Attending the Kawakawa Festival

On Friday the Kapa Haka Roopu attended the Kawakawa Festival. We had two weeks to put together 5 items to perform on the day. We had fun and represented our school proudly. Our Kapa Haka tutors Whaea Ronni, Whaea Lesha, and Matua Pep took us every day to practice. We practiced at morning tea lunch and afternoons. Next time I hope we have a full bracket.

Kawakawa Festival

The Paihia School Kapa Haka Roopu have been working towards going to the Kawakawa
Cultural Festival. We go with our Kapa Haka tutors everyday in morning tea, lunch, and
each afternoon. We are looking forward to seeing others performances as well as
ourselves. Personally I think we have been working hard and I need to work on my
disciple. Until Friday that's it about the Cultural Festival.

Writing

In Te Ngahere we have been writing a diary entry. I wrote about Hone Heke.
I think I did well with staying on task and making each paragraph have support from the
other paragraphs so they all collaborated to make sense. I also think I did well with the
development of my piece of writing. Next time I could use a little bit more interesting
words in my writing, other than that I was happy.  

Tai-Tokerau Festival

Seven students from the Kapa Haka Roopu had the opportunity to go and watch the
Te Tai-Tokerau Festival. We went to experience the types of things our Ropu needed to
improve on. I enjoyed every performance and now our Kapa Haka Roopu is working
on a bracket for our Kapa Haka Roopu. My favorite was when Matua Pep, Izaiah,
Harlem, and myself joined a haka to tautoko one of the Roopu.

Anzac D.L.O

In Te Ngahere we have been making D.L.O´s about ANZAC biscuits. My problem was to multiply the original recipe that makes 30 into 420. First I did a basic fact that adds up to 42. Then I did another multiplication problem that I could constantly use to help me which is 14. 14x3=42 and 30x14=420. So all I did was x14 on all ingredients which left me with my answer 420. I really enjoyed making the D.L.O because it was a challenge. Next time I could complete it in the time given.

Hayden Weal

This week Paihia School had a New Zealander actor named Hayden Weal come to our school and talk to us about his acting life, and childhood. When he was in school he used to get into trouble and one day he got sent to the Principal's office and the Principal said what do you want to be when you grow up? He said an actor because he liked watching movies and the Principal said that it would never happen. One day Hayden was being naughty, this teacher asked him what do you want to be. He didn't want her to know, but he told he anyway, he said he wanted to be an actor. The teacher said that’s great, but he said “it’s not going to happen”. The teacher told him she was going to help him. Hayden and the teacher were reading a lot and he started being positive. When he got older he was an actor in The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, and played in a film with Daniel Radcliffe (actor of Harry Potter). I really enjoyed his talk because he proved that you don’t have to listen to anyone and it is important to chase your dreams.  

D.L.O

Last week in Te Ngahere we have been making D.L.O’s about doubling and halving. We were learning to solve complex multiplication problems by using doubling and halving. I think I did well with using doubling and halving correctly with fairly difficult and complex equations. I really struggled with explaining how and why it works but I ended up doing to the best of my ability.