KAPA HAKA!

  Kia ora, today i'm going to share with you all of our kapa haka songs that my syndicate and I have  been learning through the year. I will also include a video of us. Your also probably wondering how we can perform under the covid rules? Well, the teachers organized someone to come and video us! I feel that the teachers want to congratulate us and also show our community how far we have come with all the difficult kupo that stretches our brains and our mouths.  

Song one:                                                                                        

  Utaina mai nga waka

  Nga waka o te motu

  Hoea mai ra ki uta 

  Ki te takotoranga

Hiki nuku hiki e

Hiki rangi, rangi e

Tena tena ra

koutou katoa

UTAINA Haka

 

  Utaina mai Hi!

Utaina mai Hi!

Utaina mai nga iwi o te motu

Ki runga Whakatu e tau nei

Hiki nuku e! Hiki rangi e!

Hiki rangi e! Hiki nuku e!

I a ha ha!

Ka hikatia tana iwi

Ka hapainga I tana waka

Aue! Aue! Aue!Aue!

Song two: Ka Waiata 

Ka waiata k'a Māria
Hi-i-nei wha-kāe
Whaka-meatia mai,
Te whare tangata.
Hine pūrotu, Hine ngākau,
Hine rangi-māri-e
Ko Te Whae-a, ko te whae-a
O te ao 

  Song three: Aue, auē Rona ē

Takoto ana au

 Ki te moenga uriuri 

Tū ake āu 

Titiro ki te atarau 

Kei runga rā 

Te marama e whiti ana 

Kei arā Rona 

Kei roto rā 

Piri ki te taha 

Piri ki te ngaio 

Aue, auē ra

e Rona ē

Aue, auē Rona ē

Song four: Kapanapana

A ra ra! Ka Panapana! I a! ha! ha! Aue! Ka rekareka tonu taku ngakau ki nga mana ririki pōhatu-whakapiri (Kia) haeremai Te takitini (Kia) haeremai Te takimano kia paretaitokotia ki turanga. Katoa: Hi! Ha! Aue! Kaea: He mamae, He mamae Katoa: I! A! Ha! Ha! Aue! Kaea: Ka haere, ka haere taku Powhiri ki te tai whakarunga Katoa: Hoki mai, hoki mai taku tinana Kaea: Ka haere, ka haere taku Powhiri ki te tai whakararo Katoa: Hoki mai, hoki mai taku tinana Kaea: Kia huri au ki te tai whakatu a Kupe Ki te tai o Matawhero i motu nei! Katoa: E ko te hoa riri ki roto i aku ringa,.kutia rawatia. Kia pare tonu ihu Hi! Ha! Aue! Ana! Ana! Ana! (Ksss…..Ksss….Ksss)

Song five: Toia mai

Toia mai te waka nei

Kumea mai te waka nei
Ki te takotoranga i
Takoto ai
Tiriti te mana motuhake

Te tangi a te manu e
Pipiwharauroa
Kui, kui, kui!
Whiti, whiti ora!
Hui e
Taiki e!

The Green Team Drama Group

 As I walked into the the ilminster intermediate hall, I thought that I might one day be nervous to perform to a group of kids some day to. My class and I sat down and waited  patiently and anxiously for the arrival of the first person of the Green Team. Someone came onto the stage looking like a grandmother crawfish? Now, you might be wondering what the heck! So i'll give you the only hint we got. Our teacher said that the play would be based on how we can help our earth environmentally.

As the ball got rolling the back story started to unravel. It started off with the krafish that was called Nany Coda. Nanny had mukopono that she was telling a story to. Her mokopuna loved hearing all of their Grandmothers stories. The storys were all about the times she tried to teach the tamariki and kaitiaki of earth about why Nanny Coda needed them to look after not only Nanny's home, but earth in the whole.

In this story the're some kids that loved playing at the skatepark, but they didn't understand that by littering they were hurting the planet and themselves. Out of nowhere there were aliens that wanted to dump ALL of there rubbish into the skaters pool. When the kids found out that there beloved skatepark was going to turn in to a dumping ground, they new that Nanny Coda would know how to fix there problems.  After lots of bowing, (because the aliens thought that Nanny was the king), they all helped and came to the conclusion that everyone should do there bit.

I think that when I go to ilminster I want to be in the Green team, because it had such an impactful experience on me, that I want to share that with others and give them that feeling of everyone and everything counts. Even the small things.

My New Goal!

 Hello, so today i'm going to show you one of the skills I learned to day in L3 Math. At first I found it so diercilt, and did not understand at all, but Koka Charlotte expanded it to me again, so that was very helpful. The goal I was doing is called, solve an algebraic question like: If $ # @ ^ $# @ what is 39th? Here's a question that I will show to you, so that I can say that I know how to solve a question like that.

https://watch.screencastify.com/v/tiRc4dORUhrlKWCHX1Hn

Please comment below how you got on:)

Going for Green Gold!

 So if you've read some of my other blogs you would know that as a school we are going for Green Gold. If you haven't, well I can tell you about it. For about 7 years my school has been working to be awarded the great honour of being a Green Gold School! First of all there's bronze, then silver and last but definitely not the least, GREEN GOLD. The way to accomplish that goal is to follow the guiding principles to be Kaitiaki.

The guiding principles are, Learning for sustainability, Respect for the diversity of people and cultures, Empowered students, Sustainable communities and Maori perspectives. If you know what these mean and how to use them in everyday life, well then you mostly have that award under your belt. So what I'm going to do is try to explain what all of them mean and how we incorporate them at my school.

Learning for sustainability means learning how to make a stable and lush communities for the native flora and fauna to live in. At my school we have a lady called Kauri that comes in to show us how to improve our  gardens and life. Respect for diversity of people and cultures means understanding and being ok with things that can be different or new. In my class we like to be ourselves and show how we would think or do things.  Empowered students means taking matters into our own hands, while getting supported with what you choose to do and how you do that. An example of this for ME would be that I've made my own kawakawa balm out of our school leaves and students brought in old containers to put it in. Sustainable communities means that the community is healthy with bird-life and flora. How we do this at our school is  we go down to Hamanatua stream, and our whanau comes to help out. Maori perspectives means watching and learning how Maori used to do things and how they used to live off the land.

If you ask me, I think I did a pretty good job. Thank goodness for that, because yesterday we were awarded the GREEN GOLD AWARD.

L3 Math

Kia ora, this week my math group and I have been learning a new goal. Our goal is called, Solve a fraction of a whole number question, like 5/8th of 24. At first I found it extraordinary hard, but wanted to figure it out. Our teacher likes to hear how WE figured it out, and if we disagree or agree. She also likes to hear why and how we solved a question. One of my classmates used division, and I used timetables. Any way I thought I might make a video on how I would solve a question.

So my question is 4/8 of 50.

When I looked at the number, I immediately new that 1/2 of 8 is 4 . 

So that means that 1/2 of 50 is 25.

Which means that 4/8ths of 50 is 50 

Please tell me how you would have done it and if I got it correct or wrong.