Rata and the Totara Tree

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Rata and the totara tree

• Once there was a man called Rata. Rata lived in a village in the forest. For years Rata and his village where getting hurt by a tiger. One day Rata was walking in the forest and saw a Totara tree. He went and cut down the totara tree and then cut of pieces of the totara tree. He then ran back to his village make weapons. Only ⅓ of the villagers got swords so he decided to go back to find some more trees. The next day rata went out again to find some more wood. When he was out he saw the same totara tree. He then cut the same totara tree down. When he went back to his village only ⅔ got swords. The next day Rata went to find some more trees and he saw the same totara tree! So he decided to cut the tree down a third time.Then god of the forest asked Rata why Rata was cutting down the tree. Rata said that he was cutting down the tree because he needed to make a boat and swords.
• The god of the forest said ok and Rata cut down the totara tree, and got all of the villagers swords. Then made a boat so they could find somewhere else.

Narrative Writing

Once there was a boy called George who lived in the desert with his family. Every day they would go out in the desert to find water and food. One day George woke up and heard his family say that they did not have much food.

Later on that day George went out to find some food for his family. He got a sword and some food just in case he was going to be long. He snuck out making sure no one saw him.

Once he snuck past everyone he ran into the desert making sure no one was following him. After 30 minutes George had eaten a quarter of his food and he could not find any food or water. George got so hot that he fainted and was very hot.

When George woke up he was lying down on a bed in another village with different people. “Who are you? george asked lying in the bed. “I am charlie the man said.

“And who are you? charlie asked. “I am George and what am i doing here? George said. “We found you stranded in the desert so we brought you here to rest.

“I need food desperately George said. Charlie said that he could have a camel but no food. George said ok and took a camel then went to get some food.

George got his sword out and started cutting down the desert plants. After a while the lord of the desert came and asked George why he was cutting down the desert plants. George said that he was cutting down the plants because he needed food for his family.

The god of the desert brought him some food and then said to George “go to your home and give them this food. “It will last 3 months” said the god of the desert. “Thank you” said George as he went back to his family.

When George arrived back at his home he gave the food to his family and said “look after this food because it will last us 3 months”. From that day on George and his family never ran out of food and when they did the god of the desert brought them some food to last them another 3 months. This links to the environment because if you cut down plants you are hurting mother earth.

Sentence type task

Yesterday my class did Sentence typing. My class had to do 3 types of sentences, simple, compound, and complex sentence. A simple sentence is a sentence that has a verb and a subject. A complex sentence is a sentence that has two simple sentences made into one compound sentence. A complex sentence is a sentence that have two different sentences made together.

Birds and plants

Problem solving week 8

Year 5/6 camp

Last week on wednesday year 5 and 6s went on camp.When we got to camp we all went to the hall and praid that it would be a good day. After the prai Mr somerville said that we were not at school anymore we were at camp and that we would have to be very very good.After Mr somerville said that we could go my group went to our group teacher Mrs va’afusuaga and we went and practice our dance.Practicing our dance was fun but the funnest activity i did was the killer zone. The killer zone is a game where you have to get from your base safely across to the enemy's base. First of we had to cross a sea of sharks by getting big pieces of cardboard and place them down in front of you so you can get to the safe area.

When we started we put down all 4 off the pieces in front of us then we jump on them hopping not to fall of. Sadly one person fell of but the rest of us made it, then we got the bombs and started throwing them at each other, someone threw a bomb at my eye and it really hurt. Once all the bombs were thrown we hopped on some things that could get 5 people on and could get us past another sea of sharks, finally we got everyone which meant that we could go over the mountain.When we got over the mountain we got out a ball and put it in the catapult and hit a matt and tried to get 10 points. While we were trying to get 10 points the other team was on the second parts so we really had to catch up. Finally we got 10 points but by the time we had 5 points for the second part they had almost finished and when we did finish they already were waiting for us` some people from each team stood up and said some things about the game.Another thing that was cool was kayaking because i got to crash into other kayaks and be further than i have ever been at our school. Thank you all you helpers to give me the opportunity to be with my friend and meet new friends. I am really looking forward to next year.