Interschool ATHLLETICS

On Wednesday me and a few others went to Interchool Athletics. 

My first event was ball throw I tried my hardest to get the ball to go as far as possible but the ball just missed the flag so we didn't come a place in ball throw but it doesn't really matter because we tried our best and had fun. Then it was the boy's turn they did really well and got our school first place.

Next was running, I didn't come a place in the 100m sadly but Charlotte.M got a place she made it into the finals which was very good because it was stiff competition.

Overall I think our team did including we came second in the relays. And I had so much fun.

Monarch butterfly show

 Kia ora today I will be telling you how we went to the monarch butterfly show.

Today we went to the monarch butterfly show it was really cool. The monarch butterfly show was about how butterflies are important to us and not to kill their homes.They told us that how would you like it if we destroyed your house's and we had nowhere to stay no food or anything.    That is how a butterfly would feel if we chopped down there home.

There were two ladies that performed the monarch butterfly show they did some stunts in the show and that was really cool. I walked down to the show with Alivia and naia. On the way there we saw a really cute cavoodle everyone started hugging in and patting it as we walked onto the bridge we started to throw rocks into the river and to see who can make the biggest splash.

Maori Language Week

Today I am going to be telling you about Maori Language Week here at Wainui Beach School.

We as a school are going to try to use as much Maori this week. Teachers will be trying to give us feedback on our learning in Maori. Today the whole of Moana and Nui got together and we sang our school Waiata and filmed it and put it on the Maori language week website. 

Our teachers shared a site onto the Moana hub and we had to select the written word and match it to the wons that are in Maori. Here is the link to the game if you want to play it...Maori week game 

Our teacher has already taught us some Maori including Kia Kaha which means be strong.  So remember to use as many Maori words as possible because this only comes once a year.

I believe that we should be using more Maori in school and I am looking forward to learning more Maori. We have the Kapa Haka festival in term four and I am looking forward to it because I have been practicing my poi.

I would like to learn how to weave, play traditional Maori stick games, and have a hangi.

What are you doing for Maori language week?

What would you like to do?

Shared kai🥯🍟🥨🧇🍔🌭🥞🍕🥪🌭

Kia ora today I am going to be telling you about our shared kai last Thursday.

Last Thursday we had a shared kai because it was Koka Terri's last day, everyone brings something sweet or savory Naia brought fruit kebabs and Alivia brought sausage rolls. We had the shared kai at 11.00 before morning tea.

At 10.45 some people were chosen to help setup the shared kai and exactly at 11.00 we started to dig in we were allowed to get one savory and one sweet and after that you were allowed seconds.

There was jelly, biscuits, chips and everything else the shared kai was so good!!!! After the shared kai hardly anyone ate there food because we were all stuffed.

Fruit Kebabs

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Beach day

Kia ora my name is Lola and today in my blog I am going to be telling you about beach day.

On Monday we went down to the beach for PBL (Play, Base, Learning) and we got to make anything you want for 40 minutes.Alivia, Naia, and me all made a big as turtle. 

We started with the base we kind of made a big circle and then dug around the outside once it was big enough we started to decorate. ALivia and me went to go get some flowers and Naia was making the head.

Once we got back from picking flowers Naia had done the head and she was moving onto the legs.  Alivia and I started to put flowers on it's head as a nice necklace. After we did some finishing touches we asked a teacher to come have a look at it and we were very proud of our work.

Learning through play

Every Monday and Tuesday we do learning through play and it is where you have to chose one space to work in and there is four options like Junky Monkey, Cardboard Nation, Makey Makey, and Planet Construction.

Junky Monkey

Junky monkey is a place where there is two boxes and you get stuff out and deconstruct them. The first week I went in junky monkey and it was really fun Alivia Naia and me all tried to make a doll move without us touching so we used string to direct it and it worked out really easily.

Cardboard nation

Cardboard nation is  a city of cardboard where you make stuff out of cardboard this week Alivia Naia and me made a person out of cardboard we coloured it in and gave it clothes and we even made it move by connecting these golden pins to our creation. 

Makey makey 

Makey makey is a technology room where you create circuits and chain reactions on your chromebook. Koka Rachel will ask us to make a human circuit so we have to go away and find out how to do that we have all the equipment we just need to work it out.

Planet construction

I have never been to planet construction so I don't no what it is.

Trip to Queenstown

In the first week of term 3, we were going to Queenstown on Thursday.  We had to get up at 5.00 since our flight left at 6.00 

Our flight left at six so we got ready and headed off to the airport. Once or flight got called we jumped aboard and off we went. We had to go to Wellington first and then we go to Queenstown. The thing about planes that I hate the most is when they go sideways it is so scary it is like the plane is tipping over, and the worst part is that we are oversea so all you can see when you turn is the sea. When we got to Wellington airport we went straight to the lounge to get something to eat for breakfast. Ruby and I got hash browns and bacon and some fruit, and my parents got some yogurt.

We had to wait like four hours since our flight was delayed so we decided to go and have a walk and look around town. Once it was 10.45 we went back since our flight left at 12.30. We were in the longe waiting and waiting until our flight got called we all got and wheeled our luggage to the dropoff center and went aboard. This time Ruby and I sat next to each other since we got to watch t.v on our iPad, the flight was two hours and thirty minutes. I started to get pins and needles in my legs. I was hoping to see snow when we flew into Queenstown but we didn't we just saw mountains with heaps of snow on it. 

We quickly rushed to pick up our campervan and then we were on the road it took us thirty minutes to get to our campground and once we got there we had dinner and went to bed in the campervan we were that tired.

The next day we went to this place called puzzling world and it is where you solve puzzles and do cool illusions. We got to go in different rooms and do all kinds of stuff in one room there was this ball and you touch it and in the of the ball, it is like lightning. Then after that we drove to Wanaka and did some stuff there and then my mum had the best idea to do a photo challenge and it was like someone would start and choose a picture for the other people and the person who chooses the picture had to turn around so they couldn't see who took what and then the person who chooses the picture looks at all of the photos and picks one that is the best and then whoever wins gets one Lollie and they choose the next picture.

The day after that me Ruby and dad all went skiing it was so much fun at first we didn't know how to ski so we went into a lesson and they taught us how to ski and after that, we were skiing down big slops and it was amazing, while we were learning we fell over quite a few times but it was okay because we were learning. My dad was not skiing he was snowboarding and on the first slop he went down he hurt himself, but he recovered and he still kept going. 

Those were my highlights of Queenstown. Being in Queenstown for eight days was so much fun!

Pie and Donut day & PJ day

 Last Wednesday it was Pie and Donut day and PJ day every person who wanted to dress up in there Pj got to and but they had to bring a gold coin donation, and whoever wanted Pie and Donut got to have one they just needed to pay six dollars. And at morning tea we got Pie and Donut they were delicious. We did PJ day to raise money for camp and we ended up with $310.80.

The camp was sposed to be in term two but since COVID 19 it was postponed to term four. I decided not to wear my PJ's but the people who did wear their PJ's looked really good there were pandas, giraffes, lions, zebras, tigers, there were even some sloths.

The Pie and Donut were so good, in the middle of the donut there was cream and jam, and in the pie, there was mince and cheese. I am really glad we had Pie and Donut day and PJ day so we could still have camp for the year sixes.

Bone Tiki

Hi, i'm Lola, and today i'm going to be telling you about the Book we read in class. 

Every Thursday and Friday koka Rachel is in room 3 and she reads a book called the Bone Tiki. We used to read a book called the Maze of Bones, but we swapped to the Bone Tiki. I like the Bone Tiki better because I find it interesting to listen to, and in the Maze of Bones I found it interesting but the Bone Tiki is way more interesting.

The Bone Tiki is about a boy called Matt  trying to find his mother in Taupo he ran away from home. She helped find food and told him what   and went to a fair and meets kelly there and kelly offered to take him to Taupo because it is on her way home.They were on their way to Taupo when they got stopped by Donna (the evil woman that is trying to steal the Bone Tiki from Matt) , she had  three men with her and they looked super tough, Matt and Kelly slowly stepped out of the car, Donna had a evil grin on her face Matt and Kelly were scared to death. Two men started walking up to them every second they got closer Matt and Kelly would take a step back. 

Matt held up the Bone Tiki and called for Toa in about two seconds Toa was out of the Bone Tiki and started to beat up the three men Toa was so tough. In a about one minute the three men were on the ground unconscious. Then Donna speed away in her car.

Saturday morning netball game.

Last Saturday we played a netball game out on the courts.  We played waikirikiri school they were really good.  We tied by 6.  I was mostly playing attack and centre. 

Te Atawhai was playing attack with me and Te Atawhai's defender was holding her arm so she couldn't catch the ball when I was trying to pass to her so I had to keep passing to centre.

 Naia was really good at playing defence, Naia was really good at jumping in front and catching the ball when the other team had the ball and trying to pass to each other. Naia was playing attack with me for one quarter and she almost scored all the goals.

Charlotte also plays defence, she is really good at getting the ball when the other team has it.  Charlotte is good at attack and shooting goals from close up. 

I play attack with Charlotte mostly.  We had really good defenders so it was hard when we were trying to shoot goals and we didn't get them the other team would cause they were right under   the goal.

School holidays

In the school holidays my sister and my mum and me went to the Mount and it was amazing we went to K-Mart and got my friends some pens. We got settled in out our new place and then we had a walk around the Mount Hill halfway there we saw a beach with heaps of beautiful shells so I picked some up for my friends.

The first day we arrived there some of my old my mums friends came to our house and they went out for dinner, so we got a babysitter called Alice. We watched feel the beat it was a Dance movie and it was really good.

the next day we went to the hot pools with my mum's friend Eran and he threw me and ruby in the hot pools and I learnt how to do a backflip out of the water of Eran.

Just Dance costumes

This week it is the end of term so we decided to have some fun and dress up as just just dance characters. You got to choose between Timber, Hands clap, and waka waka.

Charlotte and I choose Timber it is a two, I am going to be the girl and Charlotte is going to be the Panda.  Charlotte and I will be doing Timber on Thursday.

Charlotte is going to bring the two hats and the panda suit and I am going to bring the T-Shirt. I don't have a American T-shirt so i'm just going to bring a checkered T-shirt.

Last week we were working on making letters so Naia came up with the idea to write koka Terri a note about just dance costumes so Koka Terri and Koka Ngaire and they said yes to bring outfits for just dance so we all were so excited.

My menu

Hi this week on of my priorities was to make a menu with things you love and this is the menu I put together.

Gym concert

Gym concert with Alivia, Lila, Betsy, Aria, Sarah, Zoe, Matria, and me all did a gym concert last friday at assembly. One of the girls wasn't here though but that was fine it still looked pretty good.

We worked all through discovery for 5 weeks to put that dance together and teaching them them was very hard. Alivia and I are doing a new dance and showing it at the end of next term and the song is "you need to calm down".

Making up a dance with my best friend Alivia is really fun. We are teaching them some really cool stunts and flips. Alivia and I have already got the first 3 moves.
We practice at the back of the hall at discovery.

Alivia and I are really proud of our group for doing the concert and not giving up and very excited about our next concert.

Pepeha art

On Wednesday the whole off moana cyndicut went down to the lighthouse.  And that's where I got my idea to do a lighthouse with waves around it and I drew my monga, Marea and the humunatua stream for my Pepeha art.                                                                                                                                                                                                             

My Pepeha art represents all of my family. My sister represents the lighthouse for how bright she shines, my Marea represents my dad of how strong he is, my monga represents my mum off how kind she is, and the humunatui stream represents my puppy Arlo for how cute he is.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

My Pepeha art has taken 2 weeks to finish I have put a lot of time and effort into my piece of art. The most challenging thing about my art was probably getting all the patterns right and colouring in the back to trace onto a piece of paper. Here is a picture of my Pepeha art.........

Just dance

Ding, ding, ding went the bell for morning tea me and Alivia sped to the
hall as quickly as possible everyone was making a lot of noise until
the teacher came into the hall everyone sat on the carpet and
waited for Rio, Josie, and Ella to tell us how many people you
were in  a group with. 

The first dance we learnt with our class was called waka waka (It’s time for Africa)
that was a group of four so everyone rushed around trying to  find a group of four.
I was in a group with Alivia, Naia, Nina, and myself.  The next dance was called Timber. 

It was a group of two so Alivia and me got in the positions and started to dance
and follow the characters. At the end of the dance Alivia had to jump on 
my back and do a pose which was very awesome.

Everytime i do just dance my heart rate gets up and I feel exhausted. 

Just dance has taught me to be a better dancer and it has taught me to
calibrate with others.

Facts about just dance: the people that we are following are actually real
people just behind a green screen so they would have to be real good dancers.
Just dance has nearly over 500 songs! 

Back at school

I can’t believe that school is starting again. I am so excited about seeing my teachers and my friends. It’s hard to get back into the school routine again.

 When I got to school on the 18 of may monday I felt so excited when I got to school. The best thing about coming back to school was doing heaps of art and getting to see my teachers.

My favorite thing in lockdown was probably spending more time with my family and pets. I liked how I got to chat on hangouts with my friends and spend more time with my sister.

Every friday our whole family would make dinner together.

The thing that I didn’t like about lockdown was that I had to make my bed when I got up and I had to start work at 8.00 and end at 12.30.

swimming sports

Oh my gosh I have to get ready for swimming sports I quickly got ready and ran of to school. We got on the bus it took off. We arrived at enterprise I got changed and sat down waiting for my name to be called up.

When they called my name up I went in the line we got ready and then Koka Rozie said 'take your marks' and the big bang went I springed of the diving box and splash into the water I went as fast as I could I had dragons in my tummy I got to the end and did a tumble turn and did a big push off. 

When I finished in second place I went down and got my towel and cheered on my friends. I got into the finals for everything and I came second in the finals on breaststroke and freestyle. Once I did all my finals I went to the shop and got some lollies. I had an amazing time at the swimming sports and very excited about inter school’s.

Our first week back at school.

I have had a great first week back at school in MLH. We have done some amazing things like trying to get into our buzz groups and doing heaps of challenges. We did a challenge with balloons but the balloon popped on the second round my group had to sit out until we got to do another game. 

In the morning while the year sixes are swimming we do quick writes. I love the quick writes. The first quick write was chocolate vs cheese. I choose cheese you can put cheese on really anything.  I really like MLH because my teachers are really nice and I've got all my friends in MLH.

We did a challenge to see can you really touch your nose I couldn't but i'm really close.  I love that my teachers always take us for a swim in the school pool it is really warm.  My goal this year is to achieve what I didn't last year I want to get better at writing,reading,math and art.  I really like how we silent read after morning tea and after lunch.  I also like how we have Koka Jo and Koka Rachel on Thursday/Friday.  This week we started our self portrait and the treaty of Waitangi it's really fun. And thats my first week back in moana learning hub. 

Can you see the balloon that popped