Punctuation Activity-Writing

This week we were given a task to find out things about Culture. Once we did out Writing we had to do our Punctuation Activity. And this is what we had to do. One of these paragraphs is unedited and one of them is edited.

What is Culture?

             What is Culture?

Culture’s are what make your country unique. There are different cultural rituals and activities for each country. Culture is seen in peoples  writing, religion, music, clothes, arts, cooking and in what they do.  In their country there are different beliefs and different values.       

 

Culture also includes the way you understand the world and their own lives.      

Different countries have different cultures.

For example, some older Japanese people wear kimonos, arrange flowers in vases and have tea ceremonies.

My Culture’s are New Zealander and RaroTongan. New Zealand is the place that my father is from and my mum is from RaroTonga. I am also a bit of Tahitian and Maori. I live in New Zealand. Sometimes I visit RaroTonga. Did you know that Culture has the same meaning as Nationality. What is your Culture?

My RaroTongan family always go to church. In RaroTonga there is some special things like our art, music and our cooking. My favourite RaroTongan food in rukau and taro. Rukau is made out of taro leaves. In our Country our flag has fifteen stars on it. In my culture we wear Pariues. In Samoan they call it lavalava. We wear in like a dress or you just tie it around your legs. Our traditional Art is a Tivaevae which looks like a blanket but it’s not and it has patterns on it.

My other culture is a New Zealander. My father is from New Zealand. His family is from a places called Ratihi. But now they live in Levin. Levin is by the Kapiti Coast and Wellington. They are a little bit of Maori and the rest of their culture New Zealander. And that is my Cultures

                

My Reading

This week our class reading groups were given a task to complete a poster about a country in Asia. My group were given a task to research things about Shanghai.

This is what we had to do:

Venetia and Dezarae Philippines Presentation

Storyline Tellers 2014

Here is a link to Catherine Mayo's Site

Cath is her short name. She makes Violins. She also make Violins. A person who makes Violins are named as a Luthier. She was also born in the same room as another child, her name was Penelope. Her name is a Saint name. She loves horses,beaches and gardening.  


This is a link to Jill McGregors site

Jill was born and raised in Dunedin, But now lives in the Kapiti Coast which is by Wellington and Levin. She went to Tonga for a while to be a teacher. Her book's are mostly about Pacific children and their countries.Her latest book was the Market Day, Samoa and that book was published in 2013.  Her first book was The Pig Hunt, which was published in 2000.

1974 Commonwealth Games

Did you know that the Commonwealth Games have been hosted by Aotearoa NZ three times?  The years we have hosted are  1950,in a city of Auckland 1974,in a city of Christchurch and then in 1990 , In Auckland again. I have found out about the year 1974 and the details involving in hosting.

I've also found out about a lot of other things. This presentation below will tell you about some of the things that I have found out about.

The Commonwealth Word Search!!!

This is the Word Search I made on ABCya  < Link.