Kapa Haka Dress Rehearsal.

My 20 mins writing this week will be about my Kapa Haka Rehearsal that happened on the 11th of November. (Sunday/Yesterday) So first of I was at a Kapa Haka Wananga ( A live in for a competition group) since Friday night and well about 7 in the morning my dad had to come and pick me up for church which would only for  about 1hr 30mins. So after church I had to go home and just get into some other close to come back to school and just get back into Kapa Haka with the rest of the people in my group. When I got back the girls were getting a bit of a growling because they weren't giving it their all when they were practising anyways Horrace said for everyone to go outside for the rest of the 15mins and then comeback and then we all get dress. After the 15mins everyone started to get the hall set up for all the parents. Not long after we started to get ready and well the way the girls went was while Bina (Horraces Fiance does the next person then they next girl gets ready into their dresses. Well when your done and Bina is still doing someone elses hair then you can go to Whaea Tere (Horraces sister) to do your moko. When your done their then you can go to Bina to do hair, and then when you are done your can go to Whaea Whetu (Horraces Mum/Teacher for Nga Rau Tipuranga) to get your lips done. When everyone was ready we had to go to the back of the hall and wait for all the parents to get in the hall so that we could wait in the foyer to go in the hall. Once I got out in the hall there was no going back. After the Performance a couple of people from the crowd stood up and talked and after a Waiata we had a Haka performed to us from Whaea Jazz, Whaea Hinemoa, Whaea Tere, Matua Shane, and some students. After everything was finished we went around to everyone and let them take pictures. After all the pictures we went and got change back into our other clothes and go home. That was my Kapa Haka Dress Rehearsal Sunday.

My Saturday!!

This little writing is my 20 mins writing. This is where we have 20 mins to write anything we want onto our blog to everyone that goes on your blog. On Saturday the 3rd of November I was heeling from being sick for about 3 or 4 days and well my dad decided to take me to the beach with my family because I haven't been out since Thursday (2 days) and well my Dad wanted be to get fresh air and not stay in the house for 3 days straight. So my dad, Nan, my cousin Maria, my cousin Daniel and I went to Tapeka Beach with my other uncles, aunties and cousins. When we got to the fairy all of the kids got out to look at the water. Once we got off the fairy we could finally see some others beaches and some oyster farms. Before we went to Tapeka we had to stop at the Garage to get some bait for all the men to go fishing. Once we arrived at Tapeka all my aunties and Uncles had put all the snacks out for us and we also had a little cooking some meat for us. After everything was set up my uncles and my dad and I put up the tent and also filled a hair couch for us to sit on. After everything was set all the kids went for a swim and all the men went for a fish, but me and my cousin Noah couldn't swim cause we were both sick. When my dad and uncles came back they also brought back some Kina's and my whole family ate them all before we could even save some to take home. As it came to about 3'ish then all the kids umped out cause they got cold and me and all y older cousins were playing around in the air couches that we filled up and it was super fun cause we all squashing each other. As it came to the ending of the day it started to get windy so we went back on the fairy back to my uncles house to have a feed, After the lovely I went home had a nice warm shower and went to bed. So that was my fun family Saturday this week.

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Te Reo Selfie

For a couple of weeks, my class has been doing a Te Reo selfie. A Te Reo Selfie is a little video about yourself. You had to say like what you like to do, who your family and friends are and other stuff like that. The challenge to this was we had to do it Maori. It was a little easy cause we had some of our stuff translated for us by our teacher who has already done hers and let us use some sentence starters. I also found this hard because I had a bit of camera fright. Here is my selfie video.

Te Reo Directions.

Today in my class for Te Reo we were learning to give and follow simple instructions in Maori. The directions we learnt were...
Haere Totika=Go straight
Piki ake=Go up
Heke iho=go down
Ka tu=stop
Our task was we had to get a partner and one person will be blind folded with a pen in their hand. There was a maze we had to solve so we had the other person tell what to do with the directions up top. My partner was Miria. I found this hard because I couldn't keep the lines straight and I kept on going wobbly. My next step is to give people instructions to go somewhere with other instructions. Here is my maze that I done.

Reading Activity

In my reading group we had to read a book about climate change and when we were finished we had to put 10 facts from the book and present it in a nice way. Hoped you liked it.

Long "E" sound

This week for spelling we were learning about the Long "e" Sound. We had to find 20 words and when we found 20 words we had to put them into alphabetical order. Something that the teacher gave to us was we had to try and only do 1 of each sound. But it was a little hard so some of us just did to much of some. Here is a google drawing of my work.

Fun Run

Last week Friday the whole school had a fun run. The teachers decided to  make our cross country fun and decided to add in obstacles into the cross country. The placing were from 1-5. The people that placed would've went to the Cross Country in Waikare this week Friday and run for us. All the ages from 4-12 years are the ages that we had our run in. My age was 11 years. it was really fun because we had a mud fight while we were doing our run. My least favourite part was the cargo net by my teacher because i kept on getting stuck. But Beside that everything else was fun. I almost forgot we also travelled down to United Kawakawa by our train. Here are some photos of our day.