Kapa Haka

Wheels on the bus goes round and round all day long. WBS finally got to the turanganui cultural festival. Here are three reasons why you should do Kapa Haka.
1. Kapa Haka is fun and if you like to sing and dance this is right for you
2. You can learn new maori words
3.  You can practice singing and dancing.
You should do Kapa Haka because you can learn more skills and be confident with singing and dancing.

Leighton house

                                                            Leighton house

I was so excited to see Leighton house. Loudly our whole class walked into Leighton house. I wondered who the oldest person would be. The oldest person who I saw was 99. Her name was Konny. We played chinese checkers with a lady. She won. I wondered if Konny would stay alive to make her 100th birthday. I liked Konny. The best person who I meet was Konny. She was probably the kindest. I meet a lady called Dolly and she was deaf. She came from a different country. It was sadly time to go. But before we went we sang our school song. I think the old people enjoyed having us visit and I enjoyed visiting them too. 

Te Tapu o Rongokako

The Marine Reserve 

It's freezing how are they already in the water. I screamed, "Ahhh it's scary Veronica." "Here hold my hand." She replied.  It's freezing but i'm in. Wow there's a kina and a Paua broken paua actually. Here are three reasons why we should have marine reserves.

 

1. Have you thought about how many fish are left. We should take as many fish as we need, Unfortunately not many people are doing that. That's why we need marine reserves. 

2 How would you like it if you were swimming in the sea and got fished up by a hook? That's right, you wouldn't.  So with marine reserves they can't get fished up. 

3. Marine reserves are so pretty and great for snorkeling in. We went to Te Tapuwae o Rongokako marine reserve. I saw colorful paua, spikey kina and  neptune's necklace. 

I hope you walk away trying to save the ocean and vote for more marine reserves.

By Charlotte.

Te Poho o Rawiri Marae.

Te Poho o Rawiri Marae.
Run run as fast as you can you can't catch me i'm Charlotte. Before we got welcomed into the marae we had to wait for everyone to get to the Marae. At the marae I went boing boom bam on the skipping rope. WBS got welcomed onto Te Poho o Rawiri Marae. We had to get  in lines I was in the second row. The lady sounded like a fantastic bird chirping. We got to set our beds up we were by the end. I slept with Te Atawhai. The delicious dinner was nachos, after nachos we got a lemonade ice block.
We had to get ready for bed so we did that. We got to talk for a long time. Koka Ngaire read gangsta granny to as and then we went to bed. Good night.

this is us weaving I weaved some of the blanket. you could make a flower instead.

this is us skipping with the big skipping ropes at the marae

sherbet explosion

sherbet explosion

today is 28/8 and we made sherbet.

sherbet is so yummy. it exploded in our mouths. I spewed it all up in the toilet.

the flavour was orange it was very foamy. it give you a surprise of how much foam it makes in your mouth. it had citric acid, baking soda, icing sugar and flavouring. I had a massive spoon full so it was all coming out of my mouth. at first it was like powder then when we put it in our mouth because of the spit it turned all foamey.

by Charlotte McDiarmid

Crazy hair and leg art

Crazy hair and leg art.

This term I have learnt about crazy art and not to be realistic all the time. We had to make crazy hair and arms. I found it challenging to get my art crazy enough because I usually make my art realistic not crazy. I know I was successful because it made it up on the wall and it looks pretty crazy to me. This art is fantastic and cool to draw.

The middle one is my art. It has bright red hair and different color legs. I have a sunset and trees for the background and now I think it looks fantastic.