Rhythmical Dance Group

This week Lola and Rio started a rhythmical dance group with year 5 and 4 girls from Moana syndicate. Me and Ella are assistants. At morning tea and lunch they practice and practice, everyone loves it! They can do amazing back bends and flips, even I can't do that yet! They are very flexible and have clean moves. The song they dance to is, Levitating by Dua Lipa. 

We practice in the hall with the mats and outside the classes on the grass. I wish I could do dancing like they do! Have you ever been in a dance group?

Little Blue Penguins

 This term our inquiry is on the Little Blue Penguin. They are the smallest penguins in the world and are very cute. Since it is our inquiry topic, we have been doing it in most of workshops. In our writing workshop, we are doing poems about penguins turning into dragons. I really enjoy doing it even though we just started! 

Here is my first few sentences of my poem that I just started:

"I'm waddling to my nest where a fluffy stoat, with an orange coat is gobbling up my eggs. I feel myself burning inside, I'm really going to make him hide!"

I'm very happy with my start and can't wait to do more learning about the Little Blue Penguins!

Gymnastics

This term is the gymnastics festival. The festival is for everyone to give it a go and have fun, but it is optional. At first I wasn't going to do it as I had hurt my arm. But, just when the practices started, my arm had healed and it didn't hurt when I moved it. So I decided to join B grade gymnastics.

Although I am really happy that I can do it, I fell into the learning pit when I found out I had to do a backwards roll. I couldn't do a backwards roll yet, so I was a bit nervous. But I practiced and practised, until I got it.

I am really happy because I have never done gym before, and it is really fun in the practices. This morning we had a fifteen minute practice and I think that there is another one on Friday. I love the gym and hopefully we have more practices soon!

     

Kawa of care

On Tuesday we had half an hour to complete a Kawa of care poster. We were in pairs and I was with Dune.  I had missed out a bit as I was getting my arm X- Rayed. Me and Dune did the big think, solving problems on your chromebook. Here is our poster:

Year 6's Cooks Cove walk

As soon as I got to Cooks Cove I placed a huge smile on my face. It was my first time walking up Cooks Cove and I was really excited! It was really good practise for the year 6 camp. When everybody had arrived the year 6's took a seat on the wet and soggy ground. Koka Ngaire called out loudly the groups for walking. I was with Charlotte A, Oscar and Reef, I was happy with my group.

We lined up in single file and started walking up the maunga. At first there were heaps of steps, but then we were walking on flat ground again. Our first stop was The Beckon of Light, a really intricate and detailed statue. It had some sort of solar panels on the top, so when it was dark the statue lit up astonishingly. This part had a beautiful view. After we had a quick gulp of water, we headed back on the track.

Then after we passed the lookout, we walked on tracks, where you could hardly see light. After a few minutes we saw something amazing, it was a Morepork! It was so fluffy and cute, I loved it!

Very soon we were at the end of the walk. We had our morning tea and then all the groups went to have their photo taken by the hole in the wall. Then we walked back. I loved the walk and I can't wait for year 6 camp!

 Top: The Morepork.     Bottom: Me and my walking group.

Schools back!

 Schools back and it's already week 5!  I have the best teachers: Koka Rozie, Koka Ngaire and Koka Pip. These weeks have been so much fun! Our first day was on a Tuesday because Monday was Waitangi day. We have been walking our Pepeha, doing heaps of art and quickwrites. I even get to do year 6 surfing every Friday!

 On the second week of school, the whole school walked to Hamanatua stream as a part of our Pepeha. It was a beautiful day, so me and my friends played in the sand and had so much fun. We walked down the beach on the way back.

The next day Moana syndicate walked up our maunga, Maungaroa. We had morning tea and brain break up the maunga. Koka Rozie told us about the Ngati Oneone tribe that swam out behind Maungaroa to catch sharks for kai. The bravest people would cut a bit of their body just enough for blood to seep out. Then they would wade out and wait for the sharks to come and catch them. 

In week four we went to visit Te Poho o Rawiri Marae, but I was sick so sadly I didn't go. These things have been so much fun and I can't wait for more fun activities throughout the year. 

Kapa Haka Festival

On Wednesday it was our Kapa Haka festival performance! I was so excited because pretty much everyday we had practiced over and over! Kapa Haka was one of my favourite things to do as I put heaps of effort into it. 

The performance was at the Gisborne showgrounds. Me and Alice sat together on the bus ride. When we arrived I was so nervous! As we had our very last practice, I told myself "Let's do this!!" Then we started walking into the hall, I was so happy! 

As the the man addressed the crowd we marched up onto the stage. I could hear the cheering ringing in my ears as we got into places. Our first song was E Tea Riki and it went so quickly!! Very soon after, the boys finished the haka and our performance was almost over!

As fast as it started we were off the stage and waiting for Wai and Nui to finish. I felt so proud of myself! 

Then after Wai and Nui had performed, the whole school sang Tu Mai Ra together. After that I had so much fun, I just couldn't wait for next year!!