Summary of Term Four

If you click on this link it will take you to a blog post about the kapa haka festival. Here is a link to kapa haka blog post

This term we had athletics. I got first in both my running heats and in the finals I got third in the 100 meter sprint and third in the 200 meter sprint. In high jump I also came third and jumped about a 1.30 meters in high jump and fourth in long jump sarah beat me by two centimeters!!! I jump 3.6 meters!!!



Also we did called culture city project. Every week we had to pick between two countries and find out about their drama art music and visual arts. You also had to design a costume on a paper doll template. Also you and someone else had to check of the rubric on the back of the piece of paper. Photos on slide.

This term and last term me and a few other people have been working a waka hoe. On the slides above there will be some pictures of my finished waka hoe paddle!! Here is a link to my blog post about waka hoe.link to blog post

Intermittent visits
Last week I went to the Ilminster intermediate visits. First we meet up in the and the principle spoke. After we went into our centers there are five centres Excel, Discovery, Challenge, Expressive and Techno.
Excel is a bite of everything.
Discovery is more towards science.
Challenge is more towards sports.
Expressive is more towards art drama dance and music.
Techno is obviously more based on technology.
I am going into Excel because I could not chose one and Excel it a bit of everything.


This term our teacher introduced Just dance to my class. Every day around 12:00 we go into the hall and do some Just dance. It is very fun and funny to do. We are normally in groups of two or four and do about three songs. I really enjoy dancing and really like doing Just dance especially with my friends. There is a picture on the last slide on the presentation.

Kapa Haka Festival

As soon as we were back stage my tummy was twisting and turning. I was in the first row of girls, but two rows of boys were at the front for the first bit. As we walked on to stage two row at a time I saw my mum and started to smile at her. My tummy slowly untied and I felt better. First song that we sung was Tu mai ra. Hunter slowly walked forward singing the song and each row joined on to the stepping motion we had created a triangle the the front two rows of boy went down on
to one knee we sung the rest of the song beautifully. Then Hunter said whakapiri we huddled up into a mush and sung Harimai a Paoa.


After that we sung Ka Piopio it was delightful I was very happy and my mum was to. Up next was Purea nei we did poi to this song when I went down on to my knee I had to be very careful because I was wearing piupiu and I did not want to break it . I luckily did not muck up the poi for once. Up next was Utaina. In the first verse we just sung normally but in the second verse the boys did the Haka part and the girls walked back and the boys walked forward when Utaina was finished the boys did the haka I helped them by singing the parts that I as supposed to support them in.


Then we sung Wainui e to walk to meet up with the boys and sung with them. The last but not least song was he Honore and two row at a time went of since I was in the first row I was one of the last people singing.



At the end of the day I felt very proud of my self and how sad I will be to leave wainui beach school. It was fun and nice because I could see my mum and how proud she was of us.

Waka Hoe

In our reading group we are learning about the waka hoe and matariki also tuia 250. My group learnt that there are four main wakas this is what they look like.
One of our assignments that I had to do was draw a picture of how the maori and european acted when they first met. This is what I draw. We also had to draw a picture of hoe and write how important they are.

Mello Maths

Hi in our L3 maths strand. We have been doing stuff on measuring time, but now it is time to move on to our next task. For our next task that we are doing geometry, shaps. We had to find out what the shape was and tell Koka Terri what we thought the vertices/marshmallows and edges/sticks. Once we had told Koka Terri the right answer she would give us our materials then we had to make the shape it was very fun.

Where is Koka Ngaire?

Where is Koka Ngaire? Koka Ngaire has gone on an trip around New Zealand and if we don't locate her locations she has announced that she will not get back on the flight home! So she set us a mission to find her locations. Koka Ngaire has given use a whole slide of clues we got to make one google hangout to ask her 5 questions to help use find her she gave us some extra little clues as well.
We have located her first location. Some buzz groups have pertancally found her next location as well.

snowmanotron

In our writing group we have been learning about explanation writing. We were doing our explanation writing on the snowmanotron (from wallace and gromit). Started our introduction and that is all that we have done at the moment this is my  introduction.

How the snowmanotron works

To use the snowmanotron is simply, quick and easy. This machine will make life so much easier. You want a quick and easy snowman just use the snowmanotron. For example you don't want to have freezing cold hands after spending hour on making a snowman.If you are lazy and want to go outside and play just go hope in your useful snowmanotron.  

And this is how it works...

Museum of Retro Tech

A few days ago our class went on a museum trip to learn about retro tech. At the museum we used quills to write our name in we got to have our photo taken on a pole rode and watched it print out of the top.We got to play around and touch a lot of olden day technology  here is a photo of what we got to touch down below.

After we were done at the museum we walked in groups to the e-villeng. When we were at the  e-village we talked alot about the electric bike. The lady who took us told us a lot about the bike and the e motorbike.

After that we got to play with some robots and we could go on the electric scooter. I played on this thing were you had to try and not touch the metal other ways it would beep. It was hard to do.  but in the end I had done it.