favourite Sentences So Far

On a raining Sunday, George's mother was about to go shopping...
Thomas

She is really bossy and is really mean and sits in an armchair all day...
Ayden

"George, go get me my medicine you selfish brute!"
Jade

(lightbulb) I've got a good idea, it's going to have the most historic things in it...
Andrew

It's too cold, warm it up! No buts - just do it...
Alex

I don't think it is ordinary for an ugly thing like her to have powers
Jayden

Where's my saucer (I NEED A SAUCER)!?!?!?!
Caitlin

It didn't make her less grumpy, grouchy or grumbly...
Grace

Wrong! Grandma gleefully shouted jumping up and down...
Breanna

I got it! I'll make a new medicine for her and it will be so disgusting and she will eat nicely and be polite...
Rebekah

She felt very floaty like a fat balloon...
Zarina (using a simile, which is... when you describe something with something else. What does it do? It compares two things. Why is it helpful to your audience to read a simile? It makes things stand out, it makes things so others can understand the idea, it makes it more interesting because you learn more, it creates pictures in the audience's head...)