Kapa Haka

Today the kapa haka roopu went to the Kaikohe Culture festival. We went there to perform kapa haka and to represent our school. We learnt that we need to smile because it doesn't look very nice if you don’t smile, but also that you need to pukana to make it look effective. I really enjoyed today because we all had fun and tried our best, it was really cool but nerve breaking when we went on that stage. The thing I didn’t like was we could of done a bit better, but we tried our hardest. Today was a lot of fun performing and when we came off the stage we were shivering. My favourite group today was Mangamuka because they used there pukana and smiles at the right time, and they did really good actions like when it came to an action song they were not lazy with their elbows and they had them hight. We all learnt a lot and had a lot of fun and we all hope that we get to do it again. If you want to watch our video it is on our website.

Kapa Haka

This term we have been learning a new bracket for Kapa Haka. We have been practicing for the Kaikohe Cultural Festival, we’ve been practicing very hard every morning tea and lunchtime. We have learnt a new but old song called “Ka mate” which is also a Haka. When we do “Ko Matou” for our exit, the one thing I find difficult is when I have to get the timing right and spin around, then crouch down and then run into position to end our performance off. I really enjoy doing Kapa Haka because it's lots of fun, I get to hang out with my friends and learn new Waiata Haka and more. In Kapa Haka there is nothing that I don’t like. I can’t wait until we go to the Kaikohe Cultural Festival.

Cross Country

This week the kids that came first, second & third at cross country have been practising for the inter school cross country. I am very lucky because i'm one of those people, because I came second at our school cross country. My friend Angela came first and my other friend Katlin came third. We have been seeing how many laps we can do in 20 minutes. I could do only 5 laps and so could my friend Angela. We always have fun when we run and we always try do our best and beat each other and come up with new running competitions as we run. The bit I enjoy is having fun with my friend when I run and also getting faster and faster as I run.

maths

Maths: In maths I have been learning about doubling, halving & Multiplication problems, we had two numbers and we had to half the big number and the double the little number. (Example) if we had 5x14 we would have to half the number that chose is the best number to plus and half. I picked the 14 because I think it was the best number her is my example. Which is the 14 so I 7 then we plus the 5 witch is then 10 and then after that we times the 7 and the 10 together which is 70 so then we have our answer. We learnt that you really do need to learn your times tables because when it comes to something like this like this they really come in handy.

Treaty grounds

On Monday the 18th, The year 6’s got to have another awesome day with Whaea Monika & Whaea Kerry. We were learning a lot about our identity like where we come from and how we got New Zealand. When we were in the Whare, we showed that by making a sculpture and putting it in a Waka and then we made the Waka look like it’s going to an Island. Something like how our ancestors got here, I enjoyed making a forest with virtual trees and I put a couple of birds in there, but then I also think that I could've added more things on my sculpture to make it more interesting.

rippa rugby

On Tuesday there were a lucky group of kids that got the opportunity to go to the Kaikohe rippa rugby tournament. I was very lucky because I was one of the kids that got chosen to go. When we were there we had a blast, we won our first game and the score was 11/3. I really enjoyed it when I found out that we came first, we won and now we get another opportunity to go back again next month and play again. The thing I didn't enjoy was that the first team that we were meant to verse was late and they were the closest school. The thing I think we need to work on is spreading out. What I think that we did well is that we worked together and we had an amazing time there. Blog YA Later