Welome to Totara Whānau we are a year 5 and 6 class at Oruaiti school in the Far North. Our teacher is Whaea Jorja.
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Friday, October 29, 2021
Frank stella art
We have been learning about abstract art. It’s all about creating works of art that don’t actually look like anything. We focused on the American artist Frank Stella, who liked to make pictures using shapes like circles, triangles and rectangles.
Here is my work:
Monday, October 18, 2021
Greats and Grands Day
Because we are not able to have Greats and Grands Day this year (thanks to Covid 19), we decided to do some activities and make things such as certificates and letters for our grandparents. I decided to make my grandparents an award for being the Best Grandparents Ever. I created it using Lego. Here are two pics.
Friday, September 17, 2021
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Weather writing
Today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather. We got to choose what we wanted. I chose to write about thunder and here's my work.
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Dear Mrs C.
In Week 8, Term 2 our school librarian, Mrs C, retired. On her last day, we put on a Book Character Parade. We dressed up in costumes like book characters and then we went on a parade through the Daycare Centre next to the school, past the shops in the village, along Hobson St and back upTennyson St to the school.
I chose to dress up as... DOG MAN it was epic !
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Do stars twinkle
In Week 8, Miss Fletcher gave us a science lesson about Matariki.
We had to write some notes about it. And here is my work (;
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Diamante poem
We have been learning about how to write diamante poems using the correct language features of nouns, verbs and adjectives. I have written three poems about things that interest me. Here are my poems. I hope you like them.





