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.