Culture festival

In Te Ngahere we have recently had a great opportunity, as you
know we have been practicing really hard for the kapa haka Cultural
festival.Last week (week 9) we went to the festival it was so fun.
Before I walked on to the stage I felt so  nervous because I Knew
my nan, cousin and brother would be in the audience watching me.
Once I was walking on to the stage I saw them smiling at me. When
we started to sing my stomach felt funny like there were butterflies
inside my stomach. Then I looked over to my nan and I saw her
crying then the butterflies disappeared. After the show my nan gave
me a big hug and so did my brother and cousin. Next time I could do
better at instantly doing the Pukana and always smiling .
I also hope we can have a another show next term. 

Duffy Books and Rebecca Brothers

At Paihia School, we have recently had a great opportunity, Rebecca
Brothers came back to Paihia School to tell her story about Duffy
Books and how they helped her and her family through tough times.
This encouraged me to read more books, so I can get better at
reading. She also talked to us about how her usual day goes when
she was a little older than the seniors (12 and 13). Her usual day
starts with waking up at 6am to practice swimming after that she
goes to school and then she gets back in the water and swims till
8pm. We also sang the awesome duffy song. After the show we got
our duffy books the books I got were named Infernal Devices and
Horeta and the Waka. I have started reading Horeta and the waka
I am enjoying this book. I have not started reading Infernal Devices.
Here is some photos of us and Rebecca Brothers.

Kapa Haka

Kia ora bloggers, In Te Ngahere our kapa haka roopu has been
practicing really hard for next week, our roopu are going to
a kapa haka cultural festival in Kaikohe. We have been practicing
so hard to get everything right we have even been practicing at
our morning tea and lunch times and we are all ready for this
week's practice. We need to practice because we want to be
proud of ourselves and represent our school and ourselves. In
our bracket we are going to sing many songs and a haka. The
bracket is our performance from start to finish. I have been
struggling on my facials. The facials I am struggling on are smiling
and  the pukuana. I am trying to be really expressive with my facials
so hopefully I will look professional on the stage.
We can't wait to go to the festival. 

Te Reo Maori

For the past couple of weeks we have been learning to ask and answer question using classroom items
in Te Reo Maori. For example,“He aha tenei? (What is this) then someone else will respond with“He
pene tena. (That is a pen). Then we had to make animations of ourselves and our buddy's asking and
answering questions. After we made our animation we had to screencastify our voices. I really enjoyed
learning and saying the Maori kupu, now I could practise saying them to my friends and my
class members.

Here is my animation,enjoy.

Cross country

Last week on Friday Paihia School went to the Bledisloe Domain to do

cross country. When we arrived at  Bledisloe we sat down and Mrs
William told us how the day was going to go. The first race was the 5
yr olds I was one of the marshalls so I cheered them on and told
them where to go. After the 5 yr olds was the 6 yr olds, then the 7 yr
old, 8 yr olds and so on. We kept going till we reached my race.
My race was the very last race. That race was with the 11yr olds and
12 yr olds  Vanya came 1st, Missy 2nd, Anyah 3rd, Zhynaliyah 4th,
Cheyenne 5th, Taleisha 6th, Me 7th, Muscles 8th and Emma 9th.
It felt so good to run over the finish line and our training really helped
a lot.