Today- The 29th of August is daffodil day. Daffodil day is a day to acknowledge the people with cancer. Cancer is a 1 in 3 occurrence. Every Daffodil day some people donate money to help scientists research. Scientists research to try to find the cure for cancer. Today most people dressed up for Daffodil day! We also had to draw a daffodil and colour it in.
Every Tuesday and Friday I do boxing at the Kaitaia Boxing Club. I really enjoy doing boxing and i’m going to tell you about it. First, we start at 4:00. We start by doing a run around the block. Next, we do 5 round of skipping. Each round is 2 minutes which takes about 10 minutes all together. Next we have to do exercises such as, sit ups, push ups, leg raisers, burpees, plank and a lot more. We do five rounds of exercises and each exercise is for 30 seconds. Which equals to about 15 minutes because we only do 5 exercises and 5 rounds each day. Next we have to go onto the bags. So, we have to put on these bandage-wrappy things. When we’ve wrapped up we have to go and do combos on the boxing bag. If we don’t do bags we do relays.
WALT take quality ideas from a text and use them to write a Bio poem.
We normally have Mrs Radich on a Tuesday and she has been teaching us about Kupe and Te Wheke. A few weeks ago we started making a Bio poem about Kupe and Te Wheke. The first week I had only got my adjectives down. The second week I was at Ki O Rahi. The third week I was finished but Mrs Radich had to check it but we ran out of time. This week I finally finished it.
Here it is.
KUPE
LOVER OF his very clever wife Hine-Te-Aparangi who spotted the long white cloud.
WHO FEELS That Te Wheke is wrong for stealing his ika and hes upset.
WHO GIVES Muturangi a chance to train Te Wheke but he declines the offer.
WHO FEARS that his family and village will starve thanks to Te Wheke.
WHO WOULD LIKE to kill Te Wheke and solve the fish stealing problem.
WHO COMES FROM the beautiful lands of hawaiki- the traditional home land for the Maori.
NAVIGATOR
WAL about Matariki.
One morning some of the class went to Te Pihi to do some Matariki games. When we got there we had to get given a buddy. April and I got to work with Maraekura. Mrs Brydon said we were going to do some Poi. I was really keen to do Poi because I wanted to learn about it. I forgot the name of the songs we sung and did the Poi, too but it was still fun. Next, we went to Te Kauru AKA my class and we started to make kites. First, we got given a rubbish bag to draw on but the rubbish bag was made into a square. Maraekura and I started to draw on the rubbish thing. When we were done we asked Mrs Stevenson if she could make the kite. When she made the kite it looked so cool.
Have you ever made a kite before?
My favourite part was making the kite.
WAL about different songs and how to perform in front of other schools.
Last Friday my whole school (Paparore school) went to Awanui school to perform for the Matariki festival. First, we got on the bus and I sat by Tahli. When we got to Awanui school SO MANY PEOPLE were there. WE were waiting in a line for about 10 minutes it took so long! When we got to our tents we realised that we took up like 3 tents. We watched all the schools perform and finally it was our turn. The nerve started o kick in. There were so many pairs of eyes. We got in our lines and got into our positions. Then, we started to do the Pepeha and the Kaupapa. Then, the waiata. We were only performing for 10 minutes. 10 minutes had never felt so long!! After our performance we went back into our tents and got given out some hangi. It wasn’t the best hangi I had ever eaten but it was still yummy! I didn’t eat the chicken but I pealed the chicken off the bone and saved it for my dog (He was very grateful).
My favourite part of the Matariki festival was the fact that we had to wear all black and the stuffing in the hangi. My least favourite part was nothing. Have you ever performed in front of lots of people. If so, how did it feel? WEre you nervous or confident?
WAL about our tatai rangatira.
Recently, my class and I have been learning about our tatai rangatira/pepeha. We have to do our school pepeha and our Whanau pepeha. I started with my school pepeha because i’m not sure what my maunga is. I will learn soon, though.
This is my school pepeha. I hope you like it!
I liked learning about my school pepeha and making it in google draw.
I think my pepeha turned out pretty good.
It was hard to make my photo an oval.
WAL How to play soccer.
on Tuesday year 3-6 girls went out to Taipa to play Soccer. My team was Te Reinga, Aria, Alex, Rereata and Dayah. Out first game was 2-7. The highest score we got was 4-0. I didn’t like soccer at first but the more I got to play the more I liked it.
WAL How to play rippa rugby.
A few weeks ago Te Puawai and My class went outside on the field. We were dong rippa rugby. Our rippa rugby teachers name was Tamara but she said to just call her Mara. We started with putting on belts and rips. There were 3 different coloured rips and I was in team yellow. I don’t like yellow but I didn’t mind. The first game we played was a game where we had to rip other peoples tags and put them on our belt. BuTtT we could only rip the yellow tags if you were on the yellow team. You could only rip blue tags if you were on the blue team and so on. The first round I got 1 tag and on the second round I got 2. The next game we played was a game where we had to run across the field when Mara called our tag colour. I was one of the last ones standing. The next game we played was where we had to find a buddy. My buddy was Mia. The aim of the game was to get the cone. There were actions like: Run, ears, eyes, nose and last but not least…CONE! When Mara calls out cone we have to grab the cone before our buddy. I got it once and Mia got it, like, 6 times. Shes SoOoO good at it!!
I enjoyed the running game.
I disliked nothing.
WAL about significant people in New Zealands history.
Te Kauru 2025 has been pretty cool so far😁! We are a class of 25. Mrs. Stevenson is our teacher and she is very nice. I keep my space very tidy. We do cleaning at lunch time for a whole week every third week. We are now role models and we have to make sure everyone is doing the right thing.
My favourite part of this year has definitely been the first day because its cool to settle into other work spaces.
My least favourite part of this year has been nothingggggggggg.