KAPA HAKA RECOUNT!

KAPA HAKA RECOUNT!

It was Tuesday, and everyone was ready to go.  We all had our Kapa Haka uniform on.  Kapa Haka is something in the maori culture. Girls get a  dress, and boys get to wear a skirt type thing.  What you do is you just sing songs in maori.  

This year due to covid, we couldn't have the festival, so were videoing it instead.  We walked to the school hall and got in lines, when we were all ready we warmed up and got started. The first song we sang last year but the next one was new, meaning we had never heard it we before we learned it.  

Now it got a bit tricky, we had to switch places with the boys who were at the back so that they could do their haka.  To move we do a haka that girls and boys can both do.  So that's what we did and it looked great.  You might be thinking the the girls just relax while the boys do the haka, but we have lines to.

After we helped the boys with the haka we walked back up to do the last song.  It starts with us all doing a song, but then the boys start to do the haka to the song and the girls sing the song.  This is soooo different to doing it on stage.

Over all I felt proud that I was able to have this experience even thought the festival was canceled.  A few days later, the videos came out and we watched them as a class.  We did so well.        

Ilminster green team play

 Ilminster green team play

Today we went to ilminster intermediate to watch there green team play.  It was about looking after the environment properly and picking up rubbish around you.  This event was for the year 5's 6's and a few year 4's.  

We walked around into the building sitting boy girl boy girl when the first character walked out on stage.  It was Nanny Kora she was telling a story to her little grandkids.  When she finished the story, one went away and the other stayed just hoping for another story.  After their Nanny said yes, she listened in closely to here the rest of the story. 

More kids then walked out on the stage with their bikes and scooters dropping their rubbish everywhere Nanny Kora had told these kids many times to stop dropping their rubbish all over the skate park but clearly they didn't want to.  

That night Aliens from planet trash came and did something horrible, they stated to drop thee rubbish onto the earth.  These Aliens were from planet trash and there planet was overflowed with trash because everything was single use only.  When the kids came back the next day they found a robot that the Aliens left behind. The Aliens made everything electric so people could not reuse it.

They asked the robot to call the aliens to talk about not dumping their rubbish on planet earth. The aliens said no and the kids went to nanny Kora.  She asked them to call the aliens again and she would try to convince this time.  They found the robot and asked "Would you mind calling the aliens." He replied."Aliens won't be happy but I will follow orders.  

The Aliens thought that Nanny Kora was there lost queen and did everything that she asked which was to clean up recycle reuse reduce and reprogame there robot that freaked out even hearing the word recycle.

Over all I learned that I should recycle more.  I felt like I need to help the environment more            

MLH speeches.

MLH speeches.

In MLH we do a speech each year. We have about three weeks to plan, write and practice a 2 minute and 30 seconds to 3 minute long speech. sometime after three weeks we get together and share our speech to the class. One thing that I like to remember when people are sharing a speech is not everyone is comfortable sharing speeches in front of 61 students and 2 teachers. 

This year we are going in groups of ten and there will be a five minute break in between each group of ten. Rooms three and four have already shared there speech to to there class.This year our class is sharing on thursday. Speeches are not my favorite part of the year but they are not optional.    

   

Math Number workshop Find a fraction of a whole number

 Math Number Workshop Find a fraction of a whole number!

Today we had number, last week at number we started to learn about a fraction of a whole number. This week we were continuing that.  It may sound complicated, but after a while you really learn every step off by heart.  Finding a fraction of a whole number is like your basic facts put together for you to learn something that will help you in your everyday life. Koka Pip was telling us how she thought that we would save the prove it task  for later and this week we would answer more questions.

The things you need to know to find a fraction of a whole number are, division, times table and reading fractions. The first thing you need to do is write down your question the question i'll do is 3/5 of 50. First you write down the whole number which is 50, then you write 50 divided by 5 equals 10 then you go 10 X 3 equals 30 then you know that the answer is 30.

In this paragraph I will show you the steps completely in words.

1. Write down the whole number

2. divide the whole number by the denominator ( the bottom number/ second number)

3. take that number and times it by the numerator ( the top/ first number.)

Then you have your answer.

        

Walking Up The Farm On Scarlys Way

 Walking Up The Farm On Scarlys Way

Yesterday was our Green Gold Reflection, this means people come to see if we won green gold. Green gold is a award that  enviroschools win when they have been keeping up with all there enviro work.  Instead of staying at school, our class was going up to Scarlys Way.  

We lined up on the deck to walk to the farm. I was at the back of the line so sometimes it took a while to understand what the teacher was saying.  I am NOT a outdoor person so really I was not that excited to go up a muddy farm and have to walk there!  We were there, I used my jersey as a seat then we got in a single file line. 

Pretty soon we were at a HUGE tree for brain food.  We had walked so far and I don't get why the teachers want us to do this. They got all the way here and are not even panting!  In 30 more minutes we were half way up and we started to go down hill. When we got ot the bottom we then had to cross a river full of yucky gunk.

Sentence Starter!

                           Sentence Starters

This is one of my sentence starter - quick writes from this week.

The rain was pouring down. So I turned my face to a frown. I was supposed to go to a friends house and my Mum wouldn't drive me so I gave the rain the crown.  Then I looked up places around the town. There was nothing fun to do around the town so I put my head to the ground.  My sister came in covered in brown so I decided to back down on asking for a friend.  I decided to make a poem full of nouns that turned my frown upside down.  My mum came in with a matching gown but turns out mine was just a dressing gown.  Then dad came in to say the car had broken down and showed us a picture of a red or brown car and took us to the country town.   

Cross Country!!!!

 CROSS COUNTRY!

Each year Wainui Beach School does something called cross country.  No, it is not what it sounds like.  We do not run around the country.  What we do is... go down to the sand dunes and do a run around the course. Last year I only had to do one lap and then half a lap but this year I had to do two full laps.  Looks like you know enough about what WBS cross country is for me to go on.

"GO YEAR SIXES!" I shouted. "Year five girls" said Koka Sue. I lined up to start my race. "Take your marks. Get set. GO" said the starter. I started to run. I had a great start off then it got worse.  I really don't care what place I come in school sports because its just a fun activity that the teachers plan to keep us active. 

I was only one quarter through the first lap when I realised that I was getting tired. Even though I was tired I kept on running. Then I realised that there was a hill and that was why people were starting to walk.  I slowed down and started to walk up the hill then when I got to the top I ran across the little hill and ran down as fast as I could.

Completing the first lap and feeling rather tired I needed to carry on to do the second lap!!!!   I thought  - will this ever end?  This time I knew the course so it was a lot faster. I kept thinking how much further? I really don't get why we have to run so far.  It's definitely easier said than done, I thought.  I turned a few more corners then I could see the finish line. YAY!!!!!!!

I crossed the finish line feeling really  of myself. I had done it. No more cross country ...

...till next year!!!!        🏃