Another working day

We went out on the oyster farm again today. We left home at 6am today, so not as early as the other day. It was a long day, we got home at 4:30pm.
We made new rails where the old ones were, because they were rotting and falling over. I helped carry the wood to my dad, and me and mum slid the posts over to him through the water, for him to bang into the mud. He had to hammer them in with a post rammer.
When I didn't have a job, I had a swim, the tide was very low, and I made mud pies.

 

 

 

 

 

Everyone keeping fit!

Today I went for a bike ride around the Lake while mum, dad, and Nikau ran around it.
Then me and Nikau took our puppy Gypsy for a walk on the farm. She had a swim in this trough to cool down.

 

Working on the Oyster Farm

Today me, Nikau, mum and dad went to work on the oyster farm. My dad is still working because if he doesn't the oysters will die. Our farm is over in Te Tii, in Kerikeri. We had to leave home at 4:30am to get low tide, but we watched the sunrise. We clipped all our baskets onto the rails, then on the way back to the landing me and Nikau did some manu's off the barge. That was fun!

 
    

 

 

Our home Gym

Today we cleaned out my dad's little shed to make a home gym.
Me and Nikau swept the floor, my dad hosed it out, and my mum and Teina carried the equipment in.
Me and Nikau had to wear a mask because it was so dusty when we were sweeping.
I can do pull ups on that pull up bar.

 

Mahi at Home

Today me and Nikau did some of our school work at home because we are in lock down from the Corona Virus.
Then I did some crosswords my Aunty Ange sent me. They were fun.

 

“UHH”! There's a big tarantula in my room. I scared of those. I’m not getting any closer to that thing! Hopefully it will crawl away soon when I scare it. It's so dark I can't see anything, but luckily I have a flashlight. The lights kept flickering, so I ran out of my house and ran to the closest house, but no one was home. Then I realized that the closest house was the haunted house. I ran back to the front door to get out but it was locked. I felt a chill run down my spine when I saw two eyes staring at me from the closet. The floors upstairs started creaking so I looked away to see what is was but when I looked back the eyes vanished. So I went upstairs and heard a whisper saying “Hello”. I looked in the bedroom and two lights turned on and I started hearing footsteps again but the footsteps we’re getting closer and closer so I fell to the floor and covered my eyes so it wouldn’t see me. When the footsteps went away I ran to the window and opened it, jumped out and ran back home and went straight to bed because I couldn’t stop thinking about what happened.

WALT: We are learning to write creative, scary narrative

The best part was that I had a lot information to put in my animation

what did you dress up as

My Pepeha

    My pepeha

                      Moari:  Ko Kahi ahau   

                     english: My name is Kahi

                      Moari:  Ko Puwheke te maunga 

                      English : my mountain is Puwheke 

                       Moari: Ko waka te Kurahaupo 

                       English: My canoe is Kurahaupo 

                        Moari: Ko awa te Awanui 

                         English: My river is Awanui 

                          Moari: Ko iwi te Te Aupouri

                          English: My iwi is Te Aupouri

                      Moari: Ko Pa a Parore te marae 

    English: My marae is Pa a Papore

  Reflection: I think it was a hard because of the block letters

Question: Whats your pepeha?