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.

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?

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!

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

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.