One day the seven little sisters were making a kite for Matariki. The oldest made a green paper-mulberry kite, with tuatua shells on it and the second little sister made an orange red kite, with eyes of mussel shells on it. All the sisters did different ones. I liked this story.

When we were making our own kites we were cutting the brown bags into two pieces. Then we were painting the sides. We also did them in patterns and we painted in black, white and red. The other side I decided to paint green. Then we put our name inside our bags and we put them outside to dry.

Today we had to weave the strips together to make the kite. It was very hard because we didn’t want to tear the paper. I kept trying and trying it was NOT easy finally braided three colours of twine plaited to make the tail. Then Mrs Yumul glue gunned a feather and some fern branches onto the bottom. Happy Matariki.

In  Room 6, we read a true story about Torty the lucky tortoise who lived up to 200 years old. She was lucky because she was found by a New Zealand soldier in the war in Salonika in Greece in 1914. Torty was run over by a gun carriage and was rescued by the soldier named Stewart. They became good friends. When Stewart came back to New Zealand he brought Torty with him. One day, Torty was lost and was found by a policeman in a circus. The policeman took her back to her owner.

This is my drawing of Torty.

We have been looking at marine reserves.we chose a sea creature to describe without

using its name.

This is mine:

My sea creature is a testudines and also a reptile.

My sea creature doesn’t have teeth.

My sea creature’s shell is made of over 50 bones.

My sea creature can get to be ginormous