Assembly

In week 4 my class and It was our class  assembly i found it alright also because I wasn't included in any of the items. The easy part was helping put the MC slide together. Next time i'll try be more inclusive in participating in our class items. 

Kapa Haka

On Saturday the 17th our school Kapa Haka Ropu performed at Maranga Mai E Te Iwi 2018 Te Taitokerau primary and intermediate schools Kapa Haka.
In our aggregate items we place 2nd in our waiata-a-ringa placed 3rd in Whakaeke and Whakawatea. For our other items we placed 3rd in our Waiata-Tira and Whai korero we placed 1st equal with 3 others for Kaitataki-Wahine. Overall we came 3rd in the intermediate section. To my opinion I think that we done well.

Our performance: TE RAU POU MANAWA O KAWAKAWA.

Taumarere

E tuwhera atu nei te awa o Taumarere
Taumarere herenga waka
Taumarere herehere i te riri te rere i Tiria te puna i Keteriki kete tangariki te awa o nga rangatira.

Taumarere is the prominent awa of Ngati Hine.The sacred awa Taumarere  was a main highway of our Tupuna and hence an important initiative for the progeny of Hineamaru. Taumarere When Kawiti reached maturity, he was admitted into Te Whare Wananga mo nga Tohunga, at Taumarere, one of the ancestral villages of Ngati Hine. 

Rugby league

1.  Going to Rotorua
2. First games
3. Finals

In the holidays i went to Rotorua for a maori rugby league tournament. We travelled down in two vans when we arrived to our marae we waited to get powhiri into the marae. Hearing the karanga we slowly walked into the marae the kaumatua stood to speak about whakapapa of the marae. We stayed at at one of the four tapu maraes around the roto. 

The next day we were getting amped for our games we were going to play. We versed Waikato first and got nilled. The next game we scored three tries and got all of our kicks over the post. Waiting anxiously for next game we heard that they forfeit so we packed up our things and went to the Polynesian spa pools to relax our muscles.

 It was finals we training for our last game fighting for third or fourth spot.

We scored two tries on the first half. On the next half we carved up neck a neck to deceiver  who was going to win. We all cheered as the horn went of and that we were the winners of our finals coming back from two tries on first half and then taking third place in the whole tournament.

  

ADDING DECIMALS

This week we have been learning how to add decimals. We had to learn the rules of the decimal point and where and who it works. The easy part was to use algorithm as a strategy to work out the addition questions. The hard part is to answer the question without working my thinking. Success criteria is if your using place value you carry number higher than 9 and always add or times from right to left.

Fun Run

On Friday it was the school FUN RUN.  We travelled to United Kawawkawa on a train once we arrived we got told the rules for the day and then the races begun it started from the five year old's and made it's way up. During the duration of the time we waited some people  helped around the courses.

Finally it was our turn it was not at all nervous as allot of decided on not to try. The horn went of and then we jogged around the corner and started walking. There was a group of people who tried for a placing but a bigger group who didn't try. We ran the course until we got to the mud we had a huge mud fight and got as dirty as possible we were tackling each other into the mud and then afterwards we had a swim. But then we had to leave and finish of the race we ran to the road then we jumped on the back of a track and finally ran around the field an completed the race.

Urupukuapuka

Kia ora tatou, on Friday our class and room 2 went to Urupukapuka island to learn lots of facts.
The point of heading over was to help bring back the song of  birds, their homes and a safe healthy environment for them to stay in. It was a one day trip. We built traps and planted native trees because we needed to make more traps to catch pest and plant trees for future bird habitats. In eager to wanting to help the Ipipiri islands it is a hard process but possible to accomplish with more help and people to support. The translocation of the birds help repopulate the birds so there is more. There are 80%  endemic birds in New Zealand.