Athletics day

On Tuesday we had our athletics day. We had all kinds of activities like hurdles,  long jump, high jump, shot put, discus and sack racing. when the day started the yr 7 and 8's started at hurdles I got 6 seconds. On the day we had to learn how to show the school values and how to show great sportsmen ship because there were also junior's watching us. when it got closer to the end of the day we did our house chant's and then sat in our houses. When athletics day finished I looked back and I thought of the best activities and that activity that was my favorite was doing long jump. My least favorite one was doing high jump because I don't know how to jump in scissors position. The easy part was having fun and collaborating with everyone. The hard part was dealing with my saw foot. I think my next step is to really try and practices scissors jumping. Any ways here are some photos of the day.

 

Waka reflect

On Saturday I floated my boat and I thought it would sink. But after I used nearly everything on the bench it still didn't sink because it had dense. I used a soap bottle, hand soap, tooth paste and about 10 other things. I used these because they were all heavy and some were light.  here's a photo of my boat

taumarere

On Thursday the 25th the bilingual classes went to taumaere because we had to learn about the history around that place. We had all jumped on the train and headed off. The big kids had walk 3km from taumarere bridge to opua it was so tiring but I am keen to do it again. Also we had to do a scavenger hunt it was really fun. After that we all  had to walk to the club rooms to catch the train. Here is a D.L.O of the past and present of taumarere.

hanga waka

I have been learning how to build a waka there are so many ways my favorite way is using plastic bottles. The hard part of making my boat was making sure I had the rite design and if I had all my materials.The easy part was building the boat but It was a struggle finding my equipment. The thing I will do next time we do this I will be organised the week before we do it. Anyway the boat I have design is made out of plastic bottles and sticks

. Here is my design.

Te rau pou manawa

On Saturday 17 of November my school Kawakawa primary school kapa haka group went to perform at  Maranga Mai E Te iwi regionals they were incredible they came 3rd for intermediate and 4th to go to nationals. My favorite part was the haka and poi because it's very cool. The only thing they needed to work on was to have fun and enjoy it because they looked bored because they had no pukana in them. Here is the link for there kapa haka. Te rou pou manawa o Kawakawa.

Hanga waka

This week we have been learning about how a boat sinks and floats.
We have been learning about buoyancy and density because after we learn these we can design and build our boats so we can examine if they will sink or not. here's pic of what my boat will look like.

Reading to Nga Rau Rito

Yesterday We had our library open and we had to dress up in our favorite book character I was a school child. Anyway we had to do reading activities one of them was reading to the junior classes we had to read to Nga Rau Rito it was fun. The easy part was choosing a book that was cool for kids. The hard part was getting the kids attendance because they where so bored. Maybe next time I should ask what book they want me to read. What do you think. here are some photos