The clive river mouth

This is about my half day at the river mouth with my cosins and my dad.

One sunny autumn  day me my cousin and  my dad went fishing at the clive river mouth. First we caught some bait in the cast net.  We use mullet for bait we cut them up and put them on the hook. we Set the surf caster up and me and my cousin Maiolha walked from the beach to the lagoon on the other side of the sand. The lagoon is where the three river mouths meet up to make the giant ocean blue lagoon. First Maiolha caught a fish then I caught two mallet in the cast net. So  we went to light a fire to cook the mallets on, so I scaled with my knife and gutted the both the fish and raped (wrapped) the fish in tin foil then put them on the small part of the fire. I pushed hot embers on top  of the fish to make it cook faster. I could feel the heat from the smoky fire. In 10 minutes  my other cousins came just in time for the fish. So we ate the fish then went back down to the lagoon to catch more fish. But we didn't catch anything. Next we tried another spot and caught some little herrings. Herrings are little grey fish when they get big they are good for eating. Then it was time to go because it was getting too late and the sun was going down.    

I have been lerning to add more detaile this challenges me lots becaues I think that the peapole reading should already know. I am proud of it because I have put good vocab in the story. Next time I will add more more detaill for the reader becuase the dont know and they wernt there.

Art composition

This is my mural art and its about the school pepeha.  Te Raorao-haumako te whenua is our land. The mountain in the background is Kahurngi and it is important because it is our mountain from the pepeha.

Ko te Puna-wai ko makirikiri ka puta ki te awa o Ngaruroro (Puna wai is our Spring that feeds into the River the Ngaruroro) Karamus Stream. The stream is the stream the local marae was built on. We used to get our food from the river. This is the story my drawing is adout.

I am proud of my design because I made it sher the meaning of our pepeha. Everything in my design is important to our whanau. When I found out that it got picked I was so happy.

I am poem

I am…

Success Criteria

Use a thesaurus to choose the best vocabulary

Choose the best nouns for the poem

Choose the best adjectives to describe some nouns

Leave the reader thinking about your poem by sharing what it inside you

I am eel man

I wonder if they will government will stop commercial fishing ?

I hear  jet skeas(skiers) racing in the river mouth

I see kahawai jumping in the surf

I want to go fishing every day

I am eel man

I don't pretend

I feel water splashing around my legs when  cast my surf caster

I touch my cast net

I worry if I might in the swift channel get washed into the waves

I would cry if all eels diy

I am eel man

I understand how to save the fish in New zealand

I say nothing                                        

I dream of catching the biggest eel in the world

I am eel man

I have been working on writing a poem.Something I am proud of my poem because I have made people think about the fish. I tried to choose the best nouns adjectives and verbs. I hope that people will put some fish back when they go fishing and look after the fish.

Tuna nui

On saterday night me my dad and my frined Connor drove down to the river to catch some eels. When we got to our spot we set we set my Hinake. After we set the hinake we went for a dirve up the river to catch some eels with the fishing line the trick with a fishing line is to drop it to the bottom of the creek and  waite and sit quietly untell you fell a tug.
. I caught 1 small eel We had to cut a hole in the eel  to get the hook out so dad walked  to the river to wash the eel but it swam away when dad washed it.  Then we drove back down the road to pull the hinake in we caught 10 good sized eels but we let 8 go because they were long fins. We reset the hinake in the same spot then went back home for the night. In the morning we went back to the river to pull the hinake in. When dad hoped in the river he had a quick look in the hinake well it was still in the river and he said it dose not look like there is anything in there. But when dad pulled the hinake up and we saw the biggest eel we had ever caught. So we took it home and weighed it then got it readdy for the smoker. It was 1meater long and 3 kgs. When we somked it also was the best eel I had ever tasted. If you havent tried smoked eel it tastes like nothing else.

Camp Weka and Omatua

My highlight was tubing and setting the hinake at camp weka because its fun to get wet and catch some eels.  At weka we got there and set the hinake then walked back to the camp and marshmellows on the fire .  I put a chocolate chip ice cream and a marshmellow in my orange muffin.
Then we stayed up all night and I only slept for half an hour.

First thing in the morning we got up and pulled in the Hinake we didn't catch anything but after that we got to go tubbing down the river. On the tubes I went down the rapids and at the bottem of the rapids a big trout swam up under me and bumped my tube the was my best highlight.

Something that was challenging at camp was getting to sleep. It was tricky because because it was to light and loud from people who were talking at Weka in the next door dorm.

For a while in the fear factor I was the master eating ginger  brussle sprouts and jalapenos and I winning and I was proud but then the olive... defeated me.

It was fun playing guitar to everyone in the hall. It made me feel a bit special to play for everyone.
Mrs H thorght I was talented

My Art

This is my art about me I cut some letters and drew on them  stuck the letters onto a base

I am proud of my art because it looks good to me and it tells a story about me.

N has guitars on it because I like to play reggae and Jimi Hendrix guitar the G is for fish because I like fishing and diving and I like eating fish A is music because I like listing to music and S is for things I like to do Carving, Diving, Fishing and Eeling and driving boats. The hardest thing was cutting out the letters. 

Presentation

This is my google slide about eels.
I have been learning to make a google slide
I am proud of making my slide look good.
Something that challenged me was stataying on task.