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.

Margos Story

Hello this week I thought I would publish my draft for Margos book. I have written all about her and the bundles of blues jonny. I hope you enjoy.

It started out just like any normal day. Margo woke up, had her breakfast, went to work , and then came home to go to sleep just before the cold frosty gisborne night settled in, but what she didn't know was that 2 little blue penguins were wadding up the bank of her house. They were getting ready to fluff up their feathers and settle in for the night. Poor margo was in the middle of her beauty sleep, and the little blues liked to talk about their day.(''REALLY LOUDLY,'') Margo added!

Margo felt very honored that the penguins chose her house, but she couldn't stand all of the late night gosip under the floor joust. So Margo thought up a canning plan. She said to herself, what if I drop the penguins at Mahia. It's far away,... and a nice environment. Margo told her husband, and he was all for it, cause he had also been woken up by all of there fish stories. The next day was moving day...

Margos husband wanted to wear soccer gloves, because he had read that penguins BIT! Once the two bundles of blue were in the black container, they were headed for Mahia. The ride was long, because it was very loud, margo husband said.  They all arrived at the beach, and said goodbye to the penguins. Margo was really relieved that she would finally finish her beauty sleep but still a bit sad, because the beast was know longer full. The nights and days past. Almost a month past, but then.....

Margo and her husband  thought that they were going crazy or something, because they thought they heard the little blues penguins discussing the journey back home from Mahia! The only problem was  the blues nest under the floor jost was now sleid up, so the penguins keeped and keeped on tapping on the window, to try see if Margo, or her husband would let them under the floor gout. Margo didn't come. So they tried and tried  to get to their nest. After a lot of skwuking and pushing they finally made it under. Now they come and go from the floor gout, to the sea.  

THE END

My 6 Sentence Story

 Hello, this week I was scrolling down all of the quick writes I could do, and I found a title that said, (6 Sentence Story, and in a blink of my eye , I had already started.) You might be asking yourself, what's a 6 Sentence Story? Well basically it's what it sounds like. You can only write 6 sentence, but you need to make sure you don't overuse commerce and things like that. Now, in my writing workshop, we had already done one of these because our teachers were wanting us to try use a broda and more meaningful rage of vocabulary. So here's My Six Sentence Story,and make sure to try one yourself!

                                              Know One to Talk Too

Math Strand

Kia ora whanau. So yesterday, Koka Ngaire asked us to fill in this sheet about Volume, Capacity, Length, Weight,and Predictions. We needed to fill this out for our report, so then Koka Ngaire could judge our answers - if we were good enough. I enjoyed doing this because this gave me a chance to relearned what we had done that term. I have attached a photo of what I did, so you can see what I did. Hope you enjoy!

Lake Kaitawa Camp!!!

So in week 7 ALL of the year 6s got to go to our school camp at Lake Kaitawa and we went on lots of walks that took my breath away. They were all hard but every time we got to the top, the view made  everything better. The food, was fantabulous! I had the best time and made lots of new friends and memories. To all of the year 5s you are going have the bomb. com at camp Kaitawa. Hope you enjoy!!!

 

Going to Cooks Cove

Mum dad I'm going to be late for the cooks cove walk! Please please can I get a lift in the car i'm going to be late. No my mum said, bike. When I got to school I could feel and HEAR my heart betting. THUMP Thump thump... But guess what my clock was an hour early and I was half an hour early for the walk. I was so mad at myself. The bell finally went for as to go.  We were going to go on the walk so we could practise for year six 6.  Then jumped in the car and drove to Tolaga Bay. And yes this was on Thursday of the earthquake.

When we got there I felt a little car sick but once we started walking and smelling the natcher I was good to go.  The first hill we climbed was very steep and I was getting extremely hot.  Luckily Koka Ngaire said that we  could stop to look at the beacon of light. I was happy to be doing this walk . When we got to the bottom of the hill we ate and started to go back up. Then Finns mum saw morepork. I'll put a photo of it at the end. 

So over all I really enjoyed the walk and it was great practise for  year 6 camp next week, yay. I recommended the walk  but definitely try to do it on a cloudy day so you don't get heat stroke. My walking  group was Rori and Hunter, Stefan was our Adult and he was funny and we all just talked and walked.  The walk was a good exercise I got to see the Hole in a wall and Cooks Cove our destination.  

My Dream Trip ...

Dear Jacinda Ardern

 Dear Jacinda Ardern, 

My name is Te Atawhai Moana-Pearl  from Wainui Beach School in Gisborne. We are writing this letter to you because we don't like how people are getting treated in New Zealand. I would like you to help the homeless and encourage people to not abort their children and stop people abusing their children. But you can help us stop that by focusing on these three things over the next three years as the leader of New Zealand.

First of all, I would like you to help the homeless more by giving them a safe shelter and a warm home. I think  of reasonable prices that they can afford in their own time. There are 41,000 homeless people scattered around NZ, maybe you could help them try to sturdy their life until they can get a job. 

Secondly,  I think that abortion should not be an option to any mother because if it is not going to hurt the mother or the baby, the baby should not NOT be aborted. I think that there should be a law if you want to abort , the mother should see three doctors before they abort the soon to be baby. 

Last but definitely not lest CHILD abuse.  I was thinking you could make a more NZ a safer environment for NZ children, we want children to feel safe. We want kids to speak and that they feel that they can be more confident/safe about speaking up.

Sincerely yours truly Te Atawhai Moana-Pearl  , thank you

Cool Places in The North Island

Find them if you can!

 

The first week back at school

 Hello  I'm Te Atawhai and i'm a year 5 girl at wainui beach school. This is the first week back at school and it's already been busy. Yesterday me and my school went to a  monarch butterfly show. We have also have be doing athletics training. Plus all of my priorities and that's a work load. So I have been trying to do my best. 

In athletes training we have to prates ball though, sprints, long jump and high jump. My favorite athletes event is long jump. I like long jump because  you just jump and it kind of feels like your flying because sprit up and then jump. I think my least favorite athletic event is sprites because they are all about the shart and I always go late. I also don't like it because its tiring. 

Third of all the butterfly show. I found it funny and entertaining because it was about save the monarch butterflies homes from a road work company. But there were only 2 people that played 5 people. They also did lots of gymnastics in there play. So that was cool to. I hoped you liked my blog.

My speech

 

INTRODUCTION  introduction: $10 note. Everyone knows what this is, right? It is a $10 note. But not everyone knows who is on it or why she is on it. My speech is about a woman and why she is on our $10 note. Her name is Kate Sheppard. Kate was recognised as the woman who led the suffrage movement in NZ. ‘Suffrage’ means the right to vote. Women's suffrage day was celebrated here in Gisborne on the 19th of September 2020. Flowers were laid for her by the suffrage monument next to the council. 

PARAGRAPH :  Kate got women to vote on the 19th of Sept 1893, 127 years ago, NZ became the first country to allow women the right to vote. What an amazing achievement for NZ. Kate also fought for the right so that women could run for parliament seats. Today we have a female prime minister because of her. Previous female prime ministers were Helen Clark, who entered parliament in 1981 as the Labour MP and Dame Jenny Shipley entered parliament in 1987 as the National MP. Now Jacinda Ardern. The mayor of Gisborne is also a woman - Rehette Stoltz. 

PARAGRAPH 2: Secondly, Kate Sheppard believed that women should be able to participate in ALL areas of society including politics. This included sport and physical exercise. For example she fought for the right of women to exercise like men could. Like bike riding. Back then women couldn't bike ride but men could. How unfair is that? And that is why she is on the ten dollar note. 

 PARAGRAPH 3:  My third point is that she thought women should choose what they wanted to wear. An Example of this was that Kate fought against the use of corsets. What is a corset you ask ? Well that’s a good question. A corset was a tight fitting under clothing to shape your body. Form the chest down to your hips. Did you know koka Ngaire wore a corset sewn in her wedding dress - I bet she looked flash though!

 CONCLUSION: America only let women vote in 1920 which is over 20 years after NZ. There's still countries that don’t let women vote like the Vatican city in Italy. And Saudi Arabia doesn't want women to vote so they make it very hard for them to. But Kate has fought for women's rights and helped nz, and that is why she is on the ten dollar note. Thank you

LTP

 Hello I'm a year 5 girl at wainui beach school and I love it here. As you may or may not know My school does LTP.  The options were Cardboardnation, Makey Makey and Junky monkey plate constrations. And for this week they changed Makey Makey to Lose Parts.  I wanted to try it out and see if I enjoyed it.  I thought that it would be very fun because we could make whatever we wanted.  So me and my friends started to think what we were going to make.

Then my friend Alice had a great idea, she thought that we could make a hut. So we started to gather the things we needed to build.  We tried to put the walls up but they kept falling over because of the wind. And I    realized that it would be hard to play in and that it would take a long time to make. So I tried to think up another idea because I was getting bored. Then I had an amazing idea.

 My idea was that me and my friends, ( Alice and Charlotte) could build a theme park.  Now I was very very exited by the idea and I wanted go get started that very moment. The first problem we ran into was that to make our trampoline we needed the top of a rolly and a tyre but the rolly top was the problem. Then I remembered that I saw one in the playground, so I ran up and got it. Then we had our Trampoline made!!!

Going to the beach!!!

 Hello I'm a year 5 girl and I go to wainui beach school I love my school because its close to the beach anda on a Monday and Tuesday my cinderkit does LTP, (Learning Through Play.) In LTP we we have four options but this week since it was a hot day we went to the BEACH! I love the beach because there's so many things you can do. It's also a lot more fun with friends and since i'm at school I get to play with my friends. My school is so close to the beach that it would only take 2 minutes to get there.

On Monday I had a lot of fun. At first I didn't know what to do. But then I decided to make a sand seat with my friend Charlotte. I love making sand seats because when there finished you can sit down and look at the beautiful view of the beach and  even though it takes a long time to make the view makes up for it.  First you have to mark where your going to do it and then you pill on sand. I think the hardest bit to biled is the back resed.

On Tuesday me and my friends wanted to make sand balls. Sand balls are really fun to make but they're very very time consuming. In total their seven of us, ( Me, Charlotte, Millie, Tillie, Kayla and Nina. I thought that this would be really fun so we all had a job, Me, Tillie and Charlotte shaped the balls and Kayla, Millie and Nina got the wet sand. After a while we got a bit bored so we came up with a new game. The game was catch the sand ball, we through the ball around the cycle but if you dropped it you were out.

                                                                         The End

Homeschooled for three days!!!

 Hello I am a year 5 at wainui beach school but this week I have been sick  Monday,  Tuesday and Wednesday. I've been doing my work from home. It was kind of like being in level 4 again to be honest.  But I loved lock down because I could wake up whenever I wanted and stay in my pjs however long I wanted as well. So it was pretty good if you ask me.  This is some of the work I've been doing at home...

First I wanted to get my quick writes done on Monday so I could have time to write this blog today or Tuesday. Me and my mum have been going on a walk every day when I've been home and we've just been going to the beach and back. The walk only takes about 10 minutes but yesterday me went down the steps to the beach and the bottom step was very slippery... As we walked down I SLIPPED luckily mum caught me. Then when the waves were building up we ran up the beach. I hope today we don't get spayed.

There is a down side though. Today me and my class were going to make automata and I was really EXCITED but, then I got sick so I had to stay home. The thing is I've been home since Monday and I've been doing all of my work from home too. I hope my team enjoys making our automata today. Me and my team were going to just use one cam, the cam that we were going to use was the circle cam because we're new to this stuff too. Me and my team were going to put a tornado on top.

Writing instructions

Hello this week I have been learning about how to write detailed instructions. We last focused in on graffiti. Me and my friend Millie made our presentation together. Now we've started instructional writing and so far I am enjoying it. I think I enjoy it because it's kind of like I'm coding a robot and that I need to make it exact or the robot will do something else. When  Millie, Cornelia and I tried to directed each other it didn't work out so well.

Today Koka Terri read my writing group (Room on the Broom.) After that we all had to  group up  and write a set of instructions. The three rolls were the bot,  the writer and the debugger. I was the debugger, Millie was the bot and Cornelia was the person who write the set of instructions. The debugger also read out of the instructions. I the debugger also has to underline anything that doesn't go to plane.

All the other teams did great and one team even accomplished the task that we had to do. The task was, koka terri placed the witches hat on the painted  snacks and ladders. She also put the witches bow on the ground. It was very difficult but I loved being the debugger because I got to tell Millie what to do and  I think that Cornelia  did a great job writing instructions. Even though we didn't succeed I still enjoyed it .  

 

Maths

 Hello, this week i'm writing about math and how I had a wow moment in my math workshop. Yesterday I helped my teacher. I helped Alice, Rio and Charlotte A. In my group we've been focusing in on algorithms. I think that we're all sussed with our addition algorithms but I think that i'm good at subtraction algorithms too.  Koka Terri said that its way easier to use algorithms to figure out a question and I think that it is too.

I found myself in the learning pit when my group started figuring out questions with zeros. So I asked koka Terri how to figure out the question and after she explained it to me that was when I had my wow moment. I felt like it all made sense now but it took time and when I got a piece of paper with some questions. When I checked my questions with addition (which koka Terri taught me how to do) I GOT THEM ALL CORRECT!!!!!!  

So now i'll talk about how she taught me to check my work. I thought that it was going to be very complicated but it actually isn't. All you have to do is you see if you answer whatever you are taking away or adding together and if they equal the same as the top column. So I hope you liked my blog this week and please write a comment or some feedback.