Kapa Haka Time!!!!

 Last week moana syndicate (that's me!) finally filmed our Kapa Haka performance. We decided to film in the hall, Koka Brodies partner, Canaan is a photographer. So he had all his fancy gear ready to film us. To be honest it was super scary having all these cameras staring you down.

This year I was in the front row and I was thrilled! I tried and tried to stay there and the teachers had noticed. Our bracket had quite a few new song such as Ka Waiata, Ka Panapana and Toia mai. I had tried to learn these songs at home and it payed off!

I had always found the poi tricky, but lately I feel like I have got the hang of all the moves in E Rona. My favorite move in the poi was when the front row went on the ground (sitting) and the second row stood on their knees. I thought Klara did an awesome job leading E Rona.

My favorite song was easily Toia Mai, its such an up beat song with fun actions and words. Kapanapana was a real challenge for us to learn, it was about the volume, the breathing and the actions.

The whole performance was easily my best I have ever done and i'm super proud of the effort I put in. And on top of that I achieved my goal! On the stage I felt proud to show all the hard work that we put into our bracket. We even made the principal cry!

Watch us preform

Ilminster Green Team

 Today we caught a bus and headed to Ilminster (my future school). We went to watch the Green Team preform a awesome play about why littering is horrible, and why we should Do the 3 R's (Reuse reduce recycle).  

The play was about 2 little koura (crayfish), a nana koura (nana crayfish), skater kids, aliens and a robot! the two koura were asking their nana to tell them stories about her as a young koura. She started telling them the story of her stopping the aliens from trash planet turning earth into a rubbish into a dump like planet trash. 

The alien king had sent out his guards to find a new rubbish dump on earth, they ended up finding the perfect place... The skate park! After dumping all their rubbish there the king says to chuck out the robot, so the left him in the pile of rubbish and he hides there, until... the kids come and try to move the rubbish but they get electrocuted. They end up finding the robot and demanding him to call the king. 

The king got quite frustrated but ended up making his way down, the kids tried to debate that the skate park should not be the rubbish dump for the aliens, but the king just ignored them and called the mothership to bring them back to planet trash. Later the kids go up to Nana koura to get her help, but she refuses, after a while of begging she says ok and then they get the robot to call the aliens.

The king came down again quite frustrated but his mood quickly changed when he saw Nana Koura, THE KING THOUGHT NANA KOURA WAS THE LOST KING KOURA!!! When she told him to pack up the rubbish he got straight to work. In no time the rubbish was completely gone!

I cant wait to audition for the green team when it comes to auditioning. The play made me feel like i need to take responsibility and do the three R's, Reduce, reuse and recycle! On message to self: don't litter like the trash aliens and end up living in a dump literally and figuratively.

Speeches

 This term we are doing our speeches!! I love doing our speeches because you get to stand up and persuade people that my opinion is right and that I am right. THis term my speech topic is Going For Gold In Achieving Your Goals . I am arguing that you should go for gold and achieve your goals and how you should go about it. Here is my speech:

Arthur Ashe once said

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can,”

  We all have goals in life that we set out to achieve.

 I believe we all have the ability to achieve these life goals.

 It's just a matter of using what we were given and go for gold to achieve the best we can.

 That's where this quote resonates with me.

Start where you are. 

Starting where you are is key,

like all things in life you need a starting point.

 If you start from where you are you can understand your strengths and weaknesses

 then you can work out a mental plan as to where you need to go next to achieve your goal.

Finding the start is stopping and looking around you to find the starting track. 

It is often thought that you have to go somewhere and then you can finally begin but actually all you need to do is start right where you are and go from there. 

Start with something that is achevibal, 

something easy 

and then work your way up to bigger goals 

that will require knowledge, preservarencie and determination.

Use what you have.

 We all have things that are unique

 and those things are the reasons we are different from everyone else, 

all we have to do is embrace that we are different and use those as our superpowers to go for gold. 

Use your surroundings to help you reach your goal, 

if there is something you need,

 set a goal to get that or make do without it.

Arthur Ash became the first and remains the only African/American tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles, (famous world tennis comp), 

He used his skills and proved just because he's different he can still go for gold and achieve his goals.

 Use your knowledge that you have now to elaborate and learn more to go for gold.

 Obviously over time you will obtain the right tools and skills you will need to go for gold.

Do what you can. 

In life to achieve goals and go for gold you can only ever do what you can,

 but you also have a voice to say

 “this is what is happening".

 You should do your absolute best in everything that you do to show that you are worth the support and value

Doing what you can can also mean helping others with their goals,

 their goals can become your goals to achieve.

 You have the power of all of your decisions and choices,

 the goals and things you take up

 and the things that you do. 

You can make change in someone

, something, or the world

All of our goals are achievable and are worth achieving

. Goals are part of life

 you are going to have to make one somewhere in your life. 

So remember whether you are smarter, 

Faster,

 Taller

 or more popular

 doesn't mean your goals are easier or harder than anyone elses to achieve

, at the end of the day make sure you go for gold.

Green Gold!🌳🌿

 Since 2014, our school has been working our way up to be a Green Gold school. It is now 2021 so we have been completely environmental for 7 years! Our generation (us kids), are the ones that can change our future from global warming, trashed streets and sickly gasses floating around in our air to beautiful wetlands filled with birds and native plants, clean air and native animals that are nearly extinct coming back to full capacity. 

Yesterday we had the Green Gold people ( Charlotte, Kirsty, Rick and Kauri ) come and judge if we are worthy of holding the Green Gold title. In the morning when they got there we greeted them with a powhiri. After the powhiri my class went to find the start of Hamanatua, our school awa. I horse ride over the hill we were walking so I knew the way. 

When we got to the gate into the farm Koka Rozie told us the precautions to take on the farm and then we headed in. Right at the start was a steep, slippery hill we had to climb up to get to the creek. I barely made it down the hill without falling, when it was my turn to jump I had tightened my bag straps and prepared myself and swoosh... I made it without any water on me, TADA!!

Onwards..... We followed the river through mud and poop until we got to the base of Hamanatua. Woohoo!! We made it. Everyone was super ready for lunch so we sat and ate our food. It is hard to believe that Hamanatua started as a big wetland, just a humongous paddock full of mud and cows!

When we got back a awesome surprise was waiting for us... WE GOT GREEN GOLD!!!!!!!

6 Sentences Only!!!???

In L3 writing  our teacher challenged us to write a whole story, but there was a catch the story had to be 6 sentences long. My story was about an isolated horse without any friends. The story goes like this:

Once upon a time there lived an isolated horse who longed to have friends.

She lived in a massive field in the middle of nowhere!

This horse used to be the ultimate show jumping horse she even competed at the olympics.

Everyday she would dream her owner would come and visit her or even get her a new friend, it never happened though.

Friendless is the best way to describe the way that she felt.

One day as a wild herd came past she decided to leap the fence and join them and she lived happily ever after. 

I hope you like it!

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IT'S A CRAZY CIRCUS (part 2)

 Yesterday was the rhythmical dance performance. I'm going to tell you all about it, so let's start from the top. I didn't know how I was going to get to the gymnasium because I was the only rhythmical girl that was not doing grade, so I had no way to get there! I had to hunt down the teacher that was incharge of the gym festival, so I could see how I was getting there. I asked, she said I would have to catch a ride with the graders parents. When I got there, I didn't know what to do since my rhythmical performance was not until 11:30 and it was only 9:15! I looked around and saw my friends that did a grade earlier, so I sat with them and watched a school perform.

Lola ordered chips at the stall but she had to wait like for ever to get them because they ran out. Our coach had not turned up yet, but we were playing and waiting where she told us. Ten minutes later she walked around the corner with a huge plastic tub filled with bows and rainbow tutus. She said "get on the chair and I will do your hair". After, she did my hair and put the bow in my hair, I put on a tutu and danced around. We saw the other team enter and start practicing. Some of the other rhythmical girls in our team were doing grade so when we got our turn to practice, there were 8 of us in total. We quickly ran through the dance and went to do it again but the other team asked us if they could have a turn.

A kind lady had asked us to line up at number 4 so we can get ready to go on. It was so nerve racking! Would you be scared? Jax, our coach was on the other side of the tramp so I ran over and gave her a huge hug and thanked her for teaching us the dance. The other team were walking away into the other room so I ran back to the front of our team line and lead them in. By this time I had gotten even more nervous. "These are our 2 primary school rhythmical teams!" Announced Bevan. Mangapapa was first up. As they entered the stage, I was not even one bit nervous now. 5 minutes later, they were done and their dance was amazing!!! It was our turn! We got into position and the music started. It was so hard to skip on the bouncy floor because we went so high! Our dance was so much fun to do. We still don't know who won though... 

Its as crazy circus!

 In gizzy we have a gymnastic festival ever year and there is a rhythmic section which is competitive and i made it into the team. Our theme is circus! If you search up Britney Spears Circus Villains Remix, we have to dance really fast. We get to do flips and learn new trick, its so much fun. The outfits in the photos are our ones we are wearing. Would you audition for the team?

Cooks Cove caterpillar

 As we climbed up the steep lot of of stairs all I could hear was panting and puffing and we had only just started! We were walking up cooks cove in Tolaga to practice for camp that was only one week away! All the year sixes were pumped for camp and we were excited for this walk . We got through the stairs and were nearly at the top to get to the the statue but we had to make it through the steep hill ahead, my group were the first in the big line of year sixes so we had to jog up the hill!

We finally made it to the statue and my group got put at the back. In my group I had Raphi, Alice, Me and Momo. Me and Alice talked the whole time. We started walking the middle part and we started getting puffed and our legs started aching. There was lots of down hills and up hills and because its a farm there was lots of prickles and when I say lots I mean thousands. Once we got to the lookout  thing our teachers and parent helpers took a couple photos and we had a drink and a little read of the sign about captain cook's meetings with maori and his ships crew.

We started to walk down through the bush part but we had to make it down all the stairs without tripping. we were walking down the last lot of stairs, when we got on to the dirt track it had split in two tracks one indof deep down and one when you walk in the low one it is up to your hip and it looked funky! We got close to a bridge but we were stopped and shushed and told to look up it took a little bit to find but after a little we saw a... Morepork ! it was so cute we named it Phoenix after my horse. we crossed the little bridge one group at a time and we parked our caterpillar next to the long drop so kids could go to the loo. 

We walked past the hole in the wall and down to where Cook arrived and we had our brain break and talked. we started walking back and stop to look at the hole in the wall and take a photo. We all went in the hole and got called out. then we climbed up the huge hill we just went down but we couldn't see phoenix. we got out of the bush part and it was now all downhill and it didn't  take us that long. When we got back we talked about camp and left.