Kapa Haka festival!

Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival.

I Shivered nervously, as I followed my line onstage. It was the Turanganui Kapa Haka festival and Wainui beach school was about to perform. We were all dressed up with mokus, black lipstick, and our dresses. The front row had piupius and feathers, but Matitia (The kaea) had a patterned cloak draped over her. Once we were all on stage the audience broke into a loud applause. When it had died down Hunter began to sing our school waita. As he sang we began to form a triangle, then we all joined in. We sounded great as our voices echoed around the stage. Everyone broke into another loud applause once we had finished.

A few songs later, it was time for the poi. "Pureanui toru wha!" As we sang, we went down onto our knees swinging the poi. Halfway though the song we came back up, continuing with our poi actions. The next song was Utaina. After we sang the first part it was time for the boys to come through with their Haka. It sounded beautiful as the girls voices came though the haka. Once the song ended it was time for the big Haka. The sound of cheering filled the room as they ended the haka. Finally it was time for Wainui e and He Honore. It was the last lines of He Honore when my row walked of stage proudly.

I found Steph and my mum after the performance and they took many photos. They were so proud of us. After saying goodbye we got into our class lines, and prepared to get onto the bus . I felt so relieved it was all over. I can't wait to come and Watch it next year! My highlight was probably the poi or Ka Pioioi because I smiled the most in them. 

Marae Trip!

Marae Trip

Kapa Haka

Last week our school went to Te Poho o Rawiri for our stay at the marae. I came late because I had just came back from my holiday so I wasn't there for the activities on Thursday. When I arrived my friends ran up to me and showed me where to put my bags. Soon after we went down to the courts to play handball. After a couple of games of handball the bell rang for dinner. I sat down at a table with my friends and we ate nachos for dinner. 

Ukulele

After we had ate we set up our beds and then we performed our Kapa haka for the adults that had come to watch. We then got ready for bed. Sophie and I hopped into bed and talked for so long. We finally tried to get some sleep but somebody was snoring like CRAZY so we didn't have the best sleep.

Inside of the Marae

The next morning we got up, packed up, and changed into our clothes. The teachers made us run for a bit, but luckily they let us play games afterwards. We had breakfast then welcomed the Wai in with a powhiri. Overall I enjoyed the Marae trip because It was a fun two days for everyone.

Learning new sentences!

For the past two weeks in my level three writing group we have been learning to write new types of sentences. They include a main clause, a dependent clause and a subordinate clause. In one workshop we wrote five sentences including those things. We wrote them about our characters from Escape from Kraznir. This week we had three options to choose from. All of the options were creatures also from Escape from Kraznir. On this blog post I am going to be sharing my sentences about the creature I chose.

Auckland Islands!

In my EL4 math group we have been doing an activity about the Auckland islands. If you don't know where that is, the Auckland Islands are 290 miles of the South island of New Zealand. There were 10 activities we had to complete. Some were hard and some were easy. (Most of them were hard). The task was for year 8s, year 9s, year 10s and year 11s. I did this task with my friend Sophie who is also in my maths group. Together we completed it and got the questions right.

On each task, there was also a Challenge. Some tasks/challenges involved drawing, creating, reading, researching,writing and much more. Luckily on every slide there was a clue. One clue was a math clue and the other clue was a road clue. The maths clues had an equation but the road clue had some research. On most of the tasks we used math clues. I learnt lot's about the Auckland island and its animals. I also learnt that exponents are the small number that goes above the big number. Overall I really enjoyed this task and I would recommend it for you if you wanted a challenge.

If you would like to have a look at my project have a look at the slides below

Cross Country!

Today on the 20th of August Our whole school participated in the actual Cross country. I'm a year six, so that meant I had to do two big laps of the course. It was very tiring but i'm glad that I did it. We ran on the sand dunes so there was lots of hills. The year six girls went first. I'm glad we went first because it was a good temperature, but towards the end of all the races it started to get chilly and windy.

The top six people in each year group go to interschools. I came 8th so that means I was two places away from going to interschools. I'm really proud of myself for placing in the top ten. We also had to wear our house colours. I'm in red house so I wore a bright orange t-shirt because I couldn't find a red one. This was also my last Cross country at Wainui Beach School. 

Here is a photo of me running

Escape from Kraznir!

Escape from Kraznir

For the past few weeks, my level 3 writing group has been doing an adventure based piece of writing. It is called Escape From Kraznir. Someone called Miss Ransom created a slide presentation all about the obstacles our characters would run into. The slides have options that we can choose to write our chapter about. So far I am up to writing chapter four. 

This writing has been very interesting and fun because I've learnt lots of different ways to construct  sentences. The sentences that I learnt were made up of a main clause, a subordinate clause and a dependent clause. I also enjoyed this because it's fun to share my writing with people.

Here is my first paragraph of Chapter one

If you would like to read more, click on the link below

Escape From Kraznir

Science Fair!

This term we have Science fair. If you don't know what that is it is a project that you can do by yourself or with a buddy. You have to find a project then complete it by using the scientific method. I did mine with a buddy (Sophie). We used the scientific method and finished ours in time for this term. Hopefully we make regionals.  If you would like to find out more you can have a look at the slides below.