Welome to Totara Whānau we are a year 5 and 6 class at Oruaiti school in the Far North. Our teacher is Whaea Jorja.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Friday, February 25, 2022
free writing friday
A small boy named Tom stood mouth open as a ginormous elephant called Ellie started coming out of a painting, making a rush of cold clean water fall out of a river in Burma. How could this be happening? As the water started to make a lake on the old oak floor Tom thought how mad his father would be. his hall of elephants was ruined! His father absolutely loved elephants but he probably would not want one in the house.
“Go go go go back into your painting” I said hoping my father didn't hear me. Ellie looked at me strangely. “Go go” the elephant started to come towards me “wwhat arre you dooing” I trembled the elephant picked me up with its long grey trunk, my mind filled with panic as the elephant walked through the painting back into Burma.
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
AMIRIA
Amiria’s hair is as brown as an old oak tree swaying in the wind.
Amiria has a colorful anklet as bright as a light shining in your eyes, with patens you could never draw.
Amiria’s eyes are as greeny brown as the sea just after a storm,with flecks of gold in them.
Friday, December 10, 2021
beach day at coopers beach
check out my book I made with Indigo
https://read.bookcreator.com/1edWkIodVVNkmtlLoC42Dh8HEVj2/_n45kSH1T8qzmYVimFeI9g
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
referee's whistle
Ok we all know what a referees whistle is right. but we don't know much about it we all think it was just here since the time of the dinosawers. if you thoght the referees whistle was here since the time of the dinosawers you were wrong , the whistle was invented by a man called JOSEPH HUDSON Joseph Hudson was born in 1848 and died in 1930
some facts about the referees whistle
- a referees whistle costs about $5.
- the whistle is usually blown to signal a goal.
I hope you have learnt something about the referees whistle. thank you for reading my blog post.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
lost in time
Wosh , on my left I felt indigo's hand in Mine And Leahs is in my right
hand. crack. I was Lying on some hard dry ground. I wanted to get
up but I could not because my body aked all over, “ leah…. Indigo?”
I groaned “ we are ok” they both said I opened my eyes just a little bit and I saw leah and indigo lying beside me. I sat up and looked around. We were in a clearing of a grassland. I thought ,then said to my friends “we are looking for tumpus and he is looking for the amulet” “so we just need to find the amulet before he finds it?” Leah asked, getting up“ Yes,” I answered. “ he's properly already left because he knows the
amulet is not in this time” said indigo getting up “we need to find the cave painting to get out of here” I said.
We walked for a couple of long tiring hours until indigo collapsed onto the ground in tiredness “indigo please, we need to keep going” I begged . Suddenly indigo disappeared (she disappeared because she did not want to be in this story ) “guess it's just us now” leah said sadly. “ yeah” I said in replied
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” “who was that”I asked shivering . “why can't I get out of here” indigo grumbled as she came into view. “ you nearly gave me a heart attack and just asking how on earth did you find a bit of a way out of here” leah screamed at indigo “ well you see” indigo started but she was interrupted by 3 people well I thought they were people they were all dressed in shaggy animal skins and there heir was as long as mine! Except it was in knots it would take 100 years to Untangle. Pointed an sharp and ugle sphere at us as if we were a You type of animal that they wanted to hunt “let's go” I said “ good idea” we scampered of One of them shoted something that sounded like gooobillledoma and they started running like mad after us ,ponting there spears; they were definitely going for the kill.
“I bet you 2$ the cave painting is in that cave” I shouted pointing at a cave. “ ok I’ll give you the money once we are back in the real world” Leah shouted at me “ok” I shouted back ,we scrambled into the dark and rocky cave……..
Suddenly we stepped into a bright light “ wow,I didn't expect this in a cave” Indigo whispered loudly “ovcores you didn't expect this in a cave” siad a voice that sounded like Voldemort from Harry potter “are you voldemort” I asked stupidly I knew it wasn't voldemort; because I knew Voldemort was dead. Harry potter killed him. “No I am….. TEMPUS hahahaaa” he finished with a cold laugh. “We need to run for it” leah shouted “Ok” we said and we dived head first into a cave painting.
Friday, October 29, 2021
te wiki o te reo maori
this is a list of things we did
rahina-tapiri
ratu-Ika Ika
raapa-whui
rapare-ngoi ngoi-(waiata)
ramere-he aha taku nama ?
Thursday, October 28, 2021
pet day art
I loved making the art here is the the art that I made.
my scene in a tray I made one called the wild garden.
for my veggie animal I made 3 mice there names were Harry Ron Hermioneand my dog it was very fun a am very happy that I got highly recommended!







