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.

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?

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:

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.