Term 4 summary

Hi everyone,
Today I would like to tell you how my term has been. This terms inquiry topic was Culture City. Each week we had to do a project on a culture and use a paper doll to display the culture's national costume. We also performed our kapa haka bracket at the Turanganui schools performances. See more about this HERE. Another fun thing that happened this term was the school athletics. There was lots of house group action and house chants.

We had been practicing for three weeks, but the real day had come. House colours were worn and splattered all over our bodys. Nervously jogging over to the reserve we sat down. The year 0s went first and so on. After sprints we went to do high jump. Then we went to throw a ball. Last we did long jump.

In my literacy group each pair had to do a project on a culture, my pair did ours on the icelandic culture. Here is a link to our project. Link!

We also did just dance and furniture olympics. Just dance is when there are dancers on the screen and you choose the person you want to be, you have to do the dance moves that that character does. sometimes there are groups of 4 and sometimes groups of 2. We also did  furniture olympics. Furniture olympics is when in your group you get told an object and you have to try and make it with your bodys.

This is my last year at WBS and I have enjoyed my time there.

Yours sincerely
Rosie

Kapa Haka

"Line three, go and stand behind lines one and two!", Koka Terri called, as I jogged to my place in our formation behind the tent. The whole of Nui syndicate were there, preparing for the big performance that lay ahead.We chatted with our friends, ignoring the butterflies in our stomachs.  "OK, time to get out there and show them what we got. We walked up to the stage and listened to our school getting presented.  Walking with pride we stepped up onto the stage.

Hunter slowly stepped forward in rhythm with Tu Mai Ra and we all followed him with piu piu swishing until we had formed the shape of a triangle. The first two rows of boys went down on their knees as we joined Hunter with strong singing. We soon heard the call of whakapiri and squished together in a huddle to sing Haramai a Paoa. As soon as that was finished we went into neke atu and sang Ka pio oi. Purea nei followed that and Utaina was the transition between the girls and the boys. The boys then did the haka and then Wainui e followed that.


When we were finally finished we were all really happy with what we had achieved and we were happy that there was going to be no more kapa haka practice. Then we went to go see our parents and got ready to go back to school on the bus.

Marae Noho

On Thursday and Friday the Nui syndicate went to Te Poho o Rawiri Marae to stay the night. First we had to get welcomed into the marae or we were not allowed into the wharenui until we got welcomed into the marae. To get welcomed into the marae you need Tangata whenua (people of the marae) and manuhiri (us). After doing that we had morning tea and went into some fun rotations with the teachers. The first rotation that I went into was string games and rakau with Koka Sophie. We were lucky enough to have some people from the museum come to help us with some rotations. My next rotation was Maori games with a lady from the museum. We did some poi and knucklebones.

After lunch we did some more rotations. My group walked up Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) and it tired me out. after that we had some afternoon tea and then some free time. Dinner was a loud and busy affair but the meal was delicious it was Nachos and almost everyone wanted seconds. After dinner we had ice blocks and apple. Then we had a kapa haka performance and the ukulele groups performed too. Then we went to get into our PJs and get ready for bed, this was a bit hard, as we all had to go get changed in the bathrooms cause we were all sleeping in the wharenui. Getting to sleep was a long process but waking up was easy. We had some free time and then breakfast, I had spaghetti on toast and a milo.

Soon the wai syndicate arrived and we went through the powhiri process but we were the tangata whenua and they were the Manuhiri. Te Waka was our first song and then we did Haramai a Paoa. Morning tea was next and then we did some more rotations with wai. Our first rotation was with Koka Ngaire doing something called honga where you had a partner and you have to put a piece of cabbage tree between you and your partners forehead. Then we had lunch  which was frankfurters and got ready to go back to school. Over all is was a fun time and would like to do it again.

Tree Planting at the Farm

Last week we went tree planting at the wetlands at the Land's farm. We donated all of the plants that we planted from the school's shade house and donated and planted around 290 trees. Some of us decided to try and make their way across the wetlands and everybody came back with water in their gumboots! I'm pretty sure that everybody learnt a lesson that day, do not attempt to cross wetlands when you do not know how deep the water is. Luckily enough there was a hole digging drill thing that helped us dig the holes so we just had to put the plants in.

After we finished planting we got to do some docking. If you don't know, docking is taking the tails of lambs. This may sound gross but you can eat the tails. We also clipped the lamb's ears to mark the lambs so you know they are from that farm. There were some sheep that tried to run away and jumped over the fences!

To sum it up it was a really fun trip and I loved it. I liked it because we could have fun, get wet and be crazy. I wish we could go again!


                      

Because of Winn Dixie

This term in class we read Because of Winn Dixie by Kate . She got nearly 400 rejection letters from publishers but did she give up?, No she did not. I would like to grow up to be  like her. "I decided a long time ago" DiCammillo says "That I didn't have to be talented, I just had to be persistent". I really enjoyed the book and recommend it to others. It is about a girl called India Opal but everyone just calls her Opal. 

Her mother went away when she was very small and her father is the preacher of the local church. She found a dog in the Winn Dixie supermarket and names it after the supermarket. The dog has a pathological fear of thunderstorms. Because of this dog she met lots of people including, Otis the pet shop man, Miss Franny block the librarian, Gloria Dump the witch (not), Sweetie Pie the cute kid, Stevie and Dunlap Dewberry and Pinch faced Amanda.

                         

Hauora

               
This term's inquiry topic is Hauora. Hauora is wellbeing, it includes Taha tinana, Taha whanau, Taha hinengaro and Taha wairua. They are physical, social, mental and emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Here are some slides with some information about Hauora

                  

Term 2 Reflection

Hi, its me, Rosie. This term we (the class) we had lots of stuff going on ,E.G Retro tech, Trips to far away lands (just kidding) ,courses, swimming sports, anzac day and weeding at the Hamanatua stream. I especially enjoyed the East Coast Museum of Technology. Here are some slides about it:

                       

REFUGEE

In my reading group, we are reading a book called Refugee. It is an interesting and nerve wracking book but our teacher has been feeding it out so we are only allowed a certain amount of pages each week so we don't get ahead of everyone else in the group. I am looking forwad to next week to know what happens next. This is some of the blurb from the back of the book and a link to a video about the story :) 

Three different kids.

One mission in common: ESCAPE.All three young people will go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers–from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But for each of them, there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, surprising connections will tie their stories together in the end.

Here is the link to the video

Fly to the Moon and Back

In my writing group (EL4) we had a choice between two video's to do a voiceover to. The video's were Coin Operated by Nicholas Ariol and Preheated by Luke Snedecor and Sarah Hein.

I chose to do Coin Operated because I like how the boy in the video keeps striving toward his goal. In a way I am a bit like the boy in the video,  I spent a long time trying to narrate this story so here is the finished product:'

Retro Tech

Hi, our topic at school this term is retro tech (olden day technology). We went to the museum to learn about it. We got to see olden day stuff and we got to fiddle round with camera's.We also wrote with quills and got our picture taken with an old day camera.

We went to a cottage that had normal use tools in a cabinet and a old desk that actualy looked more comfortable than nowdays desks!
The quills were just a niusance because you would have to dip the pen in the ink every few letter's. Above that, you would get ink on your hands and ink does not come off easy!

Beautiful Blogging

Hi,
Today I will be teaching you how to make a quality blog post. First you need to have a catchy title that people will be hooked in by. Next you need your writing to be clear and able to be understood. You need to check your post for spelling, punctuation and typo errors. Your writing needs to be interesting and hook your reader in. Last, you need to make sure your layout looks good.

The Great Annoyance

Hi me again,
For a writing task in my group this week we have been working on 6 sentence storys, have a look at the image to see what that is. Here is one that I made up:

Once apon a time, there was a young girl that loved to play horses. She lived in a 3 bedroom house and shared a room with her 2 older siblings. Her talent was annoying her 3 siblings. The problem was that her toy horses hair had been washed with human shampoo so had fallen out. She was overwhelmed
with depression because of this. The girl solved this by annoying her siblings so much that they gave
her some money and sent her off to buy some new toys.
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The Domestic Cat

Hi me again,
This week for a Quick Write we did an acrostic poem about the domestic cat. Here is my one:

Dogs are their enemies                                     Creatures that are lazy and fat 
Outside or lazing inside                                    Annoying in the morning
Mats are the main sleeping place                      Tails that flick you
Excited about food
Sleepy and lazy all the time
Trouble every single time
Inside lazing around all day
Cats will take over the world

My favorite line is the letter T

Hamanatua Stream 2019

Today we went to the  Hamanatua Stream to fight the fennel.

You will find the details in the Slide show above.