kapa haka

Last Friday the Kapa Haka Roopu went to the Cultural Festival at Kawakawa School. When we first arrived we just had to wait outside for a minute and then they welcomed us into their whare. Before we started the performing we sung a few waiata & himene. After that someone from each school introduced them self. Then we started the Cultural Festival, first Kawakawa school started with their younger kids they were pretty good at their performance and the boys were really into the haka. The group that went second was Kawakawa school’s little babies. After a few more performances we finally got to get up there and blow them away when we got onto the stage I saw Whaea Becks and Whaea Chrissy sitting on the seats. I felt really proud of myself after we finished our performance. I think next time I should do my actions better. I enjoyed the haka a lot and Rerenga Wairua.

Kapa Haka

This week for kapa haka we have been practising for the Cultural Festival that’s on Friday this week we’ve been learning a moteatea. We’ve also been practising 3 waiata the 1st one is Haire Mai then Ka Pioioi and after that we do Rerenga Wairua. After we do the waiata we do a haka called tautaua. I really enjoy doing the haka and next time I need to focus on learning the waiata better.

explorers

In Te Ngahere we are doing a panui activity about 4 explorers. The first one is Kupe, the second one is Nukutawhiti, the third one is James Cook, the fourth and final one is Abel Tasman. We found out some info about all 4 of them and picked 1 to make a presentation about that person. My group and I chose to do a presentation about James Cook. Doing this I learnt a lot about NZ’s history like James Cook was the one who recorded NZ on the map I really enjoy making the presentation about my person. I think I should have researched more about my explorer instead of the other 3. I think me and my buddies made the presentation quite well.

STEAM

In Te Ngahere we have been doing a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) activity. The activity was to make a marble run. To do this we had to use materials around the class and also from home to build a ramp. So that the marble could roll across the floor to reach 110 centimetres away from the end of the ramp. This was a very fun activity. I enjoyed testing and modifying the ramp. I learnt what variable means as well. Variable means something that stops the marble or changes your results when you do scientific experiments. I think my group and I could of had built a different ramp from the messy creased cardboard one we had because we designed the sides wrong, which affected the direction the marble went in.

explorers

In Te Ngahere we are doing a panui activity about 4 explorers. The first one is Kupe, the second one  is Nukutawhiti, the third one is James Cook, the fourth and final one is Abel Tasman. We found out some info about all 4 of them and pick 1 to make a presentation about that person. My group and I chose to do a presentation about James Cook. Doing this I learnt a lot about NZ’s history  like James Cook was the one who recorded NZ on the map I really enjoy making the presentation about my person. I think I should have researched more about my explorer instead of the other 3. I think me and my buddies made the presentation quite well.

The Nukes

Yesterday in Paihia School the Nukes came to perform a few songs for us and some students from Russell. There was also a few lucky students that got to go to a workshop with the Nukes, I was one of the lucky ones. We got to learn some chords on the Ukulele we learnt C7,C,F and the G7 chord. We had to switch between these chords .  The Nukes taught us to play a song on the Ukulele called Peas and Carrots. We learnt another song without the Ukulele when we had to do actions to a song called Two Potatoes and again another song with actions called worms. After that we ended up being called the crazy chickens. I enjoyed playing the Ukulele and performing in front of an audience.

Maths DLO

In Te Ngahere we have been learning a new strategy called doubling and halving and the other one is trebling and thirding they’re basically the same just trebling and thirding is using using 3 to divide and multiply and doubling and halving is using 2 to divide and multiply. The strategy is used with big multiplication equations to simplify the question. After nailing the strategy we made a DLO about it and we got an example like 15 x 18 and figured it out step by step the question I used was 3 x 240. I really enjoyed using the strategy and I was really good at doing the maths. I think next time I should use a different example. I could explain how to solve the question better next time.

DLO