Kapa haka festival

Last week we had our kapa haka festival and we did amazing but there were some things we could have improved on. We got to school and we went straight to our class that we had sorted to get dressed in before, then we got dressed. We got our moko on and boy did we look good! Then we got our pictures done, we got our pictures done before the girls got their lipstick on! Then we got our lipstick done we looked really good now.  Then we got all lined up after everyone was ready and got on the bus on the bus ride we went through our bracket, but it was not with everyone on the bus other classes in our syndicate were on different buses. When we got there we got lined up in our lines but the 2 first rows got their pupu on (thats me) it was a real struggle and we hardly got it on, they were soo tight that it was hard to breath! Then we went back to our lines and ran over our bracket really softly and we sounded amazing. Then we got called over to the stage entrance and we waited for about 10 minutes for the man to stop talking and when he did I had the worst case of butterflies in my tummy . We walked on stage and the kaia yelled whakapiri and we bunched together and sang, we were delightful! When we finished we were soo happy then after watching 2 other schools our other syndicate's came on then we sang together our school song we looked and sounded amazing.

Kapa haka

We have been practising our kapa haka bracket and we have managed to learn one new song 1, 1 new poe routine and a lot of actions for a song. We have improved massively  From not knowing how to wiri wiri to being experts at wiri wiring.We had a dress rehearsal on monday and we looked sharp in our dresses. I'm so excited for our pupu's they are pretty skirts that look like this:

I love kapa haka!

Gordan walter

 This week we tried doing gordon walter digital art he is a talented artist. he does his art by hand but we did ours digitally. They are so cool. You put long rectangles and fit the perfect circles that fit perfectly. It is a very funky style. There are some pictures down below. 

Calendar Art

For this years calendar art we did digital polyline art. it was really fun but quite challenging. You could choose a photo, take a screenshot and polyline over it. I did these:

I hope you like them and you should try your self

3D hand art

 This week the year six kids went on camp so we did some 3D hand art. 3D hand art is art that you trace your hand, and then you make the lines straight then when you get to the hand you make a kind of lump, and then you colour in the gaps and you'll get this:

The Monarch Show

On tuesday we walked from our school to the wainui surf club to watch a monarch butterfly show, it was so fun to watch and it was so funny it made me laugh🤣. the play was about monarch butterflies and there was heaps of facts about butterflies, like they eat through their feet ,thats crazy aye.  their colours are orange black and if its a male they have white dots on the ends of their wings. like the one in the picture, that's a male

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My butter maker

For a task this week we had the option to make a machine to help around a farm and I made a     butter maker. My butter maker is on the last.

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Pihitia Farm visit

 On tuesday the whole school went to Pihitia Farm and they showed us some of their stations There was trap station, Sheep station, Meat station, Drone and tech station, sheep shearing, machine station and Cow station ,the meat one was pretty yuck because they cut up a raw and dead lamb in front of us, yuck aye. It was really fun. At the drone Norm was flying round and telling us that a man called bobby and he went out on the motorbike that morning and that he had not come back and we should look on their barn t.v and we watched the screen, then we saw something we took a closer look and we saw it was a flipped over and a man was under... It was fake, it was a trick the whole thing. We were so relieved.

the cow station

the cow station

the cow station

the trap station

the shearing station

the machine station

The amazing and yummy writing workshop

The other week we wrote instructions how to make an ice cream sundae. Today we tried them out we swapped with the person next to us. I swapped with Esther, we both read each other's and the teacher (Matua Beau) made the ice cream sundae while we said it. He did exactly what we said. Nina on her instructions she didn’t have a spoon to eat with so she had to drink it. we added vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, hundreds and thousands sprinkles, pink wafers (they were actually minnie marshmallows). We had so much fun I hope we do it again.

 

Going Down The Beach For LTP

 On monday moana syndicate went to the beach instead of the normal LTP at school. Our school is right over the road to the beach we just cross the crossing and turn right when we see the pathway towards the beach then we're there! The beach is sooo fun.Josephine, Indie, Rio, Esther and Lila started to braid kids hair and then weave flowers into it. It was sooo pretty. I got my hair done by Rio the first time but then it fell out I was really sad. Then I got Josie to do my hair and it looked amazing. The flowers they put in our hair were freesia flowers and they were yellow ones. The little salon they were doing was really popular they had so many people waiting for their turn to have their hair done.They did really well I think they should open up a real salon someday. Everyone's hair looked so great. I loved going to the beach and I hope we do it some time again. 

My Poppa's Birthday

This weekend it was my Poppa's birthday. they went to napier for the weekend to go shopping and have a cool time there. While they were gone I had the responsibility to feed and make sure the pets were okay the pets were a cat (Her name was missy), And a dog (his name is dug/duggy boy). We made my poppa a present it was a chocolate bar type thing, it was really cool.  While they were away they got me jae and willow some stuff willow got a new jersey and cool lip balm, jae got a t-shirt and a pranks and jokes kit, I got hair ties and some jodhpurs for horse riding. we had a yum dinner then we had a gluten free carrot cake from a cake shop in napier. 

This is not the one we made for him I just found it on google. 

Learning makey makey for LTP

Learning makey makey for LTP 

This week I went to makey makey and we first tried to make a lightbulb light up but then we decided to make a piano out of random objects but first we made it out of playdough then we found these cotton balls and connected those to the alligator clips and then we tapped it and then it made a piano sound then we started to find things like pasta, spaghetti, ping pong balls, circuit ball and humans... YES humans, we found that if someone is holding earth and someone is hooked up to the alligator clip if you are holding the earth you can touch the one holding earth, you can tap the nose of the person clipped to the alligator clip and they will make a piano noise. It was awesome.

 

LTP Junky Monkey

 

This week for LearningThroughPlay Me, Esther and Alice went to junky monkey, at junky monkey what your supposed to do is deconstruct and then reconstruct the thing you deconstructed and make it in to a new thing. We had to make stuff out of stuff that had been broken all ready. We ended up doing it with Indie and we had no idea what we were gonna make we kept thinking up ideas to build but then we all had the idea we should build a water park\playground and that's what we ended doing.

We gathered stuff we thought we would need and started destructing first we made this spinny thingy, we made it of a funny green fidget spinner type thing then we found a metal thing you would put bolts and nuts on. There were lots of bolts and nuts on the already so we put some under the fidget spinner type thing and then put two on and didn't tighten them as much. Then we made a trampoline, we put a hair tie over a part of a elsa barbie dolls dress and made it like a trampoline. then we made a pool out of: a hole in the table, silicone cupcake liner, and a small round container and then we put water in the cupcake liner and made a pool.

Indie made some monkey bars then we found peter rabbit holding out a hoop then we found and added that to the park thing we made and then I made a finish sort of sign thing that was made out of a baby toy, pipe cleaner, and a sharpie. We added more than in the video but the video still has the better version than the new parts we added and also the finish sort of sign thing isn't in the video too. If you didn't watch the video yet i think you should.

The Marakai Menus

Me and my friend Esther are trying out for the Marakai. The Marakai is like a cooking competition that we do in at this school. Marakai is a Maori word it means garden food. What we do is you would do a doc of what you are gonna do and how you are gonna make it. me and esther worked together to get our slide done.

Me and Esther want to make baked donuts and pasta salad. You have the option to make a main a sweet or a drink. Me and Esther decided that we wanted to make a main and a sweet the donut are the sweet and the main is the pasta salad. We liked the idea of the Marakai because we get to choose what we make and how we make it.

At your school you might do a cooking competition what do you call it at your school tell me in the comments. At my school we have to include 5 homegrown or schoolgrown things Me and Esther have five things in our pasta salad we have oranges, apples, coriander, lettice, parsley you are probably like what oranges and apple in salad but actually it is pretty good.  I hope we get selected for the Marakai, (that would be pretty cool aye). 

My trip to Napier

In the weekend my family went to napier we stopped on the way at wairoa to have lunch and play at the world's coolest playground(according to me). I had a sausage roll for lunch and a caramel and chocolate slice. Willow chucked food for the sea gulls and they came swooping down in seconds and chased her along the bank then dad shooed them away. We had sooo much fun. The playground had such big slides and this big rocket ship thingy. 

The drive felt like 100,0000 hours but really it was only three. Before we left my brother had a soccer game against mangapapa school and he won! It was 6-0 ,he got the 6 obviously. We went past green cars, yellow cars, red cars, purple cars, lots of blue cars and heaps of white and silver cars. We played the car game, if you've never heard of the car game before you have to pick a color and hope the car that comes round the corner is the color you picked and you count how many cars have come past you on the opposite lane from you and whoever has the most wins the game. In my family who ever won got a special drink at the restaurant for dinner. Me my brother and my sister tied so we each got a drink.

We had to look for the key when we found it the first thing i did was put my phone on the charger because it was at 1 percent. I slept on the hardest bed in the world. we went to kmart and did some shopping i got a new scooter and some new clothes and stuff for our home lots of stuff for our home. The next day we went shopping back at kmart and i got 2 new phone cases a marble one and a glittery one. I enjoyed the trip to napier and i hope we do it again.

My holidays

 In the holidays I did nothing special but I did horse ride a lot and when I say a lot I mean a lot, I horse rode nearly every day. I rode a horse called Peanut she is the horse that I lease. I did it with Maria and Orla they are both older than me. We rode alone at the Lysnar Valley Equestrian. 

I was down there from 9 am to 5 pm thats 8 hours.

 

I would not ride all day that would be cruel, we clean up the halters and gear then we  cleaned the brushes and the tubs.

 We played with the baby goats there were 3 goats Salt, Pepper and Mini, but pepper died because she was not eating and drinking, we think we know why: there was a dead bird in the water and she might of became sick from a disease. But mini jumps on your back when you sit down.

Then we went inside and we ate a apple orla was making funny faces and I started laughing then I started to choke it was funny because maria patted my back really hard and then she started yelling: Ellas gone die, Ellas gone die, Ellas gone die. then we went and rode we rode up winifred and then went in the arena we rode them back to their paddock bareback but with a cover and a bridle then it started to rain. We were getting soaked and all dirty peanut had poop on her cover and I got it on my leg and thigh (it was disgusting). Maria got all wet on her butt.

At the end of the day I am happy that I went nowhere special because I enjoy horse riding as much as going away and shopping.

Our just dance performing\watching

In our class we did just dance performances I was doing it with Rio we watched.If you read my blogs you would know what I am talking about.We were doing it on Thursday. Me and Rio were doing the projector we had to turn on the songs set it up and pause it and all that kind of stuff. I was shutting the screen the most because that's my job.

We started with the song:Timber. Some of them were funny and some were great and some were cool. I enjoyed watching the all dances. I brang my costume scroll to the bottom to see the costuime 

Menus

This week we made menus we made good ones and bad ones. I enjoyed the bad ones best because they didn't make me hungry
like the good ones. We made the menus as our quick writes. I added in the bad one foods i don't like and I tried to discourage the people who look at it. 

My good menu made me hungry. And I added my favorite foods i did the snacks the dinners and the desserts. On the bad menu it was hard to choose the desserts because all the desserts are really good.

My menu was enjoyable to create. and i really recommend it just for fun/or to teachers.Mine looks like this

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#GetNZWriting

Before lockdown we started this thing
called #GetNZWriting.You get paired
up with another school in NZ. We got
paired up with one from Auckland called
Kauri park school. 

Today we got in a circle and our
teacher passed out some postcards and
we all quickly remembered what they were
for. We read ours and then we got to
choose if we wanted to share what they
say or not. Some were pretty gnarly and
some were funny.

The one I got said something like this: 

Like every awesome year
We visited the yum pie shop

We drive on the busy high road

I remember my mum with me 

Then the car crashed into a tree.
The post cards had writing on the back.
It was a puzzle we put together the puzzle
and it said a blur so we got 3D glasses.
They were cool. 

Just Dance

Just Dance 

Last friday we ran Just Dance for discovery
with my friends Josie Esther Rio and myself
Ella. We had to learn to set up the projector
(which was really hard). We got to go up to
the stage and change the song. We had to get
the little kids to listen and that was hard,
but we got there in the end.

The first dance was: Waka waka 4 players. Then
my favorite:Timber 2 players. I do timber with
my friends sometimes Esther does it with me or
Rio or Josie. When it is over we got to give out
shine cards (which are little cards that give
your house a point).

We did about 7 just dances. There were a lot of
little kids there and they were very cute. We
gave shine cards out to people who showed
respect, responsibility and resilience. Im am
excited.I really recommend Just Dance
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The Lockdown

The lockdown 

On the 25th of March school stopped and we went into lockdown. It was pretty scary. No work for mums, no work for kids ,no work for dad ,no leaving home. Then in a couple weeks into the lock down we started to do learning from home. It was pretty cool we would have google meets every day and have fun tasks to do at home.

We went into the lockdown because of COVID19. We did learn from home because if we didn't do learning from home we would forget all the stuff we learnt be for lockdown.Then we would have learnt nothing. It was a bit challenging fitting all the meets in.

It went well but sometimes my mum got scary. 

I felt like I could wear my pyjamas all day because we can't leave the house. So that's what I did. 

The end.

Swimming Sports has come!

! Swimming sports has come !


Hi I'm Ella and I'm a year 5 girl at wainui beach school and I just did swimming sports yesterday. 


Year 5 girls  come and line up for your first race,freestyle Charlotte, Kale'a, but I can't remember who else did it. 
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Back at school for 2020

First day back

My first day back at school was a blast.  MLH is so fun. We did such fun things like we did a fun game to find who our buzz groups are (buzz groups are groups we do activities in like tension ).We do quick writes every day and our first topic is chocolate vs cheese Tell me in the comments which one you would prefer and why.  We play people bingo and every thing. I love my new class !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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