Terrific Term 4

This term has gone by really fast. Sadly it is my last term at Wainui Beach School. I am excited about going to intermediate but also nervous. We have done lots of interesting and fun things this term. I am going to share some of my favorite parts of this term with you.

I have made a slide to reflect this term.
Some of my favorite things include the road patrol reward day, kapa haka festival, intermediate visit, athletics and much more. I hope you enjoy the presentation...

Terrific Turanganui Festival

Last Wednesday our whole school went to the show grounds to take part in the Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival. When we first arrived we went and sat down to watch Wai syndicate. Wai was very loud and clear. I hoped we sounded the same.  The butterflies started swirling in my stomach as we started to get changed, into our pew pews.

As we walked up onto the stage and got into our starting positions, everything was silent and still, waiting for the strum of the guitar. Koka Sue started strumming and we moved forward into our pyramid. The rest of our songs including Haramai A Paoa, Ka Pioioi, Purianei, Utai Nga, The Haka, Wainui E and He Honore went by in a blur and suddenly it was all over.

As we chatted, laughed, got our photos taken and got out of our pew pews I thought back to how nervous I was before the performance and how it turned out I didn't need to be. On the bus back I smiled thinking I had done it and I was very proud of myself.

Here are some photos,

                    

Ko Te Poho Rawiri Te Marae

Last week on Thursday Nui Syndicate went to the marae. Once everyone arrived we got welcomed into the marae by the tangata whenua in a powhiri. Then Papa Albie, Aunty Buba and Aunty Charlotte shared some stories with us about traditional maori history. After that we split up into our groups.  I was my groups leader. We then went to different rotations. The rotations were Kowhaiwhai and tukutuku pattern making, Maori games, Weaving, handball and skipping, Walking up Kati hill, Honga and String games.

My first rotation was the Kowhaiwhai and tukutuku pattern making. We had some wooden boards with the stencil of the pattern on it. We got some paper and put it on the board, we then lightly rubbed a crayon over top of it. I also did the Honga, Walk up Kaiti hill, Weaving and handball and skipping.
After our rotations we set up our beds and then retreated to the dining hall for dinner and dessert.

After dinner we went back to the wharenui and got ready for our performance. I was one of the welcomers for when the parents arrived for the performance. At the performance I performed in the kapa haka performance and ukulele. After the performance we all went to bed. After a unrestful and short nights sleep we got ready for the day. Around 10am we went to the wharenui and sat down ready to welcome Wai. After we welcomed Wai we id the rest of the activities. Then we caught the bus back to school and watched a relaxing movie. I will never forget this marae trip.

50 Minutes Later

Yesterday our school A1 soccer team went to compete for the Gillies Cup at Mangapapa school. I was one of the supporters along with 18 other kids who were lucky enough to watch the game. We made up a chant and every few minutes we would sing it. It went like this...

                                   "Shout shout let it all out Thunders gonna win no doubt.

                                                               WAINUI!!!!!!"  

We ended up having a chant off with Mangapapa. 

At half time the score was 2-0. The game in the second half was really good but it stayed down near there goal most of the time. It was action packed and we really wanted to win. Mangapapa have had the Gille's Cup 7 years in a row and we have never had it. Then 50 minutes later... Beeeeep. We had won!! 5-0 We were cheering so loud it was deafening.

Auckland Islands!

Last term our maths group did a project on the Auckland Islands. The maths was years 8, 9, 10 and 11. We did lots of questions that covered all areas of math. The auckland islands are off the west coast of the South Island. We had to do lots of cool tasks and challenges like creating a packing list, drawing penguins and lots lots more. At the end we created a booklet on google slides showing what we did. Hope you enjoy it...

Vocabulary

This week for chapter chat I did vocabulary as one of my activities. What we do for vocabulary is we get given about 5 or 6 words that we have to explain what they mean. For vocabulary this week the words are diagonally, incorporate, restoration, logically, sacrifice, opponents. Also please comment to help me keep learning.
Here is my Vocabulary...

Eiffel Tower

This week for chapter chat one of the activities for this week was to research the Eiffel Tower and present our findings on a google slide. I researched and used the six best facts on my presentation.
The Eiffel Tower is important because Ally's grandfather was going to take Ally to the Eiffel tower when she was older. Sadly her grandfather is dead. so he can't take her now.
Please leave some comments to help me improve.    Here it is.

E Village

This term our inquiry topic is retro tech.Retro tech is tech that was used in the old days and have been replaced or improved since back in the day. As part of our inquiry we went to the museum and the electric village. today i will tell you about the electric village. The electric village is a place in gisborne that has all sorts of.... you guessed it electric items including bikes, robots, scooters and many more fun items. it was lots of fun and we learnt how much tech has evolved these last few decades.
Here are some photographs...

Chapter Chat

Kia Ora, I am back for this term and more fun things will happen including museum visits, more mulching and weeding at hamanatua, Going to the mural posts on our cycleway and many more things.

Today I am going to tell you what Chapter chat is and what we do for the activities. So for chapter chat many schools around New Zealand  read the same book then the answer at least 2 questions each week.

The book we are reading this term is called 'Fish in a Tree' by Linda Mullaly Hunt. The book is about a girl called Ally Nickerson who finds it hard to read and write. She is really good at drawing and has a book called 'The Sketch Book of Impossible Things'. In this book she has some pretty strange drawings like a dinosaur drinking coffee, a fish in a tree, a snowman in a furnas factory, a fish in a snorkel, her being smart and a man rowing a banana split boat down an ice cream Sunday river.

For the activities there are many different choices for what you can do. I chose to make a minecraft word for trents shop 'Nickerson Restoration' and to draw the sympathy card Ally Accidentally gave Mrs Hall at her baby shower.

Please Comment to help me improve.

Terrific Term 1

This term we have done some really fun things includeing year six camp, swimming sports, weeding at hamanatua, duathalon and also the easter raffle is tommorrw. I hope you have enjoyed reading my post so far this term and nex term I will tell you how the easter raffle went and if I got any prizes.

Dressing in the dark!

For maths strand this week and last week we are working on probability. Probability is the number of ways of achieving success. For example the probability of flipping a coin and it landing on heads is ½ or 50% because there is one head and one tail. for our maths we used socks. Two purple socks and two blue socks. First we picked two socks out of a bag (all four socks were in the bag) and we were seeing what we would pick out an even pair or an odd pair. Here is a screencastify to explain a bit further.

So you are more likely to get an odd pair of socks!
 I hope you learned something!

Cuddly Cats!

Every week we do four quick writes and this weeks theme was cats! One of the quick writes was an acrostic poem. The word for our acrostic poem was Domestic Cat!

Here is mine. 

Weeds Weeds and more Weeds

Te Kura Tuatahi o Wainui
Ko maunga roa te maunga
Ko te poho ō Rawiri te marae

Ko Hamanatua Te Awa

Kia Ora,

Today we went to the Hamanatua stream, our Awa, because we are the kaitiaki - guardians of the stream and needed to weed all of the fennel, nightshade and other weeds. Most of the kids from room 2 and 3 went up to the top and weeded the fennel by the plants that we planted in 2016. Two of the groups including my group went and weeded by the path next to the stream that we planted Harakeke by last year. It was hard work but in the end we were proud of our mahi.

Here are some Photos.

2019 In Moana Hub!!

Hi my name is Caitlyn, I am a year 6 at Wainui Beach School and this is my second year blogging. This year I am in a year six in a collaborative learning space called Moana Hub. During this year I will be doing lots of fun things including School Camp and Year Six Surfing. Please take the time to comment on my blog with helpful and positive feedback.