The Llama

In class we have been creating Llamas. We were given the task to create our own Llamas but there was only one thing that had to be on our Llama, it was a party hat, flower crown, or a random crown. Our Llamas had lots of layers. We first had to draw our Llamas and our backgrounds with pencil and crayon only. Then we had to dye the background. After that we painted the Llama and then drew over the face and crowns and party hats with pastel.

We also got to write a story about our Llamas.

Here is my writing and some pictures of Llamas:

“We are going to be creating Llamas.”

There it was. Now I just wanted to get out of this humans mind and

onto the paper. I felt myself on something but I just couldn’t see where

I was. My body was back into the mind. I could feel myself again and

my ears were coming. I really wanted to see but then again my eyes were

not existed on paper yet. I could feel somethingcoming, I just couldn’t see

what it was. That is when I realised it was my other ear. I heard someone saying,

“Does this look awesome or should I start again?” 

I realised they were talking about me. I didn’t want to start again. It would be horrible not being able to see or hear again. 

I liked the way I looked and I didn’t want to change.

My eyes started to open. My mouth was closing (but still coming). I felt like an

angry Llama. But I didn’t want to be an angry Llama. I wanted to be a happy one.

It was too late. I was an angry Llama. My whole body was there. I was angry but

happy inside of me. 

The next day the sky was coming and finally life was coming into the picture. But

for some reason there was still no colour in me. I felt sad that I had no colour. That night

I went to sleep sad. The next day I was becoming life like, but the colours

that were on me were Black and White (I felt sad and gloomy with those colours).

I kind of liked it but all of my fur was covering my face so I really couldn’t see properly.

My face was like that for two whole nights. I couldn’t believe it.

After those two nights I was really happy to have my face back again.

But my face looked like I was bored more than angry. I didn’t really think

about what or why they were doing this to me. I have heard them talking about

imagining what your Llama looked like and then draw the face. But I never had big bulky

eyebrows, I never had an upside down mouth, but it seemed like it had to stay

on there now. I saw some other Llamas but they had no idea that I was there with them.

Sometime later books were on my face. I don’t know why but I was being squashed with

four books. While the books were on my face I read what it said and it said “The Bible”.

I was wondering why The Bibles were on our faces.

The day after that I was up in front of all of these humans. They were saying I like yours

the best, yours is cool, show me your Llama, yours is cute. That is all I heard. On the

other side of me was one of the Llamas crying. Her creator said that she couldn’t

remember what her face looked like so she made it cry.

My face was ruined by accident but I was just happy to be alive.

Here is my Llama:

Hope you enjoy!

The 6 Daughters of Matariki

In class we had a task to do for our reading follow ups. It was to make a DLO about the 6 daughters of Matariki. We did some research indepently and we created our DLO's. The 6 daughters names were Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Waipunarangi, Waiti and Waita and Ururangi. They are the 6 daughters of Matariki.

In our DLO's we had to add little symbols that represent the 6 daughters. We also had to write what we are reminded of when we see their star shining.

I created a slideshow and tried to make it simple but also attractive to read.
We had to post this slideshow by Friday and I have finished it.

Here is my DLO:



This is what I created. I haven't used my own pictures but they do have the links to it.
Hope you enjoy it!

What is the Best Animal in the World

In class we were learning how to write Explanation writing. Our Walt was WALT write and structure explanation writing. We had a student teacher and his name was Mr Lee. He taught us the different things about how to write Explanation writing. We wrote a paragraph about What you think the best animal in the world is to you, and I wrote about 2 animals. What I found difficult about Explanation writing was how it had to start. It was difficult because you had to start with the topic but it was quite hard for me to come up with a starting sentence.

In our writing we had to set it out as a strusture. SEER was the structure, it stands for Starting sentence, Explanation, Examples and Relavance. It was the order we had to write in but make the examples be about the explanation.

This is what I wrote:

My favourite animal is the Huskies. I like huskies because they are like wolves

and they are cute. For example they are like wolves because they have a

lot of fur and sometimes they are harsh but mostly they just want to play.

Another example is that huskies can grow very big and also they know how

to keep themselves protected. Also huskies have very good listening and they

are very fast too. Another example is Female huskies can grow up to 50 - 56 cm,

which means their height. Male huskies can grow to 54 - 60 cm, also their

height. Huskies are not related to wolves but some people might think they

are but they are not. Huskies are just dogs.

My other favourite animal is dogs. Dogs can be very helpful with things

and people. For example if there was a blind person trying to cross the road

while the cars were still going, if a dog was trained to lead blind people it would

really help the blind people because the dogs could see where they are going

and the dog would know where to go. Another example is that sometimes dogs

are very gentle with you when they see someone sad. They know what their

owner is feeling so try to make them feel happy or they can also calm them down. To conclude dogs are the best animals to get help from.

Mr Lee was in class for six weeks. Last week was his last week and then he wouldn't be in class. It was fun having him teach us and also it was fun because he was usually teaching and he did work for us that were just right for us.