Writing Sample!

This is my Student Writing Rubric. The green highlighted boxes show the level im at for that specific topic. And the orange is my next step in that topic, I hope you enjoyed!

Kapa Haka Festival!

It was a cloudy Wednesday morning and we were walking onto the stage ready to destroy the Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival. I had 100 butterflies in my stomach, "The first song, we can do this" I thought to myself, "Tu mai raaa" Hunter starts wail few songs later and the boys start the song we've been waiting for... The haka... 

"KAMO!" "HIIII!"We all shout the start to song that determines the whole kapa haka. We finish the Haka, in relief, the crowd gives us a round of applause. king up to the front of the stage slowly. Then everyone else starts following the first song begun we finish the song with pride. the next song begins and we begin with the best start to kapa haka ever.  We start our last song of the kapa haka, He Honore. Once we finished the song and walked off the stage I felt so relieved to get the kapa haka off my chest.

I think we did really well, besides the haka, it was good but, too fast. I was waiting in the line for our bus to arrive and thinking, "did I do good? could've I done better? was I too fast?" I was so paranoid if I had done good or not. But I decided to just forget about it and chillax. Once the bus arrived we were all happy to get it over and done with it.

For most of the time before we started I was so concerned on how it was going to go, but, when we started singing, it was fun. All the butterflies in my stomach just got swatted as soon as Tu mai ra finished. I knew it was going to go well, and it did!  Though, maybe we went too fast on the Haka. 

But besides that, it. Was. Awesome. 

My awesome Marae trip!

So, on Thursday the whole nui syndicate got packed and ready to go to the... Marae! Now, I packed on Tuesday so I was ready to go. We would have to get there between 8:30 and 9:00. My dad dropped me off around 8:30 or earlier, wasn't to sure, ANYWAY, when we got there there was a maori guy that had the moustache of the month and he talked to us in maori, it was cool but honestly I did not understand one single word he said. Then we got told lots of cool stories about the marae, THEN we did the nose to nose thing and our powhiri and that's that!

After that we had shared lunch, and... ROTATIONS... dun dun duuuuun! Rotations was fun, we got to do lots of games such as string games, raka games, and lots more! Than we had lunch, MORE ROTATIONS, and make our beds, that was not that bad, For dinner we had NACHOS which were really yum. And our... Performance, we DESTROYED it. (as in we did really good) and last, bedtime! I had a book and I tried reading but I just really didn't feel like it. in the morning everyone was talking and me to, I was talking with my friend Zion. We had to wake up after a while and pack away our bags and all our sleeping stuff. Awesome.

Then we did our powhiri for the little kids that came to the marae. We didn't stay for much longer, we had some rotations then free time and we got our bags out on the court, MORE free time and then the buses came! When we got
back to school it was a bit past 2:00 so we decided to watch a movie! B
uuut that didn't work, the movie kept lagging and lagging so we just listen to music for the rest of the afternoon. Then the bell rang and we went home! So that's my marae trip, hope you enjoyed!

my Time at the Hamanatua stream!

This is my presentation for my time at the hamanatua stream! this will be useful in the future for gardening!

My Coat of Arms

In room 4 we have been learning about Coat of Arms. This is my Coat of Arms! A Coat of Arms is a shield of symbols and colors to represent you or your family.

Write a Quality Blog Comment.

WALT: write a quality blog comment

I found this learning fun because if I didn't know how to write a quality blog comment that would be really annoying!

Coat of Arms

In room 4 we have been learning about coat of arms, it will be very useful in the future.