MARAE NOHO!!!!!! :D

Last Thursday and Friday the school went in a visit to Te-Poho-a-Rawiri marae for a overnight stay. We did activities on both days. On the Thursday night nui did our kapa-haka routine, so we could get some feedback on it. I thought it awesome and we smashed it out of the park but that's my opinion. I fin kapa-haka really fun and the activities were fun also. On the first day the activities that I did were: Handball, walking, and these log hand-eye coordination games. On the second day I wasn't feeling well so I don't know what activities my group did. Over all the marae noho was fun and it sucked that I spent most of the second day lying in the shade. Please leave a comment

Speeches!

Today and in the following weeks MLH will be focusing on writing and sharing speeches! I was in the finals last year but just missed the win. Hopefully I will be able to take it out this year. The topic for speeches is 'Hauora', which is the four parts of our wellbeing. So that covers a LOT of stuff. You can pretty much relate anything to that topic so it will be easy to think of a topic! I have thought about it, and my speech will be about why children should participate in at least 1 sport. I think that because it keeps you active and healthy. It also might change the obesity rates in New Zealand. I haven't started yet but I have lots of ideas for it. It will (hopefully) be AMAZING!!! I hope I win!!! Wish me luck.

REFUGEE

For the first week back of term three we have jumped right into our learning. For our reading group we have been assigned a task were we have to read little snippets of this book called refugee every week and then we have to answer questions about the part of the book we have read. It is a really good book as far as I can tell. It is about three children and their families in different periods of time, trying to emigrate to other countries to escape from war and starvation. One of the kids and his family are in Nazi Germany, 1939, trying to escape from the treatment they get for being Jews. They try to get to Cuba. On the other side of the world. One is in Cuba, 1994, trying to get to America to escape from starvation in Cuba, and the last one is in Syria, 2015, and I don't know where they are going just yet, trying to escape from war and political unrest in Syria. It is a really good book and it is written by Alan Gratz. Please leave a comment on this post. :D.

Term 2 reflection.😀

So it is the end of term two... AND IT HAS BEEN AWESOME! we have gone to E.C.M.O.T, the Museum, Life Ed Truck, the four Pou, ANZAC day, and the Waka Tarawhiti. The inquiry topic has been really fun and I think I have done well in academics. It is awesome to learn about the old technology that our grandparents parents, and great grandparents have used.

I was really proud of my report and am happy to be chosen for the GEGNZ google summit. The next term is going to also be amazing. In the next term I look forward to the GEGNZ. It's going to be superly awesomely cool.

Fennel, Grass, and plants

 Today at MLH (moana learning hub) we went down to Hamanatua Stream, AKA our awa. We call it our awa because it is our stream in our pepeha. Three or four years back room 2 planted some native trees down at Hamanatua. Over the years the plants have grown, due to room 2 and later room 1 cutting down the fennel that grows around the plants and mulching the trees and the plants. It has always been hard work, but you feel a sense of accomplishment when it is done. Recently we have strode to make Hamanatua EVEN BETTER we put down some signs and made some brochures of what we have done. I was assigned to down under the bridge, so the trees and plants up the top are the ones I didn't do. Here are some before and after pictures: