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Wednesday 26 September 2012

NZ Shake Out Day!

Today was New Zealand's National Shake Out Day. At 9:26 there was an earthquake drill. I was at my desk, so I dropped, covered and held to stay safe. One thing we did well at TPS was that we all immediately crawled under our desk and every one had done it great job for their first go. One thing I want to work on next time is we couldn't hear the bell very clearly and didn't know when to come out of our desk. Our meeting place is in the hall. Remember, in the event of an earthquake.... Drop, Cover, Hold.

Thursday 20 September 2012

NGA MIHI

-KO SUSANA TOKU INGOA
KO DAVID TOKU PAPA
KO JOSIE TOKU MAMA

E RIMA NGA TAMARIKI KEI ROTO I TAKU WHANAU

KO TAMAKI PRIMARY TOKU KURA
KO MISS KYLA TOKU KAIAKO
KO MO-NGA-KE-KE TOKU MAUNGA
KO TAMAKI ESTUARY TOKU AWA

NO REIRA TENA KOUTOU, TENA KOUTOU, TENA KOUTOU KATOA.

NZ shake-out day poster


Wednesday 19 September 2012

Word Webs T3W10

Persuasive Writing about Arbor day.


Why we should celebrate Arbor Day?

Arbor Day is a national holiday created to recognize the importance of trees. Arbor day is a good idea to celebrate because some of the trees were felled to build canoe (waka) and our houses (whare). More than 80 percent of the land was covered in trees. We as tamaki primary school think its a good idea to celebrate Arbor day
We celebrate arbor day because it shows our wonderful timber around the world.
Arbor day was created in the United states when they had sold their timber overseas and then that became a business so then we thought that we would have an anue timber day but call it arbor day.
Bad Points
We as Tamaki Primary School think its bad to cut down our trees. We should think better before cutting down our trees and think about what will happen with our trees in the future.Huge numbers were felled and sent to Australia, Britain and California. Between 1990 and 1920 almost a quarter of our native tree (Timber) was sold overseas.In the Native forest in 1000 A.D. there was plenty of trees back in the past and in forest 1840 there was heaps of trees but not much like 1000s Native forest and then in Forest in 2005 our country didn’t have much trees left

Arbour day.
Arbour day first began in the United States in 1872. It was first celebrated in New Zealand in 1890. Today, Arbour Day is a time when people plant trees and all other kinds of things that can be planted and about the importance to our environment.


  • Who came up with Arbour day?
  • Why was Arbour day Invented?
  • How did they come up with Arbour day?

Chunky Challenge T3W10

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Word Webs T3W9

I was learning to identify different kinds of words for little. 

Tuesday 4 September 2012

My Vocabulary words about plants.

This is my vocabulary that I have learnt about during our topic about plants.

Comparing past to present.

We were comparing past gardening to present gardening.