Fantastic Energize

Kia Ora koutou on Monday week five energizer Whaea Gina came in to our class to talk to us about healthy eating she talked to us about the different food groups. There were four food groups such as meat and meat products, dairy and dairy products ,fruit and vegetables and the last one was grain. Whaea Gina gave us a challenge the challenge was we had to have at least two things from each food group. We have created a DLO to show what we have learnt and tell you more information hope you enjoy Kai Kite.

Re-learning Aha Ngapuhi E

Kia ora Koutou for the past few weeks Paihia Kapa Haka Roopu have been re-learning the haka Aha Ngapuhi E. We did not take long to learn the words but it was hard to pronounce them properly but we got there. A couple days later we started to learn the actions some were easy but the other were a bit hard. We have not been saying and doing the right things for this haka because our tutors told us “back in the old days people did not pronounce the proper words and they got lazy and started making their own words up”. It makes us feel happy that we re-learned this haka and we when present the haka we are not embarrassed of doing a different way. Because now we have the same action and Kupu as the rest of Ngapuhi. When we complete learning Aha Ngapuhi we will teach the rest of the school so they know the haka as well. 


enjoy Kai Kite.

Swim Safety With Whaea Tracy

Kia ora bloggers last Thursday Whaea Tracy came to Te Ngahere to talk about swim safe. She came and talk to use about being safe on the water and being in the water. First she talked to us about the five rules being safe on the water. There are five rules to be safe on the water the first rule is You need a suitable life jacket for yourself and others. Rule number two is to tell who your going with how many people your taking and tell them what time you would be back. The third rule is to take a flare one that is safe there are two safe options the flare gun and a parachute flare it is a really safe one though . The fourth rule is to check the weather before going out on the water just to be safe. The fifth rule on the water is to buy a boat beacon for your boat and you can buy a little one for yourself small one is really handy. These are really handy rules so you can be safe on the water. 

Next time I could work faster to get a DLO done. 

Free Standing Tower

In Te Ngahere we have been doing STEAM challenges. Our challenge was to make the tallest newspaper tower. The rule was we had to use limited equipment to create our tower. The limited equipment was 30 cm of tape and two sheets of newspaper. The tricky part was we had to use 30 cm of tape, but if we wanted the tape in smaller pieces we had to bite the tape to make it smaller, because the limited equipment didn’t include scissors. We had to use two sheets of newspaper. we were able to split it in half but it had to be done by hand  as we could not use any other equipment. 

What I could do better next time is to think of a better idea to create our tower. When it was time to go up and measure our tower my group and I had not completed our tower. We were very nervous because we had not finished. We had a Great time Ka Kite

Week 8: Practicing for the Kaikohe culture festival.

Kia ora bloggers, for the past few weeks our Kapa Haka Roopu has been practicing for the Kaikohe cultural festival. We are working very hard to complete our bracket, My goal is to work on my sharp movements and don’t be as stiff but move with the waiata rhythm. We have been using our rakau that we cut, smoothed and polished but sadly we have to wait until they get blessed before we use them outside of school. We have been putting new ideas into our whole bracket but also things that I’ve struggled with facials and keeping focused so I can be a good role model for our backline. Our roopu is slowly getting smaller two people actually dropped out of the roopu but we are still doing great even though our roopu is small. Also on Monday we even have a after school practice I think it’s going to be fun. Blog you later.

Kaikohekohe Cultural Festival.

Kia ora koutou. Today our Kapa Haka Roopu finally went to the Kaikohekohe Cultural Festival. We had a fantastic time there. It was amazing to see our whanau watching us. It was a bit nerve-racking to go up on the stage. Once we started we were fine but when we got half way through some us made a lot of mistakes but we still kept going. Once we got off our whanau and friends came and gave their kids a hug and a cheer; they were so happy. The Kapa Haka roopu was so happy that they went and performed there. We were so glad we came back and our teacher said our reward was a juicy each. It was pretty relaxing and refreshing to eat. We hope we can get another opportunity like this again. Kia ora. Here are some photos and a video if you watch the video it would be great if you comment. Thanks Ka Kite.

Here is a link to our video  Kaikohekohe Cultural Festival video

Roopu Rakau

Roopu Rakau Yesterday the boys from the kapa haka roopu finally had a chance to work on their rakau. First we did a karakia to start off our day once we finished our karakia we got handed our rakau. Then we got given instructions about safety, which we had to be careful on how we handle the power tools. After that we began to sand the bark off our rakau it was really tiring to do but we still got there. Then later on we got the electric sanders first we used p80 ( we didn't really understand what that meant), then we used p120 sandpaper to make it even smoother. We would have our usual breaks at morning tea and lunch then we would get back to our rakau, once we finished sanding with the p120 we would an other sander we called the black smoother sander we all laugh because it was really funny it took a long time to do but we finished using the black smoother sander. We used this special oil to make our rakau shiny (if you drank the oil you would most likely die). We called it coating oil because we used it to coat the rakau we had to use a cloth and some gloves, when we had done we took a photo. I really enjoyed doing the rakau with my friends.





My Friends are really funny sometimes.

Te Reo Week 2

Te Reo Week 2 

 Kia ora Bloggers the last week we have been doing Te reo Maori we had to make a google slide. When we finished creating the slide we would take photos of our buddy or ourselves we would also use an app to take the background out to make png. We would say He Aha Tenei meaning What is this then we would reply He something Tena but we wouldn’t actually say He something tena for example He aha tenei ? He pene rakau tena we had to do ten slides of different objects we used the photos that we download from the app and put the photo on the google slide we were also able to buy ourselves or with a buddy my buddy was Dalton. We have been having fun we are going to do something fun next too well blog you later.         

The Ned Show!!!!

In week two we had two special guests come to our school. Their names were Ned and the Amazing Nicole. They came to our school to tell us how our brain works and about Mindset Mission. Ned stands for N Never Give Up, E Encourage others and D means TO DO YOUR BEST. We all learnt that instead of giving up we needed to keep going and Nicole said use the power of Yet!!!. Which means I can’t do it YET but don’t give up. Nicole presented some tricks through her show she used an Excelerator (the excelerator is a very cool yoyo it is an yoyo for professional but you do not have to be professional to buy one). She did so many cool tricks like around the world and other cool ones. I really in enjoyed ( even though I was late) the show was very interesting. Bye 

Cross Country

Kia ora bloggers for the past Week we have been practicing cross-country. Te Ngahere have been doing great efforts in cross-country training, Our times have been very very good we have been achieving our goals that we want to achieve my goal is to run fast and reading drain my time (what I mean by drain my time is to take off time). My first time was 10 minutes and 10 seconds,Second time was 7 minutes and 55 seconds and then my third one, was 8 minutes and also my four one was 7 minutes and 38 seconds.

Cross Country Spreadsheet

Infograpic

Infographic Yesterday in Te Ngahere we made a infographic. An infographic is a graphic with information on it that explains things using images and a little bit of words. 

 The steps are: 

Ask a question Gather information and observe (research) Make a hypothesis (guess the answer) Experiment and test your hypothesis Analyze your test results Present a conclusion

Infographic Easel.ly

Rippa Rugby

2 weeks ago we had Rippa rugby in kaikohe we played against a lot of teams and we lost some of them and won a couple when we had a break we were practicing our moves we made a move called wokanda then we made another move called wakonda forever We used this move on our very last game But we practice these moves throughout our other games we had difficulties working as a team but we got there. however our other half of our team won all of the games I was a bit jealous but I was too glad for them. 



 At the end of the day we all have fun and on the leaderboard with my team came for us and the other team came first and if your first or second place on the leaderboard our team wins the qualifiers they are able to go to Wellington with matua Pep.

Taku Whanau

Kia ora bloggers. The past week we have been doing our Taku Whanau. We had to say our family and we ha to say in te reo maori this is this my Mum this is my Uncle this the younger brother of my Mum is was really diffetcul to make animation. We really had a long time to work on it then after we finished the animation we We had to use screencastify to say our whanau in Maori We had to go somewhere quiet. The boys I was with they were a bit noisy and they made me laugh it was really hard to speak because  and the corner of my eye the boy was laughing. But at the end of the day I finished my taku whanau. Ka kite bloggers

Kapa Haka Cultural Festival

Date: June 6 Seven days ago, the Paihia School Kapa Haka Roopu had finally performed at the Kawakawa Cultural Festival, We had a great time. Over the past 2 weeks we were practising very hard to pull off our performance. I can't wait till next time because next time I think the Kapa Haka Roopu could improve a bit more on a few things like completing a full bracket and sharpening our moves with the rakau. Our tutors are to going to teach us boys (in the roopu) how to harmonize while the  girls are singing. We all had an awesome time together as a roopu. Blog you later 
 Here are some photos from seven days ago.

Kapa Haka

Kia Ora Bloggers, for the past few weeks our Paihia School Kapa Haka Roopu have been practicing for the Kawakawa Cultural Festival. 

Our Roopu have been learning a new bracket and we also have been learning to use the rakau in the Haka and our Entrie. 

We have to practice being on time, make sure our volume is good, stay on key and most important of all is to focus and stay disciplined. We practice mainly every lunchtime, as part of our warm up we have been learning how to warm up our vocal cords. Sometimes we sing with the guitar and without. 

I enjoy doing kapa haka with my friends and I like the discipline because when we don’t listen to Matua Pep aka my dad he will make us either do press ups or go for a run then when we finish every body is tired and does want to listen to Matua Pep My Dad is a very good kapa haka teacher and I also like that he is may dad.

Sea Cleaners

On tuesday the Sea Cleaners came to our School and they told us to pick up rubbish. They said that they have been picking up a lot of rubbish that they find and they have a boat and when they see the  rubbish in the sea water they pick it up with there net. They are saving the sea and the animals because they have to clean up other people's rubbish when they should clean up there own. They are nice sea cleaners I like people who clean other people's mess and if you see rubbish don’t walk past it… PICK IT UP.

Magic Show

On Wednesday A Magician came to Paihia School we were learning about to eat healthy but for some reason we had to pay for the magic show but it was worth it what I enjoyed at the magic show was when he dupacated money. Dump thing was the it wasn’t NZ money and … he was talking about what to eat and not to eat.

Our Identity / Waitangi

Last Week on Thursday and Friday the year 6’s ent to the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. On Thursday we didn't do much learning cause it was our first day there so instead of work we had a tutu (tutu means play) with their activities. My favourite was the VR (VR is short for Virtual Reality) the VR is a device that you use to go into different worlds and use different things also we had to design. A hoe on tinkercad also tinkercad is a game that you use shapes to make things or scribble we had fun making hoe but before we did all of that (sorry I didn't tell you)we went to the museum to understand how the Treaty was signed and how maori tangata learned how to speak Te reo Maori but the paper was not really it was a copy of the real signed Treaty we had fun on thursday but sadly we had to come back we had fun at the treaty grounds playing on the devices. going to the treaty grounds was the best day I had( Ko te haere ki te whenua tiriti ko te ra pai rawa atu i ahau).

Maths DLO

In Te Ngahere we been learning Doubling and Halving. We had to explain about the strategy we had to solve the math problems. For example: 22x4=? this might look hard but it’s quite easy when you use this strategy so you have to divide/Half the higher number and the double the lower number to make 11x8=88 so the go back to your first problem and then write the answer to the your problem will be solved 22x4=88. One time I wrote something on my DLO and then my teacher saw something then told me you can’t always half the higher number sometimes you have to double the higher number the example and half the smaller number. Doubling and Halving is really fun now I would like to learn trebling and thirding one time so I know what to do when we come to this Strategy.

Waitangi

On Monday the 18th, Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika came to our school, so we could learn that everyone is important also learnt to make the trees on Tinkercad because our class name is Te Ngahere (The bush). Next Whaea Kerry and Whaea Monika made a waka (for people that we made). So we all could fit everybody on the waka. We had to work as a team to pull the waka. Once we paddled to shore as a ropu we helped each other carry the waka onto land. My trees were made from paint 3d. We also made some animals to go into Te Ngahere, as we made a video with all of the things that we created. We added more things to our video. Such as Birds and Insects, Whaea Kerry will add our new ideas to the video and then they will come back to school to show us the whole movie that our whole class created.