The Legend of Rahi 4 - 6

Alfonsus - Paragraph 4-6 Namu, the mother bird, flew in as Rahi was feeding her babies, seeing him feed them told her that Rahi was a good guy, so she gently grabbed Rahi and flew him back to Papatūanuku. Namu then decided she would continue to fly above Rahi to keep an eye on him. Back on Papatūanuku, the forest and grass had all been burnt away by the two suns, leaving a giant desert. Rahi continued his journey for Tī Ara through this desert with the suns heat causing Rahi to become tired and dehydrated. Rahi was very close to giving up when he seen a giant rock in the distance. Rahi crawled himself to this rock and rested in it’s shade, soon he started to feel his energy return, he had found a special rock with a mauri (lifeforce) that was able to replenish people’s energy. As Rahi continued to rest, Namu flew down from above and landed on the giant rock. She cried giant tears and these fell on Rahi’s face and he was able to drink these which also helped to re-hydrate him. Soon Rahi, was feeling much better. From their home, at the volcano, the Patupaiarehe noticed Rahi resting and decided to chant a final spell to stop him from reaching them. This time they created a giant lizard and demanded it to attack Rahi. The lizard came to where Rahi rested and tried to attack him, however, that same mauri that was helping to replenish Rahi’s energy was also acting like a forcefield and the lizard could not get to Rahi. So the lizard, stuck outside the mauri decided to dig a trench all the way around the mauri to trap Rahi. As the lizard dug the trench it pulled large boulders up and threw them at Rahi to hurt him that way however, Rahi had his energy back now and managed to evade most of the rocks. A few times Rahi was a bit slow in getting out of the way, so Namu came to the rescue by using her wings to block the rocks, this damaged Namu’s wings and soon she could not fly. Once the lizard had thrown the last boulder it uncovered a spring (where water comes from the ground) this spring began to fill the trench up and so now Rahi was trapped on an island encircled by water. Rahi could easily have swum across however, the lizard was smart and turned into a Taniwha named Utumai. Utumai patrolled the waters around the island, remaining hidden so that Rahi wouldn’t dare swim across. Rahi was trapped, soon the two suns went down, and this created a very cold night in which the the stars of Matariki shone very brightly. Namu wrapped her wings around Rahi to keep him warm and soon some familiar faces appeared. Rahi’s father and some of his whānau had decided to search after Rahi, using the stars they had navigated their way towards the volcano. Rahi’s father, a tohunga, seen Rahi trapped and so chanted a spell which froze part of the water, creating an ice bridge that connected Rahi’s island to the outer world. Rahi grabbed Namu, carried her out across the ice bridge and left her with his father so he could tend to her. 

Alfonsus Prayer to the Holy Spirit - Part 2

 

St Patrick Day

 

Today for Saint Pius X we had a very special mass. This mass is special because we celebrated three important occasions for our school. They are, St Patrick's Day, Soul Friends and Ash Wednesday. As we journey in the fourth week of lent, today we honour St. Patrick who is the patron saint of the Irish people and The Holy Faith Sisters who started our school, more than sixty years ago, who were from Ireland. They brought with them the beautiful idea of Soul Friends. In the early Irish Church people chose someone wise to be their soul friend. This friend is a person they can talk to and share their experiences in life. They seek his or her advice and share their joy and worries. They often prayed together. They looked out for each other. They make a commitment to do this yet live their own lives separately. We model this relationship in our school. It was introduced to us by the Holy Faith Sisters who started St. Pius X School more than 60 years ago. It is a beautiful relationship, where the older students look out for the younger ones and vice versa. We had our Ash Wednesday ashes today because we were supposed to do it on the first wednesday but it was locked down. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.

International womens day.

on the 8th of march was international womens day. in our class we did an activity to challenge the stereotypes and bias of both and females roles within our society. we first had to get into same gender groups. we then wrote down the psitives and chalenge of the oppisite gender. the boys wrote babout the positve and challenges for female and girls wroteabout the positive s and challengs of being a male after we came up with some ideas in our groups with the possitive gender. something we noticed that the two list were very different. women had more challenges. for example women had lots of challenges around the expectations of raising and looking after the family. On the other hand, males had more positives. For example men can play and get paid professionally for sport, we also said that a challenge for a male is that they have to provide for the family and have to always be brave. something we learnt from this is that is that males and females are't considerd equal in lots of aspects of life. hereis our activity we did.

My proper nouns

 

My proper nouns- Activity 2

 

My maths starters and my maths slides