SHOW ME YOUR SHAKKAAAA!!!!!!

The year 6 to 8 group went to ninety mile beach to do surfing with O'Neill surf club. Our surf instructors were Keehan, Mark and Jack we were split into two groups the first group my group was all boy's,  in the 2nd group was all the the girls and three boys the 2nd group went to surf first well the went surfing my group went an played beach games. Me and my friend Liam Watene dug a 5ft deep hole our dream was to dig to China =).... we never got there though. As we were in our wet-suits and on our surf boards we had a talk about safety and how to stand up and showed us how to SHAKKAAAAA!! once we got in the water I fell over than as soon as I caught my first wave I fell again and again and again.I was with Jack he was cool he let us go way deeper then we were supposed to and he helped me ALOT! I had a really really good time well I was down there and the shakka has caught on it is so addictive.   

What is Advent

Advent is the season leading up to Christmas Advent season last's for four Sunday's (4 weeks.) The word advent is derived from the Latin word "Coming" Which is translated to parousia in Greek, Scholars believe in the 4th 5th centuries in Spain and Gaul  Advent was a season of preparation for the baptism of the new christens at the January feast o Epiphany, the celebration of Gods's.   

personification

kakapo learnt personification, personification is making an object live like the lighting danced in the sky it is a poem my poem was the clock hand moved slowly and the moon walked out of sight. but the poem has to be realistic more down to earth i can't be the headphones flew to the moon.

have you ever done personification?  

                                         Knot tying 

Kakapo  class has learnt how to tie a overhand knot, half hitch and many more we had to go to a web site on our online contracts.  We did this to learn how to tie these knots for camp or for daily life (if you want) I found this really hard at first but then I got the hang of it in the end. 

I became a GOOGLE DOC NINJA!!!

Congratulations! You are now a Google Docs Ninja!

Today I became a google doc ninja we had a 1 hour time limit. It was really hard once I got up to red belt. My goal from the start was to get to red but I surpassed that. It was very fun and challenging I learnt so much like how to bullet point items or how to make a table I enjoyed all of it. Or buddy class did this challenge, first we all had a look at what they did an that got asking 'can we do this?' then Whaia Dona came in the week and did this challenge with us this was really fun.

Do you want to do this challenge?

Athletics central zones was BIG deal you have to compete against other students from different schools I only went for shot put and didn't make though STINK!. Everyone was so strong but after My event I went to help out in the long jump pit until the 100M  final race ( Wich I didn't watch it though I left before it started.) My Mum was the supervisor of the year six group wich I was in.         

MY HOLIDAY

Sleeping in doing nothing going to the beach SCHOOL HOLIDAY!! the end of term three has come I wasn't there I was celebrating holiday early because I was spending time with my family who came over from Auckland.They were my Nan my uncle and my aunt first fun thing I did was celebrate my friend Isaac 11th birthday we went to the cinema to watch small foot. and then we went to McDonald's to eat the cake and have good lunch after my Nan left with my uncle and aunt to Auckland my brother Teejhan came. We watched Netflix and played with our new 14 ft tramp we got two new games for our ps4 and for the rest of the holiday we relaxed and tramped and that was my holiday.           

How to make to a positive blog comment animation

W.A.L.T create an animation to show you how to make a positive blog comment.
We learnt how to create a positive blog comment on you r blog post with an animation
you were supposed use 1 or more blog tips to create a successful blog comment to post on a blog I found this fun,cool and it helped me learn how to make an animation and also how to make a positive encouraging thoughtful blog comment we got to choose what setting it was in and who was on it.

If you created your own animation about a positive blog comment what would it be?   
 

Ice skating

last week the whole school went to the Te Ahu center to do ice skating in the stage place where this ring and it is full of plastic but it is really slippery I fell over 2 time though I got the hang of it in the first 10 minute's  you have to bend down a little and put your hand to your side and you just go from there I found it really tricky when I hopped in when you fall over you get covered in flakes the guy who was teaching us (Jeffrey ,don't know his last name) he was so Good!!!!!! that he could just slide around in the ring (he probably is on TV ? ) my favorite part when we played musical statues g v b (girls vs boys) the boys won and he activated the bubble machine.

MUSEUM TRIP!!!!!

kakapo went for a class trip to the museum at Te ahu last week on Wednesday and in the middle  of the room there was a huge anchor from the ship st Baptiste captained by de surville and we had to find certain  things on a list like a shark tooth and 5 robes (it was a trick question it said there was 7 robes but it was five (= ) and there was another side to do like what does Kauri gum smell like and whats the maori name for clock ( i thought that kauri gum smelt like green tea I learnt that kauri gum is form from thousand year trees in the roots    

history of our land

In kakapo class we have been learnt about the NZ history from when Abel Tasman arrived in the 1200's all the way to  to the 2000's and we learnt about WW1 and WW2  we had to make a letter like we were in there shoes and how disgusting it was in the trench then we had to learn about kupe also arrived and when captain cook arrived and discovered doubtless bay and he named after the boy who saw it first headless Nick  here is a picture of our learning this picture is from kupe's in the 1200

  

Sandra Silbewzweig

Sandra  Silberzweig is a artist from Toronto Canada and she uses cool/warm colors
rs and complementary colors primary and she uses black paint to out line it first we had to draw all these abstract shapes first we start of with a dot in the middle and then we drew a nose from that dot most people in the class did an L shape for the nose but i did a kind of a half a triangle but i failed on my first panting because i put too much ink around the nose so I restarted and did and so i did anchor shape we all had lots of patterns and shapes on our faces and we all made a neck and some shoulders but they were optional and then we colored it with pastel and my one ended up like this = )

MATARIKI AND LIP BALM!!!

in the maori lesson with whaea Ali we learnt how to make lip balm and matariki and we learnt a song in maori or well learning here's the name No te Hohonutanga type that in type that in to you tube and you'll find it. =)

MATARIKI!!! AND LIP BALM/MEDICAL ONMEINT!!!

Today we went to whaea Ali's lessaon and we learnt how to make lip balm and the story of how the 9 matariki stars came to be 

Des hunt

In kakapo we learnt about Des hunt and his books we meet him and he taught us about how to make a good story with chemistry and science and how to draw the reader in with a hook and we got to read some of his books it was a really FUN time!!!!

WW1

In kakapo class we have made Anzac letters to put ourselves in the soldiers  shoes we made letters back home to our family and how hard it was to survive in the trenches and then we published them and put them on our class wall for you to look at

 

clay art kakapo

In kakapo class we have been doing clay art we made Maori deigns that represent us or our family and our culture we made Tiki's and maui's  fish hook and rugby balls we had to  squish the the clay till it was thick enough and we had shape it to wanted to make I made a kiwi and we used rollers and cups and the end result was literary the end for my kiwi is cracked than the ones that didn't cracked were hanged up on our wall.