Waka

This term we have been learning about matariki and so we have made waka's for matariki this is the waka that Molly and I made. Hope you enjoy :  ) 

Mahmoud and the End

Mahmoud and the End

 Mahmoud was happy, was Ruthie really going to help him find his baby sister?! He really hoped that she would. Mahmoud went to school and made lots of friends that were refugees but most of them weren’t. But most importantly he had a great friendship with another refugee from Syria, his name was Liam. He had brown hair with hazel eyes quite similar to Mahmoud. Liam had a little brother as well and his name was Elijah. Mahmoud and Liam would go home each night and write letters to everyone in the town saying: Have you seen a little girl named Hana? She has Blonde\Brown hair with blue eyes and is now probably about 4 years old. 

The next day at school Mahmoud and Liam were planning their bike ride down to the beach. They thought that they might stop at the ice cream parlour. For Mahmoud and Liam this was their usual meet up spot because they both loved ice cream, Mahmoud loved hokey pokey and Liam loved berry sorbet. It was already the end of the day, so Mahmoud and Liam were getting excited.

They rode their bikes down the red paved road and then 5 minutes later they arrived at the beach. People were everywhere! There sitting on the golden sand beach they saw a family with a little girl making a sandcastle, there was also a little boy writing his name. “WAIT A SECOND, who is that little girl!” Mahmoud said, looking at the girl building the sandcastle. He then went over and sat down next to her. They started playing in the sand and after a good look at the little girl he soon realised who she was! ”HANA! “ he yelled, after that he went up to Hana’s guardians and said “Excuse me, are you refugees and have you been given this little girl when you were escaping?” The man and woman said “Yes! We had been given her when a family was escaping and we have been trying to find them since”.

“YES! That was my family, this is my sister Hana.” said Mahmoud. The man and woman introduced themselves, they were called Ivy & Benjamin. Ivy and Benjamin said “It was amazing to have her, if our James was parted from us, I could not bear it. As much as we would love to keep her, it is better to be with her real family, so here you go you can take her”. Ivy said as she was crying her eyes out. “She was a real pleasure to have under our roof and we hope we took great care of her for you” said them both. 

 “Oh thank you, thank you!” Mahmoud hugged them and they hugged him back. Mahmoud grabbed Hana and put her on the bike with him. Hana was looking at him confused then after a few seconds, she smiled and realized who he was. “You haven’t forgotten me.” Mahmoud said softly. He started riding it very slowly he didn’t want anything to happen to her after what she had been through. Mahmoud and Liam rode back to Mahmoud’s house and he showed everyone who he had found. They hugged him so tight and well, Ruthie she was standing at the top of the stairs smiling and Mahmoud smiled back.

Matariki

This term we have been learning about Matariki as it is happening I hope you enjoy my post : ) 

Rotation/Reflection/Translation

Cuba

This week we have been writing about things related to the text refugee that we are writing I chose Cuba 

This is my slide hope you enjoy.   :  )